JD Vance Suggests That FCC Chairman's Warning To ABC Stations Over Jimmy Kimmel Was Merely "A Joke"

Vice President JD Vance, addressing Jimmy Kimmel’s return to ABC, suggested that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s warning to the network’s stations was merely “a joke.”

Answering a reporter’s question about the free speech implications that have been raised over the temporary sidelining of Kimmel, Vance said, “What people will say is, ‘Didn’t the FCC commissioner put a tweet out that said something bad?’

“Well, compare … the FCC commissioner making a joke on social media. What is the government action that the Trump administration has engaged in to kick Jimmy Kimmel or anybody off else off the air? Zero. What government pressure have we brought to bear to tell people that they’re not allowed to speak their mind? Zero. We believe in free speech in the Trump administration. We are fighting every single day to protect it. Now, compare that to the Biden administration, where we found out just yesterday that conservatives on YouTube and on a number of social media platforms were being censored. Why? Because the Biden administration picked up the phone and said, ‘We want you to censor our political opponents.’ That is real government censorship, and it left the White House when Joe Biden left the White House.”

Carr’s comments actually were made on Benny Johnson’s podcast last week, albeit they spread across social media. Carr also sounded serious when he was asked about one of Kimmel’s remarks about MAGA’s efforts to define the motives of the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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