Jimmy Kimmel probably didn’t affirmatively lie about the politics of Charlie Kirk’s killer — he just didn’t know what he didn’t know .
In the monologue that got him suspended by ABC, the late-night show host averred, “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”
This was so flagrantly wrong and so woefully misinformed that it would have been a firing offense if Kimmel were a journalist.
We can assume Kimmel’s defense would be that he’s trying to be Johnny Carson and not Edward R. Murrow, yet he long ago made himself into a quasi-political commentator.
The deeper question is: Why did Kimmel have no idea what he was talking about, as someone who makes a very good l