The American left has gotten itself into a bind. For years, they have excused, minimized, or even cheered the conditions that radicalized the man who murdered Charlie Kirk. They nurtured the very culture of contempt that gave permission for violence against people who dared speak truth out loud. Now that the awful fruit of their labor has been laid bare, they don’t know what to do with it. They’ve choked on their own stink and offered no response anyone of conscience would listen to. Their bad ideas have been exposed as hollow. Their fictionalized nonsense is laughed off the stage. Their circular “what-aboutism” has been rejected.
So, as the left always does, they tried to create a diversion.
Enter ABC. After a decade of pathetic ratings, network executives did something in their own business interest: they cut ties with a host who had alienated half of his potential audience by sneering into a camera and telling them not to watch. That host was Jimmy Kimmel. A bitter, vengeful, and increasingly unfunny man who mistook late-night television for an MSNBC panel show.
The moment ABC made its decision, the president—simply acknowledging the obvious—remarked that the network’s choice was understandable. That’s all it took. Suddenly, the left, beginning with Chuck Schumer in the Senate and Eric Swalwell in the House, began spinning a fantasy that somehow the president had orchestrated the whole thing. Then came the real obscenity: the attempt to assign martyrdom status to Jimmy Kimmel.
Martyrdom. To Jimmy Kimmel.
It’s revolting.
Let’s review: Jimmy Kimmel is a multimillionaire who will still go home every night to kiss his kids, live in his mansion, and enjoy the luxuries afforded by elite circles. His career setback is self-inflicted. He killed his own job.
Now compare him to Charlie Kirk. Charlie’s beautiful family does not get to hug him again. They do not get him back at the dinner table. They do not get to hear his laughter or feel his encouragement. His life was stolen because he dared to bring open conversation to campuses where free speech was supposed to thrive.
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To even try to place Kimmel in the same breath as Charlie Kirk is a sickness. Kirk sacrificed time, safety, and ultimately his life to stand before young people—many who disagreed with him—and say: “Ask me anything.” He didn’t just argue; he listened. He didn’t just speak; he prayed. His presence was not about tearing down others but about elevating truth.
Kimmel, by contrast, spent his career tearing down those who voted differently. He defamed and slandered Charlie Kirk even after Kirk was gone. Yet Kirk, for all his awareness, never let Kimmel dominate his thoughts. He once posted plainly on his X account: “Kimmel is not funny.” That was it. He dismissed the man with a shrug and moved on to more important things.
Kirk had far better matters to occupy his heart and mind. He was busy articulating truth about God, economics, free speech, and the belief that America’s best days were still ahead. He was busy trying to win hearts through kindness, not bitterness. He was busy making his corner of the world better.
Jimmy Kimmel didn’t improve his world. He poisoned it. His jokes were no longer jokes. His monologues were no longer comedy—they were sermons of contempt. He preached hate to his viewers and they absorbed it.
Kirk, in contrast, lived his life among the young, in the public square, putting himself in harm’s way to champion dialogue.
Kimmel lived in elite comfort, sipping cocktails with Hollywood insiders, insulated from consequence.
Kirk was assassinated for standing in the open and refusing to stop telling the truth.
Kimmel was benched because his network got tired of losing money.
One man’s story is tragedy. The other’s is a line item in a corporate spreadsheet.
And here’s the cruelest irony: the very side that nurtured the poison that killed Charlie Kirk is now crying foul because Jimmy Kimmel no longer has a desk and a band.
Kimmel isn’t a martyr. He’s not even close. He’s a casualty of his own arrogance.
Kirk is a martyr. His life was taken because he refused to back down, because he believed God’s truth mattered more than his own comfort.
The contrast could not be starker. One man entertained elites. The other inspired the next generation. One man trained his audience to hate his political enemies. The other begged students to come talk—even when they disagreed. One man squandered his influence. The other laid his life down.
And people notice the difference. They see it. They feel it.
I was reminded of that just last night. At a back-to-school event while awaiting the start of 5th period in one of my children’s classes, I glanced at a “quotes wall” where junior high students had chosen inspirational words to display. There, between Lewis Carroll and Ralph Waldo Emerson, was this:
“I’m far more interested in what God wants from me than what I want from God.” – Charlie Kirk
No trace of Jimmy Kimmel’s bile. No sarcasm, no sneer, no “gotcha.” Just truth that inspires.
Kimmel isn’t Kirk.
It is an insult to Charlie’s life, his family, and the millions who loved him to pretend otherwise. To elevate Jimmy Kimmel as if he carries the same weight is to diminish the real sacrifice made by a man who truly believed in God, country, and conversation.
Jimmy Kimmel led people to hate.
Charlie Kirk led people to hope.
And today, millions of Americans can tell the difference with ease.
We are not Jimmy.
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