Jimmy Kimmel's Ratings Were Falling (Again) Before He Was Suspended

Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show was bleeding viewers before Disney-owned ABC pulled the plug and suspended him for his comments on Charlie Kirk's assassination.
Nielsen data showed sharp summer declines and a year-long slide that leaves him trailing late-night rivals such as Fox News' Greg Gutfeld and CBS star Stephen Colbert.
According to monthly Nielsen figures, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" dropped to just 1.1 million total viewers in August 2025, down 43% from January's 1.95 million. His August household rating of 0.35 marked the weakest showing of the year.
The advertiser-coveted 18--49 demo also cratered. Kimmel averaged only 129,000 viewers in that bracket in August, off from 212,000 in January and less than half his June peak of 284,000.
With his ABC contract set to expire next year, the slump raises questions about whether "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" can regain momentum against Colbert, Fallon and cable insurgents.
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Kimmel's deal with ABC runs through May 2026, under a three-year extension signed in September 2022.
Industry reports put his salary at $15 million to $16 million a year, with some outlets noting that bonuses can push his annual earnings above $20 million.

The left and some "both sides" libertarians are complaining that while ABC has the right to suspend this money-losing unfunny pudge-bag, it was wrong for FCC head to involve himself and "jawbone" Disney and its affiliates into "doing something."

Two points about that:

First: I was surprised to learn from 2Way today that the rule about networks being obligated to provide "equal time" to both political parties was still in force. I thought Reagan repealed it -- but no, it's still the law. I guess Reagan just stopped enforcing it, and other presidents followed suit.

Brandon Carr believes it should be enforced. It is still on the books, and therefore the prior non-enforcement was just an executive choice to not apply the law, just as Biden chose not to enforce the border. But prior administration's choice to ignore the law does not bind Trump or his officials.

Obviously, ABC is running an absolute propaganda shit-show with Kimmel and The View and their own rancid gayboy "News" unit. They are in violation of the equal time law every single day, and it is within Carr's right to use his regulatory power to force them to provide equal time.

Second: The left and libertarians are now complaining that Carr "jawboned" -- used verbal pressure with the hint of future punishment if the pressure did not work -- ABC into taking this step.

They point out that we conservatives opposed such "jawboning" when Biden "jawboned" social media and regular media into deplatforming all speech questioning the covid vaccine or the 2020 election results.

Thousands of people were cancelled and deplatformed -- and even debanked -- due to Biden's "jawboning" of media companies and banks.

We -- meaning conservative states and seven conservative individuals -- brought suit to declare this "jawboning" to be illegal.

Leftists opposed us and insisted that Biden's "jawboning" was perfectly legal.

The left won. Our three weak-sister "conservatives" -- Roberts, Coney-Barrett, and Kavanaugh -- joined with the three bloc-voting leftists to rule 6-3 that governmental "jawboning" of private companies into becoming de facto agents of government censorship was perfectly legal.

Fine. I didn't like that outcome and was outraged at the time.

I also said: Now that you have made your rule, we will also be using it going forward.

And that's what we're doing. The left fought like tigers to both "jawbone" companies into censorship and then to establish in the Supreme Court that such "jawboning" is legal and just and necessary.

We disagreed -- but we lost.

The precedent is now established that we can "jawbone" companies into deplatforming RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION like Jimmy Kimmel's, and the left showed us how to do this and established the absolute legal permission to do this.

So we'll do this. We're not going to play by the rejected rule we preferred, but the actual rule in place that we opposed.

The rule for you is the rule for me. No more of this insane situation where the left uses its power and invents new powers to steamroll us but then relies on RINO and GOPe traitors to keep us from doing the same.

We kicked those people out of party leadership for a reason.

If the left wants to pass a law retroactively declaring Biden's "jawboning" to have been an unconstitutional act official government censorship, then let us know. We can work on that.

But until then: We will "jawbone" companies just like you did.

The days of One Rule for Thee Another Rule for Me are over.

Update: Thomas Paine and TJM say I don't even have to defend "jawboning" or equal-time rules here.

They say it's an FCC rule that any channel offering a "news" program is barred from broadcasting knowingly-false information, aka RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION, about a criminal act.

Firstly, ace, I think it needs to be highlighted that there is a pre-existing FCC regulation, 47 c.f.r. sec. 73.1217, that covers this that forbids those with broadcast licenses to knowingly put out false information about a criminal act.
The Utah police had put out the charging document on Robinson about 4 hours before they aired Kimmel's monologue, that charging document which included the information about Robinson's motives, including the text messages.
It's not "jawboning". It's ABC being in violation of their broadcast license by releasing the footage of the monologue.
There's this impression that Trump is overstepping like Biden did. He's not. At all. It's not even close. If Carr is the reason Kimmel got fired, he did it with legal regulatory authority as granted him in the Communications Act of 1934.

CNN Chief Media Potato Brian Stelter's entire career has consisted of taking oppo research from Media Matters and Sleeping Giants and using it to pressure media complies, from Twitter to Fox News, into censoring conservatives.

He's written columns demanding that cable providers take Fox off their menu.

And now... Guys, he's really a-scared of all this censorship.

🚨 LMAO! CNN and Brian Stelter are absolutely MELTING DOWN after ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off air

We’ve sent the left into a total tailspin.

Charlie would be so proud of us ❤️🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Ex2kAruMJv
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 17, 2025

Stelter says Kimmel “suggested” the killer “might’ve been” a pro-Trump Republican & that Kimmel said the motive was “unclear” & “maybe” the killer was rightwing.

This is a lie by Brian. Kimmel was *definitive* in his false claim that the shooter was MAGA.pic.twitter.com/6RXMHAOF2m
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) September 17, 2025

Here's the Potato previously stating that conservatives are "crying" about cancel culture and that we routinely whine about our speech being suppressed. It's as "predictable as the sunrise."

He has not retracted these comments nor, of course, even acknowledged them when people ask him to explain his "evolution" on these issues.

He argued for deplatforming -- always, he argues for deplatforming -- saying that "Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach" and stating that simply taking away someone's platform is not the same as silencing them.

Well, we took away Jimmy Kimmel's platform.

Freedom of speech =/= freedom of reach, you fat bitch.

2021: CNN’s Brian Stelter blasts people “crying” about cancel culture and wants to institute a “harm reduction model” to censor conservative media:

"It's as predictable as the sunrise. Democrats win elections, and then Republicans say they are being silenced."

"But while some… pic.twitter.com/S7WfBWMriT
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) September 18, 2025

Joe Concha
@JoeConchaTV
Your reminder that @brianstelter and Oliver Darcy literally called cable operators imploring them to pull Fox News off the air. H/T @tomselliott

Posted by: Ace at 04:35 PM

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1 Might be first.

Bring back Craig Ferguson.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 18, 2025 04:36 PM (6PCLE)

2 Democrats win elections, and then Republicans say they are being silenced.

Republicans win elections and then Republicans get shot. Not hard to figure out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 18, 2025 04:36 PM (ExV1e)

3 Not going to retire a man on top

Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2025 04:37 PM (+qU29)

4 CBS star Colbert.

🤣🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 18, 2025 04:37 PM (qM1j6)

5 Apparently, there's some kind of picket protest going on outside Disney's HQ in Burbank.

Love it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 18, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

6 I heard on Clay and Buck today that not only was Kimmel removed from TV but has to make an apology, plus donate money to both the Kirk family and TP. Is this right? Or did I misunderstand what they were talking about?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 18, 2025 04:39 PM (mZ/55)

7 th!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 18, 2025 04:39 PM (Wnv9h)

8 What do you call Brian Stelter on especially strong weed?

Twice-baked potato.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 18, 2025 04:39 PM (Riz8t)

9 They love this. They can get rid of a loser show and blame it all on corporations kowtowing to Trump instead of sucking at what they do.

Posted by: t-bird at September 18, 2025 04:39 PM (0rL7m)

10 Tater!

Posted by: Squid at September 18, 2025 04:40 PM (fYXTJ)

11 I believe Carr was looking into it because under the broadcast license, a network that carries news cannot broadcast knowingly false information, which certainly did occur.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 18, 2025 04:40 PM (0U5gm)

12 >>>6 I heard on Clay and Buck today that not only was Kimmel removed from TV but has to make an apology, plus donate money to both the Kirk family and TP. Is this right? Or did I misunderstand what they were talking about?

It's mostly right -- ABC is saying he can be un-suspended but only with an apology and, I read as you did, a donation to TP or an organization CK would have approved of.

He's refusing. He was going to be unemployed in seven months anyway, he's using this as a way to say "I wasn't fired, I quit, I'm a Tough Guy Warrior."

Posted by: ace at September 18, 2025 04:40 PM (KRtlO)

13 Cry some more, leftists. They are either marching around triumphant over some idiotic thing or crying that some people said mean things to them. They are toddlers, and should be treated as such. Either ignore, or put in time out, until they can be civil.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 18, 2025 04:40 PM (urtE/)

14 I also said: Now that you have made your rule, we will be using it going forward.

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Firstly, ace, I think it needs to be highlighted that there is a pre-existing FCC regulation, 47 c.f.r. § 73.1217, that covers this that forbids those with broadcast licenses to knowingly put out false information about a criminal act.

The Utah police had put out the charging document on Robinson about 4 hours before they aired Kimmel's monologue, that charging document which included the information about Robinson's motives, including the text messages.

It's not "jawboning". It's ABC being in violation of their broadcast license by releasing the footage of the monologue.

There's this impression that Trump is overstepping like Biden did. He's not. At all. It's not even close. If Carr is the reason Kimmel got fired, he did it with legal regulatory authority as granted him in the Communications Act of 1934.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 18, 2025 04:41 PM (GBKbO)

15 According to monthly Nielsen figures, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" dropped to just 1.1 million total viewers in August 2025, d

1 million for the whole month??

That’s only 30k/night

Yeong Man Cooking gets more than that for his vegan recipes on YouTube

Posted by: kallisto at September 18, 2025 04:41 PM (8/2+5)

16
Equal Time is different from the Fairness Doctrine, which was repealed under Reagan. It's the reason Rush Limbaugh (pbuh) was able to thrive.

Equal Time is just that stations must provide equal airtime for candidates for political office, not "equal time" for all political views.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 04:41 PM (w6EFb)

17 6 I heard on Clay and Buck today that not only was Kimmel removed from TV but has to make an apology, plus donate money to both the Kirk family and TP. Is this right? Or did I misunderstand what they were talking about?
Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 18, 2025 04:39 PM (mZ/55)

I believe one of the syndicate owners that forced ABC to take action by refusing to air any more Kimmel shows put those forth as conditions that would have to be met before they would air any shows by Kimmel again. Now since there are good odds that Kimmel will NEVER do that, it looks like this means Kimmel will never be on ABC again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 18, 2025 04:41 PM (uWKK8)

18 7 th!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Nice job, Carmack, how did you know?!

Posted by: t-bird at September 18, 2025 04:41 PM (0rL7m)

19 We warned them they won't like their new rules. Now break it off in their ass.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 18, 2025 04:41 PM (snZF9)

20 They really have bought in completely to the notion that comedians are political operatives. They don't even finch for a second at the thought that a late night tuxuedo rack is in the exact same category as a politician, editor, pundit, journalist, etc etc etc.

