FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened regulatory action against ABC and Disney over Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about Charlie Kirk assassination suspect Tyler Robinson.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr issued a threat Thursday against ABC and Disney, suggesting he would take action over comments made by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel about the alleged Charlie Kirk assassin.
On Monday, Kimmel accused conservatives of reaching «new lows» in trying to pin a left-wing ideology on 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson, even though prosecutors reaffirmed those ties in Tuesday’s indictment.
«We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it», Kimmel said.
Appearing on Wednesday’s «The Benny Show», Carr called Kimmel’s comments «some of the sickest conduct» and suggested there were potential «avenues» the FCC could pursue.
«In some quarters, there’s a very concerted effort to try to lie to the American people about the nature … of one of the most significant newsworthy public interest acts that we’ve seen in a long time in what appears to be an action by Jimmy Kimmel to play into that narrative that this was somehow a MAGA or a Republican-motivated person», Carr told host Benny Johnson.
