Turning Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet said he and other members of the company are glad Jimmy Kimmel was put back on the air because it ensures he no longer has “martyr” status.
“I don’t want Jimmy Kimmel to be a martyr. He doesn’t deserve it. He’s a liar, he’s an unrepentant liar, but he should not be considered a martyr by anybody,” Kolvet told Fox News Digital in a newly published interview.
Kimmel’s late night show was suspended for less than a week after comments he made about the assassination of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk on September 10. This led to the Left having absolute meltdowns about free speech and suggesting that the Trump administration had orchestrating the show’s suspension.
Kolvet says the best way to deal with someone like Kimmel is to let them keep lying and keep getting terrible ratings, which will eventually lead to their shows getting canceled.
“It’s important that when people lie, and they lie in that type of setting and that platform about such a huge event, that there are real consequences. And I think the best consequence would be that people just tune out,” he told the outlet. “People refuse to watch a liar on TV and that when the ratings come up and the P&L statement, ABC reviews it, that they just say, ‘Hey, this isn’t worth continuing.’”
“When that happens, I don’t think that he’s gonna be able to blame us for it. I think he’s just gonna have to blame himself and his own choices, and when that happens, I’m not gonna be sad about it,” Kolvet added.
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Kimmel’s return last Tuesday evening drew a record-breaking 6.3 million viewers, more than triple his regular audience. By Thursday, those numbers had dropped by 64%, leveling off at 2.3 million.
Kolvet said he’s been most upset to hear the narrative that political violence is “equally as extreme whether it’s on the Right or the Left.”
“I think that’s why I keyed in on the Jimmy Kimmel saga because he tried to lie to his audience and tell us that it was actually somebody from the Right that killed Charlie and that’s just simply not true,” Kolvet said.
“There’s no facts that back that up,” he told Fox News Digital. “And that strikes me as a really fundamental problem because … if you feel you can go into that platform and lie brazenly … that says that you don’t care about us as humans. That tells me that you think that we are worth smearing, slandering, lying about and dehumanizing people. And that’s how we get this violence in the first place.”
The saga began last month when Kimmel was accused of slandering conservatives when he suggested Kirk’s assassin was part of the “MAGA gang,” despite authorities saying otherwise. “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,” Kimmel said at the time.
While the host addressed the controversy during his return monologue, many viewers, including Kolvet, found his comments to be insincere. The TPUSA spokesperson called Kimmel an “unrepentant liar.”
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