BULLETIN: BOB IGER, ABC AND DISNEY FOLD TO FASCISTS, SUSPEND KIMMEL - 9.17.25

[orleans]

BULLETIN PODCAST: ABC, Disney, and Bob Iger fold to the fascists: Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air effective immediately, unlikely to return, for telling the truth about MAGA exploitation of the death of Charlie Kirk and Trumpist whitewashing of his hate speech

PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/mr2j8k99

— Keith Olbermann (@olbermann.bsky.social) 2025-09-18T00:20:41.435Z

https://omny.fm/shows/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/bulletin-bob-iger-abc-and-disney-fold-to-fascists-suspend-kimmel-9-17-25

BULLETIN (2:55): ABC announced late this afternoon that it had taken "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the network's air effective immediately, because Kimmel had the nerve to tell the truth about how Trump and the MAGA terrorists have exploited the indefensible assassination of Charlie Kirk, how they have tried to blame the left without evidence and with increasing evidence that this was an instance of a man who feared Kirk was a direct threat to a person he loved, and how they have ruthlessly tried to suppress all public comment that contradicts their narrative, or the nonsensical whitewashing of Kirk's violent, ultra-right platform that once included him publicly calling for the execution of President Biden.

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said Monday.

By this afternoon FCC chairman Brendan Carr dipped into the Goebbels playbook and threatened ABC's station licenses if it did not take Kimmel off the air, and the Nexstar stations that own many ABC affiliates, said they would not broadcast any more of Kimmel's shows. At that point ABC simply said the show was off the air "for the foreseeable future."

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I'll also discuss why Kimmel has no recourse against the action and will most likely not appear again, and why ABC's only contractual obligation to him is to pay him the remaining year of his salary. This part of it I've personally been through - though under far less dire circumstances.

[Sanity Claws]

1. I'm truly shocked.

Not a single backbone in all of the legacy media.

[BigMin28]

2. Les Moonves

"Trump isn't good for America, but he is great for CBS."

It is up to us to put them out of business. Don't tune in to any of them for any programming. Hit them in the pocketbook.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. The First Amendment is dead.