WEBVTT - REACTION: ABC Suspends Jimmy Kimmel "Indefinitely" Over Kirk Comments 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.880 It is Thursday, September eighteenth, twenty twenty five. This is 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:08.920 the warning, and it is another dark day for free 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:12.760 speech in the United States. Is the Trump regime continues 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:16.959 its campaign to stifle it and crush it. And of 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:22.760 course they are abetted by their greatest ally greed. And 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:29.000 so it is that extremeist media executives and greedy media 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:35.120 executives have conspired together to decide what it is and 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:39.760 what it is not that you are allowed to laugh about. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:45.080 And certainly in this new America, one thing that we 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.680 must not laugh at is Donald Trump. We must not 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:54.560 laugh at jd. Vance or Christy No or Cash Patel. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:59.480 We must not laugh at Pambondy. We must not laugh 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:06.240 at the excesses, the abuse, the lies, the preposterous abuses 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:12.200 being directed at us the people, by a government supposedly 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:14.200 of the people, by. 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:15.800 The people, for the people. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:21.960 No, you must be nice to Donald Trump. Now, there 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:26.560 are many people who say many things about Donald Trump 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.800 over on Fox News. They will lie for Donald Trump, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.560 they will debase, they will degrade, and they will say 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:40.839 that the cornerstone of our society an election was one that. 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:41.960 In fact was lost. 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:47.080 Fox News poisons the minds of the American people. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:48.760 That's what they do. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:53.880 Other people point out factually that what Fox is spewing 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.520 is poisoned. They try to be the antidote to it. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.080 They try to warn people about what's happening. 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.000 I try to do that at the warning. 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:07.480 But the most potent weapon against the dictator, against the 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:12.760 tyrde against the autocrat is laughter. And man, oh man, 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:17.360 is Jimmy Kimmel funny. He may be the funniest person 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.680 in the country of three hundred and forty million of 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:25.480 US and his target is Donald Trump. And that made 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:30.160 Jimmy Kimmel a dangerous man who had to be taken out, 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.760 and so he was. Jimmy Kimmel was fired taken off 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:39.520 the air by cowards at ABC, and that decision belonged 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.960 to Bob Iger. If you care about the United States, 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:50.079 unplugged your Disney apps, do not go to their theme parks. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:56.239 The Disney Corporation does not care about you. Now, there 0:02:56.280 --> 0:03:00.560 are other companies in America that we we all talk 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:05.520 about every day. Companies like Sinclair and companies like Nextstar. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:11.840 Nextstar delivers the television programs that you see. They're the 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.839 back office, if you will, and they are involved right 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:21.440 now in the giant merger with another company. These two 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.919 companies you can see their brands right there, together will 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:31.799 reach an astounding amount of American television households and control 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:36.160 what flows into them. And this multi billion dollar merger 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:40.880 needs government approval, and the condition obviously of the approval 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.520 was you fire Jimmy Kimmel. A similar condition imposed on 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.120 CBS that you get rid of Stephen. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.840 Colbert because they're not nice to Trump. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:56.120 And so the government, the Trump regime, is abusing power 0:03:56.600 --> 0:04:01.080 to stifle dissent. What Nextstar did is a corrupt act, 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:06.240 and the freedom of information campaigns that will demonstrate in 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:10.360 evidence that because there is an email trail between Next 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.000 Star and Sinclair and Brandon Carr, the. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.440 Fascist at the FCC, that will show all of this. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:22.720 The fingerprints on the proverbial murder weapon will be everywhere. 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.000 But the main thing that we must talk about is 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:31.320 the sick and twisted statement released by Sinclair Broadcasting. Sinclair 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:35.680 Broadcasting is a far right media company that gave the 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:40.520 fascist Boris Epstein, a Trump liar, an ability to reach 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:48.159 to majority of the country with insane commentaries, devoid of facts, divisive, purposeless, 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:53.240 not to make communities better but to advance an ideology 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:58.040 through the television, and television has always been a powerful 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:03.440 propaganda tool, powerful ever invented. And there's something that you 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.120 need to appreciate in this dangerous moment. Let me read 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:11.520 from you the statement released by Sinclair Broadcasting on the 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.159 firing of Jimmy Kimmel. The statement was released under the 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.960 name of the vice chairman, Jason Smith. You can see 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.839 mister Smith here, that's mister Smith's picture. Has discussed with 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:26.200 ABC earlier today. Sinclair decided can definitely preempt Jimmy Kimmel 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:31.000 Live beginning tonight. Following these discussions, ABC as suspended production 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.159 of Jimmy Kimmel Wive. Now never mind the hundreds of 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.880 people involved in the production, in their jobs, their lives 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:44.080 ruined by free speech advocates, Mister Kimmel's remarks were inappropriated, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.840 deeply insensitive at a critical moment for our country, said 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.280 the unelected vice chairman, Jason Smith. 