WorldNetDaily was happy to see Jimmy Kimmel get suspended from his late-night TV show for remarks related to Charlie Kirk, even though it has published much more offensive things about people it doesn’t like. It was less happy, however, to see his return to his show after a week. A Sept. 24 article by Bob Unruh complained that Kimmel wasn’t apologetic enough:
Television show entertainer Jimmy Kimmel returned to some of the stations that used to carry his show Tuesday might but offered no apology, only an “explanation” for his false claim that MAGA members were trying to “score political points” over the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
The co-founder of Turning Point USA was gunned down by a sniper during a free speech event at a Utah college. The suspect, Tyler Robinson, is known to have been radicalized by leftist ideologies in recent months. He was living with a roommate who was a male who claimed to be female, and the shooter had engraved radical slogans on the bullets he loaded into the rifle that was used.
Kimmel’s jokes about the Kirk murder included his statement, “The MAGA gang is 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.”
[…]A report at Washington Examiner revealed that after Kimmel’s return, Andrew Kolvet, who worked as a producer for Kirk, said Kimmel’s refusal to offer an apology, just a claim that “it was never my intention to blame any specific group,” failed.
“Not good enough,” Kolvet wrote on social media.
Unruh also huffed that Kimmel “brought in religion as his defense, citing a statement from Erika Kirk, Charlie’s widow, who publicly forgave her husband’s accused killer, recalling the example of Jesus.”
Larry Elder whined further in his Sept. 25 column:
Disney-owned ABC late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel did not apologize for offending much of the nation when he returned to his show after a one-week suspension. So much for the left-wing narrative that President Donald Trump ripped up the First Amendment and tossed Kimmel off the air.
[…]In Kimmel’s returning monologue, he was not just unapologetic, he was defiant. He flat-out denied any intention “to blame any specific group” for Kirk’s assassination. Kimmel said, “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.” He added: “Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions. It was a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make …”
Oh, so in truth, he was blaming Freddy Krueger. And shame on those who thought otherwise.
This means Kimmel and Kirk’s “kid” assassin have two things in common: Both are Trump-despising leftists, and both have been forgiven – the assassin by Erika Kirk at Charlie’s memorial, and Kimmel by Disney – without one iota of contrition.
Unruh trued to take something of a victory lap regarding Kimmel’s ratings in a Sept. 29 article:
Jimmy Kimmel, a late-night television entertainer, was taken off the air briefly after he made a horrific comment, styled as a “joke,” about the death of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk.
He suggested that conservatives were trying to portray the suspected killer, who could face the death penalty, as anyone other than one of them.
In fact, multiple testimonies have confirmed the suspect had turned far to leftist activities and agendas.
So Kimmel was silenced, briefly, before several networks that had objected to his joking about the death of a Christian man allowed his return.
On that night, his audience was huge.
Then it crashed.
His number plunged by 70%.
Unruh pointedly did not report the exact numbers on kimmel’s ratings, and he ignored that Kimmel saw an even bigger audience spike on YouTube.