The Patriot Post® · Friday Opinion

Today’s Editors’ Choice

• David Harsanyi: Don’t Fall for Jimmy Kimmel’s Cheap Zero-Sum Emotionalism
• Michael Reagan: Loving Trump’s UN Speech
• Ken Blackwell: Trump’s Warning: An AT&T/Time Warner Merger Is Dangerous

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Opinion in Brief

David Harsanyi: “In recent months, late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel has taken to scaremongering his audience with well-worn Democratic Party talking points regarding health care insurance policy. Between yuks, he occasionally accuses Republicans of being would-be baby killers, which is treated as an important political development because, well, Jimmy Kimmel is famous. … The comedian’s interest in policy was sparked by the harrowing experience of having a newborn son who suffered from a rare health condition. … [His] monologue … could have been written by any liberal activist. Which is to say it was all about cheap zero-sum emotionalism. Kimmel doesn’t believe Americans deserve the chance to reduce the cost of health care with market-based reforms on the state level, or in giving states any flexibility in catering their plans to their own citizens. Kimmel believes California and New York should spend more per capita and smaller states should suffer. Kimmel doesn’t believe that individuals and families should be allowed to contribute to health savings accounts or use them to help pay ever-growing insurance premiums. Kimmel wants average Americans to suffer. You see? Anyone can play this game.”