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Jimmy Kimmel chose Britain’s Channel 4 for an “alternative” Christmas message and spent it lobbing predictable, performative jabs at President Trump — a spectacle RealClearPolitics co-founder Tom Bevan was invited on America’s Newsroom to unpack. Conservatives watching felt the same contempt they’ve seen from late-night elites for years: Kimmel lecturing the country from a bubble while pretending to speak for the nation.
Kimmel’s address leaned hard into theatrical outrage — calling the year “great for fascism,” declaring “tyranny is booming,” and crowing that “we won, the president lost” after he was briefly taken off the air in September. His sermon about the state of American democracy folded together cheap theatrics and self-preservation, framed as a warning to the British about a country he clearly believes is failing.
Let’s be blunt: Kimmel plays the victim when the media and corporate bosses face heat, but he’s the first to weaponize grief and tragedy for ratings when it suits him. The suspension and the political fight over his remarks about the Charlie Kirk shooting laid bare the real problem — not censorship of a conservative voice, but a late-night culture that revels in partisan theater while feigning moral superiority. That episode forced a conversation about the FCC, corporate pressure, and who decides acceptable speech on our airwaves.
Tom Bevan’s appearance on Fox was a necessary corrective to Hollywood’s sermonizing: he didn’t simply play along with the outrage, he called out the self-righteous, nonsensical nature of Kimmel’s broadside. The conservative commentary was straightforward because the facts are straightforward — this wasn’t a plea for unity, it was another virtue-signaling performance by an elite who benefits from the very system he pretends is broken.
Americans who work hard and pay taxes don’t need late-night hosts lecturing them about democracy while living in gated bubbles and corporate studios. These entertainers have made a career out of condescension; their lectures about patriotism ring hollow when they use tragedy and division as punchlines for applause. It’s time to stop treating Hollywood moralizing as news and start treating it for what it is: partisan theater dressed up as conscience.
If there’s any upside, it’s that sensible voices like Bevan’s are forcing the conversation back to the facts and away from the performative tantrums of showbiz elites. Hardworking Americans see through the act — they want leaders who protect speech, safety, and the rule of law, not celebrities who trade on tragedy for ratings. Keep calling out the double standards, and keep reminding your neighbors that real patriotism is built on responsibility, not celebrity virtue-signaling.
