MRC Attacks Jimmy Kimmel Based On Anonymous Rumors

You know how the Media Research Center gets hypocritically upset at anonymous sources in the media when it embraces anonymous sources as long as they forward its right-wing narrative? Well, they’ve done it again. Gabriel Hays tries the conservative equivalent of salivating in a June 19 post:

Looks like Jimmy Kryin’ Kimmel is finding out that if you feed the rage mob, it will end up coming for you.

In this time of leftist media-manufactured racial unrest, the Trump-hating host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! has decided to take a summer break from his late night activis– ahem, comedy show. Daily Mail however, speculated that Kimmel’s upcoming hiatus might not be due to fatigue but due to a certain blackface debacle he had earlier in his career. 

With Black Lives Matter trying to destroy anyone and everyone who has been politically incorrect on race at any point in their lives, Kimmel’s history of using blackface to portray famous African Americans during his early 2000s stint on The Man Show means he has probably been compromised.

The outlet reported that the comedian is “facing increasing pressure to follow his fellow comedian Jimmy Fallon and apologize for wearing blackface in skits.” 

Hays should perhaps know better than to cite the notortiously unreliable Daily Mail as a source (and he screwed up further by linking to the article’s comment section instead of the article itself). Indeed, the article cites no sourcing whatsoever for its claim that Kimmel is facing “pressure” from anyone over his long-ago blackface skits, and it quoted Kimmel saying he was merely taking the summer off after 18 years on the job.

Hays’ post was edited after the fact to downplay the fact that the post is not based on facts. The original headline read, “Rumor Has It That Jimmy Kimmel Is Getting Cancelled for ‘Blackface’,” which got changed shortly after posting.

In a post four days later about Kimmel, Hays repeated his never-proven claim that that Kimmel’s upcoming summer “vacation,” as he called it, was actually him taking a break because of Black Lives Matter’s campaign to eradicate anyone and anything with a spotty racial history,” citing only “speculation” on the internet.

In neither of these posts does Hays mention the MRC’s opposition to news stories based on anonymous speculation (when done by the non-conservative media, anyway). But he did once again refer to Kimmel as “Kryin’ Kimmel,” an apparent reference to Kimmel expressing on-air concern that his newborn son needed open-heart surgery to repair a heart defect; the MRC went all cancel culture on Kimmel, trying to shut him up for using his personal experience to advocate what it dismissed as “socialized medicine.”

So Hays is actually mocking Kimmel for being concerned about his family. This is the MRC, folks.