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Jimmy Kimmel ‘Apologizes’ for Using Son’s Medical Crisis to Score Political Points
Big Hollywood (Breitbart) ^ | May 9, 2017 | Jerome Hudson

Posted on 05/09/2017 7:34:50 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night show after a week-long absence Monday, where he used his monologue to update his audience on the health of his newborn son and confront those who criticized his widely-watched monologue on the subject during a broadcast last week.

The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host unloaded on Republican lawmakers in his first monologue back Monday, and called on Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La) to explain why “the vast majority of Republican politicians” are against Americans having health care coverage.

But before that, Kimmel addressed the reaction he received after he made an emotional plea last week for health care coverage for pre-existing conditions, and revealed his newborn son was born with a congenital heart defect and needed open-heart surgery. The late-night host acknowledged one Washington Times headline that read: “Shut up, Jimmy Kimmel, you elitist creep.”

“I cannot count the number of times I’ve been called an ‘out of touch Hollywood elitist creep’ this week,” Kimmel said. “Which, I have to say, I kind of appreciate because when I was a kid we had to drink powdered milk because we couldn’t afford the liquid … My dream was to become an out of touch Hollywood elitist, and I guess it came true.”

“I would like to apologize for saying that children in America should have health care,” he went on, sarcastically. “It was insensitive. It was offensive, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.”

Next, Kimmel took aim at Newt Gingrich, who criticized the host’s monologue last week when he said that all hospitals in the United States help children before asking for payment.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ahca; boycotthollywood; children; healthcare; healthinsurance; hollyweird; hollywooddouchebag; jimmykimmel; newtgingrich; obamacare; preexisting
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1 posted on 05/09/2017 7:34:50 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

what a douchebag.


2 posted on 05/09/2017 7:35:54 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Jimmy Kimmel, get bent! No longer is ANYTHING you left wing media nuts have to say relevant to the lives of the mass of rational Americans. I don’t care about your apology. You are just another leftwing fool tool.


3 posted on 05/09/2017 7:38:13 PM PDT by ZULU (DUMP THAT POS PAUL RYAN!! HE KILLED OBAMACARE REPEyrAL AND WILL KILL TAX REFORM!!)
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To: 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; ...
BOYCOTT HOLLYWOOD!

PING!

4 posted on 05/09/2017 7:38:15 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The GOP-e: supporting the Democrat agenda)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Where’s Mr. Kimmy’s thanks to me for paying his bill?

I pay my insurance bill every paycheck (plus my taxes) and cannot afford to go to the doctor nor do I see any co-pay (deductibles are too high) and all of this while Lord Gawd Obambi was still king emperor (and my rate raised again last year necessitating that I drop my 401k savings plan and my dental coverage).

FUJK


5 posted on 05/09/2017 7:38:41 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Sympathy, you want sympathy?


6 posted on 05/09/2017 7:43:08 PM PDT by Fungi (No tagline. Suggestions invited.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Rich socialist douche exploiting his kid. Just like Joe Biden and his wife.


7 posted on 05/09/2017 7:45:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

How courageous trashing Trump voters from Hollywierd. Someone give him a medal.


8 posted on 05/09/2017 7:47:51 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“I would like to apologize for saying that children in America should have health care,” he went on, sarcastically. “It was insensitive. It was offensive, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.”


I say, not sarcastically, that children do deserve healthcare....just not paid for with MY tax $$. Maybe their folks could do something novel....like, get a job? Work two jobs...to afford said health care/insurance? It’s what my generation’s folks did.


9 posted on 05/09/2017 7:49:43 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“I’m sorry people realized my hidden intent”.


10 posted on 05/09/2017 7:49:53 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

MOST of us that grew up on Powdered Milk and Free Government Cheese DID NOT grow up to be douchebags! We grew BEYOND our humble beginnings to go on to greater things than being a TV Leftist SpokesWhore. Just sayin’!

(P.S. I hope the baby ends up being OK. We can’t fault the baby for his parentage.)


11 posted on 05/09/2017 7:49:59 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“I would like to apologize for saying that children in America should have health care,” he went on, sarcastically. “It was insensitive. It was offensive, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.”


Sheesh. I love babies but you don’t HAVE to have them. Don’t have one (ssh, come closer and I’ll tell you how they are made) if you can’t afford to pay a few hundred a year for their doctor visits (or insurance).

Kids need doctors, clothes, education, food, lots of things. If you can’t pay for it, don’t have sex. People used to understand this basic fact. And if they did, and some exceptions still occurred, we could all chip in for charity.

His so called moral position is I EXIST, THEREFORE YOU OWE ME. Sorry. Not true.


12 posted on 05/09/2017 7:50:41 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Fake apology and he got it out, to do GREAT harm to the president, so this statement is utterly meaningless.

I've never watched this POS, never shall, so I can't scream about boycotting him. OTOH....I pray that karma catches up with him...quickly and mercilessly.

13 posted on 05/09/2017 7:51:50 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Jimmy, Before obamacare, do you recall us dumping babies in the middle of the street to die? I don’t either.

He’s a lying & misleading jerk ..... and he had to drink powdered milk growing up because his family couldn’t afford the liquid. Somebody better call the wambulance for poor pitiful Jimmy.


14 posted on 05/09/2017 7:53:54 PM PDT by boycott
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Just the nozzle. He’s not worth the whole bag.


15 posted on 05/09/2017 7:57:54 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What’s a Jimmy Kimmel? Barely heard of these “actors”.


16 posted on 05/09/2017 7:58:16 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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If Jimmy Kimmel’s kid had Obamacare they would have given him an aspirin and sent him home to die..Kimmel has private insurance..let Kimmel pay for the millions of uninsured..go ahead Jimmy, open up your pockets and let them have the same health care your kid has


17 posted on 05/09/2017 8:17:59 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Kimmel’s still mad that his little staged pickle jar stunt didn’t help get Cankles get elected.


18 posted on 05/09/2017 8:18:03 PM PDT by Conserv
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My prayers go out to the Kimmel family. Newborns and toddlers with health issues is a difficult experience. Our family has dealt with it.

But on the public, political, entertainment front, Kimmel is an idiot. Because of Obamare, we’ve been through 3 insurance companies, and not by choice. The first was a chaotic nightmare, the second financially imploded, the third is hanging tough. For each of the 3 insurance companies, I spent about two weeks organizing the insurance transitions. It was aggravating and costly as I was not working during the insanity to generate income.

Thanks to Obama and his Democrat Thug Party, we lost our doctors. We lost our pediatricians. We lost our primary hospital. We lost access to nearby labs. We lost access to nearby 24/7 clinics. The effective cost of health insurance for my family increased by at least 60%. Before Obamacare, I was paying ~$15k/year for comparatively outstanding care. In 2016, I was paying 60% more for so much less. For 2017, I had to scale back to the crappiest plan available because of 28% rate hikes. It’s abusive.

I’ve never been without insurance the entirety of my adult life. I always found a way to pay my insurance dues. I never tried to game the system. And yet me, and others like me, get screwed. And ironically, we’re counted as an Obamacare beneficiary. Why? Because Obama and his Democrat Thug Party terminated our existing insurance contracts forcing us onto their Utopian health insurance disaster.

You’re an idiot, Kimmel. You don’t know jack.


19 posted on 05/09/2017 8:19:33 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Where’s Mr. Kimmy’s thanks to me for paying his bill? <<<

EXACTLY!!!....its amazing how the truth is hidden by rich liberals...


20 posted on 05/09/2017 8:25:10 PM PDT by M-cubed
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