Posted on 09/19/2025 5:55:09 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show was suspended by ABC on Wednesday following a brief pressure campaign from the Trump administration as well as conservatives in the media, who successfully twisted Kimmel’s words following last week’s assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
During Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday, the comedian criticized conservatives for trying to “score political points” off Kirk’s death.
“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,” Kimmel said during his monologue on Monday.
Kimmel’s slightly ambiguous comments came after conservatives spent the weekend blaming the left and transgender people for Kirk’s killing. At the time, the public knew little about the alleged shooter’s motives. Prosecutors disclosed on Tuesday that the suspect, Tyler Robinson, told his trans roommate and apparent romantic partner, “I had enough of his hatred.”
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I stopped reading Rolling Stone when PJ O’Rourke stopped working for them.
All these late shows including Saturday Night Live have lost audience to other TV, Cable, podcasts, etc. The ONLY one doing well is Gutfeld!
The fact is Kimmel’s rating sucked. So do all the other shows getting canceled. IF these shows were profitable, they would still be on TV. Disney is a corporation is business to make a profit. This show was not profitable. The View MUST be still profitable or they would have cancelled that too.
The View has become much more of a LEGAL LIABILITY than almost any other show on TV.
The authors are living proof that liberal brainwashing works.
Well their timing…
Did he know he was going to get fired and went for this, to make a scene?
“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”
Defaming tens of millions of people could be costly. The network tried to head off an expensive lawsuit.
I wish MAGA could just “drum up BS” to take down these Leftwing hacks. The world would be a better place if we could.
Hard to say, most nights he lied about things.
Reminded me of the lyrics from Pink Floyd’s “Dogs”, which seemed fitting for the execrable Rolling Stone:
DOGS
You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need
You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you’re on the street
You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed
And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking
And after a while, you can work on points for style
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake
A certain look in the eye and an easy smile
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you,
You’ll get the chance to put the knife in
You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
You know it’s going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you get older
And in the end you’ll pack up and fly down south
Hide your head in the sand,
Just another sad old man
All alone and dying of cancer
And when you loose control, you’ll reap the harvest you have sown
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone
And it’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around
So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone
Dragged down by the stone (stone, stone, stone, stone, stone)
I gotta admit that I’m a little bit confused
Sometimes it seems to me as if I’m just being used
Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise
If I don’t stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this maze?
Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretending
That everyone’s expendable and no-one has a real friend
And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner
And everything’s done under the sun
And you believe at heart, everyone’s a killer
Who was born in a house full of pain
Who was trained not to spit in the fan
Who was told what to do by the man
Who was broken by trained personnel
Who was fitted with collar and chain
Who was given a pat on the back
Who was breaking away from the pack
Who was only a stranger at home
Who was ground down in the end
Who was found dead on the phone
Who was dragged down by the stone
They need to enjoy their layoffs. I’m sure more will come.
Kimmel’s ratings were already down 24% before he tried to claim Kirk’s 20 something gay lover with the transsexual lover was a quintessential Trump supporter based on the fact his parents were registered Republicans and made a good living. There was nothing ambiguous or muddled in his statement and yes unless he got all his news from ABC he should have known the kid held left wing views if not far left views. A company with a large number of ABC affiliates in red states was outraged because this sort of deliberate misinformation was likely to further impact ABC and Kimmel ratings threatened to preempt Kimmel’s shows on their stations which I assume would further impact ABC’s advertising revenues so ABC did what every company does when faced with a consumer revolt, they decided to stop pissing their customers off. The fact that Rolling Stone finds this alarming or incomprehensible goes a long way to explaining their circulation problems.
We all know who was “taken down.”
i didnt want kimmel suspended
i wanted to hear what kimmel had to say about his obvious lie
no doubt more lies
his employer pulled the plug to prevent further damage
Rolling Stone had it twisted. Jimmy Kimmel was losing tons of money for ABC just as Stephen Colbert was. The proper way to look at Kimmel’s firing was “ABC was looking for an excuse” as any employer would. Give me a reason. MAGA’s outrage would have been ignored if his program was a money-maker rather than niche-programming exclusively tailored to woke-progressives.
Seems to me the Left/Democrats/Deep State is willing to foment violence but then blames the closest Republican when it happens.
“...At the time, the public knew little about the alleged shooter’s motives...”
That is a gigantic lie. Everyone (including Kimmel) knew within hours of the release of Robinson’s name that he was a leftwing homosexual. His own parents said immediately that he became a hardcore leftist in recent years. We also knew he had a trans roommate who he was engaging in homo sex with.
The fags, Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng are as usual trying to hide their fingerprints, covering up for one of their own homosexual ANTIFA members.
Eat $hit and die, Rolling Stone. /spit
“The fact is Kimmel’s rating sucked.”
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Exactly right, combine that with ABC just losing a $16 million dollar lawsuit to President Trump and Kimmel’s timing could not have been worse.
“”””Kimmel was fired by ABC who knew that the show was bleeding money and when it lost half its stations it simply could not survive. Pretty simple and nothing to do with “free speech”.”””””
Late night tv died many years ago.
Here we are, just awaking every day to the consequences of their actions making the 'news'.
I say give 'em more

and let 'em flail. Me?
Rolling Stone’s paid circulation fell from ~1.5 million in 2017 to ~455,000 in 2023 (including 414,000 subscriptions), a ~70% decline.
I’m getting angry. First they kill Charlie Kirk. I say ‘they’ because they’ve spent 10 years calling Trump, and anyone associated with him a ‘fascist’. So then a 22 year old, having listened to this drumbeat of lies, decides, ‘hey, I’ll be a hero if I kill a fascist.’ So he does it. And now they’re going to lie about it!!!
Kimmel importance is less than that of a pea under a pile of a hundred mattresses. 🙄🙄
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