I’m calling BS on Jimmy Kimmel’s claim that his show was once a favorite among conservatives. His comment came after he told the crew at ‘Naked Lunch’ podcast that he was happy to lose half of his viewers. Kimmel has made himself a long career trying desperately to stay so far-left of the line to avoid getting canceled by liberals that he’s clearly cracked.
The late-nigh host boasted that he lost more than half of his viewer base attacking conservatives to please his liberal overlords.
“Does ABC ever say to you, ‘Hey, could you not just attack this side and lay off a little bit? Cause we are gonna lose those people?’” “Everybody Loves Raymond” creator Phil Rosenthal asked, noting that Kimmel’s animosity extended to a number of Republicans other than just Trump.
“There was at one time, maybe, I don’t know, like right around the beginning of this whole like Trump thing where — ” Kimmel began, but Rosenthal interrupted.
“This is now eight years ago?” he asked.
“Yeah. Something like that. Maybe not quite that long ago that that was like kind of hinted at. But I just said, ‘Listen, I get it. I mean, I don’t disagree. I mean, you’re right. I have lost half of my fans — maybe more than that,’” Kimmel replied.
That’s when Kimmel claimed that his show was popular among conservatives—In what world?
“And I get it, if that’s what they want to do, I just said, ‘Listen, if that’s what you wanna do, I understand and I don’t begrudge you for it, but I’m not going to do that. So, you know, if you want somebody else to host the show, then that’s fine. That’s okay with me. I’m just not gonna do it like that,’” he explained, adding that ABC had ultimately allowed him the freedom to make that choice.
“They knew I was serious. I mean, you know … I couldn’t live with myself,” he said.
Rosenthal appeared to agree, telling Kimmel that what he and fellow late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers were doing — with regard to attacking Republicans from their large platforms — amounted to a “public service.”
“You’re the guys who make us feel like we’re not alone,” Rosenthal said.
“You know, I love this country, too,” Kimmel said, arguing that he didn’t see it as a public service so much as just something he needed to do. “I mean, you know, that flag doesn’t belong to them. This is ours. And when I see somebody coming in and ruining it, I’m gonna say something about it. That’s it. That’s as simple as that.”
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Kimmel has always been a despicable character. Whether he’s talking parents into filming themselves bullying their children or mocking the First Lady for having an accent—Nothing has changed. He’s delusional if he thinks he ever had a conservative base to lose.
