To Hell With [Disney...] Jimmy Kimmel and Anyone Who Can't Condemn Murder

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/09/21/to-hell-with-jimmy-
kimmel-and-anyone-who-cant-condemn-murder-n2663692

I’m not a fan of Jimmy Kimmel; I prefer comedy to fat, angry political 
lectures. I’m old-fashioned that way. But I don’t think there is a story 
where more elements of it have been wrong or lied about – depending on 
whether the person doing it is a moron or evil – than the one about 
“Kimmel Being Canceled By Trump!” It’s disgusting, it’s stupid and it is a 
fraud, which is why Democrats have embraced it, as the truth does them no 
good.

The blackface aficionado has not been “fired” at all; he’s suspended. 
You’d think people who make their living with words would understand what 
they mean. Since he hasn’t been fired.

Donald Trump did not fire him. Brendan Carr, Chairman of the Federal 
Communications Commission, did not force or threaten ABC into firing 
Kimmel because A) he wasn’t fired, and B) the FCC revoking a broadcast 
license is a long, arduous process that would likely fail. According to 
Google, “The last known instance of an FCC license revocation occurred in 
the early 1970s against a television station that broadcast racially 
discriminatory content.”

Literally nothing about the story is true, starting with what Kimmel told 
his audience about Charlie Kirk’s assassin being MAGA. He was reportedly 
going to argue he was misunderstood, but he’s the idiot who said it, and 
nothing related to “comedy” should require explanation, so the idea that 
it was a “joke” is another lie.

The fact is, he’s not good at his job. I’m not talking about hosting, I’m 
talking about attracting an audience, since that is his real job. He’s 
been hemorrhaging viewers for years, just like Stephen Colbert has. They 
decided to be pundits and replace punchlines with applause lines. Watch 
one of their monologues. You don’t hear laughter, you hear agreement and 
clapping.

There aren’t that many Americans who want to be lectured by political 
hacks as they drift off to sleep, no matter the side they’re on.

If Colbert was losing $40 million per year, how much is Kimmel losing? 
There’s no way he’s making a profit for ABC, for Disney. Since he’s been 
in the basement of ratings for late-night for a long time, he must’ve cost 
the network $100 million by now. I can promise you that if a prime time 
show were costing the network money, it would have been replaced 10 times 
by now.

For some reason, these late-night shows were allowed to continue. I 
suspect I know why: they are produced by Democrats, for Democrats, as an 
in-kind donation for Democrats by companies that are also run by 
Democrats.

There are very strict laws governing political contributions, both by 
corporations and individuals, that set limits on how much can be given. 
Letting your company set huge piles of cash on fire on behalf of one 
political party is one way to get around those limits.

“It was just a programming decision” is the defense, but we all know it 
was a lie. If you watch the publishing industry, you see books published 
by little-known or little-liked politicians who somehow got attention for 
some left-wing cause. That woman in Texas who whined about abortion – 
remember when they tried to make her into something? She couldn’t win an 
election, let alone sell books. Was any human being yearning for a book by 
some back-bench nobody in the Michigan state legislature? No, they 
weren’t, yet we got one from some woman – Mallory McMorrow – who gave a 
speech that went semi-viral on the left.

Much of the entertainment and publishing industries are as much an in-kind 
donation to Democrats as the corporate media is.

Every Disney stockholder should be pissed off at the idea that the people 
with a fiduciary duty to them are not exercising it properly and are using 
their money, probably their retirement, to finance a political donation 
workaround.

As for Kimmel, to hell with that douchebag. Adam Carolla swears he’s a 
good and generous person, but someone who is either wouldn’t even attempt 
to “joke” about the murder of another human being, let alone do it for 
political purposes. And even if they did and it fell flat, they’d realize 
they missed the mark and apologize.

The lack of that decency to apologize for lying (if I’m being honest) or 
being wrong (if I’m being generous, which I am not) is why ABC yanked him. 
The “good and decent” man was ready to double down on the lie because he 
holds the people he lied about in contempt. Someone not being a d**k to 
people they’ve been friends with for years doesn’t mean they aren’t a 
d**k, it just means they aren’t a d**k to you. There’s a difference.

I honestly don’t care if Kimmel gets back on the air any more than I care 
if he lives or dies. He is a non-entity in my life as I am in his. But I 
can look at what he did, when and why he did it, and his reaction to the 
blowback and revel in his misery.

Every day, people are presented with the option to be an a**hole or not, 
and Jimmy Kimmel chose to be one to half the country every night for 
years. Half the country finally had enough and struck back, calling their 
local ABC stations and getting them to pull his show. Losing half their 
markets caused ABC to pull the whole thing. That’s not an attack on the 
First Amendment; that is the First Amendment in action. Democrats just 
don’t like it because it isn’t them exercising it. To hell with all of 
them.

He'll probably be back. Disney wants to help Democrats, and it’s hard to 
find a complete w***e willing to do what Kimmel did (most people have at 
least some dignity), so enjoy this time. And maybe the Department of 
Justice or the Federal Election Commission could look into why these 
companies are so willing to lose a ton of money only on these types of 
shows?


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