The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel.

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

And speaking on Fox Wednesday night, Carr suggested broadcasters would see more of this kind of pressure in the future.

“We at the FCC are going to force the public interest obligation. There are broadcasters out there that don’t like it, they can turn in their license in to the FCC,” Carr said. “But that’s our job. Again, we’re making some progress now.”

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Well, that is interesting, but I have not even seen what Kimmel said, so I do not know the context of what they are taking action against.

He has not been funny since The Man Show.

I am not a fan of government or any of their alphabet soup.

“The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”

I don’t know if there was more to it. I don’t watch tv.

The kid was clearly not right wing, but I am not sure if that lie Kimmel is telling is worth the FCC actions. I would have to dig deeper. He will just start a web show, most likely.

I don’t give a shot about Kimmel.

Why is the FCC chair making threats to silence political commentary from comedians? Insanity

I agree, it is not a good approach and it may take the courts stepping in to enforce the 1A and clarify the situations. In any case, we should abolish all the alphabet soup organizations.