Cancel yer own damn self!
Would someone please put this blog on hiatus? Wouldn’t mind the time off (Blaska is a slave-driver). More importantly, we could use the big bump in numbers Jimmy Kimmel will get tonight. They’ll have to take a nuclear energy plant out of mothballs just to feed Nielsen’s audience meters. A day or two of suspension is all we ask, accompanied by denunciations from high quarters — all leading to a robust debate about free speech.
We don’t expect the FCC to lower the boom; they have no jurisdiction over the Internet despite the Democrats’ best efforts to regulate everything that moves. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colorado, wanted to create a federal agency of “experts” to regulate digital platforms. We don’t need no stinkin’ experts. Besides, they’re always wrong. (They tried to ban eggs! Now they’re trying to take away my wine! Next thing y’know, they’ll ban Tylenol. … What?)
Joe Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board died a deserved death. Progressives still condemn the Citizens United court case that prevented the Federal Elections Commission from banning books and other forms of political speech just when political speech is most important — before an election.
Maybe the Madison Common Council could enact a censure resolution. We never have anything good to say about them. The Wisconsin State Journal could publish a scorched-earth editorial demanding — in a big black 96-point headline: STFU Blaska! Failing all that, we turn to the neighborhood association. I’m behind on my dues, anyway.
Cancel comfort zones
If Blaska has not offended the right people by now, it wasn’t for lack of trying. Insensitive, inaccurate, and politically incorrect is our middle name. Besides, unlike the Jimmys, Seth, and Colbert — Blaska is funny!
Last we heard, Gavin Newsom is Jimmy’s guest tonight. That says: Everyone Back to Their Corners. Business as usual. We’re talking to ourselves again instead of to each other. How big would it be for ABC’s Kimmel to host — just twirl this one in your mind for awhile — Erika Kirk! O.K., might be easier to get the Pope right now. But someone — anyone — outside your comfort zone. Is Roseanne Barr available? We could say the same for Sean Trumpitty.
For his most recent show, Bill Maher’s featured guest was Tom Homan, the top immigration cop! Maher didn’t go easy on the guy (he doesn’t play footsies with anyone). But the gruff guest made a point that actually got some applause from the Hollywood audience. (Maher’s previous show, Politically Incorrect, was canceled 23 years ago — “before cancel was a culture,” he joked. ABC replaced him with Jimmy Kimmel.)
Charlie Kirk would have invited Jimmy Kimmel. He did invite CNN’s Van Jones.
“Charlie Kirk and I were not friends. In fact, we were beefing hard. But the day before he died, he sent a personal message wanting me to come on his show. He said we could deal with our disagreements, agreeably. He was reaching out not for more censorship but for more dialogue with someone who was one of his adversaries. Me.” — former Obama functionary Van Jones, now a liberal CNN commentator
Blaska’s Bottom Line: You want irony? The left tried to erase Donald Trump and elected him instead. Same thing in reverse with Jimmy Kimmel. The right made him a hero for saying something really dumb. We try to call balls and strikes here at Blaska Policy Werkes — sometimes, even on the home team (and paid the price).
Is it really so hard to talk to the other side?
Or will Jimmy double down?
8 responses to “Anything good on TV tonight?”
Jimmy’s show will undoubtedly get a boost from all the publicity of late, but after a few weeks it will sink into the lower depths of the ratings, right where it was before all the hoo-hah. I’m surprised he didn’t invite some other lefty narcissist nonentity like Beto O’Rourke to administer an epic stroking to Gavin’s ego (sexual innuendo intended). It’ll certainly be must-see tv for one household on Pennsylvania Ave.
He got taken off the air by network executives that are full lefty. Only shows on fox worth watching is the five, gutfeld show, and jimmy falla saturday nights, the rest of the shows are so scripted and rehearsed it is unbearable. Cannot say for any other major network or or cable network show. Otherwise it is charlie shortino for weather in the morning and then turn off, tune out, live happy.
Watters wants to bomb the UN because trump’s staff shut off the stairs and were late setting up his prompter. Dementia Don promptly made him Director of stairways.
Once, a noted civil rights icon said, “Keep hope alive.”
Now, all the left cares about is “Keep Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
The noted ” civil rights icon” to whom you refer is the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
It isn’t just about Jimmy Kimmel. The larger issue is free speech. Comedians have always made dictators like DJT squirm because they are an independent bunch. Last night the President threw a fit on social media when he realized that he has no control over ABC. I really enjoyed the mild mockery of Trump. He deserves it.
Comedians are actually funny. Kimmel, Colbert, Oliver, Noah, and others are thinly veiled rage peddlers with tinges of court jester. That they have sizable audiences is disturbing.
The Reverend Jesse Jackson, on a hot mike, also said, “I’d like to cut his nuts off” in regards to Barack Obama. You can look it up.
There is no good TV on stolen land.