As Twitchy told you yesterday, Jimmy Kimmel defended his silence about Harvey Weinstein by saying he’s not “the moral conscience of America” (as CNN dubbed him), that he’s not in the movie business and Weinstein is not a friend of his. Kimmel took his case on Good Morning America on Friday:
GMA Gushes Over Cryin' Jimmy Kimmel As He Trashes 'Idiot' Trump, Conservative 'Gun Nuts' https://t.co/VJTY0rGyqX
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) October 13, 2017
Here’s something Kimmel said in the interview:
KIMMEL: So, you know,of course, that was it’s a convenient — now what they’re doing now is they’re trying to drag up any kind of — especially these gun nuts trying to drag any — like take any comedy bit I did out of context and use it as some kind of proof. They’re saying that I’m calling myself the moral conscience of America which I most certainly never did and most certainly never would.
Not long ago, a video flashback from a “comedy” segment featuring Kimmel made the rounds:
'Our new #MoralCompass'? This Jimmy Kimmel flashback is MELTING hypocrisy detectors https://t.co/dq6BlzOhDx
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 11, 2017
Is this among the bits Kimmel blames “gun nuts” for taking “out of context”? Here’s the GMA interview clip along with a “comedy bit” Kimmel once did:
Conspiracy theorist Jimmy #Weinstein Kimmel:
"Gun nuts" are spreading a video of women grabbing my crotch that is taken "out of context." pic.twitter.com/vc8pvsAr3U
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 13, 2017
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"Gun nuts" r spreading a video of women grabbing my crotch that is taken "out of context." ~ @jimmykimmel
You showed this on your show @JimmyKimmelLive
You were asking women to grab YOUR gun
you big pervert! ?pic.twitter.com/r1T7YkSdwe— #Cult45 Carrie ❤️ America ?? (@carrieksada) October 13, 2017
How “gun nuts” managed to take that video out of context is anybody’s guess.
@jimmykimmel You say your old comedy bit’s we’re “taken out of context “. What part of “feel my crotch” was taken out of context, Kimmel?
— ThinBlueLine C.O.P. (@MoonKing50) October 14, 2017
We’ll wait for an answer.
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