At last some real pushback against the left’s slander culture
For years I have been writing about the slander culture of the left, whereby they can say any lie about anyone who disagrees with them without any consequence. These lies are often pure slander and defamation, based on no facts. Often they grow to a point that anyone attacked in this manner becomes a persona non grata, ostracized by all society out of fear.
Here are some recent examples of this kind of slander:
Ten solid years of this by these monsters and their handmaidens in the media. It cost a father his life, but it will cost them their future. We have crossed the Rubicon.
The Democrats must be held to account every single day. pic.twitter.com/dqTPEWyt4V
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) September 15, 2025
This is what destroyed the Proud Boys organization. The left — and the propaganda press that works for it — labeled it as “racist”, “white supremacist”, and “neo-fascist” based on no evidence, so that soon it collapsed because ordinary people were afraid to associate with it. And in describing this slander campaign back in 2019, I correctly predicted even worse:
I fully expect the rhetoric against Trump supporters in the coming election to spread and get more vicious. This in turn will act to encourage more extreme actions, including violence comparable to what Antifa now does with impunity in Portland. Be prepared. When people abandon the truth for emotional labels inspired by hate, they are liable to do anything.
Meanwhile, this lying name-calling never seemed to carry any consequences. Big name Democratic Party politicians, celebrities, and leftist pundits could defame conservatives routinely in the same manner and get away with it. The only ones who would suffer would be the unjustly accused.
The events in the past two days in connection with former host Jimmy Kimmel of Jimmy Kimmel Live! however tells me that the murder of Charlie Kirk has truly changed things.
Jimmy Kimmel on September 15, 2025, spreading lies and
slandering half the nation. Click for original video.
First, a summary of what happened. Kimmel during his show’s opening monologue on September 15, 2025 blatantly lied, claiming that Kirk’s murderer was a conservative and part of Trump’s MAGA movement. Not only was this statement fundamentally untrue, based all the available evidence, it was an evil slander against the millions of people who voted for Donald Trump.
The uproar against Kimmel was immediate and gigantic. Within hours local affiliates told ABC they would not air Jimmy Kimmel Live!. FCC chairman Brendan Carr said that if ABC did not take action to publicly correct the record its FCC license could be revoked.
It is important to point out that Kimmel did not lose his job because of government action — though that action was threatened. He got fired because numerous ABC affiliate stations told the network that they would no longer air his show. These local stations decided they had had enough of this slander culture. It had to stop.
ABC was thus forced to take action. It knew that if it didn’t address the concerns of its local affiliates, its entire network could collapse.
Nor is Kimmel’s removal an unjustified action similar to the hundreds of blacklisting cases I have documented since 2020. Kimmel wasn’t fired because he stated an opinion based on reasonable facts — the typical situation when conservatives were blacklisted for the past decade. He was fired for spreading a lie about current events that could be easily verified to be false in only a few seconds of research on line. And the lie was expressly designed to defame Kimmel’s political opponents in the most vile manner.
What makes this story different and a sign that Kirk’s assassination has truly changed the political equation is the quick decision of so many ABC affiliates to take action. For the past decade, as shown in the video above, Democrats would call Trump and his supporters “fascists,” “Nazis,” “white supremacists,” “racists”, and worse, and such people would shrug and do nothing. “It’s just the ordinary give and take of politics. Nothing to see here!”
This time however they rose up in outrage, demanding that ABC do so as well or face unpleasant consequences.
We have seen a similar firm response to the thousands of leftists who posted videos celebrating gleefully the murder of Kirk, with almost all who have been identified now fired or facing serious personal consequences. Employers are no longer willing to tolerate such behavior from their workers. You act like a vicious fool who supports murder for political purposes, you can find another place to work.
Kimmel’s firing however raises this response to a whole new level. The TikTok influencers who have been fired were also unknown, with little power. Kimmel however was a big name hosting the major late night show on television. His quick removal signals that cultural shift quite starkly.
The left is no longer going to get away with slander and lies. It must now recognize that there will be consequences for such misbehavior. Kirk’s death was the final blow. Americans of all stripes and political beliefs just aren’t going to stand by and tolerate this evil any longer.
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“Finally, good men are no longer doing nothing. “
That says it all
Entertainment might dial it back—but academia?
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https://phys.org/news/2025-09-simply-male-female.html
Robert,
I don’t mean to derail your rant, because it’s a good one. But, in the interest of accuracy, Kimmel hosts “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on ABC.
The “Tonight Show” is hosted by Jimmy Fallon on NBC. It’s easy to confuse the two.
Chuck
An NY Post story suggests ABC insiders feel the networks lawyers could have prevented the debacle and didn’t, which is interesting if true.
Chuck: Thank you. As I haven’t watched this tv drivel in decades, link to it is poor. I have fixed my error.