Jimmy Kimmel lost his job yesterday. The leftist, Trump-hating comedian went too far on Monday night when he joked around about the murder of celebrated conservative commentator Charlie Kirk and lied about who killed him. Now the network has canceled his show indefinitely.
Screaming pundits are now claiming cancel culture, they're yelling that all of us pro-free speech right-wingers should clutch our collective pearls and shriek about Kimmel's unjust firing. Don't hold your breath. Kimmel hates conservatives and it turns out that's not fashionable all of a sudden. His corporate bosses decided his services are no longer required.
Here's the deal: cancel culture is when you're eliminated from public life for telling the truth, or for being pretty much normal in a world gone insane. Kimmel is cruel, lacking in civility, and a proponent of cancel culture when it goes his way.
Kimmel has free speech, for sure, but that doesn't mean he has the right to a late night talk show and millions of viewers. There are multiple digital soap boxes on which he can stand in the virtual town square and spout off to his heart's content. And of course, he could always learn to code.
Kimmel joked in 2021 that people who wouldn't get the Covid shot should also be denied medical care, he calls Trump a fascist, an authoritarian—he's like an echo of Jasmine Crockett's greatest hits. He has been unwatchable to conservatives for years.
Now his insults to a very recently murdered man caused a media group to say that they would not air the programs, meaning that ABC was set to lose a great deal of money. Losing your boss a great deal of money sounds like a reason to get suspended to me.
In response to the canceling, the leftist pundits freaked out with righteous indignation. They are so sure of their virtuosity, their morally upstanding take, that they flocked to the news channels to complain. "Censorship!" They all cried.
The ACLU claimed the government pulled Kimmel's show due to comments made by FCC Chair Brendan Carr. The Biden White House secretly censored social media, books, satire, and urged platforms to change their content moderation policies—which they did. Carr made public, non-binding comments on a podcast.
Haven't they been telling us for years that it's not censorship when a corporation does it? Don't they go on and on about how free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences?
Red in the face, voices at fever pitch, men like Brian Stelter and Van Jones were gobsmacked that their metaphorical chickens had come home to roost. This is probably the first time I've heard either of these men upset over a canceling. Usually, they've been either on board or just haven't said anything at all.
There've been cancelings-a-plenty in recent years that didn't ruffle leftist feathers at all. Here's just a quick selection from recent memory:
Just this week, a news anchor for a local ABC affiliate in Springfield, Ill. was suspended for airing a segment in honor of Charlie Kirk after his passing.
This summer, two Jewish comedians' shows were canceled at the Edinburgh Fringe because they were Jewish—yeah, that was the reason. The staff was worried about safety.
Roseanne was canceled from a show she created, called "Roseanne," for being pro-Trump and making a joke about an Obama staffer.
Dave Chappelle saw a comedy show canceled because he made jokes about trans and said that men and women are different creatures.
A band called Japanese Breakfast canceled their show at a venue that was also slated to hold a conservative conference later on in the season. Gina Carano was canceled for saying it was a bad move to target people for their political views, and using a provocative meme to do it.
Joe Rogan was targeted for cancellation over his views—but he was too big to cancel. Turns out Kimmel is not. Universities canceled speaking engagements with Andy Ngo because he spoke out about Antifa. Dr. Seuss was canceled for being racist. The Washington Post called to cancel Jeeps because of cultural appropriation of Cherokee culture.
Douglass Mackey was literally prosecuted for posting a meme about elections that everyone who saw it knew was a joke.
Leftist activists attempted to cancel many conservative publications by shaming advertisers into not working with them. These included The Babylon Bee, The Post Millennial, The Federalist, The Daily Wire, and many others. Mumford and Sons canceled Winston Marshall for saying he liked Andy Ngo's book. That's all he did! He said he liked it and lost his spot in the band.
The ACLU called to cancel the Elf on the Shelf over normalizing surveillance. Dr. Fauci tried to cancel Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve. Cities in Canada canceled Canada Day. Comic characters and writers were canceled. Aziz Ansari was canceled for a bad date.
JK Rowling gets death threats over her staunch belief in biological reality. Novak Djokovic was prevented from playing tennis after visa cancellations over his refusal to get the Covid shot.
Banks canceled Kanye West, the Trump family, and Mike Lindell.
Leftists and Democrats didn't care—worse, they liked it. We spoke out against it, but it didn't seem to matter; it happened anyway. The New York Times promoted cancel culture.
Pro-life websites were canceled, episodes of The Office were taken down, the Women's March tried to cancel white women even though those white women in their pussy hats are what keep them in donations. Schools canceled Christmas in an effort to eradicate so-called Christian privilege.
Professors who stood their ground, women athletes who stood up for fairness, writers who wrote the truth, regular people at their normal jobs who wouldn't bend to Covid rules, even some weatherman out in the Midwest who accidentally said "coon" when he was trying to say something else, were all canceled.
That really happened. All of it did, and more. Now they want us to be mad about Kimmel.
These pundits are pissed but they are liars in their rage because they said nothing before when so many of us were canceled. And when they didn't stay silent they advocated for it. Together these loud mouths, their news shows, Hollywood studios, activists, and late night comedy hours formed a massive leftist mob.
That same leftist mob is now red-faced with indignation that ABC would cancel a comedy show for skewering a dead man before his body is even in the ground. But they won't fool us, we know they don't care.
They may talk a good game now, brandish the First Amendment, yelp about a free press and whatnot, but they are perfectly willing to walk that back—and will the first chance they get. They've done it before, they'll do it again, and nothing they can say will make us believe they're not just condoning the celebration of the death of a great man.
