Bill Maher Compares Jimmy Kimmel Reaction to Brian Kilmeade, Forgets One Key Part

Bill Maher questioned why Jimmy Kimmel’s show was suspended by ABC this week but Brian Kilmeade was allowed to continue working for Fox News after he suggested the best way to deal with violent homeless people is to execute them.

Maher, on the Friday episode of Real Time on HBO, read Kilmeade’s Sept. 10 comments where he said the best way to handle homeless people who do not use government help or go to prison is to “just kill ’em.”

“And this apparently, [is] not controversial,” Maher said.

MSNBC senior political analyst Alex Wagner jumped in there, adding:

“We live in a moment when maligning, insulting, or otherwise calling for the death of the poor, the weakest, people of color, isn’t exactly published by, I don’t know, Fox News,” she said.

Maher, a moment later, said he was amused television’s “angel of death” ended up coming for Kimmel, but not Kilmeade, after the comedian suggested MAGA was “desperately” trying to say the killer of Charlie Kirk was not a supporter of President Donald Trump.

But Maher, and Wagner for that matter, left one key aspect out of the comparison: Kilmeade apologized for his viral comments, and Kimmel did not. Kimmel, according to The Hollywood Reporter, felt his comments “did not require” an apology.

“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,” Kimmel said on his show last Monday.

Kimmel was criticized by many for the claim, considering the reported details point to Tyler Robinson, Kirk’s suspected killer, being a leftist. Robinson reportedly had a romantic relationship with his trans roommate, used phrases associated with Antifa, and, in text messages released on Tuesday, said he shot Kirk because of the conservative influencer’s “hatred.” Utah officials have said Robinson was “indoctrinated” in far-left “ideology” in the years leading up to Kirk’s murder.

Another key difference between Kilmeade and Kimmel is that Kilmeade’s comments were made on cable, compared to Kimmel, who shared his thoughts on the public airwaves. FCC Chair Brendan Carr, hours before ABC suspended Kimmel on Wednesday, said the FCC would look at “remedies” against Kimmel, if ABC did not punish him first.

“What people don’t understand is… broadcasters are entirely different than people who use other forms of communication. They have a license granted by us at the FCC, and what comes with it is an obligation to operate in the public interest,” Carr added.

Carr’s comments, and ABC’s suspension coming soon after, led many to accuse the Trump Administration of pressuring ABC to pull Kimmel’s show. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, during an interview with Kayleigh McEnany on Fox News on Saturday, said the decision was made solely by ABC and that Trump Administration did not “pressure” the network to do it.

“It was a decision that was made by ABC because Jimmy Kimmel chose to knowingly lie to his audience on his program about the death of a highly respected man when our country is in a state of mourning,” Leavitt said on Saturday in America. “That was a decision that he made, and he is now facing a consequence for that decision and for that lie.”

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