Byron York: Kimmel and Colbert Were A Cumulative Thing, They Didn’t Understand That It’s Not 2017 Anymore
Byron York on ‘The Ingraham Angle,’ discusses the firings of late night hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. York explains that the reason for firing is the changing of the political landscape over the years:
LAURA INGRAHAM: And I think it’s also kind of this hostility that against a cut against what Obama in part campaigned upon in 2008. Remember he said he was for traditional marriage. Remember that? So that Barack Obama would also be an enemy to this current mindset of the Democrat Party. And a lot of these activists who are going crazy celebrating Charlie. So it’s an unbelievable transformation of the Democrat Party. But Byron, I want to get to the big news tonight, which is that ABC is pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air after he made this remark about Charlie. JIMMY KIMMEL: The MAGA gang desperately 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. BYRON YORK, FOX NEWS: ABC is a network that broadcast on television stations that are mostly owned by other companies. And apparently one of the biggest, station owners in the country said they were not going to air the Kimmel show anymore after this. You know, I think with him, as it was with Stephen Colbert earlier, this was really a cumulative thing. And I think that Jimmy Kimmel didn’t seem to understand that it’s not 2017 anymore. If you think back to the terrible days of 2017, when the entire media was saying Russia, Russia, Russia, 24 seven, it dominated everything. This is a different atmosphere today.
