Thursday, September 18, 2025. Jimmy Kimmerl's cancelled by right wing freaks, yes, but also by idiots in the media who can't get their facts right and who make us all as stupid as they are with their poorly done jobs.
Let's start with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC last night.
Lawrence is right. He usually is.
That said, while he can ignore the topic (and should), we can't ignore the topic even though I sat through two hearings yesterday planning to cover at least one at length in this snapshot. Now we probably won't.
But our scope demands we cover this and I can't wait until Sunday when Ava and I could cover it for THIRD. Too much damage has been done. In addition, it's our beat. We've always covered the media. And we especially need to call it when the left keeps promoting stupidity.
Idiots. I'm so sick of this country losing out because of idiots.
Jimmy Kimmel -- not calling him an idiot -- has lost his job. That's reality right now. There's a segment of Jen Psaki talking about that. I'm not seeing it on MSNBC's YOUTUBE page. Which is actually a good thing because no one ever needs to see that.
She doesn't do a good job.
Her guest is actually much, much worse.
He tells Jen that this could happen to her.
Are we talking about the FCC and Jen? Because -- as she understands (and as it actually is), the FCC has no control over this issue because Jen's on cable not over the airwaves. In the '00s on AIR AMERICA RADIO's THE LAURA FLANDERS SHOW had an FCC commissioner on one weekend night and our own Maria got a question to him. But he was too stupid to get it and I don't think Laura did either. Her question was about the FCC's control and the FCC commissioner and the idiot from the FCC ignored that. She was talking about what NYT had called the death of free TV in an editorial. And her question was, when over the airwaves TV dies what happens next? Does the FCC have any control over cable.
Preet Bharara is a f**king idiot and we can't afford his stupidity. We can't afford him. The country suffers enough without his idiotic mouth.
I found out the news about Kimmel via Jen's show. We're in DC to attend some hearings and we're speaking around this area to various groups. I grabbed a nine o'clock last minute invite because I could squeeze it in when I should have gone home since I'd have to get up at 4:30 in the morning. It lasted a little over two hours. When we were headed back to the hotel, I didn't return any calls, I didn't surf on my phone. I just yawned and tried to stay awake. (The nine o'clock group, y the way, was informed and wonderful and I'm not insulting them in any way.) I get back to the hotel, pose for some selfies and then get to my room and turn on the TV. Jen's show is just coming on and that was the first segment. That's when I learned that Jimmy was out of his job and when I learned that MSNBC needs to stop bringing on analysts who aren't qualified to speak on the topic.
Yes, Preet's an attorney. He has no expertise on the FCC. He's a f**king idiot who should be on the air tomorrow apologizing to viewers who might have made the mistake of trusting him.
Jen raised it but she's not the expert. She raised the topic of FOX NEWS letting Brian Kilmeade go on air and call for the homeless to be executed (Ava and I covered that in our piece at the start of the week) and get away with it Which he did. From Ava and my piece:
Four days later, today, he shows up to deliver this note of 'contrition:'
Now during that discussion, I wrongly said they should get lethal injections. I apologize for that extremely callous remark. I am obviously aware that not all mentally ill, homeless people act as the perpetrator did in North Carolina and that so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion.
Scapegoat an entire group of people -- you know, the way TD did his entire adult life -- and someone who points that reality out is fired but call for the homeless to be executed and offer a three sentence "apology"
Do you see us saying, "Contact the FCC!" No. We didn't and we honestly wouldn't because we're not right-wing nut jobs promoting cancel culture. It's funny when you grasp that they are always the one screaming for someone to be cancelled. But as usual, they lie and people go along with them. After 9/11, it wasn't left wingers, for example, calling for POLITICALLY INCORRECT to be cancelled. It was right-wingers. And they're the reason Bill Maher is on HBO now and not ABC.
Jen brings up the FOX & FRIENDS host and Preet rushes to sign off on it and to waste time and to not only demonstrate his own stupidity but to promote it to the masses.
We can't afford the stupid. Not now. Not ever.
