Posted on 09/17/2025 2:29:42 PM PDT by Morgana
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel could be probed by federal investigators after telling his audience that Charlie Kirk's suspected killer was a MAGA supporter.
Federal Communications Commission boss Brendan Carr told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday he was considering an investigation into Kimmel and his network ABC over remarks the host made about suspected shooter Tyler Robinson, 22, in the wake of Kirk's murder.
Prosecutors say the suspect - who was charged with killing Kirk at a university event in Orem, Utah - had leftist leanings.
'When you look at the conduct that has taken place by Jimmy Kimmel, it appears to be some of the sickest conduct possible,' Carr told Johnson.
'As you've indicated, there are avenues here for the FCC, so there... are some ways in which I need to be a little bit careful because we could be called ultimately to be a judge on some of these claims that come up.'
Kimmel's comments about Robinson came during his Monday night monologue.
'We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,' the host said.
In response to Kimmel's remarks, Carr floated the idea of suspending the host - one of several prospective 'remedies' for the situation, he said.
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I am not offended so much as mystified as to how anyone could draw that conclusion from the facts available. It is about as sensible as saying Hinckley was a libertarian conservative or Lee Harvey Oswald loved the ambience of Camelot.
But it’s an opinion and expressing an opinion, no matter how daft, should not be considered a crime. If we open up that rabbit hole it will be even bigger the next time we have a progressive regime. Of course maybe there won’t be a next time at the rate they are spiralling down.
I’ve been monitoring a leftist open chat site about these events (since before the election actually) and at the moment, about two thirds of them would admit a leftist killed Charlie Kirk, one third cling to the dumb theory of rival MAGA factions. That’s a lot of idiocy given the evidence. But it came up early on and people tend to cling to liferafts to avoid processing unpleasant information, like one of theirs is yet again responsible. They also to the last person standing insist that the Minnesota rampage was a MAGA supporter — ignoring his statements about wanting to help Walz and his past receipt of Democrat patronage.
Well, I wasn’t going to watch Jimmy Kimmel anyway, he has some mildly funny stock characters that he plays on SNL but apparently stand-up comedy or commentary is beyond his cognitive abilities. Not sure if it needs investigating, we all know there are dumb people wandering around out there, always have been. Did we run out of dunce caps?
Why not?
And let him shower or brush his terth.
And don’t let him....
I did't know Kimmel was a comedian!
I have never heard him say anything funny.
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