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.”
I love how the freedom of speech crowd are the first to deny others th same.
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.
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
No wonder they fear and hate Talarico.
I don’t think turning a person from one fascist leader to another is “deprogramming”. It certainly won’t keep them from just doing it again in a few years.
Which fascist leader would they be turning toward here, exactly
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listen, if they can highlight the parts of the bible they like (stoning gays, women’s servitude to men, slavery, many others, take your pick) and yank out the parts they don’t (95% of the rest of the book) for the purpose of dividing this country into bullshit culture wars; then so can any reasonably well-versed and so-inclined preacher do the same with the verses that tell you to love your neighbor, not to fuck around on your partner, or those about Jesus visiting the temple and chasing the money-changers and merchants out with a whip. All it takes is someone that can quote their own book back at them that isn’t also a giant piece of shit, and Talarico nominally seems to believe in the nicer parts of the Bible and not the batshit insane ones.
I can’t read the man’s mind, he might be a more sociopathic duplicitous piece of shit than Fetterman turned out to be – but I’d certainly be surprised if that turned out to be the case, at least Fetterman gave off signs. I’m sure we can at least agree, that assuming he is what he seems to be, it would be better to have the aforementioned MAGA morons following Talarico – and by extension, the nicer parts of the bible – rather than hanging on President Shits-His-Pants every word, no?
I absolutely agree that Talrico or people using their dumb book against the magat brainwashing, is what we need right now. I am not speaking against that at all.
I was simply musing that it’s not deprogramming. It’s reprogramming or redirecting maybe.
Look, it’s simply not possible to unhook these people from fascism. The best we can hope for is to bind them to a version of it that helps the community rather than hurts it. I think “good guy jesus” is the best we can do, and I am behind Talrico style reprogramming 100%.
I just also think it’s important to acknowledge that the reason these people are so ripe for fascist picking is not because trump did anything much, he simply slightly diverted the programming that the church and their parents put in them as kids. If we ever want to even have a chance at minimizing future hitlers and trumps, we have to stop this before it starts.
Paradox of Tolerance. Fascists leverage an open society to build political support, then close off the society as soon as they’re in power.
They want freedom for their speech, not anyone else’s.
They never mean anything they say, and all their “principles” are just bullshit. They never cared about your freedom of speech. I bet a sizeable amount of BUT MAH FREEZED PEACH asshats would be ecstatic if Jimmy Kimmel were to be given a death sentence for offending the republicons.
They don’t believe words have meaning, they’re only to be used as cudgels and shields.
It will probably get more views on YouTube anyway
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.
Didn’t Jasmine Crockett take AIPAC money?
Did she? I haven’t seen anything, but may have missed it. She’s listed as not having done so on this site:
They could be misremembering, but not too hard. From her Wikipedia page:
Crockett has faced criticism for voting in support of funding military aid to Israel and for her trip to Israel with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Israel Defense Forces during her first term.
Eventually, I think so, but it happened quite a bit later
It won him that election.
Idk about that. Talarico had a stronger ground game and a prodigious fundraising haul. He won with a healthy 6-pt margin over Crockett.
Incidentally, CBS gave plenty of coverage and multiple interviews to Crockett during her primary run. And Crockett was even interviewed - multiple times, including on CBS - specifically over the Colbert show controversy. The idea that she just wasn’t getting enough press to win in Texas seems sparse.
I think the biggest baggage Crockett had to carry was Colin Alred’s. He flubbed it in 2022. So Texas voters decided to try and run another Beto-style West Texas cracker, instead of a second Dallas social media suburbanite.
Sounds like you’ve got better insight into Texas politics than I do. From my outside perspective, this is what put Talarico into the national spotlight. I was previously unfamiliar with him, but had seen her fighting the good fight against GOP stupidity and ICE specifically.
From my outside perspective, this is what put Talarico into the national spotlight.
Sure. Nationally it was big for his brand. But all the local media was on this race months beforehand. Texas Tribune, Houston Chronicle, all the local stations. Ken Paxton running against John Cornyn showed an enormous fissure in the Texas Republican Party when it was already sporting wounds in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. Everyone who follows Texas politics was locked in on the Texas Senate race going back to 2025.
Also, plus, too, Abbott running for a third term as Governor was kinda assumed to be a shoe-in. And Texas is a big media market. So Senate is where the coverage naturally went.
I was previously unfamiliar with him, but had seen her fighting the good fight against GOP stupidity and ICE specifically.
I mean, Crockett was certainly good at getting in front of a camera. But she was heavily keyed in on African American civil rights and not terribly popular with Latinos. Without Talarico in the race, she could have probably clinched it. But he’s scratching all the itches that your classic Central Texas indie voter loves.
I think Talarico caught people off guard because he codes as a classic Conservative Republican in appearance and demeanor. But that’s just what Anne Richards / LBJ loving Texas Democrats all look like.
How far are we from youtube censoring stuff like this that the admin asks them to?
We really need to further grow some alternates, youtube is too large to trust, even if google didn’t own them.
Probably one 3AM rant away, maybe two at most.
One EO changing the name from YouTube to AmericaTube.
Decades past? YouTube has been indiscriminately censoring shit like this for a very long time.
Kimmel should’ve called his bluff and done it anyway.
Don’t kowtow to these cowards.
