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2025-09-19 -Great Cultural Revolution

Colbert, Fallon, Stewart and Meyers team up amid fallout over Kimmel's show being pulled off air over Charlie Kirk comments

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-09-19 08:37|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1799 views ] Top

1 They had no problem when Tucker was axed at Fox or Joe Rogan was pulled from Spotify. When you have an audience of 130K for national TV, it ain't worth the juice. It only qualifies for one of the 130 useless cable channels. Get a podcast.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-09-19 13:37|| 2025-09-19 13:37|| Front Page Top

2 Ugh, the gilded ballroom gag is so two months ago, and that is Stewart, the more talented of the group.

Show the viewing numbers.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-09-19 13:40|| 2025-09-19 13:40|| Front Page Top

3 ...What everyone on that side of the aisle is intentionally not mentioning:

*The two affiliate groups, representing north of 20% of ABC stations, made their announcement BEFORE FCC Administrator Carr made his.

*There is a VERY strong possibility that Disney/ABC considered this a gift from Heaven: Kimmel was hemmorraging money, but after the screaming over Stephen Colbert, they didn't dare cut him...until, as my Dad would have said, "He laid it on the table and handed them a hammer." They get to stop the financial bleeding, Kimmel looks like a martyr, and everybody's happy-ish.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-09-19 13:42|| 2025-09-19 13:42|| Front Page Top

4 Yes, it was no secret this was always going to be the last year of the late night show.

Authenticity is the new hip thing, and these guys are not that at all, but the real nail is the business models is out of date and used up, with most ratings due to a tv being left on at the nursing home. The openings, guests, commentary, all that can be streamed as individual segments and at any time. Watching an hour of advertising interspaced by passing comedy entertainment was out in the 2000s, with the passing of the talented In Living Color and Arsenio Hall Show and replaced The Daily Show, which just spoofed headlines, maybe witty but not creative. The passing of Leno and O'Brian was the last of the creative talent left in the Hour Variety Show for Commercials.

That it is still going now is witness to the massive amount of money these people were willing to lose for what has been a vanity propaganda project the last five years, such as The Vax-Scene atrocity. G4 is what happens with the business model with the hundreds of $millions in debt absorption.

IIRC, didn't one of these show even have on a literal intelligence agent to help frame a narrative? I know when Psaki was tagged to gin up support for War in Ukraine, she didn't go to this venue she went to podcasters. These guys were just mimics trying to get face time and whose only advantage was the ability to land A-List guests, who ultimately nobody cares about that much.

Mike's opening sentence is not quip, it is fact. What they say is their golfer shot triple digits because of a bad ankle and had to quit early. What really happened is their golfer got 12 beers in, turned to dogshit, and faked an ankle roll on the 17th because too drunk to golf, and everyone watching nodded because they were tired of watching clumsy failure.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-09-19 15:54|| 2025-09-19 15:54|| Front Page Top

5 It occurs that Kimmel saying MAGA killed Charlie was not an error nor lie; it was a threat.
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Posted by Regular joe 2025-09-19 16:21|| 2025-09-19 16:21|| Front Page Top

6 It occurs that Kimmel saying MAGA killed Charlie was not an error nor lie; it was a threat.
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I took it as a deflection lie, and have been pondering this statement, and I think maybe I get it?

There should be another high-profile assassination attempt and the assassin should shroud themsel(ves) in 'MAGA Trappings'; even purposefully botching "an attempt" to get caught and make sound bites?

And now I feel retarded for not seeing a Chess Move.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-09-19 20:11|| 2025-09-19 20:11|| Front Page Top

7 Jeebus. It occurs to me this had been done already with the 'kidnapping of the Michigan Governor' during COVID.

Fortify accordingly.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-09-19 20:37|| 2025-09-19 20:37|| Front Page Top

8 So I can ignore them all in one place? Yes please.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-09-19 21:31|| 2025-09-19 21:31|| Front Page Top

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