So I’m assuming that Sinclair will be demanding that Tucker apologize and donate and that the FCC will be threatening to cancel his podcast.
I was just thinking this is the perfect meme in this context.
Not only a good point… He dared to go against supreme leader, despite his much he normally licks boots, and when other more moderate people are licking boot about all this
I’m confused, but happy to see it.
He just realized that he is NOT SAFE
Not since Trump flipped on Russia (again). Maybe he’ll feel safer after another Alaska Summit.
I Hate This Timeline.
I agreed with Cucker Tarlson and Marge Sporktoes on things! Wtf???
So now he cares about such principles…
Only when it has the potential to impact him personally.
Huh, whatever happened to loving how things are done in Putinist Russia, Tucker?
Guess someone forgot to send tucker his check.
LOL, no shit Tucker!
Your kind ALWAYS wanted to do that, no matter what the excuse is.
That’s the thing with fascism. They believe it’s never going to come after them until it is coming after them. Tucker must see some writing on the wall.
For the love of god, would you guys learn what the FCC actually does and who they have jurisdiction over. People keep talking about how hypocritical they are that they don’t go after Fox News, Tucker Carlson’s podcast, Blaze Radio… Guys! The FCC regulates public broadcast license holders. They do not regulate cable news shows, satellite radio, Spotify, or any other premium, private media source.
Is the FCC head a partisan hack, a complete hypocrite, and weilding his authority to cudgel those who express protected speech he doesnt like? Absolutely. By all means, be critical of that. But stop whatabouting things that he literally could not regulate even if he wanted to. You are making criticism over this sound ignorant AF.
Man, you really missed the point and went down the path of Poe.
How did I miss the point? I agree completely that Carr is a fuck head that is using his power to attack free speech he disagrees with and doing Trump’s bidding regardless of legality and reason. We’re not in dispute there so I didnt comment on it. But you and others are under a weird delusion about the FCC’s power. You’re far from the only one posting snide remarks about the FCC not coming after people they dont have the power to come after.
Dude, the entire administration has been threatening everyone and everything regardless of if it’s in their jurisdiction or if it’s constitutionally protected, if it’s illegal. For fucks sake, you have Pam Bondi going off about prosecuting the clerk who refused to print up a poster glorifying Charlie Kirk and prosecuting people for hate speech for saying Charlie Kirk was a bad, bad man.
You’re ill in the head if you think that my tongue and cheek comment that the FCC should be threatening Tucker with cancel culture, which he should by the way if he’s not a hypocritical twat, and that we don’t understand that the FCC has no power of youtube. Do you think that when I say that “Pam Bondi needs to prosecute Tucker for hate speech” that I truly think that Pam Bondi has the power and the legal right to prosecute Tucker here?
Go touch grass dude, you’ve been Poe’d.
All else aside, “You’ve ben Poe’d” as a response to someone replying to your own comment is really lame. “Dude, I made a sarcastic comment in text form and you treated it like I was serious, idiot!” isn’t the burn you think it is.
Don’t really care what you think. Welcome to the internet where the facts are all made up and the points don’t matter. Have a good day.
You’re right on the technical points, but you’re completely missing the larger reality, which is corporate and media consolidation. There are a lot of business interests that include some subsidiaries that are subject to the FCC’s regulation, and other subsidiaries that are not. The point is, members of this administration are exerting extortionate pressures that don’t happen in a vacuum.
No one is coming at this with anywhere near any nuance. They’re just throwing around complaints that they arent doing the same thing to people on their side even when they dont have any control over them anyway.
It would be like a police cheif cracking down on black drug users in Birmingham Alabama, and then complaining that they dont do the same to the white drug users in New Jersey. Like you are right to criticize the action, but the insinuation that they are responsible for something else that is beyond their direct control is just dumb.
You’re using different words to repeat yourself without actually addressing the flaw in your argument: it misses the larger picture.
Then elaborate, what does the FCC have to do with Tucker Carlson’s podcast?
I didn’t want to reply to the dense troll so I’m answering you instead.
Do you find it ironic that the commentator is using drugs at an example when we literally in the 80’s and 90’s where we literally had people, including those in law enforcement, advocate how morally wrong it was for harsh punishment against African Americans for crack but let off White people for cocaine, literally the same drug.
Jimmy Kimmel isn’t being silenced by the FCC, he’s being silenced by Sinclair.
Except he is being silenced by the FCC too since Carr, in his official capacity as FCC Chairman, made the remarks,
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
and
“We at the FCC are going to force the public interest obligation. There are broadcasters out there that don’t like it, they can turn in their license in to the FCC,” Carr said. “But that’s our job. Again, we’re making some progress now.”
