5 Reasons ABC Should Fire Jimmy Kimmel

ABC should fire Jimmy Kimmel
LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 23: Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks onstage during the 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on September 23, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

ABC canceled “Roseanne” mere hours after Roseanne Barr fired off a single crude tweet. Meanwhile, they continue to turn a blind eye on years of disgusting behavior by other network stars. (RELATED: ‘Roseanne’ Canceled; Why Not ‘The View’?).

Here are five reasons why ABC should fire Jimmy Kimmel.

Physically threatening journalists

In September 2017, “Fox & Friends” co-host, Brian Kilmeade accused Jimmy Kimmel of “pushing [his] politics on the rest of the country” with regards to the Graham-Cassidy health care bill. In response, Kimmel used his opening monologue to pretentiously mock Kilmeade for being outside the “Hollywood elite” and threaten to “pound” him:

“I don’t get anything out of this, Brian, you phony little creep. Oh, I’ll pound you when I see you. That is my blurb—that would be my blurb for your next book: ‘Brian Kilmeade is a phony little creep.’”

In the same monologue, Kimmel also compared President Trump reading the health care bill to “a dog doing your taxes.”

Resorting to gay jokes to attack rivals

While embroiled in a feud with Fox News host Sean Hannity earlier this year, Kimmel resorted to a gay joke in an effort to get in a jab at Hannity.

The liberal media roundly criticized Kimmel for the homophobic joke – but can you imagine what their response would have been had it come from Hannity’s end? There would be calls for boycotts and firings galore. Yet Kimmel hardly suffered a scratch.

Fat-shaming women

Long before he was the aggressively liberal host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, Kimmel was the aggressively misogynistic co-host of “The Man Show.” Airing on Comedy Central from 1999 to 2004, “The Man Show” was a comedy sketch show that made a point to objectify and sexualize women. In one particularly disturbing sketch, Kimmel dressed as a carnival barker who judged women on their physical appearance.

Unfortunately, all clips of this disgusting display seem to have been scrubbed from the internet, but here’s a description from Vice’s Steven Blum:

The segment gives Kimmel an excuse to flirt with and berate women according to their attractiveness: He tells a French women that “chubby” actually means slender, he guesses that a middle-aged women is obese, and he asks one woman wearing overalls to unbutton them before saying, “You know what? I’m not even going to guess your weight. Why? Because I’ve got an erection!”

Blum continues, “It’s impossible to watch this segment without being creeped out by Kimmel, whose ‘character’ comes across as an aggressive sexual harasser.” Is that so? Well, where’s the #MeToo mob calling for Kimmel’s head?

Pressuring women to touch his crotch

In another abhorrent segment from “The Man Show,” Kimmel took to the streets and implored women to feel his crotch. He took it a step further with one woman, telling her, “You should put your mouth on it.”

This is despicable. Kimmel used his power as a TV host to pressure women into groping him. Again: where is #MeToo?

Multiple blackface skits

“The Man Show” wasn’t just sexist – it was also racist. Kimmel performed multiple skits in which he donned blackface and mocked beloved NBA Hall of Famer Karl Malone, speaking in poor English to make him sound dumb. (RELATED: Roseanne Cancelled, But Does ABC Remember Jimmy Kimmel’s Blackface Skits?).

Barr was fired over a racist tweet. Why is Kimmel still employed?

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