Thanks.
I emailed my local affiliate and about 20 email addresses I could find on Sinclair group. And Dish. Think I’ll add Disney tomorrow.
For my own feelings, exclusively. No one gives a crap what I think, but dang it I wanted to say it.
Maybe I’ll drop an email to Sarah Sanders office too.
And I don’t even watch Kimmel. But I will now, you can bet your bottom dollar.
That was the 1st time I’ve ever seen Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue live on ABC. I’ve only seen clips on YouTube before. I hope every ABC station that carries the show gets great ratings and lots of ad revenue. I hope Sinclair and Nexstar take it in the shorts.
You’d think these people in the media would know Kipling.
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"
And of course “once you have paid him the Dane-geld / You never get rid of the Dane.”
John Oliver had the right response to this in his advice to any institutions (media or otherwise) being pressured by the government to suppress dissenting views. The only acceptable answer is four words:
“Fuck you. Make me.”
I agree, but I think a big part of the problem is that we have a president that already loved suing people and now he can sue people using lawyers that he not only won’t pay, but he won’t even be billed for.
ABC put Kimmel back on and now Trump is threatening to sue them for saying they were going to fire him and then they didn’t. What would he even sue them for, his own misunderstanding (they never fired him, they paused his show). He even made the comment “Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative". IMO and without any legal reasoning to back me up, any case against them should be thrown out just based on that statement.
I very much hope every media company fights him, and wins. My concern is that if, and when, they win, he’ll just SLAPP them with another suit and another suit and another and another.
As of now, the youtube clip had > 5.9 million views
Brian
As far as I know my ANBC station aired it, but it is on way past my normal bedtime.
ABC of course already paid Trump (or, if you prefer, his library) $16 million in Danegold.
But I’m more optimistic than the poem. To state the obvious, Britain and France paid the Danegeld and then got out from under the Danes. The question is how long it will take.
It just occurred to me that Trump probably browses social media on his official account. Which means that tiktok, twitter, and other social media services could curate what he sees to manipulate him. We all know he’s easy to manipulate and just by choosing what his feed has manually you could dictate the policy of the United States.
I think that’s in the eyes of the beholder:
Sounds like he tried to thread a needle where his progressive allies wouldn’t think he sold out, but Sinclair, or at least Nexstar, will reluctantly conclude it was good enough. I hope it works.
I’ve been assured that the ‘Official Chinese Communist Party’s App to spy on the President of The United States App’ app is just a clever name.
I thought he did a pretty good job of addressing it. Not apologizing was essential. I kind of wished he’d explained what the misunderstanding was – play a clip of his own words and then explain that he wasn’t calling the killer MAGA and that he didn’t say anything about the killer at all, and then play a few clips of the MAGA nuts calling for civil war and blaming every non-MAGA group on the planet, to show what he was actually saying. But maybe he thought that would look to the dumb dumbs like he was making excuses or something, I don’t know.
Continuing to attack Trump was good, the FCC mafia skit was good, the emotion and appreciation for Charlie Kirk’s family was fine. All in all a pretty good job of handling it.
If you’re going to comment of the political situation, or even make witticisms about it, in a forum as big as national television, you can’t deny that you’re to some extent engaging in the political situation. And as such, you’re swimming with the sharks. It’s not enough to say what you mean: it’s essential to say it in a way that won’t be twisted by the sharks in ways that the suckers attached to the sharks will hear what they want to hear.
“The Maga gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,”
Three words that created this mess. The fact is that they aren’t accurate words*. Yes, they are his right to say even if they aren’t accurate. But he should have stuck to the known facts: he said it right there in that quote that MAGA will milk this for all it’s worth, creating its own lies. Kimmel and his writers should have known better than to supply the fascists with more ammunition.
That’s the only thing he should be apologizing about.
*who commits assassinations? With rare, rare exceptions: dupes, losers and nut jobs (and I include Von Staufenberg and his Lost Cause Prussian Junker Class in there). If you’re going to speculate motive in the first hours after one, that’s your safe bet.
I don’t see him stating the murderer was “one them”? Just that the prime focus of MAGA was not one of them from word go. Their focus was and remains blaming some Leftist enemy. Not mourning. Yes it is reasonable to see how that can be interpreted as implied, but was not the meaning I heard or was said
As you note the accuracy is immaterial but your saying it wasn’t accurate is simply false.
The responses are so pathetic. Rob Schnieders post on twitter so misses the point.
Yeah, Kimmel is going to require a whiteboard on set so that he can diagram sentences from his monologue.
Objection, assumes levels of literacy not it evidence.
Also to get someone to understand something they have to want to understand it.
That sums up America right now.
I loved the whole thing. The emotion really got to me. My favorite part was the interaction with Guillermo. I love Jimmy and Guillermo.
It wont. They are demanding a direct apology and a monetary contribution.