Disney-owned ABC late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel did not apologize for offending much of the nation when he returned to his show after a one-week suspension. So much for the left-wing narrative that President Donald Trump ripped up the First Amendment and tossed Kimmel off the air.
The controversy began the Monday after Charlie Kirk’s assassination by a Trump- and Kirk-hating left-winger. Kimmel, however, said, “The MAGA gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything to they can to score political points from it.”
In Kimmel’s returning monologue, he was not just unapologetic, he was defiant. He flat-out denied any intention “to blame any specific group” for Kirk’s assassination. Kimmel said, “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.” He added: “Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions. It was a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make…”
Oh, so in truth, he was blaming Freddy Krueger. And shame on those who thought otherwise.
This means Kimmel and Kirk’s “kid” assassin have two things in common: Both are Trump-despising leftists, and both have been forgiven – the assassin by Erika Kirk at Charlie’s memorial, and Kimmel by Disney – without one iota of contrition.
This brings us to Van Jones, CNN political commentator. Several days after Kirk’s assassination, Jones wrote: “The day before he was horrifically murdered, Charlie Kirk sent me a direct message on X. He and I had been sparring publicly over the killing of a Ukrainian refugee and its relationship to race. He said the gruesome killing of a White woman by a Black man was motivated solely by anti-White hatred. I denounced those comments on CNN as unfounded. He went on TV and denounced MY denunciation. Then he unleashed a firehose of tweets, challenging my argument.”
But, plot twist, Jones said: “Then – in the middle of all this – Charlie Kirk reached out. He invited me to come on his show to talk with him. He wrote: ‘Hey, Van, I mean it, I’d love to have you on my show to have a respectful conversation about crime and race. I would be a gentleman as I know you would be as well. We can disagree about the issues agreeably.'”
After this exchange and, apparently, several days of reflection, Jones magnanimously concluded, “So it was not hard for me to condemn his murder – immediately, without qualification and in unconditional terms.”
Please excuse those of us who are neither moved nor impressed by this “brave” acknowledgement of Kirk’s decency. Anyone fortunate enough to have had even a passing relationship with Kirk will tell you about his willingness to engage civilly with those he disagrees. So, Jones deserves a cookie for stating the obvious?
As for Kirk’s analysis on the Ukrainian woman killed on the Charlotte train by a black man, Kirk said: “Based on the information and the evidence we have, the attacker did say, ‘I got that white girl.’ The attacker racialized it in his own telling of the situation…If a random white person on a subway took out a knife and stabbed a Black girl senselessly to death, there would be massive media coverage.”
For this, the day before Kirk’s assassination, Jones accused him of “race-mongering and hate-mongering.”
Jones’ characterization of Kirk was merely the latest in Jones’ years-long record denouncing Trump, his voters, and the policies Jones disagrees with as racist. On election night in 2016, when CNN declared Trump the winner, Jones fired this cannon: “This was a white-lash against a changing country. It was a white-lash against a black president in part, and that’s the part where the pain comes.”
Thus, Jones helped spearhead the widely believed narrative that Trump only won because angry, paranoid, racist white voters elected him. No wonder polls going back several years show nearly 50% of Americans and over 80% of black Americans consider Trump “racist.”
Kimmel will not apologize. But maybe Jones will apologize for his role in maligning half the country as racists, fascists, white supremacists, Nazis, dictators, tyrants, Hitlers, and a threat to democracy.
Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. Follow Larry on X @larryelder.
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Kimmel took a jab at us when he said something stupid that he probably copied off the Internet.
But dry your eyes snowflake. We can take anything that Kimmel dishes out.
Oh for the days of Johhny Carson when a night host knew how to entertain his audience without rhetoric. He loved his audience and his audience loved him.
Soon he’ll follow his buddy Cobert and they’ll join foin forces to host a pod cast called Dumb and Dumber.
The best thing to do is not renew Kimmel’s contract. He has no talent and remains clueless.
I have only watched kimmel one time…his very first show and I could only stand about 2 minutes of his Trump bashing then. He is definitely NOT funny and has no personality and can’t even imagine how he has stayed on the air so long as he has. Bring Leno back.
