{"id":353139,"date":"2020-06-19T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=353139"},"modified":"2020-06-23T16:02:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T20:02:37","slug":"kimmel-takes-summer-off-to-escape-blackface-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/06\/19\/kimmel-takes-summer-off-to-escape-blackface-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimmel Takes Summer Off to Escape Blackface Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Hey, have you seen where Jimmy Kimmel is taking the summer off? He is gonna take a leave of absence from July 6 all the way through September. I saw that before I knew why, and I said, “Well, that must be nice.” Pressure. Too much pressure. It\u2019s 18 years. (Try 32, Jimmy.) Eighteen years. (Try three hours a day, Jimmy, with no writers.) It\u2019s been 18 years, and he\u2019s gotta take the summer off, because…<\/p>\n

Well, he\u2019s healthy. There\u2019s nothing wrong. There\u2019s just a lot of pressure out there with the coronavirus, a lot of pressure out there with Trump ruining everything, a lot of pressure out there and he just wants to spend time with the family. I said, “Gee. What if I announced something like that?” Well, it turns out, it turns out that Jimmy Kimmel used to be co-host of something called The Man Show on Comedy Central.<\/p>\n

Was Adam Corolla the other…? (interruption) All right. And during the life span of that show, Jimmy Kimmel appeared in blackface a number of times during skits, and he was portraying NBA player Karl Malone, and he would do it in blackface. Karl Malone is African-American. And so that now has surfaced.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This story is at the TheHill.com. Not Variety, not The Hollywood Reporter, TheHill.com, a Washington political paper. It says Jimmy Kimmel is getting a head start on the upcoming controversy of him in blackface as a host of The Man Show. That was years ago. How long ago was The Man Show, Brian? You were still wearing diapers, right? (interruption)<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s at least 20 years old, something like that, 25. I don\u2019t know. I guess you go find out. It was fresh with Comedy Central. (interruption) \u201999? Oh. Twenty-one years ago, he started. Okay. So it\u2019s actually… I guess it\u2019s an attempt to get a head start on the controversy of being caught blackface and so forth. (interruption) Yeah, but Fallon didn\u2019t he get away with it or did he apologize for it?<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t have to stop doing his show for a while. Isn\u2019t it amazing, folks, all of these holier-than-thou, clean and pure as the wind-driven snow Hollywood liberals? Isn\u2019t it fascinating when we learn what they\u2019ve done? They have mistreated women. They\u2019ve beat them up. They\u2019ve raped them. They\u2019ve sexually abused them. They\u2019ve put \u2019em on the casting couch.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve dressed up in blackface. They\u2019ve made fun of African-Americans in the process. Hell, the sitting governor of Virginia dressed up in blackface when he was in medical school, and he\u2019s still the sitting governor of Virginia. (accent) “That\u2019d be Ralph Northam!” Isn\u2019t it amazing what we learn about these people? (interruption) I don\u2019t know if ABC knew that Jimmy Kimmel had done blackface routines or not.<\/p>\n

I have no idea if ABC knew it. I assume… Oh! Oh! This remind me. I meant to tell this little story some days ago and it slipped my mind, because in the past 10 days, I\u2019ve had about 80-75% of my mind here every day. Remember, when this program was like new starting 1988, first four years, 1992? Whenever anything is new and it\u2019s big and it\u2019s growing, it captures the attention of everybody in media, including Hollywood TV people.<\/p>\n

I had a request to fly out to Hollywood and meet some syndicators of a hot new show that they had a plan for, that they wanted to see if I would fit — and, of course, this is exciting stuff. This is big, big stuff. So I went out and did it, and I met with one of the producers. His first name was Bruno. I don\u2019t remember his last name. He was well known — a big, big, big, big, big guy in television business.<\/p>\n

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So we\u2019re at lunch one day at a famous, famous place in LA, which I also don\u2019t remember now, and I thought that I would take the occasion here as an opportunity to learn some things. So, at the time, the Arsenio Hall Show was kicking butt — it was the talk of the town — and I asked Bruno to tell me why. “What is it about that show that works?”<\/p>\n

I wanted to know from a broadcast and entertainment executive, “Why is it the show worked?” This guy… This guy stood up from the table, “What do you mean, why? A skinny black kid, probably poor, probably never had two quarters to put together — a skinny little black kid finally gets a chance to work in Hollywood — what do you mean, why is…?”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking around, and he\u2019s screaming at me. He has interpreted my question, \u2019cause I\u2019m a conservative. He has interpreted my question to say something entirely other than what he thought I was asking, “Why in the hell does that guy have a job!” That\u2019s what he thought I meant. I was asking, “Why does the show work?” To me, this was all a great opportunity to learn something.<\/p>\n

This guy, he went on a rant for two to three minutes about the disadvantaged African-Americans and how they\u2019ve never had a break in life. “They\u2019ve always been slaves, and they\u2019ve always had to do Stepin Fetchit stuff, and this guy, Arsenio Hall, he\u2019s broken out! For that reason, his show succeeded,” and about an hour later… No, no. It was a few days later, he called me and apologized, because he…<\/p>\n

\"\"I\u2019m forgetting the term that he was… It\u2019s not “virtue signaling.” That\u2019s a term today. He had a preconceived prejudice or bias about me, and that question just triggered behavior. He eventually called and apologized and said that he felt bad about the way he reacted to the question, and then gave me the answer that I had originally wanted.<\/p>\n

But the point about this is, here you have all of these Hollywood people who are clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, and they\u2019ve never done anything wrong, and they have all of the proper opinions. No bias. No prejudice. There\u2019s no racism, there\u2019s no bigotry, there\u2019s no homophobia among them — and then you find out the things they\u2019ve done when nobody\u2019s looking.<\/p>\n

Or, in the case of The Man Show, when a lot of people were looking. And you find out they\u2019re just as bigoted as anybody else, and they\u2019re just as racist as anybody else, and they\u2019re just as homophobic as anybody else. But somehow, they all get a pass, and the way they get a pass is ripping into and criticizing and trying to destroy us.<\/p>\n

That gives them a pass. That gives them perception to do the other stuff they do, and I just… This Kimmel story, blackface? I thought the original version of the story was true. There\u2019s a lot of pressure out there. It\u2019s a nightly TV show, need a break. After 18 years, I can understand. Need a break. Then we find out that there\u2019s a blackface controversy in the repertoire of Jimmy Kimmel.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m gonna go through this in a minute. Gonna go through NBC, Matt Lauer screwing anything that was not screwed down, not moving, or was moving. Got CBS, got Gayle King not paying her what she deserves \u2019cause she\u2019s black. You got Charlie Rose who was doing his own impersonation of Matt Lauer out there.<\/p>\n

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I mean, they are more racist, they are more bigoted than the people they criticize. They\u2019re far more racist than Trump ever hoped to be. They\u2019re more bigoted than Trump could ever hope to be. They\u2019re more perverted than Trump could ever hope to be. And the light of truth is eventually gonna shine on all of them.<\/p>\n

And these big networks — ABC, CBS, NBC — I don\u2019t know of any sex scandals at ABC that we know of yet. Charlie Rose over at CBS, Matt Lauer over at NBC, and there were even more than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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