Also, FCC Chair Carr says ‘we’re not done yet’ after Jimmy Kimmel suspension by ABC
Correct. FCC threatens broadcast license. Sinclair superceeded the show. ABC network was threatened on two fronts and capitulated to save their jobs.
The reason this is a big deal is that this isn’t some kind of court of public opinion, like being fired for saying we should exterminate homeless people with lethal injection (oh wait), this is literally the president of the United States coercing censorship of a major broadcaster. Pure 1A violation.
It’s funny because if Trump had backchanneled this and kept his mouth shut this would be much harder to prove. But he just…he just said it on live TV.
I’m aware.
Do you honestly think something as trivial as jurisdiction is going to stop them?
Toilet paper is more respected than your Constitution. Stop expecting ‘the law’ to protect you from those that write and enforce the law.
Well that’s a dumb take. You’re suggesting that those criticizing the hypocrisy of his actions taken under the law are then saying he should break the law to go against his own partisan side to make it fair. That just makes us sound even more ignorant.
They are the regulator for cable TV and therefore do regulate cable news shows. https://www.fcc.gov/media/engineering/cable-television
They have regulatory power primarily over the technical aspects of cable tv, not the content.
From the same fcc.gov website you just linked to:
Nevertheless, what power the FCC has to regulate content varies by electronic platform. Over-the-air broadcasts by local TV and radio stations are subject to certain speech restraints, but speech transmitted by cable or satellite TV systems generally is not. The FCC does not regulate online content.
Source: The FCC and Speech | Federal Communications Commission https://share.google/p4X1DUg5q3a8F1jC6
Edit: @downvoters, am I fucking wrong? Your citation is right there, right from the horse’s mouth, the government website of the FCC itself. Go on and be pissy about it I guess, but you’re acting like children.
The FCC does for example prohibit “obscenity” — not profanity — on cable. No doubt it is mentioned somewhere on their website.
It does. That is one of the very limit content regulatory powers it has over cable tv. “Obsenity” is a very high bar, though, and is, itself, not protected speech under the 1st Amendment at all.
To be considered obscene, it must meet a three-pronged test from the Supreme Court:
- It appeals to the prurient interest.
- It depicts or describes sexual or excretory conduct in a “patently offensive” way.
- Taken as a whole, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Basically Brian Kilmeade can’t show his gaping asshole taking a dump on Fix & Friends. But he can casually suggest euthanizing the homeless population and it’s out of the FCC’s hand.
If he ends up getting Kirked over this, I’ll gladly nudge him over the line to “on the right side of history”. Won’t mourn his passing though, he’s peddled enough bullshit to make himself irredeemable as decent human being.
I wouldn’t nudge him
Oh NOW he’s gone too far?? Fuck. You.
“Finally! I’ve finished my kill-bot. Come, gather round, as I unveil it to the world”
“But Professor Killington”
“Yes, adorable, one-legged, orphan Timmy?”
“Why did you make a kill-bot?”
“Well, so it would indiscriminately murder anything and everything that moves, of course”
“But professor, that sounds dangerous”
“Don’t be a fucking retard Timmy. I know what I’m doing”
“O-okay Professor”
“Now everyone gather round as I turn on the killbot for the very first time, and be amazed as it makes me pancakes”
flips switch
“OH NO, STOP, STOP, STOP KILLING ME, KILL-BOT OH MY GOD, MY SPLEEN, OH, IF ONLY SOMEBODY COULD HAVE FORRSEEN THIS TERRIBLE TURN OF EVENTS”.
Had I more upvotes to give…
Timmy would go on to run for Congress on an anti killbot policy. He would lose to a bigoted blowhard who insisted on the right for all people to own killbots to make them pancakes.
Interesting. I don’t know who he is, but based on (part of) the Russian shopping video I saw of him yesterday, where he was excited at what everything a Russian supermarket has to offer, finally cumming into his pants after finding that Russia has bread, I wouldn’t expect much.
Russia has bread? Lucky ducks.
I only saw a clip of that. In the piece, did he ever disclose how much a typical Russian makes in a year?
Nope. Too busy fucking a dark rye bagel.
Someone did detail that information and response and he had spent like more than a Russian makes in a month at that grocery store, which is geared for the Bourgeois there. Not a working man’s store.
Awesome. Thanks.
Kudos for the rapid fire response too.
OMG they have Whole Foods in Russia?!?
The best part of that video is how he is amazed at coin locked shopping carts. Clearly he has never been in a grocery store.
You might enjoy this video to understand how long this chuckle fuck had been around being a douche https://youtu.be/aFQFB5YpDZE
And this one is just historical context for the bread video you mentioned
Ugh Fucker Carlson making sense. I hate this world.
I never thought I’d see the day where I agree with Fucker Carlson. Jesus.
Holy shit, Tucker dares to go against Trump.
