{"id":2488493,"date":"2025-09-19T07:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/late-night-hack-kimmel-has-only-himself-to-blame\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T07:49:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:49:59","slug":"late-night-hack-kimmel-has-only-himself-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/late-night-hack-kimmel-has-only-himself-to-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"Late-Night Hack Kimmel Has Only Himself To Blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Flate-night-hack-kimmel-has-only-himself-to-blame%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=2488493&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--><p>Teh article discusses the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel following his controversial and false remarks about the assassination of conservative figure Charlie Kirk. It argues that Kimmel,known for his left-leaning political stance and alienating much of his audience,is responsible for his indefinite preemption rather then being a victim of censorship. The piece criticizes leftist politicians who defend Kimmel as champions of free speech while together silencing conservatives. It highlights Kimmel&#8217;s declining viewership, noting that his show&#8217;s ratings had been dropping considerably before the suspension, and suggests his recent comments may give ABC and Disney a reason to cut ties with him.<\/p>\n<p>The article also points out that Kimmel&#8217;s accusations against the MAGA movement were baseless, citing details about the suspect&#8217;s personal life that do not fit Kimmel&#8217;s narrative.It defends the Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s role in enforcing legal obligations on broadcasters to serve the public interest and counters claims that Kimmel&#8217;s suspension is an attack on free speech. Furthermore, the article criticizes politicians like California Governor Gavin Newsom for hypocritically condemning censorship while supporting restrictive laws limiting political and satirical speech.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the piece asserts that although Kimmel remains free to speak, he is not free from the consequences of his statements, contrasting his situation with that of Charlie Kirk, who was the true victim of violence and silencing.The article is written from a right-leaning perspective and is skeptical of mainstream media and left-wing figures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s get one thing straight: Jimmy Kimmel &ldquo;canceled&rdquo; Jimmy Kimmel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The leftist late-night host who has Hillary Clintoned (&ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/nation-world\/hillary-clinton-defends-2016-basket-of-deplorables-comment-too-kind-a-word-donald-trump-charlottesville-virginia-rally-jan-6-2021-capitol-riots-politics-2016-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">basket of deplorables<\/a>&ldquo;) more than half of his potential audience has no one to blame for his <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/18\/leftists-are-angrier-about-jimmy-kimmels-suspension-than-charlie-kirks-assassination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indefinite preemption<\/a> but himself. And the leftist politicians springing to Kimmel&rsquo;s defense, laughably labeling him as a victim of freedom of speech, have been <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarackObama\/status\/1968679167286763678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">actually silencing conservatives<\/a> for years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ABC didn&rsquo;t take <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> off its airwaves because its corporate parent company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/newsbeat-56022084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Walt Disney Company<\/a>, was offended by Kimmel&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/18\/the-medias-appeal-to-free-speech-over-jimmy-kimmel-is-fake-and-wont-work-anymore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hideous lie<\/a> about conservative icon Charlie Kirk&rsquo;s alleged assassin and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/daily-show-delighted-to-do-unedited-interview-with-elon-musk-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Daily Show &#039;delighted&#039; to do unedited interview with Elon Musk - Washington Examiner\">late-night host&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s vilification of the MAGA movement. ABC News has repeatedly and viciously lied to or misled the American people about all manner of stories &mdash; (*See <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/15\/trump-hating-abc-settles-defamation-case-with-15-million-payment-to-trump-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">George Stephanopoulos<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/former-twitter-execs-house-committee-removal-hunter-biden\/story?id=96979014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Hunter Biden&rsquo;s laptop <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/russia-spreading-disinformation-bidens-mental-health-dhs\/story?id=72879355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Biden&rsquo;s mental acuity<\/a> for starters).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the smarmy host&rsquo;s smug lies were atrocious, spoken into what&rsquo;s left of his leftist echo chamber audience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,&rdquo; Kimmel said in his opening unfunny monologue.