NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: Where Did Jimmy Kimmel Get the Idea that Charlie Kirk’s Assassin was Right Wing?

Perhaps strangest of all was her claim that Robinson disliked Kirk for being insufficiently radical. As Fleisher points out, that was pure fantasy.

Richardson goes on to support her statement by saying that he is a “young white man” (which, of course, does not tell us his politics) “from a Republican, gun enthusiast family” (it’s true that his parents were Republicans and had photographed him with guns, but this also tells us nothing about the son’s politics) “who appears to have embraced the far right, disliking Kirk for being insufficiently radical” (a statement for which there is zero evidence).

I pointed out some of the people who were spreading this particular fantasy on Bluesky and X here. Keith Olbermann, David Shuster, Jemele Hill and many others were pushing this hard all weekend (I also mentioned Heather Cox Richardson.)

As Nate Silver says, this was exactly the sort of online nonsense that the left routinely labels misinformation, but only when it comes from the right. In this case, Jemele Hill deleted her tweet on Bluesky but Olbermann and Shuster have not and, so far as I know, Heather Cox Richardson also hasn’t issued a correction.

There was never any proof any of this was true but I guess enough people on Bluesky were all agreeing with the same false claims that Jimmy Kimmel thought he was safe repeating it in his monologue.

Earlier: Kimmel Was About to Make Things Even Worse Before Suspension.

Here’s what happened:

ABC: “Jimmy, you fucked up. Apologize.”

Jimmy: “Fuck no. I’m going to blast these fascists.”

ABC: “Not on our dime, you’re not.”

— RBe (@RBPundit) September 19, 2025