It would be disturbing enough if Kimmel's show had been pulled (at the FCC's behest, no less) for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk.
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It would be disturbing enough if Kimmel's show had been pulled (at the FCC's behest, no less) for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. But the monologue wasn't even about Kirk. It was about the hypocrisy and opportunism of those using Kirk's murder to advance a right-wing narrative.
Comedy can be a sharp weapon, but this was, frankly, hardly the stuff of Lenny Bruce.
We are living in very dangerous times.
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It would be disturbing enough if Kimmel's show had been pulled (at the FCC's behest, no less) for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. But the monologue wasn't even about Kirk. It was about the hypocrisy and opportunism of those using Kirk's murder to advance a right-wing narrative.
Comedy can be a sharp weapon, but this was, frankly, hardly the stuff of Lenny Bruce.
We are living in very dangerous times.
Gilligan's Island - hardly the first thing that comes to mind when talking about edgy social commentary - named the shipwrecked boat the "Minnow" as a direct dig at then-FCC chair Newton Minow. Minow had famously referred to TV programming as a "vast wasteland", and this was their way of thumbing their nose at him.
Someone needs to name something similarly small and feckless after (current FCC chair and comedy critic) Brendan Carr.
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Gilligan's Island - hardly the first thing that comes to mind when talking about edgy social commentary - named the shipwrecked boat the "Minnow" as a direct dig at then-FCC chair Newton Minow. Minow had famously referred to TV programming as a "vast wasteland", and this was their way of thumbing their nose at him.
Someone needs to name something similarly small and feckless after (current FCC chair and comedy critic) Brendan Carr.
It is, of course, utterly fitting that the mascot of ABC's parent company is a mouse, the rodent that symbolizes cowardice and timidity.
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@paige swing, daddy-o. I believe in you!
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@2001x24 these are some good frames
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If you reside in the US or Canada, did you take note of the interest rate cut announced today (Sep 17)?
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@gwcoffey hopefully the negative framing didn't throw you off. I think it's the most common way to say it, though.
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I’m not sure if I have the cringe-endurance to learn swing dancing. At least with ballet I can just suck at it without a dance partner being brought down with me.
