Clarissa's Blog

This is very dishonest, and you know it. You are vitiating your own reality with subservient lies, and your subservience is to people who think you are garbage. Please reconsider.

To answer the question, as I pointed out only yesterday, every conservative of note expressed immediate and passionate repudiation for Pam Bondi’s statement that there’s something called “hate speech.” You will not find any conservative of note who hasn’t spoken out angrily about Pam Bondi over this. Matt Walsh ranted against her for 30 minutes on his most recent show and he’s one of so many that there was literally nothing in my X thread yesterday beyond angry denunciations of Bondi.

As to Jimmy Kimmel, your analysis is off because you are trying to squeeze reality into the Procrustean bed of ideology. The reality is this:

I’ve never watched an episode of Jimmy Kimmel. I wouldn’t be able to identify him visually. I know nothing about him. You know why? Because I’m not seventy. Nobody in the prime viewership demographics watches these shows. If I ask my students, do you think they’ll know Jimmy Kimmel? Of course, not. Everybody has their favorite podcast, YouTube channel, Rumble show, etc. The media landscape has changed. Networks are using any opportunity to get rid of these outdated shows of the prediluvian format. If Kimmel didn’t give the network such a juicy reason to fire him by saying verifiable lies, they would have fired him anyways. Like so many of the erstwhile stars who haven’t been able to catch up with the times.

Television is failing to catch up with the times when everybody carries a handheld TV with limitless options. That could be an interesting discussion. I believe, for example, that TV should market itself as a healthier, more wholesome alternative to YouTube for kids. Yesterday, I saw a social media discussion among conservative moms who don’t know which YouTube channel to show their infants instead of the horrid pedo Ms Rachel. I tried gently to probe why 10-month-old babies need to watch anything at all. The answer was that this is the best way to teach babies to speak. This is what we are dealing with. Moms need YouTube personalities to teach their kids to speak. Humanity must have been mute the entire time before screens were invented. These are conservative moms, mind you. They at least vaguely want to parent. The rest have handed over the raising of their children to pervy Ms Rachels with zero qualms.

TV could choose to remain relevant by reorienting its whole role in life. But that’s too bold, too exhausting. Networks are dropping the ballast like late night comedy shows because, honestly, how can anybody watch them with children and jobs anyway? To mask their standard austerity-based layoffs, they are using ideological excuses. It’s the oldest propaganda trick in existence.

However, if Kimmel’s firing were completely ideological, it still wouldn’t be censorship. Look at Tucker Carlson. He was fired from Fox. Now he has his own mega successful, thriving channel. Kimmel can find many more viewers than he has now if he’s got even a glimmer of talent. But I don’t know if he does because I’ve never watched him.