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‘Calling for War Against the President!’ Karoline Leavitt Ticks Off Anti-Trump Quotes From Dem Lawmakers

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The Democrat Party including Party Leaders and other celebrities with Trump Derangement Syndrome have crated a culture of “assassination” of POTUS Trump is okay.

They keep trying to fool their low information voters that it is the conservative right which is violent when it is, in fact the progressive, socialist, communist left who are the violent ones.

WATCH: Karoline Leavitt brutally calls out several Democrats for ‘calling for war against the President’

‘Calling for War Against the President!’ Karoline Leavitt Ticks Off Anti-Trump Quotes From Dem Lawmakers

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt pointed the finger directly at Democratic lawmakers when talking about hateful rhetoric leading to political violence like the shooting incident at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Fox News’ Aishah Hasnie asked Leavitt about the rhetoric of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel who quipped days before the incident about the first lady “having the glow of an expectant widow.”

“There does seem to be a normalization of rhetoric about assassinating this particular president,” Hasnie said. “How can this administration try to put an end to this?”

“I think you heard it directly from the president on Saturday night. That, in his words, we need to recommit ourselves as a country to tone down the rhetoric and to unifying around what makes our country great,” Leavitt said. “That’s true of everyone who works in this White House. But as I said, it’s also true of everyone who has a voice and a platform across this country.”

Leavitt said it’s not just the media, “it is the entire Democrat Party has made their pitch to voters across the country that Donald Trump poses an existential threat to democracy, that he is a fascist, and that they compare him to Hitler. I mean, these are despicable statements that the American people have been consuming for years, and so many mentally perturbed individuals are led to believe these words are truths and then are inspired to act on it.”

Leavitt then began reading “a whole host of examples” from Democratic lawmakers:

LEAVITT: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries this month said, “We are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere, all the time. Gov. Josh Shapiro said, “Heads need to roll within the administration.” Sen. Alex Padilla said people are quote, “Dying because of fear and terror caused by the Trump administration.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, “President Trump is making the country look like a” quote, “fascist state.” Sen. Adam Schiff saying President Trump using a “dictator playbook.” Sen. Ed Markey, calling President Trump “a dictator,” saying that this administration’s actions are “authoritarianism on steroids.” Gov. J.B. Pritzker, “Never before in my life have I called for mass protest disruptions. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.” You have Rep. [Ayanna] Pressley saying, “We’ll see you in the streets. Rep. LaMonica McIver, a Democrat representative on Capitol Hill, “We will not take this shit from Donald Trump. He thinks he’s a dictator. We are at war.”

“These are Democrat elected officials calling for war against the president of the United States and his supporters!” Leavitt exclaimed.

“I could go on and on to, but again, when you have people in positions of power that are saying things like this every single day for years, you are inspiring violence by people who are already mentally ill. And that’s what we’ve seen against this president for far too long,” she said.

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Late-Night King of Crude and Cruel

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It’s a contest between crude and cruel. Maybe he wins both.

One might wonder how any corporation hosting Kimmel’s late-night show could approve of his wishing widowhood on a woman (and orphanhood on the children). The question is especially important when Kimmel is married with four children yet wishes death on a fellow husband and father and untold personal loss, grief, and suffering on the family.

Jimmy Kimmel Called Melania an ‘Expectant Widow’ Before the Assassination Attempt

And the left wonders why we blame them when someone tries to kill President Donald Trump? Just days before a 31-year-old Cole Allen of Torrance, Calif., opened fire outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton, Jimmy Kimmel aired a full parody version of the event on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday night. He played host, worked the crowd, and trained his fire on President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump with the kind of gleeful contempt that’s become his brand.

The Melania jokes landed hardest — and in retrospect, the most uncomfortable. “Our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said during the parody segment.

It wasn’t funny then… and two days later, it really hit differently.

But this is what the left does: it normalizes hateful, violent rhetoric. As PJ Media previously reported, Allen’s manifesto reads like your garden-variety Trump Derangement Syndrome rant.

Allen also made it clear he viewed everyone in the room as part of the problem. In his telling, simply attending the event made guests “complicit,” accusing them of willingly listening to “a pedophile, rapist, and traitor.”