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:51.039 Quote. 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:56.200 We believe broadcasters have a responsibility to educate and elevate respectful, 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.960 constructive dialogue in our communities. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.120 We appreciate FCC. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:05.000 Chairman cars remarks today and this incident highlights the critical 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.599 need for the FCC to take immediate regulatory action to 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:13.360 address control held over local broadcasters by the big national networks. 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:17.560 Sinclair's ABC stations will air a special in remembrance of 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.680 Charlie Kirk this Friday during Jimmy Kimmel Live's time slot. 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.039 The special will also air across Sinclair stations this weekend. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.840 In addition, Sinclair is offering the special to all ABC 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.800 affiliates across the country. He goes on and on, and 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:38.520 then he says. Sinclair also calls upon mister Kimmel to 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:43.520 issue a direct apology to the Kirk family. Furthermore, we 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.479 ask mister Kimmel to make a meaningful personal donation to 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:52.200 the Kirk family. In turning point USA, Regardless of ABC 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.920 plans for the future of the program, Sinclair intends not 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.880 to return Jimmy Kimmel Live to our air until we 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.760 are confident that appropriate steps have been taken to uphold 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:08.799 the standards expected of a national broadcast platform. This is propaganda, 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.520 This is nonsense, and it's all lies, and you should 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:13.600 understand something. 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.560 What Jimmy Kimmel said was true. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.200 The murderer grew up in a maga family with a 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.520 gun fetish, inconvenient though that may be. 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:24.280 And here's another truth. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.520 Charlie Kirk was a racist, and he was a divider, 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:32.600 and he humiliated people, and he dehumanized people, black people 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.360 who he thought were less than gay people. Charlie Kirk 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.640 was a fascist. He deserved, like I have said, for 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:43.120 a week, to be debated, not murdered. But what we 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.680 are seeing is the abuse of a corpse by a 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:52.040 fascist political movement to demand obedience to a cause that 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:53.280 must be resistant. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.880 What happened to Jimmy Kimmel's no joke, and it's just 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:56.760 getting started. 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.640 But let me say this, the majority of people in 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.360 this country will take no lectures from some vice chairman 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:07.080 in Baltimore who put Boris Epstein on the air about 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.000 what's decent and not. They may own the majority of 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.400 affiliates in the country, but they have no damn right 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.560 to tell you what to believe or to demand apologies 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:23.360 to fascists for their hurt feelings. The Democratic Party is weak. 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:28.280 The newsrooms and networks are run by weak people, pathetic people. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.800 The anchors on the air are weak and pathetic people 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:35.160 like Joe and Mika. There are millions of Americans out 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.480 there who best tough enough and get hard and get ready, 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.040 because these people aren't playing around. What they are doing 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.120 is precisely what the Nazis did with a thirty year 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.320 old pimp named Horst Vessel. He was a brown shirt 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.920 murdered by communists who was made a symbol of the state. 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:56.480 The Horst Vessel song became the Nazi national anthem as 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.840 Horst Vessel became a symbol of the state as the 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.840 consolidated their political power. Charlie Kirk, in my mind, was 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.320 not a patriot, never served his country, not for an hour, 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.360 not for a day, not for a minute, not for 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.760 a second. Charlie Kirk divided his country, and I and 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.280 many people like me will not be brought to our 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.240 knees by these fascists. 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.320 For their performative mourning. They are doing their. 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:25.000 Best, with many allies, through many corrupt acts, to turn 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.640 Charlie Kirk into Horse Vessel, and they are succeeding at 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.240 some level. But America is in Germany in the thirties, 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:37.320 and the First Amendment reigns. Unplug your cable box from 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:41.080 Saint Clair, turn it off. You don't need it. You 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.000 can stream it, and you can find your way to 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:48.360 the news you need to survive an authoritarian takeover that 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.480 now wivertly seeks to censor where you can say, where 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.520 you can think, where you can write, all the while 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.440 demanding free speech. It's quite a trick, and it's a 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.720 trick should reject because it's very dangerous. This is the warning, 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.600 and I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.959 you to join this community where I promise to be honest, 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.920 blunt and direct about what is happening in this country. 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.520 America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:20.599 and on substack. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:21.200 Thank you.