Bear in mind Tuffy Gessling?
He was the rodeo clown who dared to mock President Barack Obama and caught hell consequently. He confronted loss of life threats and suffered a lifetime ban from the Missouri State Truthful.
Guess who didn’t communicate up in his protection (in addition to President Obama)? Jimmy Kimmel.
Flash ahead to 2025 and Sunday’s Inventive Arts Emmy Awards presentation. Kimmel walked the purple carpet on the occasion, and the press dutifully performed into the false meme that President Donald Trump is censoring comedians.
Legacy Media retailers pounced and seized on that theme following CBS’s delayed cancellation of “The Late Present” with Stephen Colbert. That’s regardless of an entire lack of proof that Trump had something to do with the transfer.
The president didn’t pressure CBS to lose $40 million yearly on the far-Left discuss present. Nor did he cease Paramount, the identical firm that canned Colbert, from shelling out $1.5 billion to the group behind “South Park.”
That present has been skewering all issues Trump for week after week with none presidential punishments.
An unnamed reporter requested Kimmel what it feels wish to defend democracy. It’s a horrible query primarily based on a false narrative. However Kimmel, who’s susceptible to sobbing when elections don’t go his manner, took it significantly.
Very significantly.
“These are heavy ideas, and I tend to reject them. I don’t essentially really feel like I’m defending democracy, however I do really feel like I’m giving this man slightly poke and he deserves it and I like it and I really like that folks like it, too,” Kimmel instructed the journalist.
“Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” routinely is available in third place behind each “The Late Present” and Fox Information’ “Gutfeld!” on the late-night entrance.
Final yr, Kimmel emceed a fundraiser for President Joe Biden, a world chief with apparent indicators of dementia. Kimmel not solely denied that sorry state of affairs however referred to as those that precisely referred to as it out liars.