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Jimmy Kimmel’s holiday salvo on Britain’s Channel 4 was exactly what you’d expect from Hollywood’s grievance machine: a short, performative sermon that framed American political disagreement as existential doom. Kimmel used Channel 4’s Alternative Christmas Message to warn British viewers that “tyranny is booming” in the United States and even apologised for America’s current political mess, putting himself on the moral high ground while lecturing our allies.
He leaned hard into victimhood, reminding viewers about his brief suspension and casting his comeback as a victory over a powerful political adversary, even joking about giving “the most powerful politician on Earth a right and richly deserved bollocking.” That narrative — showbiz martyrdom turned into international virtue-signalling — plays well to late-night’s echo chamber but rings hollow to anyone who watches the political theater with clear eyes.
Conservative commentators weren’t surprised and weren’t gentle. Outlets across the spectrum asked why a multi-millionaire entertainer gets a transatlantic platform to preach about democracy while shrugging off his own accountability for reckless rhetoric, and some even argued he should pay a price for his reckless, partisan theatrics. The criticism isn’t about silencing opinion; it’s about calling out the sanctimony of elites who lecture the country while enjoying the protection and privilege their platforms provide.
What should bother patriotic Americans is less Kimmel’s tantrum than the wider pattern it represents: cultural elites parachuting into foreign media to indict the nation they profit from without introspection or humility. When celebrities jet off to British TV to apologize for the state of the union, they trade in spectacle, not solutions — and their self-righteous posturing only deepens the divide between coastal cultural gatekeepers and the rest of the country. The arrogance of lecturing friends and allies while treating political slander as entertainment is both tasteless and corrosive.
Let’s be clear about the stakes: free speech isn’t a shield for flaunting ignorance on international television, nor is conservative pushback some reflexive denial of legitimate concern. But there’s a difference between sober criticism and the kind of performative condemnation that treats political disagreement as moral rot. The public deserves sober discussion, not glossy, one-sided guilt trips from studio lights and celebrity entourages.
Americans of every persuasion should reject the double standard that lionizes pundits when they attack conservatives and vilifies anyone who pushes back. If Kimmel wants to lecture Britain, fine — but he ought to answer for the partisan theater he performs and the dangerous habit of pretending moral superiority while delegitimizing millions of his fellow citizens. The country will come through this, but not because celebrities demand it from foreign screens; because citizens demand accountability and fairness at home.