It's kinda fascinating, really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (06Hmj)

21 He's refusing. He was going to be unemployed in seven months anyway, he's using this as a way to say "I wasn't fired, I quit, I'm a Tough Guy Warrior."
Posted by: ace at September 18, 2025 04:40 PM (KRtlO)

Well, I guess tough guys cry, because that's what I've seen this idiot do on air. He is a man without a chest.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (urtE/)

22 19 We warned them they won't like their new rules. Now break it off in their ass.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 18, 2025 04:41 PM (snZF9)

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The irony here in Kimmel's case is that these aren't new rules.

They're rules in place for 90 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

23 It wasn’t the govt that censored Little Kimmy…the affiliates did not want him.

The customer’s always right

Posted by: kallisto at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (8/2+5)

24 Imagine if Aragorn had ripped the Ring off of Frodo. Or better, if Galadriel had just nabbed it.
You think the Orcs of Mordor would have been like, "no fair! only we get to use it!"
Tolkien couldn't even imagine writing something that dumb. Yet, here's Schumer, bringing the stupid.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (gKWVE)

25 I am astounded at the disparity in respect given on this blog to The Paolo and Brian Stelter.

Both are sex machines, yet only one is revered,

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (0sNs1)

26 As the great Michael Knowles opined, the time for discussion, accommodation and co-existence is over, it is now time for conservatives to impose our moral vision by, in the parlance of the left and in a manner they can understand, any means necessary.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (XV/Pl)

27 5 Apparently, there's some kind of picket protest going on outside Disney's HQ in Burbank.

Love it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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The protesters probably watch Oliver on HBO or Colbert. Lefty protests are so inorganic nowadays that all of them are suspect to me.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (WDjG6)

28
Dedicated a decade of my Rosary just now to WitchDoktor's soul and the comfort of his family. Pretty pitiful, but I don't know what more to do. How indescribably awful must the pain have been to take that step and how indescribably awful for his family.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2025 04:43 PM (tgvbd)

29 I heard on Clay and Buck today that not only was Kimmel removed from TV but has to make an apology, plus donate money to both the Kirk family and TP. Is this right? Or did I misunderstand what they were talking about?
Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 18, 2025 04:39 PM (mZ/55)

Unless ABC is planning on keeping him on the payroll, and I can't imagine why they would, this seems really unlikely.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 18, 2025 04:43 PM (ExV1e)

30 Brian Stelter is a meme

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 18, 2025 04:43 PM (NtVYv)

31 I had forgotten about that lame decision by the Supreme Court, its like they didn't consider what it would mean for the government and culture. I personally oppose the government leaning on private companies for their content as long as its not illegal, but for the left to whine about it now after years of it by their side under Obama and Biden is a bit rich.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 18, 2025 04:43 PM (dfIr7)

32 20 They really have bought in completely to the notion that comedians are political operatives. They don't even finch for a second at the thought that a late night tuxuedo rack is in the exact same category as a politician, editor, pundit, journalist, etc etc etc.

It's kinda fascinating, really.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (06Hmj)

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Saw a meme saying Kimmel was the moderate one.

I mean...Kirk was our moderate one and the left shot him in the fucking throat and murdered him and then celebrated it.

But sure, rally around your fat, unfunny comedian as he retreats to his Italian villa.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 18, 2025 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

33 That’s only 30k/night

Yeong Man Cooking gets more than that for his vegan recipes on YouTube
Posted by: kallisto at September 18, 2025 04:41 PM (8/2+5)

It's the -same- 30k per night.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2025 04:43 PM (06Hmj)

34 Amaze on Twitter had Kimmel, himself, yucking it up over Tucker Carlson leaving Fox.

Alinsky #4, assholes. Cram it in your cram holes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2025 04:44 PM (i24o9)

35 20 They really have bought in completely to the notion that comedians are political operatives. They don't even finch for a second at the thought that a late night tuxuedo rack is in the exact same category as a politician, editor, pundit, journalist, etc etc etc.

It's kinda fascinating, really.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (06Hmj)

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The assumption is that Carr just saying that he was going to look into it was a secret signal to the affiliates to take action.

I don't buy it, but that's the assumption.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 18, 2025 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

36 25 I am astounded at the disparity in respect given on this blog to The Paolo and Brian Stelter.

Both are sex machines, yet only one is revered,
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Vegetable sex machine is one step away from Furries.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 04:44 PM (WDjG6)

37 It's mostly right -- ABC is saying he can be un-suspended but only with an apology and, I read as you did, a donation to TP or an organization CK would have approved of.

He's refusing. He was going to be unemployed in seven months anyway, he's using this as a way to say "I wasn't fired, I quit, I'm a Tough Guy Warrior."
Posted by: ace at September 18, 2025 04:40 PM (KRtlO)

Wow. I assume ABC was counting on that response.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 18, 2025 04:44 PM (ExV1e)

38 I heard on the webz that there is a specific rule about giving false information about a criminal case that brought the FCC's ire even more than the defamation cases on Trump and Melania that have cost news agencies huge losses.

That's what Kimmel did to bring this to a head. He lied about the MAGA links of the shooter.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2025 04:45 PM (8avO+)

39 Now that you have made your rule, we will be using it going forward.

Or paraphrasing the immortal words of Bomber Harris:
"The Dems entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them.

At Portland, DC, NYC, Minneapolis, and half a hundred other places, they put that rather naive theory into operation.

They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 18, 2025 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

40 28
Dedicated a decade of my Rosary just now to WitchDoktor's soul and the comfort of his family. Pretty pitiful, but I don't know what more to do. How indescribably awful must the pain have been to take that step and how indescribably awful for his family.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2025 04:43 PM (tgvbd)

Had a priest tell me there is no such thing as a bad rosary prayer. Not pitiful, at all, particularly since WitchDoktor is now in His hands.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 18, 2025 04:45 PM (urtE/)

41 You know if kimmel came out and claimed he was trans they would not only put him back on the TV they would give him a raise.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 18, 2025 04:45 PM (0N4FZ)

42 39 They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 18, 2025 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

========

"Oh, man, this is awesome!"
-sowing

"Oh, shit...this sucks!"
-reaping

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 18, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

43
ABC: My network, my rules. FCC has nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 18, 2025 04:45 PM (cCfL4)

44 Brian Stelter may be a potato, but he is certainly a thumb.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 18, 2025 04:46 PM (urtE/)

45 20 They really have bought in completely to the notion that comedians are political operatives. They don't even finch for a second at the thought that a late night tuxuedo rack is in the exact same category as a politician, editor, pundit, journalist, etc etc etc.

It's kinda fascinating, really.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Everything is political to a leftist--what actors you watch, what type of grocery sack you put your goodies into, what type of car you drive, everything. And they live in eternal fear of missing the latest hive mind adjustment of the lefty pseudo religious doctrine.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 04:46 PM (WDjG6)

46 Tater tater tater.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 18, 2025 04:46 PM (vwX6l)

47 Never mind

It was MAZE on twitter who had Kimmel, himself, yucking it up over Tucker Carlson leaving Fox.

https://tinyurl.com/yfcjzmzx

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2025 04:46 PM (i24o9)

48 They really have bought in completely to the notion that comedians are political operatives. They don't even finch for a second at the thought that a late night tuxuedo rack is in the exact same category as a politician, editor, pundit, journalist, etc etc etc.

It's kinda fascinating, really.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (06Hmj)

To a leftist, everybody is a political operator. On their side and everywhere else.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2025 04:46 PM (8avO+)

49 Rumor on DU is that "FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Says He Might Go After The View".

DU commenters' lace-encrusted knickers are getting twisted.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 18, 2025 04:46 PM (0sNs1)

50 28
Dedicated a decade of my Rosary just now to WitchDoktor's soul and the comfort of his family. Pretty pitiful, but I don't know what more to do. How indescribably awful must the pain have been to take that step and how indescribably awful for his family.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You are a really good soul.

Posted by: Piper at September 18, 2025 04:46 PM (pZEOD)

51 Kimmel is a perfect example of someone for whom there was no depth too low and no groveling too humiliating for him to embrace enthusiastically. And what did it give him? Bad ratings and a lost job. He did everything they asked for, he cried on cue, he pushed what they wanted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 18, 2025 04:46 PM (dfIr7)

52 If the left wants to pass a law retroactively declaring Biden's "jawboning" to have been an unconstitutional act official government censorship, then let us know. We can work on that.

They can only outlaw it going forward, otherwise it’s an ex post facto law.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 18, 2025 04:46 PM (wZlsB)

53 41 You know if kimmel came out and claimed he was trans they would not only put him back on the TV they would give him a raise.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 18, 2025 04:45 PM (0N4FZ)

Trans-what? Trans-human? Trans-intelligent? Trans-thoughtful and kind?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 18, 2025 04:46 PM (urtE/)

54 49 Rumor on DU is that "FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Says He Might Go After The View".

DU commenters' lace-encrusted knickers are getting twisted.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 18, 2025 04:46 PM (0sNs1)

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How many regulations have been on the book for decades and seen no action in court because it just wasn't worth it or the wrong people were targeted or it was just accepted?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 18, 2025 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

55 How many other Horde members have killed themselves? There must have been some before this.

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2025 04:47 PM (77rzZ)

56 41 You know if kimmel came out and claimed he was trans they would not only put him back on the TV they would give him a raise.
Posted by: Mister Scott
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I think peak tranny moment has passed. Their political usefulness in threatening and berating people has ended.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 04:47 PM (WDjG6)

57 >> There's this impression that Trump is overstepping like Biden did. He's not. At all. It's not even close. If Carr is the reason Kimmel got fired, he did it with legal regulatory authority as granted him in the Communications Act of 1934.

This, again, is what the left misses. The Biden administration demanded censorship of information that was TRUE. Sort of a big difference.

Posted by: the dandy at September 18, 2025 04:47 PM (8l8nW)

58 Give Stelter a comedy show. Call it Late Night Tater. Then fire him.

Posted by: wth at September 18, 2025 04:47 PM (v0R5T)

59 Late night "talk" shows are fossils.

The average "viewer" age is in their mid 80's.

And the only way that is happening is because they have fallen asleep in front of the TV.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 18, 2025 04:47 PM (2sMLA)

60 I'm just laughing at how there isn't a clown nose in sight as this pudgy halfwit bumbles his way through his part in the production.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2025 04:47 PM (06Hmj)

61 Yet, here's Schumer, bringing the stupid.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (gKWVE)

The politician who posted a photo of himself putting cheese on uncooked hamburger patties to show that he "connects with the ordinary citizens" is bringing the stupid? I shannot believe it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 18, 2025 04:47 PM (ExV1e)

62 tjm what's your twitter handle so I can post that and credit you on x?

I already added to the post.

Posted by: ace at September 18, 2025 04:47 PM (KRtlO)

63 Bulg, Rosetta and Joffen

Posted by: gKWVE at September 18, 2025 04:48 PM (gKWVE)

64 At least Kimmel never had dancing vaccines on his show!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 18, 2025 04:48 PM (wZlsB)

65 Dedicated a decade of my Rosary just now to WitchDoktor's soul and the comfort of his family. Pretty pitiful, but I don't know what more to do.

Same. Did that earlier.

Would be nice if we could donate to a charity he preferred . We would need his family’s input to do so.

