Kimmel’s Suspension Was Long Overdue
Jimmy Kimmel has finally been suspended. Good. It should have happened a long time ago. The man hasn’t been funny in years. He’s been smug, condescending, and openly hostile toward conservatives night after night. Instead of jokes, he made himself the self-appointed “Woke Pope of Late Night.”
There were a dozen reasons over the years he could have been pulled. The old tapes from The Man Show, his stint in blackface, his vile monologues during COVID wishing death on people who didn’t obey Fauci. Any of it should have been enough. Instead, he kept his platform, lecturing millions while dripping with contempt for anyone outside his ideological bubble.
So yes, I’m glad he’s finally off the air. But here’s the catch: it matters how he was taken down. If affiliates dumped him because viewers were fed up, great. That’s the way it should work—public pressure and market demand. If the FCC leaned on Nexstar and Disney during a merger review, that’s a problem. That’s government power being used to silence speech, and that sets a precedent that will come back to bite us.
Two things can be true at once:
Kimmel is a hack who deserved to lose his show.
The federal government has no business deciding who gets to keep a platform.
We’ve seen this play before. The Biden administration leaned on social media to censor dissenting voices during COVID. Conservatives rightfully pushed back. Why would we cheer if the same tactics are used against someone we dislike? Because one day, the shoe will be on the other foot, and Democrats will happily wield that same power against us.
So let’s be clear: outrage from the crowd? Good. Natural consequences for Kimmel’s lies and smears? Absolutely. But FCC threats tied to corporate deals? That’s dangerous ground. Don’t hand the Left a weapon they’ll use to silence our side when they’re back in charge.
Kimmel is gone, and I won’t miss him for a second. But government overreach isn’t the way we win this fight.