The leftist comedian Jimmy Kimmel who hosts ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! admitted that he lost over half of his fanbase because of his anti-Trump jokes. The shocking admission comes days before the polls close in the midterm elections, where Republicans are poised to take back both the U.S. House and Senate comfortably.
“I have lost half of my fans — maybe more than that,” said Kimmel, saying, “10 years ago among Republicans, I was the most popular talk show host.”
Fox News reports:
He said when former President Trump was first running for office ABC executives “hinted” he should back off on his jokes about the candidate.
“I just said, ‘If that’s what you want to do, I understand and I don’t begrudge you for it, but I’m not going to do that,’” the comedian told co-hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild.
He said he agreed that being more neutral in his comedy would help the ratings and he told executives, “If you want somebody else to host the show, then that’s fine. That’s OK with me. I’m just not going to do it like that.”
He said the executives backed off because they knew he was “serious.”
Kimmel continued, “I couldn’t live with myself [otherwise],” adding that he is “proud” to be very anti-Trump. He said, “there’s a sacrifice you make when it comes to your audience and you could do pretty well if you just stayed down the middle.”
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One of my comments (on this site) was given the heading “waiting for approval” and then it was shadow banned and never shown. I guess that I came down a little too hard on liberals for the approval persons taste.
It’s like this: when the prisons (or whoever) stamp the state license plates by an automated sequence of alphanumerics, certain letter combinations are banned as suggestive or *OBSCENE* and blocked from stamping and printing. I think the same process is at work here, namely an artificial intelligence filter is programmed to recognize and reject comments bearing certain key words. The result: Yahoo, for all its good qualities, worships political correctness and thus cannot distinguish between trolling and genuine informative comments that reference topics that the AI considers taboo. The same has happened to me, Mr. Baker, and Yahoo has mindlessly squelched many a thoughtful or experiential comment.
kimmel your rotten comments and jokes about Trump were so out of line. Maybe you should go back to old Johnny Carson shows for hints on how to handle politics. You and Colbert really demonstrate a lack of intelligence because, while you were lobbying insults, Trump was healing our country economically and politically and internationally. So why do you think you knew better? I wonder what your payoff was.
Making statements in an attempt to regain his Non-Existent “Relevance” is not working but is further evidence to the Statement “When attempting to get out of a hole, the first step is STOP DIGGING”
It is unfortunate that Kimmel lacks grey matter and should realize that liberalism is a disease of the mind.
Dr. Michael Savage wrote the seminal NYT bestseller on the subject: “Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder”.
Too bad the network didn’t dump the show along with the host. Too, too bad about his three year renewal.
Really how many activists are their that know history. If they are part of a zealot group there only knowledge is what the zealot puppet master preaches. And the followers drink the kool-aid and do the head-bob chicken-neck shuffle singing we get them.
Get woke, Go broke! When Kimmel started his career, I really liked his work! When he started bashing conservatives and revealing his far-left character, I lost all interest in even hearing the guy’s voice! His loss is his own fault!
Kimmel isnt really funny and his tasteless jokes apparently attract like minded folks that is until he chose to spend hours insulting Trump. It proved he himself has no talent but he makes big bucks being a pain in the …..too bad not letting conservatives be a part of the party rather than shutting them out with insults gave him his bad results. He is rich and doesn’t care.
This is the sickness in our country. One side wants to hate the other. It’s terribly sad when Americans are now black or white no color just blah.