Like he did with Stephen Colbert, Media Research Center comedy cop Alex Christy continued to attack fellow late-nighty host Jimmy Kimmel.n Here’s how that looked in the first two months of this year:
- Kimmel Puts Demands ICE ‘Get The F*** Out’ Of Minneapolis On a Shirt
- Seven Shows Into 2026, Kimmel Finally Tells a Joke About Liberals
- Kimmel Can’t Believe Trump Was Joking About Canceling Elections
- Kimmel Claims Renee Good Was ‘Murdered’ Despite No Formal Charges
- Kimmel Claims Lemon ‘Was Arrested For Committing Journalism’
- Kimmel Attends Anti-ICE Rally, Hails Sign That Called Trump ‘Racist Sexist Nazi POTUS’
- Kimmel Likens ICE To Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy
- HUH? Kimmel Says Illegal Immigrants Are ‘Raising Your Children’
- Kimmel Accuses Administration Of Trying ‘To Destroy The Planet’
- Kimmel Bashes Trump, Daily Show Praises Canadian Health Care After Hockey Wins
Just as he did with Colbert, Christy lashed out at Kimmel for pointing out how much of a Trump toady FCC chairman Brendan Carr is:
After a history lesson, Kimmel retorted, “That’s how every talk show has operated since then until this week when Trump’s little ferret in the FCC, Brendan Carr, who as you know is doing everything he can to shut us up, ‘the easy way or the hard way,’ is trying to say we no longer qualify for the bona fide news exemption when it comes to interviewing candidates, which is a sneaky little way of keeping viewpoints that aren’t his off air.”
Kimmel insisted that times have changed and there is no need for Carr to insert himself into late night comedy, “It’s his latest attack on free speech. And it’s a joke, because this isn’t the 50s anymore. Back then there were only three major networks. Now we’ve got cable, we’ve got streaming, we have satellite, podcasts, social media. There are thousands of outlet news now. Broadcast TV used to account for 100 percent of viewing. Now, it’s like 20 percent. There are so many channels, some of them doing 24/7 Trump programming: Fox News, Newsmax, One America New, Real America’s Voice. None of them are required to give equal time, but we are because we use the public airways. Equal time was designed to limit how much influence broadcasters have over public opinion.”
Concluding with a sense of uncertainty, Kimmel added, “We’ll find out. I guess whatever happens, I want to point it out, because it is another example of this administration trying to squash anyone who doesn’t support them by following ‘the rules.’”
Christy also went on to melt down over Kimmel making Nazi references, also like Colbert:
Kimmel got in on the action by misrepresenting some news from Berlin, “Germany has issued a travel advisory warning their citizens that it is dangerous to come to the United States. Their Federal Foreign Office yesterday issued an alert saying German citizens should be aware of demonstrations and clashes with American migration and security authorities. Now, when Germany tells you your government is becoming too authoritarian—might want to listen to that. This is the international equivalent of Charlie Sheen showing up at your intervention, okay?”
Fact-check: Germany simply noted the existence of what is going on in Minnesota and urged its citizens to be “vigilant and stay away from crowds where violence might occur” and to “remain calm and follow the instructions of the authorities and local security forces.” Germany did not say ICE and Border Patrol were becoming authoritarian. Additionally, our State Department has a Level 2 “exercise increased caution” travel advisory for Germany due to terrorism, so it is not as if these sorts of travel advisories among allies are new.
By contrast, Christy has never called out his employer for attacking its critics as “digital brownshirts.”