JD Vance Suggests That FCC Chairman's Warning To ABC Stations Over Jimmy Kimmel Was Merely "A Joke"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Vice President JD Vance, addressing Jimmy Kimmel’s return to ABC, suggested that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s warning to the network’s stations was merely “a joke.”

Answering a reporter’s question about the free speech implications that have been raised over the temporary sidelining of Kimmel, Vance said, “What people will say is, ‘Didn’t the FCC commissioner put a tweet out that said something bad?’

“Well, compare … the FCC commissioner making a joke on social media. What is the government action that the Trump administration has engaged in to kick Jimmy Kimmel or anybody off else off the air? Zero. What government pressure have we brought to bear to tell people that they’re not allowed to speak their mind? Zero. We believe in free speech in the Trump administration. We are fighting every single day to protect it. Now, compare that to the Biden administration, where we found out just yesterday that conservatives on YouTube and on a number of social media platforms were being censored. Why? Because the Biden administration picked up the phone and said, ‘We want you to censor our political opponents.’ That is real government censorship, and it left the White House when Joe Biden left the White House.”

Carr’s comments actually were made on Benny Johnson’s podcast last week, albeit they spread across social media. Carr also sounded serious when he was asked about one of Kimmel’s remarks about MAGA’s efforts to define the motives of the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jd-vance-suggests-fcc-chairman-193532929.html

[rampartd]

1. it might be a joke if it were funny

but it ain't so it is a threat.

[Ars Longa]

12. What was funny about it?? n/t

[Turbineguy]

2. Carr needs some new joke writers.

Try the Writers Guild of America.

[Klarkashton]

3. When they get caught up in a big scandal it's always "a joke" and it's always "Biden's fault"

That worthless Vance asshole is the joke.

[C_U_L8R]

4. What the SofaJerk is saying...

is that no one should take this administration seriously.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

5. JD: Joke Decipherer.

[unblock]

6. Broadly speaking, the entire Donnie reign and maga movement is a joke.

Albeit a rather cruel one....

[unblock]

7. "It was a joke" is fascist-speak for "guess I can't get away with this just yet"

[tanyev]

18. Exactly.

[Botany]

8. 3 things:

J.D. Vance is a fucking liar. It was no joke and they did put pressure on Disney/ABC to
fire Kimmel after which Trump bragged about the firing and extorting money from other
networks that had been critical of him too.

What Kimmel said as 100% true. The right wing wanted to blame the left for the shooting.

It was not Joe Biden’s fault.

[dlk]

9. It was a threat, perhaps disguised as a joke

Vance believes he’s so much smarter than the rest of us.

[Doodley]

10. What Vance and Trump need to understand is that Jimmy Kimmel is the comedian in this story, not Brendan Carr.

[hamsterjill]

11. Well, JD, it was about a $4 billion dollar expense of a joke, now wasn't it?

Fucking moron!

[mwmisses4289]

13. "Oh, look we're getting backlash for our

suppressing free speech comments. Quick, let's just say we were joking! Don't those libtards know a joke when they hear one?"

(I don't really need this do i?)

[GoCubsGo]

14. It's their standard answer when their shit blows up in their faces.

Frequently followed up with, "You have no sense of humor," when nobody laughs at their "joke." Same shit, different day.

[vanlassie]

23. Just like every abusive partner.

[sheshe2]

15. I guess I missed the punchline.

[Prairie Gates]

16. New Ezra Klein column incoming: "Can't an FCC Chair Joke about Shutting down a Network Anymore?"

Brendan Carr is Doing Agency Administration the Right Way!
by Ezra Klein

[peggysue2]

17. JD Vance is lying his face off

He's not even good at it.

Carr meant exactly what he said because the Administration thought it was holding all the cards.

Until they weren't.

They're just angry they were thwarted. This time,

[spanone]

19. Hs also said trmp was joking about 'DON'T TAKE TYLENOL'

JD is a fucking buffoon.

[Sogo]

20. That entire administration is a joke.

We're in stitches, JD. Stop, please stop!

[Johonny]

21. JD Vance has no morals or ethics

He is a younger version of Trump. Just a truly awful person in it for himself.

[B.See]

22. AKA, Trying To Lull the Sleeping Giant Back To Sleep.

Woke? Weren't woke enough, sez I.

[ananda]

24. Isn't that what bullies and their enablers say?

Hmmm

A bridge opponent once hit me on the arm
at the table. I snapped: Stop that.

He said, I was just joking.

I said, "You wanna go outside and deal with
it?"

He said, no, I'm sorry. And he was a lamb
ever since, really quiet every game.