The FCC has no control of FOX & FRIENDS. Why? Because it's not a broadcast TV show. It is not broadcast over the airwaves. It's a FOX "NEWS" -- cable channel -- program. FCC does not hand out a license to FOX NEWS.
The stupidity is appalling.
We're dropping back to May 2st of 2024 for that day's snapshot. Before we do, let me just bring you up to speed. Before nasty ass trash got on TIKTOK in the fall of 2024 attacking Black women for supporting Kamala Harris, this site covered the assault on Gaza. Daily. But when that trash told Black women to take Palestinians out of their mouths? We did as requested. And, no surprise, the country stopped caring. Because we were the best advocates for Gaza to America. Not you with your harsh views and pinched faces constantly bellowing. You divide yourself from the American public. And that's before you cost Kamala the election. So now you're on your own.
And too bad for you, FAIR doesn't do the work required. I do. I Matilda Joslyn Gage it. Because I learned in college that knowledge is power and stupidity is a prison.
Today's students face their own battles. In my day, the biggest one was liars as professors. They'd flat out lie to promote their prejudices. A foreign born sexist (mis)teaching one course I took hated women and felt the need to insult The WACS (Women's Army Corps). He stated, in class, that they were whores. That the only contribution they made to the US effort in WWII was to "hop in bed with horny GIs." He said that. And I'm aghast but everyone else in the room is nodding and taking notes. He co-wrote the text book for the class. No where in the text did that libel appear. I got the book the dean wrote which, being a true history book of that period, and it did not present lies about The Wacs. I documented everything in a six page typed evaluation and met with the dean to review it. Though the classes by the foreign born sexist had already been announced for the next semester, he didn't end up teaching them. He didn't teach another thing at that college. He administered the final and that was the only thing he ever did at my university after I met with the Dean with six page typed evaluation supported by my classroom notes.
You have to know what you're talking about. From the snapshot:
NEXSTAR is brought up by Preet and Jen. And they just don't know a damn thing.
In fairness to them, we're the only ones who covered it. NEXSTAR could have lost every broadcast license they had for pretending -- LYING -- that a NYC report was done by a local reporter in Los Angeles, in every city that NEXSTAR owns a station.
FAIR has noted NEXSTAR five times in FAIR's history. First in August of 2017 "This Is a Company That Is Essentially Producing Trump TV" and last July 21, 2023 with "Covering 'Racist State'’ Backlash-- but Not the Reality That Israel Is a Racist State." That was it. But once student protests started on campus, NEXSTAR filed one lying 'report' after another. And FAIR didn't say a word and nobody did.
Your stupidity kills us.
Seriously, shut up.
You are killing our country. Just shut up. You don't know what you're talking about but it never matters to you.
NEXSTAR announced they would stop carrying Jimmy Kimmel.
In fact, FAIR's never covered it.
Now we have NEXSTAR killing Jimmy's show. And we can't even get reality there from MSNBC's supposed legal expert who knows nothing about the FCC or about stations or about anything to do with the topic.
MAUDE had an episode where Bea Arthur's Maude had an abortion in November 1972 -- some stations refused to air the two-part episode (Champaign and Peoria's CBS affiliates being two). Later in August of 1973, the two episodes were not re-run by 39 affiliates. And back then, summer TV was pretty much nothing but repeats -- the way CBS still programs -- and a few 'summer replacement shows. Norman Lear (who produced MAUDE) would have been the first to tell you that you can get away with that as long as it's just an episode or two. But when a large number of affiliates refuse to air the show, you cant get away with it.
NEXSTAR cancelled Kimmel. This was carried out by right-wing TV. And NEXSTAR is already the nation's largest owner of broadcast TV stations and has met the cap but it's now attempting to buy even more TV stations which will require the approval of the FCC.
Now there could be a miracle that saves Jimmy's show. I don't see it happening and no one I spoke to at ABC did either. NEXSTAR's actions have pushed us to where we are now.
I turned my ringer on while watching Jen last night and the calls poured in. I made a few myself. I talked to three suits at ABC. Jimmy's dead.
What could change it?