Posted by: kallisto at September 18, 2025 04:48 PM (8/2+5)

66 "Oh, man, this is awesome!"
-sowing

"Oh, shit...this sucks!"
-reaping
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 18, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

The basic principle of FAFO.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 18, 2025 04:48 PM (urtE/)

67 Kimmel is fat? I've only ever seen photos of his face.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 18, 2025 04:48 PM (kTd/k)

68 "First: I was surprised to learn from 2Way today that the rule about networks being obligated to provide "equal time" to both political parties was still in force. I thought Reagan repealed it -- but no, it's still the law. I guess Reagan just stopped enforcing it, and other presidents followed suit."

Having a law on the books that is not enforced just "because" is extremely dangerous. That kind of $hit will come back and bite you on the a$$ big time. If it's on the books then enforce it. If it is a sucky law then repeal it, but do something other than ignore it, because the next guy who wins the election just might decide to enforce that law big time.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 18, 2025 04:48 PM (0N4FZ)

69 55 How many other Horde members have killed themselves? There must have been some before this.
Posted by: Bulg
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Not sure that family members would report thus even if it happened in the past. I think Taylor was looking for answers otherwise we would have never known about it other than whatever happened to so and so.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 04:48 PM (WDjG6)

70 Just saw this on Facebook:

The Turning Point Board has unanimously elected Erika Kirk as the new CEO and Chair of the Board.

In prior discussions, Charlie expressed to multiple executives that this is what he wanted in the event of his death.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 18, 2025 04:48 PM (HEGiN)

71 Geez, I'm getting sick of reading about Jimmy Freaking Kimmel. They're making it out like he walked on water and the world simply can't do without this total loser. Give. Me. A. Break! He was nothing but a 2-bit talk show host.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 18, 2025 04:48 PM (qBdHI)

72 62 tjm what's your twitter handle so I can post that and credit you on x?

I already added to the post.
Posted by: ace at September 18, 2025 04:47 PM (KRtlO)

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@davidmvining

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 18, 2025 04:48 PM (GBKbO)

73 You know Kimmel has got to be steaming over the fact that that garden gnome, Streptococcalous managed to defame the president, ABC picks up the $15 Million tab to settle, and gets to keep his job.

I'm wondering what kind of effed up blackmail material George S has on the C-suite @ ABC.

Posted by: noneyouknowyouknow at September 18, 2025 04:48 PM (Iwv3U)

74 Ace, thanks for this post. I've read several articles from "our sided" today basically saying that "what ABC did was within their right, but what Carr said was wrong."

We do often hamstring ourselves by abiding by the golden rule. Which does hurt to say.

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 18, 2025 04:49 PM (nBI4X)

75 Yeong Man Cooking gets more than that for his vegan recipes on YouTube
Posted by: kallisto at September 18, 2025 04:41 PM (8/2+5)

kimmel might have gotten 60K if he had done that too.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2025 04:49 PM (8avO+)

76 Rudy Guilani was prosecuted for saying things the government claimed were untrue on the air let alone just losing a media gig...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2025 04:49 PM (sKqQm)

77 The left are noxious weeds even a goat won’t.

Posted by: Eromero at September 18, 2025 04:50 PM (jgmnb)

78 I would love to see Stelter bounced out of a job, again. Arrogance and stupidity is a bad combination

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 18, 2025 04:50 PM (lmTGO)

79 Trans-what? Trans-human? Trans-intelligent? Trans-thoughtful and kind?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 18, 2025 04:46 PM (urtE/)

Trans-Stay-Puft marshmallow man.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2025 04:50 PM (i24o9)

80

Samson famously used the jawbone of a donkey to defeat a thousand Philistines, declaring, "With the jawbone of a donkey, I have slain a thousand men!" This event is recorded in the Book of Judges, highlighting his extraordinary strength and the dramatic nature of his battles.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2025 04:50 PM (63Dwl)

81 Cancel Cultural was all fun and games until it happened to them.

Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2025 04:50 PM (+qU29)

82 Yet another tsunami warning from a Russian earthquake is in effect here. We are mostly protected from that stuff, but it could get dicey in the Aleutians.

The last two have been okay, so maybe this one will be, too.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 18, 2025 04:50 PM (urtE/)

83 putting cheese on uncooked hamburger

Totally kosher, too.

Posted by: commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 18, 2025 04:50 PM (ZLkk0)

84 Wonderful that the CNN clip has Van Jones defending hate speech!

Posted by: Squid at September 18, 2025 04:51 PM (fYXTJ)

85
I'm slain by all the idiot takes on X that ABC caved to an FCC threat.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 18, 2025 04:51 PM (cCfL4)

86
I know this will sound extreme, but Kimmel could have, like, kept his mouth shut. We used to call that common decency but now it's considered repression.

Never hurts to remember that the more widespread your words go out, the more important it is to watch what you say. Also that for time immemorial, lives have been ruined for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Except that now we have all kinds of platforms that encourage fools to blurt out the first thing that pops into their silly heads.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2025 04:51 PM (tgvbd)

87 I got a new follower!!!

Squee!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 18, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

88 "Just because someone has committed a crime that doesn't make them a criminal" ~ Jasmine Crockett

Posted by: SMOD at September 18, 2025 04:51 PM (jDkKy)

89 I would love to see Stelter bounced out of a job, again.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Do potatoes bounce?

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2025 04:52 PM (77rzZ)

90 This old saying has never been applied more appropriately.

The Left is like a person who murdered their parents now crying and whining and want sympathy because now they are an orphan.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 18, 2025 04:52 PM (EYmYM)

91 Fallon is looking smarter as things progress.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 18, 2025 04:52 PM (w3u3d)

92 Roseanne Barr claims that Barack Obama and Michelle called the network personally to get her fired.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 18, 2025 04:52 PM (Cg3Gl)

93 Kimmel has got to be steaming

Like a turd.

Posted by: commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 18, 2025 04:52 PM (ZLkk0)

94 91 Fallon is looking smarter as things progress.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 18, 2025 04:52 PM (w3u3d)

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Dude has a ride at Universal.

Probably gets a slice of every ticket sold.

Can't fuck with that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 18, 2025 04:52 PM (GBKbO)

95 >>Roseanne Barr claims that Barack Obama and Michelle called the network personally to get her fired.

She got off easy.

Posted by: Joan Rivers at September 18, 2025 04:52 PM (YbF8U)

96 Except that now we have all kinds of platforms that encourage fools to blurt out the first thing that pops into their silly heads.

--

How else are they going to feel special and important and feel like they're "making a difference?"

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 18, 2025 04:53 PM (qBdHI)

97 I was thinking over that "coveted 18-49 demo" and why it was so coveted. It's not economic. Older people have plenty of money these days, and it's not getting eaten up by housing and avocado toast. 18-49 isn't the most commercial age group, it's the most persuadable demo.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 18, 2025 04:53 PM (1MlMk)

98 lol, apparently Trump told visit organizers in the UK he did not want to see mayor Khan in Windsor during his stay. In and probably elsewhere too !

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2025 04:53 PM (g47mK)

99 28
Dedicated a decade of my Rosary just now to WitchDoktor's soul and the comfort of his family. Pretty pitiful, but I don't know what more to do. How indescribably awful must the pain have been to take that step and how indescribably awful for his family.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

His name is John.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 18, 2025 04:53 PM (agvh/)

100 I would love to see Stelter bounced out of a job, again. Arrogance and stupidity is a bad combination
Posted by: Smell the Glove
......

But he's sexy in those boxers, right ladies?

Posted by: wth at September 18, 2025 04:53 PM (v0R5T)

101 After Colbert was advised he was being canned, Kimmel bought a villa in Italy. He knew , because his ratings suck, that his contract wasn't being renewed. He didn't care because he's worth $50m, but I wonder if he'll help his staff

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 18, 2025 04:53 PM (lmTGO)

102 Wait the "false claims" prosecution of Guilani is STILL GOING ON while the left is whining about Jimmy Kibble losing his job for lying on air and sucking...but mostly for sucking.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2025 04:54 PM (sKqQm)

103
Remember, every time you see Stelter on your screen, he's likely not wearing pants.

You are welcome!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 18, 2025 04:54 PM (Tv15w)

104 Ugh. A friend of mine from high school just changed his profile photo on Facebook. To one of Jimmy Kimmel.

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

105
You are a really good soul.
Posted by: Piper at September 18, 2025 04:46 PM (pZEOD)

_______

No, I'm not. I fear my Judgement. But thank you anyway.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2025 04:54 PM (tgvbd)

106 Stelter is melting down....

Hot Potato, Hot Potato....

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 18, 2025 04:54 PM (IifOV)

107 7 th!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Nice job, Carmack, how did you know?!
Posted by: t-bird at September 18, 2025 04:41 PM

The envelope. Duh.

(actually that was a throwaway sock change)

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 18, 2025 04:54 PM (Wnv9h)

108 The Golden Rule is a rule for a society.

It gets you nowhere on a battlefield.

The Golden Rule is the thing that's supposed to keep everyone off the battlefield in the first place.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2025 04:54 PM (06Hmj)

109 Wow. I assume ABC was counting on that response.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Might depend on what his contract says. They usually put in some boilerplate though about public statements likely to have a deleterious impact on the public image of the network and for compliance with all FCC regulations. Refusal to apologize would also tend to work in ABC's favor unless specific contract wording limited that.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 04:54 PM (WDjG6)

110 >>>97 I was thinking over that "coveted 18-49 demo" and why it was so coveted. It's not economic. Older people have plenty of money these days, and it's not getting eaten up by housing and avocado toast. 18-49 isn't the most commercial age group, it's the most persuadable demo.

yes, that has always been why the demo is "coveted," because they're old enough to have money to spend BUT are also persuadable by commercial propaganda. 29-year-olds like you and me do not change brands readily and do not discover Hot New Products We Never Heard Of Before and decide we need to start using them.

Posted by: ace at September 18, 2025 04:55 PM (KRtlO)

111 Missed the news about WitchDoktor. I knew his mental health had deteriorated, but not to that extent. I'll miss him.

Posted by: pookysgirl very aware of mental health issues at September 18, 2025 04:55 PM (Wt5PA)

112 Ugh. A friend of mine from high school just changed his profile photo on Facebook. To one of Jimmy Kimmel.
Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

No Ukraine flag as well? What a piker.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2025 04:55 PM (8avO+)

113 total loser. Give. Me. A. Break! He was nothing but a 2-bit talk show host.

It astonishes me that actual humans would show up to occupy seats in the studio audience.
Were the producers papering the house?

Posted by: kallisto at September 18, 2025 04:55 PM (bHd6/)

114 89 I would love to see Stelter bounced out of a job, again.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Do potatoes bounce?
Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2025 04:52 PM (77rzZ)

All his hopes would be mashed, I mean dashed...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 18, 2025 04:55 PM (VE6XX)

115 Equal Time is different from the Fairness Doctrine, which was repealed under Reagan. It's the reason Rush Limbaugh (pbuh) was able to thrive.

Equal Time is just that stations must provide equal airtime for candidates for political office, not "equal time" for all political views.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 04:41 PM (w6EFb)

Also, "equal time" does not apply to news programs.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 18, 2025 04:55 PM (CNl8/)

116
The broadcast airwaves have always been different re the First Amendment that other "forms of expression". The theory is the limited broadcast spectrum makes it a rare public resource and therefore subject to federal regulation.

