Here’s FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr sucking up to Donald Trump by threatening to take NBC off the air
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Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr loves the idea of government speech regulations, and he especially loves the idea that he will be the one to impose them in a future Trump administration.
That's the short version.
Here's the slightly longer, dumber version: Kamala Harris made a cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, triggering an FCC broadcast TV policy known as the equal time rule". NBC, no stranger to FCC rules, did the legally required thing and offered Trump his own appearance on the network later in the weekend. Everything should be settled... but here's Carr, calling for the government to punish NBC.
Seriously! Here's Carr appearing on Fox Business this morning, threatening to revoke NBC's broadcast license in...