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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zombie_Babies" data-source="post: 6217613" data-attributes="member: 6750039">I don't know that they honestly thought it would be so inflammatory.  There's a real chance they could lose sponsors or may have to toss Kimmel - and he makes them a lot of money.  The thought that they honestly believed people would take what a kid said in a joke bit this far seems a little too out there to me.  I think they really felt that this would be nothing.That said, we're both guessing.  The odds are equal, IMO, that either one of us is right.  Oh well, that's why it's so fun!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The kids being kids thing is fair.  Where I disagree is that I don't think that adults left the kid open to the backlash.  I fault the people who are giving the backlash because, as I've said, this was just a kid hamming it up for the camera.  We need some perspective here and these folks refuse to take a step back and look.And I don't.  I think it's selective outrage and that disgusts me.  It's manufactured anger.I don't think they thought anything would happen to the kid - as explained above.  And we're both still guessing.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I also believe that anyone giving the kid any crap has far more callousness and disregard for the kid than Kimmel.  After all, they're the ones who've decided to take something a kid said and go after him as though he were an adult saying it seriously.Disagree but what-evs.  One of them things we'll never agree on.  Movin' on ...And that's a shame.  Let's look at what happened: Nothing.  That's an awful little to demand a man's job over.Meh, I'm all sorts of for as free speech as possible.  This kind of crap really gets on my nerves.  He's an entertainer who was trying to entertain.  If we can't separate that in our own minds we don't even deserve words at all.  Context.  Nobody cares about context anymore.  It's all about whining as loudly as possible so someone out there will listen to us.  BS.  We want to matter so badly that we take things that don't matter as far as we can and then some in order to try and be heard.  I'm sure that's indicative of something very dangerous sociologically but I can't say what.Look, we've got news agencies lying to us.  We've got them adding a 'super' in front of every damned thing in order to get ratings cuz they make their money the same way South Park does - ad revenue.  And this is what we care about?  A joke that fell flat?  That's what's wrong with television today?  Distraction.  Pure and simple misdirection.  And we'll eat it up, too.</blockquote>

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