I apologize for mistakenly presuming your opinion before you gave it, M E M.
In the case of Kimmel, I have contempt for him because he is a comedian, and it is not his job to make political diatribes (that clearly alienate half of his potential audience from the outset). If he were saying these things in an interview on Entertainment Tonight or some other celebrity program, or in a magazine interview, okay. But as Laura Ingraham quoted years ago from an audience getting lectured by the Dixie Chicks about W. Bush at a concert, "Shut up and sing!"
Johnny Carson and Jay Leno talked politics on their shows too, but not in a partisan way that alienated half their audience, and not in a style that wasn't in any way funny or clever.
