Red-Pill Reality on Colbert and Kimmel

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Check with Jip, brought to you by Operation
Blue Dot Red, turning the Blue Dot Red one podcast
at a time. The replacement for late night TV host
Stephen Colbert has been announced. I imagine some who put
blue dot signs in their yards do so in defiance
of Trump, the tyrant, who is censoring Colbert and Jimmy

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Kimmel and all voices critical of him. Here's the red
pill reality. Let's start with Kimmel. His wife said she
has pulled away from relatives who side with the President
against her husband. Fair enough, but she also said pro
Trump relatives devour deliberate Maga misinformation and insist on remaining

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disconnected from truth and reality. She said this after her
husband was suspended from his late night TV gig for saying,
we hit some new lows over the weekend with the
Maga gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie
Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing
everything they can to score political points from it. He

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was right about a new low being reached. Kimmel's blue
pill take on the Kirk assassin was followed by the
left's blue pill assertion that President Trump got Kimmel suspended
the red pill reality was provided by the Hollywood Reporter,
not Fox News or any other source on the right.
Disney ABC's local affiliates in more than sixty cities, already

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damaged by Kimmel's decreasing viewership, declared they would not air
his show unless Kimmel apologized for saying Kirk was murdered
by the very community mourning his death. Kimmel was suspended
for several days because he refused to apologize. He was
allowed back on the air, and he sniveled about Kirk,

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but he never apologized for wrongly accusing the right of
killing Kirk and never acknowledged that one of his own
on the left killed Kirk. Kimmel and his defenders also
have not faced the reality that a decade of toxic
attacks on Trump and the right has driven away audience

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and advertisers. Kimmel is on thin ice and his late
night TV fellow traveler Colbert is on the way out,
but not because they are victims of censorship of free
speech its business. Their repeated barrages of politically one sided
cheap shots have demolished their ratings, their shows became increasingly

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expensive to their networks as they became less entertaining for
viewers and less attractive to advertisers. That's a losing formula.
Other late night TV hosts, including the Babe Ruth of
late night TV, Johnny Carson, have made political jokes without

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torpedoing viewership and scaring off advertising. They have succeeded by
taking fair shots rather than cheap shots, and by targeting
both sides. There's always plenty of material on both sides.
Successful hosts keep it fun and don't take themselves too seriously.

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That was Kimmel and Colbert before the Trump era began.
Since twenty sixteen, they have grown increasingly dark, angry, and
self righteous. That's not what most folks want in late
night entertainment. Kimmel and Colbert indulge in the blue pill
fantasy that President Trump is pulling dictatorial strings to shut

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them down. The red pill reality is that Kimmel and
Colbert have destroyed themselves. Their networks are tired of taking
a major financial hit for their hosts caustic and alienating
political lectures. That's check with I'm Jip Maxwell. Thank you
for listening.