We haven’t looked in on the Media Research Center’s treatment of Jimmy Kimmel since the end of his weeklong suspension forced it to stop gloating, so it’s time to see what the MRC’s resident comedy cop has been doing lately. Alex Christy grumbled in an Oct. 16 post:
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel was deliberately obtuse on his Wednesday show when he claimed that the Trump administration’s focus on Antifa is non-sensical because ANTIFA “is just short of anti-fascist.” Kimmel also pretended that the administration thinks Antifa is a terrorist group simply because they have matching signs.
Kimmel teed up a clip of Attorney General Pam Bondi by declaring, “The reason we know Antifa is organized against the government is because their matching signs indicate they are somehow in league with Kinko’s.”
In the clip, Bondi proclaimed, “You’re seeing people out there with thousands of signs that all match, pre-bought, pre-put together. They’re organized, and someone is funding it. We are going to get to the funding of Antifa . We’re going to get to the root of Antifa , and we are going to find and charge all of the people causing this chaos in Portland and all of the cities across our country.”
The signs are proof of organizing. The violence is meant to be the proof of terrorism, but Kimmel tried to claim Bondi was claiming the signs were proof for the latter, “Yeah, and if we can’t find them, we are going to pretend we did. Antifa is just short for anti-fascist. It’s not a club you can join. There are no membership dues, but they have matching signs!”
[…]Nobody has ever argued that signs alone are proof of terrorism. However, people like Kimmel have tried to claim that Antifa is just an idea or an umbrella term for a movement that has no central headquarters that hands out marching orders, but Bondi was trying to argue that’s not true. If Kimmel and his late night comedy compatriots want to “speak truth to power,” they should at least focus on what the administration is actually saying.
Has Christy ever focused on what the administration is actually saying about Antifa, or is he merely relying on his assigned talking points? We’re not sure.
Christy groused further in an Oct. 24 post:
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel may have the week off on TV, but that didn’t stop him from repeating one of his favorite lines about supporters of President Trump’s agenda being bad Christians and wondering how they can go to church. This time the conversation revolved around deporting illegal immigrants and took place on the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast that was released on Wednesday but taped before Kimmel got himself suspended for remarks about the political affiliation of Charlie Kirk’s assassin.
[…]As Kimmel invoked Jesus to defend his position, he did so with a rather unbiblical analogy, “A lot of people who are watching that show [The Ellen DeGeneres Show] in the Midwest, maybe didn’t know somebody who was openly gay. Right. And so they are against gay marriage. They see it as, you know, against their religion or whatever for whatever reason, and they’re against it. But then they get to know somebody like Ellen, and they go, ‘Well, she seems okay.’ And then they say, ‘Well, now I feel like I have a friend who’s—or, you know, one of their children comes out, and they suddenly have a different perspective on that.”
Kimmel then dishonestly claimed, “It seems like the perspective— this like ‘we’ve got to stop the immigrants’ are coming from places that don’t have a lot of them, you know.”
He should try telling that to the border communities. Still, Kimmel returned to the idea that supporting immigration enforcement makes you a bad Christian, “I know a lot of people who came to this country illegally, if you want to call it that, and who are great people and who not only are they not a drain on our society, they’re contributing a great deal to our society. Even if you look at this issue selfishly, which I think a lot of people do, you know, even if you look at it selfishly, it does not make sense to kick these people out. Besides the fact that it’s just, like, how can you go to church on Sunday and think this is okay to do to these families, to do to these people, and to be so cold about it.”
Christy couild only lamely retort: “If you are claiming that supporting immigration enforcement makes you a bad Christian and your analogy is same-sex marriage, it signifies that you are actually the one trying to twist the Bible to fit your agenda.”
Christy whined further in a Nov. 5 post:
On his Tuesday show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel sought to explain why ticket sales for the Kennedy Center have fallen since President Trump named himself chairman. Through a satirical ad from Trump, Kimmel claimed the answer lies in anti-woke programming that is also pro-Nazi.
[…]Fake Trump then rolled on to the next bit of programming, “Next, we’ve got a classic: Guys and Dolls: Are The Only Two Genders and we don’t want guys in the dolls’ locker room, do we folks? Unless it’s me, then it’s fine.”
Is Kimmel honestly trying to suggest that believing there are only two genders is somehow on the same level as Hitler apologia?
[…]Despite what some people may say, conservatism or anti-wokeness has nothing to do with Nazism. They never have, and they never will, and no amount of bad puns will change that.
Yes, what’s what Christy wants you to believe. He ranted more in a Nov. 8 post:
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and his wife, executive producer, and co-head writer Molly McNearney, stopped by the Thursday episode of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast to look back on Kimmel’s recent suspension. While the words “Charlie Kirk” were never mentioned once during the nearly 70-minute episode, Kimmel and McNearney claimed they told their children that President Trump was the one responsible for his suspension.
McNearney was telling a long-winded story of how they broke the news to their young children, “So, they seemed like it was gonna be good and it occurred to me, ‘Oh boy, this is not gonna be good.’ And Jimmy let them know, he said, ‘Our show is—my show has been suspended.’ And our daughter immediately burst into tears and she said, ‘I’ll sell my Labubus.’ And we told her, yeah, you should. No, we did not. We told her, ‘No, you don’t need to do that. You don’t need to sell the Labubus’ and our son asked if the president had done this, and we looked at each other, and we didn’t quite know how to answer that question.”
Kimmel then interjected to claim that, “I think I said yes.”
McNearney then continued, “We did. We actually both said yes at the exact same time. We said yes, he did, and it’s weird, you know, because you don’t want your kids to—“
It was ABC that suspended Kimmel because it was getting fierce blowback from affiliates and was worried that he would inflame the situation by insisting he did nothing wrong when he said, “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.”
So Christy doesn’t think ABC was forced into suspending Kimmel because Trump’s FCC chief, Brendan Carr, pressured it into doing so by threatening the broadcast licenses of its affiliates? Interesting.