Nexstar’s Still Shunning Kimmel’s Smirkfest, Even After Disney’s All-Clear

Well, folks, the late-night clown car is back, but not everyone's ready to buy a ticket to the circus. 

Nexstar Media Group, which runs 32 ABC affiliate stations, is keeping Jimmy Kimmel Live! on the bench, despite Disney cowardly waving the green flag for its return. You'd think a corporate giant like Disney could strong-arm everyone into compliance, but Nexstar's not budging, not yet, anyway. And honestly, it's refreshing to see someone stand their ground against the Hollywood sanctimony machine.

Nexstar dropped the hammer in a statement Tuesday, saying, "We made a decision last week to preempt 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' following what ABC referred to as Mr. Kimmel's 'ill-timed and insensitive' comments at a critical time in our national discourse. We stand by that decision pending assurance that all parties are committed to fostering an environment of respectful, constructive dialogue in the markets we serve." 

So, Kimmel's mouth got him in trouble, and we're not here for it until he learns to play nice. They added that Kimmel's show can still be streamed on Disney's platforms, while their stations will stick to local news and programming that actually matters to their viewers. Smart move, less sanctimonious snark, more real-world relevance.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, which controls 30 ABC affiliates, is also keeping Kimmel's smug mug off their airwaves. Their statement was equally no-nonsense: "Beginning Tuesday night, Sinclair will be preempting 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show's potential return." Sounds like they aren't holding their breath for Kimmel to suddenly become a beacon of civility.

This whole clusterfrack kicked off when Kimmel, in his infinite wisdom, decided to weigh in on the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on September 10. Kirk, a 31-year-old father of two little girls, was fatally shot in the neck by 22-year-old Tyler Robinson during a college event.

Robinson, reportedly linked to a gender confused partner, allegedly confessed via text messages, according to the FBI. Kimmel, never one to let facts get in the way of a good narrative, went on a rant last Monday, accusing conservatives of hitting "new lows" by trying to "characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it." 

Classy, Jimmy. Nothing says "thoughtful discourse" like baselessly smearing a grieving conservative base while a family buries their loved one. It is definitely time for conservatives to consider boycotting his sponsors now that he's going back on air.

The backlash was swift. Disney yanked Kimmel's show last Wednesday after Nexstar and Sinclair pulled it from their stations, and even the FCC's Brendan Carr called Kimmel's remarks "some of the sickest conduct," hinting at potential consequences. Kimmel, doubling down like a true Tinseltown titan, reportedly told execs he wouldn’t apologize. The left cried "free speech!" while conservatives pointed out that falsely tying Kirk's killer to MAGA wasn’t free speech; it was reckless defamation.

Disney announced Monday that Kimmel, [who is also known for his blackface when he did a Karl Malone imitation] is back on ABC Tuesday night, is likely to address the controversy with his trademark smirk and zero self-awareness. 

Kimmel doing blackface

But Nexstar and Sinclair aren't going along with their crap, and good for them. 

Nexstar, the biggest local TV broadcasting group in the U.S., reaches 220 million people across 116 markets. They're not some small-time operation, they have real clout, and they're using it. Just last month, they inked a $6.2 billion deal to acquire Tegna, which will expand their reach and boost political ad revenue in key election markets like Phoenix and Atlanta. That deal is still pending FCC approval, but it shows Nexstar's focused on real priorities, not Kimmel's ego trip.

Clay Travis, the OutKick founder, weighed in on The Will Cain Show, and you can bet he didn't mince words about ABC's handling of this fiasco. Kimmel's return might thrill the blue-check crowd, but with Nexstar and Sinclair holding firm, it's clear not everyone is ready to forgive and forget. Maybe Jimmy should take a cue from the affiliates and focus on "respectful, constructive dialogue" instead of cheap shots. 

But hey, I'm not holding my breath.

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Kamala 'does a Hillary' to pander to y'all Black folk with fake southern accent

"I got me my hot sauce and I ain't no way tired, hahahahahahahaha"

Undercover POTUS Kamala Harris is hardly a Black woman from down south. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, who passed away from colon cancer in 2009, was Indian,  born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, [where my wife is from, by the way] and came to the US in 1958 and earned a PhD in nutrition and endocrinology.

Harris' father, Donald Jasper Harris, is from Brown's Town, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. He holds a PhD in economics and married Shyamala in 1963. The couple had two daughters, Kamala and Maya. The couple divorced when Kamala was seven years old. Donald wrote an essay in 2018 about his family lineage including slave owner Hamilton Brown, as his ancestor. 

But to hear Kamala Harris during a speech  in Atlanta, you would think she was a Black lady from down south. It's obvious that she, like Hillary Rotten Clinton, will pander to anyone to get their vote.

"You all helped us win in 2020 and we gonna do it again in 2024," Harris, who is from California, told Atlanta rally goers while seemingly trying out a new and unconvincing accent. 