Sit there for 20 minutes repeating “Trump wouldn’t allow this to be broadcast, here’s what to search for on YouTube.”
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
ParkAmerica. I’m pretty sure Kimmel doesn’t own his Late Show, which is why he has to walk a tightrope
It’s not up to Kimmel
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.
They said the Dems would,
Take away first amendment,
Nope it was maga
Lol, look how afraid Dump is
There seem to be some similarities to the Colbert incident. Talarico? They want to censor Talarico’s views?
He’s about to turn Texas purple, I can imagine the pearl clutching
Makes sense to me! As opposed to the fake Christians and Christofascists, here you have a real Christian and a more or less Christosocialist
is your name a reference to the game or the candy?
Makes sense to me! As opposed to the fake Christians and Christofascists, here you have a real Christian and a more or less Christosocialist
It’s the same trick, executed out of the same playbook.
Go to the FCC, say “We’re going to do an interview with a popular candidate for Senate”, get a nastygram from some DOGE staffer back in response, then generate a bunch of attention-grabbing headlines with “The Man Won’t Let Us Interview America’s Coolest Senator on TV so Come See It On Our Website Instead”.
You’re suggesting that this is a stunt by Talarico’s campaign or by Kimmel? You’d sooner believe that both Kimmel and Colbert’s shows would pull the same stunt to boost their YouTube channels than believe trump’s FCC when they say they’re willing to pull broadcast licenses over political discourse?
It can be everything - Kimmel’s people could know that Trump would threaten ABC to not air the interview, allowing them to get more views. Talarico’s team might know that the interview would get canned, giving them more publicity. Trump’s people may be actually trying to suppress Talarico’s team from getting the publicity and totally plan to pull the license. ABC might be aware of all of this and planned to kotow from the beginning.
Who knows?
You’re suggesting that this is a stunt by Talarico’s campaign or by Kimmel?
Kimmel. He’s a hack, so of course he stole Colbert’s bit.
You’d sooner believe that both Kimmel and Colbert’s shows would pull the same stunt to boost their YouTube channels
I think Kimmel’s boosting his own brand because he’s also on his way out.
If that was the playbook why was Colbert’s show cancelled
Nazi America.
I watch it primarily on YouTube anyways so that works for me.
But still, what a fucking insecure rapist loser trump is.
Cowards.
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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.
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.
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.)
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…
I’m pretty sure they always shoot extra and edit down for time.
I assume they’ll run the Colbert playbook: YouTube release with on air promotion. QR code, yes. Dead air, no.
Does dead air still cause emergency broadcast systems to kick in?
The Streisand effect again. I’ve never liked Kimmel. He’s not funny, but here I am reading about him again.
Is there a reason you don’t like him?
He’s not funny. I also never got into John Stewart. I like John Oliver though.
Fair enough, I feel that’s different than not liking someone.
In casual conversation, when referring to an artist, an actor, comedian, etc., when someone says “I don’t like X“, it typically refers to their performance/art, not to them personally.
For example, I never really liked Monet. I certainly never knew the guy, so I can’t comment on him personally, so what I really mean is that I never really liked his art.
Yes, it’s vague and deserves clarification, but there it is. English is a messy language.
Also, I never really thought about it until now, but in pure text form without tone of voice or body language, it’s hard to differentiate whether “I don’t like him” means “eh, he’s not for me” or “I actively dislike him”.
Case in point
I normally agree and mostly still do, but I do feel with as polarized as the population has become, it’s not as clear as it used to be.
Your Monet example I spot on for it. If I heard someone just say they didn’t like them, I honestly wouldn’t know if they meant the act or the person because of what they do. I personally don’t enjoy the product because it’s so over the top, but I have no problems with the people or those that do like it.
Now what you’re commenting on is the inherent laziness of people nowadays, and how they don’t really bother to express themselves very clearly anymore. it’s a very real problem that leads to a lot of miscommunications, especially online when vocal tone is absent from interpersonal interactions.
I blame our failing education system for that, alongside the forced brevity of online communications.
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.
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.
It’s ridiculous that they will consider Jimmy Kimmel a news program but then go call Fox News an entertain ment program.
A few points here:
- Fox News is a cable channel, so it isn’t subject to this rule. The rule only applies over the air.
- Fox News argued in a legal case that one of its talk shows (I think Tucker Carlson) was not news and no one should believe it. I don’t think they were talking about their actual news programs on Fox News.
- The current FCC of this president is arguing that Kimmel is not a news program. Previous FCCs took the opposite view.
Fox News was conceived and designed deliberately to exploit this loophole in American law.
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.
quiet and unnoticed.
and have that ever so important R behind his name
I don’t know if it’s the case here, but with Colbert’s identical issue (it was even about Talarico, but during the primaries), Colbert not only had offered, but had actually held 2 interviews with Crockett (Talarico’s primary opponent).
I say do it. The more time you can put these ghouls in front of people and ask them questions they won’t want to answer the better.
Wait, wtf? I didn’t know it was resurrected as a green slimy zombie. How can the equal time rule apply to comedy but not news? That’s the complete opposite of how it always worked
Might as well air it. I doubt Trump could shit his britches more than he already does 🚼
Make it public on yt and others like places, put link onto every actual show episode.
No air on tv, fine, making it public is not the same? (actually unsure, how local law sees that)
