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May 9, 2020

Face plant: MSM figures use comedian Jimmy Kimmel as source to falsely attack Mike Pence and get humiliated by Ted Cruz

By Thomas Lifson

We are at a point in our national political conversation where lies are the principal propaganda tool of the left, and prominent mainstream media figures rely on a comedian's fake criticism (since apologized for) to score points against the Trump administration.

It all started when late-night ABC TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel used a deceptively edited C-SPAN video to falsely claim that V.P. Mike Pence was delivering empty boxes of supplies to a hospital.  Via the U.K. Daily Mail:

During his monologue in Thursday night's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the comedian and host showed a clip of Pence delivering boxes of PPEs to the Woodbine Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center hospital in Virginia earlier in the day.  

'Here he is with no mask on, wheeling boxes of PPEs into a health care center, and doing his best to lift them, what a hero… since it was going so well, and also because he didn't realize he had a mic on, Magic Mike decided to keep it going, listen in closely here,' Kimmel said during the monologue. 

The video, which was originally broadcast by C-SPAN, showed Pence as he pushed a trolley of big cardboard boxes, then picked them up and put them down outside the hospital's doors. 

Then, when Pence returns to the delivery van, which still has boxes inside it, someone tells him: 'Those are empty, sir. We're good to go.' 

Pence responds: 'Well, can I carry the empty ones? Just for the camera?'

'Absolutely,' the unidentified man says, as those around them laugh.   

Kimmel then continued his monologue by saying that 'Mike Pence pretending to carry empty PPEs into a hospital is the perfect metaphor for who he is and what he's doing. A big box of nothing delivering another box of nothing.'

Here is the video:

 

Later on, Kimmel tweeted out the clip in a tweet that received millions of views but has since been deleted:

The lack of context, that Pence has previously delivered full boxes, and when done was clearly joking about delivering the empty boxes remaining in the truck, was so unfair that even BuzzFeed's deputy director, David Mack, called out Kimmel in a tweet:

But that bit of honesty came too late for Biden's deputy national press secretary and for the New York Times and NBC reporters who bought into it and parroted the attack.  Joe Scarborough even broadcast it on his Morning Joe show on MSNBC

Kimmel was shamed into a sneering apology:

Senator Ted Cruz lit into Scarborough:

Scarborough foolishly responded and got his ass handed back to him by the Texas senator:

We are at a point in our national political conversation where lies are the principal propaganda tool of the left, and prominent mainstream media figures rely on a comedian's fake criticism (since apologized for) to score points against the Trump administration.

It all started when late-night ABC TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel used a deceptively edited C-SPAN video to falsely claim that V.P. Mike Pence was delivering empty boxes of supplies to a hospital.  Via the U.K. Daily Mail:

During his monologue in Thursday night's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the comedian and host showed a clip of Pence delivering boxes of PPEs to the Woodbine Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center hospital in Virginia earlier in the day.  

'Here he is with no mask on, wheeling boxes of PPEs into a health care center, and doing his best to lift them, what a hero… since it was going so well, and also because he didn't realize he had a mic on, Magic Mike decided to keep it going, listen in closely here,' Kimmel said during the monologue. 

The video, which was originally broadcast by C-SPAN, showed Pence as he pushed a trolley of big cardboard boxes, then picked them up and put them down outside the hospital's doors. 

Then, when Pence returns to the delivery van, which still has boxes inside it, someone tells him: 'Those are empty, sir. We're good to go.' 

Pence responds: 'Well, can I carry the empty ones? Just for the camera?'

'Absolutely,' the unidentified man says, as those around them laugh.   

Kimmel then continued his monologue by saying that 'Mike Pence pretending to carry empty PPEs into a hospital is the perfect metaphor for who he is and what he's doing. A big box of nothing delivering another box of nothing.'

Here is the video:

 

Later on, Kimmel tweeted out the clip in a tweet that received millions of views but has since been deleted:

The lack of context, that Pence has previously delivered full boxes, and when done was clearly joking about delivering the empty boxes remaining in the truck, was so unfair that even BuzzFeed's deputy director, David Mack, called out Kimmel in a tweet:

But that bit of honesty came too late for Biden's deputy national press secretary and for the New York Times and NBC reporters who bought into it and parroted the attack.  Joe Scarborough even broadcast it on his Morning Joe show on MSNBC

Kimmel was shamed into a sneering apology:

Senator Ted Cruz lit into Scarborough:

Scarborough foolishly responded and got his ass handed back to him by the Texas senator: