Jimmy Kimmel back on the air

[B-Man]

 

 

Do as I say, not as I do. It's practically the Limousine Liberal Marching Anthem, and it made a grand reappearance last night

 

{snip}

 

"It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man... For those who think I did point a finger, I get why you're upset... I don't think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents ANYONE. This was a sick person who believed violence was a solution, and it isn't. Ever."

 

Of course that's how Kimmel feels ... now. When Kimmel bought into and amplified the lunatic-fringe theory that Tyler Robinson was a "MAGA asshat," a term that one of his staffers later used, he was happy to paint conservatives with that broad brush. When Kimmel found out that he had a severe case of cerebro-rectalitis, suddenly everyone is a free agent. Now Kimmel wants to lecture everyone on jumping to conclusions and linking violent "sick persons" to the political movement to which they belong. Pass.

 

And notice that Kimmel offered the standard non-apology apology in this statement. He doesn't admit that he actually did point a finger in that accusation. He just addresses people who "think I did point a finger." Kimmel then says that he's understand why people would be upset for thinking that he'd pointed a finger at them. He won't admit that he actually did point a finger at them, accused them of exploiting the murder, and ridiculed them. Thus, Kimmel lets himself off the hook for any responsibility for his words, let alone the need to admit to them and apologize for them. 

 

This is a cowardly dodge by Kimmel, or as Scott Jennings called it, pathetic:

 

 

 

 

Much more at the link:

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/09/24/kimmel-returns-hey-kids-dont-do-what-i-did-or-something-n3807128

 

 

 

All he had to say was: "I was wrong and I did harm to people who didn't deserve it. I ask for forgiveness without excuse or reservation"

 

But he just couldn't do it

 

[The Frankish Reich]

1 hour ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

That seems the obvious path for the networks.  I doubt the OTA viewers are the heavy consumers they want to target with ads.  But if a president wants to squelch their speech with threats, he still can.  Streaming is under the jurisdiction of the FCC, right?

 

As an aside, it doesn't make sense to me why Sinclair and similar companies are worth as much as they are said to.

I think that's advertising revenue. The locals get local ad spots during network programming - even during the Super Bowl if I'm not mistaken - and they sell lots of ads during local news, etc. Mostly the wrong consumers at this point, but still very profitable.

 

From an economic perspective, it's pure rent-seeking on the part of the Sinclairs of the world. I imagine the big 3.75 (ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX) have evaluated whether it makes sense to even keep the over-the-air thing going. They're all ready to jump ship with their Peacocks and Hulus gaining market penetration. 

[Wacka]

On 9/22/2025 at 7:27 PM, 4th&long said:

Maga is awful quiet tonight. You sure had a lot of crap to say a few days ago. Of course you were wrong as always. It's gotta suck to be Maga. 

Wa are all watching the King of Late Night, Greg Gutfeld!

Was at the doc for a checkup and had to be subjected to the Cows on The View for about 10 min before they called me in.  They were fellating Jimmy Kimmel. 

Edited September 24 by Wacka

[Tenhigh]

7 hours ago, JDHillFan said:

Let me help
 

Don't do that, doc mcstuffins may come and complain. 

[JDHillFan]

4 minutes ago, Tenhigh said:

Don't do that, doc mcstuffins may come and complain. 

My apologies. NOBODY wants that. 

[B-Man]

 

 

 Charlie Kirk's producer aint buying it:

 

 

Yes, Jimmy got emotional. So what. He’s emotional for

himself because he almost torched his entire career.

 

 

Kimmel is an unrepentant liar who tried to blame Charlie’s

assassination on the part of the country that just spent

the last 2 weeks praying and holding vigils.

 

What he’s really saying is that he still thinks it’s fair game

to slander conservatives. He would rather advance his

own political and cultural agenda than confront the truth.

 

The truth is that his own side has been fanning the flames

of political assassinations for years. The truth is that

someone on the left picked up a gun and murdered

someone on the right who advocated for peaceful debate. 

 

 

It’s critical that liars admit they lied.

There can be no restoration without that.

Anything short of that is a fake and scripted cry line

designed to endear him to his fans,

not to make right the wrong he committed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[The Frankish Reich]

1 minute ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 Charlie Kirk's producer aint buying it:

 

 

Yes, Jimmy got emotional. So what. He’s emotional for

himself because he almost torched his entire career.

