Subj : Re: liberals being cancel
To   : Dumas Walker
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Sep 28 2025 18:46:54

-=> Dumas Walker wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

 DW> My whole point was that language is something your station/network can
 DW> get in trouble with the FCC for.  So you have someone that decided that
 DW> bringing up a touchy subject... a death no less... and trying to use it
 DW> to get laughs (or whatever Kimmel thought it would do) which generates
 DW> a bunch of phone calls and negative press.

 Late night has different guidelines and rules. I saw it differently, he
 wasn't using Charlie Kirk's death to get laughs, he was pointing out
 Trump's hypocrisy, calling Kirk a good friend one minute and responding
 to a question about how he's dealing with his death to redirect to the
 construction of his ballroom.

 DW> He also worked in... same show, different recent show, doesn't
 DW> matter... what many would consider an obscenity, which could be an FCC
 DW> liability and, since his ratings are not good, he has given you your
 DW> out.

What obscene word did Kimmel use in the monologue in question?

As it turns out, the FCC, Disney and Sinclair all lost this round.
Kimmel's ratings are up, he's back on the air, Disney is now
offering huge discounts to try and get customers back after they
cancelled their subscriptions, and the conservative media conglomerate
who wanted to obey-in-advance of a merger they wanted approved has put
him back on as well.






 DW> I am not a Kirk fan but I am also not stupid enough to try to work his
 DW> recent death into any conversation where I plan to cast said death, or
 DW> those who were fans of Kirk, into any negative light unless I was
 DW> looking to get fired.  What kind of moron does do that?

 DW> I don't find Kimmel offensive so much as I find him a crass, stupid
 DW> person that apparently some equally crass, stupid people find "clever."
 DW>  I only know about what he did because there are people here, and on
 DW> social media, who keep track of him.  The latter group seems made up
 DW> mostly of people who who look to him as a "thought leader," which is as
 DW> ill-advised as looking to Kirk as one.


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