Not Smart: Kimmel Wrongly States Nixon Was ‘Impeached’

Scott Whitlock | June 12, 2019
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[See NewsBusters for more.] Liberal late night host Jimmy Kimmel is smug and thinks he's very smart. In 2018, he bragged, “It also just so happens that pretty much every late night talk show is a liberal. And that’s because it requires a measure of intelligence.” Well, how much intelligence does it take to know whether or not Richard Nixon was impeached? (Spoiler alert: He wasn’t.) On Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host attempted a convoluted joke about Donald Trump’s feud with actress Bette Midler. Offering details, Kimmel said of one of the actress’s films: You know where the movie Hocus Pocus was filmed? It was filmed in Whittier, California, which everyone knows is the home of none other than Richard Nixon.... Richard Nixon was the last president to be impeached by a witch hunt.” No, he wasn't.