Despite reruns of Celebrity Family Feud quadrupling the ratings in Jimmy Kimmel’s time slot, ABC/Disney has decided to cave to terrorist threats. Kimmel will be back to stink up the airwaves after a mere six-day suspension for blood libeling a majority of Americans. The battle may not be over quite yet, however. The Sinclair Broadcast Group, which syndicates Jimmy Kimmel Live! on 30 stations, says it is not backing down and will not put Kimmel back on the air in those markets.
Kimmel was briefly yanked off the air after crossing the last remaining line of decency and insulting millions of Americans with a blatant lie. He claimed that Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a MAGA Republican.
This is a brazen and offensive lie, not to mention yet another FCC violation on the part of Kimmel. We know from the alleged killer’s own confession that he is a radical leftwing Democrat who has a gay furry lover and enjoys transgender porn and video games. He’s not MAGA, and Jimmy Kimmel knew that when he spread his vicious lie on the public airwaves.
To clear up another fake news media hoax, the Trump administration did not do anything to ABC to make them pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr publicly told them they should take him off the air, but that doesn’t carry the force of law behind it. It still would have been subjected to a full FCC board vote before they could have taken any action over it.
Yanking Jimmy Kimmel off the air was not a free speech issue. The government didn’t do anything other than say a few words. ABC/Disney was initially relieved at those words, because Jimmy Kimmel’s dog turd of a show is losing the company $16 million a year just on his salary alone. They welcomed Carr’s words as a convenient excuse to finally boot Kimmel off the air.
Just how much of a dumpster fire is Jimmy Kimmel Live? In a nation of 350 million people, he only averages 129,000 viewers per episode. Those numbers are so low that Kimmel probably gazes wistfully at the ratings that CNN’s middle-of-the-night weekday shows pull in.
One woman on Twitter/X took a picture of her chili dog this week and decided to see whether it could get more views than an episode of Jimmy Kimmel’s show. Guess what?
I mean, good grief! She didn’t even put any cheese or onions on it, and the chili dog still got 4,027% more viewers than an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! How much more of a hint does ABC/Disney need?
Sinclair has drawn a line in the sand, at least for now. The group says Kimmel won’t be coming back on the 30 stations it owns. So that means Jimmy Kimmel is now losing even more money for ABC if they choose to keep him on the air.
Jimmy Kimmel didn’t just insult a majority of Americans with his lie. He was also sending a message to all the other would-be Democrat Party political assassins out there.
What he was really saying was, “Don’t worry, guys. If you assassinate any other prominent conservatives, we’ll continue to provide cover for you in the media and entertainment industry and excuse your actions!”
ABC caved to the demands of the woke terrorist mobs. They might think this is over by bringing Jimmy Kimmel back. It ain’t over, guys.
Now comes the advertiser boycotts. Once we learn which companies are still willing to pay advertising money during Jimmy Kimmel Live, conservatives will know exactly who to boycott. Because this isn’t a free speech issue. It’s a market issue. We share this country and we want something on the airwaves that’s more watchable than a non-funny leftwing hack who routinely interviews Kamala Harris and James Comey while pretending that he’s hosting an “entertainment” show.
If the broadcast networks won’t give us what we want, we will force them to change their programming. We already know we can do this. We’ve done it to other companies in the run-up to this, like Harley Davidson and Tractor Supply.
Not even an apology from Jimmy Kimmel would fix this at this point. He might think he’s won this round, but we are just getting started. We’re not stopping until he’s forced to go start a lame podcast with all the other fired late-night hosts.