You could let ABC know how popular Jimmy is and they could try moving the show to DISNEY+ as an exclusive -- DISNEY+ and HULU are one in the same and they're phasing out HULU. They could keep it on the air at the same time if they wanted but with the understanding that half the country won't be able to see it via the broadcast airwaves. But they do need product for DISNEY+ and they don't really have a lot.
NEXSTAR viewers could express their anger to their NEXSTAR affiliates and that might -- I doubt it -- make NEXSTAR drop the boycott.
Again, this is a political decision made by a conservative group who right now wants to buy up even more TV stations and needs FCC approval to do so.
Are you getting why that idiot
A conservative organization controlling the most broadcast stations in the US, lying on air (and there were more lies than just that) and reaching more Americans than watch FOX "NEWS" and FAIR didn't bark. Nor did THE NATION.
It's not a surprise -- though Jen's show tried to pretend it was -- that NEXSTAR was the deciding factor. Preet doesn't know a damn thing. If you asked him about why TURN-ON aired only one episode in 1969, he'd say, "What?" He's an idiot.
He was presented as an expert and he knew nothing about the topic.
This stupidity harms us all.
Stop bringing on people presented as experts who don't know a damn thing. And stop ignoring NEXSTAR and other conservative outlets working to undermine our democracy. Maybe you won't get as many clicks as when you call out Laura Ingraham but NEXSTAR has more viewers each day than Laura will ever have at night on FOX "NEWS."
Your stupidity -- those of you on the left who have ignored NEXSTAR -- hurt us there.
Your stupidity also accounts for the power of The Demagogue. MSNBC, you went all in, flooded the one, day after day starting September 11th. And your first days -- plural -- coverage was appalling. Your appalling non-stop and fact-free coverage turned him into a folk hero.
Your Whiteness threatens us all.
Fortunately, those of us who are Black, are not playing your game nd pretend.
As Ava and I noted at THIRD:
TD was not well known before his death.
Most Americans had no idea who he was. Sorry to break it to the political types -- whether you provide commentary, serve in Congress or work on campaigns, most Americans don't know who you are and don't care. The last true political celebrities emerged in 1992 and their names are Mary Matalin and James Carville. Their couple hood inspired a film (SPEECHLESS with Geena Davis and Michael Keaton). She worked on George HW Bush's campaign while he worked on Bill Clinton's campaign and they fell in love and married (and are still married today). It gave a human interest quality and it made them famous. No one knows who David Axelrod is married to -- not even the limited number of Americans who know the name David Axelrod is.
But damned if the panty-pissing, flood the zone that MSNBC led on and others followed didn't canonize TD. Especially when they wouldn't allow reality to be presented. Only hagiography. And as hour after hour was wasted on TD, the message became: Here is someone wonderful.
Why else would you be talking about them constantly? Especially when you weren't broadcasting the truth about them.
Chump saw the reaction, Chump saw it and used it. He and others calling for leftists to be arrested for remarks. The left's being demonized and it's a direct result of the coverage supposedly left MSNBC provided. There were real issues if you were going to cover the death of TD but MSNBC made clear with the firing of Matthew Dodd that real issues would not be allowed on air.
Your stupidity brought us to this point. You display weakness in front of Chump, he will bite your neck until you bleed out. And to not know that, to not grasp that you have to stand up to the bully, at this late date is stupidity and, MSNBC and the rest of you, your stupidity is hurting us yet again.
Let's bring in Ben and MEIDASTOUCH NEWS from this morning.
If you saw that awful segment on MSNBC that Jen and Preet Bharara I hope you noticed what Ben did above -- something not done in the MSNBC segment.
The Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered [The Demagogue] as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.
No, Jen, he didn't blame the murder on MAGA.
Who the hell was in charge of that MSNBC segment?
It mischaracterized what Jimmy said. The idiot expert didn't know how the FCC worked (Jen is not going to by the FCC, they have no control over cable nor is FOX & FRIENDS a broadcast show), the idiot knew nothing bout NEXSTAR -- not how many stations they owned, not that they're conservative, not that they're now trying to buy more stations and will need FCC approval since they've already met the limit, nothing.
It was garbage and it was stupidity and we're all a lot worse for it.
The Demagogue was a hate merchant.
