Emily Jashinsky

But what sent people through the roof about Jimmy Kimmel was specifically that he was spreading in this like weird claptor line, a lie.

He was spreading something that was untrue at the time that he said it.

Everybody knew it was untrue and that it's a damaging lie.

And that's particularly what was pissing people off.

Watching it back compared to him crying after he got in trouble, it occurs to me he should have been crying through his monologues when he was talking about this a couple of days after it happened, not after he got in trouble.

It's actually like really...

It's sort of strange to see him crying now and acting as though this is an act of bravery, that this is him performing when it really is just him performing in the aftermath of what happened with him getting in trouble, not the aftermath of the national trauma that even people on the left went through when they saw someone get shot in cold blood.

I think what was enraging about the faux apology is that what he said was, I didn't mean to make light of this.

Well, I have to say that's not what was upsetting to me or I think many others about this.

It's that what he said wasn't a joke.

He said MAGA is trying to pretend that.

It wasn't one of them who did this.

That wasn't a joke.

He was serious about that.

And then his apology was, oh, I didn't mean to do that, rather than I'm sorry for what I did.

He did blame a specific group for the murder.

And he says, for those of you who think I pointed a finger, I get why you're upset.

He did point a finger and he pointed it at the wrong group.

So we got a phony apology.

And then he said,