‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Replaced With Charlie Kirk Tribute on Sinclair’s ABC Stations; Company Demands Kimmel Apologize and Donate to Kirk’s Family and Turning Point USA
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-live-replaced-charlie-kirk-tribute-sinclair-apology-1236522789/
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f1error@lemmy.world · 117 pts · 336d
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de · 98 pts · 336d
ABC? You happy that you paid Trump instead of fighting him in court?
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/14/trump-abc-stephanopoulos-settlement-00194391
Knee down and kiss trump's rapist ass.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 336d
I foresee a lot more shakedowns in their future. Now that the bully knows he can get what he wants from them, he's going to keep pushing for more and more.
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de · 29 pts · 336d
You deal with a bully by standing up. You show everyone else you're not afraid.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 336d
I mean, they probably are.
molestme247@lemmy.world · 91 pts · 336d
blattrules@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 336d
Republicans are happier that he died than liberals are. They’ll be playing the victims while making our society objectively shittier for years to come using this as the excuse.
muxika@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 336d
They take his job and demand an apology. Yeah, here's your apology 🖕🙄🖕
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 336d
Not only an apology, but a donation as well.
They're almost literally demanding "fuck you, pay me"
Godort@lemmy.ca · 46 pts · 336d
"I'm sorry that you're all scared to call a nazi a nazi, even after he's dead and cant hurt you anymore. Here's the shiniest nickel I could find to help with the burial"
rafoix@lemmy.zip · 45 pts · 336d
This a perfect opportunity for Kimmel to show a tribute of all the racist and bigoted things that Kirk said over the years.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 336d
Yea, that would be irrefutable
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe · 42 pts · 336d
They took his job for doing his job.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 336d
Next week's South Park is going to be nuts.
I hope they literally double down and do an hour long episode.
Matt and Trey are literal billionaires and actual free speech absolutionists, there's no way they moved back a week to tone it down, they'd only move an episode back to throw more into it.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 336d
Dear god if they could get one out and live air it tomorrow in the same time slot...
Vinny_93@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 336d
I haven't heard any of Trump's takes on the first couple of this season. Most of the Trump news doesn't reach us in Europe. But I wonder how far South Park can go before Trump blows a fuse.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d
God that sounds like heaven. I'm so tired of seeing this guy's mug and having to hear the latest crazy shit he did/said in the last hour.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 336d
I keep seeing Republicans saying some version of "he said some very nasty things about Charlie Kirk" and failing to elaborate at all on that. I watch the clips. He didnt says a fucking thing about Charlie Kirk. He criticized Trump and his reaction to the shooting, but did not say a negative thing about Charlie himself. So what exactly is he meant to apologize to his family for? Mentioning it?
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 335d
I'd like someone to ask Taco and other idiots repeating that lie - "what was so offensive? Be as specific as possible in your answer"
And watch the meltdown.
Taco has mostly surrounded himself with asskissing dumbfucks who give him nothing but soft-jobs at every opportunity. So he's rarely confronted with any real acts of journalism, but every once in a while one sneaks in there like that guy in the UK.
But certainly every other doofus trying to pull this shit in front of cameras where there are people that still think they are doing journalism - they should drill deeper on that.
bytesonbike@discuss.online · 8 pts · 335d
I am loving how much of a Streisand effect this is causing.
I want them to play the Kimmel video to see how ridiculous this shit is, and spam it on all the news channels.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 335d
I'm sorry Trump was too interested in a ballroom to eulogize about Charlie Kirk.
lennybird@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 336d
Sinclair. Lmao
The megaphones of disinformation have drowned out any legitimate voice of The People.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d
I always remember that supercut when I think of these disingenuous assholes.
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 26 pts · 336d
Everyone, remember: Marvel, Alien and Star Wars are also Disney.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 335d
Alien? I don't know that one.
The rest I have had the good sense to not be interested in.
noxypaws@pawb.social · 23 pts · 336d
the arrogance to fire someone and then make further demands of them as if they are still under any obligations as an employee
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 335d
Has real "did you even say thank you once" energy.
OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 335d
Was he fired though or was his show suspended until further notice?
motor_spirit@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 336d
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 335d
Send em some boxed fæces
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 336d
Here's my tribute: a lesson from Matthew 25 verses 42 to 46 (KJV since the fundies love it so much despite its errors):
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
droans@midwest.social · 9 pts · 336d
I like Matthew 7
Or Matthew 22:34-40
p3n@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 336d
Also Matthew 6:14-16: "14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins." (NIV)
I know it isn't Biblically supported, but I always thought it would be incredibly poetic if we were asked to pass final judgement on people who had harmed us, only to find out afterwards that we were actually passing judgement on ourselves for our own actions. Makes me wonder how many people would condemn others for their own actions?
This would be a very literally implementation of Matthew 12:36-37: " 36 But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. 37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” (NIV)
echodot@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 335d
They cannot possibly think this situation is going to end well for them. They have to be utterly deluded.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 335d
I disagree, they don't see anything to worry about. The only people running around the pitchforks are the Department of Truth and the Department of War.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 334d
Democrats should make it clear that any company that colludes with MAGA will be shut down and its assets expropriated.
Oops, sorry, we're talking about the Democrats. The best we'll get from them is a "strong letter" from Schumer expressing his misgivings.
Evotech@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 335d
Apologise for what
bytesonbike@discuss.online · 8 pts · 335d
For a dead podcaster who was killed by the violent right?
rumba@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 335d
1984 style. They'll just edit that article.
Now he was killed by the violent left. A true... Great shooting star for his country.
OccamsRazer@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 334d
I can't find anything saying he was killed by the right. Seems like all of the evidence suggests he was left wing motivated.
lividweasel@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 336d
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 335d
Tell them to suck piss, Jimmy Kimmel; tell them to go wash themselves in the truth of inevitability and cliff-dive onto a bed of red hot sulphur.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 7 pts · 336d
Well, it'll be fun to see how this plays out.
lemmyausmister@feddit.org · 5 pts · 335d
Epstein much?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 335d
Kirk was always used as a PROP for the right. Also its a nice distraction from the files. the MSMS wants that shit to blow over.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 335d
They are literally doing what he said! How can he apologize for being correct?