Mark Halperin on Kimmel Cancellation: ‘A Watershed Moment, Conservatives Watch TV Too’
“This was a bridge too far under the circumstances.”
Journalist Mark Halperin appeared on the ‘Ingraham Angle’ last night and discussed ABC News’ decision to put the Jimmy Kimmel show on indefinite hiatus over his remarks about Charlie Kirk.
He noted that ‘conservatives watch TV too’ and that ABC has given lots of airtime to Trump-hating shows like Kimmel’s and ‘The View’ over the last decade.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
HALPERIN: It’s incredible that the Walt Disney company, which for many, many years has allowed “The View” and Jimmy Kimmel to take up two hours of real estate to appeal to the big stations in New York and Los Angeles and Chicago, where the audiences are more liberal. And now at least one station group, and I believe it’s at least two where their stations are in more rural areas and not in the big coastal cities and said, no, a comment like that in the current environment less than a week after Charlie Kirk was assassinated is not acceptable. And the fact that ABC did that under some pressure from the FCC, but more under pressure from station owners is a watershed again, in a history of a company that put pumped out “The View” anti-Trump for a decade, Jimmy Kimmel, anti-Trump for a decade, no equal time for MAGA, no equal time for conservative voices.
This was a bridge too far under the circumstances. And it’s of a piece with what we’re seeing, which is some government coercion, but also just the market is speaking conservatives watch TV too. And they found that unacceptable.
Here’s the clip:
Conservatives watch TV too—and they’ve had enough.@MarkHalperin: “This was a bridge too far under the circumstances… the market is speaking. Conservatives watch TV too, and they found that unacceptable.” pic.twitter.com/IW03Si7qlh
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) September 17, 2025
In another moment from the same appearance, Halperin noted that Democrats don’t understand the magnitude of Kirk or the impact of his assassination. He says that it’s just another example of their kneejerk reaction that anything or anyone Trump likes must be bad. Watch:
Mark Halperin explains how is absolutely stunned at the Democrats inability to understand who Charlie Kirk is and what he meant to so many people in this country.
"They are continuing to operated on one principle. If Donald Trump feels something, they hate it." pic.twitter.com/G5n6CCzaZR
— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) September 17, 2025
Finally, I’ll leave you with one last Halperin clip. He recently appeared on Megyn Kelly’s podcast and suggested that the Kirk assassination is so big that it could change the course of the 2026 midterms.
Megyn and Mark Halperin discuss, Charlie.
"Charlie must be demonized in death because he's close to Trump….I think this could change the entire midterms." pic.twitter.com/ZoXI9WnqTo
— Girl patriot (@Girlpatriot1974) September 16, 2025
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Still waiting for the looting, riots and acts of arson to occur.
“Looting the frig, heated discussion of what to eat, and turning on the oven”… yet … that’s it.
Oven? Hot Pockets are a thing
Toaster oven.
People who have to go to work rarely riot over causes. And none of us work for USAID.
Just wait, as soon as church services are over we are heading to the mall to smash windows and….
Excellent article on Halperin and Kirk, including Halperin’s full remarks, here:
“Mark Halperin on How Charlie Kirk Became an American Icon Without Receiving the Establishment Recognition He Deserved”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/mark-halperin-how-charlie-kirk-became-american-icon/
“Had Charlie Kirk been a Democrat and done what he done in service of, say, Barack Obama, he would have been among the most fetted, celebrated, profiled, championed people in America.”
After years of campaigning against disinformation, liberals have rallied to defend Jimmy Kimmel’s to lie to his audience as his freedom of speech. They believe Trump cancelled him for speaking out against him as if Trump bashing hasn’t been the status quo since 2015. Horrendously unserious people
They didn’t really campaign against disinformation. They campaigned against what was often inconvenient truths that they disliked and would characterize as misinformation.
Textbook tribalism. “It’s free speech when WE do it!”
Horrendously serious people.
