Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmelhas saidan upcoming interview with the Democratic Senate candidate from Texas James Talarico will not air on ABC, the US network that broadcasts his show, after the federal media regulator “threatened” his show, ABC and its local affiliates.
“Tomorrow night I’ll be interviewing James Talarico under unusual circumstances,” Kimmel said during his opening monologue on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Wednesday.
Kimmel said that since the show began over 20 years ago, he has interviewed “Americans who are running for office with no problem at all”, noting that this ranged “from Hillary Clinton to Ted Cruz to Donald Trump himself”…
…“Now that he is president, his FCC [Federal Communications Commission] has threatened me, threatened our show, threatened our network, ABC, our affiliates, our local stations based on simple traditional editorial decisions, guest bookings it would seem they don’t like.
“And so out of consideration for our local stations, especially our ABC affiliates in Texas, who would have to deal with this nonsense, my interview tomorrow with James Talarico will not air on television,” he said. “It will be posted on YouTube instead.”
We knew some people that moved to Texas because Colorado was “too woke”, whatever the fuck that means. I just remember the husband bitching about some run-in he had with a woman in Boulder. She didn’t sound exactly pleasant if he is to be believed, but also, that doesn’t mean that all liberals or all of Boulder or all of Colorado is like that.
Within months of them moving, we heard via the grapevine that both the wife and husband were Karening the fuck out about something once they moved to Texas. I think at least one of them was having trouble lining up (reliable) work.
I would love to see how they’d react to Texas flipping blue after they “escaped” Colorado. :)