The late night host announced that his interview with the Texas Senate candidate will only air on YouTube
Jimmy Kimmel says that his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will not air on TV after President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) threatened Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC, their affiliates, and local stations.
During his Wednesday monologue, Kimmel said that while Talarico would stop by the show for an interview on Thursday, viewers at home won’t be able to watch it on broadcast television. Instead, the interview with the Democratic nominee has been relegated to YouTube.
“Tomorrow night, I’ll be interviewing James Talarico — tomorrow night, under unusual circumstances,” Kimmel began. “You know, for a lot of years, for the whole 20-plus years of our show, in fact, I’ve been interviewing Americans who are running for office with no problem at all, just like Letterman did, Leno did, Arsenio, et cetera, et cetera. I’ve interviewed a lot of political candidates from Hillary Clinton to Ted Cruz to Donald Trump himself.”
Kimmel should’ve called his bluff and done it anyway.
Don’t kowtow to these cowards.
Nazi America.
I watch it primarily on YouTube anyways so that works for me.
But still, what a fucking insecure rapist loser trump is.
There seem to be some similarities to the Colbert incident. Talarico? They want to censor Talarico’s views?
It’s the same trick, executed out of the same playbook.
Go to the FCC, say “We’re going to do an interview with a popular candidate for Senate”, get a nastygram from some DOGE staffer back in response, then generate a bunch of attention-grabbing headlines with “The Man Won’t Let Us Interview America’s Coolest Senator on TV so Come See It On Our Website Instead”.
If that was the playbook why was Colbert’s show cancelled
I love how the freedom of speech crowd are the first to deny others th same.
Paradox of Tolerance. Fascists leverage an open society to build political support, then close off the society as soon as they’re in power.
nothing scares these christofascist clowns like an actual Christian using Christ’s teachings to tell everyone there’s nothing Christian about Trump and his ilk, and I am 100% here for it. That’s the only way we’re ever going to deprogram a large portion of these MAGA morons, whenever this bullshit ends.
I don’t think turning a person from one fascist leader to another is “deprogramming”. It certainly won’t keep them from just doing it again in a few years.
No wonder the fear and hate Tallarico.
They want freedom for their speech, not anyone else’s.
They never mean anything they say, and all their “principles” are just bullshit. They never cared about your freedom of speech. I bet a sizeable amount of BUT MAH FREEZED PEACH asshats would be ecstatic if Jimmy Kimmel were to be given a death sentence for offending the republicons.
It will probably get more views on YouTube anyway
Literally what happened with the same politician being interviewed by Colbert during his primary. FCC told them they couldn’t air the interview, they posted it on YouTube, Streisand Effect happens and it’s one of the most viewed Colbert videos ever. It won him that election. I think Jasmine Crockett was a better candidate and she may have stood a chance had she gotten that level of exposure.
Didn’t Jasmine Crockett take AIPAC money?
It won him that election.
Idk about that. Talarico had a stronger ground game and a prodigious fundraising haul. He won with a healthy 6-pt margin over Crockett.
Incidentally, CBS gave plenty of coverage and multiple interviews to Crockett during her primary run. And Crockett was even interviewed - multiple times, including on CBS - specifically over the Colbert show controversy. The idea that she just wasn’t getting enough press to win in Texas seems sparse.
I think the biggest baggage Crockett had to carry was Colin Alred’s. He flubbed it in 2022. So Texas voters decided to try and run another Beto-style West Texas cracker, instead of a second Dallas social media suburbanite.
How far are we from youtube censoring stuff like this that the admin asks them to?
We really need to further grow some alternates, youtube is too large to trust, even if google didn’t own them.
Probably one 3AM rant away, maybe two at most.
One EO changing the name from YouTube to AmericaTube.
So, they’re taping the interview along with the rest of the show’s content, but not broadcasting it? Are they going to show dead air in its place? Or maybe a QR code to the interview, along with a countdown timer? I don’t think even Jimmy has the balls for that, but it would be awesome.
It would be kinda awesome to have an image of Jimmy with duct tape over his mouth with a menacing Trump and Carr behind him and then the message to check YouTube for the actual show/interview where they can’t be censored by Trump (unless he cries to Google, which he might.)
YouTube/Google doesn’t have a broadcast license, so can’t be harassed in quite the same manner by the FCC. Although Google has a history of premature compliance…
I assume they’ll run the Colbert playbook: YouTube release with on air promotion. QR code, yes. Dead air, no.