Do conservatives stay up that late just to watch tv? I’m fighting just to make it to 10:30.
I’m a moderate so I’m allowed to stay up to 1am or 2am if I want.
I used to watch John Carson every night, I pretty much stopped after he left. I liked Conan or at least liked some of the clips I’ve watched. Used to watch Letterman sometimes but he would get annoying. Leno was not my cup of teach and the latest crop of hosts are unfriendly, mean, and useless.
You couldn’t really tell Carson’s politics from just watching the show. That helped keep his appeal broad.
Leno/Letterman/Conan had an identifiable slant you’d pick up on after a few nights. Enough to annoy out-group viewers but not always drive them to tune out.
Everyone after has just worn their politics on their sleeves, and only appeal to the in-group.
Just one old bear’s opinion but, Dick Cavet was the most interesting and literate of the bunch. And, here’s an odd one for you. My late brother spent 90 days in Vacaville state prison while they assessed his sanity. BY FAR the most popular of the talk shows with the inmates was Cavet.
Yeah cavet was pretty good. So was David Brudnoy who was probably local.
Believe it or not there are GenZ conservatives in greater numbers than you would think. Some of them are rebelling against their parents but some of them are because their millenial idiot parents grew up and wised up.
And they stay up.
I believe the View is under the umbrella of ABC News. As such it is unacceptable that it has spewed its one-sided propaganda all these years without equal time being given to the other side. This is akin to PBC bias only instead of receiving government funds they are given access to government managed airwaves, a scarce resource. They should have had their access pulled and so should NBC and CBS. (Yes I understand most stations are affiliates and not owned by these companies but these companies own the big stations and provide content).
Cable is a different matter. Anything is fair game as long as the cable company serves as just a platform and doesn’t control content based upon viewpoint. However, no one should have to pay for content they disagree with. This is one of the reasons why I permanently severed the cable.
“Conservatives watch TV too”
I don’t know about the rest of you but thirty plus years ago I used to watch a lot of television.
Today, I watch virtually none.
Anytime I get the notion that I should try again, watch a show that someone suggests, I don’t make it through the first episode.
And it’s because the shows are less about entertainment than they are about indoctrinating progressives values in a surreptitious manner.
Case in point: M*A*S*H. What started as a lighthearted comedy devolved over its nine year run to be half-hour bites of propaganda on current events.
And it never got any better after that.
So, no tears here for Mr. Kimmel who’s stock in trade is maligning anyone to his right whom he disagrees with and who thought he was oh so terribly important as not to be held accountable for the awful and untruthful things he said.
Good riddance, Jimmy. Adam was always better at show biz than you.
I tossed out the TV in 1971 and never looked back. It was just too stupid to watch, especially the news.
The original Get Smart was good.
The “I don’t watch TV” snobs remind me of vegans. They just have to tell everyone about it.
Or cyclists.
Mash was fine until that candy-assed sniveler Alan Alda took over as producer.
“Conservatives Watch TV Too”
Which ones? If they haven’t learned better by now, I despair for them.
Mark’s 2 Way podcast is must watch every day. Even handed non angry discussion of the previous days events and current topics.
Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Jimmy to Kissimmee
But Kimmel Live was dry
Disney said to Kimmel “bye bye”
Them good old boys were drinking
whiskey ‘n rye
Singing, “We learned out lesson from Bud Lite”
Don McLean will be pressing charges against you for assault.
Pull quotes from a familiar college as reported by Gateway Pundit (yes Milhouse … direct quotes.._)
“Julia Xu is a radical leftist student at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, who serves on the college’s advisory board of the school’s Gender, Sexuality, and Attraction Initiatives and participates with Students for a Free Palestine.
Following the politically motivated murder of Charlie Kirk, Julia voiced her support for political assassinations as a way to silence political opponents.
In a social media post under the handle @bringbacktheguillotine, she said, “We need to bring back political assassinations.”