He also tried to preempt criticism. He brushed off the idea that his Christian faith should lead him to restraint, arguing that standing by in the face of wrongdoing amounts to complicity. And when confronted with the obvious question of why he didn’t carry out something even worse, his response was chillingly blunt: “Gotta start somewhere.”

This is what years of relentless, dehumanizing political rhetoric produce. I’m not saying that every late-night punchline is a green light for murder and that political jokes should be off limits. But the media and entertainment complex has spent years marinating its audience in the idea that Trump and everyone around him represent an existential threat to civilization itself. At some point, someone decides to take that premise seriously rather than change the channel.

On top of that, even CNN’s Van Jones is worried that he’ll be made out to be a hero.

“I’m starting to worry about something, though, which is that the shooter survived, which means on Monday he’s going to court, which means there is a danger that people try to make him some sort of hero. You watch what happened with Luigi [Mangione], who shot a CEO to death and somehow became a hero,” Jones said Saturday night. “So, they said tonight you saw the worst of America. You saw the best of America. Tonight, you definitely saw the best of America. I hope on Monday we don’t see the worst again. I just want to say very clearly — this kind of despicable behavior has no place in America. It has no place on the right. It has no place on the left.”

Yet, in left-wing media, that kind of rhetoric is pushed so often that it’s become normalized.

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Did Trump Cancel Jimmy Kimmel? Nope.

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Meet the Real Bosses of Late-Night. 

When ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week, the internet screamed the obvious:

Trump did it.

After all, the President blasted Kimmel for mocking the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who falsely claimed the assassin was a MAGA follower.

FCC chairman Brendan Carr chimed in saying the joke was “truly sick.” Indeed, it was.

Within days, Kimmel’s show vanished.

Case closed, right?

Not even close.

Because if you think Trump has a “Cancel Kimmel” button in the Oval Office, you’re giving him way too much credit.

The real button pushers sit in two anonymous office towers — one in Dallas, the other in Baltimore.

They don’t write jokes. They don’t host shows. And they definitely don’t look good in a tux at the Oscars.

They own TV stations.

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Their names are Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Collectively, they own more than 350 local stations. Some are NBC, some CBS, some Fox. But a big chunk carries the ABC logo.

Think of ABC as the wholesaler, supplying programming. Nexstar and Sinclair are the landlords, renting out the street corners. And if the landlords decide the storefront looks ugly? They just pull down the shutters.

That’s exactly what they did to Jimmy Kimmel.

Follow the Money (It’s Always the Money)

Here’s how the TV ecosystem works:

ABC sells national ad slots (Coke, Geico, iPhones). That money goes to Disney.

Affiliates like Nexstar and Sinclair sell local ads (car dealerships, Bob’s Mattress Barn, and politicians you’ve never heard of). That money stays in Dallas and Baltimore.

Affiliates also charge cable companies fees to carry their channels. Billions of dollars.

It’s like a divorced couple sharing custody of a child: ABC gets weekends for Coke commercials, affiliates get weekdays for screaming car dealers.

How the Hammer Fell

When Kimmel made a savage joke about Kirk, Nexstar made the first move: “We’re preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! indefinitely. It’s not in the public interest.”

Translation: We own enough ABC affiliates that your late-night host is now dead air in half the country.

Sinclair wasn’t far behind. Suspension wasn’t enough, they said. They wanted:

A direct apology to Kirk’s family. A “meaningful donation” to Turning Point USA. A pledge from ABC about “professionalism in broadcasting.”

Basically: an on-air confession, a check, and maybe Kimmel washing dishes at a TPUSA fundraiser.

Caught between the street bosses, ABC folded.

The network itself suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! because what’s the point of offering a show your affiliates won’t carry?

Who Really Runs the Show

Here’s the punchline: Trump may have created the atmosphere, but he didn’t swing the axe. Nexstar and Sinclair did. They control enough stations to kneecap a network show overnight.

It wasn’t censorship from the White House. It wasn’t even really Disney pulling strings. It was business. Pure, unglamorous, local-TV business.

So the next time someone says “Trump canceled Jimmy Kimmel,” remind them: the real bosses of late-night aren’t politicians in Washington or executives in Hollywood.

