Kmele Foster
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It's unacceptable.
Yeah.
The trick is landing the punch appropriately.
And did he manage to do that on Thursday?
Maybe.
By Saturday, that joke didn't make as much sense.
And if he were telling that joke on Monday, that might color things differently.
But on Thursday, it seems like a joke about a younger woman married to an older man.
Perhaps you don't find it funny.
You can always turn the channel.
And plenty of people have already done that.
Yeah, just one, I don't think the government can meaningfully enforce standards here in this country.
You just cannot do it by fiat.
It has to be cultural, in which case it's the people who are listening to the show.
To the extent you're listening to something, you hear it and you hate it, and you only have contempt for that station, you can, one, vote with your feet and your dollars and go elsewhere with your business, and that will actually cause some change eventually.
But of course, letter writing campaigns still matter.
Of course, organizing online in different ways still matters and has consequences.
The question is whether or not what Kimmel did actually rises to the level of something that's going to animate that kind of concern amongst the public.
And I do think that you can have people on the left and the right who are meaningfully outraged by something happening, even in times like these where people are so divided.
But I wonder, Glenn, what do you think?