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WSJ reports Jimmy Kimmel planned to address the controversy had he gone on air Wednesday night. But Kimmel planned to blame MAGA
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Posted on 09/18/2025 6:54:50 PM PDT by janetjanet998

WSJ reports Jimmy Kimmel planned to address the controversy had he gone on air Wednesday night. But Kimmel planned to blame MAGA, and Disney execs feared he would just make things worse


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abc; kimmel; kirk; maga; media
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1 posted on 09/18/2025 6:54:50 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998

They were right


2 posted on 09/18/2025 6:55:27 PM PDT by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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To: janetjanet998

Buried in the direct article

Kimmel had planned to address Carr’s comments on his show Wednesday night, according to people familiar with the matter

A person close to the show said that Kimmel was planning to say that his words were being purposefully twisted by some members of the Make America Great Again movement

After the conversation between Kimmel and Walden, she and other senior executives thought that the star’s approach could make the situation worse, people familiar with their conversations said
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/jimmy-kimmel-decision-behind-the-scenes-e1ecbbf2?mod=djemalertNEWS


3 posted on 09/18/2025 6:55:38 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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They (leftists) all live in their own sick, delusional echo chamber.
4 posted on 09/18/2025 6:57:52 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: janetjanet998

Kimmel would have made the situation worse by piling on more criticisms. Good thing the show was pulled.


5 posted on 09/18/2025 6:58:26 PM PDT by gildafarrell (e)
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To: janetjanet998

Good move by Disney execs. (Of course, they should have cancelled the show years ago due to low ratings)


6 posted on 09/18/2025 6:59:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: RummyChick
They were right

For the first time in a very long time, I might add.

7 posted on 09/18/2025 7:00:12 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: gildafarrell

No, now I wish they had given him one more day


8 posted on 09/18/2025 7:00:14 PM PDT by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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To: gildafarrell; All

Can we get rid of....

John Oliver

Seth Meyers

The View

Yank drug ads on TV and that’d kill off in a month: CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS ‘news.’ Drug ads prop them all up.


9 posted on 09/18/2025 7:00:39 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: airborne

They have a remarkable vice for blaming the victim and largely getting away with it.


10 posted on 09/18/2025 7:00:44 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: janetjanet998; RummyChick

Does the article say what “things” would be made “worse?”

This was a business move driven by the threat of a regulatory balk on a merger.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4341437/posts

And as pointed out elsewhere, this is similar to when ABC fired Roseanne.


11 posted on 09/18/2025 7:03:39 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: RummyChick

Jesse Watters

@JesseBWatters

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🚨 BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel was planning on DOUBLING DOWN and ATTACKING MAGA (again) before he got SUSPENDED 🚨

ABC Executives told Kimmel to go on-air and APOLOGIZE… but instead, he had wrote a “VERY HOT” monologue, “taking aim at MAGA” 🤯

Disney said “We can’t have him go on the air tonight” — and they YANKED him from the AIR 📺

https://x.com/JesseBWatters/status/1968840056325517637


12 posted on 09/18/2025 7:03:51 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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Funny that people who purposefully twist other people’s words don’t like it when someone else does it to them.

Pot meet kettle.


13 posted on 09/18/2025 7:03:55 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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Ever since Kimmel contracted TDS, he has been right up there with Adam Schiff in terms of the self-righteousness with which he spews his propaganda. The man is utterly convinced that Trump is virtually Sauron—evil personified— while Kimmel sees himself as on a noble quest to save the world from this menace.


14 posted on 09/18/2025 7:05:11 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: TigerClaws

I would love to see them all taken off the air, or at replaced with at least a “funny” comedian or entertainer.

This one-sided circus act: Hollyweird films, LGBTQ-inclusive TV shows, even “pop” songs on the radio charts, have pushed us to the limits and liberals are tasting their own medicine finally for once.

As for the drug ads, I’ve never seen so many in my life, at least one ad a break. Talk about controlling the masses.


15 posted on 09/18/2025 7:08:02 PM PDT by Dominic01 (Political correctness has become a psychosis)
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To: TigerClaws

I think that train is coming down the track!


16 posted on 09/18/2025 7:08:36 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
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🚨 BREAKING: Large moving trucks are outside Jimmy Kimmel’s studio in Los Angeles, and movers can be seen hauling out furniture and equipment
This could truly be the END for Jimmy Kimmel! 🔥


17 posted on 09/18/2025 7:09:31 PM PDT by chuck allen
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To: janetjanet998

Geeze, the guy’s a basket case of TDS.


18 posted on 09/18/2025 7:11:37 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: chuck allen

I can’t celebrate until they pull the view off the air


19 posted on 09/18/2025 7:12:15 PM PDT by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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To: chuck allen

Trump has been busy

https://x.com/RyanHugeBrain/status/1968857072629399997


20 posted on 09/18/2025 7:13:43 PM PDT by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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