Posted on 09/18/2025 6:12:23 AM PDT by DallasBiff
The union that represents writers on Jimmy Kimmel Live! is ripping the network for pulling the show off air after the comedian made some viral remarks about the shooter of Charlie Kirk.
"The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice," said the Writers Guild of America West and East on Wednesday night, not long after Disney-owned ABC said it was pulling the show "indefinitely." "As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree."
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You can stand together in the unemployment line.
no wonder they liked Brandon
“The WGA Stands With Jimmy Kimmel and His Writers”
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In the unemployment line? 🤣🤣🤣
Good. Hollywood and MSM have become propagandists and liars. Period
...since your members apparently wrote the material that got him pulled.
What? They don’t get it. This isn’t ideology. The FCC can’t allow inciteful hate speech
Writer’s Guild?
ISGAS
I Scarcely Give A S....
And thus should be defunded.
His big mistake was he just isn’t funny.
Low ratings and putting your network in jeopardy right after getting sued for $15 mil made it very easy to can his ass.
Communist, America hating WGA says what?
Boo-Hoo. Improve your currently childish writing skills and stop whining.
BTW, the ratings disaster showed where the real power and influence lies...with the viewing audience and you got canceled long before you were canceled.
JMO, YMMV
Birds of a feather flock together and Terrorists of a feather also flock together
so go on strike and no one will notice ,LOL
“Hate speech” is a lousy term and rightly panned by our guys because it has no intrinsic meaning. It’s a term designed to be fungible to mean anything a leftist doesn’t like today.
Incitement to violence is correct and comprehensible. Libel and slander are knowingly distributing lies. None of those are opinions.
The left relies on being able to incite violence, which means terrorizing everyone else, and to lie constantly. That’s why they’re so freaked out that for once the consequences will happen to them.
Nextstar first pulled Jimmy off their 28 ABC stations. I am sure ABC did want more backlash and bad press from their affilates if more stations started to pull Jimmy off the air.
There are also the very definition of hypocrites in using the language they have.
The Writers Guild must stand with Jimmy Kimmel because it was members of the Writers Guild who wrote the lines for him anyway.
The fired fool isn’t funny. His “writers” must be pathetic nitwits.
Kirk is dead because he exercised his 1A rights. Kimmel was fired for spreading a malicious lie. Quite different outcomes.
The WGA should watch out. They could be replaced by chatgpt tomorrow.
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