09/19/2025
Once again, the nation twists itself into a knot over a non-issue. Jimmy Kimmel isn't a victim of anything or anyone....His "free speech" wasn't infringed. "Rights" have not been taken away. Please un-wad your panties and just stop talking. What happened really is simple: A highly-paid and highly-visible EMPLOYEE of a company was told to "tone it down." He chose not to. The company which EMPLOYED him decided to let him go because he was too much trouble. It is irrelevant why the company told him to tone it down...it matters nothing if it was complaints by affiliates (which is the case here) or complaints by advertisers or by the President of the U.S. What matters is an employee didn't follow instructions, and he was canned. This is not a "free speech" issue. Stephen Colbert getting cancelled wasn't a "free speech" issue. (Colbert lost his show because it was losing tens of millions of dollars...and the board at CBS has a fiduciary duty to the owners of the company to make money...not lose it.). Please stop trying to make these people martyrs. They're not. They're performers who lost their platforms. They'll find others and be just fine. Now, can we move on? Or are you too busy trying to make politics out of something that isn't?