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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.”

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[–] bobjones1665@lemmy.world 228 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

I love how the freedom of speech crowd are the first to deny others th same.

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 91 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

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.

[–] protist@retrofed.com 20 points 4 days ago

They seem to be incredibly scared of Talarico's message, given this is the second time this has happened to him specifically. They should be scared, because his message is fucking incredible

[–] bobjones1665@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

No wonder they fear and hate Talarico.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago

Paradox of Tolerance. Fascists leverage an open society to build political support, then close off the society as soon as they're in power.

[–] eurodyne@piefed.world 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They want freedom for their speech, not anyone else’s.

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[–] eurodyne@piefed.world 127 points 5 days ago (6 children)

It will probably get more views on YouTube anyway

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 50 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

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.

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[–] hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip 77 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Kimmel should’ve called his bluff and done it anyway.

Don’t kowtow to these cowards.

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 44 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sit there for 20 minutes repeating "Trump wouldn't allow this to be broadcast, here's what to search for on YouTube."

[–] hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip 43 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Every time you obey these fascists in any way, it empowers them. While I appreciate his sensitivity towards the local networks (not so much towards ABC), every time you cave to these shits, it empowers them even more.

He missed an opportunity to create a lot more enemies for this administration. Everyone public figure should be giving a defiant middle finger to them. Trey and Matt did it and they’re billionaires for it.

While I appreciate his sensitivity towards the local networks (not so much towards ABC), every time you cave to these shits, it empowers them even more.

He missed an opportunity to create a lot more enemies for this administration. Everyone public figure should be giving a defiant middle finger to them. Trey and Matt did it and they’re billionaires for it.

Trey and Matt own South ~~Park~~ America. I'm pretty sure Kimmel doesn't own his Late Show, which is why he has to walk a tightrope

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[–] starik@lemmy.today 26 points 4 days ago (5 children)
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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Only way is elbows up. Give the bully a bloody nose. It doesn't matter if you lose. He'll think twice next time and you might inspire others to stand up too.

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[–] Alexfire@lemmy.world 66 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They said the Dems would,

Take away first amendment,

Nope it was maga

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] kboos1@lemmy.world 47 points 5 days ago

Lol, look how afraid Dump is

[–] sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 35 points 5 days ago

Nazi America.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 21 points 4 days ago

Just put his interview on TV, and openly invite Paxton in for equal time. If he accepts - AWESOME! Interview the shit out of him. If he doesn't, tell the FCC to go fuck themselves, they tried.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I can’t tell if this is a Talarico/Dem stunt or if the republicans are really that dense and don’t understand the Streisand effect.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The same thing happened earlier this year with Colbert interviewing a political candidate

[–] OtterSec@infosec.pub 21 points 4 days ago

The same candidate! It was also Talarico.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I know that’s why it’s confusing.

His poll numbers skyrocket after that incident. He got a lot of free publicity as the “candidate republicans fear most”.

And then they decided “fuck it let’s do that again???”

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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago

or if the republicans are really that dense and don’t understand the Streisand effect.

That's where I'm putting my bet.

[–] Corvidae@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (10 children)

There seem to be some similarities to the Colbert incident. Talarico? They want to censor Talarico's views?

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 days ago

He's about to turn Texas purple, I can imagine the pearl clutching

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[–] MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 28 points 5 days ago

Literal evidence of chilling free speech. He is self censoring in response to threats of legal consequences by the government. It's the easiest, slam dunk court win on infringing on constitutional rights, but this executive branch and these judges are so extremist that it's still not a guaranteed win. This election really could be the last chance to reclaim some semblance of freedom.

[–] ol_capt_joe@piefed.social 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Might as well air it. I doubt Trump could shit his britches more than he already does 🚼

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 29 points 5 days ago

I watch it primarily on YouTube anyways so that works for me.

But still, what a fucking insecure rapist loser trump is.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

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....

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago

I encourage everyone to go watch it

[–] timochka@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago

Can't wait for Vance or Musk to come to Europe to give us another one of their lectures on free speech... Because it's only free speech if it's hate speech, right lads?

[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)
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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (9 children)

The Streisand effect again. I’ve never liked Kimmel. He’s not funny, but here I am reading about him again.

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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (6 children)

The Equal Time Rule would require Kimmel to offer to air an equal-time interview to Ken Paxton as well as Talarico. Unless Kimmel's program is a bona fide news program, which would be exempt from the rule.

Previous administrations adopted a more broad interpretation of "bona fide news program" that included these late night shows that interview guests. Mainly because this rule and the exception are playing with legal fire regarding the first amendment and core political speech.

The Equal Time Rule applies only to over the air broadcasts. YouTube is unregulated on that point.

[–] JohnnyMac@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

From how I understand it, the equal time rules gives opposition 7days to request time. It's not mandatory that the TV station reach out to make it happen.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's ridiculous that they will consider Jimmy Kimmel a news program but then go call Fox News an entertain ment program.

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[–] aquovie@lemmy.cafe 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Go ahead and offer it then? Paxton is a coward who won't go near Kimmel. He already won't debate Talarico. His election strategy is to be quiet and unnoticed.

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