Should he have been murdered? Hell no. We don't support murder and that's why we have laws against it.
But he was not a saint. He was a hate merchant. Repeating, his death did not change how he lived his life and the hatred he spewed. But MSNBC and others DISNEY-fied him and said to the country -- again, most of whom never heard of him -- this is a folk hero and it's why we're going wall-to-wall with coverage.
Stupid. You gave Chump just what he wanted with your wall to wall -- and ignored a school shooting on the very same day as the murder to do that crap coverage.
That coverage was offensive to those of us who are Black. And the Whiteness of media players has still not led to any public reflection. As Rebecca noted last night, Ezra Klein has not apologized or acknowledged he did anything wrong, he's just doubled down:
The Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered [The Demagogue] as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.
ICYMI LAST NIGHT: Senator Murray Calls for Inspector General Investigation into RFK Jr.’s Ousting of Top CDC Officials and Restrictions on Vaccine Access
ICYMI: Senator Murray, WA Health Secretary, Doctors Speak Out Against RFK Jr. Blocking Vaccine Access and Wreaking Havoc at CDC, Lay Out State of Vaccine Access in WA
*** VIDEO of Senator Murray’s Q&A with witnesses HERE***
Washington, D.C. — Today, at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing with former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez and Dr. Deb Houry, former CDC Chief Medical Officer, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)—a former chair and senior member of the HELP Committee—pressed the public health experts on whether parents can trust the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)’s vaccine recommendations after U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s purge of the entire panel of experts. Murray also questioned Dr. Houry on how she, as Chief Medical Officer, learned that CDC was no longer recommending the COVID-19 vaccine for most pregnant women and children—to which Dr. Houry revealed that she found out through a social media post. Dr. Houry also shared that no scientific evidence has been provided for this vaccine guidance change by the Secretary to date.
Last night, Senator Murray requested an independent, comprehensive review by the HHS Acting Inspector General of recent actions taken at HHS to limit access to vaccines, and recent personnel changes at the CDC.
[ANNOUNCEMENTS ON VACCINE GUIDANCE]
Senator Murray began by questioning Dr. Houry on the CDC’s recent guidance no longer recommending the COVID-19 vaccine for most children and pregnant women—and how she found out about the change: “In May, Secretary Kennedy announced in a video on social media that the COVID vaccine was no longer going to be recommended under CDC guidelines for most children and pregnant women. The fallout was actually immediate, I heard from a nurse in my state who was pregnant, she was trying to get the vaccine, she was turned away from several pharmacies and ended up calling my office and saying, ‘what am I going to do?’
“Dr. Houry, I want to ask you, how did you learn about CDC’s new COVID-19 vaccination guidance?”
“The same as you, on social media,” Dr. Houry replied.
“What was your title at CDC when this happened?” Murray asked.
“I was the Chief Medical Officer of the agency,” Dr. Houry answered.
“It’s unthinkable to me that the Chief Medical Officer at CDC was left in the dark about such a consequential public health decision that affected real people,” Murray said. “Dr. Houry, how was this change in guidance supported by the scientific evidence?”
“We have not seen the data yet. In fact, after the tweet came out, we asked for a written memo from HHS, because I couldn’t provide guidance off of a tweet. The written memo didn’t say the same as the video. There was a difference between healthy versus all,” Dr. Houry replied.
“You can’t provide guidance off of a tweet,” Murray replied.
Dr. Houry replied, “I didn’t think that was prudent. And then we did ask for the data to back it up, and we have not received the data to date.”
Murray continued with her questioning: “To date, no evidence. Okay, well, the Secretary has made clear he wants to change the childhood vaccine schedule for measles and chickenpox and for Hepatitis B, as well as changes to COVID vaccine recommendations. And as we all know, the ACIP will meet starting tomorrow to consider these recommendations.
“Dr. Monarez and Dr. Houry, I want to ask you both, are you aware of any scientific evidence to support changing the age of which children should receive these vaccines that’s being considered by this advisory committee?” asked Murray.
“I am not. I was certainly open if there were scientific data sets or evidence associated with anything that would help keep our children safe, I was open to seeing it. I have not seen that data,” Dr. Monarez replied.
