ED MORRISSEY: Throwback Thursday Karma: Kimmel Celebrates Tucker’s Firing.
Hey kids, it’s Throwback Thursday time, and does MAZE have a doozy for us! Remember when Fox News took Tucker Carlson off the air over a content dispute, and everyone on the Left rushed to his defense and accused Fox of violating the First Amendment?
Er … neither do I. However, I do recall a lot of celebrating over Carlson’s abrupt departure on the Left. Among the most, ahem, colorful of these was in fact Jimmy Kimmel. MAZE gives us the flavor of that live-studio monologue, in which Kimmel channeled Noel Coward by claiming that Carlson had emerged from “Satan’s b***hole.”
2023. Jimmy Kimmel celebrates Tucker Carlson getting fired from Fox. pic.twitter.com/KkvVRc4At6
— MAZE (@mazemoore) September 18, 2025
How charming! What a delightfully classy moment for Disney.
Curiously, David French is not calling yesterday “the Day of Hygiene” for Disney:
https://t.co/wexRLqJLQn pic.twitter.com/FVlSlocFNO
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) September 18, 2025
Similarly, this 2014 XKCD cartoon summed up the left’s response to cancel culture back in the day:
How are all the left wing and liberal posters who uncritically shared this piece-of-crap XKCD comic feeling now? The time to have a strong defence of free speech was when it was inconvenient, not now when you’re on the receiving end of the ‘consequences’. pic.twitter.com/ReJN3pGsoe
— Simon Biddle (@simonbiddle) September 18, 2025
To be fair, at least the way ABC showed Kimmel the door is far less permanent than the way the left retired Charlie Kirk’s career:
"systematically killing free speech." – said, a week after a leftist systematically killed Charlie Kirk – a crime Kimmel deliberately and misleadingly blamed on Kirk's allies and friends.
her blind spot is so big, Stelter's fat ass could walk thru it without scraping the walls. https://t.co/V64LdZZsqZ— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) September 18, 2025
Exit question: Was Jimmy Kimmel’s TV Show an “In Kind Campaign Contribution” With Other Duties For The Democratic Party?
UPDATE:
The national media being more upset at Jimmy Kimmel losing his show than they are Charlie Kirk losing his life is kind of proving the point.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 18, 2025