The Media Research Center has long despised Jimmy Kimmel for failing to be a right-winger, advocating for better health care and for fighting back when Aaron Rodgers smeared him as a pedophile. Over the summer, the MRC raged that he wouldn’t be a Trump-bot:
- Kimmel Lobs Softballs, Harris Compares Pro-Lifers To Molesters, Slave Owners
- ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel To Be The Latest Late Night Host To Fundraise For Biden
- For Trump’s Birthday, Kimmel Admits He Has Trump Derangement Syndrome
- Gaslighting 101: Kimmel Spins Biden’s Frozen Fundraising Moment
- Kimmel Teams Up With Schiff To Fundraise For Senator Jacky Rosen
- Kimmel Asks Swalwell If Ted Cruz Eats Urinal Cakes
- Kimmel Tries To Use Harris Debate Performance To Mock Pro-Lifers
- Kimmel Fawns Over Clooney Forcing Biden To Quit Race
Alex Christy spent a Sept. 25 post whining that Kimmel’s wife was given space to criticize Trump:
Co-head writer of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! and wife of the eponymous host, Molly McNearney, ranted at Donald Trump on Tuesday that “women are dying” because of him and demanded he “shut up and go away” to Mar-a-Lago where he can spend his time “masturbating to Newsmax.”
At a recent rally, Trump recalled Kimmel’s time hosting the Oscars, where Kimmel read out a Truth Social post reviewing his performance. Trump also riffed that McNearney begged Kimmel not to read the post. Reacting to all this, Kimmel declared, “But since you think my wife gives good advice, maybe—here she is with some advice. Molly? Please.”
McNearney, who was wearing an “Isn’t it past your jail time” shirt in reference to Kimmel’s Oscar performance, began, “Hi, everybody. Donald, thank you for your support. And I’m glad I have your attention because one in three women currently in this country is living under an abortion ban because you stacked our Supreme Court.
By “stacked our Supreme Court,” McNearney simply means that he filled vacancies.
After McNearney brought up how anti-abortion laws are interfering with the care of pregnant women, Crhsity leftured: “Women are not dying because of Trump or pro-lifers. If women are dying, it is because of negligence from medical professionals, not the law’s text.” He concluced y whining: “McNearney has a rather unhumorous approach to comedy. Her approach to Trump is to just rant at him with factually incorrect talking points with shoehorned masturbation references, but mentioning Hillary Clinton’s pantsuit is a bridge too far.” That’s a reference to comments made by McNearney in 2018 pointing out that pantsuit jokes are passe.
Christy whined in a Sept. 26 post that Kimmel pointed out Trump’s self-own on Iran:
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel reacted to Donald Trump warning Iran that he would “blow it to smithereens” if it harmed him or any other presidential candidate by claiming Trump cannot actually do that because he withdrew from the nuclear deal as president.
[…]In the clip, Trump declared, “As you know, there have been two assassination attempts on my life. That we know of. And they may or may not involve, but possibly do, Iran. [Jump Cut] But if I were the president, I would inform the threatening country, in this case Iran, that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens. We’re going to blow it to smithereens. You can’t do that.”
By “that,” Trump clearly meant “threaten American presidential candidates,” but Kimmel appeared to think he meant his ability to threaten Iran, “Right. And the reason you can’t do it is because they currently have the ability to activate a nuclear weapon in about a week and the reason they have that ability is because you backed out of the deal agreeing to dismantle most of their nuclear weapons. Oops, you did it again.”
By that logic, Iran can do anything it wants, because Kimmel is willing to pay nuclear blackmail. Yes, blowing a country “to smithereens,” especially one close to nuclear weapons, is serious business, but so would that country assassinating a president or presidential candidate, and Iran needs to know there are lines that it shall not cross.
Christy used an Oct. 8 post to grumble that Kimmel had Tim Walz as a guest:
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel welcomed Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz to his Monday show for a softball interview about his life and to offer him an opportunity to promote Kamala Harris while bashing Donald Trump and JD Vance.
A typical question Kimmel would ask was, “I do want to ask you about being the lunchroom supervisor. What does that entail? What are you watching for?”
Walz would quip that it is “preparation for Congress” before recalling the time he had to give a kid the Heimlich maneuver, but Kimmel had more biographical softballs, “You were the football coach, you were the Gay-Straight Alliance counselor. I mean, this is, were you popular with the students?”
For his part, Walz claimed to be popular enough to be routinely picked to play Santa Claus, but at least everyone knew he was just pretending in that instance. All of the other times Walz pretended to be someone else escaped Kimmel’s scrutiny.
[…]Kimmel then brought up his Oscars-related feud with Trump, “This guy who used to be president is a little sore with me for a joke I made. That wouldn’t bother you? You don’t get bothered by people making fun, comedians on Saturday Night Live! or whatever?”
Earlier in the show, Kimmel joked that, before their interview, Walz raked the leaves outside the studio. That is the kind of joke Walz gets, whereas Trump gets much nastier content, so Walz was easily able to say, “No, you started this. I taught school. The only thing, if you’re going to do profanity, spell it correctly.”
[…]No liberal media interview with Walz can be complete without a discussion about food, as Kimmel wondered, “You are without a doubt the only vice presidential candidate in history for whom this would be an enticing way to raise funds… And people want your recipe. And have they been making your recipe?”
Walz replied, “They have. We’re raising money off that recipe. A hot dish, all the food groups, tater tots, cream of mushroom soup, a protein, cheese. Spam is the protein that wins it.”
In an Oct. 26 post, Christy groused that Trump was called out for not releasing a medical report like Harris did:
Over at Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the eponymous host echoed Colbert, “To the White House doctor, the vice president is in ‘Excellent health.’ Other than seasonal allergies, mild nearsightedness, and hives. Gee, I wonder what could be giving her hives.”
Kimmel continued, “Trump has not released his medical report. He has not released his medical report. He’s not released his tax returns, his health care plan. He hasn’t released his sports bra for months. But he was up at 1:12 AM posting, ‘I believe it is very important that Kamala Harris pass a test on cognitive stamina and agility.’ The guy who’s up in the middle of the night reading tweets about himself wants to give someone else a cognitive test. Pretty sure we all watched her ace that test, when she handed you your tangerine ass in that debate.”
Meanwhile, Harris keeps struggling, and Colbert and Kimmel view it as their jobs to help drag her campaign across the finish line even if that means passing up on great comedic material.
Christy thinks anything that insults or demeans Harris is “great comedic material.”