The cowardly ladies at the View didn’t make a peep about Kimmel (or Kirk) on today’s show.

“First they came for Kimmel, and I said nothing…”

I’m sure they had their marching orders from ABC HQ, but that doesn’t mean they had to follow them.

I know that some weeks, they tape two shows in a row, but broadcast them through the week. So on Mondays , they tape two shows. One aired on Monday and the other the next day. So if they taped two more shows on Tuesday, they weren’t taping “After” the Kimmel announcement on Wednesday. They usually tape Fridays separately and live. They are not cowards in my opinion. They know they are being watched. Joy Behar said just recently to beware because autocrats go after the comedians first. She’s afraid to speak now because she doesn’t want to get the show in trouble.

The panel is different on Monday and Tuesday, so they don’t tape two shows on Monday.

No mention of Kimmel on Wednesday or Thursday, and my guess is not today.

I guess none of them are rich enough to risk losing their jobs at the View, so they accept the censorship and sacrifice their freedom of speech.

They have become hypocrites IMO.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts

Joy is off on Mondays, Ana is there Monday but not Tuesday - they don’t record Monday and Tuesdays shows on the same day.

information many of their audience is exposed to. Very offensive.

Yet they are silent about the top story of the day, which has First Amendment implications.

They are hypocrites.

Whoopi today before they discussed it: "Did you really think we weren't going to talk about Jimmy Kimmel? Have you watched the show for the last 29 seasons? So you know, no one silences us."

Not just on the show, but on social media as well.

All the other talk show hosts shared their feelings and reactions, as did so many others.

The View’s silence stood out among all the others who spoke out.

Nobody else “waited for Jimmy”.

Now you must fire Kimmel. Aaaah, we don't want to but OK - it's done. Happy now Donald? NOPE. WE don't like those awful girls on The View. Maybe we ought to take yet another look at your license to broadcast... See how this works you spineless corporate cowards? You deserve the never ending harassment from the Bully - He who will never tire of playing you to look powerful - especially since you showed how weak you are.

So, why is this mofo asshole invoking it?

Reference Info:

The Fairness Doctrine was a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) policy (1949–1987) that required broadcasters (radio and television stations using the public airwaves) to:

1. Present controversial issues of public importance in their programming.


2. Do so in a manner that was honest, equitable, and balanced — meaning that contrasting viewpoints had to be given reasonable opportunity for coverage.



It wasn’t a law passed by Congress, but an FCC regulation, based on the idea that broadcast frequencies were a scarce public resource and licensees had an obligation to serve the public interest.

The FCC eliminated the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, arguing that with the growth of cable TV and other media, there was no longer the same scarcity of voices, and the rule was seen as possibly limiting free speech.

Equal time rule just says CANDIDATES have to be given equal opportunity on the air.

The View doesn’t normally interview CANDIDATES and is therefore not covered by the equal time rule.

Known officially as the equal opportunities rule. It is still in effect and applies to both radio and television broadcasters. The rule is enforced by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and is not to be confused with the now-defunct Fairness Doctrine.

How the equal opportunities rule works

The equal opportunities rule is part of Section 315 of the Communications Act of 1934 and requires that:

If a broadcast station gives or sells air time to a legally qualified political candidate, it must offer "equal opportunities" to all other legally qualified candidates for the same office.

"Equal opportunities" typically means providing a comparable amount of time and audience size. The opposing candidate must request the time within seven days of the original broadcast.

Broadcasters are forbidden from censoring the content of the candidates' messages during a "use" of their facility.

The rule also requires stations to charge qualified candidates the "lowest unit charge" for advertising during the 45 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election.

Key exemptions from the rule

The equal opportunities rule does not apply to candidate appearances in certain "bona fide" news programming. These exemptions include bona fide newscasts, news interviews, on-the-spot coverage of bona fide news events, and news documentaries where the candidate's appearance is incidental.

The equal opportunities rule vs. the Fairness Doctrine

The equal opportunities rule differs from the repealed Fairness Doctrine. While the equal opportunities rule applies to political candidates and requires equal airtime opportunities, the Fairness Doctrine applied to controversial issues and required broadcasters to cover important issues on an equal basis.

The distinction between the Fairness Doctrine and the Equal Opportunities rule has been explained on DU multiple times, but some people may have missed those posts, so thank you for helping to educate them.

Just wait and see.

this site and all other liberal Internet sites are on that same list. Trump won't stop until all critics are silenced. Only then will his giant man child ego be satisfied that all Americans can then bask in the greatest that is Donald Trump. The greatness that his gigantic ego sees in the mirror each day.

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This thing about The View is strictly chicken****.

I think we need to start going after Fox, News Nation and all the rest of the right-wing slime issue shows. Let them try to squawk about freedom of speech when we go after them. Let's start with Brian Kilmeade and his remark about killing the homeless. I don't care if he apologized. He should have been suspended or fired for that remark.

Let's show how Fox, NewsNation and the rest of right-wing media has no ethics.

...are advertising boycotts, as they aren't covered by the FCC.

And I agree, Kilmeade should absolutely have been fired.

The equal opportunities rule applies to appearances by qualified candidates for office during a period preceding an election. The View does not make a habit of having candidates as guests, although in the fall of 2024 both Harris and Walz appeared. The thing is that if trump and vance thought they were entitled to equal "time" they could have made a request and the issue of whether the show is an exempt bona fide news program would have been presented to the FCC -- which almost certainly would have, based on precedent, concluded it was exempt.

The FCC doesn't issue sue sponge opinions on whether a program is or isn't a bona fide news show. Someone would have to ask the FCC for a rolling. What Carr is trying to is deter the View from hosting candidates going forward by, essentially, encouraging a competing candidate to file a complaint. Of course, what the View could do is pre-empt the issue by offering time for an appearance by the other candidate.