GOP Senators Criticize FCC's Threats Against ABC And Jimmy Kimmel

[Jilly_in_VA]

A growing number of Republicans are speaking out against Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr and his comments threatening to take action against Disney’s ABC last week, following the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), appearing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” called Carr’s threats “absolutely inappropriate.”

“If you’re losing money, you can be fired,” Paul said. “But the government’s got no business in it. And the FCC was wrong to weigh in. And I’ll fight any attempt by the government to get involved with speech.”
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, which has oversight over the FCC, likened Carr’s comments to threats made by a mob boss.

“I gotta say that’s right out of ‘Goodfellas,’” the senator said, referring to the 1990 mob movie. “That’s right out of a mafioso going into a bar and saying, ‘Nice bar you got here. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.’”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jimmy-kimmel-trump-carr-fcc_n_68d15e22e4b03fb4d93333ff?origin=home-latest-news-unit

Not popular even among some of the G00Pers

[kimbutgar]

1. Because if we ever get a Democratic president again he can surely do the same thing and threaten the licenses

Of Reich wing tv stations.

Oh Sinclair you’re a monopoly and you have to sell off your monopoly. This ABC Carr scandal is Sinclair wanted to buy more stations under another corporate name,

[msongs]

2. bla bla bla what are they gonna actually do about it lol. rinse and repeat nt

[Midnight Writer]

3. "GOP Senators"? There are two of them. Two out of over fifty.

They make it sound like some kind of revolt, principled Republicans protecting the First Amendment.

It is not.

It is two GOP Senators griping and taking no action.