Unapologetic Jimmy Kimmel Still Delivering Politics Instead of Punchlines | The American Spectator

Rosanne Barr returned to ABC’s airwaves last night after a seven-year exile.
Just kidding.
Jimmy Kimmel returned to ABC’s airwaves after a seven-day exile.
That was my attempt at a joke. Kimmel, who increasingly delivers speeches instead of punchlines, should try one sometime. (RELATED: The Return of Jimmy Kimmel)
When the network canned Roseanne for offensive comments issued on her own time, that amounted to freedom of association. When the network suspended Kimmel for offensive comments on its airwaves, that amounted to censorship.
The Left sees everything backwards in a funhouse-mirror reflection that distorts reality to its liking.
ABC suspended Kimmel last Wednesday after he attempted to characterize the murderer of Charlie Kirk as essentially subscribing to the same views as his victim. This follows a long-established pattern of people living in an ideological hallucination, denying reality and instead conveniently blaming the people they hate for political assassinations and other atrocities. (RELATED: Jimmy Kimmel Is Living in a Material World)
A Communist did not murder John F. Kennedy, they have insisted for the last 62 years — the John Birch Society or the CIA or some other villain straight out from Progressive, Inc.’s central casting did it. Black Muslims didn’t murder Malcolm X, George W. Bush really engineered 9/11, and a furry-enthusiast sharing a bed with a transgender paramour, radicalized to the Left according to his family, repeatedly complaining that Kirk spread “hate,” and writing anti-fascist slogans on his assassin’s tools did not kill the Turning Point USA founder — a MAGA Republican did it.
MAGA Republicans, at least in the Boston market, could find some irony in a commercial for Join.ICE.gov airing in the block of ads immediately preceding the program. Jimmy Kimmel Live started with a cable-news montage of commentary on the controversy that resulted in the host’s brief suspension — and undoubtedly a brief boost in ratings.
A teary-eyed Kimm…