There are limits on "censorship" that can be done, but it's not like newspapers, movies, and just shooting your mouth off in public.

For example, porn could not be broadcast. Any station did that, they'd be gone.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 04:55 PM (w6EFb)

117 I just can't get over the fact that the Left's rationalization of their behavior is the equivalent to "But, but...look what she's wearing. She was asking for it."

Posted by: Orson at September 18, 2025 04:55 PM (dIske)

118 @DLoesch
Sure, if there is evidence that the admin or FCC contacted and pressured Sinclair, Nexstar, ABC, et al. on Kimmel like Democrats did with tech cos, sure, you have a point. But there isn't evidence. I asked Carr directly, he said no. So not seeing how this is a First Amendment issue.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 18, 2025 04:56 PM (mlg/3)

119 106 Stelter is melting down....

Hot Potato, Hot Potato....
Posted by: Frank Barone

Paramount's new owners are eyeing buying Warner Bros. That means more consolidation and fewer on air jobs. And CNN/MS NOW were recently beat by News Nation in the hot 18-49 year old ad demographics.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 04:56 PM (WDjG6)

120 Under 18 or 21 -- they don't have much money and really you can only sell them cheap stuff like records or skateboards

over 55: they have money but they're going to buy what they've always bought and it's a waste of money to spend millions to try to change their minds.

Posted by: ace at September 18, 2025 04:56 PM (KRtlO)

121 Come on, Georgia! Tell this little turd that his Visa isn't valid! I promise I'll buy only Italian olive oil for the rest of the year if you do!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2025 04:56 PM (06Hmj)

122 Never been happier not be on Facebook than this past week.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 18, 2025 04:56 PM (1MlMk)

123
Kimmel should never have gotten the gig in the first place. Not because he's a commie cocksucker, but because when he got the multimillion dollar gig, he abandoned his wife and kids so he could stick his dick in Sarah Silverman.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 18, 2025 04:56 PM (y9nCu)

124 Bulg, thank you for your kind comment earlier.

Posted by: Piper at September 18, 2025 04:56 PM (pZEOD)

125 I came, I saw, I jawboned.

Posted by: Lex at September 18, 2025 04:57 PM (y4H1r)

126 You are a really good soul.
Posted by: Piper at September 18, 2025 04:46 PM (pZEOD)

_______

No, I'm not. I fear my Judgement. But thank you anyway.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

As our Savior said, "No one is good but God himself."

But, Hadrian, I admire your devotion to your faith, even though I am not Catholic.

And, as I said to Piper in the last thread, I would like to meet you in person sometime.

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

127 118 @DLoesch
Sure, if there is evidence that the admin or FCC contacted and pressured Sinclair, Nexstar, ABC, et al. on Kimmel like Democrats did with tech cos, sure, you have a point. But there isn't evidence. I asked Carr directly, he said no. So not seeing how this is a First Amendment issue.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 18, 2025 04:56 PM (mlg/3)

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I fully suspect this was entirely affiliate vs. network stuff.

But...if the worst case scenario is true that Carr reached out to ABC, he's fully within his regulatory rights to ask why a broadcast network is knowingly airing false information about a criminal act.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 18, 2025 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

128 I would love to see Stelter bounced out of a job, again. Arrogance and stupidity is a bad combination
Posted by: Smell the Glove
......

But he's sexy in those boxers, right ladies?

Posted by: wth at September 18, 2025 04:53 PM (v0R5T)

Here he is posing on a chaise. SFW, surprisingly.

http://alturl.com/n392u

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2025 04:57 PM (i24o9)

129 No clue what "jawboning" means in this context. Does it have something to do with killing lions?

Which you should never do. With or without a jawbone.

I don't really understand why anyone is worked up about a guy getting 125K views losing his platform. That's like a fourth of what Whitney Cummings gets.

And she's not funny either.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 04:58 PM (QuWCM)

130
Now do Seth Meyers. He's just as disgustingly partisan and masquerades as an entertainment show.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 18, 2025 04:58 PM (IifOV)

131
1. I want to thank Ace for taking complex issues like this were I only had time to skim a few headlines and have no idea what is going on, and to put them into a short post that I can ignore (jk - this content actually answered most of my questions.)

2. Did the Obama admin. "jawbone" publicly? I am OK with that. My recollection is that they jawboned in private and it was really threats to use gov. power illegally unless they fell in line. I am not OK with that.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at September 18, 2025 04:58 PM (i4yvI)

132 93 Kimmel has got to be steaming

Like a turd.
Posted by: commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 18, 2025 04:52 PM (ZLkk0)

Reports are that he is very angry. I guess that's one reaction to being shown up as a liar in public. Another would be humility, but I expect he is incapable of that sort of introspection.

Most blow-hards are incapable of self-reflection. Or shame.

I wonder if he has given any thought to how folks will react to his death in the future.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 18, 2025 04:58 PM (urtE/)

133 Bulg, thank you for your kind comment earlier.
Posted by: Piper

I meant it.

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ)

134 Hey Jimmy!
MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA
Have a nice day.

Posted by: wth at September 18, 2025 04:59 PM (v0R5T)

135 Could you imagine if Kumswala was “jawboning”?

We are talking a dislocated jaw here. I think there was some horror movie creature that could do that.

Hoor-ah

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 18, 2025 05:00 PM (fmAJ4)

136 Truth is I didn't know who he was. I never watched his show.
I don't know who any of those late night guys are. I haven't watched the late night shows since Letterman and cut him off when he became so obnoxious I couldn't stand him anymore. Broadcasters need to understand, I'm the consumer and if I don't like what you are selling I'm not buying. I don't watch television unless something is on I want to watch.

Posted by: Case at September 18, 2025 05:00 PM (iwlvf)

137
Big bad dwarf Jon Stewart is going to Host the Daily show tonight to address the Kimmel firing.

They're bringing in all the big guns to whine about this. Obama, now Jon Stewart?

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 18, 2025 05:00 PM (IifOV)

138 117 I just can't get over the fact that the Left's rationalization of their behavior is the equivalent to "But, but...look what she's wearing. She was asking for it."
Posted by: Orson

They were not spanked enough as children. They grew up to be spoiled brats--Veruca Salt in real life.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:01 PM (WDjG6)

139 123
Kimmel should never have gotten the gig in the first place. Not because he's a commie cocksucker, but because when he got the multimillion dollar gig, he abandoned his wife and kids so he could stick his dick in Sarah Silverman.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 18, 2025 04:56 PM (y9nCu)

I guess I'm not up on the latest gossip about this ass, but wasn't he the one crying on tv about his son's health issues? Apparently he cared less about his son than that skank? This gets worse every time I think about it.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 18, 2025 05:01 PM (urtE/)

140 Thank you, Ace for setting me straight on that.
What a chickenshit Kimmel is, but we knew that already.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 18, 2025 05:01 PM (mZ/55)

141 29-year-olds like you and me do not change brands readily and do not discover Hot New Products We Never Heard Of Before and decide we need to start using them.
Posted by: ace at September 18, 2025 04:55 PM (KRtlO)

Come on, you're telling me you didn't buy a Mangrate?

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:01 PM (2Wwko)

142
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy made it up to Belton. She was even able to snag an RV spot, so she doesn't have to dry camp this weekend.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2025 05:01 PM (tgvbd)

143 Anyone who willingly sticks his micro ding ding into Silverman has to be a closet gay

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at September 18, 2025 05:01 PM (HYKHz)

144
Sinclair has always been sort of "activist" if you can call that about objecting to some network content. Back in the Before Time, the days of the Big Three, we had three main broadcast TV stations, NBC, CBS, and ABC affiliates. Had a PBS too, and a couple of others that didn't get big ratings.

The local ABC affiliate was Sinclair owned back then, I remember several times over the years they would object to some ABC network program and refuse to air it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:01 PM (w6EFb)

145 Hey everyone, I have been dealing with a lot of stuff lately and Witchdoctor is hitting me kind of hard. I also knew a 15 year old boy that took his life two weeks ago and it's devastating to all involved.
Suicide hits so hard and it reminds me how important it is to check in on everyone. If you're feeling low or overwhelmed you're not alone. Please talk to someone, a friend, a loved one. We need you all here.
God bless you all.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 18, 2025 05:02 PM (Cg3Gl)

146 Hey everyone, I have been dealing with a lot of stuff lately and Witchdoctor is hitting me kind of hard. I also knew a 15 year old boy that took his life two weeks ago and it's devastating to all involved.
Suicide hits so hard and it reminds me how important it is to check in on everyone. If you're feeling low or overwhelmed you're not alone. Please talk to someone, a friend, a loved one. We need you all here.
God bless you all.
Posted by: CaliGirl at September 18, 2025 05:02 PM (Cg3Gl)

Hang in there CalGirl. Do some bird watching...

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2025 05:03 PM (g47mK)

147 My point #2 above is important.

Jawboning publicly is just the gov. telling the public what they consider to be the law, and warning them that it will be enforced. This is not only OK, it is desirable.

What Obama did was private threats, and not about enforcing the law, but about breaking the laws (what are you gonna do about it?) and making them do things that the public would scream at if they knew. Big difference.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at September 18, 2025 05:03 PM (i4yvI)

148 I remember an episode of Happy Days in which somebody says something in Al's diner that pisses Fonzie off. A Catholic priest is present. And Fonzie goes to slug the other guy, saying, "Forgive me, Father, but I'm gonna break the jawbone of an ass."

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2025 05:03 PM (77rzZ)

149 137
Big bad dwarf Jon Stewart is going to Host the Daily show tonight to address the Kimmel firing.

They're bringing in all the big guns to whine about this. Obama, now Jon Stewart?
Posted by: Frank Barone

Jon Leibowitz is past his prime and so is Obama. Neither have the presence of mind to know when to gracefully bow out so they keep drawing on their past cred to diminish themselves further. Jon Leibowitz was not a comic genius--he was mildly talented at best. Obama was not the politician of the century--he was never tested by crises nor was he ever held to account for all teh bad things he did do destroy this nation's coherence. He failed as president and is a miserable failure at anything other than fatuous self serving blathering word salads to charm those who like to think they are elites.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:04 PM (WDjG6)

150 >>What Obama did was private threats

His Bank Regulators were using the same tactics to interfere with lending.

Posted by: garrett at September 18, 2025 05:04 PM (YbF8U)

151
Under the broadcast rules, it's actually the affiliate stations that would be regulated directly, and not the network. IOW, if there's some FCC violation, they are the ones that get in trouble, since they are the ones actually broadcasting over the public airwaves, not the networks.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:04 PM (w6EFb)

152
We are talking a dislocated jaw here. I think there was some horror movie creature that could do that.

V

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2025 05:04 PM (63Dwl)

153 Big bad dwarf Jon Stewart is going to Host the Daily show tonight to address the Kimmel firing.

They're bringing in all the big guns to whine about this. Obama, now Jon Stewart?
Posted by: Frank Barone
......

Bunch of Butt Buddies.

Posted by: wth at September 18, 2025 05:05 PM (v0R5T)

154 "freedom of reach"

Ummm, Ace, when discussing people who broadcast from home or had lots of Zoom meetings during Covid, and were videoed not wearing pants or Toobining, I have to say "PHRASING?!"

