The Media Research Center absolutely hates Jimmy Kimmel for failing to adhere to approved right-wing narratives — to the point that it gave a pass to Aaron Rodgers for falsely smearing Kimmel as a likely pedophile. Here are some of the complaints the MRC’s resident comedy cop, Alex Christy, registered against Kimmel in recent months:
- Kimmel Mocks Scalise For Not Embracing Gun Control After Getting Shot (“maybe their opposition to gun control is sincere,” Christy insisted)
- Kimmel Compares Trump, Cruz to STDs, Speculates About Cruz’s Sex Life
- Kimmel Hires Drag Queen To Speculate About Cruz’s Nipples To Children
- Missing The Point: Kimmel Claims House Produced More X-Rated Hunter Pics Than Bills
- Kimmel Spews Fake News About Kentucky Rep. Trying To Legalize Incest (The representative “realized that he made a mistake on Wednesday and pulled the bill while announcing he would refile the correct version,” Christy huffed)
- Kimmel Mourns Biden ‘Not Getting Credit’ In Election Versus ‘Hair Mussolini’
- Kimmel Mocks Concerns Over Google AI’s Historically Incorrect Images
- Kimmel Asks Former Prisoners If Trump Could Make KFC In The Toilet
Christy spent a Feb. 7 post complaining that Kimmel mocked overzealous right-wing book-banners:
When liberals cite racism in their effort to cancel certain Dr. Seuss books, former Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton voices his approval. When conservatives try to regulate which books appear in school libraries, he appears on Tuesday’s edition of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! to do a skit about how logic would dictate conservatives ban C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia and even restaurant menus with chicken strips.
In the skit, Burton sits down with a group of children to discuss why certain books have been challenged. While he mocks conservative challenges, blurbs appear on screen to inform the viewers that what Burton is talking about is real. For example, “Why did they ban this book? Harriet the Spy. Why would anyone want to ban Harriet the Spy? Because it encourages spying.”
It’s a big country, there are going to be some people who are overzealous in this effort and the point of the skit was to lump in anyone who has problems with overly sexualized content with those who oppose stories with talking animals, “Charlotte’s Web. Because talking pigs is disrespectful to God.”
Burton then rolled off some other books, “Stella Brings the Family, gay dads, and Tango Makes Three, gay penguins, and this one, Stella, Read Me a Story [sic], the last name of the author is literally the word ‘Gay.'”
Christy conceded that Kimmel had a point on that last one, but criticized him anyway:
Two things should be noted on the last one. The first is that while Burton mocks conservatives for trying to ban a book authored by someone named “Gay,” the on-screen blurb said it was a mistake. Second, if you’re going to mock conservatives for trying to ban a book, you should probably get the name of the book right, as the actual title is Read Me a Story, Stella.
Burton and the children then took a “field trip” to a school board meeting where a caricatured version of a conservative mother was ranting at the board. Burton explained that, “You see, when two people love each other, they make a baby. They put that baby in school and then they come to meetings like this to yell about how books brainwash their kids into joining the woke hive mind. Let’s listen in.”
The mother then questions the board, “Do you people know what The Chronicles of Narnia is even about? It’s about a group of kids who go into a closet and then come out of the closet. As gay.”
When Kimmel called right-wing anti-DEI mania, Christy was there to complain about it in a March 22 post:
An intellectually unsophisticated Jimmy Kimmel reacted to Alabama’s new anti-DEI bill during his Thursday monologue on ABC by claiming that those in favor of it do not like reading and are some sort of Confederate dead ender.
Kimmel began by reporting, “In Alabama, they just passed a bill that will ban Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs at all public schools and universities and it also requires universities to get rid of gender-neutral bathrooms.”
For Kimmel, the idea that you would not teach children that they are responsible for the sins of the past or that meritocracy is racist or sexist is just a cover for not wanting children to read, “The sponsor of the bill is a Republican named Will Barfoot, who has been very anti-reading ever since he realized he had the word ‘Barf’ in his name.”
Kimmel wrapped up by invoking the not-so glorious aspects of Alabamian history, “The bill was signed into law yesterday by Governor Kay Ivey. She’s terrific. Her motto is, ‘if at first you don’t secede try, try, again.’”
Christiy didn’t mention that there is a racist component to right-wing hatred of DEI initiatives, which makes Kimmel’s allusions to Alabama’s history of segregation appropriate.