Glenn Beck Makes the Case For Why Trump's FCC Should Leave The View Alone

"Disney's ABC is firing back at the FCC, accusing the agency of engaging in actions that, quote, threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech."

"Beck said he despises the program but laid out the case for both why and how Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr will likely lose this fight. Beck began the segment by reading from a news article, saying, Disney's ABC is firing back at the FCC, accusing the agency of engaging in actions that, quote, threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech."

"The FCC is probing whether or not The View should be forced to operate under the equal time political rule and whether or not ABC's broadcast licenses should be impacted if the program doesn't adhere to that standard."

"Everything changed in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan. It is the reason why the Rush Limbaugh show could come on. He continued: Nobody wanted to do political talk back in the day because you had to balance absolutely everything, and it was just too much of a headache, okay? The other way to balance it is if you combined MSNBC and Fox, and every other hour it was a leftist and then somebody on the right, and then a leftist and then the right. Nobody would listen to that."

The FCC is investigating whether The View must follow the equal time political rule and whether ABC’s broadcast licenses should be impacted if the program does not adhere to that standard. Glenn Beck frames the dispute as a conflict over long-established broadcast law and practice, claiming the FCC’s actions could chill protected critical speech. He argues that major regulatory changes occurred in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan, enabling more political talk programming. He contends that strict balancing requirements previously discouraged political talk, and that later approaches made such programming viable. He also predicts that Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is likely to lose the fight against ABC.

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