She continued, “I don’t feel bad and I don’t think that everyone deserves the right to free speech. Some people should be afraid to express their opinion in public.”
There’s someone who doesn’t understand (or know) history.
Never ceases to amaze me how many of those malignant clowns are itching to get into a shooting war with the side that has 90% of the guns and trigger-pullers.
“Auditioning for the Renaissance Faire?”
one of the most glaring and yet not unsurprising reactions by the left to kimmels downfall is the bs reaction by the left
they are acting, once again, like they have no idea where and WHY the maga crowd is having this reaction
its unreal…the wow..look what they (maga) are starting),, why ,,the lefty pretends
that is the reason,,out of many,,that this time we must take the battle to them
they want to pretend they want to act like they are innocent
its a game they play over and over especially in the area of crimes…
oh no..its not us,,,its the “slavery” police they say when they for the 600000 times each day commit their heinous acts in the streets in the world
enough is enough
“Evil portrays itself, almost without exception, as injured innocence, fighting back.”
Lance Morrow in Evil: An Investigation
First, as an Oberlin alumnus, I am not surprised that they have gone from being a nationally recognized institution to the 3rd, and soon, 4th highest ranked school, in Ohio. Reap what ye sow.
That being said, I learned this lesson around 60 years ago. Our town had a special school levy vote in the upcoming election. A board member of our church, who was a also a school teacher, took it upon herself to post in the church bulletin that it would be “immoral” to vote against the levy. Well, …, that did not go over well. A significant fraction of the church, about 20%, including our family, left. That board member eventually lost her seat but only after the damage had been done. She was the equivalent of a woke leftist back then. That was good lesson in “actions have consequences,” or as we were taught at home, make sure that you want to take the ride before you buy the ticket. Kimmel chose a long time ago to go down the road of being a paid whore for the Left. He has no one to blame but himself for where he ended up as a cautionary tale.
Some are complaining that cancel culture was “grass roots activism” but Kimmel’s removal was under government pressure, and therefore “authoritarian.”
Accepting, for the moment, that government did provide the tipping point that led to Kimmel’s cancellation, they forget “elections have consequences,” and the American people voted for Trump and MAGA. Is that not a form of “grass roots activism”?
funny thing is
he might have lost a job
but he gained a reputation amongst his people that he is a hero
and until or unless he receives *extra* attention it wont matter to him
and by extra of course I mean a public debate of sorts as he sits in a restaurant and a well meaning member of the dnc debates him on his callous coldness and indifference to the whole kirk family and how thats not how the dnc wants to be known as we of course
pray for peace
I watch reruns of M Squad on my black and white console.
Treat it gently. Those 5U4 rectifier tubes are becoming scarce, as are the 6V6 and the 6AL5.
Especially with only the Chinese thin coated tubes left in the market.
Kimmel’s ratings were in the toilet even before this happened. Maybe the suits saw his blood libel as an excuse to finally dump him and stop losing so much money.
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/416532.php
Remember Jimmy Kimmel was costing ABC many millions in loss and they had already made it clear he was fired and they only had him on because they had to wait for the end of a contract that was ending soon anyway.
HOWEVER
It is significant that they willingly took millions in loss when he changed “costing us tens of millions” to “ghoul costing us tens of millions”.
I do hope corporate America is dumping leftism for neutrality and that the Kimmels are a thing of the past.
So that means that with kimmel’s departure, everyone at ABC ought to be getting a raise because their net margin has taken a positive shift. Jimmy will be forgotten the second everyone has had that second extra “dining-out” moment in September.
Within ABC I think he is already forgotten. The issue is outside of ABC Leftists are making him a martyr.
However the cause is so disgusting I think even most Democrats are completely over him, he will exist in a disgusting part of the internet watched by few and despised by most.
Now, if only that fake laughing Fallon would get canceled too. He’s insufferable too.
I never realized how much a sage Michael Jordon was when he observed Republicans buy shoes too.