Justice for Jimmy? Just Joking!

 If you thought that I was going to write a post supporting the alleged comic, Jimmy Kimmel, call your doctor and tell him to cut your dosage. 

I have never watched an entire episode of Kimmel's show. I have also never actually set my ass on fire, but I am pretty sure that would not be an enjoyable experience. I have seen several video clips of his alleged humor and wondered how he has kept his job for so long. Yeah, I am not a fan of the guy.

In my younger days, back when dinosaurs roamed the planet and Nixon roamed the halls of the White House, I would occasionally watch late night television. Those were the days when I worked the midnight shift at the Waffle House and found it difficult to sleep on my nights off. 

In the early 1970's, your choices for late night talk shows were pretty limited. It was The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson or Dick Cavett and his show. Today with scores of channels available, everyone but me is claiming to be the "King of Late-Night" television.

Everyone should learn a simple lesson early in life. That lesson is "Money talks, bullshit walks." The people who are putting up the money for something are the ones who make the decisions about how things operate.

The brain dead on the idiot box keep telling us that Jimmy Kimmel's First Amendment rights are being violated. Jimmy has the right to say whatever he wants. ABC has the right to decide if he can say it on their network. That's how the law and life work.

Since I spent my life in the restaurant business, I am going with a restaurant analogy to prove that I am correct. As if that actually needed proving. Let's say that you walk into your local McDonald's and order a Big Mac. Rather than asking, "Do you want fries with that?", the young cretin behind the counter says, "Why don't you blow that Big Mac out your racist, homophobic, redneck ass?"

There are several possible responses for you to offer the little bastard. My personal favorite would be to respond with a simple "Hey cock face! Go get your manager!" If like Jimmy, this fails to move him, get out your phone. 

I will just go ahead and break it to you gently, but the odds are overwhelming that the punk at McDonalds is going to lose his job. If this is a repeat offense, he will be out the door before the customer who he insulted. This is how free enterprise works. The First Amendment does not give you the right to insult customers at a business that someone else owns, and to keep your job.

ABC pays Kimmel millions of dollars a year to offend more than half of the nation and is now surprised to find out that fewer people are watching his show every day. Kimmel can read a teleprompter but can't read the handwriting on the wall. Kimmel's ratings are dropping faster than Bill Clinton's pants at the sight of an intern. Ratings determine ad revenue. Lower ratings mean less income. The morons prattling on about Kimmel's free speech rights don't own the business. If Kimmel wants to say whatever he wants, he can start a podcast with every other "banned from television" celebrity. Go for it, Jimmy!!

Nexstar Media and the Sinclair Broadcast Group made the decision to remove Kimmel's show from their stations because they are closer to their viewers (customers) than ABC and Disney. The moral of the story is simple. If you ridicule and insult your customer base, they are NOT going to watch. I don't think that there are enough MAGA masochists willing to watch Jimmy Kimmel to keep the lights on at ABC. The band is playing "Happy Trails" for Jimmy.

By the way guys, you might want to check out "The View" before that bomb blows up in your face like Jimmy.