 

 

Kimmel is an unrepentant liar who tried to blame Charlie’s

assassination on the part of the country that just spent

the last 2 weeks praying and holding vigils.

 

What he’s really saying is that he still thinks it’s fair game

to slander conservatives. He would rather advance his

own political and cultural agenda than confront the truth.

 

The truth is that his own side has been fanning the flames

of political assassinations for years. The truth is that

someone on the left picked up a gun and murdered

someone on the right who advocated for peaceful debate. 

 

 

It’s critical that liars admit they lied.

There can be no restoration without that.

Anything short of that is a fake and scripted cry line

designed to endear him to his fans,

not to make right the wrong he committed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So @B-Man, do you think the FCC should continue to try to penalize ABC or the local affiliates who didn't preempt him?

Because yesterday you were applauding how measured and hands-off and grown-up the Administration was in letting him back on.

[Tenhigh]

32 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

So @B-Man, do you think the FCC should continue to try to penalize ABC or the local affiliates who didn't preempt him?

Because yesterday you were applauding how measured and hands-off and grown-up the Administration was in letting him back on.

No they should not continue, nor should they have threatend it in the 1st place. But how do we address late night public television,  which has essentially turned into a great big DNC fundraiser? Maybe Reagan was wrong on the Fairness Doctrine?

Edited September 24 by Tenhigh

[Trump_is_Mentally_fit]

2 minutes ago, Tenhigh said:

No they should not continuenor ahould they have threatend it in the 1st place. But how do we address late night public television,  which has essentially turned into a great big DNC fundraiser? Maybe Reagan was wrong on the Fairness Doctrine?

It's almost as if liberals are good at comedy and MAGA isn't 

 

Mean, nasty and angry just isn't funny, I guess 

[B-Man]

7 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

So @B-Man, do you think the FCC should continue to try to penalize ABC or the local affiliates who didn't preempt him?

Because yesterday you were applauding how measured and hands-off and grown-up the Administration was in letting him back on.

 

Sigh

 

I didn't say that they were "letting him back on" yesterday.

 

That is just your usual "Frank-Filter" , bending everyone else's replies to what you think  feel that we mean.

 

So naturally your supposition about today is pointless,

 

 

 

 

 

[Tenhigh]

16 minutes ago, Trump_is_Mentally_fit said:

It's almost as if liberals are good at comedy and MAGA isn't 

 

Mean, nasty and angry just isn't funny, I guess 

Actually, Gutfeld is the highest rated late night show on TV, and has a regular cast of voices from both sides, comedians included.  Thats the difference between us tho, Tibs. In our side we love liberal comedians just as we love conservative ones, it's funny that counts.  The problem is that your public network heads only gave the gigs to a specific set of hosts that align with your political ideology and skewed their shows that way.  

These used to be comedy shows, now they are political rallies.

Edited September 24 by Tenhigh

[The Frankish Reich]

14 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

Sigh

 

I didn't say that they were "letting him back on" yesterday.

 

That is just your usual "Frank-Filter" , bending everyone else's replies to what you think  feel that we mean.

 

So naturally your supposition about today is pointless,

 

 

 

 

 

You did say that the whole "Trump is trying to cancel Jimmy Kimmel!" thing was overblown, and the fact that he was back on the air showed that it was just ABC making an internal decision. Trump's post just destroys your old narrative, doesn't it?

I'm not Rainman; I don't save your old posts. But I do remember them ...

 

... So back to the point: should the FCC exert its full power to try to get local stations and/or ABC not to carry Kimmel's show anymore? Presumably you have an opinion and can answer either:

A. Yes, because [explain]

B. No, because [explain]

 

No posting somebody else's tweets to talk for you. I wanna hear it straight from the B-Man!

 

I think this is the way Charlie Kirk said we should argue, right?

[Tenhigh]

1 minute ago, The Frankish Reich said:

You did say that the whole "Trump is trying to cancel Jimmy Kimmel!" thing was overblown, and the fact that he was back on the air showed that it was just ABC making an internal decision. Trump's post just destroys your old narrative, doesn't it?

I'm not Rainman; I don't save your old posts. But I do remember them ...

