Jimmy Kimmel Responds To Haters

PRIOR TO THE HOUSE VOTING ON THE REPLACEMENT FOR THE
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, JIMMY KIMMEL SHARED UNEMOTIONAL
STORY REGARDING HIS NEWBORN SON, BILLY, AND HIS HEART CONDITION.
DURING THAT STORY HE TALKED ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF
ACCESSIBLE HEALTHCARE, AND HOW EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN DESERVES
TO GET THE MEDICAL CARE THAT THEY NEED, REGARDLESS OF THEIR
SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS.
THAT SEEMS LIKE NOT A CONTROVERSIAL STANCE,
ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU PUT YOURSELF IN A VULNERABLE POSITION,
AND TALK ABOUT YOUR OWN FAMILY AND YOUR OWN STRUGGLES.
OF COURSE CONSERVATIVES WERE ANGRY ABOUT IT, AND NEWT
GINGRICH WAS ONE OF THEM.
SO NEWT GINGRICH GOES INTO THE MEDIA AND START STARING
JIMMY KIMMEL APART, AND JIMMY KIMMEL RESPONDED.
I WANT TO GIVE YOU SOME OF THE RESPONSE.
"I KNOW THIS IS GOING TO SHOCK YOU ñ
THERE WERE ALSO SOME NOT SO NICE THINGS THAT PEOPLE SAID
ONLINE ABOUT ME, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA.
I WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGIZE FOR SAYING THAT CHILDREN IN
AMERICA TO HAVE HEALTHCARE.
WAS INSENSITIVE.
IT WAS OFFENSIVE, AND I HOPE YOU CAN FIND IT IN YOUR HEART
TO FORGIVE ME."
OBVIOUSLY HE WAS BEING SARCASTIC.
HE SAYS, "THERE ARE SOME VERY SICK AND SAD PEOPLE OUT THERE.
HERE'S ONE OF THEM; HIS NAME IS NEWT GINGRICH."
AND THEN HE PROCEEDS TO TEAR NEWT GINGRICH APART, AND
WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A SECOND.
BUT I LIKE THAT HE IS COMING OUT STRONG ON THIS ISSUE.
YOU THINK IT'S NOT THAT CONTROVERSIAL, WHEN SOMEONE
SAYS, HEY MY BABY HAS A HEART CONDITION AND I'M
EMPATHIZING WITH OTHER PEOPLE.
I HAVE A LOT OF MONEY, AND I HAVE INSURANCE, THANK GOD,
AND WE ARE TAKING CARE OF IT, BUT MY GOD, WHAT IF HE
DIDN'T HAVE INSURANCE?
AND TO THE POINT ON NEWT GINGRICH, IT'S NOT LIKE YOU CAN
JUST SHOW UP AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM AND YOU ARE DONE WITH IT,
YOU HAVE TO GET TREATMENT OVER AND OVER AGAIN, AND IF YOU
DIDN'T HAVE INSURANCE, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO HER BABY?
THAT IS SUCH A FAIR QUESTION, AND THEY ARE LIKE, HOW DARE
YOU POLITICIZE IT?
BUT IT IS A POLITICAL ISSUE, HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA IS A
POLITICAL ISSUE.
HE IS IN A VERY PRIVILEGED POSITION, AND OFTEN TIMES PEOPLE
WHO ARE IN A PRIVILEGED POSITION IN THIS COUNTRY REFUSE TO HAVE
ANY EMPATHY OR COMPASSION FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN'T PRIVILEGED,
AND I GIVE JIMMY KIMMEL A WORLD OF CREDIT FOR PUTTING HIMSELF IN
THE MIDDLE OF WHAT IS A DIVISIVE TOPIC, WHICH SHOULDN'T BE, AND
SHARING HIS TRUTH WITH HIS AUDIENCE.
I GIVE HIM A LOT OF CREDIT FOR THAT, AND FOR NEWT GINGRICH
TO COME OUT AND MAKE ARGUMENTS LIKE, YOU GO TO THE
EMERGENCY ROOM AND GET CARE, NOBODY IS GOING TO BE
TURNED AWAY, IF YOU HAVE A HEART CONDITION, IT'S NOT ABOUT
GOING TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM JUST ONCE ñ WHICH, BY THE WAY,
WILL BE EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE AND WILL PROBABLY PUT YOU IN
BANKRUPTCY ñ IT'S ABOUT PREVENTATIVE CARE AND TREATMENT.
WE HAVE TERRIBLE ACCESS TO PREVENTATIVE CARE IN THIS
COUNTRY.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY, REGARDLESS OF
