""We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly on Kimmel, or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.""
"'[Carr] says, 'We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way.' And I gotta say, that's right outta Goodfellas, that's right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, 'Nice bar you have here, it'd be a shame if something happened to it,'" Cruz said."
""It reminds me of like the Ring of Power," Cruz said. "It is so attractive, it is sort of like conservatives saying, 'Wait, if we have government, we have power. We can ban the media.' Let me tell you what will happen. Going down this road, there will come a time when a Democrat wins again, wins the White House. They will silence us, they will use this power, and they will use it ruthlessly.""
Democratic lawmakers accused FCC Chair Carr of abusing his power to censor speech. Few Republican lawmakers criticized Carr, but Sen. Ted Cruz, who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee with oversight of the FCC, criticized Carr's remark. Cruz repeated Carr's line about doing things "the easy way or the hard way" and likened it to a mafia-style threat. Cruz said he was "thrilled" that Jimmy Kimmel was suspended but warned that government control over media speech would ultimately harm conservatives. Cruz compared regulatory power over media to the Ring of Power and said future Democratic administrations could use such authority ruthlessly. The controversy traces to a Kimmel monologue criticizing the MAGA movement's response to a killing and its portrayal tied to Charlie Kirk.
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