They’re the landlords in Dallas and Baltimore, and when they don’t like your act, they don’t boo. They just turn off the lights.

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ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air Over Charlie Kirk Comments

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Disney’s ABC announced Wednesday that it is indefinitely pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show following his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

The move comes after one of the biggest owners of TV stations in the U.S., Nexstar Media Group, said Wednesday it had decided to preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” from its owned and partner ABC-affiliated stations. In a press release, Nexstar Broadcasting Division President Andrew Alford called Kimmel’s comments “offensive and insensitive” and said the decision was made to “let cooler heads prevail.”

“Mr. Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located,” Alford said.

“Continuing to give Mr. Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we have made the difficult decision to preempt his show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue,” Alford added.

According to CNBC, an ABC spokesman told the outlet that the show will be “pre-empted indefinitely.”

During his Monday evening monologue to the audience, Kimmel said the “MAGA gang” had hit “new lows,” as he claimed that Republicans had attempted to characterize Kirk’s alleged assassin as “anything other than one of them.”

“We had 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. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism. But on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this.”

Kimmel then played a clip of President Donald Trump discussing how he was “holding up” after the murder of Kirk, whom he had been close to. As the audience laughed, Kimmel mocked Trump’s reaction, saying it resembled how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish.

Prior to the arrest of Kirk’s alleged assassin, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, officials revealed bullet casings from the rifle used to kill Kirk contained a series of phrases such as “Hey fascist! Catch!” and “If you read this you are gay LMAO.” A third bullet casing also had the engraving of  “bella ciao,” which matches an Italian song name that became a left-wing anthem during World War II.

Amid online speculation from Democrats that Robinson might have been a radical right-winger, the 22-year-old was officially arrested Friday. At a press conference, Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Robinson “was deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology” and had increasingly become political, viewing Kirk as “full of hate and spreading hate.”

Text messages released by officials on Tuesday as authorities had officially brought charges forward against Robinson, revealed an alleged conversation between him and his transgender roommate.

In one message to his roommate, Robinson allegedly told the roommate to look under his keyboard for a note that allegedly said, “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.”

“I had enough of his hatred,” Robinson allegedly texted to the roommate. “Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”

Kimmel has long criticized Trump and his administration, previously having to backtrack on comments about billionaire Elon Musk.

In March, during his monologue, the late-night host mocked Musk’s interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity, which addressed a rise in riots targeting Tesla vehicles following Department of Government Efficiency cuts.

Musk had suggested the incidents were linked to mental illness in the U.S., while Kimmel appeared to justify the unrest, saying people “get mad” when “you pull out a chainsaw to celebrate firing thousands of people.”

“My god, I mean, this poor guy. You do one, maybe two Nazi salutes, everybody gets all bent out of shape!” Kimmel added.

However, after facing online backlash, Kimmel later told his audience, “please don’t vandalize Tesla,” pausing with a sarcastic facial expression that some interpreted as subtly endorsing the idea.

ABC did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. 

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CARTOON VIDEO: Hillary’s ‘Crime Isn’t Criminal’ Children’s Book

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Jimmy Kimmel sure likes to lampoon but only for one side, well we think fair play is called for in this election. We whipped up a little Children’s Book of our own for everyone’s favorite political gangster, ole Machine Gun Clinton.

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‘Climate Hustle’ attacked by ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, drops ‘F-Bomb’ – I Challenge Him to Watch Film & Apologize

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It is obvious Mr. Kimmel has not seen ‘Climate Hustle’ or he would have known better than to recite the same propaganda litany of climate ‘facts’ which the movie deals with head-on. Using a video of cursing scientists warning of a tired litany of doom, using terms like ‘apocalyptic’; ‘catastrophic’; and ‘extremely dire’ was bland and predictable and the very reason that ‘Climate Hustle’ was made.

Apparently, Kimmel thinks failure to believe in man-made global warming fears is akin to not believing in gravity or yogurt. Odd.

