No Joke by Mike Huckabee (his column of April 8, 2022
Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene said she reported former comedian-turned-DNC
mouthpiece Jimmy Kimmel to the Capitol Police for using his monologue to attack
her for criticizing the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme
Court. He called her “Klan mom” and said, “Wow, where is Will Smith when you
need him?”
https://nypost.com/2022/04/07/marjorie-taylor-greene-reports-jimmy-kimmel-over-will-smith-joke/
Kimmel dismissed her complaint, saying it was a joke (I’m glad he pointed
that out; it’s often hard to tell with his monologues.) But Greene said it’s no
joke, and she’d already had some of his “fans” who were incited by him call her
office and threaten violence against a Congress member.
This gets into a grey area of determining what’s protected free speech and
what’s an illegal threat or incitement. I doubt anything will happen to Kimmel,
not even second thoughts about how “amusing” it is to endorse violence against
someone for holding a different political opinion (I’ll also note that he was suggesting
a large man attack a woman, something that he may have no problem with, but I’m
apparently one of the last people left who remembers what a “woman” is and that
men aren’t supposed to hit them.)
This sort of openly expressed wish to physically assault or even murder
anyone who holds non-“woke” political views has become a hallmark of the
tolerant, diversity-loving left. I wish they had as much self-awareness as they
do arrogance. If so, maybe they’d realize how dangerous and unfunny that is.
Also how hypocritical. Remember when they tried to blame the Gabrielle
Giffords’ shooting on a Sarah Palin ad with a “crosshairs” logo in it that the
shooter never even saw? Or how they continue to claim that Trump is directly
responsible for any violence other people committed on January 6th, even after
he told his supporters to protest “peacefully and patriotically”? Yet they
gleefully cheer on the idea of violence against anyone they disagree with, even
though they know plenty of deranged leftists are listening, from the guy who
shot up the office of the Family Research Council to the Bernie Bro who nearly
murdered Rep. Steve Scalise.
I tell plenty of jokes about Democrats on my show, but whether you like them
or not, it’s obvious that they’re jokes and never calls for violence. See if
you can say the same thing about the left after reading through this list of
very unfunny reminders of the consequences of this kind of violent rhetoric,
compiled by Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.
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