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Bulwark Takes

Conservative Podcaster BLASTS Trump’s Kimmel Crackdown!

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Tim Miller break down the fallout from Jimmy Kimmel’s ouster and the strange reactions across MAGA media. From Barstool’s split response to Trump’s thin-skinned attacks and corporate media silence.

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0:00.0

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0:23.3

Again, we did this last night. We're doing a follow-up today.

0:26.7

Jim Kimmel, the fallout, everything's happening.

0:29.9

Kind of predictable, Tim, to see where it is.

0:32.5

But yeah, we've seen a lot of the kind of free speech bro podcast types not too happy about this.

0:40.9

Yeah, I think that it is, on the one hand, it's kind of predictable.

0:44.2

Yes.

0:45.1

On the other hand, it's a little bit of a pleasant surprise.

0:49.4

I could do a lot of negative news around here, right?

0:51.3

Like, just as far as how many of them have spoken out about it. It's the type of thing you could just ignore. And none of these guys, it'd be one thing if it was like they're comfortable with them. None of these guys that we're about to talk about who are podcasters, comedians, sports guys, they might seem to somebody who's outside of that world to be in the same world as Jimmy Kimmel, but like they're really not. Like Jimmy is a different generation than them.

1:12.6

Right.

1:13.6

They don't have any love loss for the network liberal. They don't even find him funny. They're like, I didn't like his joke. They're like it's stupid. Yeah. Yeah, none of them really find him funny. Right. for these guys, like, they could have just ignored this, right?

1:26.9

Like, that's, you know, one thing that you see oftentimes when there's inconvenient facts out there in the news.

1:31.5

And so the fact that so many of them have spoken out, I think, is pretty noteworthy. Okay. Which one do you find most noteworthy? That's a good question. I've been no, I think the Barstool guys pushing back against the Dave Portnoy because, you know,

1:46.0

for folks, obviously Barstool is

1:47.7

kind of the irreverent sports

1:49.6

focused podcast, but they've expanded into a bunch

1:51.9

of culture areas.

1:53.8

Portnoy is the founder of that. He came out

1:55.8

pretty quickly, like basically on the side

1:57.8

of canceling Kimmel.

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