Jimmy Kimmel is a comedian I’ve always liked, although in a way that I have a devilish greed for chocolate — knowing it’s no good for me, but the weaker side of me fails in the face of temptation.

Kimmel promoted a video prank where parents told their kids they ate all their Halloween candy & then filmed the kids’ response, which was usually crying.

Obviously this is a bad thing to do for a kid’s psyche as they will probably carry that with them for the rest of their lives depending on their age, and/or they will grow up thinking it’s perfectly normal to do cruel pranks for your own enjoyment at the expense of others.

It’s this sort of parenting that breeds bullies.

Now the real shocker here is that Kimmel’s Facebook page had this prank posted, and the “likes” outnumbered the “dislikes” 20 to 1.  Appx 95% of people in a “survey” covering appx 50,000 people think this is funny & normal behavior/parenting.

That’s what we have to overcome.  Bullying in all its forms has got to stop, as well as acceptance of it, applauding it, or turning a blind eye to it.

This isn’t Kimmel’s only problem — he’s upset a lot of Chinese people with another recent skit he did with kids in which one kid suggested we kill everyone in China to get rid of the debt we owe them.

Adding all this to his misogynistic Man Show resume (I know it was a parody show — it was funny most of time to me also) doesn’t help him at all.

But is this the entertainment & values that America wants?  We are progressing in many ways, yet digressing in many others.