The American Senator TED Cruz, the front Republican and the supervision of the Federal Commission (FCC), joined Democrats on Friday and criticized FCC chairman Brendan Carr for his recent threat against Disney and local broadcasters sending Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Cruz, a conservative from Texas and a leading figure in Congress, called Carra’s threat to gentle broadcasting or canceled their “dangerous” show and emphasized Bipartisan concerns about the potential overlap of the government and the threat of freedom of expression, Reuters reported.
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“I have to say it’s right from” GoodFellas “,” Cruz said, triggered by Martin Scorsese Gangster. “That’s right from the mafioso that comes to the bar,” the nice bar you have here. It would be a pity if something happened to it. “
The Senator’s notes are a rare example of a member of President Donald Trump’s own party, who publicly criticizes the actions of administration and emphasizes the deepening of concerns about the rights of free expression and endangered Trump’s interventions.
Trump told reporters in an oval office on Friday that he disagreed with Cruz and called Carra “an incredible American patriot with courage”.
On Thursday, Trump repeated the often stated claim that broadcasters critical of his administration should perhaps have their licenses issued by FCC.
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Trump, who was asked for another statement on Friday, said, “I am a very strong person for freedom of speech,” he added that the transmitters were so stacked against him that he considered them an extension of the democratic party.
“You see, I think it’s really illegal, personally,” Trump said about extensive criticism. “It’s no longer a free speech … that’s just cheating and cheating.”
Suspension kimmel follows Carra’s threats
ABC, a TV network owned by Disney, suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened investigations and regulatory measures against the licensed broadcasting show. In response to the owners of dozens of local stations associated with ABC, they announced that the program would stop stopping. Trump, who appointed Carra, publicly supported this decision.
The suspension came after Kimmel’s Monday night monologue, in which he addressed the murder of right -wing activist Charlie Kirk, a close collaborator and political ally Trump.
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Kimmel’s comments were angry with conservative activists that they used the assassination to earn “political points” and his proposal that the murderer could also be a conservative. Kimmel was also joking about how Trump reacted to killing.
Prominent Democrats and Civil Rights Groups condemned the pressure of Trump’s administration to punish Kimmel and others who negatively speak of the president.
Cruz, chairman of the Senate Supervision Committee, joined the criticism in Friday’s episode of his podcast and said that Carra’s comments were “as dangerous as hell”.
The Senator, a former constitutional lawyer, then accepted the wide accent of the mafioso to quote Carra’s comments on broadcasting this week: “We can do it in an easy way, or we can do it hard.”
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The leader of the minority of the Senate Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, who rarely agrees with Cruz, called Carra to resign or to fire Trump. Schumer called Carr “One of the greatest threats for freedom of expression when America ever knew.”
Some democratic legislators in the House of Representatives on Friday asked the General Inspector FCC to explore Carra’s events and comments. Carr and FCC did not respond to requests for commentary, but Carr said at the beginning of this week that he was not going anywhere and promised to continue his work on media companies and defend “public interest”.
Trump celebrates the fall of the comedian
Trump, a former successful television host himself, spoke several times during a state visit to Britain this week to praise Kimmel’s suspension and call the comedian Los Angeles not -on and condemned him for saying “a terrible thing about a big gentleman known as Charlie Kirk.”
Kimmel has not commented on his suspension and his show remains unclear.
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In his podcast, Cruz said he was ridiculed by Kimmel in the air “I can’t count so many times” and that he hated Kimmel’s comments about Kirk. He said he was excited that Kimmel’s show had darkened, but not that it would result from government pressure.
We should not endanger government power to force it from the air.
“We should not endanger the government power to force it from the air,” Cruz said. “It might feel good now to endanger Jimmy Kimmel, but when used to silence every conservative in America, we’ll regret it.”
(With Reuters inputs)
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