<\/p>\n<p>What we know so far in the investigation, according to law enforcement officials, is that Kirk&rsquo;s accused killer was an avid player of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/18\/us-news\/tyler-robinson-played-furry-shades-of-gay-porn-game-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Furry Shades of Gay,&rdquo;<\/a> porn video games, and was in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/lance-twiggs-tyler-robinson-partner-social-media-2129970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">romantic relationship with a man who thinks he is a woman.<\/a> That sounds more like a Disney tween sitcom than a right-wing character taking out his wrath on a leading conservative.<\/p>\n<h2>Kimmel&rsquo;s &lsquo;Narrow, Partisan Circus&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>The left, of course, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/18\/media\/brendan-carr-jimmy-kimmel-fcc-first-amendment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blaming<\/a> President Donald Trump and his Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/18\/nx-s1-5544559\/abc-jimmy-kimmel-comments-charlie-kirk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;silencing&rdquo;<\/a> the late-night weasel. But Carr has, as he has consistently done over his tenure, reminded over-the-air broadcasters that they have a legal obligation under the law to abide by the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/17\/jimmy-kimmel-blatantly-broke-fcc-rules-and-brendan-carr-was-right-to-notice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rules of the public interest<\/a>. An obligation the networks have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanrights.org\/cases\/cbs-accused-of-news-distortion-in-vice-president-kamala-harris-interview-center-for-american-rights-files-formal-fcc-complaint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">failed to honor<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The public interest means you can&rsquo;t be running a narrow, partisan circus and still be meeting your public interest obligations,&rdquo; Carr told <em>The Benny Show<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uTyX9JC-rhA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">podcast<\/a> with Benny Johnson following Kimmel&rsquo;s false comments. &ldquo;It means you can&rsquo;t be engaging in a pattern of news distortion.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Carr said he could see the &ldquo;comedian&rdquo; being suspended, adding that the FCC has &ldquo;remedies.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel is now being painted by Democrats and the accomplice media as some kind of free speech martyr.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s make something else perfectly clear: 31-year-old Charlie Kirk is the only one in this conversation who has truly been &ldquo;silenced&rdquo; &mdash; and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/16\/a-martyr-for-the-christian-faith-attendees-highlight-charlie-kirks-legacy-of-faith-at-packed-kennedy-center-vigil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">martyred<\/a> &mdash; for speaking out. Jimmy Kimmel was suspended from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/entertainment\/2025\/09\/18\/jimmy-kimmel-suspended-charlie-kirk-comment-net-worth\/86216532007\/#:~:text=Jimmy%20Kimmel%20has%20an%20estimated,The%20show%20launched%20in%202003.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">high-paying job<\/a>; his ability to express himself remains in tact. His ability to speak, like everyone else, however, does not come without consequences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Bleeding Viewers&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking of Kimmel&rsquo;s job, he, like fellow late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon, have seen large swaths of their audience share go away over the last several years. Corporate media outlets like USA Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/live-story\/entertainment\/tv\/2025\/09\/18\/jimmy-kimmel-suspension-updates\/86215400007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insist <\/a>the late-night talkers are victims of a genre facing &ldquo;competition from new media,&rdquo; and that Kimmel&rsquo;s show is &ldquo;no worse off than his peers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s partially true, but such sweeping assertions neglect to note that a good percentage of viewers, particularly Kimmel&rsquo;s and Colbert&rsquo;s, have left after years of fatiguing, partisan political bashing. There&rsquo;s nothing funny about alienating more than half of your audience. Ask networks and their sponsors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As The New York Post reported, Kimmel&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/18\/us-news\/trump-claims-jimmy-kimmel-was-fired-for-bad-ratings-and-for-saying-a-horrible-thing-about-charlie-kirk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">late-night show was bleeding viewers<\/a> long before ABC suspended him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Nielsen data showed sharp summer declines and a year-long slide that leaves him trailing late-night rivals such as Fox News&rsquo; Greg Gutfeld and CBS star Stephen Colbert,&rdquo; the Post reported. CBS announced in July that it will end <em>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/em> in May 2026. The writing has been on the wall for some time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen ratings for <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live! <\/em>nosedived to a mere 1.1 million total viewers in August, down 43 percent from January&rsquo;s 1.95 million the Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/18\/media\/jimmy-kimmels-ratings-were-slipping-before-abc-suspended-him-for-charlie-kirk-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported.