Turning Point Responds After Jimmy Kimmel Tries to Explain Himself in Return: ‘Not Good Enough’– www.westernjournal.com
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Turning Point USA wasn’t buying what Jimmy Kimmel was selling.
The late-night comic returned to ABC’s airwaves on Tuesday after a week’s suspension with a dishonest attempt to explain the comments that got him benched from the show after conservative organizer Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
He didn’t come close.
Turning Point’s Andrew Kolvat, spokesman for the powerhouse group Kirk founded, nailed it in a post on the social media platform X.
Not good enough. Jimmy, it’s simple. Here’s what you need to say:
“I’m sorry for saying the shooter was MAGA. He was not. He was of the left. I apologize to the Kirk family for lying. Please accept my sincere apology. I will do better. I was wrong.” https://t.co/YIR7JeFLIh
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) September 24, 2025
“Not good enough,” Kolvat wrote. “Jimmy, it’s simple. Here’s what you need to say:
“I’m sorry for saying the shooter was MAGA. He was not. He was of the left. I apologize to the Kirk family for lying. Please accept my sincere apology. I will do better. I was wrong.”
Direct, to the point, and most of all honest.
Do you buy Jimmy Kimmel’s explanation?
Kimmel’s mealymouthed explanation was none of those.
Instead, Kimmel said, “[I]t was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.”
“Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions,” he said. “It was obviously a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make, but I understand that, to some, that felt either ill-timed or unclear or maybe both, and for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you’re upset. If the situation was reversed, there’s a good chance I’d have felt the same way.”
It wasn’t his intention to blame any specific group for the actions?
Then why did he blame a specific group — specifically supporters of the Make America Great agenda?