Jones is an Obamite,everything is about race and white supremacy no one is responsible for the acting out that narrative, only white man is a racist and aggressor. Black man is a victim, blameless, this is what CNN employs, so much for objectivity and facts. Left can burry it’s head in the sand to it’s waist, it still will not alter the truth.It poisoned the soul of it’s followers,and it shows.
The rich and rock-solid racist history of the democrat party doesn’t dissolve in time. They OWN it. It’s theirs. Racism never had a place in GOP history. The left deflecting their bad history to the GOP no longer flies. Not a single republican owned a slave and not a single Democrat voted for women’s rights to vote. Not one. When Democrat legislators suit up in white for women suffrage, it’s a visual as phoney as Kardashian eyelashes. When LBJ handed out government subsidies to the black community and said, “… we will have those ni**ers voting for us for the next 200 years”, he didn’t realize how those worlds would age. It wouldn’t be 200 years. Not even close.
Jimmie Kimmel is nothing more than a way overpaid, self-indulged, vile and hateful little man
jones is a coward.
Don’t hold your breath for an apology from Jones or Kimmel. And if one is forthcoming it will be so insincere you will need to throw up.
Kimmel is another sad example of a human who puts too much importance in himself.
Goebbels said if one tells a lie often enough, people will think it’s truth. That is the case with people like Van Jones who pull out racism again and again until now that victimhood of racism is embedded in every black person’s psyche, more than difficult to erase. Every wrong thing that happens is attributed to it, like Jones and Sharpton (who even manufactures racism -Towana Brawley) and Jesse Smollett and others do. Charlie Kirk was correct in quoting the murderer on the train; he did say that about “the white girl” showing he knew what he was doing and why although the why was governed by a sickness. Yes, racism exists and more than we recognize, I’m sure, but it was ebbing and things were looking up before Obama (and Michelle) used identity group politics to separate us into tribes so they could pander to each for their own benefit. Now it seems that every politician and every journalist looks first to racist motives for everything before looking for the truth of a matter. It’s way past time to stop, to question and to understand before jumping to conclusions which, I believe, are more often wrong than correct.
Both of them are cowards
Unless he asked for forgiveness his response is unapologetic and careless. He lies to himself.
We have freedom of speech in this country. Disagree with Kimmel all you want but he should not have been yanked off the air. I don’t like him, so I don’t watch him. Thats another freedom we have – Freedom of choice. If he hadn’t been yanked off the air, I would not have known what he said.
I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting on Jones regarding this!
Kimmel didn’t apologize? Why should he as long as people still support Disney he is safe.
Van Jones is a coward of the worst kind and if you don’t believe that as you read this watch Megyn Kelly’s podcast on this subject matter. And, one thing we can be very certain of is that Megyn Kelly is Not a racist any more than many of those that are being called a racist (CHARLIE KIRK, All of MAGA and whomever else they (the racists themselves) wish to sling it upon. You still don’t believe? Watch the people themselves (no, not AI lookalikes) as they are readily available to all and read the twentieth century American dictionary before Woke (which of course is anything but woke or awake.)
It amazes me when white people murder blacks,it’s racist. But,but when black people murder whites as in the young white kid who was murdered by the black kid fr just being white, only thing said “well the white kid “put hands” on the black. Black kid wasn’t assaulted,just asked to leave since the tent he was using wasn’t his schools.but according to blacks, he had every rite to pull out his knife and stab the white kid. And they call that fair and of course “payback”. Sad.
To the best of my knowledge, those that fought to get Kimmel back on the air, blamed Trump for going against free speech, and after Kimmel’s return, still make the same claims. Oddly for as loud as his adoring public fought to have him return … I don’t think the ratings reflect his vast voice of social justice. I mean after all … those who fought for Kimmel’s return, I suspect are those who actually watched his show … and most anyone who actually watches late night television talk shows, are bored insomniacs or eager leftists, hoping for a late night atta boy suggesting their leftist ways are being supported on television by some one other than the view.