Hi, everybody. This is God Sad for the sad truth. I wanted to spend a few minutes discussing the

Jimmy Kimmel situation. You might remember that last week, Jimmy Kimmel went on his show during his

monologue and said that the assassin of Charlie Kirk was a MAGA guy.

And of course, that upset a lot of people because not only was it blatantly false,

but again, that he would focus on sort of this political machinations rather than the tragedy of what had transpired.

Rightfully so got a lot of people angry.

As a result of that, and given that ABC knew that there were many local affiliates

whereby the viewers would not be happy with the discourse of Jimmy Kimmel,

they decided to yank him off air.

That's a business decision, right, in the same way that people rightly or wrongly decided

that Megan Kelly had to go from NBC when she made the comment about using, I think it was,

blackface as a Halloween costume,

or when Roseanne Barr was kicked, you know, canceled from her show on ABC,

companies will do all sorts of, they'll make all sorts of decisions. The decisions might be right. They might be wrong. They may be

cowardly. They might be courageous. But they do it. If they're pursuing their fiduciary interests,

which is to maximize shareholders' profits, they'll make business decisions that are in the best

interest of that objective.

The fact that Donald Trump says that Jimmy Kimmel has no talent and it's good that he's off the air does not imply that the government has directly stepped in and yanked Jimmy Kimmel off air.

And the fact that the commissioner of the FCC said some things that

suggests that, you know, he personally was unhappy with the position that Jimmy Kimmel had taken,

again, does not imply that there is governmental intervention in stopping Jimmy Kimmel from

exercising his First Amendment rights.

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