ABC Fined $395,000 for Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Trump Presidential Alerts’ Joke

[rangerrebew]

ABC Fined $395,000 for Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Trump Presidential Alerts’ Joke
By Randy Hall | August 16, 2019 10:11 PM EDT

After more than three years of constantly slamming President Trump and everyone around him, one of the mainstream media’s late-night comedies is finally getting some pushback.

The network that airs Jimmy Kimmel Live! on weeknights, ABC was fined $395,000 on Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission after a skit that aired in October mocked the Presidential Alert system. In the skit, people completely freaked out that President Trump was sending them text messages like "Fake News." One man sliced off his own hand instead of taking off his watch.

According to an article posted by Ben Kew at Breitbart:

    The skit saw a family opposed to President Donald Trump receive multiple messages directly to their phones.

 

Source URL: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/randy-hall/2019/08/16/abc-fined-395000-jimmy-kimmels-trump-presidential-alerts-joke

[Applewood]

Late night shows have never been the same since Johnny Carson and Jay Leno.  Not only have these shows become overly political and downright hostile to whoever the Republican president may be, but their skits and monologues just aren't funny.  And these guys are supposedly comedians? 

[mrclose]

Did Colbert or his studio ever receive push back on this .. much worse attack on Trump?

“The only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s cock holster.”

Stephen Colbert