Newsom Trolls Trump And FCC Chair Over ‘Made Up’ Rule To Oust Jimmy Kimmel | EUROtoday

Newsom’s press workplace shared a clip of Trump falsely stating Thursday on Fox News that the 2020 election was rigged. They argued that if Kimmel can get suspended for commenting on the loss of life of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, Trump must be equally punished for mendacity.

The publish on X, previously Twitter, learn: “DOZY DON WHO LOOKS AWFUL RECENTLY (‘THE HANDS’) IS LYING ON LIVE TELEVISION! HIS SO CALLED ‘FCC CHAIR’ BRENDAN CARR MUST IMMEDIATELY APPLY THE MADE UP ‘JIMMY KIMMEL’ RULE AND KICK TRUMP OFF TV!!!”

The social media publish continued, “LET’S GO BRENDAN!”

Nexstar is pursuing a significant merger with media firm Tegna that requires approval from the Federal Communications Commission, chaired by Carr.

Carr defended the choice throughout a CNBC interview Thursday on “Squawk on The Street.”

“Our goal and our obligation here is to make sure that broadcasters are serving the public interest,” he stated. “And if there’s local TV stations that don’t think that running that programming does it, then they have every right under the law in their contracts to preempt it.”

Critics argue that Kimmel’s ousting is a clear-cut signal of public-private overreach, as the businesses in query are allowed to droop no matter applications they need however look like doing so over political strain.

“It’s not the appropriate job of the FCC chairman to become the censor-in-chief,” Tom Wheeler, an ex-FCC chair appointed by former President Barack Obama, informed The Guardian on Thursday, including that Carr is “exploiting the vagaries in the term ‘the public interest.’”