Oh, this is RICH! Jimmy Kimmel offers up BOGUS excuse for laying off of Weinstein

Sarah D. | 1:40 PM on October 13, 2017

Even Jimmy Kimmel has his limits, you guys:

Jimmy Kimmel defends lack of Harvey Weinstein jokes: I’m not the "moral conscience of America" https://t.co/XrIeI3I8ss

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 13, 2017

More from the Daily Beast:

“First of all, the Harvey Weinstein thing, people like this false equivalence of that’s somehow equivalent to what happened in Las Vegas,” Kimmel added, arguing that the alleged assault of dozens of women does not deserve the same reaction as the killing of nearly 60 people. He said that Weinstein is “not a friend of mine,” adding, “I’m not in the movie business.” As a once and future Oscar host who is friends with many of the movie stars in Weinstein’s orbit, that claim is a hard one to buy.

“And I’ll add that that story came out like I think moments before we went to tape on Thursday and we didn’t have a show on Friday,” Kimmel continued.

But even when Kimmel did finally talk about Weinstein on Monday, he used the story more as a tool to go after Trump Jr. than anything else. “Next time you’re defending your father and you think it’s a good idea to draw a comparison between him and a freshly accused sexual predator, don’t. It doesn’t help,” Kimmel told him, before delivering one joke about Weinstein just to prove that he could.

So brave.

“They’re saying that I’m calling myself the moral conscience of America, which I most certainly never did and most certainly never would,” he declared.

Maybe he didn’t call himself that … but he was more than happy to embrace that title when it was convenient for him.

Wait, wait, wait. So when liberal journalists bestowed the "moral conscience" crown on him, he was all "no way, man!" right?

LMFAO ?

— Brian O'Fall (@applecharlie5) October 13, 2017