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The big irony of the whole situation to me is that getting colbert cancelled and trying to silence him and other talk show hosts is starting to backfire spectacularly.
You have given colberts show a death sentence and then tried to back him into a corner and he has decided that theres nothing left to lose, he doesnt give a shit about being level headed, reasonable and keeping the peace (unlike conservative media) or tip-toeing around the fascists, he is unleashed and is going to tell these fuckwits what he really thinks and throwing out some wicked barbs.

By trying to control the people they dont like they have gone full streisand affect and launched Talarico into the zeitgeist, politicians only dream of this kind of viral marketing for their campaign and the tide is going to turn, once the american people realise they actually have some NotShit™ options out there they might elect more and more people who are actually going to represent them and not the values/pockets of the elite.

Good, go after all the left comedians and media personalities, get them pissed off, lets see what they do when they are off the leash and start giving you back some of the vehemence the conservative media has been spewing all this time.

So nooowwww they want the fairness doctrine...

So, why doesn’t Fox News Entertainment or Newsmaxxx have to abide by this fucked up FCC regulation? Why are they not compelled to platform “both sides equally”?

By you? You know damn well the "equal time" rule does not apply, and has never applied to talk shows like The Late Show. Physically musing that you might try to remove their exemptions is your fascist group trying to intimidate or restrict free speech. It worked this time, but it won't always work...

Fuck you, Brendan Carr

As a kid I learned an important way to tell if the government is lying to you. Just ask "are they producing words?" If the answer is yes, then they're fucking lying to you.

For the frothing Crockett stans rushing in to defend the candidate that the GOP and establishment Dems are obviously not scared of, Colbert has had Crockett on at least three times. You can watch the interviews on Youtube.

From here you can contort and backflip if it "counts" but then you're just going to bat for Trump's cronies. This "rule" has never been enforced on or upheld by late-night talk shows who are not journalists and can do whatever they want.

I have nothing against Crockett, but between her zionist tendencies and lack of much substance past being sassy, I believe Talarico can do the most harm to the Trump administration, and so does the Trump administration. We don't win with sass, we win with convincing a lot of back-country hicks that they can have safe, comforting, Christian democratic leadership without fearing being placed in reeducation camps. Despite most of them needing reeducation camps.

This is why everyone is scared of Talarico, he can do a lot to flip Texans and maybe the state broadly, as well as go a long way to purge Israel ties to Senate.

But Carr told reporters that the FCC was simply enforcing the rules on the books. “If you have a legally qualified candidate on, you have to give comparable air time to all other legally qualified candidates, and we’re going to apply that law,” he said.

This is interesting - the rules are for "equal time" but not "Equal time to answer the same interview questions", which would be fun although we've seen how some folk can't answer questions (cough Pam Bondi cough).

I wonder if the same rules should apply for advertising, since those are going out over networks? If a Grand Old Pedophile gets a 1-minute ad, should the network give a 1-minute space to an opponent?

Edit: Yeah, the rule says they gotta offer time "at the same rate". That seems fair, I guess. As long as we're still buying elections.

Meh, do it, lets see how these ghouls stand up to a grilling from Colbert. I'm sure they will be fine with risking that kind of negative press.

Colbert will call this bluff. Host a bunch of progressives in the next week.

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Good one Carr! He can get Sinclair to claim they were tricked into covering the story, and then? Something something, cancel the show early, pay a personal indemnity to the president for a personal lawsuit cbs will be compelled to accept, and they will appoint a censor to the network from the administration.

I'm joking obviously, they will try to get him fired earlier, but they have nothing here, not that that stops them necessarily. If the rot wasn't so deep people would be osttracized from polite society for dishonoring their positions in government like Carr is, but as a tribe of nihlistic self serving oligarchs and their lawyers anything goes.

As if anyone in the Trump admin has any credibility. You fucks burned through that during Trump's first term. Very few people believe a word out of your demon mouths.

The liar... hold on to your britches... is... Brendan Carr.