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Pull ABC’s Broadcast License? After the Last Few Days? Hell, Yes! | The American Spectator

We’ve all heard the old line that character is destiny. It’s one of those things you might have sticking in your head every time a risk you take goes wrong or there’s a teachable moment that plays out in front of you.

You can beat yourself up pretty badly with “character is destiny.” Because it’s very true, and it’s also harsh as hell.

Bad people ultimately get what’s coming to them. It’s a timeless truth. Are there exceptions? Sure, perhaps. Nothing ever really happened to Genghis Khan, for example, and he was one of the world’s most legendary evil sons of b***hes. But, of course, we all recognize Genghis Khan as a legendary evil son of a b***h, and while that’s cold comfort for the millions of people negatively affected by Mongol conquest in Eurasia, it’s at least something.

Genghis Khan was a bad dude, but one thing he was not was weak or irresolute. He did all he did because he was an amazingly strong character capable of leading men to do extraordinary, if awful, things.

But it apparently doesn’t require that kind of strength to rise in the modern world. Mostly because we don’t impose the kinds of consequences for bad actions or abject failure that the world imposed in Genghis Khan’s time.

In fact, it’s not a bad argument to say we don’t impose much in the way of consequences at all. Little wonder there’s so much bad character on display.

For instance, there is someone who styles himself a “comedian” hosting a little-watched late-night talk show that everyone knows is going to be hauled off to the city dump soon. His name is Jimmy Kimmel, and he’s putting ABC, the broadcast network owned by Disney, in a pretty terrible position with the Federal Communications Commission, an agency that, under its current boss, Brendan Carr, is not fooling around in responding to public disgust with media bias and leftist cultural aggression on the airwaves.

Kimmel thought it would amuse his audience to trash conservatives by alleging that Charlie Kirk’s murderer was a MAGA Republican:

What a laugh riot, right? Kimmel’s got some jokes to him.

Except Carr is most definitely not laughing.

Neither is anybody else, really. Gad Saad put this about as well as it can be put in describing what the internet currently thinks of Kimmel:

This has been a very, very long time coming, of course. What Kimmel has done to the late-night comedy genre is even more violent and destructive than what Stephen Colbert did, and Kimmel didn’t even have The Tonight Show or The Late Night With David Letterman to ruin.

Virtually everybody on the right who tried to engage with Kimmel has been burned as a result; top of mind for me was one of the most idiotic put-your-head-in-the-lion’s-mouth political stunts of all time, namely when Bill Cassidy, attempting to build support for an Obamacare replacement plan, said it had to satisfy the “Jimmy Kimmel test,” owing to a recent announcement at the time by Kimmel that his young son had cancer.

Cassidy didn’t know that Kimmel and Chuck Schumer were bosom buddies, but he sure found that out right away when Kimmel started off friendly to the senator’s shoutout and then immediately turned on him in the most vicious manner.

Because of course he did.

That was several years ago. Now, nobody who isn’t an activist Democrat even bothers to watch Kimmel, and for good reason. Even Seth Meyers’ factory of sadness is more entertaining than the wreck of dreck Kimmel puts on the tube.

And to get deservedly lost attention, he decided to spew vicious lies about Tyler Robinson. The only thing funny was how breathtakingly terrible a television moment that was.

ABC has now pulled Kimmel off the air indefinitely. So that decision begins to atone for one of the atrocities the network has engaged in as of late. But there’s more.

This was… I think I need a minute to ponder it, so I’ll just leave it here:

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Matt Gutman before. I don’t know if that’s a shame or if I’m derelict in my duty for having never heard of him. For him to say something this stupid and irresponsible, or even sinister, which is closer to the correct description, he’s got to have a track record of horribles.

Sure enough, Gutman was the dunce who tried to kill off all four of Kobe Bryant’s daughters by placing them in the helicopter that crashed with Bryant and his daughter Gianna in his reporting of that 2020 incident. That got him suspended, but he was able to bounce back well in time to botch his reporting of the Karen Read murder trial with obvious bias.

And now this.

Gutman attempted to backtrack after the public did a collective “Say what?” in reaction to his blatant attempts to humanize Tyler Robinson by calling the latter’s text messages to his homosexual/transgender/furry significant other “touching,” and that didn’t really fix the controversy:

Gosh, it sure is a relief that he condemns a bloody murder. Though it does rankle a bit that Matt Gutman didn’t retract a word of his babbling that Robinson’s text messages to the Furry Roomie were “touching.” This was a “sorry you’re offended” apology, and it’s exactly what we didn’t need.

Particularly in light of the fact that Gutman was actually putting words in Robinson’s mouth, as though he was the maniac’s press agent:

If you need a third indictment of ABC, I have two words for you: The View. I refuse to watch so much as a clip from that asinine, ridiculous, not-airworthy abortion of a program, but you don’t need me to give you specifics on how awful it is.

Disney as a corporation is an affront to American capitalism. It produces destruction of intellectual property built by others, as in the case of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, its news division had to pay out a very substantial settlement of a defamation suit by President Trump a few months back, its ESPN subsidiary has all but murdered sports commentary, and its stock is worth more than a third less than it was five years ago.

Not to mention that Disney mismanaged its way into losing a sweetheart deal for Disney World in Florida a few years ago over, of all things, transgenderism when it got involved in opposing efforts to keep confused males off girls’ sports teams. This, for a corporation built on wholesome family entertainment, was one of the stupidest decisions in the history of American commerce.

If Brendan Carr can’t at least get the cretins who run that atrocious corporation to sacrifice Jimmy Kimmel on the altar of truth and comity (that’s with an -ity; comedy can’t factor into the equation — after all, we’re talking about Kimmel here), and not just temporarily, then we’re at the point where that license certainly has to go.

Legacy corporate media has had teachable moment after teachable moment thrown in their faces to give them ample warning that it was time to clean up their act. Few of them are smart enough to have picked up on those.

So now the teaching has to be a lot louder. And the discipline more than a little sharper.

Yes, pull the license. Kimmel’s firing still leaves you with Gutman.

And The View.

ABC is now the Abominable Broadcasting Corporation. And we should have no more appetite for abominations.



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