""I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said. I am thrilled that he was fired," he said on Friday on his podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz. "But let me tell you, if the government gets in the business of saying, 'We don't like what you, the media, have said, we're going to ban you from the airwaves if you don't say what we like'-that will end up bad for conservatives.""
""I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying, 'We're going to decide what speech we like and what we don't, and we're going to threaten to take you off air if we don't like what you're saying,'" Cruz added. "And it might feel good right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, but when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.""
ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! after remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. FCC Chair Brendan Carr warned ABC affiliates could face fines or license revocation if they continued airing Kimmel's show and told CNBC "we're not done yet." Some conservatives supported ABC's action, while others, including Sen. Ted Cruz, criticized the FCC for overreach. Cruz said he approved Kimmel's firing but warned government threats to remove stations from the air would endanger conservatives. Cruz, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, called Carr's remarks "dangerous as hell." President Donald Trump praised Carr as an American patriot and disagreed with Cruz.
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