Posted by: GWB at September 18, 2025 05:05 PM (RTQn+)

155 Our jawboning is deplatforming, their deplatforming is jawboning.

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 18, 2025 05:05 PM (EES2L)

156 151
Under the broadcast rules, it's actually the affiliate stations that would be regulated directly, and not the network. IOW, if there's some FCC violation, they are the ones that get in trouble, since they are the ones actually broadcasting over the public airwaves, not the networks.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:04 PM (w6EFb)

=======

A fair, and happily accepted, correction.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 18, 2025 05:05 PM (GBKbO)

157 Hey everyone, I have been dealing with a lot of stuff lately and Witchdoctor is hitting me kind of hard. I also knew a 15 year old boy that took his life two weeks ago and it's devastating to all involved.
Suicide hits so hard and it reminds me how important it is to check in on everyone. If you're feeling low or overwhelmed you're not alone. Please talk to someone, a friend, a loved one. We need you all here.
God bless you all.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Thank you, Cali. You, too.

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2025 05:06 PM (77rzZ)

158 150 >>What Obama did was private threats

His Bank Regulators were using the same tactics to interfere with lending.
Posted by: garrett

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Exactly. Also social media platforms.
He did it all privately because it was illegal. That is not jawboning and now I have to read the SCOTUS decision.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at September 18, 2025 05:06 PM (i4yvI)

159 He argued for deplatforming -- always, he argues for deplatforming -- saying that "Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach" and stating that simply taking away someone's platform is not the same as silencing them.

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I think it's time Stelter's reach was reduced yet again even though CNN hasn't got much of it any more.

FCC might look into curtailing the reach of the entire CNN. Almost everything they broadcast is a lie.

Posted by: Decaf at September 18, 2025 05:06 PM (unUNN)

160 I like the argument that it was in the context of a joke.

What joke? He wasn't near a joke. He was just doing one of his pissy little rants.

Posted by: Axeman at September 18, 2025 05:07 PM (krQz2)

161 49 Rumor on DU is that "FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Says He Might Go After The View".

DU commenters' lace-encrusted knickers are getting twisted.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I DU rumour you say. Most likely bollocks but I will take it. Those twats need a good kicking.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at September 18, 2025 05:07 PM (bgJ0E)

162 "Equal Time" typically only gets used during election season.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 18, 2025 05:08 PM (Q4IgG)

163 So Kimmel himself celebrated Tucker being let go or parting ways. Welp, seems cromulent.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 18, 2025 05:08 PM (rvwwT)

164
DU commenters' lace-encrusted knickers are getting twisted.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

_________

*averts eyes in horror*

That's... not... lace!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2025 05:09 PM (tgvbd)

165 I like the argument that it was in the context of a joke.

What joke? He wasn't near a joke. He was just doing one of his pissy little rants.
Posted by: Axeman
.....

Maybe BEN could 'splain it to us mere mortals.

Posted by: wth at September 18, 2025 05:09 PM (v0R5T)

166 Can we get someone to ask Cuck Schumer and the rest if they will work to get the charges against Rudy Guilani dismissed?

If getting a failing comedian fired for telling a lie has a chilling affect on free speech what does prosecuting the opposition's top lawyer for "telling a lie" do?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2025 05:09 PM (sKqQm)

167 I'm from Buenos Aires and I say censor them all!

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 18, 2025 05:10 PM (EES2L)

168 Stelter says Kimmel “suggested” the killer “might’ve been” a pro-Trump Republican & that Kimmel said the motive was “unclear” & “maybe” the killer was rightwing.
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And I should listen to somebody who parses language *that* badly why?!!

Kimmel pre-emptively doubled down.

Posted by: Axeman at September 18, 2025 05:11 PM (krQz2)

169 Under the broadcast rules, it's actually the affiliate stations that would be regulated directly, and not the network. IOW, if there's some FCC violation, they are the ones that get in trouble, since they are the ones actually broadcasting over the public airwaves, not the networks.
Posted by: publius,
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Kinda, ABC owns some local broadcast outlets directly. 7 according to recent figures including Chicago, NYC, LA, Phil, Houston, San Fran, Fresno,and Raleigh Durham.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:11 PM (WDjG6)

170 Under the broadcast rules, it's actually the affiliate stations that would be regulated directly, and not the network. IOW, if there's some FCC violation, they are the ones that get in trouble, since they are the ones actually broadcasting over the public airwaves, not the networks.
Posted by: publius

Not so sure about that, and I'm just riffing here, but I think the affiliates are under contract to run certain shows, time specific or not. If those contracts are in place, it would be ABC that is the target of any potential investigation. Again, not sure of any of that.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 18, 2025 05:12 PM (mlg/3)

171 >> A fair, and happily accepted, correction.

It get more complicated than that for the networks, but basically, it's the actual affiliate station that is doing the broadcasting over the public airwaves, via their license to do so.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:12 PM (w6EFb)

172 It wasn’t the govt that censored Little Kimmy…the affiliates did not want him.

The customer’s always right

Posted by: kallisto at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (8/2+5)

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Not in the new world they thought they had firmly installed. FAFO is the best.

Posted by: Decaf at September 18, 2025 05:13 PM (unUNN)

173 Kimmel pre-emptively doubled down.
Posted by: Axeman
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And refused a chance to save himself by apologizing. Like contempt of court, the keys to fixing his situation were in his own pocket. He chose not to do so. Because he is a self absorbed shithead.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:13 PM (WDjG6)

174 NOICE~!

@Breaking911 4m
BREAKING: Republicans confirm 48 of President Trump's nominees at once, including Kimberly Guilfoyle and Callista Gingrich, after changing the Senate's rules - AP

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 18, 2025 05:13 PM (mlg/3)

175 168 Stelter says Kimmel “suggested” the killer “might’ve been” a pro-Trump Republican & that Kimmel said the motive was “unclear” & “maybe” the killer was rightwing.
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And I should listen to somebody who parses language *that* badly why?!!

Kimmel pre-emptively doubled down.
Posted by: Axeman at September 18, 2025 05:11 PM (krQz2)

Why don't they play the damn clip? I know the answer.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 18, 2025 05:13 PM (jPh2t)

176 this is the tale of TwoTier Keir
youtu.be/9heZvDseRPE

Posted by: gKWVE at September 18, 2025 05:13 PM (gKWVE)

177 So Kimmel himself celebrated Tucker being let go or parting ways. Welp, seems cromulent.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 18, 2025 05:08 PM (rvwwT)

I don't know how to measure these things across platforms, but at least for a while there Tucker was getting more views since his firing.

It's still multi-millions.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:14 PM (2Wwko)

178 Dedicated a decade of my Rosary just now to WitchDoktor's soul and the comfort of his family. Pretty pitiful, but I don't know what more to do. How indescribably awful must the pain have been to take that step and how indescribably awful for his family.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2025 04:43 PM (tgvbd)

What happened?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2025 05:14 PM (hA1Nw)

179 Not so sure about that, and I'm just riffing here, but I think the affiliates are under contract to run certain shows, time specific or not. If those contracts are in place, it would be ABC that is the target of any potential investigation. Again, not sure of any of that.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Non prime time are via affiliate agreement. Even back in Nightline days, not all affiliates ran that show nor Dick Cavett way back. Reruns in some markets were more profitable.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:14 PM (WDjG6)

180 Condolences to Witchdoctor's family. RIP, I enjoyed our talk here

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 18, 2025 05:15 PM (lmTGO)

181 What happened?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Suicide last week.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:15 PM (WDjG6)

182 (from a thread or two back)
297 I've seen some that look like they used a Sharpie.
Posted by: fd at September 18, 2025 04:08 PM (vFG9F)

"I mean, do what you gotta do, lady, but.... Purple?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2025 04:10 PM (06Hmj)

:::snort:::
Thank you, Warai-otoko.
Needed that.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 18, 2025 05:15 PM (R3yzU)

183 As the great Michael Knowles opined, the time for discussion, accommodation and co-existence is over, it is now time for conservatives to impose our moral vision by, in the parlance of the left and in a manner they can understand, any means necessary.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (XV/Pl)

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The more we win the more we hearten young people to go out there and win more for themselves. Victory is contagious.

Posted by: Decaf at September 18, 2025 05:15 PM (unUNN)

184 I guess I'm not up on the latest gossip about this ass, but wasn't he the one crying on tv about his son's health issues? Apparently he cared less about his son than that skank? This gets worse every time I think about it.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 18, 2025 05:01 PM

He was front and center claiming that Trump wanted people to die because he wanted to repeal obamacare.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 18, 2025 05:15 PM (0N4FZ)

185 Tater tater tater.

Is that like "Beetlejuice", "Beetlejuice", "Beetlejuice" ?

Why on earth are you summoning The Sex Machine ?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 18, 2025 05:16 PM (kHd4y)

186 >> Not so sure about that, and I'm just riffing here, but I think the affiliates are under contract to run certain shows, time specific or not

They do have autonomy. If some local affiliate thinks that some network program would violate it's license, they don't have to carry it. How the contracts and agreements figure into that, I don't know, but they do bear the ultimate responsibility for what it is broadcast, and that gives the some sort of ultimate veto power.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:16 PM (w6EFb)

187 @Breaking911 4m
BREAKING: Republicans confirm 48 of President Trump's nominees at once, including Kimberly Guilfoyle and Callista Gingrich, after changing the Senate's rules - AP

Oh look, my balls! I was wondering where those went.

Posted by: John Thune at September 18, 2025 05:17 PM (gKWVE)

188 People are arguing different things.

Public broadcast networks are given licenses to operate and those licenses come with rules that include broadcasting in the public interest. Lying about news is not in the public interest. Kimmel is just one example of how the broadcast networks lie constantly.

Cable channels are not public broadcast networks and can say what they want.

Kimmel broke the rules. ABC had to either fight the FCC and lose or punish Kimmel. This has nothing to do with censorship.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 18, 2025 05:17 PM (viF8m)

189 Tater tater tater.

Is that like "Beetlejuice", "Beetlejuice", "Beetlejuice" ?

Why on earth are you summoning The Sex Machine ?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 18, 2025 05:16 PM (kHd4y)

Ladies have needs, you know.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2025 05:17 PM (i24o9)

190 The protesters probably watch Oliver on HBO or Colbert. Lefty protests are so inorganic nowadays that all of them are suspect to me.
Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 04:42 PM (WDjG6)

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They have always been suspect and, as discovered by DOGE, financed by the taxpayers. DOGE has done a lot of damage to the left.

Posted by: Decaf at September 18, 2025 05:17 PM (unUNN)

191 You know that any lefty network or FCC is going to give conservatives sloppy seconds and call it "equal time".

I don't trust any of these fuckers. Especially after watching a recent Crowder clip on Youtube about how the Portland "We've got a Trumper over here. Blam! Blam! Dead" incident is NOT counted in the numbers on "political violence".

Posted by: Axeman at September 18, 2025 05:17 PM (krQz2)

192 184 I guess I'm not up on the latest gossip about this ass, but wasn't he the one crying on tv about his son's health issues? Apparently he cared less about his son than that skank? This gets worse every time I think about it.

