FCC Chairman Debunks the Left’s Lies About Kimmel’s Suspensionhttps://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/09/19/fcc-chairman-debunks-the-lefts-lies-about-kimmels-suspension-n4943909For two days now, the media has breathlessly repeated the false claim that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr personally ordered ABC to yank Jimmy Kimmel off the air. Hollywood actors and Democratic politicians were quick to spin this as some assault on free speech, with Carr supposedly carrying out a personal vendetta on behalf of President Trump.
There’s just one problem with that narrative: it never happened. In fact, Carr called it pure projection from the very people who have a history of leaning on networks and tech companies to silence conservatives.
On Dana Loesch’s podcast, Carr dismantled the left’s lies. Loesch began by playing a clip from Good Morning America, which framed Kimmel’s suspension as if Carr himself had pulled the plug. She pressed him directly: had he really called up ABC, Nexstar, and Sinclair to force them to get rid of Kimmel?
Carr’s response was blunt: “No, not at all. But it does, I guess, tell a better story for partisans on the left.”
Carr went on to explain how the media ecosystem actually works. National programmers like Disney and Comcast don’t hold FCC licenses and therefore don’t have a direct obligation to operate in the public interest. That responsibility falls on local broadcasters, which are licensed by the FCC and entrusted with serving their communities. For years, however, the big national players used their clout to dictate what local stations aired—forcing Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and other late-night propagandists into markets that weren’t interested.
But according to Carr, what happened with Kimmel was a long-overdue correction. “Local TV stations said, ‘I don’t want to run this Kimmel stuff and we’re going to preempt it.’ And that’s a really important moment of local TV stations standing up for their viewers and pushing back against Comcast and Disney,” he explained.
Hate-Trumpers are lying, as usual. Disney made a marketplace decision about an arrogant entitled show host.
