"Look, Jimmy Kimmel has been canned. He has been suspended indefinitely. I think that it a fantastic thing, Cruz said at the start of the latest episode of his podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz. There were, however first amendment implications of the FCC's role, the senator, a Harvard Law School graduate who clerked for US supreme court chief justice William Rehnquist, added."
"He threatens explicitly: We're going to cancel ABC's license. We're going to take him off the air so ABC cannot broadcast any more' He says: We can do this the easy way, but we can do this the hard way.' And I got to say, that's right out of 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."
"I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said. I am thrilled that he was fired, Cruz also said. 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."
Senator Ted Cruz compared FCC chair Brendan Carr's threats to revoke ABC's broadcast licenses over Jimmy Kimmel's commentary to mafioso tactics from Goodfellas. Cruz noted that Kimmel was suspended indefinitely and said he approved of the suspension while raising concerns about First Amendment implications of FCC action. Cruz warned that government efforts to police media speech could backfire on conservatives if Democrats regain power. President Trump later defended Carr, suggested networks give him unfair coverage, questioned possible illegal airwave use by stations, and called Carr a patriot.
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