 

... So back to the point: should the FCC exert its full power to try to get local stations and/or ABC not to carry Kimmel's show anymore? Presumably you have an opinion and can answer either:

A. Yes, because [explain]

B. No, because [explain]

 

No posting somebody else's tweets to talk for you. I wanna hear it straight from the B-Man!

Why don't you reply to mine while he replies to yours....

[4th&long]

19 minutes ago, Tenhigh said:

No they should not continuenor ahould they have threatend it in the 1st place. But how do we address late night public television,  which has essentially turned into a great big DNC fundraiser? Maybe Reagan was wrong on the Fairness Doctrine?

Nothing you can do expect don't watch it. If the ratings are bad he will be gone. That's what I don't get about these late night talk show hosts, they are cutting off half their audience. Sure a few jokes are fine. He can be the head of the DNC, that's his choice. But ratings will talk. I don't think his ratings are as bad as Trump claims. 

[The Frankish Reich]

Just now, Tenhigh said:

Why don't you reply to mine while he replies to yours....

Which was? Sorry, I missed it. 

I am not one to shy away from a question directed to me.

[Tenhigh]

Just now, The Frankish Reich said:

Which was? Sorry, I missed it. 

I am not one to shy away from a question directed to me.

 

25 minutes ago, Tenhigh said:

No they should not continue, nor should they have threatend it in the 1st place. But how do we address late night public television,  which has essentially turned into a great big DNC fundraiser? Maybe Reagan was wrong on the Fairness Doctrine?

See above

[The Frankish Reich]

EDIT: sorry, I see you were directing that to B-Man. It is frustrating. He typically waits to re-post someone's tweet in the MAGA echosphere. Otherwise he runs the risk of getting out over his skis and posting something contrary to his Dear Leader's opinion. It just happened yesterday...

[Tenhigh]

6 minutes ago, 4th&long said:

Nothing you can do expect don't watch it. If the ratings are bad he will be gone. That's what I don't get about these late night talk show hosts, they are cutting off half their audience. Sure a few jokes are fine. He can be the head of the DNC, that's his choice. But ratings will talk. I don't think his ratings are as bad as Trump claims. 

I agree. I really don't think there is anyone on the air like that right now though. I miss Conan. He is pretty blue personally, but he never shoved it in your face.  He kept funny first.

 

https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-tv-ratings-q2-2025/

 

3 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

EDIT: sorry, I see you were directing that to B-Man. It is frustrating. He typically waits to re-post someone's tweet in the MAGA echosphere. Otherwise he runs the risk of getting out over his skis and posting something contrary to his Dear Leader's opinion. It just happened yesterday...

It was directing to you lol

Edited September 24 by Tenhigh

[The Frankish Reich]

So let me provide a straight answer to two straight questions:

 

Fairness Doctrine: a relic of a bygone era when the lines of over the air communication were limited by VHF/UHF bandwidth. Limited access meant you couldn't let some Larry Ellison come in and simply overwhelm everyone else with stronger and stronger signals. We have cable, we have streamers, we have blogs, we have podcasts, we have ... football forums for God's sake.

 

We shouldn't do anything about network late-night talk shows other than let the market decide. We should, however, think about whether the current model (large networks providing less and less original programming, built on a layer of "local" stations that increasingly aren't "local" at all but rather are made up of large conglomerates like Tegna and Sinclair. That's where the whole "licensing" and "in the public interest" thing comes in. It was built on the idea of things like local news and local carriage of EBS systems (I still occasionally catch the "this is only a test" and it brings back a wave of nostalgia), etc., none of which anyone really relies on anymore.

 

See, B-Man, not so difficult to answer with (1) your own (2) reasoned (3) opinion.

Edited September 24 by The Frankish Reich

[4th&long]

1 minute ago, Tenhigh said:

I agree. I really don't think there is anyone on the air like that right now though. I miss Conan. He is pretty blue personally, but he never shoved it in your face.  He kept funny first.

 

https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-tv-ratings-q2-2025/

 

I was directing to you lol

I never watched Conan much. Definately no Carson or Letterman anymore. Now that was good late night TV! What do we have now besides Kimmel? Sportscenter? I don't like SVP. I'll watch when nicole Briscoe is on she's hot! I never watch Colbert. Fallon only once in a while.