Mr. Kimmel, I challenge you to watch ‘Climate Hustle’ and issue an apology for your climate pabulum that you spewed to viewers. ‘Climate Hustle’ was made to counter the very boilerplate rants that you, Mr. Kimmel, engaged in. The public needs to view ‘Climate Hustle’ if, for no other reason, than to hear Mr. Kimmel’s climate talking points dismantled. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

By Craig Bannister – May 3, 2016

When critics trash a film, they’ve usually actually seen it – but, not ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel. So, the filmmaker of movie debunking climate hysteria is challenging Kimmel to attend a private screening.

The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host used seven minutes of his Monday show to mock a climate skeptic’s film he obviously hadn’t seen – since he repeats the very alarmist talking points the film debunks.

Kimmel bashed “Climate Hustle,” a climate skeptic film that aired in 400 theaters nationwide Monday, by making misleading, unsupportable, and inaccurate claims, and personally attacking Gov. Sarah Palin for supporting the film.

He then aired a two-minute climate change advocacy “message” featuring scientists dropping the “F-Bomb” to insult anyone skeptical of man-made climate change.

Kimmel’s rant against “Climate Hustle” displays a complete ignorance of the content of the film – and deploys the same shopworn deceitful and mean-spirited tactics the film exposes and addresses.

In “Climate Hustle”:

  • Former U.N. Climatologist Roger Pielke, Sr. explains how, since alarmists can’t debate the facts, they attack the messenger (as Kimmel personally insults Palin and the scientists drop the F-Bomb on skeptics),
  • The “97% scientific consensus” claim Kimmel cites is revealed to be the product of slanted methodology – one of which didn’t even poll 97 scientists,
  • Kimmel’s “hottest years ever” claim is dismantled and debunked,
  • The Big Money driving climate influence is shown to be on the activist side – in terms of grants, research funding, alarmist advocacy, etc. – not, as Kimmel claims, coming from corporate “polluters,” and
  • Renowned dissenting scientists (including a Nobel Laureate and a moon-mission astronaut) share data and analysis debunking climate hysteria – not the ignorant, average slobs Kimmel accuses his dissenting viewers of being.

In response to Kimmel’s uninformed, agenda-driven rant on national television, “Climate Hustle” producer, writer and host Marc Morano is challenging Kimmel to view the film.

Morano tells MRCTV:

“It is obvious Mr. Kimmel has not seen ‘Climate Hustle’ or he would have known better than to recite the same propaganda litany of climate ‘facts’ which the movie deals with head-on. Using a video of cursing scientists warning of a tired litany of doom, using terms like ‘apocalyptic’; ‘catastrophic’; and ‘extremely dire’ was bland and predictable and the very reason that ‘Climate Hustle’ was made.

“Apparently, Kimmel thinks failure to believe in man-made global warming fears is akin to not believing in gravity or yogurt. Odd.

“Mr. Kimmel, I challenge you to watch ‘Climate Hustle’ and issue an apology for your climate pabulum that you spewed to viewers. ‘Climate Hustle’ was made to counter the very boilerplate rants that you, Mr. Kimmel, engaged in. The public needs to view ‘Climate Hustle’ if, for no other reason, than to hear Mr. Kimmel’s climate talking points dismantled.

“Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.”

“If Jimmy Kimmel is actually interested in the facts, he’ll step up and watch the film, instead of continuing to recite inaccurate, fear-mongering clichés on blind faith,” Morano added.

Jimmy Kimmel Transcript: 

“2014 was the warmest year ever until 2015 became the warmest year ever. Now 2016 might turn out to be even warmer than either of those. You know how you know climate change is real? When the hottest year on record is whatever year it currently is.

“A huge majority of climate scientists say climate change is happening. They say we’re causing it and we need to do something about it before it has a terrible effect on all of us. There’s no debate about the greenhouse effect, just like there’s no debate about gravity. It someone throws a piano off the roof, I don’t care what Sarah Palin tells you. Get out of the way, because it’s coming down on your head.

“Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree on this. And 97 percent of scientists don’t agree on much. Even one out of five dentists don’t believe in sugarless gum for their patients that chew gum.

