The Media Research Center has long hated late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for not being a right-wing, pro-Trump shill like they are, and that hate has continued throughout this year, courtesy of comedy cop Alex Christy. For instance:
- Kimmel Skit Tries To Portray Vance as a Freaky Sex-Confused Weirdo
- Kimmel Hires Fired NPS Locksmith Who Flew Upside Down Flag For a Night
- Kimmel Claims Closing Department of Education Is Trump’s Plan To Make America Dumber
- Kimmel Hails New Penis Implant, Suggests MAGA Figures Need It
- Gross: Kimmel Ponders Laura Ingraham’s ‘Erection’ If Biden Had a Military Group Chat
- Kimmel Rewrites History, Ignores Lloyd Austin’s AWOL Scandal In Failed Dunk On Hegseth
- Kimmel, Pritzker Claim GOP Knows ‘Full Well Which Side’ Lincoln Would Be On Today
- Kimmel Wonders How Republicans Can Go to Church and Pass Spending Bill
- Kimmel Claims ‘Mentally Ill’ Trump ‘Wants There To Be a War’ in LA
- Kimmel Guest Host Diego Luna Says Democracy ‘Can Disappear’ Without Kimmel
When Kimmel stood up for fellow late-night host Stephen Colbert after CBS canceled his show — coincidentally, just after its parent company got the Trump administration’s approval for a merger — Christy raged about that too. He groused in an Aug. 19 post that Kimmel blew a hole in the evidence-free claim by CBS that Colbert’s show lost money:
Before CBS decided to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel was pessimistic about the future of the late night comedy show. Now that Colbert has been cancelled, Kimmel is singing a different tune in order to advance the narrative that Colbert’s cancellation had something to do with President Trump and that, actually, the state of late night is quite strong.
[…]Clayton also asked, “There have been reports that Colbert’s show was losing $40 million a year. What’s your take on that?”
Kimmel was unconvinced, “I just want to say that the idea that Stephen Colbert show was losing $40 million a year is beyond nonsensical. These alleged insiders who supposedly analyze the budgets of the shows — I don’t know who they are, but I do know they don’t know what they’re talking about.”
After some talk about affiliate fees, Kimmel continued, “There’s just not a snowball’s chance in hell that that’s anywhere near accurate. Even that — that’s all you need to know. Suddenly he’s losing $40 million a year? I will tell you, the first 10 years I did the show, they claimed we weren’t making any money — and we had five times as many viewers on ABC as we do now. Who knows what’s true? All I know is they keep paying us — and that’s kind of all you need to know.”
Christy whined further in an Aug. 22 post:
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live’s co-head writer, executive producer, and wife of the eponymous host Molly McNearney recently gave an interview with the entertainment news website Gold Derby that was published on Thursday, where she defiantly claimed the late night comedy show format isn’t going anywhere because people (i.e., liberals) still need them to help them make sense of the world.
[…]There are plenty of people out there that can help voters evaluate the news of the day. Jimmy Kimmel isn’t one of them.
Christy probably wants us to think he’s one of those people — even though he has nothing but contempt for opinions that don’t mesh with his right-wing ideology.
When Kimmel weighed in on the death of Charlie Kirk, Christy raged in a Sept. 16 post:
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel had a perverted sense of outrage on Monday as he claimed that “the MAGA gang” is “desperately trying” to characterize Charlie Kirk’s killer as not one of them. He also alleged that President Trump is mourning Kirk’s death like a 4-year old who has lost a pet goldfish.
Kimmel huffed, “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
Perhaps that is because there is a portion of the left that is trying to claim that Kirk’s killer was someone who thought Kirk was not right-wing enough or that his motive doesn’t matter. Later in his monologue, Kimmel would call Utah Gov. Spencer Cox a “rare voice of sanity” for his handling of the situation, but Cox has repeatedly stated that the alleged shooter is a leftist.
[…]It is never a good idea to tell someone how to grieve. Maybe Trump’s construction plans are a helpful distraction for him. Maybe Kimmel should spend more time condemning the people in his Bluesky replies for their reaction to the crime.
The next day, Christy whined that both Kimmel and Colbert pointed out that the Trump administration mysteriously deleted a study showing that most people who commit political violence are on the right:
CBS’s Stephen Colbert and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel attacked Vice President JD Vance on their Tuesday shows for claiming “it is a statistical fact” that most of the crazy people in politics today are on the far-left after the murder of Charlie Kirk. The duo claimed to have a study on their side to back up their claims that Vance was spewing “complete bull[bleep],” but that study has an expansive definition of “far-right” that conservatives would reject.
[…]Meanwhile, over at ABC, Kimmel did not apologize for implying the shooter was a MAGA type, introduced the exact same clip of Vance, “Meanwhile, many in MAGAland are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk. Yesterday, JD Vance, who himself famously called Donald Trump ‘America’s Hitler’ hosted The Charlie Kirk Podcast from the White House, where he pointed his little, mascara-stained finger directly at the left.”
After the video, Kimmel referenced the same study, “Right. And by “statistical fact,” he means complete bull[bleep], is what he means. In fact, so much so that the Department of Justice just removed a study that showed white supremacy and violence from far-right groups is the greatest source of domestic terror and extremist violence in the United States.”
Christy then tried to defend the censorship of the study:
There are a couple of problems wrong with that study that ended in 2020. First, it counts white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other related groups as right-wing even though conservatives, including Vance, who has an Indian wife, would unequivocally denounce such groups. Meanwhile, Kirk’s killer appears to have been motivated by a generic leftist opposition to Kirk’s supposed “hate.” The second problem is that the study only included fatalities. So, common property damage from left-wing BLM rioters is not included. Additionally, because nobody, other than the shooter, died at the Congressional baseball practice shooting, well-known incidents like that are not included.
Does Christy actually know of any left-wingers who are white supremacists or neo-Nazis? We doubt it. As far as complaining that “common property damage from left-wing BLM rioters” is not included, that means also missing from the study is the not-so-common property damage caused by the pro-Trump Capitol rioters, who were most definitely not left-wing.
Christy went on to briefly grouse that Kimmel “discuss[ed] January 6,” but he wouldn’t admit that left-wingers were not a part of it.
Then Kimmel got suspended by ABC for his comments on Kirk — and Christy and his MRC co-wro0kers could not have been happier for this censorship. More on that soon.