The president of the FCC warns a potential action on a comment that Jimmy Kimmel made on his monologue on the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
This is the latest example of Brendan Carr’s attacks on traditional content distribution networks, even if the agency expressly declared that its authority on programming was limited.
Kimmel said on his show on Monday: “We had new stockings during the weekend with the Gang Maga trying desperately to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points.”
Authorities charged Tyler Robinson, 22, on Tuesday in the murder of Kirk, as well as a series of other accusations. The lawyer for Utah County Jeffrey Gray said that Robinson’s mother said her son “had become more political and had started to lean more to the left, becoming more pro-Gay and Trans rights.” Gray said that when Robinson’s father asked his son why he did it, Robinson said: “explained that there was too much trouble, and the guy, referring to Charlie Kirk, spreads too much hatred.”
In the days which followed Robinson’s detention, there were creeping speculation on social media on the motivations of the suspect, with a baseless theory that he was a member of the alt-Right. The suspect was raised in a conservative family, and Gray told journalists who was a source of tension with his father.
On Benny Johnson’s podcast, Carr called Kimmel’s comment “some of the most sick behaviors possible”.
“There are ways here for the FCC, so there are ways I have to be a little careful, because I could be called entirely to become a judge on some of these assertions that appear.”
He added: “Frankly, when you see things like this, I mean, we can do it the simplest way, or that these companies can find ways to change driving, act, frankly, on Kimmel, or there will be additional work for the FCC to come.”
ABC and the Walt Disney Co. did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
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