In any fair game, the rules have to be the same for everybody. That’s a basic idea we all learn in kindergarten. But for years, it seems the Left has been rewriting the rules for how we talk in public. They came up with a new weapon called “accountability,” but funny enough, it only ever seemed to get aimed at people who disagreed with them.

Here’s the thing about making a weapon: you better be sure you’re the only one who ever gets to use it. The folks who invented this new cancel culture loved it when they were winning. They never stopped to think that their own creation could come back to bite them. But rules are rules. And now, the very same people who perfected the angry mob are getting a taste of their own medicine.

From ‘The Daily Wire’:

While most of Hollywood had total meltdowns over “Jimmy Kimmel Live” being pulled from the air “indefinitely,” actor James Woods made some comparisons to how the Left has treated “cancel culture” in the past.

“Remember when Twitter’s Jack Dorsey banned the President of the United States from the world’s biggest forum during an election? Screw Jimmy Kimmel,” Woods wrote alongside a link to a Rolling Stone article from 2023, titled “Why Cancel Culture is Good for Democracy” by Ernest Owens.

They Wrote the Rules of This Game

Let’s be honest: the Left built this whole cancel culture machine. They cheered every time a mob went after someone for telling the wrong joke or having the wrong opinion. They loved it. They turned talking about ideas into a minefield, and they smiled the whole time they were doing it.

Just think about it. As Clay Travis pointed out, Kimmel works for Disney. This is the same Disney that fired Roseanne Barr from the number one show on TV for a bad tweet. It’s the same Disney that fired Gina Carano from a hit show for a social media post. And back then? The Left and all their friends in Hollywood thought it was great. They called it “progress.”

For years, they’ve been lecturing us that speech has consequences. We were told that companies can, and should, fire people who step out of line. They insisted it wasn’t censorship. It was just the “marketplace of ideas,” they said. So what’s changed?

Hollywood Cries Foul When the Rules Apply to Them

Now that the monster they built has come for one of their own, the elites are in a full-blown panic. You can’t make this stuff up. California’s Governor Gavin Newsom started tweeting about a “dangerous” and “coordinated” plot against free speech. I have to ask, where was he when conservatives were being silenced for years?

Actress Jean Smart said Kimmel’s lie was just “FREE speech, not hate speech.” Funny how that works, isn’t it? It’s only “hate speech” when it’s someone they don’t like. Actress Kerry Washington praised Kimmel’s amazing “integrity.” Integrity? For lying about a murder victim to score cheap political points? It’s just stunning. Do they even own mirrors?

This whole meltdown shows just how out of touch these people are. They live in a bubble where they truly believe there’s one set of rules for you and me, and no rules for them. They aren’t defending a principle. They’re just protecting their friend who finally got caught.

Key Takeaways

• The Left championed cancel culture when it was a tool used against conservatives.
• Hollywood elites cry ‘censorship’ only when their own rules are applied to them.
• Accountability for spreading vicious lies is not an attack on free speech.
• This incident exposes a glaring double standard for the country’s cultural elites.

Sources: Daily Wire, Deadline