Don’t forget that this decision follows the HUGE penalty over the libel against Trump committed by George Stephanopoulos, so this is likely why ABC was unwilling to tolerate George Kimmel’s obvious falsehood regarding the political views of Tyler Robinson, who CLEARLY isn’t MAGA. This is a big win, though, against the shameless gaslighting of the leftist media since Charlie Kirk’s assassination. I am a bit wary of using the FCC to punish political speech, which could be a first amendment violation, but it looks as if ABC folded from a threat from the FCC chairman to look into the matter—which just indicates how skeptical they were that Kimmel’s lies were defensible…
Don’t forget that this decision follows the HUGE penalty over the libel against Trump committed by George Stephanopoulos, so this is likely why ABC was unwilling to tolerate George Kimmel’s obvious falsehood regarding the political views of Tyler Robinson, who CLEARLY isn’t MAGA. This is a big win, though, against the shameless gaslighting of the leftist media since Charlie Kirk’s assassination. I am a bit wary of using the FCC to punish political speech, which could be a first amendment violation, but it looks as if ABC folded from a threat from the FCC chairman to look into the matter—which just indicates how skeptical they were that Kimmel’s lies were defensible…