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Huh Santa Claus Dave, it was the ABC affiliates that called for Kimmel to be canned since his show is losing money for them.
1 posted on 09/19/2025 5:08:22 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Crystal Meth Santa speaks from the grave


2 posted on 09/19/2025 5:10:31 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: DallasBiff

Save Dave has no problem using a platform to spread blatant lies about a murder and is aghast an employer would take issue with that? It has been to be “authoritarianism” from government, not the lying, that is an issue?

Would any of us keep our jobs if we used the platforms our employer gave us to spread outrageous lies?


3 posted on 09/19/2025 5:11:28 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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So Dave has no problem using a platform to spread blatant lies about a murder and is aghast an employer would take issue with that? It has been to be "authoritarianism" from government, not the lying, that is an issue?

Would any of us keep our jobs if we used the platforms our employer gave us to spread outrageous lies?

4 posted on 09/19/2025 5:11:50 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: DallasBiff

Littleman was never funny,he was a poor replacement for Carson.


5 posted on 09/19/2025 5:12:01 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: DallasBiff

I thought Letterman died.


6 posted on 09/19/2025 5:13:20 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (God Bless Charlie Kirk.)
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they were not “comments” they were lies, and the Kirk estate should sue Jimmy Kimmel for 500 million for slander


7 posted on 09/19/2025 5:13:42 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: DallasBiff

Letterman was funny when he was in his 20’s


8 posted on 09/19/2025 5:14:06 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: DallasBiff

Remember covid Dave?


9 posted on 09/19/2025 5:14:40 AM PDT by small farm girl
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This is looking more and more like something ABC orchestrated. “Fire/Suspend” a loudmouth to appease the right and stoke the left. Then let has-beens scream about it all being some “authoritarian” or “fascist” “witch-hunt.”


10 posted on 09/19/2025 5:14:50 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Shut up Dave.


11 posted on 09/19/2025 5:15:02 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: DallasBiff

He broke the rules, ‘Clyde’.

Grow up.


14 posted on 09/19/2025 5:17:48 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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I do not care what that creep thinks!


15 posted on 09/19/2025 5:18:29 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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Sleazy old lecher.


16 posted on 09/19/2025 5:18:58 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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19 posted on 09/19/2025 5:21:03 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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Is that mold growing on his face?


20 posted on 09/19/2025 5:21:12 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: DallasBiff

And he violated FCC rules.


21 posted on 09/19/2025 5:21:14 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: DallasBiff; Republican Wildcat; BradyLS; TexasFreeper2009; rktman

The left is winning the spin - “Kimmel was fired for his free speech” - and the right is feeding the beast - “That’s because he lied and is hateful.”

Ah, no.

ABC’s decision to pull the show came shortly after its affiliate group, Nexstar, also announced it would stop airing it effective immediately.

Nexstar, the largest station group in the country has a major merger proposal before the Trump administration - its proposed acquisition of Tegna - which must be approved by Carr.

If the merger were to go through, Nexstar would have 265 stations in 44 states and the District of Columbia, representing 80 percent of US television households, according to Deadline.

This was a business move, fueled by what seems to be an economic Sword of Damocles held by Chairman Carr. In reality, Carr gave the businesses cover to do what they always wanted to do.

Perry Sook, founder of Nexstar Media, had risen to become one of the most powerful, if least known, moguls in broadcast television. His company owns local stations from Tampa to Burlington to Portland, Oregon (and KTLA in Los Angeles), in addition to cable-news outlet NewsNation, Congressional trade The Hill and a majority stake in The CW. Sook hoped, he said, the country would soon be “eliminating the level of activist journalism out there.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-kimmel-nexstar-merger-sook-1236375489/

As for Kimmel violating the “public interest standard,” it’s not well-defined. You can drive a truck through it. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4341186/posts


23 posted on 09/19/2025 5:25:09 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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They quote Letterman as if he’s some type of senior statesman weighing in on an important issue. He’s not. He’s an old has-been who lost to Leno at every turn. Republish what Leno said. That’s much more relevant.


26 posted on 09/19/2025 5:39:06 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Go back under your rock Dave, you aren’t needed here. Managed media, eh? It’s okay as long as it’s controlled by the left though.


27 posted on 09/19/2025 5:42:01 AM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 )
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I haven’t cared a jot what Bitterman has to say and haven’t cared since at least 2005 when he came out of the closet as a very bitter, hateful Leftists.


28 posted on 09/19/2025 5:51:03 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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