LOS ANGELES (OC).–Fresh off his firing by ABC Sept. 18 for inappropriate remarks in his Sept. 16 monologue saying Charlie Kirk’s assassin was a MAGA supporter, Jimmy Kimmel hinted at suing ABC for the indignity of losing his job. Democrats and the fake news blamed it on Federal Communication Commission [FCC] Chairman Brendan Carr who warned ABC that they’ll either deal with Kimmel the easy way or the hard way, meaning he would pursue legal challenges to ABC. Kimmel found him getting support from CBS late night host Stephen Colbert who’s show was cancelled citing financial reasons July 17, both claim that President Donald Trump orchestrated the firings, when, of course, that’s fake news. CBS claimed Colbert’s late night show was losing money and ratings. ABC news lost its distributors, Nexstar and Sinclair media, no longer running the show.
Colbert and Kimmel both say the Trump has his finger prints all over their firings but that just panders to their anti-Trump audience. Both Colbert and Kimmel use their monologues to rip Trump on a nightly basis, something their shrinking audience approved. Kimmel’s former broadcast partner Adam Corolla claimed they were living in “strange times,” referring to the kind of censorship that has prevailed in the Trump era. Former President Barack Obamac criticized the Trump administration, nothing new there, since he endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris. Carolla said Kimmel’s show was yanked off the air when FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened to take action. Corolla forgets that Nextar and Sinclair media refused to air the show to their customers. Trump and Carr had nothing to do with Nexstar and Sinclair refusing to carry “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
Corolla wanted his friend Kimmel to know that he was thinking about him. “I just sent him a text because you want to be on record as understanding or know or whatever,” Corolla said. “I just said, you know, ‘Thinking about you. I hope you’re OK,’” Corolla wrote Kimmel back saying “I;m being followed by a Hellicopter.” Kimmel and Corolla hosting “The Man Show” [1999-2003], maintaining a friendship over the years. Colbert plans to have Jimmy on his late night show next week, vowing that would fight the injustice to the end. According to an anonymous source both hosts ‘don’t want Trump to win in any way or fashion at all, and this has lit an extreme fire under Jimmy’s –ss to continue to tell it like it is and be real to himself,” also hinting at a possible lawsuit. Kimmel was reportedly picture driving his Audi 800 to Century City to visit a law firm.
NBC-Comcast hasn’t said a thing about its late night host Jimmy Fallon. Fallon was careful not to say anything too controversial in response to Kimmel’s firing by ABC. “Well guys, the big story is that Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC after pressure from the FCC, leaving everyone thinking, “WTF?” Fallon said. “I do know Jimmy Kimmel, and he is a decent, loving, funny guy. And I hope he comes back,” Fallon said, misstating why Kimmel was terminated. Fallon mentioned nothing about Nexstar and Sinclair media refusing to carry his show from ABC any longer. What does that have to do with the FCC or Trump White House? No one in the mainstream press wants to admit that Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk went beyond the pale of human decency, certainly had nothing to do with the First Amendment. Liberals want to blame everything on Trump.
When it comes to late night talk show, Kimmel was the first, and Colbert followed, to spend nearly their entire monologue on slamming Trump. Kimmel has his Trump shtick down to a science, insulting him about just about everything. If you listened to Kimmel’s audiences howling, you’d think he was popular but he lost 50% of his audience spending his time going after Trump. Kimmel was given creative freedom at Disney to do whatever he liked on his show, despite losing such a large market share. Before this generation of late nigh hosts inherited the reins from the last generation, there was strict avoidance of politics, knowing that it alienated the audience. Yet Kimmel’s show became more polarized, an anti-Trump show only pandering to the leftish crowd that despises Trump. Losing Kimmel and Colbert is a big blow to the anti-Trump crowd.
Free speech advocates want to conflate what happened to Jimmy Kimmel with compromise to the First Amendment. But when large media bundlers like Nexstar and Sinclair media refuse to air “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on their networks, it has nothing to do with Trump and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. Carr got a bit heavy-handed with his language saying “we can do this the easy way or the hard way,” prompting Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) to say Carr sounded like a Mafia boss. Democrats and the fake news refuse to admit that Kimmel was tossed off the airwaves because he violated community decency standards, not for Free Speech. Kimmel thought he had a license to attack Trump anyway he saw fit until Nexstar and Sinclair media decided to pull his show. No matter how you spin it, Kimmel because a liability for Disney and they axed his show.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
