Say, I have an idea that might grab the fat ass by his pussy

[slingsam]

Just hear me out. What if CBS and ABC switched Colbert and Kimmel for a week? They can each claim they were doing market studies.

(Queue dramatic music here) and after the week, they both can come back because the majority of Americans trust them! The market study says! Like modern day Walter Cronkites

Man, this stuff is good!

[Ocelot II]

1. Their contracts probably prohibit them from appearing on competing networks.

Kimmel is still under contract; he's just "suspended," and Colbert is on the air until May.

[slingsam]

2. I know that but I'm fantasizing that

The two might be talking….just so they CAN BRAVELY tell fat arse TGFH

That they’ll stand by these fellas who’ve given us much

[Irish_Dem]

3. Why do they have to follow the rules when no one else does?

They were both fired without cause.

[Ocelot II]

5. Neither was technically "fired." Colbert's show continues until May.

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Until then he remains employed, but his contract won't be renewed. Kimmel wasn't fired either; he still is under contract and presumably is still being paid. If either of them breached their contract by appearing on another network (which is probably a contractual provision), they would be fired for real and probably have to pay the network some kind of penalty or liquidated damages.

[Irish_Dem]

6. I am talking about the court of public opinon.

You are talking legal technicalities.

I am talking morality, right vs wrong.

We all know they were fired without cause on a moral level.

Trump can play legal warfare all he wants.
We know what he is doing and why.
And what he did was wrong.

[Ocelot II]

7. Of course, but the realities of show business and the law of contracts

will control what happens next as far as those particular shows are concerned. Neither Colbert nor Kimmel is likely to defy those realities, but they know public opinion is with them regardless - so they are likely to find a way to keep their voices before the public.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Trump takes a wrecking ball to his critics.

The legal niceties don't matter.
We know what he is doing and why.

Yes the public is against the behavior.