Originally published at: MAGA Elite Are Split on Protected Speech. Trump Voters, Not So Much - TPM – Talking Points Memo
You could almost hear the gears turning in Owen Strickland II’s head as he pondered slowly and deliberately whether Jimmy Kimmel should’ve been taken off air in the wake of conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk’s murder. “Mr. Kimmel started out his life and career as a comedian,” Strickland began. “Somewhere along the lines he morphed a…
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“Mr. Kimmel started out his life and career as a comedian,” Strickland began. “Somewhere along the lines he morphed a long way away from that, in my personal opinion.”
So did Rush Limbaugh
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Strickland and Gianchetti show themselves to be dumb rubes and typical MAGA collaborators. Please note how they pretend to not know that JD Vance was correct when he call Trump Hitler. Shouldn’t he be thrown out of his job, too? And if morphing is bad, how to explain that Trump morphed from failed businessman, rapist, white-collar criminal, and reality tv actor into a GOP politician spewing over 30,000 lies in public?
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I think Trump is trying to gain some traction with the “ Kimmel has low numbers” meme. Numbers are low for all of the late night shows because broadcast television is in a tailspin. He might lose his show along with the others if the networks can find something to replace him. Pulling him for low numbers isn’t the government’s call. Can we give Trump’s phony argument a rest. What Carr tried to do was threaten Disney. That is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.
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What is today’s equivalent of shouting “fire” in a crowded theater?
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“It’s one thing to call someone a jerkface… Calling them the most heinous dictator that’s ever lived, as far as I’m concerned, is a totally different ballgame,” he said.
“Good thing we have the Right people there to make that call.” he said with a wink.
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Read elsewhere:
The escalator stopped because someone in TFGs group hit the emergency stop while racing ahead to take photos.
And the president’s teleprompter is managed by the president’s group.
Was it all staged? Maybe, but it would have been his people doing it.
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Fun fact: Sinclair gets 27% of it’s revenue from its Disney programming.
Affiliates can typically preempt programming only for a certain amount of time before they are in breach of contract… they need Disney more than Disney needs them. Iger needs to remember that.
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Yeah - the White House photographer was the person who tripped the emergency stop. And they were low enough on the escalator to take the one right next to them.
I just wonder how many interpreters threw their hands up during that orange twatwaddle’s WTF ramble.
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actually, no. Not different at all. Not according to the Constitution.
Jerkface.
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“It’s one thing to call someone a jerkface… Calling them the most heinous dictator that’s ever lived, as far as I’m concerned, is a totally different ballgame,” he said.
Pol Pot and Hitler are ahead (for now) on genocide. But as for the daily tax of moral injury from every new stupid incompetent lame pathetic criminal impeachable “what kind of shithole country would RE-elect this felon” action or utterance — the fucker has no equal.
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From the TPM “Trump Voters, Not So Much” article: ‘“I think, yes, some things should be censored in my opinion,” Thomas Gianchetti, a retired union tradesman and Trump voter from Aston, Pennsylvania, said. “Especially things that are on national TV, on national news, that civilians watch for information.’
I really wish there weren’t so many people who really do want “Daddy” Trump to imperiously order everyone around. But I suppose such people we will always have with us. Everything they say strikes me as super icky. And do you really want to be icky, Mr. Gianchetti? … But I suppose he just doesn’t see that.
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Before: Jimmy Kimmel, comedian, but also truth-teller and patriot
After: Jimmy Kimmel, comedian, but now more widely known as a truth-teller and patriot
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So do you think most of them really believed that he didn’t have anything to do with it…..or do most totally believe that it was all his idea and was therefore a great idea but are saying he wasn’t involved just to shut up those who’d ciriticze him for it?
I don’t know which group I’d guess is the majority. I sort of think the latter, but I’m also hoping I’m wrong about that since those are the real diehard who buy into his religion.
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Never watched Kimmel (or much late-night), but I’m going to put his show on with the sound off for a teensy addition to the ratings.
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Mrs dont plays u tubes of Kimmel, Colbert and Seth as we eat breakfast in the morning.
Enjoyable.
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All have freedom of speech.
Some have more freedom of speech.
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