Culture critic: Jimmy Kimmel’s Tears Aren’t Helping
Jimmy Kimmel has now added gun control — and blaming Republicans, of course — to his list of political crusades, crying as he opened his latenight show Monday with an emotional tirade about the Las Vegas shooting. Karol Markowicz at USA Today notes that he portrayed every owner of a semi-automatic rifle as “a potential mass murderer lying in wait” — even though, by his own admission, none of the measures he was pushing “would have stopped the slaughter.” Frankly, she says, it’s the same after every mass shooting: The “divisive message” from Hollywood is that conservatives and gun owners “are the monsters who caused this.” Yet this “virtue signaling” does nothing: But “it’s so much easier to direct hatred and rage at the political party you oppose than to admit our ideas are limited.”