Kimmel off the air indefinitely

[senseandsensibility]

According to NBC news. His show is going to be pre-empted. This is because of the complaint from the FCC. Knew this would happen. Very sad day for ABC.

Ari is covering this (I am watching on a delay), so I am sure that it will be covered on MSNBC at the top of the hour. Well, I guess I was wrong about MSNBC. But Erin Burnett is leading with this story and is being very critical. Brian Stelter said this really does have a chilling effect across the country. One of the media analysts on CNN just said that the decision was so abrupt that there was probably an audience in the studio and the show was ready to be taped.

AND the hubby just reminded me that ABC is pre-empting Kimmel so he can't "let loose" like Colbert is still able to do.

[cilla4progress]

1. feckin'

bullshit

all over what he said about their messiah Kirk????

welcome to the Soviet Union

[senseandsensibility]

3. He didn't even say anything critical of Kirk from what I read

Just said it could be a republican. That's a firing offense?

[markodochartaigh]

28. When you are opposed to an authoritarian

Strong Leader, everything is a firing offense. It isn't about what you do, it's who you are.

[popsdenver]

53. Get ready for the dismissal of

the MSNBC nightly commentators like Rachel Maddow, Lawrence, etc.....

[markodochartaigh]

56. To be replaced with documentaries on the life of

Our Beloved Leader.

[lame54]

2. That was fast

[TheBlackAdder]

41. Trump was saying something was going to happen to Kimmel a few weeks ago.

[IcyPeas]

4. Free speech for thee.....

Fuck.donald.trump.

Have the assholes on fox... gutfeld... Jesse Watters not said shit about Biden and Obama and Harris.

Give me an effin' break.

[Irish_Dem]

23. Trump can say anything and commit any crime in the world.

No one else can spit on the sidewalk.

[SamuelTheThird]

5. The goons complaining about cancel culture are putting a boot on our throat

[Maeve]

6. And yet Faux continues Brian Kilmeade

[mvd]

13. Yep, the one who actually said bad stuff is still there

Didn’t hear much from the rest of the media about it either.

[herding cats]

7. Toe that line ABC.

For those who don't know this is due to his comments Monday night regarding the motive for Kirk's murder. The current FCC expressed displeasure and 2 days later he's gone.

[mvd]

8. This has got to be stopped

We are very, very close to a dictatorship. We have to have people speaking out about how awful this is!

[spanone]

9. So, if Kimmel said the guy was a Lefty, nothing would have happened?

There goes the first Amendment.

[senseandsensibility]

14. Pretty much

Everyone was saying that, including the WH. Kimmel dared to have another idea before the facts were known. So what? I have to admit that I am shocked.

[spanone]

18. Trmp called him a radical lefty before ANYTHING was known.

[spanone]

19. Sad day for our Freedom of Speech...and our Country.

[Sneederbunk]

10. ABC chickens out . . . . .again.

[Frasier Balzov]

11. Threats from FCC Chair Brendan Carr did this.

Another one of Trump's many stooges in the federal government.

[newdeal2]

34. Yes he started it

Then the affiliates (which are being consolidated under fewer companies, another issue here) reacted and complained to ABC which forced their hand.

[walkingman]

12. Free Speech is dead in America - full stop.

[MrWowWow]

15. He'll Be Back

-Just not on network TV.

[dalton99a]

16. We are under a full-blown dictatorship.

[Quiet Em]

17. Authoritarian Dictatorship

I don't recognize this country anymore.

[Torchlight]

20. Unsanctioned opnions about the party and its methods are being dealt with quickly these days

But there will be someone asserting, "I doubt there will be any real action..." because gaslights are more conveneinet to the blind than sunlight.

[Irish_Dem]

21. We are witnessing the end of our democracy, rule of law, and Bill of Rights in real time.

Every day is one more assault.

We are losing the war being waged against the US.

