Greg Gutfeld cut through the noise Thursday with a point so obvious it shouldn’t need saying — but in today’s media landscape, it absolutely does.
On The Five, Gutfeld addressed the bizarre spectacle of Democrats and media pundits turning Jimmy Kimmel’s indefinite suspension into a morality play about “free speech” and “cancel culture.” What he noticed — and what should trouble everyone — is how much more energy the Left seems to be investing in defending Kimmel’s career than in mourning the assassination of Charlie Kirk just a week earlier.
🚨 Greg Gutfeld just had the PERFECT take on Jimmy Kimmel being suspended
“Even in DEATH, Charlie keeps winning debates.” 🔥
“The media is trying to make Jimmy Kimmel into their Charlie Kirk, as if getting fired is the same as getting fired upon. THAT’S what disgusts me.”
h/t… pic.twitter.com/nUiGz62mT7
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 18, 2025
“The media is trying to make Jimmy Kimmel into their Charlie Kirk, as if getting fired is the same as getting fired upon. THAT’S what disgusts me,” Gutfeld said. It was blunt, and it was devastating. Losing a network gig is not the same as losing your life. And yet, the emotional bandwidth of the corporate press seems reserved for the late-night host, not the conservative leader gunned down in public.
Gutfeld went further, reminding his audience that while Kimmel can still go home every night to see his kids, Kirk’s children will never have that chance again. “You can’t turn Kimmel into Kirk,” he said.
i have friends who will be performing in front of live audiences that number in the thousands. they aren’t worried about being fired; they’re worried now, about being fired upon. CNN hacks cannot grasp that because they’ve never had to worry about such threats, or an audience.
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) September 18, 2025
The Fox host also underscored a broader truth about the environments these figures inhabit. Most media personalities, himself included, are what he called “indoor cats.”
They don’t walk into hostile auditoriums filled with ideological opponents and defend their ideas, as Kirk did countless times on college campuses. They don’t face the risks — or the rewards — of direct public debate. Kirk did, and as Gutfeld quipped, “Even in death, Charlie is still winning debates.”
He echoed the same sentiment on X earlier in the day, pointing out that his friends who speak to live audiences of thousands now worry less about being fired and more about being fired upon. CNN pundits, he argued, simply cannot comprehend that level of risk because they’ve never faced it.
