America woke up this week to the predictable spectacle: ABC quietly pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after his latest series of outrageous comments, a move the network said was necessary amid mounting pressure and backlash. This isn’t just about one man’s flippant joke; it’s about a powerful media machine suddenly eager to curtail its own when the outrage becomes inconvenient.

Conservative voices weren’t silent — and neither were independent journalists who refuse to let the corporate media rewrite history. Dave Rubin resurfaced direct-message clips and archival moments showing Kimmel’s past cheers and smirks about violence and death, pushing the story into the trending column and forcing a national conversation about accountability in entertainment.

Those clips aren’t fabricated. Footage of Kimmel mockingly telling his audience, “Please don’t vandalize Tesla vehicles,” while laughing at reports of arson and attacks on showrooms circulated widely and drew sharp rebukes from even nonpartisan observers. The video exposes a dangerous pattern of late-night hosts normalizing vandalism against private property when the target fits their political narrative.

This comes on the heels of Kimmel’s now-infamous 2021 monologue where he suggested unvaccinated Americans who took ivermectin should be denied ICU care and left to die — “rest in peace, wheezy” was the quip. That callous remark wasn’t a one-off gaffe; it’s emblematic of a left-wing cultural elite that applauds punitive attitudes toward political opponents and anyone who disagrees with the orthodoxy.

Let’s be clear: free speech doesn’t exempt public figures from criticism, but neither does it make them above consequences. The real issue is the double standard — big networks tolerate and amplify these hostile, dehumanizing takes for years, then pretend to discover moral outrage when the political winds shift. Americans deserve consistency, not performative virtue signaling from companies that cash checks from both sides while picking winners and losers for the culture wars.

Patriotic conservatives should thank people like Dave Rubin for preserving these clips so the public can judge for itself, instead of letting corporate PR gloss over the record. Hardworking Americans know the difference between comedy and condoning violence; they see a pattern of elites mocking accountability while demanding it be weaponized against anyone who crosses them. The court of public opinion is open, and it’s long past time institutions and entertainers be held to the same standards they profess to love.