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.”

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[–] 226 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (17 children)

I love how the freedom of speech crowd are the first to deny others th same.

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  • [–] 89 points 2 days ago* (9 children)

    nothing scares these christofascist clowns like an actual Christian using Christ's teachings to tell everyone there's nothing Christian about Trump and his ilk, and I am 100% here for it. That's the only way we're ever going to deprogram a large portion of these MAGA morons, whenever this bullshit ends.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 days ago

    They seem to be incredibly scared of Talarico's message, given this is the second time this has happened to him specifically. They should be scared, because his message is fucking incredible

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    [–] 126 points 3 days ago (13 children)

    It will probably get more views on YouTube anyway

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  • [–] 49 points 2 days ago* (7 children)

    Literally what happened with the same politician being interviewed by Colbert during his primary. FCC told them they couldn't air the interview, they posted it on YouTube, Streisand Effect happens and it's one of the most viewed Colbert videos ever. It won him that election. I think Jasmine Crockett was a better candidate and she may have stood a chance had she gotten that level of exposure.

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    [–] 76 points 2 days ago (12 children)

    Kimmel should’ve called his bluff and done it anyway.

    Don’t kowtow to these cowards.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Sit there for 20 minutes repeating "Trump wouldn't allow this to be broadcast, here's what to search for on YouTube."

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  • [–] 43 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

    Every time you obey these fascists in any way, it empowers them. While I appreciate his sensitivity towards the local networks (not so much towards ABC), every time you cave to these shits, it empowers them even more.

    He missed an opportunity to create a lot more enemies for this administration. Everyone public figure should be giving a defiant middle finger to them. Trey and Matt did it and they’re billionaires for it.

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  • While I appreciate his sensitivity towards the local networks (not so much towards ABC), every time you cave to these shits, it empowers them even more.

    He missed an opportunity to create a lot more enemies for this administration. Everyone public figure should be giving a defiant middle finger to them. Trey and Matt did it and they’re billionaires for it.

    Trey and Matt own South Park America. I'm pretty sure Kimmel doesn't own his Late Show, which is why he has to walk a tightrope

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  • [–] 66 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    They said the Dems would,

    Take away first amendment,

    Nope it was maga

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    [–] 21 points 2 days ago

    Just put his interview on TV, and openly invite Paxton in for equal time. If he accepts - AWESOME! Interview the shit out of him. If he doesn't, tell the FCC to go fuck themselves, they tried.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    I can’t tell if this is a Talarico/Dem stunt or if the republicans are really that dense and don’t understand the Streisand effect.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    The same thing happened earlier this year with Colbert interviewing a political candidate

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I know that’s why it’s confusing.

    His poll numbers skyrocket after that incident. He got a lot of free publicity as the “candidate republicans fear most”.

    And then they decided “fuck it let’s do that again???”

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  • [–] 35 points 2 days ago

    Nazi America.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Might as well air it. I doubt Trump could shit his britches more than he already does 🚼

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  • [–] 47 points 3 days ago

    Lol, look how afraid Dump is

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago

    Can't wait for Vance or Musk to come to Europe to give us another one of their lectures on free speech... Because it's only free speech if it's hate speech, right lads?

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  • [–] 33 points 2 days ago (10 children)

    There seem to be some similarities to the Colbert incident. Talarico? They want to censor Talarico's views?

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    [–] 28 points 2 days ago

    Literal evidence of chilling free speech. He is self censoring in response to threats of legal consequences by the government. It's the easiest, slam dunk court win on infringing on constitutional rights, but this executive branch and these judges are so extremist that it's still not a guaranteed win. This election really could be the last chance to reclaim some semblance of freedom.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 days ago

    I watch it primarily on YouTube anyways so that works for me.

    But still, what a fucking insecure rapist loser trump is.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 days ago

    I encourage everyone to go watch it

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    [–] 23 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    So, they're taping the interview along with the rest of the show's content, but not broadcasting it? Are they going to show dead air in its place? Or maybe a QR code to the interview, along with a countdown timer? I don't think even Jimmy has the balls for that, but it would be awesome.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    It would be kinda awesome to have an image of Jimmy with duct tape over his mouth with a menacing Trump and Carr behind him and then the message to check YouTube for the actual show/interview where they can't be censored by Trump (unless he cries to Google, which he might.)

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    [–] 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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    [–] 7 points 2 days ago

    onto the web it goes, then

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