The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - September 24, 2025


Jimmy Kimmel is an Imbecilic Cowardly Pig (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_885)


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11 minutes

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141.1351

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1,686

Sentence count

90

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Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

17

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Hate speech

2

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Jimmy Kimmel should have been allowed to express his opinions without fear of retribution from the government. But he chose not to do so. And now the government is punishing him for it. Is this right or wrong? And what does it have to do with the First Amendment?

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00:00:00.240 Hi everybody, this is Gad Saad for The Sad Truth.
00:00:04.080 I wanted to spend a few minutes discussing the Jimmy Kimmel situation.
00:00:08.720 You might remember that last week, Jimmy Kimmel went on his show during his monologue
00:00:13.920 and said that the assassin of Charlie Kirk was a MAGA guy.
00:00:21.180 And of course that upset a lot of people because not only was it blatantly false,
00:00:26.440 but again that he would focus on sort of this political machinations
00:00:32.700 rather than the tragedy of what had transpired, rightfully so got a lot of people angry.
00:00:38.880 As a result of that, and given that ABC knew that there were many local affiliates
00:00:43.480 whereby the viewers would not be happy with the discourse of Jimmy Kimmel,
00:00:51.920 they decided to yank him off air.
00:00:56.880 That's a business decision, right?
00:00:59.320 In the same way that people rightly or wrongly decided that Megyn Kelly had to go from NBC
00:01:06.980 when she made the comment about using, I think it was blackface as a Halloween costume, 0.55
00:01:12.780 or when Roseanne Barr was kicked, you know, cancelled from her show on ABC.
00:01:20.080 Companies will do all sorts of, they'll make all sorts of decisions.
00:01:26.340 The decisions might be right, they might be wrong, they may be cowardly, they might be courageous,
00:01:30.720 but they do it if they're pursuing their fiduciary interests,
00:01:35.040 which is to maximize shareholders' profits.
00:01:39.880 They'll make business decisions that are in the best interest of that objective.
00:01:44.340 The fact that Donald Trump says that Jimmy Kimmel has no talent and it's good that he's off the air
00:01:50.340 does not imply that the government has directly stepped in and yanked Jimmy Kimmel off air.
00:01:57.980 And the fact that the commissioner of the FCC said some things that suggest that,
00:02:03.620 you know, he personally was unhappy with the position that Jimmy Kimmel had taken,
00:02:09.740 again, does not imply that there is governmental intervention
00:02:13.840 in stopping Jimmy Kimmel from exercising his First Amendment rights.
00:02:19.800 Life involves situational awareness, yes?
00:02:24.740 Yes, the way that you might speak in the privacy of your bedroom to your wife
00:02:30.400 might be different than how you speak at a party with your colleagues,
00:02:35.460 precisely because you are a well-modulated person who recognizes that different situations
00:02:40.840 require different behaviors, different things to talk about, right?
00:02:49.080 Things that you do in the intimacy of your bedroom become a crime if you do them publicly, right?
00:02:57.380 Situations matter. Locations matter.
00:03:00.720 Now, this was a situation where there was global outrage about what happened to Charlie Kirk,
00:03:08.080 never mind American-specific outrage.
00:03:11.680 He was beloved by millions of people.
00:03:15.080 And it certainly was Jimmy Kimmel's fault for not knowing how to address the situation.
00:03:24.640 He could have went on and said,
00:03:26.840 you know, I am feeling very angry at what just happened to Charlie Kirk.
00:03:31.280 I weep for his wife and his young children.
00:03:35.600 And I hope that we can find a way to navigate through our disagreements without engaging in violence
00:03:44.740 and left it at that.
00:03:45.880 But he didn't do that, right?
00:03:47.540 He did something that got a lot of people upset and that resulted in a business decision.
00:03:52.220 Okay, so that was the summary of it has nothing to do, literally nothing to do with the First Amendment.
00:03:57.840 It is exactly how when I block someone on, say, X, after they have been insulting me, demeaning me, defaming me for weeks, 0.98
00:04:07.900 then they will come back through another account and say, look at this hypocrite. 1.00
00:04:13.220 He's supposed to be for freedom of speech, but he blocks me. 0.98
00:04:16.480 My being a free speech absolutist doesn't mean that I don't get to walk away from you if you are insulting me, right?
00:04:24.360 So there is a complete lack of understanding from most people, including this degenerate Jimmy Kimmel,
00:04:31.340 as to what the First Amendment is.
00:04:34.240 Okay, so that's point one.
00:04:35.900 So then he comes on last night.
00:04:38.180 He was put back on the air.
00:04:40.760 And he went into this long monologue where, I mean, you would literally think he is the ultimate manifestation
00:04:48.860 of the mythical Greek hero figure, right?
00:04:52.900 I mean, he stood against the forces of evil of the government and was exercising his freedom of speech.
00:05:00.260 And if you can't criticize the President of the United States, then we are not living in the United States. 0.72
00:05:07.200 You said a really shitty thing that was obnoxious, that was insulting, and then people were going to react to it. 0.81
00:05:14.920 And that's it. 0.98
00:05:15.760 Now, the President of the United States, again, has a right to say you're a no-talent hack that should be off air.
