"Cruz said he doesn't believe the government should punish media companies over political disagreements. "I like Brendan Carr, he's a good guy," Cruz said on his podcast, which was taped late Thursday. "But what he said there is dangerous as hell." "That's right outta 'Goodfellas,' that's right out of a mafioso going into a bar saying, 'Nice bar you have here, it'd be a shame if something happened to it,' Cruz said, using the iconic New York accent associated with the Mafia."
""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." Throughout the podcast, Cruz emphasized he disagreed with Kimmel's comments, which he called "reprehensible." But he said a defamation case would have been a better approach than Carr's intervention."
Sen. Ted Cruz criticized FCC Chair Brendan Carr for implying regulatory consequences toward ABC after Jimmy Kimmel's remarks about the shooting of activist Charlie Kirk. Cruz called Carr's warnings "dangerous" and compared them to mafioso intimidation, warning that government threats against media could harm conservatives. Cruz said he disagreed with Kimmel's comments and called them "reprehensible," and he suggested a defamation lawsuit would have been a preferable response to government intervention. ABC subsequently removed Kimmel's show indefinitely after Carr's comments. President Donald Trump rejected Cruz's criticism of the FCC chair.
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