[Grim Chieftain]

48. Could not agree more

And all of this is happening under the reign of a ' president' who has an approval rating well under fifty percent. WTH???

[Irish_Dem]

49. It's like the movie the Body Snatchers.

People go to sleep and turn into monsters.
We are now living that movie.

[OrlandoDem2]

22. Dealing with Reich wing snowflakes is tiresome

We must fight back somehow.

[IcyPeas]

24. HERE IS WHAT HE SAID:

This is all he said?! This is why ABC (in response to threats from Trump's FCC) is taking Kimmel off the air?!

— Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com) 2025-09-17T22:43:45.058Z

[senseandsensibility]

25. Erin Burnett's show is covering this very well

The correspondent even read comments that Kimmel made either on the day of the murder or soon after in which he sent condolences to the Kirk family and said we should stop with the finger pointing and condemn the violence.

[Fiendish Thingy]

26. I bet Colbert will have Kimmel on his show. Nt

[LyfeTimeDem]

27. so now

I boycott CBS and ABC

We need to know who their biggest sponsors are and boycott them


This is a Billionaire attack.

[orangecrush]

54. This

[newdeal2]

29. This is their opening to crush the opposition

They are going to use it as much as possible.

As for Jimmy, I hope things will cool over but I don’t think he will ever trust ABC again and will move on.

[skylucy]

30. I am so f---ing angry. I love Jimmy Kimmel. WTF.

[beaglelover]

31. This is a sad day for fucking FREE speech in the USA. What the hell is happening in this country?

So digusted by this move by Disney.

[senseandsensibility]

32. Brendan Carr the FCC head actually said

"we can do this the easy way or the hard way" and I guess ABC chose the easy way. Erin Burnett is calling it an open threat.

[Emile]

33. Nazi stormtroopers dictating who we can watch.

[Starbeach]

35. Disney owns ABC

nt..

[a kennedy]

36. FAWK, FAWK, FAWK, FAWK! FAWK!!!!!!!!!

What the absolute FAWK!!!!! Gawd damn it, I absolutely love Jimmy, he gets me through all the shit we’re living through. Gawd damn it. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

[LetMyPeopleVote]

37. This is crazy

Link to tweet

[UTUSN]

38. Sue, KIMMEL, SUE - if SCotUS can't uphold the Constitution it's over

[MichMan]

45. Sue who, on what grounds?

[Emile]

39. They'll be going after David Muir next.

[Joinfortmill]

40. Fascists.

[senseandsensibility]

42. Rep. Robert Garcia

says this is an extreme example of attacking free speech and he says he has a lot of questions about how this happened. He said he thinks there will be a lot of conversations about this in the congress. He said it's a very concerning night for American media and deomocracy.

[Quiet Em]

43. From the con artist Authoritarian Dictator wannabe in July

Trump in July: "I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.”

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2025-09-17T22:40:41.142Z

[LetMyPeopleVote]

44. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel

Link to tweet

[RoeVWade]

46. Well, we see the result of getting really fucked over when we couldn't enough votes to convict him after impeachment.

nt*

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

47. The country has gone batshit crazy, this is worse than what happened after 9/11 with silencing people.

[Amaryllis]

50. Chris Hayes is doing a segment on it now.

[senseandsensibility]

51. Yes, the first half of his show

Now he's interviewing Bernie Sanders about the CDC hearings. Both important topics in their own ways. Update: he asked Bernie about the Kimmel firing and Bernie said we are rapidly moving into a authoritarian government.

[underpants]

52. He dared mention it was tribal warfare

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220651779

[B.See]

55. Hit them back where it hurts the most.

Stop watching their content. Start boycotting their advertisers.

[Norrrm]

57. ABC WAS my news station of choice.

[ancianita]

58. There are no comedians on the Right. None. Trump is an unspeakably humorless dead soul.

[dflprincess]

59. I wonder what they'll say on "The View" about this

I imagine they might not be too far behind Kimmel.