Kimmel deserves to lose his TV Show

The press is complaining that the FCC pressured ABC tv to fire Kimmel for telling an anti-Trump joke, and this is a threat to free speech. Nope.

According to the Hollywood Reporter:

Kimmel was “defending what he said [as] being grossly mischaracterized by a certain group of people,” the show source says.

THR reported on Wednesday that Kimmel did not plan to apologize for his comments, but did plan to address the situation on-air.

Talks between Kimmel and Disney/ABC hit enough of a stalemate that executives there decided Wednesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! had run out of time to be salvaged. The show’s live-to-tape time was not far off — the studio audience was lined up outside but had not yet been brought in. (Jimmy Kimmel Live! tapes live at 4 p.m. PT.)

By this point, 66 of the roughly 200 affiliate stations had said they would not carry the episode — that’s when ABC announced it was suspending the program — a Bob Iger and Dana Walden joint decision that was a “last resort,” the first person says. Walden delivered the news to Kimmel but did not ask him to apologize, says the source, who described Wednesday as “a very heavy, very hard day” inside the walls of Disney and ABC.

Kimmel did not tell a joke. He told a nasty anti-Kirk anti-Trump lie, and refused to correct it.

Kimmel broadcast a claim that maga Trump supporters killed Kirk. This is false. Someone who tells nasty lies like, and refuses to correct them, that should not be on the air.

Kimmel is not funny, and not entertaining. He disgusted a lot of people in the past, such as when he went on a rant about how the government should pay for his baby's health care, based on an entirely false argument about pre-existing conditions.

The real threat to free speech is how evil jerks like Kimmel demonize normies like Kirk, and encourage the shooting.

Kirk had a genuine following. It will be interesting to see if Kimmel loses his tv show, and he has a genuine following, then he should be able to prosper with Youtube shows or other new media channels. I doubt it.

I am not suggesting that Kimmel be canceled like Alex Jones. Both got into trouble for theorizing about a recent tragedy. The difference is that Kimmel's employer asked him to correct himself, and he refused. And Jones was ruined while Kimmel is still drawing a salary.