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How Outrage at Kimmel Grew to a Shout From a Whisper

Right-wing users on social media on Tuesday were frustrated but not yet apoplectic about Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue. Things changed.

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The New York Times reviewed hundreds of thousands of posts on X, along with commentary from radio, television and podcasts, and livestreams on YouTube and other websites, to reconstruct the origins of the outrage that exploded among conservatives over Jimmy Kimmel’s Monday night monologue.
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