Demokraten fordern den FCC -Vorsitz
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-18/democrats-call-on-fcc-chair-to-resign-over-abc-s-kimmel-decision
Demokraten fordern den FCC -Vorsitz
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-18/democrats-call-on-fcc-chair-to-resign-over-abc-s-kimmel-decision
46 Kommentare
Damn right! Total violation of the Constitution.
The FCC Chair doesn’t believe Jimmy deserves the First Amendment.
We need more of this.
I mean this is kind of like asking Goebbels to resign over misleading propaganda but I’m glad they at least did something.
Congratulations US&A! You have same state media as glorious nation of Kazahkstan! Very nice!!
He wrote the section about the FCC in project 2025 if I remember right.
So, it’s going as planned.
Too late now. It’s over, rover. If he resigns, Trump immediately replaces him with another lackey to do his bidding.
Once upon a time, there was a millionaire whose last name started with K. He spoke his mind on controversial topics in a way that upset many people, until he was suddenly silenced by a shocking act that only served to galvanize his passionate supporters.
https://archive.ph/5QRQp
FCC approved the merger of ABC/Disney of them buying Nextstar for $6.2 Billion 30m after they were forced to cancel Kimmel. Executives backed Kimmel until they were forced to do so.
Edit for Clarification: Nextstar is Merging with Tegna. Nextstar OWNS ABC affiliate stations across the U.S. The merger was approved after Disney/ABC axed Kimmel.
Brendan Carr is a dummy.
The FCC chair is engaging in news distortion and should resign. But both Sinclair Media and Nexstar are as well. By spreading Trump lies that anything Kimmel said was somehow untrue or rises to a fireable offense.
Under the mandate of the FCC, both Sinclair and Nexstar should immediately have their licenses revoked for all affiliates or they can be sold. If they want to spread the news distortion of Republicans then they can expect to lose their licenses the next time Republicans lose a presidential election.
You dont bring a letter to a gun fight. If Republicans want this war you need to make it very clear to these affiliates they wont have a license the next time Republicans lose a presidential election.
They do need to make a big stink over the loss or our right to free speech, which I’ve always said was our most important right. Maybe this is the thing that’s worth shutting down the government over. But it had to be about more than Kimmel and the head of the FCC.
Carr won’t resign. Corruption is the purpose for which he was appointed to the FCC.
Breaking: FCC chair ignores calls for resignation while laughing
LMAO. He’ll get a raise or a position in the cabinet. Maybe he’ll be the new FBI director once Kash is kicked to the curb.
It IS too late to act. The time to act was exactly ONE YEAR AGO. And failing that, November of last year, failing that, literally any time this year. It finally took until America’s mainstream late night TV got hit. What a disgusting commentary on this whole mess- and sure as hell a vindication of the people who were trying to get y’all off of the damned couch. Now it’s reached the COUCH and you can’t ignore it anymore. It’s not abstract now. They took all of this inaction as your consent- now the rest of it is gonna fall pretty easily.
At BEST, we’re screwed until 2026. Start thinking about next year. Getting them ALL out, not just the GOP, but all of these wishy washy Democrats who just yawned.
And for all of you that wouldn’t vote for Harris because „she was the same as Trump anyway“ how’s that working out for you now? I said project 2025
is a thing and would be a thing. Now stop whining about it and let’s start working for 2026- you’re wasting time with the whining. I mean, you might as well become politically active unless OAN, Newsmax TBN and Fox News were your top viewing choices to begin with; and apparently the era of being able to „rage comment“ on the internet is over, too. So you might as well join in.
I know it sounds accusatory but a lot of us have one through a lot of pain in the last year trying to warn y’all about this. Welcome to wake-up time. Let’s get to work.
Americans call on fellow Americans to wake the F up and cast your vote in each and every election like your life depends on it.
And cancel subscriptions to DISNEY+, HULU, PARAMOUNT+ and CABLE while you’re at it! Boycott.
Let’s stop giving our hard earned money to the corporations that don’t give a shit about free speech or democracy
Democrats should also call on people who will listen to them to do things that will be effective, rather than call on people who don’t care what they think to do something they would never do.
Not only will they not resign, they will double/triple/quadruple/quintuple, etc down until every last left leaning programming block is eliminated entirely
Democrats „call on“ a lot of stuff.
Media reports of „slamming“ all the time.
It’s toothless bark.
Give me some fucking bite.
I’m hope Chuck Schumer writes a strongly worded letter, that’ll show em’!
The FCC Chair is a robe wearing cultist. Upon hearing the Democrats‘ condemnation, he will merely hiss, bear his fangs and return to his prayer beads and continue to mumble in tongues.
