I first discovered Jimmy Kimmel back when he was the co-host of Win Ben Stein’s Money on Comedy Central. He would later go on to host The Man Show. I watched some of the former, none of the latter. And eventually Kimmel made it to his own late-night talk show.
On his monologue on September 11, Kimmel said this:
We hit some new lows over the weekend with 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.
If you look at everything that happened in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, what Kimmel said is… correct. He’s 100% on point with this. Where Kimmel’s statements fall short is simply the fact that… their characterizations were also correct. But that’s also because at the time Kimmel made his statements, there were still some details about him that were up in the air.
Two days later is when Kirk’s alleged assassin was apprehended by police. It was only then that full details about who he was and what led up to the assassination could be pinned down. And in that, the “MAGA gang” was eventually proved correct.
But what Kimmel said is also correct.
The “MAGA gang” was doing everything they could to characterize the assassin as not being right wing. The left, on the other hand, was trying to desperately say the killer was right wing, and kept pushing that idea until they largely no longer could. Despite the fact the engravings on the rifle cartridges that were reported on very early showed the assassin very clearly was not right-wing.
However the assassin may have been raised, that was definitely not who he was when he formed the intent to kill Charlie Kirk.
And the right very much also tried to score political points from it. And seize more power.
