While most of Hollywood had total meltdowns over “Jimmy Kimmel Live” being pulled from the air “indefinitely,” actor James Woods made some comparisons to how the Left has treated “cancel culture” in the past.
“Remember when Twitter’s Jack Dorsey banned the President of the United States from the world’s biggest forum during an election? Screw Jimmy Kimmel,” Woods wrote alongside a link to a Rolling Stone article from 2023, titled “Why Cancel Culture is Good for Democracy” by Ernest Owens.
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Remember when Twitter’s Jack Dorsey banned the President of the United States from the world’s biggest forum during an election?
Screw Jimmy Kimmel. <a href="https://t.co/H6iNpenWo6">pic.twitter.com/H6iNpenWo6</a>
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1968485080419963156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
The piece details how “cancel culture” is useful because it has “leveled the playing field for those who can’t always rely on the government to protect them.”
“Cancel culture is the poison to those in power that have benefited from unchecked free speech,” the author goes on, addressing the “straight, white men” he insists are in charge. Woods uses this article to point out how the tables have turned, and how the liberals who are so used to dominating popular culture and the media, saying whatever they want without consequence, are now unhappy to play by their own rules.
“Those who fear cancel culture may claim they fear suppression of speech, but it’s accountability that they want to avoid,” Owens observes in the Rolling Stone piece.
Many other conservatives have highlighted this double standard, pointing to people on the Right who were fired or silenced for voicing their opinions in the past. Roseanne Barr, Gina Carano, Megyn Kelly, and others were all brought up as examples.
“Roseanne had the highest rated show on television when she made a Twitter joke and was immediately fired by Disney. Gina Carano had the most popular show on streaming when she shared a social post and was immediately fired by Disney. Everyone on the left cheered,” Clay Travis <a href="https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1968664973820711115">noted</a> on X.
Many people also pointed out that Kimmel&#8217;s monologue was far worse than what conservatives had been penalized for.
The comments from Kimmel that prompted the backlash included the host claiming that Kirk’s assassin was a MAGA supporter. Investigators say that the 22-year-old man arrested for Kirk’s killing was deeply steeped in leftist ideology and disliked the conservative commentator for his beliefs.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. This prompted Sinclair, one of the largest broadcast companies in the United States, to suspend “Jimmy Kimmel Live” until further notice.
Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh summed up how most conservatives felt about the situation.
“Jimmy Kimmel lied about Charlie’s assassination and used the opportunity to defame Charlie’s own friends and allies. He deserves to be fired for it,” he <a href="https://x.com/mattwalshblog/status/1968504811487211662?s=43">wrote</a> on X. “These are the repercussions that conservatives have been experiencing for years for infractions not nearly as egregious. Good riddance, Kimmel, you disgusting scumbag.”

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