Posted by: tcn
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Some people are willing to do anything for fame and fortune, then when they get it, they become a demigod in their own minds. Taking the ticket it is called. And Stan is the conductor.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:17 PM (WDjG6)

193 They have always been suspect and, as discovered by DOGE, financed by the taxpayers. DOGE has done a lot of damage to the left.
Posted by: Decaf
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I noticed that Trump did not get the massive protests this time in UK. I suspect we were paying for leftist bullshit protests across the globe before the assholes brought that crap to US politics.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:19 PM (WDjG6)

194
I mentioned our local ABC affiliate (WLOS, Asheville, Channel 13) back in the '70s and '80s would refuse to air some ABC program from time to time over some objection.

I remember one "very special episode" of some show back then they didn't like, and they didn't air it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:19 PM (w6EFb)

195 Breaking911 4m
BREAKING: Republicans confirm 48 of President Trump's nominees at once, including Kimberly Guilfoyle and Callista Gingrich, after changing the Senate's rules - AP

==

Thune said next "tranche" will be bigger.

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2025 05:19 PM (g47mK)

196 36 25 I am astounded at the disparity in respect given on this blog to The Paolo and Brian Stelter.

Both are sex machines, yet only one is revered,
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Vegetable sex machine is one step away from Furries.
Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 04:44 PM (WDjG6)

I THINK TATER IS HOT!

Posted by: Andrea Dworkin at September 18, 2025 05:19 PM (OA79/)

197 The advertiser-coveted 18--49 demo also cratered. Kimmel averaged only 129,000 viewers in that bracket in August, off from 212,000 in January and less than half his June peak of 284,000.

Jimmy's audience isn't shrinking. I just think that his appeal is becoming more selective.

Posted by: Ian Faith at September 18, 2025 05:20 PM (ycI94)

198 Like what the Senate Republicans are doing, credit to Thune. He's way better than Mitch already.
Unfortunately judges aren't within the rule change. The Dems ain't going to make any of those appointments easy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 18, 2025 05:20 PM (lmTGO)

199 Amaze on Twitter had Kimmel, himself, yucking it up over Tucker Carlson leaving Fox.

Alinsky #4, assholes. Cram it in your cram holes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 18, 2025 04:44 PM (i24o9)

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The left can never imagine losing therefore they always act like whiny little bitches when nemesis comes for them.

Posted by: Decaf at September 18, 2025 05:20 PM (unUNN)

200 As the great Michael Knowles opined, the time for discussion, accommodation and co-existence is over, it is now time for conservatives to impose our moral vision by, in the parlance of the left and in a manner they can understand, any means necessary.
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Yep. I don't want to hear even one of "our" people remind us about what will happen if "they" take power with the rules we're using. "They" were going to pummel us if "they" ever take power again, and "they" ALWAYS HAVE pummelled us--what did we just spend the years 2021-2024 living thru? "They" never play nice, and I'm done with playing nice with them.

Oh, and can we please sanction the 4 GOPe house castrattis that voted "Nay" on sanctioning the Somalian Rep Omar?

Posted by: Crusader at September 18, 2025 05:20 PM (TN0g+)

201 The protesters probably watch Oliver on HBO or Colbert.

HBO and Colbert run that? It's one of my favorite movie musicals.

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2025 05:20 PM (77rzZ)

202 It get more complicated than that for the networks, but basically, it's the actual affiliate station that is doing the broadcasting over the public airwaves, via their license to do so.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:12 PM (w6EFb)
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So what if the networks send them a program with the word "fuck" in it? the affiliates get fined?

Posted by: Axeman at September 18, 2025 05:20 PM (krQz2)

203 There is no fairness. There is no equality. There is no reasonableness. There is not even any morality. There is only power. Raw, naked, aggressive power. The left always understood this. The right is only now beginning to.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 18, 2025 05:20 PM (38W70)

204 195 Breaking911 4m
BREAKING: Republicans confirm 48 of President Trump's nominees at once, including Kimberly Guilfoyle and Callista Gingrich, after changing the Senate's rules - AP

==

Thune said next "tranche" will be bigger.
Posted by: runner at September 18, 2025 05:19 PM (g47mK)

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. FAAAAAAAASSSSICCCISM. REEREEEEEEEEEEEE

Posted by: Npc at September 18, 2025 05:20 PM (OA79/)

205 🚨 BREAKING: In a jaw-dropping announcement, the DOJ has unveiled the largest Medicaid fraud bust in U.S. history, charging 324 defendants for their involvement in a staggering $14.6 billion healthcare fraud scheme, which involved false claims submitted to Medicare and Medicaid.

Posted by: SMOD at September 18, 2025 05:21 PM (jDkKy)

206 The FCC didn't do anything... yet.

The affiliates said no more to Kimmel and the network said nuff said.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 18, 2025 05:21 PM (rvwwT)

207 @Breaking911 4m
BREAKING: Republicans confirm 48 of President Trump's nominees at once, including Kimberly Guilfoyle and Callista Gingrich, after changing the Senate's rules - AP
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Oh look, my balls! I was wondering where those went.
Posted by: John Thune at September 18, 2025 05:17 PM (gKWVE)

Nominated to what? Isn't Guilfoyle Don Jr's girlfriend? What's her job?

And the Gingrich, I'm assuming is related to Noot?

I just want to know if I'm really supposed to get excited here, or if 48 people just got confirmed to be caterers and coat check girls.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:21 PM (2Wwko)

208 Madam Ambassador!

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2025 05:21 PM (g47mK)

209 Tater tater tater.

Is that like "Beetlejuice", "Beetlejuice", "Beetlejuice" ?

Why on earth are you summoning The Sex Machine ?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 18, 2025 05:16 PM (kHd4y)

Ladies have needs, you know.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Spudjuice?

Posted by: Bulg at September 18, 2025 05:21 PM (77rzZ)

210 Win!

Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2025 05:22 PM (+qU29)

211 Has a ring to it. AFAIK they moved the "least controversial" first.

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2025 05:23 PM (g47mK)

212 205 🚨 BREAKING: In a jaw-dropping announcement, the DOJ has unveiled the largest Medicaid fraud bust in U.S. history, charging 324 defendants for their involvement in a staggering $14.6 billion healthcare fraud scheme, which involved false claims submitted to Medicare and Medicaid.
Posted by: SMOD
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Women and minorities hardest hit!!!

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:23 PM (WDjG6)

213 These libtards talking about jawboning also conveniently leave out the fact that Biden was doing that secretly. ABC was put on notice publicly and according to the law.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 18, 2025 05:23 PM (fmAJ4)

214 There is a lot of work to be done.

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2025 05:23 PM (g47mK)

215 G00GLE AI

In 2025, two major late-night shows have left the air, leaving just one of the three longtime network hosts remaining. The shows affected were Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
...
(Snot nose) Jimmy Fallon is the last remaining host among the three legacy network late-night programs. He renewed his contract in November 2024 to host The Tonight Show on NBC through 2028.

The changes, which come amidst a wider decline in late-night TV viewership and increasing political scrutiny, have generated concern about the future of the format.
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girlBosses didn't care about rating as long as the cash kept coming.
Here's a 2010-2025 chart of the 3's prime audience ratings.
https://tinyurl.com/4wftmfjc

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 18, 2025 05:24 PM (tiYpZ)

216 REAKING: In a jaw-dropping announcement, the DOJ has unveiled the largest Medicaid fraud bust in U.S. history, charging 324 defendants for their involvement in a staggering $14.6 billion healthcare fraud scheme, which involved false claims submitted to Medicare and Medicaid.

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again ??? they did one in June/July....

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2025 05:25 PM (g47mK)

217 Suicide last week.
Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:15 PM (WDjG6)

Well, shit. I knew he was struggling with depression, but that is pretty final. My condolences to his family and friends.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2025 05:25 PM (hA1Nw)

218 OMG I just watched that clip, the Potato thinks that substack will be an equal moneymaker for Kimmel.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 18, 2025 05:25 PM (rvwwT)

219 Harold Ford, Jr. says if Trump is going to go after ANTIFA then he should also go after the KKK.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2025 05:25 PM (63Dwl)

220 🚨 BREAKING: In a jaw-dropping announcement, the DOJ has unveiled the largest Medicaid fraud bust in U.S. history, charging 324 defendants for their involvement in a staggering $14.6 billion healthcare fraud scheme, which involved false claims submitted to Medicare and Medicaid.
Posted by: SMOD
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Women and minorities hardest hit!!!

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:23 PM

Illegal aliens hardest hit most likely.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 18, 2025 05:26 PM (0N4FZ)

221 BREAKING! Titanic hits iceberg, sinks!!

Posted by: runner at September 18, 2025 05:26 PM (g47mK)

222 >>Harold Ford, Jr. says if Trump is going to go after ANTIFA then he should also go after the KKK.

Both of them?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 18, 2025 05:26 PM (viF8m)

223 >> So what if the networks send them a program with the word "fuck" in it? the affiliates get fined?

Yes. However, there are cases where the FCC can fine a network, if itself owns the stations involved.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:26 PM (w6EFb)

224 219 Harold Ford, Jr. says if Trump is going to go after ANTIFA then he should also go after the KKK.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2025 05:25 PM (63Dwl)

Is the KKK active and rioting ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 18, 2025 05:26 PM (VE6XX)

225 In a jaw-dropping announcement, the DOJ has unveiled the largest Medicaid fraud bust in U.S. history, charging 324 defendants for their involvement in a staggering $14.6 billion healthcare fraud scheme, which involved false claims submitted to Medicare and Medicaid.

Posted by: SMOD

That's 4.5 million each

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 18, 2025 05:26 PM (0U5gm)

226 That was a pretty good essay, article, post, whatever that Ace put out. I had not heard the "equal time" rule used any other time but election/debate season.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 18, 2025 05:27 PM (Q4IgG)

227 Just like that assassin under the sink, paralyzed. Seeing drip
Movie over

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at September 18, 2025 05:27 PM (tJ8B/)

228
Nominated to what? Isn't Guilfoyle Don Jr's girlfriend? What's her job?

And the Gingrich, I'm assuming is related to Noot?

Ambassador to Vatican City (or Italy). Callista is Newt's wife.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 18, 2025 05:27 PM (Tv15w)

229 >>>Nominated to what?

I just want to know if I'm really supposed to get excited here, or if 48 people just got confirmed to be caterers and coat check girls.
Posted by: BurtTC
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That's Ambassador Guilfoyle to you, Mr.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 18, 2025 05:27 PM (tiYpZ)

230 It’s amazing to me there’s more than a dozen people in the entire country who wants to tune in to one of these insufferable late night anal parasite cocksuckers and their fake, crackhead, whore guests. I’d rather teabag my balls in fiery battery acid.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 18, 2025 05:27 PM (38W70)

231 Here’s the fundamental difference. Ready? This is real simple.

The lefts goals and actions of the Biden Administration were not rooted in the law. They were rooted in achieving desired political outcomes. From DoJ, to the entire administrative apparatus we had so many “first-time”, unusual or outright subversions (for example immigration) I’ve lost count. 99% of the agenda was unprecedented.

Trump has proceeded cautiously ensuring, to the point people are cursing Bondi, and others, he complied with the law. His actions are largely enforcement and liberal are suing, and losing, just about every time.

Should I draw this in crayon?

Lawless vs. Lawful.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 18, 2025 05:28 PM (LfzAo)

232 I think Guilfoyle was up for the Ambassadorship to Greece.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 18, 2025 05:29 PM (Vvh2V)

233 Harold Ford, Jr. says if Trump is going to go after ANTIFA then he should also go after the KKK.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

The 1950's are calling, Harold.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 18, 2025 05:29 PM (2sMLA)

234 Ambassador to Vatican City (or Italy). Callista is Newt's wife.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 18, 2025 05:27 PM (Tv15w)

So hat check girl it is.

