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00:00Jimmy Kimmel did himself in.

00:02He had himself on the watch list long before Monday night's awful rant,

00:09and rant it was, about the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk.

00:14All the news that had come out the first week and in through the weekend

00:18was that this guy was motivated from the left.

00:23He was apparently anti-fascist.

00:26He was trans-connected.

00:29We didn't know everything, but we knew enough that it was insane to think

00:33that he was in any way a right-winger or a MAGA guy.

00:36But the left kept telling themselves that because they didn't want to face

00:40any hint of responsibility that the killer could be from their side.

00:44Jimmy Kimmel went out and said,

00:46We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang

00:49desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk

00:52as anything other than one of them,

00:54and doing everything they can to score political points from it.

00:57He implied that the kid was MAGA, which was nuts.

01:01On the basis of what?

01:02That he was from Utah?

01:04That he was a Mormon?

01:05That his family was Republican?

01:08Almost Republicans dominated in Utah.

01:10The state's full of Mormons.

01:12Utah Republicans are not very MAGA.

01:15Mormons are not very MAGA.

01:16But maybe Jimmy Kimmel was just too ignorant to know any of that

01:20and only recognized an other,

01:22as all of his buddies on Blue Sky and the rest of the left-wing bubble think of it.

01:28He's not one of us, so he must be one of them.

01:31It's bigotry.

01:32Plain and simple.

01:33And he blasted it across America.

01:36Next day, he wouldn't apologize.

01:37He didn't apologize.

01:38He didn't issue a word of regret or retraction.

01:41ABC stations, the local stations, started complaining.

01:44Networks of stations, the Sinclair Network in particular, were unhappy

01:47and communicated their concerns to ABC.

01:51The higher-ups started talking to Jimmy about maybe doing something.

01:55Apparently, he was going to address it on Wednesday night,

01:58but he was going to double down.

02:00He felt no regret at all.

02:03Doubling down on where he'd been for years.

02:05And not very funny.

02:06He's a comedian.

02:07He should be making jokes.

02:08All he's been doing is political lectures,

02:11which don't entertain anyone except those in the bubble with him.

02:15And they can get it anywhere.

02:17His ratings were through the floor.

02:19Colbert's ratings were through the floor.

02:21Jimmy Fallon's ratings are down there, too.

02:24All of them are on a watch list of,

02:26why are we paying you millions of dollars to lose us money?

02:29So when it happened, the network started moving to pull him.

02:33Yes, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr intervened,

02:39didn't help do anything but muddy the waters

02:41by suggesting that we would have to do something

02:44about this flagrant pattern of left-wingism

02:48across all the networks.

02:51Unfortunately, that's arguably the FCC's job,

02:54the way the law is written.

02:56When the networks are all being heavy-handed on one side,

02:59that is a problem which the place that licenses broadcast media

03:04has to look at.

03:06I kind of think we should stop having the FCC do that.

03:09The modern media environment is plenty, plenty diverse.

03:13We don't need anybody enforcing this.

03:15Again, the market was already taking care of this.

03:18Jimmy Kimmel had already dug his own grave

03:19before he finally stuck his foot in it

03:22and then was doubling down on his piety.

03:27But here's the thing.

03:28It's not the FCC that's killing late-night comedy.

03:30Late-night comedy's been dying

03:32even before Jon Stewart came in

03:34and turned it into that political thing.

03:36It was the late-night comedians

03:38that killed late-night comedy.

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