In November, Democratic Party shill Jimmy Kimmel warmly welcomed Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., on his late-night show. The California congressman had big news: he was throwing his hat into the Golden State’s race for governor. Smarmy Swalwell told his good buddy Jimmy he “wouldn’t do it anywhere else.”
The useful idiots in the Jimmy Kimmel Live! studio audience cheered. They especially like it when the California cad spoke of standing up for the victims of dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
“To me, it’s support the survivors,” Swalwell told a fawning Kimmel as they discussed the House vote to release the infamous Epstein Files.
Let’s just say the bro love fest hasn’t aged very well as Swalwell abandons his run for governor — and his seat in Congress — amid a raft of sexual misconduct allegations. The interview was one of endless examples of why late-night broadcast television has become a wasteland of one-party rule that is long overdue for regulatory correction.
Swalwell and Kimmel spent the brunt of the segment attacking the man they love to hate, President Donald Trump, accusing him of “acting like somebody who has something to hide.”
“With the Epstein vote we showed that we, justice, and those victims are stronger,” Swalwell said with puffed chest to audience applause.
Five months later, Swalwell is facing multiple allegations from women who say they are victims of the far-left congressman’s inappropriate sexual conduct. In one case, a woman who worked in his office has accused Swalwell of raping her.
How does Jimmy like him now?
‘I Plan to Resign My Seat’
On Sunday, the frontrunner bowed out of the governor’s race, apologizing to family, staff, friends and supporters for “mistakes in judgment” he has made in the past, but he maintained that he would fight the “serious, false allegations that have been made.”
The fallout continued Monday, when Swalwell announced he would resign his seat in Congress amid growing calls to send the Democrat packing.
“Expelling anyone in Congress without due process, within days of an allegation being made, is wrong. But it’s also wrong for my constituents to have me distracted from my duties. Therefore, I plan to resign my seat in Congress,” Swalwell said in a statement to the media.
Most of his fellow Democrats have abandoned the once-cocky pitbull for the party’s deranged Trump “resistance” movement. Of course, Swalwell’s treatment of women in his office and elsewhere has allegedly been one of the worst-kept secrets — a la Hollywood’s Harvey Weinstein — in D.C. Once useful, Swalwell became an inconvenience, and definitely expendable in a governor’s race with too many Democrats.
He’s the next Joe Biden caught in a clan of liberal hyenas.
Business As Usual
Suffice to say, Swalwell’s old pal Jimmy wasn’t extending any invites to announce his next political moves. Jimmy, in fact, didn’t have much to say on the bombshell allegations. Officials from his show did not return The Federalist’s requests for comment.
But it will be business as usual for the late-night “comedian” whose flagging show is nothing more than a rehash of he daily Democratic Party talking points. The “fawning treatment” of Swalwell by Kimmel and fellow party stooge Stephen Colbert is further proof that late-night television is operating in a “narrow partisan, political interest,” as the Federal Communications Commission has warned.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has warned the broadcast networks that they run the risk of hefty penalties and the loss of their licenses if they continue to abuse the “Equal Time” rule that requires even-handed treatment of political candidates.
Carr reminded CBS of the rule in February, when Colbert opted to invite Texas Democrat darling and false prophet James Talarico on his show right before the primary election. The Late Show host did not extend the same offer — an earned media jackpot — to Senate primary opponent Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas. CBS attorneys advised Colbert and crew to make sure they were following the equal time rule, with the left trying to make the liberal late-night host a martyr after the Talarico interview was moved to its YouTube channel.
Daniel Suhr, president of the Center for American Rights (CAR), reminded Carr of Swalwell’s cozy relationship with biased late-night television in a letter Monday to the FCC chair. Swalwell jumped on Colbert’s show to announce his ill-fated 2020 run for president, and has sat in on Late Night with Seth Myers.
“The love runs two ways – not only did Kimmel platform Swalwell to announce his run, but then Swalwell led a ‘Stand with Kimmel’ campaign when Disney and local broadcasters chose to suspend his program,” wrote Suhr, referencing Kimmel’s slap on the wrist for saying some truly awful things in his monologue about slain conservative leader Charlie Kirk.
‘One-Sided Love’
The Center for American Rights has filed multiple complaints with the FCC alleging “massive abuse” of the public airwaves by the networks at their late shows.
Kimmel and the late-night gang have generously provided equal time to fellow Democrats. Katie Porter, a former congresswoman and contender in the California governor’s contest, has done the late-night circuit many times. As Suhr notes, Kimmel twice donated to Porter’s congressional campaigns, information not disclosed when she appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Top Republican candidates in the campaign, Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco, apparently haven’t made the late-night cut. Suhr asserts that both candidates — Hilton, “a longtime TV personality with a British accent,” and Bianco, “a hard-charging, tough-talking sheriff who has plenty of media experience as Riverside County Sheriff” — would make terrific guests.
But the candidates picked the wrong party to earn favor in late-night land. As NewsBusters reports, conservatives are all but invisible on the politically-biased shows.
“The totally one-sided love showered on Eric Swalwell, heretofore the golden boy from the Golden State in Democratic politics, and other Democrats shows again the New York-Hollywood values that dominate our media landscape,” Suhr wrote. “As we’ve said before, late night is where Democratic politics and Hollywood celebrity intersects. That is not bona fide news, and it is not in the public interest.”
