Taylor’s Takes: Kimmel FAFO’d himself out of a job
It seems that anyone who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death last week stood to learn so much from him had they paid attention.
It seems that anyone who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death last week stood to learn so much from him had they paid attention.
We’ve all seen the vile posts from teachers, healthcare workers, public servants, and others cheering the public assassination of a conservative champion.
What has been gratifying and a sense of comfort in the week after Charlie’s murder is seeing many of these haughty revelers lose their jobs. Thanks to individual social media watchdogs and large accounts like Libs of TikTok, Catturd, and others, hundreds of macabre merrymakers were exposed for the world to see and summarily dismissed from their places of employment.
The great irony, of course, is that all of these formerly employed members of American society were exercising their First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech. Read any Michael Crichton novel, though, and you’ll come to understand that it is most unwise to wield something of which you don’t fully understand the power.
Freedom of Speech affords us many opportunities. We can stand on soapboxes on street corners and preach whatever gospel we like. We can openly criticize members of government. We can even post the most hateful rhetoric imaginable onto social media.
Under the First Amendment, as long as the speech isn’t inciting violence, making direct threats, or causing an unreasonable public nuisance, law enforcement can do nothing to stop it. However, what the cheerleaders of Charlie’s corpse failed to realize is that there can be other forms of justice than governmental.
While the Matthew Dowds, Matt Gutmans, and Ilhan Omars of the world have every right to express their personal views on Charlie Kirk, his manner of death, and the aftermath of the investigation, they are not protected from non-governmental consequences.
Employers, especially those who deal with the care of the public at large, have every right to review the behavior of their employees and decide if their actions reflect the standards of the company.
What’s ironic is that Charlie Kirk did and would have continued to defend the rights of these ghouls to say all they wished to about him.
Which brings us to who is now the most prominent person to have, for now, lost their job over comments related to Charlie’s assassination – Jimmy Kimmel.
Kimmel, star of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” opened his show earlier this week with a monologue focused on the most significant political assassination in generations.
One “joke” in particular attempted to piggyback on the massive disinformation campaign spewed by assassin apologists over the weekend, claiming that the gunman was MAGA through and through.
“We had some new lows over the weekend,” said Kimmel, “with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and put everything they can to score political points from it.”
If you actually watch Kimmel make his comments, you can almost see him in real time beginning to regret ever starting that sentence. By the time he reached “anything other than one of them,” he was rushing to get through the statement and quickly onto the next gag, hoping nobody would have noticed the intentionally open-to-interpretation dig.
Kimmel was projecting onto supporters of Charlie Kirk what he feared. Kimmel did not want to have to defend, once again, a crazed gunman who shared the same beliefs he did. So, he bought the venom his party sold over the weekend and pretended that Tyler Robinson was a die-hard Trump supporter.
Here’s why it didn’t work.
If it had been true that Tyler Robinson was “Ultra-MAGA,” actual Trump supporters would have no problem distancing themselves from Robinson’s actions and motives. We don’t feel the need to justify violence. We can call out evil and have an honest conversation about it.
Kimmel proved that liberals like himself are incapable of having an open and honest dialogue, even when the facts are staring them right in the face.
Remember, this isn’t Kimmel’s first time running cover for an assassin. When Luigi Mangione was arrested for the cold-blooded murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, Kimmel gleefully took to the airwaves, jesting about the female members of his staff who found Luigi to be extremely attractive. The bit went on for minutes, with Kimmel adding his own humor to their borderline pornographic text exchanges.
After his latest homicide humor attempt, the largest ABC affiliate group decided to pre-empt Kimmel’s show for the time-being. This decision forced ABC’s hand to put the show on hiatus indefinitely. It’s all but official that Jimmy Kimmel has been fired.
Leftists, for whatever reason, can’t help but attempt to justify the most extreme actions of the most extreme members of their party.
Perhaps this is the fourth stage of Trump Derangement Syndrome: complete and total abandonment of any trace of human decency. And there doesn’t seem to be a cure in sight.
