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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/09/21/to-hell-with-jimmy-   
   kimmel-and-anyone-who-cant-condemn-murder-n2663692   
      
   I’m not a fan of Jimmy Kimmel; I prefer comedy to fat, angry political   
   lectures. I’m old-fashioned that way. But I don’t think there is a story   
   where more elements of it have been wrong or lied about – depending on   
   whether the person doing it is a moron or evil – than the one about   
   “Kimmel Being Canceled By Trump!” It’s disgusting, it’s stupid and it is a   
   fraud, which is why Democrats have embraced it, as the truth does them no   
   good.   
      
   The blackface aficionado has not been “fired” at all; he’s suspended.   
   You’d think people who make their living with words would understand what   
   they mean. Since he hasn’t been fired.   
      
   Donald Trump did not fire him. Brendan Carr, Chairman of the Federal   
   Communications Commission, did not force or threaten ABC into firing   
   Kimmel because A) he wasn’t fired, and B) the FCC revoking a broadcast   
   license is a long, arduous process that would likely fail. According to   
   Google, “The last known instance of an FCC license revocation occurred in   
   the early 1970s against a television station that broadcast racially   
   discriminatory content.”   
      
   Literally nothing about the story is true, starting with what Kimmel told   
   his audience about Charlie Kirk’s assassin being MAGA. He was reportedly   
   going to argue he was misunderstood, but he’s the idiot who said it, and   
   nothing related to “comedy” should require explanation, so the idea that   
   it was a “joke” is another lie.   
      
   The fact is, he’s not good at his job. I’m not talking about hosting, I’m   
   talking about attracting an audience, since that is his real job. He’s   
   been hemorrhaging viewers for years, just like Stephen Colbert has. They   
   decided to be pundits and replace punchlines with applause lines. Watch   
   one of their monologues. You don’t hear laughter, you hear agreement and   
   clapping.   
      
   There aren’t that many Americans who want to be lectured by political   
   hacks as they drift off to sleep, no matter the side they’re on.   
      
   If Colbert was losing $40 million per year, how much is Kimmel losing?   
   There’s no way he’s making a profit for ABC, for Disney. Since he’s been   
   in the basement of ratings for late-night for a long time, he must’ve cost   
   the network $100 million by now. I can promise you that if a prime time   
   show were costing the network money, it would have been replaced 10 times   
   by now.   
      
   For some reason, these late-night shows were allowed to continue. I   
   suspect I know why: they are produced by Democrats, for Democrats, as an   
   in-kind donation for Democrats by companies that are also run by   
   Democrats.   
      
   There are very strict laws governing political contributions, both by   
   corporations and individuals, that set limits on how much can be given.   
   Letting your company set huge piles of cash on fire on behalf of one   
   political party is one way to get around those limits.   
      
   “It was just a programming decision” is the defense, but we all know it   
   was a lie. If you watch the publishing industry, you see books published   
   by little-known or little-liked politicians who somehow got attention for   
   some left-wing cause. That woman in Texas who whined about abortion –   
   remember when they tried to make her into something? She couldn’t win an   
   election, let alone sell books. Was any human being yearning for a book by   
   some back-bench nobody in the Michigan state legislature? No, they   
   weren’t, yet we got one from some woman – Mallory McMorrow – who gave a   
   speech that went semi-viral on the left.   
      
   Much of the entertainment and publishing industries are as much an in-kind   
   donation to Democrats as the corporate media is.   
      
   Every Disney stockholder should be pissed off at the idea that the people   
   with a fiduciary duty to them are not exercising it properly and are using   
   their money, probably their retirement, to finance a political donation   
   workaround.   
      
   As for Kimmel, to hell with that douchebag. Adam Carolla swears he’s a   
   good and generous person, but someone who is either wouldn’t even attempt   
   to “joke” about the murder of another human being, let alone do it for   
   political purposes. And even if they did and it fell flat, they’d realize   
   they missed the mark and apologize.   
      
   The lack of that decency to apologize for lying (if I’m being honest) or   
   being wrong (if I’m being generous, which I am not) is why ABC yanked him.   
   The “good and decent” man was ready to double down on the lie because he   
   holds the people he lied about in contempt. Someone not being a d**k to   
   people they’ve been friends with for years doesn’t mean they aren’t a   
   d**k, it just means they aren’t a d**k to you. There’s a difference.   
      
   I honestly don’t care if Kimmel gets back on the air any more than I care   
   if he lives or dies. He is a non-entity in my life as I am in his. But I   
   can look at what he did, when and why he did it, and his reaction to the   
   blowback and revel in his misery.   
      
   Every day, people are presented with the option to be an a**hole or not,   
   and Jimmy Kimmel chose to be one to half the country every night for   
   years. Half the country finally had enough and struck back, calling their   
   local ABC stations and getting them to pull his show. Losing half their   
   markets caused ABC to pull the whole thing. That’s not an attack on the   
   First Amendment; that is the First Amendment in action. Democrats just   
   don’t like it because it isn’t them exercising it. To hell with all of   
   them.   
      
   He'll probably be back. Disney wants to help Democrats, and it’s hard to   
   find a complete w***e willing to do what Kimmel did (most people have at   
   least some dignity), so enjoy this time. And maybe the Department of   
   Justice or the Federal Election Commission could look into why these   
   companies are so willing to lose a ton of money only on these types of   
   shows?   
      
      
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