# Jimmy Kimmel pulled indefinitely from the air after comments about GOP response to Charlie Kirk’s death (Kimmel will be back on air Tuesday 2025-09-23) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [September 18, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140 "2025-09-18T01:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/121 "2025-09-23T06:29:55Z")
Nevermind. Off topic ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/122 "2025-09-23T19:38:31Z")
CoNtExT!!! Right wing trolls got their talking point a few days ago. Glad it’s popping up here and in the dead jackass pit thread. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/123 "2025-09-23T19:44:08Z")
You people are showing how pathetic you really are. When I ask for cites I get the same propaganda. It is pretty hard to gas light when the complete videos are all over the internet for everyone to see. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/124 "2025-09-23T19:48:19Z")
Yeah, I don’t really listen to the opinions of fucknuggets that carry water for racists crying “CONTEXT!”, when the “CONTEXT!” literally does nothing to disprove the racist shitholery. CONTEXT! Also noted: you completely ignoring yet another cite you cry for. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/125 "2025-09-23T20:26:32Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > When I ask for cites I get the same propaganda. It is pretty hard to gas light when the complete videos are all over the internet for everyone to see. Then FUCKING share links to those “complete videos” with us – with timestamps or indications as to where in a long video we should be looking – rather than just complaining that we’re all taking these statements out of what you insist is important context that will make us all believe that Charlie Kirk’s statements, which make him look like a bigot and a racist, would be seen differently if we saw them “in context.” Give us one example of something a Kirk quote which people here are saying is racist, and a broader, “in context” cite of that quote which makes it clear that Kirk was _not_ racist. ONE. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/126 "2025-09-23T20:35:40Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > … There have already been protests outside the Seattle ABC TV station this last week. And that was _before_ this latest update. Riffing on this — and I hope it’s not too much of a digression — I read that Nexstar has a filing with the FCC to acquire TEGNA, the parent of KING (NBC). Since I can’t see the current FCC raising even an iota of fuss, it looks like two of the four television news outlets in the area will be controlled by the über-right. While Cox, which owns KIRO (CBS) has taken Sinclair to task in the past, my impression is that it is, at best, center-right. So I find it deeply ironic that the most “fair and balanced” television news source is likely to be the Fox affiliate. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/127 "2025-09-23T20:37:58Z")
You’re such fucking trash. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/128 "2025-09-23T20:50:40Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > You people are showing how pathetic you really are. When I ask for cites I get the same propaganda. It is pretty hard to gas light when the complete videos are all over the internet for everyone to see. No, the pathetic thing is to willfully ignore many bad things, like Charlie Kirk and Turning Point being also anti-mask and antivaxx. > **[Charlie Kirk’s Extreme Vaccine Death Extrapolations Don’t Hold Water, Experts...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/charlie-kirk-extreme-vaccine-death-120325416.html)** > > Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk recently speculated that between 123,000 and 1.2 million people may have died after receiving the coronavirus shots. > **[Charlie Kirk’s video listing reasons to oppose COVID-19 vaccines contains...](https://science.feedback.org/review/charlie-kirk-video-listing-reasons-to-oppose-covid-19-vaccines-contains-multiple-incorrect-misleading-unsupported-statements/)** > > The U.S. Vaccine Adverse Reporting System (VAERS) serves as a warning system for potential side effects of vaccination. However, VAERS reports contain unverified information and, on their own, can’t demonstrate a causal link between the vaccine and... ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/129 "2025-09-27T05:58:48Z")
Do you really think this guy had any redeeming qualities? Seriously? He painted a target on his head and went on stages and campuses and spouted his filth and got unalived. To the detriment of his family. If nothing else he was super stupid. As was the murderer. I do hope his wife and babies can live a happy life knowing what he did to them. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/130 "2025-09-27T12:20:41Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > He painted a target on his head and went on stages and campuses and spouted his filth and got unalived. To the detriment of his family. How many of his videos have you watched in their entirety? He was among the most intelligent of men I have had the pleasure to witness and he harbored no hate for anyone. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/131 "2025-09-27T12:24:04Z")
@HoneyBadgerDC, Go argue this Kirk crap in a thread about Kirk. What the fuck is wrong with you? How many threads do you need to show your ass in? Beck, this is a Jimmy Kimmel thread, not Kirk, there are shitloads of Kirk threads. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/132 "2025-09-27T14:40:24Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > How many threads do you need to show your ass in? Every single one of them. His performance as the most “just asking questions,” racist, sexist, most impenetrable underbridge-dwelling goad is nonpareil. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/133 "2025-09-27T15:05:47Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > How many of his videos have you watched in their entirety? He was among the most intelligent of men I have had the pleasure to witness and he harbored no hate for anyone. Bullshit, hate for immigrants is still hate even when he politely and disingenuously used red herring arguments against them. > **[Charlie Kirk is WRONG About Immigration! Here’s the Truth 👀⚖️](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8rcDwjnRwEt=9)** > > Many say, “Just enter legally!”—but for most, there is no legal pathway! 🚫🛑 The system is broken. Most asylum seekers aren’t abusing it—they’re fleeing for... ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/134 "2025-09-27T15:07:24Z")
Seriously? You too? take this shit to a Kirk thread. WTF? Don’t be an asshole. **If you are responding to something in a thread that is basically off-topic or likely to lead to a hijack, try this:** How to **Reply as a linked Topic** : Click Reply, in the upper left corner of the reply window is the reply type button, _looks like a curving arrow point to the right_. Choose **Reply as linked topic** and it starts a new thread. As an example, you can choose GD, IMHO or The Pit for it. That is actually the best method. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/135 "2025-09-27T15:19:27Z")
Uh, this is not the pit? [takes a look], yes it is. Oh well, I see your point, will concentrate on Kimmel here from now on, but HoneyBadgerDC is the asshole for being just another follower of the already old right wing talking point that if only we see things in context, Kirk will appear as a nice guy. Like many bigots and anti science guys before, it is a very asshole move to tell others that already did take a look before, that they did miss the “big picture”. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/136 "2025-09-27T15:20:54Z")
Agreed, [see my reply to him earlier](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/131). But don’t help the asshat hijack a a solid thread. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/137 "2025-09-27T16:34:29Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > > > He painted a target on his head and went on stages and campuses and spouted his filth and got unalived. To the detriment of his family. > > How many of his videos have you watched in their entirety? He was among the most intelligent of men I have had the pleasure to witness and he harbored no hate for anyone. Care to share the CK video content that gave you so much pleasure and how do you identify hate speech? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/138 "2025-09-27T17:48:25Z")
Thats cold. Anyone who speaks in public puts a target on their head. Doesn’t mean they brought it on themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/139 "2025-10-03T23:15:48Z")
I watch Kimmel’s monologues on YouTube. I hope that eventually the adoring applause at the start will be tempered. It just seems to go on and on. Thank God for mute/ ff. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140/140 "2025-10-04T12:29:32Z")
I think it’s less “we adore Kimmel so much” and more “fuck you, censoring MAGA assholes”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-indefinitely-from-the-air-after-comments-about-gop-response-to-charlie-kirk-s-death-kimmel-will-be-back-on-air-tuesday-2025-09-23/1023140.md?page=8)