I just watched the monologue and it is very obvious they are trying to grift for the Kirk family. He mentioned him twice and it was just to say a news show was talking about his death. If anything, he was way harsher on Kash, but the FCC is demanding a large donation and apology directly to the Kirk family?
There are no laws any more. Another sternly-worded letter from Schumer will do nothing.
Cancel your Disney subscriptions. Complain to the affiliates. Complain to their advertisers
cancel your Disney + and hulu subscriptions. when asked why, select „other“ and tell them you don’t support companies that bow down to fascists.
I don’t watch Jimmy Kimmel. In fact, I haven’t really watched late night television since Johnny Carson retired. But I do know how to read, and the flap over Kimmel’s monologue concerning trump is so overblown I have to wonder if the far right is wholly illiterate. It appears that a reporter threw trump a softball question, something along the lines of “how are you doing,” with the expectation of trump sharing his distress at the Charlie Kirk shooting and, perhaps, praising or at least saying remembrances of Kirk, but that wasn’t the response. Instead, trump said something like “I’m OK” and segued into a speech about the “big beautiful ballroom.” Kimmel’s monologue merely pointed out how trump, instead of commenting on an issue that concerned all Americans, namely gun violence, went into a soliloquy about his ballroom. If anything, Kimmel should have been commended for pointing out that the leader of the free world, supposedly shattered by the assassination of a person he claimed to admire, pushed the Kirk shooting to the rear in order to praise his big beautiful ballroom that will probably have Kmart gilt accents like the Oval Office. The First Amendment guarantees that the government shall pass no laws restricting freedom of speech. If broadcast licenses are to be threatened over something as innocuous as Kimmel’s monologue, how in the world is Fox still in business after promoting euthanasia for homeless?
Kimmel only insulted Charlie Kirk in the alternative fact Trump universe. And Kirk deserves insults anyway.
Every one should cancel ABC for a week
The days of shaming anyone into resigning have been long gone. They know they don’t need to show any kind of remorse, shame or humility anymore. They think they’re untouchable and in many ways, they are.
I think Trump already owns the FCC. I don’t this will happen.
Its a double whammy. They are threatening to not approve a merger that shouldnt be approved in the first place due to FCC regulations. But to appease daddy Trump they are doing this so FCC will sidestep their own regulation? Makes zero sense.
File a FUCKING LAW SUIT! That’s what it will take. Democrats can sue for violations of the first amendment!
So here’s the rundown, as I’m understanding it:
Kimmel’s show was cancelled because ABC / Disney, under pressure from Sinclair and others, bent the knee to the Trump administration.
By implication, we can reasonably suspect that CBS / Paramount cancelling the Tonight Show, despite their protests, was a similar instance of preemptive compliance and an effort to appease the Republican party.
Brian Kilmeade, Fox News host, *still has a job*, and Fox is experiencing *no apparent pressure* after stating quite literally that homeless people should be subject to „involuntary lethal injection“.
He’s been abusing his power from day one. In fact he said he’d do so before his appointment. Too little too late again dems.
The whole administration from the president down should resign for this and many other corrupt actions, but they’ve got cult-like support from about half of the country.
It is 100% abuse of power. Using your office to coerce companies to do the governments bidding in suppressing free speech. The US is receding into a dictatorship.
He won’t because he’s a Trumper and the GOP is the Trump party now.
We need 1 million people to cancel their Disney today.
„Democrats call on…“
„Democrats call on…“
„Democrats call on…“
„Democrats call on…“
„Democrats call on…“
„Democrats call on…“
And yet not a single person resigned or gave a fuck about what democrats wants. The country is the Temu version of Nazi Germany.
Odd how companies, the Epstein Administration, FCC, DOJ, maga, are all ok with homeless camps mass shootings, just days after Brian Kilmeade, a co-host of the Fox News show Fox & Friends, for suggesting that mentally ill and homeless people should receive „involuntary lethal injection“ or „just kill them“?
🙄🙄🙄🙄
How about doing something useful at the doorstep of tyranny, like calling a conference for democratic governors to attend where they can discuss the status quo and plan ahead?
No?
Guess we’ll just keep getting more strongly worded letters until it’s too late.
Stop fucking “calling” for it and fucking do something. That’s why we voted for you.
Don’t call for him to resign. Draw up articles of impeachment.
Good god I hate elected Dems. Just standing there with a dipshit furrowed brow, waving around the rule book, sternly saying „you’re cheating!”. Meanwhile the MAGA Fourth Reich has gone full blitzkrieg leaving a trail of constitutional ashes and shattered norms in their wake.