Jimmy Kimmel, Drama Queen

Last September, Jimmy Kimmel was given what amounted to a short vacation after he was "suspended" for making remarks about Charlie Kirk's assassination. A week after Kirk was killed in Utah, Kimmel went on the air and during his opening monologue he said, “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."

That was not only factually false, but it's pure projection. Kirk's assassin, Tyler Robinson, is a Leftist who was in a relationship with a transgender furry. That's not MAGA. ABC pulled the plug "indefinitely" on Kimmel because affiliates were refusing to air his show. The Left had an absolute meltdown over it. They said — much as they did when CBS/Paramount gave Stephen Colbert the axe — this was President Trump being an authoritarian and an anti-free speech fascist. In the case of Colbert, fascists who want comedians taken off-air usually don't let them stick around 11 months; Colbert's show comes to an end in May of this year.

Of course, that Trump is a fascist silencing free speech is not true, either. But it made for good political talking points and that's what the Left really cares about.

Last night, Kimmel won the Critics Choice Award for Best Talk Show. During his acceptance speech, he thanked President Trump. That's a surefire sign that Kimmel won not because he was good or deserved it, but because the Critics wanted to poke a finger in President Trump's eye.

But then, in the post-win gaggle with the press, Kimmel took it a step further.

"It's interesting," Kimmel said. "It was almost a near-death experience for me. Of course, not literally, I did feel a little bit like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn watching their own funeral when all this stuff happened. And to be here and to see that people reacted to it in a not just a positive way, but in a almost a desperate way, were like...when they come after the comedians, this is when we draw the line. And, you know, we're very grateful that they drew the line at us."

After getting put back on air just days after his suspension was announced, a tearful Kimmel said this about the controversy that got him a brief vacation:

"It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man. I don’t, I don’t think there’s anything funny about it," Kimmel said. "I posted a message on Instagram on the day he was killed sending love to his family and asking for compassion and I meant it and I still do. Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what … was obviously a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make."

He added, "I don’t think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone. This was a sick person who believed violence was a solution, and it isn’t it, ever.”

But it seems Kimmel forgot who the real victim in all of this is, and about that tearful apology he made just three months ago.

Charlie Kirk was killed. His wife Erika and their two children will now spend the rest of their lives without them.

For Kimmel to say his deserved suspension was a "near-death" experience undermines his September apology. And it's clear he — and his late-night comrades — have learned nothing.

The only thing that outstrips their hypocrisy is their sense of entitlement. Kimmel and the rest do not see themselves as entertainers, the court jesters who get paid millions to make us laugh. They see themselves as activists with writing staffs, who have some God-given right to spout Leftist nonsense under the guise of "comedy" like they're the arbiters of our national moral compass.

Only someone with an over-inflated sense of self-importance like Kimmel could equate his suspension with a "near-death" experience.

Nothing could be further from the truth. And the day ABC and the other networks finally pull the plug on the late-night agitprop will be a good day for the country.