Cancellation and censorship are different things. I think ABC is perfectly free to fire him any time, and given the plummet in ratings, it is likely long overdue. The government, however, should keep its trap shut.
-- Mike Hammett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2025 11:40:32 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT? Carr and Kimmel and "jawboning" In this case it was a reckless disregard slander of the right. If done willfully he deserves cancellation. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 20, 2025, at 10:09 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Actually what he said was not factually correct." > > It doesn't have to be. > > > > > -- > Mike Hammett > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cameron Crum" <[email protected]> > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2025 6:44:08 PM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT? Carr and Kimmel and "jawboning" > > > > Actually what he said was not factually correct. He said that all the maga > crowd was trying to convince everyone that the shooter was on the left when > he was actually a maga supporter. This was Monday after it was already widely > known what his affiliations and reasoning were. It was a blatant lie > disparaging more than half the country. Tuesday he came out and doubled down. > Wednesday, after the execs at Disney had a call and asked what he was going > to say, and he told them, they decided to pull the plug. Around the same > time, possibly a bit before, the affiliate owner decided to pull the show > from their stations. Carr never sent a letter, he made a comment on a podcast > that the would review it as they were subject to terms of their broadcast > license. But just as a reminder: > > > Roseanne Barr – Fired by ABC/Disney and her hit show Roseanne canceled > overnight in 2018 after one tweet. Hundreds of cast and crew lost their jobs. > > > Gina Carano – Fired from The Mandalorian in 2021 for social media posts that > didn’t fit the Left’s politics. Dropped by her agency too. > > > Megyn Kelly – Fired by NBC in 2018, her morning show canceled after comments > about Halloween costumes. > > > Dave Chappelle – Netflix employees staged a walkout and demanded his comedy > special be pulled for “transphobia.” The Left tried hard to cancel him. > > > Joe Rogan – The Left pressured Spotify to drop him, running coordinated > campaigns and advertiser boycotts over COVID discussions. > > > Tucker Carlson – Taken off Fox News in 2023. Liberal activists bragged about > advertiser pressure campaigns that helped force him out, costing thousands of > downstream jobs. > > > Parler – Apple, Google, and Amazon colluded in 2021 to wipe the entire > platform off the internet. Tens of thousands of small creators and businesses > lost income overnight. > > > J.K. Rowling – Blacklisted from events, attacked by activists, and pressured > out of projects for speaking her mind. > > > Mike Lindell – MyPillow pulled from major retailers, banned from Twitter, and > targeted with advertiser boycotts. > > > Alex Jones – Simultaneously banned in 2018 by YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and > Spotify. Coordinated erasure celebrated as a model for censorship. > > > Patterns are clear: > > > Coordinated advertiser boycotts. > > > Public celebrations of people losing jobs and businesses. > > > Two sets of rules — the Left can lie (Russia hoax, Covington kids smear, > Jussie Smollett, etc.) and laugh about it, but the Right gets destroyed. > > > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2025, 9:59 AM Steve Jones < [email protected] > wrote: > > > > So this timeline and facts are hard to draw together > kimmel said what he sais, the usual leftist cowardice, making a statement > that is factually true, but carries an implied message, so they can hide and > say "but I didnt SAY that". complete cowardice. > advertisers start contacting sinclair and Nestar threatening to pull their ad > revenues around the same time Carr goes on benny Johnson and warns of > possible regulatory consequence > Sinclair and Nextar refuse to air kimmel > ABC/Disney suspends the show > The studio is loaded into moving trucks > > > So it sounds like the FCC got cucked out here by the advertisers. They were > ready to big flex and got benched. I wish I could make memes, it would be > Carr strutting up to the door with some XXSmall condoms in his hand, chest > all puffed out and the door opening to that meme image of the girl on the > couch surrounded by a bunch of black dudes, but the black dudes would be the > advertisers and the girl would be kimmel. > > > Ironically, capitalism won here, the advertiser money got pulled because the > content offended their target customers on a program that was on its dying > breath anyway (dipping close to the 1m viewer threshold and down 70% in prime > demo from peak), so the production got suspended. Realistically it was coming > sooner than later anyway > > > The people most angry about this want to eliminate capitalism and replace it > with whatever -ism is hot, which gives you what? STATE RUN MEDIA You cant > make this shit up, even if you smoke meth. You could hit that glass pipe, and > come up with it, but when you went to tell tweaker Tommy, hed be like "Yeah > man, thats not new, its already happening" > > > snake eating its tail shit, its so HAWT > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM Ken Hohhof < [email protected] > wrote: > > > > > > > > https://www.wired.com/story/brendan-carr-isnt-going-to-stop-until-someone-makes-him/ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
