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    Gotcha! Kimmel says libs excel as late-night hosts because job requires 'intelligence'

    By Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News




    Why are so many late-night talk-show hosts liberal? Just ask Jimmy Kimmel.

    “Because it requires a level of intelligence,” Kimmel, host of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” told an audience Saturday night.

    The occasion was an episode of “Pod Save America,” an openly progressive podcast created by former Obama administration officials Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Daniel Pfeiffer.

    It describes itself as “a no-bulls--- conversation about politics that breaks down the week’s news and helps people figure out what matters and how to help.”

    Social media users quickly jumped to criticize Kimmel for equating conservative politics with a lack of intelligence.

    “Really? Because Kimmel's a host and is stupid enough to think political party is a proxy for intelligence. Tribalism makes people dumb,” Shoshana Weissmann wrote.

    National Review magazine columnist Dan McLaughlin tweeted: “This is what Kimmel, a college dropout, really thinks of anyone who isn't liberal & watches his show.”

    “That moment when Jimmy Kimmel called half the country (and his potential audience) unintelligent,” Josh Jordan wrote.

    Kimmel has long attacked Republican-minded people, saying last year that he would not be too upset if Republican-leaning viewers stopped watching his show over his views on health care and guns.

    “As a talk show host, [losing viewers is] not ideal, but I would do it again in a heartbeat," Kimmel told CBS.

    "I don't say I don't mind. ... I want everyone with a television to watch the show. But if they're so turned off by my opinion on health care and gun violence, then I don't know, I probably wouldn't want to have a conversation with them anyway," he added. "Not good riddance, but riddance."

    Kimmel also received assistance from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in helping to criticize the GOP's Obamacare replacement plan, which was introduced by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C, and Bill Cassidy, R-La., according to the Daily Beast.

    Schumer reportedly “provided technical guidance and info about the bill, as well as stats from various think tanks and experts on the effects of [the bill].”

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    Sorry Jimmy, y'all aren't as smart as you think you are.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    Sorry Jimmy, y'all aren't as smart as you think you are.
    Quote Originally Posted by PorkChopSandwiches View Post
    Yeah, you're a comedian blinded by your wealth. STFU
    Exactly what someone not as smart as he is would say

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    He used to be on a local radio show out here before his TV career. He was hilarious, now I find him anti american






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    Only place I ever knew him from is when he had his little segment on one of the network's pre-game NFL Sunday shows (I think it was FOX) doing his predictions.

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    Win Ben Stein's Money on Comedy Central. That's when I first saw him. Then The Man Show with Adam Carolla. Oddly enough, both Ben and Adam are as conservative as they come. So Jimmy got his breaks off of the back of conservatives.


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    I still listen to Adam's podcasts a lot. I personally think he's quite even keeled, anti-bullshit, straight shooting, and mostly just hates everyone

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    I enjoy Adam






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    Kimmel just lost his mind I guess when his kid was ill.. When people get personally affected by something so close to home they tend to embrace the policies of those that they think are more in line with protecting their best interests.

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    I think it was before the kid thing






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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    Kimmel just lost his mind I guess when his kid was ill.. When people get personally affected by something so close to home they tend to embrace the policies of those that they think are more in line with protecting their best interests.
    That's fine that he was concerned for his kid, as any parent should. But Kimmel isn't on Obamacare and he used his sick kid to thump his chest about how amazing and great Obamacare is.

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    I'm just trying to rationalize..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    That's fine that he was concerned for his kid, as any parent should. But Kimmel isn't on Obamacare and he used his sick kid to thump his chest about how amazing and great Obamacare is.
    Yeah, exactly. He has rich people insurance...that good PPO shit probably






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    Quote Originally Posted by PorkChopSandwiches View Post
    Yeah, exactly. He has rich people insurance...that good PPO shit probably
    Yup, and I bet even though he could have easily afforded it, his out of pocket was nothing or next to nothing because he has great insurance.

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