00:05:23.620 That doesn't mean that he used the instruments of government to shut you down.
00:05:28.320 You've been spewing your hate against Donald Trump for years.
00:05:32.840 He never stopped you before, right? 0.94
00:05:34.580 It's you who engaged in an action that was viewed as a manifestation of your execrable character.
00:05:42.500 And people reacted accordingly, including the company, okay?
00:05:48.260 He's no hero, Jimmy Kimmel.
00:05:50.140 He doesn't have to take on the victimhood of being, you know, a combination of Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela having stepped against the power that be and fought against it because he's fighting for First Amendment.
00:06:06.620 He's the first guy to have celebrated the canceling of endless people, including the shutting down of Donald Trump's account, if memory serves me right. 0.99
00:06:16.360 So, he's a complete hypocrite, he's a complete degenerate, he's full of it, he's a grotesque human being. 1.00
00:06:24.560 But let me mention something else. 1.00
00:06:28.960 I'm old enough to have watched Johnny Carson.
00:06:31.780 I came to the United, not the United States, to Canada in the mid-70s.
00:06:36.400 I was 11 years old, and I started, you know, I would watch Johnny Carson with all of the, you know, his guests.
00:06:45.100 It's the real movie stars of a long-gone era now.
00:06:48.680 And you never knew what Johnny Carson's political orientation was.
00:06:54.100 Precisely because, and I was just a child, but precisely because you just want to have fun as you're going to bed, right?
00:07:02.700 There is, again, a time and place for everything.
00:07:05.220 When you go to an NFL game or an NBA game, you don't want to see people doing hashtag BLM and taking a knee.
00:07:12.720 You're going to a football game because you want to escape.
00:07:15.840 Football unites us all.
00:07:17.900 Whether you're Democrat or Republican, if you support the Detroit Lions, then that becomes your tribe more than your political orientation.
00:07:27.220 So sports, music, late-night shows are vehicles that allow us to escape from politics.
00:07:36.440 But Jimmy Kimmel doesn't do that, and all of his late-night friends don't do that.
00:07:41.240 I just posted earlier today an analysis looking at the number within a certain time period.
00:07:48.480 I won't get into the details, but within a certain number, a time period, the distribution of liberal Democrats as guests on these shows versus conservatives.
00:08:01.120 I'm going to read you each one.
00:08:02.620 You ready?
00:08:03.680 Stephen Colbert, 176 to 1, meaning out of 177 guests that they analyzed, 176 were Democrats.
00:08:12.960 The Daily Show, 157 to 9.
00:08:16.000 Seth Meyers, 68 to 0.
00:08:19.940 Jimmy Kimmel, 58 to 2.
00:08:23.040 Jimmy Fallon, 41 to 2.
00:08:25.940 Trevor Noah, who I guess is no longer on air, 7 to 0.
00:08:30.420 Again, it's depending on what the time period of the analysis was.
00:08:34.240 And James Corden, who again is no longer on, 4 to 0.
00:08:38.540 So the total across all of them, this is the thing that I'm reading.
00:08:41.980 You can go look at it on my Instagram feed.
00:08:51.860 511 guests were Democrats, 14 were Republican.
00:08:58.440 So not only the guests that you're bringing on are astoundingly, almost 100% tilted towards being Democrats, but then your monologue is also only Democrats.
00:09:11.620 So you take a situation where people had these very raw emotions about the killing of this beautiful human being called Charlie Kirk, and you get on your show.
00:09:22.280 You get on the soapbox that you have.
00:09:24.200 You get paid millions of dollars, and you truly are a hack, right?
00:09:29.460 I mean, you're not funny, you're not charming, you're not charismatic. 1.00
00:09:32.320 So you should simply look at the stars and say, thank God that I've been able to do this grift and get paid millions of dollars, despite the fact that I'm an amoeba, a moron. 0.99
00:09:42.660 And instead of trying to espouse a contrite message of kindness and love, when people are really angry, you go on into, yeah, the assassin was MAGA. 0.99
00:09:55.040 That's why you were canceled.
00:09:57.180 You're no hero.
00:09:58.540 Let me mention one final thing about that bringing in evolutionary psychology, and I discussed this in The Parasitic Mind.
00:10:06.540 For a signal to be an honest signal, it has to be costly.
00:10:12.380 So for example, the peacock's tail has evolved, despite the fact that it reduces the survivability of the peacock.
00:10:21.220 The reason why it has evolved, it's because of sexual selection, meaning that it confers a mating advantage to the peacock.
00:10:31.040 Because the peacock is saying, hey, beautiful peahen, shouldn't you pick me as a mate?
00:10:37.160 Because despite the fact that I'm carrying this very costly, handicapping tail, I'm still here, therefore I've got good genes, I've got good phenotypic quality, you should pick me.
00:10:50.700 It's an honest signal of your quality.
00:10:54.000 In evolutionary biology, this is called costly signaling.
00:10:57.180 So if you go out in the Middle East and say things that are likely to get you killed because you're criticizing, say, the dominant religion in that country,
00:11:08.020 that allows you to stand up and say, I am putting everything on the line in defense of free speech.
00:11:17.700 When Jimmy Kimmel tries to do that in an ecosystem that's 99.9% dominated by Democrats, 0.96
00:11:25.080 where he's allowed to spew his bullshit every day, all day long, that doesn't make him a hero. 1.00
00:11:30.780 So, to conclude, Jimmy Kimmel is a pig, he's an execrable cretin, he's a coward, 1.00
00:11:39.140 and I'd like to think that I was restrained and charitable in the adjectives that I've used. 1.00
00:11:47.040 Let me know what you think.
00:11:48.380 Was I too charitable, too kind, not kind enough?
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00:11:56.280 Cheers, everybody.