Gross: Kimmel Ponders Laura Ingraham's 'Erection' If Biden Had a Military Group Chat

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel was not content to merely criticize Trump Administration national security officials for discussing military operations on a civilian messaging app while unwittingly including The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in their conversations on his Monday show; he just had to bring Fox News’s Laura Ingraham into it as well. For unexplainable reasons, Kimmel mused about how hard Ingraham’s “erection” would have been if the matter involved Biden officials.

After a clip of Trump telling reporters that he was unaware of the existence of the group chat, Kimmel declared, “Sounds like one of those ‘You tell him,’ ‘No, no, you tell him’ things, but my god. If Joe Biden's top-level level military team had accidentally texted these plans to a journalist, Laura Ingraham's erection would be so rock solid, it would break through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man. This is a crazy mistake by any definition.”

 

 

In three short sentences, there is much to unpack. First and most obvious is the rampant sexism. Kimmel could have simply said Ingraham would have lost her mind, and his point would have been the same. He just had to make a woman TV host is actually a man “joke.”

Second, Kimmel is also showing hypocrisy in two ways. First, Jimmy Kimmel Live! is a family affair. One of the show’s head writers is Kimmel’s wife, Molly McNearney. For McNearney, jokes about Hillary Clinton and her pantsuits are simply too sexist to tell. As for Kimmel himself, he told a grand total of zero jokes about Biden’s Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, and his AWOL scandal.

The Secretary of Defense should not be discussing military operations on a civilian app, but he also shouldn’t disappear for extended periods of time without telling the president, and alleged comedians shouldn’t accuse others of hypocrisy around national security or sexism when they are the hypocritical ones.

Here is a transcript for the March 24 show: