Name: EP140: Jimmy Kimmel, Charlie Kirk, Context, and Canceling - Gracearchy with Jim Babka
Uploaded: 2025-09-22T14:30:00+00:00
Duration: 53 min 50 s
Description: Jimmy Kimmel made a joke after Charlie Kirk's assassination. His critics ignored the context. Then, his show was suspended; it might even be canceled. Can we say that the Right’s rush to punish Kimmel

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Jimmy Kimmel made a joke after Charlie Kirk's assassination. His critics ignored the context. Then, his show was suspended; it might even be canceled. Can we say that the Right’s rush to punish Kimmel echoed the very cancel culture they claim to oppose? In this episode, Jim Babka and Bill Protzmann *graciously* contextualize and steelman, and discuss coerced apologies, media manipulation, and the government’s role in silencing dissent. You’ll hear why the FCC’s “public interest” standard is undesirable, and how grace, not outrage, offers a better path forward.

SHOW NOTES -
FCC hoax regulation - https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/guides/hoaxes
Kimmel's funniest bit - https://youtu.be/CcHuuFE-aSA

CHAPTERS
0:00 Theme
0:24 Context and Canceling
2:20 Innovation and consecration
4:44 Blue church
11:21 Cancel culture hypocrisy
14:05 Context for Jimmy
18:02 Verbal responsibilities for violence
19:04 FCC and hoaxes
22:58 Remember Misinfo, Disinfo, and Malinfo?
24:02 More context for Jimmy
27:44 The Dave Chapelle lesson
30:24 Why to want grace for Charlie
35:17 Weaponizing stigma
36:14 Coerced apology for a joke
37:36 How Rush Limbaugh almost didn't exist
40:40 Outcry from local station owners
42:45 Brendan Carr's extortative behavior
43:58 Creative Destruction, this too shall pass
49:09 Progressives deplatform, conservatives consecrate
51:07 Gracepoints