I’m pretty sure they always shoot extra and edit down for time.
Lol, look how afraid Dump is
Cowards.
The Streisand effect again. I’ve never liked Kimmel. He’s not funny, but here I am reading about him again.
Is there a reason you don’t like him?
He’s not funny. I also never got into John Stewart. I like John Oliver though.
Fair enough, I feel that’s different than not liking someone.
In casual conversation, when referring to an artist, an actor, comedian, etc., when someone says “I don’t like X“, it typically refers to their performance/art, not to them personally.
For example, I never really liked Monet. I certainly never knew the guy, so I can’t comment on him personally, so what I really mean is that I never really liked his art.
Yes, it’s vague and deserves clarification, but there it is. English is a messy language.
I normally agree and mostly still do, but I do feel with as polarized as the population has become, it’s not as clear as it used to be.
Your Monet example I spot on for it. If I heard someone just say they didn’t like them, I honestly wouldn’t know if they meant the act or the person because of what they do. I personally don’t enjoy the product because it’s so over the top, but I have no problems with the people or those that do like it.
Now what you’re commenting on is the inherent laziness of people nowadays, and how they don’t really bother to express themselves very clearly anymore. it’s a very real problem that leads to a lot of miscommunications, especially online when vocal tone is absent from interpersonal interactions.
I blame our failing education system for that, alongside the forced brevity of online communications.
Is he related to the video games live Tommy talarico guy who claims he’s won the Guinness Book World of Records?
Kimmel better make sure it gets leaked and not just bow down to the administration here.
Yeah the first line here says it will air on YouTube.
God damn, not only didn’t read past the headline, didn’t even bother to read the very first line of what OP graciously pasted into the body of the post.
This is why we can’t have nice elections.
Oh no another anti trans politician doesnt get to be on TV?
Serious question from a trans person, are you going to vote for Ken Paxton? Do you think he’ll be better for us?
Voting for most politicians isn’t easy. Most of them do not have our backs. I am concerned though with good people who should be voting for harm reduction, and then putting all their energy into fighting by other means between elections, not doing that.
I am seeing a lot of people who put their effort into not voting or throwing their vote away, then feeling like they’ve “done something” and not doing anything else between cycles. I don’t know you and I’m not accusing. I’m just curious how yelling about Talrico at this point, helps?
You can wait for your perfect politician while someone else votes in theirs. It’s your right.
Gonna be waiting a long time if you want progressives to win in Texas.
Now we know you’re either directly or indirectly voting for fascism
How embarrassing for you
Being anti trans is being a fascist, having a democratic cover does not wash away his views on who he is ok with dying. Same as a Zionist supporting democrat.
As far as I saw he just recently said he doesn’t support trans people in women’s sports. This is not the same as the conservative population that generally think trans people don’t have a right to exist, use bathrooms, etc. Was there anything else he has said that is anti trans? I’m looking and I am not seeing.
Who, Kimmel? Or Talarico?
Do you have a source for this?
Nobody who is concerned about trans people in women’s sports gives a fuck about wen’s sports. The issue is basically a dog whistle for more general anti trans beliefs.
That’s why it’s being pushed as hard as it is, but there’s a reason it’s women’s sports and not, say, being around kids or any other conservative hysteria. In the absence of competing information, it’s easy for a reasonable person to see the argument/dogwhistle and think “yeah sure they have a point there,” and frankly the left’s generally poor communication on this topic doesn’t help. For clarity, by that last bit I mean “even considering the argument is automatically considered transphobia and gets condemnation rather than a rebuttal, which leaves the debate with only one side arguing their case.” Questioning the intentions of anyone who brings it up is also counterproductive; people can have opinions on things they don’t strongly care about.
Being anti trans is being a fascist
I mean, no? Fascism by its nature resists definition, but no serious attempt at the task I’ve seen is that broad.
Totally understand the point you are trying to make, but help me understand why it makes sense for someone left of the DNC to compromise their political beliefs to fight fascism but not for the DNC to do the same? Doesn’t that logic apply equally?
Also the greater good logic is why we are where we are. Why does more of the same = change?
Edit: for clarification…why isn’t the focus on the right leaning DNCers that would defect to MAGA if the DNC shifted left?
