Jimmy Kimmel has been blasted for putting on the “crocodile tears” during his lengthy self-serving monologue Tuesday night — with the late-night host mentioning Charlie Kirk’s name just once as he failed to apologize for the remarks that got him yanked off the air in the first place.
The defiant host was accused of trying to make himself the victim as he returned to the air for the first time since being sidelined last week over his false and inflammatory comments about Kirk’s assassination.
“Look at Jimmy ‘The Martyr’ Kimmel fake crying tonight. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. DARVO playbook. This is what they do,” Kirk’s friend and fellow conservative activist, Jack Posobiec, raged on X.
“In typical leftist fashion, Jimmy makes the victim himself.”
“No apology. He wasn’t making a joke. He outright lied about the killer because he hated the politics of the victim. Jimmy Kimmel can pound sand,” conservative Dana Loesch posted.
The backlash came after Kimmel opted to dedicate a mere sliver of his nearly 20-minute monologue to clarify his past claim that Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, was likely affiliated with the MAGA movement.
Despite his remarks causing widespread outrage, the lefty late-night host waited more than seven minutes to mention Kirk by name and welled up as he claimed it was “never my intention to make light of a murder of a young man.”
“You used the phrase “MAGA gang” & then lied about what happened. You definitely intended to make light of it and mislead the American people. Pathetic,” conservative pundit Scott Jennings wrote on X.
“Hard to feel sympathy for Jimmy Kimmel and his crocodile tears given how gleefully he has always gorged on the career entrails of conservative stars who lost their jobs like Tucker, Roseanne etc.He’s become a partisan political activist, not a comedic host,” The Post columnist Piers Morgan added.
Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show” and one of Kirk’s closest friends, also weighed in, ripping Kimmel’s justification as “not good enough.”
“Jimmy, it’s simple,” Kolvet wrote, before posting the apology he said Kimmel should deliver: “I’m sorry for saying the shooter was MAGA. He was not. He was of the left. I apologize to the Kirk family for lying. Please accept my sincere apology. I will do better. I was wrong.”
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