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Bradley Whitford's Rant About Jimmy Kimmel Was Peak Insanity

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Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air. So, can everyone take a Tylenol and just shut the hell up already, because this wasn’t an attack on free speech, Trump didn’t order the show to be ripped off the air, and the late-night host was still rich, free, and famous. He didn’t have his face broken by a retractable baton a la V for Vendetta, where a fictional late-night host is arrested for mocking the high chancellor of the UK. In that film, yes, that’s actual fascism, where the prime minister’s office is no more.  That’s not what happened here, but everyone freaked out, and while Bradley Whitford’s CNN segment on this isn’t the most insane, it was still ridiculous. 

Whitford is a prolific actor who’s done almost everything. He played Al Pacino’s nephew, whom he choked out in Scent of a Woman, duked it out with Adam Sandler over a hotel fortune in Billy Madison, kept monsters at bay in The Cabin in the Woods, and was part of a family that kidnapped black men to be used as vessels for their rich white friends in Get Out. Oh, right, he was also White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman in The West Wing, which is probably why he was tapped to do this segment. 

This was before Kimmel returned to the air. Still, the actor said this suspension was an attack on free speech, equated it to McCarthyism, and added that the real people who you need to blame for allowing these supposed attacks on our rights to continue are those who remain silent. Yes, these people cannot and will not tolerate those who want to stay neutral and not get involved—they will make you take a side

He also said that Kimmel has cause for a lawsuit. None of that happened because he’s returned, and so have his dismal ratings. It was a business decision. There’s no evidence that Trump ordered this, or the cancellation of the equally horrid Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which was losing $50 million/year. When people suck, they get fired in this business. Kimmel’s show isn’t good, but Disney executives caved due to the online Left, who are very vocal and unhinged. 

Kimmel was suspended for his atrocious monologue about the Charlie Kirk assassination, for which he has not offered an apology for trying to blame the attack on conservatives. It was a lefty clown, Tyler Robinson, who shacked up with a transgender and reportedly was into furries. 

Yeah, totally sounds like a right-winger, right?    

Look, just because Mr. Whitford played a top White House aide doesn’t mean he’s some authority on these issues. He can say whatever he wants, sure—but Josh Lyman doesn’t exist, and neither did the Bartlet White House.

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