Jimmy Kimmel Slams Conservatives: ‘I’d Like to Apologize for Saying Children in America Should Have Healthcare’

Sarcastically, Kimmel Says, ‘I Hope You Can Find It in Your Heart to Forgive Me’ 

Last week Jimmy Kimmel’s tear-filled monologue describing his newborn son’s need for emergency open-heart surgery and the discovery that he was born with a congenital heart defect that will leave him branded for life as having a pre-existing condition went viral. 

“If your baby is going to die and it doesn’t have to, it shouldn’t matter how much money you make,” Kimmel, choking back tears, told his audience. “I think that’s something that whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat or something else, we all agree on that, right?” 

Apparently, wrong.

Angry and furious conservatives went nuts, some spewing attacks on him on social media. It also spawned outrage from various Republicans like one-term former Tea Party Congressman Joe Walsh. That attack, widely denounced, opened the door for him at MSNBC to spew his “analysis” on health care (he has no formal background in health care).

Opinion writer Charles Hurt at the right wing newspaper The Washington Times penned a column titled, “Shut up, Jimmy Kimmel, you elitist creep.”

That was just the title.

In his monologue Monday night Kimmel “apologized” to conservatives “for saying that children in America should have healthcare.” And he referenced the attack by Charles Hurt.

“I can’t even count the number of times I’ve been called an ‘out of touch Hollywood elitist, creep’ this week,” Kimmel told his audience. “Which, I have to say, I kind of appreciate—because when I was a kid, we had to drink powdered milk because we couldn’t afford the liquid variety. Our orange juice came frozen out of a can, it would squeeze out. My father—on the rare occasion we took a family trip—would hide our dog in the back of the car and then smuggle it into the motel room to avoid paying a $2 pet fee. So I have to say, my dream was to become an ‘out of touch Hollywood elitist.’ And I guess it came true.”  

“Anyway,” he continued, “I would like to apologize for saying that children in America should have health care,” Kimmel sarcastically added. “It was insensitive. It was offensive, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.”

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