Cancel Culture – the crocodile and its goldfish

Jimmy Kimmel was on the right track of becoming a record holder. He had made 23 seasons in a row as the host of his late night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Sometimes more, sometimes less successful jokes, and he was on the footsteps of the talk legend Jimmy Carson, who brought it to a proud 30 in this discipline. Jimmy Kimmel, born in New York in 1967, has survived many storms and some embarrassment and many mediocre punch lines in his show since 2003. Most of his career was allowed to work in a reasonably democratic democracy in which it can sometimes be hearty: Freedom of Speech, freedom of speech, has traditionally been kept very high there, so high that it could sometimes be dizzy in this country, which was allowed in that country beyond the big pond.

That was back then. It is more questionable from day to day whether this country of great freedom will still exist or will ever be back. And Jimmy Kimmel stood, perhaps more than every political opponent on the shooting list of the current president of the United States, Donald Trump: Nobody has to fear a joke figure who wants to become a autocrat more than comedians who pointed out with their bare fingers and on the lies. When colleague Stephen Colbert was announced by his broadcaster CBS in July, Trump was already trumpeted: “The next time is Kimmel!” He should be right, and the Jimmy Kimmel’s departure highlighted a highlight of the political-media relationships of the country, whose government sees deviating opinion statements as an enemy act.

Jimmy Kimmel had taken the freedom to point out that Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer might have been close to Trump’s Maga movement himself. And that the Maga people now do everything to distract from this possibility. That was a comprehensible speculation, not even funny, unfortunately, and then was the deadline for Jimmy Kimmel. The head of the media supervisory authority FCC, Brendan Carr, a Trump man, threatened the broadcasting partners of the producing broadcaster ABC: »We can do it in the simple or hard way. You can take measures in relation to Kimmel. Or the FCC has a bit of extra work … «A short time later, ABC: Kimmel is removed from the program. You would have wished it would have been because of his Trump Pointe. The mourning performance, which the president was about because of Charlie Kirk: »It doesn’t look like that when an adult mourned someone he calls his friend. This is what it looks like when a four -year -old mourned his goldfish. ”Trump probably hit that more precisely than anything else. The next late night talkers he wants to see are Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers. It will probably only be a matter of time.