"There's a lot of Democrats out there that are engaged in a campaign of projection and distortion, Carr said during an on-stage interview at the Concordia Summit yesterday. The distortion is they're completely misrepresenting the work of the FCC and what we've been doing. I saw there's a letter from some Senate Democrats that said the FCC threatened to revoke the license of Disney and ABC if they didn't fire Jimmy Kimmel, and that did not happen in any way, shape, or form."
"What I've been very clear in the context of the Kimmel episode is the FCC, and myself in particular, have expressed no view on the ultimate merits had something like"
Brendan Carr denied threatening to revoke TV licenses if Disney refused to suspend Jimmy Kimmel. Many listeners and multiple Senate Republicans interpreted his comments as a threat. Disney suspended Kimmel after Carr warned ABC affiliates could face license revocation for "news distortion," then reinstated Kimmel following public backlash. Nexstar and Sinclair replaced Jimmy Kimmel Live! with other programming and have not restored the show. Carr described a hypothetical FCC adjudication process for complaints alleging news distortion and portrayed his role as a dispassionate arbiter while disputing claims that the FCC had taken a stance.
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