The late night host announced that his interview with the Texas Senate candidate will only air on YouTube

Jimmy Kimmel says that his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will not air on TV after President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) threatened Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC, their affiliates, and local stations.

During his Wednesday monologue, Kimmel said that while Talarico would stop by the show for an interview on Thursday, viewers at home won’t be able to watch it on broadcast television. Instead, the interview with the Democratic nominee has been relegated to YouTube.

“Tomorrow night, I’ll be interviewing James Talarico — tomorrow night, under unusual circumstances,” Kimmel began. “You know, for a lot of years, for the whole 20-plus years of our show, in fact, I’ve been interviewing Americans who are running for office with no problem at all, just like Letterman did, Leno did, Arsenio, et cetera, et cetera. I’ve interviewed a lot of political candidates from Hillary Clinton to Ted Cruz to Donald Trump himself.”

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I agree. It’s both the people and the system. There are people that will hate someone because they do drag ignoring everything else about that person. That’s certainly a learned behaviour from education and other environmental factors like family. It definitely doesn’t help that the US fucked up government is passing legislation to block teaching of different walks of life, so it’s not likely going to get better before it gets worse. Hopefully more adults that aren’t as corrupt will instill better views in their children outside of the fucked curriculums.