She was immediately blasted on social media for her pandering.

"Kamala Harris went to speak in Atlanta and now has a southern accent,"  Clay Travis OutKick founder wrote on X. "Why do people do this? It’s just so transparently fake.

"Do people do this with any other regional accents?" Travis questioned in a subsequent post. "I don’t think so. No one goes to Massachusetts and suddenly talks like a Kennedy. It’s only the South."

Travis’ post garnered several replies from critics of the vice president’s accent.

"It's what sociopaths do," one reply said.

"It’s called mirroring and it is a strong narcissistic tendency," another person said.

The moment also caught the attention of conservative columnist Ian Haworth.

"Kamala Harris’s fake southern accent puts Hillary Clinton to shame," Haworth said on X, referencing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s widely mocked use of a southern accent at various stages of her career in politics.

Harris will do anything, and now we know she will say anything, to gain more political power. If she wins in November, the United States will have a far-left lunatic who is not very bright, running the country . . . into the ground.

It was H. L. Mencken who said, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

This perfectly characterizes where America now stands. If Donald J. Trump fails to defeat the daughter of Donald J. Harris in November, it will be a true disaster.

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Justice Sotomayor blasted for fake information over child Covid numbers

Loco or Liar?

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments for 3 hours and 40 minutes over a federal mandate that a cognitively impaired President wants to impose on private businesses with over 100 employees. Enforcement of the policies, which were announced in November, has been put on hold pending resolution in the high court.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor had things to say about the pandemic situation as well.

She falsely claimed that more than 100,000 children in the US are currently hospitalized from COVID-19, and many of them are on ventilators. It's unclear as to whether she is lying or uninformed, but her numbers are as actual as the Russian collusion hoax the Democrats and media had been telling the public when Trump was in office and has since been disproved.

Her statement came during the oral arguments regarding the Biden administration's mandate for employees of private businesses be either vaccinated or frequently tested. Sotomayor apparently just recited large numbers in her head because they had nothing to do with reality.

"We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators," she falsely claimed.

Yes, there are more children hospitalized now than any point prior in this pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [which has become an oxymoron since they don't prevent nor control anything but our freedom]. The seven-day average of pediatric hospitalizations was around 3,700 last week, but as we know, younger people are at far less risk than older adults of severe outcomes from the coronavirus.

The Hudson Institute's Rebeccah Heinrichs wrote: "Inexcusable for a SCOTUS justice to peddle this fear mongering false info."

"It’s actually terrifying that a Supreme Court justice can be so misinformed. The emperor has no clothes," Ron DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw said.

"Fact-checkers. Hello?" Fox News contributor Joe Concha wrote in response to her made-up numbers.

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OutKick's Clay Travis tweeted:  "Justice Sotomayor’s comment on 100,000 children in serious condition with covid is such a flagrantly untrue statement she should have to correct it after the argument. It’s embarrassing for the Supreme Court to allow that factual inaccuracy to occur in an oral argument." 

Sotomayor was nominated by President Obama because she is a woman and a far-left Latina, and has been on the Supreme Court since 2009. 

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AOC, a person of Congress, doesn't understand gender--most agree she's not that bright

Womanstruating person 

Rep. Alexandria Obviously-Commie (Dummy-NY) was mocked on Twitter for refusing to acknowledge that men cannot have menstrual cycles and refers to women who do as "menstruating person." At least she doesn't refer to them as 'people with monthly blood situations.'

The mental giant appeared on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" where she spoke about Gov. Greg Abbott's statements regarding the Texas Heartbeat Act, which permits the killing of babies in the womb after 6 weeks. AOC blathered about the bill having nothing to do "about supporting life" but was to control "women's bodies" as well as "any menstruating person."

"None of this is about supporting life," she said with her nasal voice. "What this is about is controlling women’s bodies, and controlling people who are not cisgender men. This is about making sure that someone like me as a woman or any menstruating person in this country cannot make decisions over their own body," the congresswoman bloviated.

After the interview aired, Twitter users mocked the socialist for insisting on the term "menstruating person" while also using the term "woman."

Dana Loesch, a conservative radio host tweeted:

"Hard to argue that this is an attack on women when you simultaneously abort their existence with "menstruating person."

Outkick founder Clay Travis discussed the interview on his podcast with Buck Sexton. "It's mind-blowing how broken the logic is for people like #AOC. And you can even hear her in her head thinking about -- instead of just saying 'woman', she's thinking 'menstruating person,’" Travis said.

Daily Wire reporter Michael Knowles also weighed in: 

"In the spirit of compromise, I’m fine with an exception to the law for all ‘menstruating persons.’"

CNN producer Allison Hedges, not the sharpest knife on the Christmas tree, praised the interview in a tweet:

"WATCH: @AOC eviscerates @GregAbbott_TX on the Texas abortion ban. ‘I'm sorry we have to break down Biology 101 on national television, but in case no one has informed him...six weeks pregnant means two weeks late for your period.'" 

