Jimmy Kimmel was back Tuesday night with loads of self-serving throat clearing.

He opened “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” by rattling off all the fancy friends who called on him during his painful — but very brief — exile, including David Letterman, Stephen Colbert and Howard Stern.

He praised people on the other side of the ideological aisle, who rightly blasted FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s foolish rhetoric on Benny Johnson’s podcast. 5

He gave a soliloquy about free speech and blasted the Trump administration.

One person he let off the hook: Himself.

Kimmel willfully misunderstood what landed him in hot water in the first place. It wasn’t jokes about Trump. It wasn’t a joke at all. It was him essentially saying that Kirk’s murderer was MAGA, when it was clear that wasn’t the case.

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