From The Deep Recesses Of My Brain

I am very concerned about the issue of censorship and the federal government.

I posted on Facebook the other day about Jimmy Kimmel being suspended for his comments about Charlie Kirk. I also drew a correlation between Stephen Colbert’s cancellation and the merger involving CBS and Paramount. I got my hand slapped by one of my FB friends as the official position regarding Colbert is that his show was cancelled because it is losing money.

While that is true, the show loses about 40 million a year, it is consistently the highest rated late night show and a recent Emmy award winner. At the time of the cancellation, CBS just lost a 16 million dollar lawsuit to Donald Trump regarding a 60 Minutes episode that he took exception to. Also, CBS and Paramount were negotiating to sell Paramount to Skydance Media (an 8 billion dollar deal). Other top rate shows that aren’t money makers continue to survive, but in this case money was needed to cover the 16 million and Trump’s government approval was needed for the the merger approval.

With Jimmy Kimmel, his comments caused the head of the FCC to threaten to pull ABC’s license if he wasn’t taken off the air and disciplined. Most of us have heard the comments and in my opinion they were not as offensive as our friends on the right want us to believe. ABC and affiliate Telmark are involved in a 6.2 billion dollar deal to buy Tegna that needs Trump’s government approval.

Colbert and Kimmel are both very anti-Trump (as well they should be) and there is no doubt in my mind that both circumstances were purely political.

Now Trump is saying that broadcast licenses needed to be pulled for those who do not agree with him or who make fun of him. This is censorship. This is against everything this country was founded on. I don’t think ABC and CBS realize that by removing these two talk show hosts, nothing will change. Trump wants it his way. He’ll censor anything that goes against him or his vision of Amerika.

This is wrong. At the risk of having my Social Security check disappear, Trump’s Amerika sucks!

That’s all for now.

I will be back!