from Revolver News:
Back in January 2024, Jimmy Kimmel went on a rant after NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers suggested he might be tied to the Epstein list. Kimmel puffed up his chest, threatened to sue, and told America that he and his staff never “make things up” because they have a “team of fact-checkers” who carefully sort through everything before he tells a joke. That was Kimmel’s big defense.
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Fast forward to 2025, and the irony couldn’t be more gag-worthy. Just a year later, the same “fact-checking king,” Jimmy Kimmel, stood on national television and lied his pants off about the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. He used the FCC airwaves to tell America that Charlie’s assassin was “MAGA,” when we all know the killer was a radical left-wing extremist living with his trans/furry boyfriend. So much for fact-checkers, right?
Thanks to Jimmy’s lies, he’s been yanked off the airwaves. Now the left, and even some ill-informed do-gooders on the right, are screeching that this is a “First Amendment” issue. It’s not. This is a business matter. Kimmel, whose ratings were already circling the drain, is now a liability for ABC/Disney.
Look:
Perhaps terrible ratings and no USAID commercial $ had something to do with Jimmy Kimmel being fired. pic.twitter.com/f6ImuuUU7C
— John M. Cameron (@johnrockshomes) September 18, 2025
He’s dragged the network into the crosshairs of the FCC for possibly breaking serious regulatory rules, as we covered in a recent story.
What we need to remember is that the First Amendment is not a “get out of jail free” card, especially for broadcasters who have a license to operate on the public airwaves.
The FCC has really strict rules about what can and cannot be said on national television. And when it comes to crimes and catastrophes, the rules are crystal clear: you cannot knowingly spread false information that could cause public harm.
The FCC’s policy on Broadcasting False Information states that a violation occurs when these four conditions line up:
The statement must be false.
The broadcaster must know it’s false or act with reckless disregard for the truth.
It must be reasonably foreseeable that broadcasting it will cause harm.
There must be actual harm or at least the potential for serious harm.So, here’s the question: did Jimmy Kimmel’s smear about Charlie Kirk’s assassination break those specific rules?
Well, that depends on what can be proven.
If Kimmel truly believed, without evidence, that the assassin was MAGA, that might not hit the legal threshold of “knowingly false.” If ABC can argue he was passing along what he believed to be credible information, they may try to skirt responsibility.