After the interview, the socialist uterus-owning person of Congress doubled-down on the use of the term "menstruating people."

"Not just women! Trans men & non-binary people can also menstruate. Some women also *don’t* menstruate for many reasons, including surviving cancer that required a hysterectomy. GOP mad at this are protecting the patriarchal idea that women are most valuable as uterus holders," she tweeted. "Trans, two-spirit, and non-binary people have always existed and will always exist. People can stay mad about that if they want, or they can grow up."

Yadda, yadda, yadda. 

While talking with Mr. Cooper, the person of Congress also compared the recent abortion law to that of "sexual assault" since both are "about asserting control over another person." But if you go by that logic, all laws can be compared to "sexual assault" as they are intended to control behavior for the purpose of protecting society. 

In the case of abortion, the law protects those who cannot protect themselves and prevents the 'birthing person' from killing the tiny person inside the 'birthing person's' womb.

Anyone who takes what AOC says seriously is an unserious person.

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Will Disney CEO fire ESPN's Jemele Hill or will he 'let her slide'?

Bob Iger, Disney CEO is being pressured to fire an obvious racist whose racially charged words have angered conservatives and now maybe some NFL bosses.

Iger, like Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Mark Cuban, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Andrew Cuomo, Al Franken, Kamala Harris, Jay Inslee, Tim Kaine, Terry McAuliffe, John Hickenlooper, Martin O'Malley, Howard Schultz, Mark Zuckerberg, George Clooney, Rosie O'Donnell, Ozzie and Harriet, may have designs on running against President Trump in 2020, and he might be risking upsetting the leftists. 

Photo: Reuters

And hopefully, those who already ran against Trump, will still be alive in 2020 as the Democratic Party is made up of old men and women who love illegal immigrants more than they love the National Anthem.

From a business standpoint, it would be wise for Iger to ditch the racist Hill. She's definitely bad for business and cannot be too bright for making those remarks.

Calling the president a "white supremacist" and saying that if he "were not white, he never would have been elected," wasn't very smart. One could make a case that if Barack Obama were not black, he'd have not been elected president because he got well over 90 percent of the black vote, and according to Harry Reid, he is clean and well-spoken. [And Democrats don't have a problem with Harry Reid having said that.]

Hill was merely suspended for two weeks on Monday after she violated the company's social media guidelines for the second time in less than a month.

Al Sharptongue defended Jemele Hill because he too is a racist and she is black and Trump is a white Republican. Sharptongue said that Hill's suspension "should NOT go unanswered."

Photo: AP

If there's a buck to be made out of a racial issue, Sharpton's on it like wet on water, or the other simile that I'm not going to write. 

Hill also went after Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' new policy that his players must stand for the National Anthem. She said that her audience should boycott the team's advertisers. Not smart.

Dan Gainor, the VP of Media Research Center believes Hill has shown sh has "no ethics: and if Iger wants ESPN to remain successful, she needs to go.

"She falsely claimed that President Trump is a white supremacist. She wasn't fired or suspended. She didn't have to apologize to Trump or even take down the posts. But let her say something about lefty ESPN's advertisers and she is suspended instantly," Gainor told Fox News. "If ESPN wants some return to credibility, she can't stay. She wouldn't fit in. But if ESPN wants to stay as what critics call MSESPN, the 'woke' version of sports, then Hill certainly fits in well."

Iger has become more political lately and some are speculating that he, like other people on TV or in politics, has his eyes on the White House. And according the the failing New York Times, Iger is "emerging as a credible contender in the 2020 presidential speculation game," and the left-wing Washington Post has him listed as a top contender to make it onto the Democratic ticket.

Jennifer Saba of Reuters, said Iger's "priorities are all out of whack" because he runs a huge media company ($155 billion) and if he's serious about running against Trump, it shouldn't be at the expense of Disney or Mickey.

Iger admits he was directly involved in the decision to keep Hill on board, mainly because, while he hasn't experienced racism directed at his whiteness, he understands that black Americans are not happy with Trump because of the bull crap his type of media puts out there. It isn't as if the KKK and neo-nazis were laying low while Obama was president--they just refused to report on it.

This post could go on and on about Hill and Iger, but I won't bore you with the same garbage details about Hill's lame excuses, other than to say that Clay Travis, a Fox Sports radio host, labeled Hill's actions as "one of the dumbest things" he's "ever seen in his life" and wondered if she is "intentionally trying to get fired" in order to get another job.

"If you are in the business that we are in," Travis said on 'Outkick the Show', "your salary is either paid by advertisers or the NFL. Especially at ESPN . . . her entire show is underwritten by these same sponsors."

So it seems as if ESPN endorsed Hill's first tweet about Trump but not the tweet involving the bottom line.

Disgusting!

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