Which would presumably be very important in Vat City.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:29 PM (2Wwko)

235 Every government program has fraud written into it

Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2025 05:29 PM (+qU29)

236 Mmm. Crayon.

Posted by: Joe from Scranton at September 18, 2025 05:29 PM (gKWVE)

237
Again, like I said the other night, NBC should just start running Johnny Carson reruns in the late night slot. CBS should run Jack Benny Show reruns, and ABC could run Columbo or maybe the Honeymooners or something.

They'd get far better ratings with that than any current crap.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:29 PM (w6EFb)

238 Just in case anyone was thinking of it. Reasons NOT to commit suicide from "Lutherans for life":

https://tinyurl.com/2mfjdpfc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 18, 2025 05:30 PM (PFs9e)

239 233 Harold Ford, Jr. says if Trump is going to go after ANTIFA then he should also go after the KKK.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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I agree, put those FBI cosplayers in prison right beside their Antifa assets.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:30 PM (WDjG6)

240 I agree, there are so many options these days, picking Kimmel to watch seems shocking.

I bet if they ran Charlie Kirk videos in that time slot, they would at least double their audience.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 18, 2025 05:31 PM (rvwwT)

241 >>> staggering $14.6 billion healthcare fraud scheme, which involved false claims submitted to Medicare and Medicaid.
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Dibs on Medicaid being the big Kahuna.
That's where United lost all its subscribers.
---just lost 'em, gone, vanished, don't know where.....

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 18, 2025 05:31 PM (tiYpZ)

242 Trump should go after the Weather Underground too, Harold, you dunce.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 18, 2025 05:31 PM (LfzAo)

243
The Left is like Germans, after the Blitz, calling Dresden and Hamburg war crimes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2025 05:31 PM (tgvbd)

244 You also should note the nastier side of this, from Kimmell:

If he had said the truth, that the killer was a leftist, there would have been loud boos from the audience.
Catcalls and howls.

And kimKneel knew this--he had to discuss it but he had to frame it in a way acceptable to the mob.

I mean, can you imagine the shitstorm from the boos?
Getting fired to protect the brand is worth it, to Kiiamaell.
Dumbass thought it was the least-worst option. Lying, is the least-worst option.
In the writers meeting, 20+ people all heard what he was to say, and approved it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 18, 2025 05:32 PM (qHqHk)

245 Harold Ford, Jr. says if Trump is going to go after ANTIFA then he should also go after the KKK.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

How many agents are needed to investigate seven yellow dog democrats that use walkers to get around?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 18, 2025 05:32 PM (0U5gm)

246
Greece, not Italy. My mistake.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 18, 2025 05:32 PM (Tv15w)

247 The "It's okay when we do it" defense seems to have weakened of late for democrats. I wonder what changed?

Posted by: red speck at September 18, 2025 05:32 PM (0Id0S)

248 Like to see Trump and Patel go after the Patriot Front. Probably be pretty easy, just walk down the hall

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 18, 2025 05:32 PM (lmTGO)

249 And non religious reasons NOT to commit suicide:

https://tinyurl.com/vfw9bv5t

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 18, 2025 05:33 PM (PFs9e)

250 I just want to know if I'm really supposed to get excited here, or if 48 people just got confirmed to be caterers and coat check girls.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:21 PM (2Wwko)

Guilfoyle and Gingrich are Ambassadors. I haven't seen an individualized list but, supposedly, there are a few more Ambassadors and then a bunch of bureaucrats.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 18, 2025 05:33 PM (ExV1e)

251 And if this is what Kimmool and his staff of writers thought was acceptable, as the final draft?

Just how vile was the first draft?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 18, 2025 05:33 PM (qHqHk)

252 233 Harold Ford, Jr. says if Trump is going to go after ANTIFA then he should also go after the KKK.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

The 1950's are calling, Harold.
Posted by: Joe Mama
---------------

Recall that recent FOX pic/interview of H.Ford from his living room with the picture of Mao hanging on the wall.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 18, 2025 05:33 PM (tiYpZ)

253 The KKK is approximately 37 old men in Zinc Arkansas, with a couple dozen FBI informants trying to goad them into doing something besides running their mouths.

Harold Ford needs to understand the difference between racist assholes making stupid speeches to other racist assholes, and organizations running around killing people.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 18, 2025 05:34 PM (Vvh2V)

254 Harold Ford, Jr. says if Trump is going to go after ANTIFA then he should also go after the KKK.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

How many agents are needed to investigate seven yellow dog democrats that use walkers to get around?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 18, 2025 05:32 PM (0U5gm)

They was planning to rob the payroll train. The one that runs from Tucumcari to Los Pasos.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:34 PM (2Wwko)

255
Ambassador to Vatican City

__________

*polite cough*

Ambassadors are accredited to the Holy See, not Vatican City. Otherwise it would be like saying "Ambassador to Washington DC".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2025 05:34 PM (tgvbd)

256 OK, I skimmed/read Alito's dissent in Murthy v. Missouri, and he never hits on the key point I make above.

The case he focused on included many private e-mails to Facebook, as well as Psssiaki stating things publicly in press conferences to put pressure on, so maybe in that case it was not clear, but I think the public / private jawboning is the key. Psssaaaiki can say what she wants and the public can judge. It is transparent and when obviously wrong or bad or illegal, people can decide.

When they send emails to Facebook censors telling them to turn up the dial on censoring covid 19 comments that are not fully in line with the CDC, it is a different matter.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at September 18, 2025 05:35 PM (i4yvI)

257 >> Trump should go after the Weather Underground too

Hey, my weather station is on the Weather Underground network. You will not silence my weather data! It's in the public interest.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:35 PM (w6EFb)

258 With the ratings as terrible as they are, these shows are big money-losers on the books. But off books? What does a big movie studio pay — and who does it pay — to have some twat star of its newest bag of shit woke movie on to suck her own dick?

I’m struggling to understand why all these networks continue to run massive money-losing shows year after year. Something is there that we’re not seeing.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 18, 2025 05:35 PM (38W70)

259 Harold Ford, Jr. says if Trump is going to go after ANTIFA then he should also go after the KKK.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2025 05:25 PM (63Dwl)

Pull out all the federal informants/agents provocateur and then crow about how you'd cut the KKK by 2/3.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 18, 2025 05:35 PM (ExV1e)

260 Maybe it is because I am a student of history, but a lot of people don't seem to get the fact that revolutions are from the left and not the right. The most right leaning revolution in history was the American Revolution, and they didn't engage in terrorism, unless you count the Boston Tea Party. Every other revolution involved butchery of civilians as well as ruling class members.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 18, 2025 05:36 PM (0U5gm)

261 I’m pretty sure the Feds could round up the KKK with a few agents on their lunch break.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 18, 2025 05:36 PM (LfzAo)

262 Guilfoyle and Gingrich are Ambassadors. I haven't seen an individualized list but, supposedly, there are a few more Ambassadors and then a bunch of bureaucrats.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 18, 2025 05:33 PM (ExV1e)

I'm old enough to remember when ambassadorships were political payoffs to friends who needed a nice vacation.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:37 PM (2Wwko)

263 What has tje KKK even done in public in the last 25 years?

Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2025 05:38 PM (+qU29)

264 Harold Ford, Jr. says if Trump is going to go after ANTIFA then he should also go after the KKK.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2025 05:25 PM (63Dwl)

What a putz. He's apparently unaware that the KKK had a YUGE presence in the Democrat party, especially in the 1920s.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 18, 2025 05:38 PM (pJWtt)

265 Just in case anyone was thinking of it. Reasons NOT to commit suicide from "Lutherans for life":

https://tinyurl.com/2mfjdpfc
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 18, 2025 05:30 PM (PFs9e)

Shockingly, for Lutherans, no mention of the apparent lack of lime Jello with slivered carrot in the afterlife.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 18, 2025 05:38 PM (ExV1e)

266 >> political payoffs to friends who needed a nice vacation.

Or, give a nice cushy job and vacation for your son's ex-girlfriend that has become sort of inconvenient. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:39 PM (w6EFb)

267 Look, I know Tater may be fat and stupid and bad at his job.

That's it. You didnt think there was a "but" did you?

Posted by: A Possum Called Snack at September 18, 2025 05:39 PM (7CamO)

268
I'm old enough to remember when ambassadorships were political payoffs to friends who needed a nice vacation.
Posted by: BurtTC
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It's changed?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 18, 2025 05:39 PM (tiYpZ)

269 231 Here’s the fundamental difference. Ready? This is real simple.

The lefts goals and actions of the Biden Administration were not rooted in the law.
...
Lawless vs. Lawful.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Which is why they did it in private.
Maybe there is dispute over what is legal v. illegal
But if it is public (as Trump admin did) then it is transparent. You can only do illegal things if you hide it from the public.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at September 18, 2025 05:39 PM (i4yvI)

270 The left and libertarians are now complaining that Carr "jawboned" -- used verbal pressure with the hint of future punishment if the pressure did not work -- ABC into taking this step.

Since the small hats control our government it's more like "Jewboned."

Posted by: Candace Tuck'er Ovens at September 18, 2025 05:39 PM (TbWk/)

271
What does a big movie studio pay — and who does it pay — to have some twat star of its newest bag of shit woke movie on to suck her own dick?

__________

*tries to imagine this*

*fails to imagine this*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2025 05:39 PM (tgvbd)

272 I'm old enough to remember when ambassadorships were political payoffs to friends who needed a nice vacation.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:37 PM (2Wwko)

So, today years old?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 18, 2025 05:40 PM (ExV1e)

273 Or, give a nice cushy job and vacation for your son's ex-girlfriend that has become sort of inconvenient. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:39 PM (w6EFb)

Uh oh, what's she doing?

I'm assuming she's not bringing blow into the White House.

Or is she?

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:40 PM (2Wwko)

274 > Hey, my weather station is on the Weather Underground network. You will not silence my weather data! It's in the public interest.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
________
Mine too. Damn weather fascists.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 18, 2025 05:41 PM (Q4IgG)

275 If the Feds try to round up the KKK, how will they explain all the undercover Feds they'll have to arrest?

Posted by: A Possum Called Snack at September 18, 2025 05:41 PM (7CamO)

276 Maybe it is because I am a student of history, but a lot of people don't seem to get the fact that revolutions are from the left and not the right. The most right leaning revolution in history was the American Revolution, and they didn't engage in terrorism, unless you count the Boston Tea Party. Every other revolution involved butchery of civilians as well as ruling class members.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 18, 2025 05:36 PM (0U5gm)

I always viewed the left as a carbon copy of the bolsheviks. One in the same actually.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 18, 2025 05:41 PM (snZF9)

277 I’m struggling to understand why all these networks continue to run massive money-losing shows year after year. Something is there that we’re not seeing.
Posted by: Elric the Blade
======
Existing contracts. And corporate inertia plus buddies in high places. Iger and Kimmel were apparently buddies for example.

