It’s been roughly 72 hours since Disney’s late-night nightmare started, and as of midday Friday in Hollywood, there’s still no word on when, or whether, Jimmy Kimmel will get his talk show back. As week one of Kimmel Held Hostage comes to an end, it’s worth focusing on what just happened: This was a coordinated strike on Jimmy Kimmel Live carried out by regulatory forces loyal to the Trump government. FCC chair Brendan Carr teamed up with right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson to threaten TV station groups which air Kimmel’s show if they didn’t do things “the easy way” and pull Kimmel’s show.

They did exactly that, and only then did Disney-owned ABC respond by halting production of JKL . In other words, Kimmel didn’t commit some shocking offense which prompted ABC to discipline him; Carr,

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