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Jimmy Kimmel Defends Lack of Harvey Weinstein Jokes: I’m Not the ‘Moral Conscience of America’
Daily Beast ^ | October 13, 2017 | Matt Wilstein

Posted on 10/13/2017 11:31:51 AM PDT by EdnaMode

After he spoke out so forcefully on both health care and gun control over the past month, many late-night viewers might have expected Jimmy Kimmel do the same about the sexual harassment and assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein. When he didn’t, Kimmel’s right-wing critics — including Donald Trump Jr. — were quick to accuse him of liberal bias. Was he protecting the Democratic donor and his fellow “Hollywood elite” in a way he would never do for Donald Trump?

Kimmel pushed back hard on those assertions on Friday during an interview with Good Morning America’s Amy Robach to promote his upcoming week of Brooklyn tapings, during which he also welcomed the idea of having President Trump on his show. “Maybe this is crazy, but I feel like I could turn him around on a couple of things,” he said.

Starting with the president’s son, the late-night host said, “Well, he’s an idiot. This is an imbecile whose job seems to be tweeting, as far as I can tell.”

“First of all, the Harvey Weinstein thing, people like this false equivalence of that’s somehow equivalent to what happened in Las Vegas,” Kimmel added, arguing that the alleged assault of dozens of women does not deserve the same reaction as the killing of nearly 60 people. He said that Weinstein is “not a friend of mine,” adding, “I'm not in the movie business.” As a once and future Oscar host who is friends with many of the movie stars in Weinstein’s orbit, that claim is a hard one to buy.

“And I'll add that that story came out like I think moments before we went to tape on Thursday and we didn't have a show on Friday,” Kimmel continued.

While The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah managed to work a throwaway joke about Weinstein into his Thursday night show last week, Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon and James Corden all did not cover it until Monday. John Oliver was the first host to fully address it Sunday night. But even when Kimmel did finally talk about Weinstein on Monday, he used the story more as a tool to go after Trump Jr. than anything else. “Next time you’re defending your father and you think it’s a good idea to draw a comparison between him and a freshly accused sexual predator, don’t. It doesn’t help,” Kimmel told him, before delivering one joke about Weinstein just to prove that he could.

On GMA, Kimmel went on to accuse “gun nuts” of “trying take any comedy bit I did out of context and use it as some kind of proof” that he is not an ally for women, including some pretty gross moments from The Man Show. “They're saying that I'm calling myself the moral conscience of America, which I most certainly never did and most certainly never would,” he declared.

Kimmel is probably telling the truth when he says he never set out to become the “moral conscience of America,” and we should not necessarily expect a late-night host to embody that role. On the two recent occasions that he did decide to speak out, it was because of a personal connection to those issues. His baby son’s open-heart surgery turned him into a health care advocate and his own childhood connection to Las Vegas made him feel for that city.

His decision not to spend a similar amount of time on Weinstein seems to confirm that the issue of sexual misconduct does not hold a similar place in his heart. Fortunately, other hosts — particularly Samantha Bee and Seth Meyers — have picked up the slack.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coverup; harveyweinstein; hollywood; jimmykimmel; kimmel; liberalhxpocrite; liberalhypocrisy; liberalhypocrite; liberalhypocrites; weinstein
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To: EdnaMode

41 posted on 10/13/2017 12:03:33 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: EdnaMode

Oh, NOW you’re NOT the moral conscience of America! For a little while there you seemed to think you were. Wonder what changed?


42 posted on 10/13/2017 12:04:09 PM PDT by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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To: EdnaMode

“I’m not the moral conscience of America.”

Translation: “I don’t want to humiliate myself by condemning Weinstein’s sexual escapades when I have asked women to feel what’s in my pants on live tv.”


43 posted on 10/13/2017 12:04:10 PM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: EdnaMode

What a moron. I can’t believe the idiot actually said that. He’s tried to be the “moral conscience of America” since PRESIDENT Trump was elected.


44 posted on 10/13/2017 12:04:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Has Sheila JACKSON LEE changed her name yet?)
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To: EdnaMode
Don't bite the hand that feeds'ya, huh Jimmmmy?

huck follywood

45 posted on 10/13/2017 12:04:50 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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To: EdnaMode

Jimmy doesn’t want to talk about his very crude and demeaning “Man Show”. What a santimonious hypocritical pr*ck.


46 posted on 10/13/2017 12:08:54 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Leep

Right!!......come to think of it all the late night hosts are........grrrrr


47 posted on 10/13/2017 12:09:50 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: EdnaMode
Kimmel is PURE CHICKEN$HIT!
48 posted on 10/13/2017 12:15:12 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: EdnaMode
I believe that Kimmel is suffering from delusions of grandeur.

...he also welcomed the idea of having President Trump on his show. “Maybe this is crazy, but I feel like I could turn him around on a couple of things,” he said.

49 posted on 10/13/2017 12:15:42 PM PDT by map
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To: EdnaMode
Real reason: Kimmel and the production staff at Jimmy Kimmel Live! likely had direct contact with the Weinstein Company in regards to book as guests actors/actresses who were involved in movies produced and/or distributed by the Weinstein Company. As such, Kimmel and his producers could be culpable and/or become material witnesses in any legal case against Harvey Weinstein.
50 posted on 10/13/2017 12:17:51 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: RayChuang88

Yep, flak/target.


51 posted on 10/13/2017 12:24:40 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: EdnaMode

This from the idiot who tears and diatribes agains PT over Obamacare was trying to be the conscious. So typical of Hollywood, especially given Kimmel’s own background with denigrating women.


52 posted on 10/13/2017 12:27:27 PM PDT by falcon99
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To: EdnaMode

Clown nose on - clown nose off.

He’s just admitted he doesn’t want to be taken seriously because he’s just making jokes so he shouldn’t be held responsible for what he said.

Typical limp twisted hypocritical leftist and no different from Harvey Weinstein.


53 posted on 10/13/2017 12:30:27 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: EdnaMode

Heh, until Weinstein, putz Kimmel spoke as the moral authority of America.

When it is a libtard, who is he to judge?

What an ass.


54 posted on 10/13/2017 12:31:59 PM PDT by dforest
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To: EdnaMode

“I’m Not the ‘Moral Conscience of America’,” says “guess what is in my pants” Jimmy Kimmell.


55 posted on 10/13/2017 12:33:17 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: EdnaMode; BenLurkin

Did Kimmel make any jokes about Trump peeing on a bed with a bunch of Soviet...er...Russian hookers?

I’ll bet money he did.


56 posted on 10/13/2017 12:51:44 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: BenLurkin

I used to like him. Thought his show was pretty evenhanded compared to the other late night court jesters. But he’s really gone off the deep end and I will probably never watch his show again.


57 posted on 10/13/2017 12:51:56 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: EdnaMode
Jimmy Kimmel=another overpaid mealy-mouthed "entertainer" whore that is made of sh!t.
58 posted on 10/13/2017 12:52:42 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Space for rent.)
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To: dfwgator
"...Kimmel used to host “The Man Show”, which featured, “Girls on Trampolines..."

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

59 posted on 10/13/2017 12:53:45 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

You and me both. He has been unwatchable since Trump.


60 posted on 10/13/2017 12:54:05 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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