is there a retired gifs com, because yeah. damn
Section 326 of the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. § 326, explicitly declared that nothing in the statute
shall be understood or construed to give the Commission the power of censorship over the [broadcast] communications or signals transmitted by any [broadcast] station, and no regulation or condition shall be promulgated or fixed by the Commission which shall interfere with the right of free speech by means of [over-the-air] broadcast communication.
Nothing matters when there are no checks and balances.
Run for president Jon. Do it.
Why not Kimmel or Colbert? They seem like they’ll be available.
Jon has experience getting legislation passed. Colbert as well to a lesser extent. Jon has been asked before and mentioned this recently as well.
Jon as president Colbert as vice president.
Why? You faux commies would be all Genocide Jon because he hasn’t slammed Israel enough.
lol wut
I hope he goes off on the Trump administration like they are a deep-dish pizza.
Hopefully more hosts follow and point out the major hypocrisy from MAGA. The fact that ABC/Disney flinched from such a small jab really shows how stupid this entire thing is.
They didn’t flinch, they gleefully collaborated.
Yes they should all have their heads shaven after we’ve ended the occupation.
I fear one big problem with them flinching so quickly is that it gives the Trump cult plausible deniability to not blame the dictatorship for doing the things that they are doing.
I mean, the government did not censor Kimmel, it was a business decision made by a private entity. Right? RIGHT??
Hopefully more hosts follow and point out the major hypocrisy from MAGA.
That will do nothing. They enjoy their own hypocrisy. They don’t care about consistency of principles and are quite happy to just want everything their way while no one else gets anything. They’re quite happy to abuse language by saying whatever suits them in the moment. It drives their opponents crazy as they try to point out how inconsistent and irrational they’re being. The fascists don’t care, but they do love to see you get frustrated. It’s just part of their sadistic fun: messing with people, playing with their prey until they are ready to exterminate them.
To complain that fascists are hypocritical or inconsistent is to miss the point of fascism, at least if your hope is to shock them into being more reasonable. I know this quote from Sartre is everywhere but he said it so well:
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Pointing out the hypocrisy is not supposed to suddenly convince the actual fascists that they’re wrong, it’s to convince the people they’ve duped into following them that they’re both wrong and evil.
you know what the worst part about the creeping nature of murderous, paranoid fascism is? the hypocrisy!
I really want someone to chime in with the legal ramifications of ABC being a publicly broadcast station that licenses radio spectrum from the federal government.
Corrupt or not, the feds revoking a license is a lot more plausible than them somehow pulling a private cable station or streaming service out of people’s homes.
Is this comment pro or anti deep-dish?
Same! If he does, I’m also hoping he has a backup plan!
Jon Stewart 2028!!
He does! Retirement!
Let’s just leave deep dish pizza out of this
Stewart is from Jersey, he knows deep dish is casserole.
Somebody had to say it then and somebody has to say it now.
Deep dish isn’t even pizza. It’s a trashcan lid filled with cheese and sauce.
I wouldn’t count on it. Stewart has done a LOT of tone policing of the left over the years and just a few days ago (?) criticized people for cheering over the death of a nazi.
Which lines up. Stewart has ALWAYS been a “both sides” kind of guy. His coverage tends to involve facts which means it leans left but there is a reason he had carlson and the like on his show back in the day. So his politics are very much going to disappoint. Just going to be a question of if his hatred of censoring comedians (no matter how shitty) takes precedence.
I think Oliver is more likely to go off on Saturday/Sunday. But you can bet that Business Daddy is talking to him constantly and he does have a whole team he needs to provide for so…
Lol! Wut? Jon Stewart got Tucker Carlson cancelled back when he was still in his bow tie phase. And the reason he occasionally knocks the left, is because those “facts” he covers, indicate the left needs to occasionally reflect on some shit, too.
Yeah. He got a lot of shit, upon his return, for criticizing the left’s unwillingness to even engage about conversation about Biden’s age.
Turns out he was right.
Which kind of sums up a lot of the pundits “on the left”. They are focused on being right, not on being a party (in large part because the Democrats have increasingly been “We are not republicans” for decades now but…).
I don’t think there is anyone who wasn’t concerned about Biden’s age. But we were past the point for a real primary and he was the candidate. So you support his senile ass. Because he is the candidate and we need to win. And when he finally got kicked out and it was Kamala’s turn? You support fucking Kamala. There is plenty of time to do after actions after we lose. NOBODY was going to win a presidential campaign in, what was it, like four months? But they sure as hell weren’t going to win if they were the third candidate in three weeks. You keep that kind of shit behind closed doors until we know one way or another.
Contrast that with the chuds where they all click their heels and start goose stepping once the primaries are over.
The “shit” isn’t about pointing out very real concerns. The “shit” is about doing the republican’s jobs for them.
His coverage tends to I evolve facts which means it leans left
And there it is, the quiet part out loud. Apparently you lean left if you, ahh, tell the truth.
Yeah Jon Steward is as right as Dick Cheney, got it.
Too bad I can’t watch it because I won’t subscribe to Paramount after they cancelled Colbert.
It’s on YouTube.
it’ll be on youtube tomorrow
Sounds like it’s time to take to the seas me bucko.
Are you ready to call it fascism yet Jon?
Oh, I’m gonna leave it.
Genuinely asking, has he refrained from saying such? I swear I’ve heard him saying it prior to even this last election but I could be wrong
he has. he said his reason is that he doesn’t want to diminish the impact of the word.
When Colbert was cancelled he did a great show. Even did a song and dance. It would be great if Kimmel is on tonight’s show with Stewart.
Logistically it would be hard to have Kimmel on The Daily Show this evening. Kimmel is in LA and Jon is in New York. Obviously a video call is possible. Obviously flights exist. It would be wild if it happened, but it’s not likely.
Rich people can fly anywhere on extremely short notice. It’s called NetJets
Sack. the. fuck. up. This ain’t the time to shrink. This is the time to fight.
True comedy and spite would be to just recite Kimmel’s monologue verbatim
I am Jimmy Kimmel.
I’m mad as hell
I am Guillermo
His name is Robert Paulson.
Meatloaf?
I am Spartacus.
I am dad
Paramount Skydance Corporation is about to be sued for a 1 billion dollars!
The article makes this sound like a bigger deal than it is. There was no Daily Show on Monday, and when Jon doesn’t do the Monday show it’s normal for him to do a show later in the week.
Are you sure? I don’t recall that really happening often.
It’s not normal for Jon to miss the Monday show, but it is normal for him to make up for it later in the week, the main exception being when he had covid and was out for a week or two.
Better not pull both sides bullshit, Jon.
$5 says he’s going to assert the shooter was a liberal just like breaking points did earlier today.
I’ll be really disappointed if he does.
The most disappointing thing to me about all this is that having a queer roommate is enough to prove that you’re liberal from now on; I thought I would never see the old homophobic guilt-by-association reasoning expanded to anyone who was once close to a queer I thier lives.