But Almost half our representatives in Washington apparently know more about science than our scientists, or they pretend to because big corporations give them a lot of money to make sure they can keep doing the destructive things that they do. And the idea that this is some kind of left wing conspiracy is — what if I decided to deny the existence of yogurt? Think about it. I’ve seen the containers, I just don’t believe there’s anything in them. I believe yogurt is a conspiracy created by John Stamos. You’d think I was insane, and I would be insane, but this is not that different from that. To me the big question is, either you believe in science or you don’t. Why do we believe scientists when it comes to molecules and the speed of light and Cialis, but not this? Because members of Congress, who we don’t even like, by the way, because people who take money from companies that make pollution for a living told us not to worry about it. Now, and I know I’ll get beaten over the head by every wacko website, and I know there will be a lot of what the hell do you know, go back to girls jumping on trampolines. This is not about what I know, this is about what scientists know. So I hope that for the next two minutes, put your political leanings aside, forget about whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, forget the labels, and pay attention to the following message. Decide for yourself, the people you’re about to see are scientists, they’re Americans, they’re not part of some imaginary conspiracy, they’re just a smarter version of us. Watch this, and if at the end you disagree, while we’re all underwater I hope you’ll be that last one that gets a snorkel.

[BEGIN VIDEO]

ARADHNA TRIPATI: Hi, I’m Aradhna Tripati, I’m a paleoclimatologist and isotope geochemist.

ALEX HALL: Hi, I’m Alex Hall, and I’m a climate scientist.

JEREMY PAL: I’m Jeremy Pal, and I’m a hydroclimatologist.

NINA KARNOVSKY: I’m Nina Karnovsky, and I’m a polar ecologist.

CHUCK TAYLOR: I’m Chuck Taylor, and I’m an environmental analytical chemist.

JOHN DORSEY: I’m John Dorsey, and I’m a marine environmental scientist.

KARNOVSKY: Over the past 40 years, thousands of scientists have studied climate change.

TAYLOR: Definitely happening.

TRIPATI: And it’s caused by human beings.

PAL: That’s you and me.

HALL: And the consequences could be extremely dire.

DORSEY: Catastrophic.

KARNOVSKY: Apocalyptic.

TRIPATI: And here’s the thing, when we tell you all this, we’re not f***ing with you.

PAL: We’re not f***ing with you.

TAYLOR: Definitely not f***ing with you.

DORSEY: Why would we f*** with you?

PAL: Think about it.

HALL: If I wanted to screw with people, do you think I would have gone into climate science?

DORSEY: If we were f***ing with you I’m sure we could do a lot better than anthropogenic climate change.

TRIPATI: I’d probably tell you that a meteor was coming, and then try to sell you a helmet.

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Actor Ashton Kutcher speaks out on Free Markets and “Heavy-Handed” Regulations

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Ashton Kutcher (L) greets 2nd Security Forces Squadron Airmen. The Airmen provided security support on the set of “The Guardian” while it filmed on base.

Ashton Kutcher is an entrepreneur and popular actor. He denounced heavy-handed regulation in a recent interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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Scott Blakeman from The Foundry reports:

Kutcher is a managing partner of the investment fund A-Grade Investments. One company his fund has invested in is Uber, the app-based service that connects drivers with passengers. Uber is rapidly expanding to cities across the U.S. and is in over 24 countries worldwide. But Kutcher is experiencing firsthand some of the roadblocks many businesses have endured.

Kutcher noted that “old-school monopolies and incumbents and old-school governments” are interfering with the transportation market, picking the winners and losers, and barring innovation.

For instance, Kutcher mentioned that Uber isn’t allowed to operate in Miami “because of some dumb regulation that says it can’t exist there.”

Miami’s cab industry is heavily regulated, such that “local laws have protected taxi-medallion holders for so long that any attempt to tinker with the rules is met with stiff political resistance.”

Audrey Edmonson, a member on the Board of County Commissioners for Miami-Dade County, proposed legislation deregulating the county’s transportation market so Uber and other companies could compete with traditional transportation services. But Dennis Moss, a fellow board member who is also the chairman of Miami’s Transportation and Aviation Committee, helped craft the existing restrictive regulations and is opposed to letting Uber enter the Miami transportation market:

If you want to pay for a luxury ride, then you should basically have to pay for a luxury ride.… That way we make sure that cab companies can also continue to make a living.

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