Benny Johnson: Time for the Right to learn how to Fight:
This is the Story of How Jimmy Kimmel was Ripped Off-Air…
Spoiler:
What Jimmy Kimmel said about Charlie Kirk is indefensible. It made us all angry. But how do we channel that righteous anger into something productive?
We must focus, isolate the enemy and apply swift, immense tactical pressure.
Mean tweets are great. But they can be ignored. What can’t be ignored are your paying customers organizing against you and FCC investigations. That is exactly what we did.
First thing: ABC is not just another cable channel. ABC operates under a special Federal Broadcast License that lavishes them with taxpayer-funded privileges on the condition that their programming is “fair and equal” and in the “public interest.”
The FCC regulates this license, so my team immediately booked the FCC Chairman
@brendanCarrFCC
on The Benny Show. Chairman Carr put Disney on notice that they were going to have to defend Kimmel’s sick lies about Charlie’s death before the FCC. We made them defend the indefensible. Make them eat it.
Then my team contacted ABC, Disney and local station owners all day. This is key. ABC creates the programming BUT privately owned local affiliates choose to broadcast the programming — or not. They have the power.
There are hundreds of stations with moral, patriotic audiences who love Charlie Kirk and are sickened by Kimmel. We asked these broadcast affiliates why they would continue to carry such indefensible programming by ABC? To their great credit, Nexstar and Sinclair, two massive ABC affiliates that reach 37 million households told us they were pulling Kimmel out of respect for their viewers.
A historic moment. Can’t think of another time that has been done.
This is the free market. Kimmel chose to attack Kirk. Viewers chose to not watch Kimmel. If local viewers turn off Kimmel en-masse the local stations have catastrophic loss in ad revenue and the system collapses. Drop an FCC investigation on top of that and Disney has no choice but to rip the toxic programming from the air.
This is a generational culture war victory.
Charlie always knew how to Fight and Win. We are the majority. When Republicans organize and unite for a common cause we are unstoppable.
Let’s unite in this moment and win.
For Charlie 👊🏼🇺🇸