Fox News’ Emily Compagno Groans After Hearing Jimmy Kimmel’s Ratings
What To Know
- Fox News host Emily Compagno expressed frustration upon learning that Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings have increased.
- The Outnumbered panel criticized Kimmel for his remarks about Melania Trump, suggesting that the media environment rewards such behavior.
- Panelists argued that Kimmel faced minimal consequences for past controversial comments.
Fox News host Emily Compagno couldn’t hold back her disgust when she learned that Jimmy Kimmel‘s ratings are up, audibly groaning when her co-host Harris Faulkner shared the stats.
The Outnumbered panel was discussing Melania Trump‘s calls for Kimmel to be fired after the late-night host joked that she had “the glow of an expectant widow.” Kimmel made the quip three days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting.
Compagno praised the first lady for calling out Kimmel, adding, “I know there is always going to be somebody that is trash. I note, however, that [Kimmel] enjoyed a Peabody Award this year. So we’re seeing this permissive ecosystem within that ‘journalism’ is also rewarding these people’s behavior.”
She went on to say that Kimmel can put that award on his wall alongside “an admonishment and his termination letter.”
Faulkner then told the panel, “Our team at Outnumbered looked this up: [Kimmel’s] numbers are actually up.”
“Ugh!” Compagno responded.
Faulkner continued, “Yeah, that means it sells against, you know, [Stephen] Colbert and [Jimmy] Fallon, and I don’t watch enough nighttime news to know if they’re even competitive with each other, or with the audience — it’s 1.8 million a night which is far less than most of the daytime programming on Fox.”
She added, “But, you know, it’s interesting they have seen a sharp downturn in previous years leading into this one, but his numbers are up. So the landscape is falling down — Greg Gutfeld’s better than everybody, his numbers almost double that — but it is interesting. There are people out there who like calling first lady an unexpected widow.”
Kimmel’s actual words were that Melania had “the glow of an expectant widow.” As he explained on Monday’s (April 27) Jimmy Kimmel Live!, it was “obviously a joke about their age difference… a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am.”
“It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination, and they know that I’ve been very vocal for many years, speaking out against gun violence in particular,” the late-night host added.
Fellow Outnumbered panelist Kaylee McGhee White then referenced Kimmel’s one-week suspension last September following backlash to comments he made about the one-week suspension assassination.
“I do actually think that Jimmy Kimmel learned a lesson from that entire saga, and it’s that he could get away with it,” she argued. “Because not only was he re-platformed by ABC even after many of the local affiliates threatened to drop him entirely from their channels, but you had the entire liberal establishment rally around him and claimed that him being suspended for a week was an attack on free speech.”
She continued, “That was the end of the world for liberal journalists everywhere, when he took a nice paid week off.”
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Jeez, the Diaper Cult is acting like Kimmel said he would wipe out an entire civilization, or something...
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We love Jimmy so get out of our faces and get to work doing something other than hate.
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Now That was funny !! And of course as usual very hypocritical.
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Speaking of hypocrytical, nice posting name.
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if anyone is trash, look no further than the mail order bride from solvaki or whogives ashitstan
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Pathetic jealousy all you got.
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Fox News..... LOL!! The Republican Hate Program is what the show should be called. It's an absolute joke.
Jimmy Kimmel Rocks!!
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We should really be asking the question: "If AI is coming for our job like Bezos, Altman and Musk all want and are open about, and the govt keeps killing the social safety net like Trump is doing, how does the working class make money?"
Every day that passes in this era, AI just keeps validating Karl Marx more and more
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So you’re saying people like Soros, Bloomberg, Cuban, Winfrey, Gates, etc. Won’t use AI ? Wealthy liberals won’t use AI. Hmm I didn’t know that. So Pelosi won’t be using it either ? Some how I don’t believe that for a micro second. The wealthy Libs will use it in a flash to make more $$. Your double standards don’t apply. But Hey nice try !!
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Republicans and Democrats only care for the rich, until they aren't in office or it's a voting year. And everything you claim others do? That white house squatter does tenfold. Yet it's ok since he's not screwing you over yet and you hate everyone so much that'd you take a little screwing if the people you hate get targeted. Wake up, politicians are all the same, crooked.
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Ever since Jimmy Kimmel took a stand against Nazis and pedophiles from the trump-epstein files, he's become an American hero.
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Just imagine what push back Kimmel would have gotten if he had said what WH Press Secretary for DT said about the WH Correpondents Dinner, that "Shots would be fired." Obviously, neither were talking about assassination attempts, and conflating their comments to that is just self-serving political point scoring with no basis in reality since they were both said before the event.
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How exactly did Kimmel cause WOPOTUS any legal harm? Just asking cause I don’t pay attention to him anyway
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actually you must or you wouldn't be here. troll
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LOL you shot yourself in the foot !! I think @@@@ was talking about Trump. But you went off and ASSumed. 😂
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Kimmel is a comedian not a journalist
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Jimmy Kimmel should die
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Oh, come one….What Jimmy says is nothing compared to Trump’s bullying of people that don't worship him! Like someone just said, Trump needs to decide if he is “god” or “King” like Charles. What a joke!
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Who?
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Circle the drain...
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No need to drain the swamp. Watch the leftists spin !!
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