ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, accused President Trump and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr of trying to “squash” and “silence” them on their Thursday shows after Carr announced that he believes the regulations that say broadcast networks must allow for equal time among candidates applies to their shows.
After a history lesson, Kimmel retorted, “That’s how every talk show has operated since then until this week when Trump’s little ferret in the FCC, Brendan Carr, who as you know is doing everything he can to shut us up, ‘the easy way or the hard way,’ is trying to say we no longer qualify for the bona fide news exemption when it comes to interviewing candidates, which is a sneaky little way of keeping viewpoints that aren’t his off air.”
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