“We’ve asked for the data and asked for the modeling to support any decision that is done,” Dr. Houry responded.
“Are either of you aware of any scientific evidence to support changing eligibility for COVID vaccinations?” asked Murray.
“I have not seen any evidence, no,” Dr. Monarez responded.
“I think what’s pretty alarming here is that if there was such data [that] existed, the CDC Director and Chief Medical Officer would absolutely be aware of it. And apparently, there is none,” Murray replied.
[ACIP RECOMMENDATIONS]
Senator Murray continued her questioning by asking Dr. Monarez and Dr. Houry about CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the meetings that have taken place this year, both before and after RFK Jr. fired the slate of 17 experts who previously sat on the board and replaced this with vaccine skeptics: “I want to continue asking about the ACIP, Dr. Monarez, you mentioned that Secretary Kennedy asked you to pre-approve the September ACIP vaccinations a month before the committee was scheduled to meet—without knowing what they were, or what evidence that was based on, correct?
“Correct,” responded Dr. Monarez.
“I find that troubling—and ironic, given what Secretary Kennedy said in June when he fired all 17 members of the ACIP without cause and called them, quote: ‘little more than a rubber stamp.’ That’s exactly what he wanted you to be—for his new board of unqualified vaccine skeptics. The former members of the ACIP actually met in April.
“Dr. Monarez and Dr. Houry, would you feel confident telling parents they could trust the recommendations of the Advisory Committee that were made back in April?” asked Senator Murray.
“The individuals who were participating in April had the commensurate skill sets and background to be able to evaluate the decisions before them,” Dr. Monarez replied. “The processes were regular in terms of using the evidence to recommend. There was working groups that substantiated this, the information, there was robust liberation during the ACIP meeting I would, I would say that it comported to the standards where the Americans could trust them.”
“Agreed, the data was presented, and the committee was filled with experts with experience,” Dr. Houry added.
Murray continued: “The newly chosen ACIP members met in June and will meet again starting tomorrow. Would either of you feel confident telling parents they can trust the ACIP recommendations that come out of this week’s meeting?”
“I’d feel very nervous about it,” Dr. Monarez responded. “I don’t know. They haven’t met yet. I know that the medical community has raised concerns about whether or not, again, they have the commensurate backgrounds to be able to understand the data and the evidence and to evaluate it appropriately. I have to pre-judge. I don’t know what will happen, but I certainly will be watching.”
“I have significant concerns,” Dr. Houry replied. “The public hasn’t been able to weigh in. The general vote should have been posted two weeks ago, so the public knew what was being discussed other than high-level things. There haven’t been work groups other than for COVID, and there haven’t been, as of yesterday, the data hadn’t been posted yet, so it’s unclear to me what decisions are being made.”
Senator Murray, a longtime congressional leader on health care who has led hearings on addressing vaccine hesitancy, has been a leader in raising the alarm over RFK Jr.’s nomination and handling of HHS since the beginning—speaking out on the Senate floor, holding numerous events, raising the alarm after meeting with him, and hammering the threat he poses to Americans’ health nonstop. She led the opposition to the Trump administration’s disastrous plan to dismantle HHS and fire tens of thousands of staff in critical positions across CDC, NIH, FDA, and other agencies, and spoke out forcefully against RFK Jr.’s ousting of the entire CDC vaccine advisory board, including one ACIP member from Washington state. Senator Murray has held countless events across Washington state and in Washington, D.C. with doctors, patients, and former HHS officials to lift up how Trump and Republicans’ attacks on health care will be devastating for families. Senator Murray recently took to the Senate floor to reiterate her call for RFK Jr. to be fired immediately; she also praised the launch of the West Coast Health Alliance to provide evidence-based public health guidance for Washington, Oregon, California, and Hawaii. Last week, Senator Murray called for RFK Jr. to testify publicly before the HELP Committee and for Director Monarez to be given the opportunity to testify publicly alongside other former senior CDC officials. Last Friday, Murray held a virtual press conference with Washington state health leaders on RFK Jr.’s increasingly dangerous attacks on vaccines and America’s public health infrastructure.
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