NBC has a similar problem with the dying SNL franchise but Lorne Micheals has been at NBC so long that he probably knows all the dirt on other suits that might close his act down. So they wait him out.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:41 PM (WDjG6)

278 KKK sting of the 9 members - 4 fbi will arrest 4 fbi and one guy will run away.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 18, 2025 05:42 PM (rvwwT)

279 Or, give a nice cushy job and vacation for your son's ex-girlfriend that has become sort of inconvenient. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:39 PM (w6EFb)

Uh oh, what's she doing?

I'm assuming she's not bringing blow into the White House.

Or is she?
Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:40 PM (2Wwko)

Oh, I missed the ex part!

She's back on the market? Get her to the Greeks!

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:42 PM (2Wwko)

280 "Jawboning" -- isn't that something gay furries do?

Posted by: zombie at September 18, 2025 05:42 PM (pMi6S)

281 278 KKK sting of the 9 members - 4 fbi will arrest 4 fbi and one guy will run away.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
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And the guy that ran away was ATF.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:43 PM (WDjG6)

282 I'm old enough to remember when ambassadorships were political payoffs to friends who needed a nice vacation.
Posted by: BurtTC
----

It's changed?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 18, 2025 05:39 PM (tiYpZ)
________________________________

You mean like Constance Milstein, Biden's ambassador to Malta. Want to know what her qualifications were? Getting caught handing out free cigarettes to homeless in Wisconsin to get them to vote democrat. She's a NY socialite with half a brain, on a good day. Ambassador of Malta 2022 to 2025

Posted by: Orson at September 18, 2025 05:43 PM (dIske)

283 I always viewed the left as a carbon copy of the bolsheviks. One in the same actually.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

And they were a carbon copy of the Jacobins.

And Mao was a copy of the Bolsheviks, as was Pol Pot, Castro, and Maduro.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 18, 2025 05:44 PM (0U5gm)

284 Let's not forget that Kimmel was doing Karl Malone in blackface as a regular skit, playing him as a dumb ass. What did he have to do to get dispensation for this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aPbefau2Zc

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 18, 2025 05:44 PM (dtajH)

285 >> Oh, I missed the ex part!

Kimberly didn't do anything, it was just sort of awkward. She and Don, Jr. were supposed to be engaged, then Don got a new girlfriend. But, Kimberly had helped you out a lot, and was a good political ally. But it's just sort of awkward... so send her to Greece for the time being.

And, my Lord, I think her lips are going to explode.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:45 PM (w6EFb)

286 KKK sting of the 9 members - 4 fbi will arrest 4 fbi and one guy will run away.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 18, 2025 05:42 PM (rvwwT)

Pretty sure they could catch the runaway, if they just go listen for the banjo music.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:45 PM (2Wwko)

287 I was going to say it will be funny when they go to arrest the KKK members, and everybody all around will be whipping out their ID.

"Hey, I didn't know you were a fed!" "You too?"

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 18, 2025 05:45 PM (0U5gm)

288 And they were a carbon copy of the Jacobins.

And Mao was a copy of the Bolsheviks, as was Pol Pot, Castro, and Maduro.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 18, 2025 05:44 PM (0U5gm)

In other words, all the same douchebags. Just different geography.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 18, 2025 05:46 PM (snZF9)

289 Vance strikes again,
"Everyone please congratulate @marcorubio, the new host of ABC’s late night show!" Vance wrote.

Everyone please congratulate @marcorubio, the new host of ABC’s late night show!

— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 18, 2025

The joke going around DC is that anytime there is a vacancy within the administration, Rubio fills in. This makes it seem like he has even more on his plate."

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:46 PM (WDjG6)

290 What he is doing is trying to put the KKK on Republicans

Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2025 05:46 PM (+qU29)

291 @282 Orson, I remember the name so I looked her up. Her husband's name is Said Abu-Kaud. Also she looks like she ate Malta

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 18, 2025 05:47 PM (lmTGO)

292 Kimberly didn't do anything, it was just sort of awkward. She and Don, Jr. were supposed to be engaged, then Don got a new girlfriend. But, Kimberly had helped you out a lot, and was a good political ally. But it's just sort of awkward... so send her to Greece for the time being.

And, my Lord, I think her lips are going to explode.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:45 PM (w6EFb)

That's nice, I guess. An amicable breakup, with a consolation prize vacation where she can work off her itches.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:47 PM (2Wwko)

293 jawbone status: broken off in ass

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 18, 2025 05:47 PM (VMoAN)

294 290 What he is doing is trying to put the KKK on Republicans
Posted by: Skip

Old tiresome Dem talking point from the GWB era. Remember the stupid blaming GWB over some redneck murderers who were all caught and some sentenced to death.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2025 05:48 PM (WDjG6)

295 Fox 5 - Newsom praises Kirk's outreach to young men
He's running for President in 2028

Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2025 05:48 PM (+qU29)

296 And, my Lord, I think her lips are going to explode.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:45 PM (w6EFb)

DSLs we call them, and man she got them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 18, 2025 05:48 PM (snZF9)

297 >> The joke going around DC is that anytime there is a vacancy within the administration, Rubio fills in.

There was a meme about that the other day. It showed Rubio sitting on the Oval Office Couch looking sort of apprehensive when Zelenskyyyyyy melted down.

The caption read, "When you realize you're going to have to take over a late-night hosting gig".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 18, 2025 05:48 PM (w6EFb)

298 I was going to say it will be funny when they go to arrest the KKK members, and everybody all around will be whipping out their ID.
---
"Hey, I didn't know you were a fed!" "You too?"
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 18, 2025 05:45 PM (0U5gm)

Johnson, is that you?

Of course it's me, other Johnson. I was best man at your wedding.

Oh... looks like you shaved your since then.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:49 PM (2Wwko)

299 137 Our Most Important Jew already addressed that topic the first time he quit. "Clown nose on, Clown nose off"

Posted by: hurricane567 at September 18, 2025 05:49 PM (1V/nS)

300 Oh... looks like you shaved your since then.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:49 PM (2Wwko)

Mustache. The missing word is mustache.

Comedy's hard.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:50 PM (2Wwko)

301
Un nood

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 18, 2025 05:50 PM (tgvbd)

302 Harold Ford, Jr. says if Trump is going to go after ANTIFA then he should also go after the KKK.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2025 05:25 PM (63Dwl)
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And they'll get that guy, too.

Posted by: Axeman at September 18, 2025 05:50 PM (krQz2)

303 @290. What he is doing is trying to put the KKK on Republicans.

Hell, they had Biden for Four Years. But not a word about the KKK.

Posted by: Case at September 18, 2025 05:51 PM (iwlvf)

304 Don Jr is dating a 38 yo Bettina Anderson.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 18, 2025 05:52 PM (NtVYv)

305 Oh... looks like you shaved your since then.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:49 PM (2Wwko)

Mustache. The missing word is mustache.

Comedy's hard.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:50 PM (2Wwko)

Dude. Good thing I never do that. How embarrassing for you.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at September 18, 2025 05:52 PM (0aYVJ)

306 295 Fox 5 - Newsom praises Kirk's outreach to young men
He's running for President in 2028
Posted by: Skip at September 18, 2025 05:48 PM (+qU29)

If he gets the Morrissey from the late 80s hairstyle, we'll know for sure.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2025 05:52 PM (2Wwko)

307

I'd like to remind everyone that the Whitmer "kidnapping" was entirely an FBI op, with the exception of like one local retard.

Ok, Harold, happy to go after the kkk. Hold my beer, this won't take long

Posted by: imp at September 18, 2025 05:53 PM (g6TN6)

308 I know that this kind out of the blue, but I'm starting to cautiously respect the gen-z population.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 18, 2025 05:53 PM (g8Ew8)

309 249 And non religious reasons NOT to commit suicide:

https://tinyurl.com/vfw9bv5t
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Laughter and puppies? What a bunch of horse shit. Have you ever even known someone who killed themselves?

JFC.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 18, 2025 05:58 PM (s05xh)

310 "The advertiser-coveted 18--49 demo also cratered. Kimmel averaged only 129,000 viewers in that bracket in August, off from 212,000 in January and less than half his June peak of 284,000."

There are high school golfers with YouTube channels who get many more viewers than that without the high production costs or hundreds of staff and crew. It's a broken business model regardless of how you feel about Kimmel.

Mr. Beast's video from yesterday got 100 MILLION views. Even if by some miracle Kimmel garnered 5x his January audience, he would have 1/100th of the audience of a successful YouTuber.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at September 18, 2025 06:00 PM (4c2RO)

311 "Harold Ford, Jr. says if Trump is going to go after ANTIFA then he should also go after the KKK."

The last KKK murder was in 1981, that of Michael Donald. The government then effectively sued the organization out of existence. What the hell is he talking about?

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at September 18, 2025 06:01 PM (4c2RO)

312 Every government program has fraud written into it
Posted by: Skip
......

yep. It's spelled G-O-V-E-R-N-M-E-N-T

Posted by: wth at September 18, 2025 06:08 PM (v0R5T)

313 Breanna Morello@BreannaMorello

🚨ARRESTED🚨

A 22-year-old allegedly threatened to murder Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte using homemade pipe bombs.

Investigators say Tristan Anderson boasted about his plans to his roommate on Snapchat, displaying the materials he planned to use.

Anderson allegedly posted anti-Semitic messages about an "Israel Deep State" before targeting Catholic Governor Kelly Ayotte with threats.

His social media included violent posts, like threatening to "kill" New Hampshire committee members he believed misrepresented residents.

His roommate reported to police that Anderson owned guns and showed her fireworks, metal tubes, and bags of nuts and bolts, which he allegedly planned to use to make pipe bombs.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 18, 2025 06:13 PM (TGPs7)

314 Dr. Lucky Tran@LuckyTran

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island & New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 18, 2025 06:17 PM (TGPs7)

315 Note of caution re Kimmel's summer drop in ratings: he takes long summer vacations every year, from mid-June through Labor Day, so guest hosts are filling in during that time and I'd expect ratings to drop if Kimmel himself is why his viewers watch.

The relevant comparison is year-over-year trends for months when Kimmel is actually hosting.

Posted by: Alex at September 18, 2025 06:22 PM (EcUen)

316 "The days of One Rule for Thee Another Rule for Me are over."

I'll do you one better - the ONLY way the rules will change to the ones we want is to CRAM this shit down their throats till they choke. If we allow them to use one set of rules, and us another, they will NEVER agree to change the rules.

It's the only way. We tried to do this in a gentlemanly way, but they are spoiled children.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at September 18, 2025 06:35 PM (gDhA9)

317 So we'll do this. We're not going to play by the rejected rule we preferred, but the actual rule in place that we opposed.

The rule for you is the rule for me. No more of this insane situation where the left uses its power and invents new powers to steamroll us but then relies on RINO and GOPe traitors to keep us from doing the same.

Alinsky Rules for Radicals #4, "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 18, 2025 06:35 PM (P5BPp)

318 Re: Jawboning,

The Poca Pundit says "Your rules, our turn at bat."

Posted by: Ronzoni at September 18, 2025 07:51 PM (tof4A)

319 Taters is taking that monthly jab so you can't call him Taters anymore.

Posted by: Jerry Carroll at September 18, 2025 09:15 PM (RRQTN)

320 Biggest difference between the two:

Carr’s alleged jawboning were public tweets and statements.

Biden Admin’s jawboning was done through back channels and hidden to the public

Posted by: bif at September 18, 2025 09:23 PM (QP5+3)

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