the great R. Crumb

Tag: FCC

  • Who’s sorry now?

    Was that an apology, Jimmy? Jimmy Kimmel apologized, sort of. It’s the kind of apology cynical politicians  issue after an open microphone catches them saying the quiet part out loud. Sorry if anyone was offended. Sure as heckfire wasn’t Brenda Lee. “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.”…

  • New breed of speech police are braying

    Watch what you post! A case could be made that canceling Jimmy Kimmel was a network TV business decision. By taunting conservatives night after night, “Jimmy Kimmel was canceling himself,” columnist Kimberley Strassel observes, “until [Trump’s FCC chairman] crashed into the scene.” Thus emboldened, newly triggered Republicans are forming ad hoc ministries of truth. Like…

  • No one is laughing, Jimmy Kimmel

    Charlie Kirk’s Great Sorting Out. Aside from part-time jobs at the porcelain factory in Sun Prairie and an iron foundry in Oshkosh, Blaska made his living (such as it was) on the back of the First Amendment.  So it was disheartening to hear this morning my old friend Mizz Vicki barking over the AM airwaves…