If you were looking for an oasis away from the left’s bitter and divisive politicization of Charlie Kirk’s brutal murder, former comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were not the place to go.
Both once again abused their Late Night perches to make the long-overdue suspension of Jimmy Kimmel all about them.
Stewart was so eager to make it all about Jon Stewart, he rushed into the studio on Thursday, even though he normally only “works” on Mondays:
Jon Stewart returned to “The Daily Show” with a “government approved” program and referred to President Donald Trump as “Our Great Father” and “Dear Leader.” He joked about Trump’s recent visit to the United Kingdom and played a clip of a reporter’s question about Kimmel and whether free speech was under attack in America.
“How dare you, sir! How dare you, sir!” Stewart bellowed. “What outfit are you with, sir, the Antifa-Herald Tribune?”
When the audience booed or expressed dismay, Stewart in a panic tried to shush them. A group of correspondents delivered a message in unison and showered the president with over-the-top praise as though they lived in a dictatorship.
Naturally, the soon-to-be Substacker Stephen Colbert did the same:
“Tonight, we are all Jimmy Kimmel,” Colbert said at the start of his monologue before decrying the suspension as “blatant censorship.”
“With an autocrat, you cannot give an inch,” he continued. “If ABC thinks this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly, they’ve never read the children’s book ‘If You Give a Mouse a Kimmel.’ And to Jimmy, just let me say, I stand with you and your staff 100%.”
Both are lying with the claim the FCC had something to do with Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension when it was the affiliates who own the local stations that pressured the leftists at ABC/Disney to suspend Kimmel’s basement-rated show.
When Jimmy Kimmel said that Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin was MAGA, that was a clear violation of the “public interest” clause that comes with the privilege of using the public airwaves, a privilege ABC and its affiliates get for free.
Kimmel deliberately spread disinformation, something he’s been doing for all ten years of the Trump era, and it has only now caught up with him.
ABC/Disney have violated the “public interest” by giving two hours of unanswered airtime every day to The View and Kimmel, both of whom mislead all of the country and spread conspiracy theories against the political right.
At the very least, if Colbert and Stewart had admitted that what Kimmel said about MAGA murdering Charlie Kirk was a lie, that would be something. But these guys are garbage.
I can’t unify with garbage.
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