Kimmel’s Free Speech Brigade Silent Over Bari Weiss Cancellation
Threats against CBS News chief reveal stunning late-night hypocrisy
It’s happening again, but this time the target isn’t a conservative firebrand like Milo or Candace Owens.
Center-Left journalist Bari Weiss was scheduled to speak at the University of California-Los Angeles this month, but the CBS News chief bowed out.
Why?
Protests and violent threats forced her hand, according to a report.
UCLA’s associate vice chancellor Steve Lurie told the Los Angeles Times that the university had been prepared to “implement a comprehensive security plan for this event” and that it “developed in coordination with campus safety and external law enforcement partners.”
Sound familiar? It should.
For years, conservative speakers have been harassed, attacked and silenced on college campuses nationwide.
These weren’t peaceful protests but attempts to either silence the speakers or cause them physical harm.
Again and again and again.
And that doesn’t include other threats facing artists like Michael Rapaport and theatrical producers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElinhinney.
Did Hollywood rise up en masse to decry these free speech attacks? No.
Did Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, late-night hosts who claim President Donald Trump curtailed their free speech rights, rush to their defense?
No.
Nor will either far-Left host invite Weiss onto their programs to hear her side of the story. Weiss is considered the “enemy” of the progressive Left for trying to save CBS News from its extreme liberal bias. For that, she must be ostracized if not punished directly.
So there’s little interest in a late-night comic taking her side, either via a “truth-to-power” monologue or a seat on their respective couches.
And it gets worse.
Some of the threats against Weiss are based on her pro-Israel stance. It’s the latest example of violent antisemitism flooding university culture with little pushback from the Left.
Need more outrageous details?
Some university members decried Weiss’s slated appearance. Yes, a university where free speech should reign supreme employs workers who don’t want Weiss to be heard.
One employee threatened to quit if Weiss actually spoke on campus.
The associate director of the center that was supposed to host Bari Weiss at UCLA says she’ll resign if Bari Weiss is allowed to speak.
She should resign in any event because she’s a disgrace to the university and her profession. https://t.co/GK7VnGC9gB pic.twitter.com/4oZ7bB5j9a
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) February 19, 2026
So where is Kimmel? The ACLU? Jon Stewart? John Oliver?
Silent. Again. They’ll only weigh in if they think they can use free speech as a cudgel against a certain two-term president.
Expecting ones ENEMY to be consistent in their world view when that disadvantages the enemy shows three things.
1. A clear lack of understanding that propaganda war is occurring .
2. Weakness of character expressed by the desire to for your enemy to “agree” that you were “right”.
3. A lack of understanding of the reasons your enemy is your enemy.
Weak insubstantial men of no consequence view politics as a “Collegial Endeavor” with two equally GOOD and DECENT sides both striving for the SAME OUTCOME with different approaches.
This does not apply to end of days scum that don’t know what a woman is and who hop kids up on dangerous mind altering drugs so they can pretend to be a gender they can never attain. That is EVIL not a “different approach”.
Your enemy is your enemy because JESUS CHRIST correctly labeled people who believe the things mentioned above as the ACTUAL, LITERAL yes we really mean it, CHILDREN OF SATAN, John 8:44. Fake Christians who think “we are all God’s chillun” despite their God incarnate TELLING YOU that SATAN HAS CHILDREN are the problem that has tolerated 90 million dead babies and children chopping off their genitals although thankfully even weak diluted not at all saved by the Gospel (Acts 2:38, Acts 2:4) Christian fakes HAVE AT LEAST WOKEN UP TO THE EVIL OF THE GENITAL MUTILATION.
…or maybe Hollywood doesn’t want to platform fascists who want to kill free speech. and don’t @ me over that – not all free speech is protected speech. f*** Bari Weiss, the dime-store Leni Riefenstahl she is…a s***y puppet.
You played the Nazi Card … now, THAT’S a first!
No one deserves their vile treatment regardless, but the far-left treating the center-left (like Bari) as if they were full-blown rightwingers is also a blatant strategy to shift the Overton window by terrifying moderates into scrambling further left. Sadly, it works.
Perfectly said.
100%
yes exactly