The Charlie Kirk Thread

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This was predicted as soon as NBC axed Colbert. Late night comics went off the rails the last 10 years.
 
dukeman92 said:
I don’t even think they like it. They see what’s happening. They know what it means. They just can’t bring themselves to admit they’ve been had. They can’t face the shame, however brief it may be.
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Nah man. You don't understand people like ram. He doesn't have shame to face. He doesn't have a shred of doubt in his mind that he made the right choice. He thinks he's better than you, me, and all of us and that he and people like him deserve to be in charge and us and people like us deserve to be put in our place. He doesn't care about our rights and he doesn't care about whether the government takes them. There's a better chance that ram will email his Congressman with a link to this site and a request that we all be investigated for hate speech than there is that he would ever admit Trump or his administration have done anything wrong. Any lawyer with a conscience and a shred of respect for the ethics of his profession would be appalled by the fact that Trump's DOJ keeps walking into court and shamelessly lying to federal judges without ever admitting it or apologizing for it. But ram has neither so he doesn't care. Because he knows they're on his side.

This is true conservatism; conservatism as it's been since the French Revolution. These are the people who are happy to have a king as long as the king is on their side. He will make whatever justification or rationalization he has to make. Don't hold your breath thinking there is any set of circumstances that could change his mind or his opinion.
 
Ramrouser said:
Nexstar made a business decision. Kimmel was spewing fake news and the company decided the show wasn’t a right fit for its stations. Plus, Kimmel was only drawing 1.7 M viewers (same as Colbert) so it’s not like the show was making the stations tons of money.

Gutfeld’s going to get some new viewers.
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Icky Mettle said:
Yeah, it’s a business decision the same way it’s a business decision for the shop owner to acquiesce to paying the mobster for “protection” when he stops by the day after the shop owner’s shop got its windows smashed in and vandalized, and two days after the mobster previously stopped by and told the shop owner he should pay for protection because it can be rough
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Ramrouser said:
It’s virtually impossible to lose an FCC license. It was just K working the refs.
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Come on man, this Trump administration is all about blowing WAY past those norms, FFS...
 
rodoheel said:
People like ram aren’t actually that stupid - they understand exactly what’s happening, they just like it. Most of the right is perfectly happy to have the government tread all over liberals and leftists, who after all aren’t “real” Americans anyway.
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They are stupid enough to think that the government will stop with the leftists and liberals though.
 
Hey @Ramrouser did you know that "the First Amendment prohibits government officials from relying on the threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion to achieve the suppression of disfavored speech"? Did you know that "Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors"? How about this: "A government official can share her views freely and criticize particular beliefs, and she can do so forcefully in the hopes of persuading others to follow her lead. In doing so, she can rely on the merits and force of her ideas, the strength of her convictions, and her ability to inspire others. What she cannot do, however, is use the power of the State to punish or suppress disfavored expression."

Any idea what case that's from, ram? Or do you need to get one of the younger folks in the office to help you use Westlaw?
 
altmin said:
It's harder with union contracts etc. Wildcat strikes really hurt with bargaining.

They could starve Disney of morning show appearances, but that is the problem, with conglomerates. Actors in Disney movies/ shows who have contracts that mandate promotion, can be ordered to do Good Morning America or whatever it is on ABC. I mean i suppose they could say the bare minimum like "this is the movie I was in. it opens on this date" and sit there for 7 minutes. That would be entertaining for me.
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I'm not usually one for strikes or other similar actions, but this would be amazing.

I'd totally watch the video of that on YouTube later that evening.
 
Ramrouser said:
Shooter was NAGA. Apparently mainstream society and business aren’t buying this board’s conclusion on this issue.
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I don't think the shooter was necessarily MAGA. I also think that on the spectrum of "fake news" sprayed over the air daily that doesn't even register as a top 100 example of "fake news," from any side. It wouldn't rank in the 500 most obvious lies Trump and his surrogates have told about the 2020 election. If broadcasters can be taken off the air for fake news then Fox News is going to be playing reruns of the Andy Griffith show 24/7. Except of course the admin has no intention of seeking to punish fake news from the right. Or, as a lawyer would call it, they are engaging in "viewpoint discrimination."
 
rodoheel said:
So just to be clear you have zero problem with the Trump admin threatening baseless FCC enforcement action against Kimmel/ABC to coerce ABC into taking him off the air?
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I’ll answer for him.
  • He doesn’t think the Trump Administration is threatening anyone
  • He doesn’t think the FCC claims are baseless
  • He either doesn’t think the Trump Administration is coercing ABC/Disney or he thinks the coercion is justified
 
Bobfripp said:
How so?
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Greg Gutfeld literally mocked Melissa Hortman's death just this week. When another commentator compared Melissa Hortman's death to Charlie Kirk, Gutfeld mocked the comparison and basically said that nobody had ever heard of Hortman (including him) so it wasn't the same as Kirk's. There is no doubt - none - that if a liberal talking head had done that then there would have been major pressure for them to be fired (and in the current climate they likely would have), but for Gutfeld there was just crickets and not even a reprimand, much less a firing. There is a clear and growing double standard for liberal commentators and entertainers and journalists versus conservative ones - they can say anything and people shrug, including their employers, but let a liberal behave the same and it's an outrage and the knives come out for them.
 
rodoheel said:
Hey @Ramrouser did you know that "the First Amendment prohibits government officials from relying on the threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion to achieve the suppression of disfavored speech"? Did you know that "Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors"? How about this: "A government official can share her views freely and criticize particular beliefs, and she can do so forcefully in the hopes of persuading others to follow her lead. In doing so, she can rely on the merits and force of her ideas, the strength of her convictions, and her ability to inspire others. What she cannot do, however, is use the power of the State to punish or suppress disfavored expression."

Any idea what case that's from, ram? Or do you need to get one of the younger folks in the office to help you use Westlaw?
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Under this Administration and SCOTUS?
 
Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement that Mr. Obama “is the architect of modern political division in America.”

“Obama used every opportunity to sow division and pit Americans against each other, and following his presidency more Americans felt Obama divided the country than felt he united it,” she said.

🎁 -> After National Tragedies, Obama and Trump Are a Study in Contrasts

Comments from the MAGA adjacent on the board? Obama is a divider, more than Trump?
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Greg Gutfeld literally mocked Melissa Hortman's death just this week. When another commentator compared Melissa Hortman's death to Charlie Kirk, Gutfeld mocked the comparison and basically said that nobody had ever heard of Hortman (including him) so it wasn't the same as Kirk's. There is no doubt - none - that if a liberal talking head had done that then there would have been major pressure for them to be fired (and in the current climate they likely would have), but for Gutfeld there was just crickets and not even a reprimand, much less a firing. There is a clear and growing double standard for liberal commentators and entertainers and journalists versus conservative ones - they can say anything and people shrug, including their employers, but let a liberal behave the same and it's an outrage and the knives come out for them.
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The employers don’t just shrug. They applaud.
 
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