{"id":1727299,"date":"2022-11-05T06:30:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T10:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727299"},"modified":"2022-11-07T04:05:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T09:05:05","slug":"the-blazing-hypocrisy-of-jimmy-kimmels-trump-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-blazing-hypocrisy-of-jimmy-kimmels-trump-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blazing Hypocrisy of Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s Trump Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-blazing-hypocrisy-of-jimmy-kimmels-trump-attacks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727299&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/jimmy-kimmel-china-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Jimmy Kimmel knows his liberal jokes alienate a large swath of the viewing public.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And he doesn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot good riddance but riddance,\u201d the \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d host famously said about losing Republican fans.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he claims his employer, ABC, feels the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel chatted with \u201cEverybody Loves Raymond\u201d co-creator Phil Rosenthal on the podcaster\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/Jimmy-Kimmel-Podcast\/B0BL8FH6G9?ref=a_pd_Naked-_c3_lAsin_0_0&#038;pf_rd_p=625c212d-b95a-47db-8d56-d35a359de6e9&#038;pf_rd_r=3421SZH83GTKN374661G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cNaked Lunch\u201d podcast<\/a> earlier this week. The two explored political humor, specifically gags targeting President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>That gave Kimmel the chance to puff out his chest and suggest he\u2019d risk losing his late-night show for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/podcasts\/jimmy-kimmel-reveals-hes-lost-half-of-his-fan-base-since-he-started-criticizing-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right to taunt Trump.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes ABC ever say to you, \u2018Hey, could you not just attack this side and lay off a little bit? Cause we are gonna lose those people?\u2019\u201d Rosenthal asked.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Kimmel alleged. He says ABC suits suggested he tone down the anti-Trump material at one point, and Kimmel not only refused but said the suits could fire him if they forced his hand.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking Truth to PowerTM was more important, even if it meant losing at least half his fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey knew I was serious. I mean, you know\u2026 I couldn\u2019t live with myself. I see this, you know? \u2026I don\u2019t think of it in that grandiose a way. But I do think, like, you know, I love this country too. I mean, you know, that flag doesn\u2019t belong to them. This is ours. And when I see somebody coming in and ruining it, I\u2019m gonna say something about it. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s as simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jimmy Kimmel says he lost at least half his fanbase over anti-Trump jokes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2AMssy5AQF\">https:\/\/t.co\/2AMssy5AQF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1588448488462995459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s collectively stop laughing and take Kimmel at his word. He fears Trump as a threat to the nation, and thinks his nonstop Trump jokes could save the country from a second Trump presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Fine.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden is currently in the Oval Office and, by most sober accounts, is \u201cruining the country\u201d in real time. Inflation is soaring, as are gas prices from 2020. Crime is up, the southern border is a sieve and his administration is teaming with <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/10\/31\/social-media-disinformation-dhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Tech giants to stifle free speech.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s just a partial list.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds awful, right? It\u2019s why we may see a red wave election in just a few days. The people have noticed, and they\u2019re craving a fresh direction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/jimmy-kimmel-transformation-liberal\/\"><strong>RELATED: THE SAD, PREDICTABLE DECLINE OF JIMMY KIMMEL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So clearly Kimmel must be teeing off on President Biden for all the above reasons, right?<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n<p>Except Kimmel isn\u2019t. He\u2019s like his fellow liberal late night hosts, avoiding Biden at all costs to attack Trump, Elon Musk and minor GOP players like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel isn\u2019t a comedic patriot trying to save the country. He\u2019s a partisan Democrat who won\u2019t tell jokes about his party.<\/p>\n<p>Period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Kimmel knows his liberal jokes alienate a large swath of the viewing public. And he doesn\u2019t care. \u201cNot good riddance but riddance,\u201d the \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d host famously said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1727302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1727302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}