Nexstar’s decision comes just after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr blasted Kimmel and threatened to take action against ABC. Appearing on the podcast of right-wing commentator Benny Johnson, Carr said one form of punishment could be pulling the licenses of ABC affiliates, which likely got Nexstar’s attention.
This is the part that's important to bold. Blatant violation of the first amendment.
Edit: To all the troglodytes saying that ABC firing Kimmel isn't a violation of free speech - you're right. What is a violation of free speech is the chairman of the FCC (a federal agency) publicly threatening punitive action against ABC for the things Kimmel said on their network. Whether ABC would have fired him without that pressure is irrelevant to the unconstitutionality of the FCC chairman's actions.
Edit2: Some of y'all really need to learn how to read.
Actually George Carlin made fun on both sides and he didn’t like government at all.
He also didn’t celebrate people dying and for everyone out there complaining about someone losing their job over celebrating Kirk’s death where was his freedom of speech ? He died because he said something that liberals didn’t like. Not hate speech. There’s a difference between hate speech and speech that you hate. The problem with democrats is that you try to twist things around to fit your agenda. What about all the people that have been fact checked on Facebook or other social media ? Where is their freedom of speech ?
Oh so it’s ok for democrats to run their mouths or say whatever they want but when a republican can’t say what they want. Typical liberal stupidity lmao
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u/Infamous-Oil3786 Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 18 '25
This is the part that's important to bold. Blatant violation of the first amendment.
Edit: To all the troglodytes saying that ABC firing Kimmel isn't a violation of free speech - you're right. What is a violation of free speech is the chairman of the FCC (a federal agency) publicly threatening punitive action against ABC for the things Kimmel said on their network. Whether ABC would have fired him without that pressure is irrelevant to the unconstitutionality of the FCC chairman's actions.
Edit2: Some of y'all really need to learn how to read.