THEIR POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, IS CONCERNED ABOUT.
FOR NEWT GINGRICH TO ATTACK JIMMY KIMMEL FOUR PUT
HIMSELF OUT THERE AND SHARING THE TRUTH IS UNCONSCIONABLE.
HE DOES NOT CARE AT ALL ABOUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, HE IS
JUST...
I DON'T KNOW.
JIMMY KIMMEL POINTED OUT, WHEN YOUR BABY HAS A HEART
DEFECT, NOT ONLY DO YOU NEED THE SURGERY, THEY HAD TO GO
BACK TO THE DOCTORS DOZENS OF TIMES.
SO WHEN YOU SAY, WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?
JUST GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM.
YOU ARE JUST SAYING, I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR KIDS.
THAT IS SO PRO-LIFE ABOUT YOU, NEWT GINGRICH.
YOU ARE SO PRO-LIFE THAT YOU WOULD RATHER SOMEBODY STRUGGLE
WITHOUT INSURANCE, AND WAIT UNTIL SOMETHING IS SO BAD
THAT THEY HAVE TO GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM.
THEY ALWAYS SAY DON'T POLITICIZE ISSUES LIKE THIS, BUT AS SOON
AS IT IS AN ISSUE THEY LIKE, THEY POLITICIZE IT IMMEDIATELY.
WHEN THERE IS A BOMBING, THEY JUMP TO POLITICIZE TERRORISM.
THEY JUMP TO POLITICIZE ANYTHING THAT IS VAGUELY HELPFUL TO THEM.
AND THEN WITH THIS IT'S A CELEBRITY LIKE JIMMY KIMMEL
GETTING INVOLVED.
BUT WHEN KID ROCK GETS INVOLVED THEY ARE LIKE, YES, KID ROCK IN
THE WHITE HOUSE!
WE HAVE A CELEBRITY ON OUR SIDE!
SO YOU ARE TOTAL GIANT HYPOCRITES.
AND ONE OF THE REASONS THAT THEY GET MAD AT JIMMY KIMMEL IS
BECAUSE HE'S RICH.
HYPOCRITE, YOU ARE RICH.
THERE'S NOTHING HYPOCRITICAL ABOUT THAT, IT'S CALLED EMPATHY.
DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE IS RICH AND CAN AFFORD IT, HE STILL
CARES ABOUT YOU IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD IT.
THAT IS NOT HYPOCRISY, THAT IS BEING A DECENT HUMAN BEING,
AND THAT REALLY GETS UNDER THEIR SKIN, BECAUSE THEY ARE
LIKE, WHY ISN'T HE MERCILESSLY GREEDY LIKE THE REST OF US?
WHY DOESN'T HE WANT TO CROSS EVERYONE IT ALREADY ñ
THAT ISN'T ALREADY PRIVILEGED?
LIKE THEY SAID ABOUT FDR, A TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS.
ANYTIME IT COMES TO A POLITICAL ISSUE, CONSERVATIVES CRY AND
MOAN ABOUT SOMETHING DEMOCRATS DO, DEMOCRATS WILL COLLECT ñ
WILL CORRECT THEIR BEHAVIOR, AND THEN AS SOON AS REPUBLICANS HAVE
A LITTLE BIT OF POWER, THEY DO ñ THEY TURN AROUND AND DO IT MORE.
ALL OF THESE CRITICISMS THAT REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES
HAVE IS TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM KNOWING WHAT IS REALLY
GOING ON, AND I AM TIRED OF DEMOCRATS BEING WEAK, AND
I'M REALLY PROUD OF JIMMY KIMMEL FOR NOT STEPPING DOWN.
I'M PROUD OF HIM FOR BRINGING THE ISSUE UP AGAIN, AND
ATTACKING HIM THE WAY THAT HEAT ñ
AND ATTACKING NEWT GINGRICH THE WAY THAT HE DID.
HIS SARCASM WAS PERFECT, BECAUSE WHAT WAS HE SUPPOSED TO DO?
WAS HE SUPPOSED TO APOLOGIZE FOR POINTING OUT THAT HIS BABY
HAS A HEART DEFECT, AND NEEDED ALL THIS HEALTHCARE, AND
THAT IF YOU HAVE INSURANCE, THAT HE WOULDN'T SURVIVE?
IS HE SUPPOSED TO APOLOGIZE FOR THOSE FACTS?
IS HE SUPPOSED TO MAKE UP FACTS?
IS HE SUPPOSED TO LIVE, AND GO, MY BAD, I DIDN'T MEAN TO
GET IN THE MIDDLE OF A POLITICAL SCUFFLE HERE.
MAYBE BABIES SHOULD DIE SO THAT RICH PEOPLE CAN GET A $750
MILLION TAX-CUT.
I DON'T WANT TO GET IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.

Jimmy Kimmel Responds To Haters

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