<\/a> The show averaged 129,000 viewers in the all-important 18-49 demographic, down from 212,000 in January. All three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-gutfeld-bypasses-colbert-in-late-night-show-viewers-key-age-demographics\/\" title=\"Fox News\u2019 \u2018Gutfeld!\u2019 Bypasses Colbert In Late Night Show ..., Key Age Demographics\">late-night shows<\/a> have been in a <a href=\"https:\/\/jimgeschke.substack.com\/p\/the-long-slow-death-of-late-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">death spiral<\/a> for years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel&rsquo;s current contract with ABC, like Colbert&rsquo;s, is up in May 2026. Kimmel&rsquo;s latest despicable comments may have handed ABC and Disney an easier out, a pass to bail on a bitter late-night hack who is becoming a very unfunny liability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Hypocrite Speech<\/h2>\n<p>What&rsquo;s hilarious is leftists like California Gov. Gavin Newsom hypocritically blustering that &ldquo;There is no such thing as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GavinNewsom\/status\/1968508546749972509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free speech under Donald Trump&rsquo;s reign<\/a>.&rdquo; Newsom, who signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >bill literally killing political speech<\/a>, is dying on the hill of Jimmy Kimmel&rsquo;s idiot speech.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Buying and controlling media platforms. Firing commentators. Canceling shows. These aren&rsquo;t coincidences,&rdquo; the Democrat who has his eye on the 2028 presidential prize, wrote Wednesday in an X post. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s coordinated. And it&rsquo;s dangerous. The @GOP does not believe in free speech. They are censoring you in real time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Buying and controlling media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Firing commentators.<\/p>\n<p>Canceling shows.<\/p>\n<p>These aren&rsquo;t coincidences.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s coordinated. And it&rsquo;s dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GOP<\/a> does not believe in free speech. <\/p>\n<p>They are censoring you in real time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GavinNewsom\/status\/1968454653554663561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This from a governor who, not long before last year&rsquo;s presidential election, urged passage of a bill that literally <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/4931425-california-law-bans-deepfakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cancels parody<\/a>. Newsom particularly didn&rsquo;t care for a &ldquo;deepfake&rdquo; video that satirically played on the common conservative characterization of Kamala Harris as a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-emerges-as-pivotal-player-in-fight-to-confirm-trumps-cabinet-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Vance emerges as pivotal player in fight to confirm Trump\u2019s Cabinet - Washington Examiner\">deep state puppet&#038;rdquo<\/a>; and &ldquo;the ultimate diversity hire.&rdquo; A federal judge in August <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/05\/elon-musk-x-court-win-california-deepfake-law-00494936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">struck down<\/a> the law, one of the most restrictive in the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But employees suspended or fired for saying stupid things should not expect job protections under the First Amendment, as we have seen <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/17\/clemson-profs-fired-after-abhorrent-posts-about-charlie-kirks-assassination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">time and time again<\/a>. Kimmel or any of the growing number of leftists who have been disciplined for saying truly abhorrent things about the assassination of Charlie Kirk are free to say whatever they want. They are not free from the consequences of their speech.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser\/\" title=\"Trump Knew \u2018100 Percent\u2019 He Was \u2018Fighting for the Little Guy\u2019: Former Top Trump Economic Adviser\">award-winning investigative reporter<\/a> and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Kimmel &#8220;canceled&#8221; himself by alienating viewers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2488494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-18-at-5.27.02-PM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[36238,7958,43710,25906,34780],"class_list":["post-2488493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-celebrity-news","tag-comedy","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-late-night","tag-tv-show"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-18-at-5.27.02-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488493","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488497,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488493\/revisions\/2488497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2488494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}