This is an open letter to Brian Kilmead of Fox News.
The other day Jimmy Kimmel made unfavorable comments about the Graham-Cassidy health bill on his program. In response, you said on your program that he is simply one of the Hollywood elites who are “pushing their politics on the rest of the country.”
This is a strange thing for you to say. According to your biography, you have ten years’ experience as a stand-up comedian and worked for many years as a sports reporter and announcer. Today you work as a host for “Fox and Friends,” which Fox itself has said is entertainment and “does not pretend to be straight news.”
In other words, you are an entertainer, just like Jimmy Kimmel. And yet, on your program, in your role as an entertainer, you spend hours every week “pushing your politics on the rest of the country.”
Why, then, do you have a problem with Jimmy Kimmel pushing his political views for several minutes a week? And in this case he isn’t just pushing his views. He is pushing the views of a number of Republican governors, the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Hospital Association, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, Arthritis Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Family Voices, March of Dimes, National Health Council, National Multiple Sclerosis Society and several other organizations.
Whose agenda are you pushing?
John Williams
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