Washington – It took ABC Comedy Jimmy Kimmel Late at night The air is indefinitely off, a few hours after the head of the Federal Communications Committee, Brendan Car, summoned his comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, “is really ill”.
Car Commissioner of the Federal Communications Committee for a long time His name is the Chairman of the Board By President Donald Trump in November. In the following months, he made investigations from ABC, CBS and NBC News.
Carr said in July, after the approval of the Federal Communications Committee. CBS Paramount More is 8 billion dollars With skydance.
Here is what to know about Car:
The Federal Communications Committee (FCC) organizes broadcasting and telecommunications.
Car was already a long -term member of the committee and previously worked as a general adviser to the Federal Communications Committee (FCC). It was unanimously confirmed by the Senate three times, and Trump and President Joe Biden nominated the committee.
Before joining the committee as an employee in 2012, he worked as a Wiley Rike LLP lawyer and a writer at the American Court of Appeal for the Fourth District.
Trump’s ideas recently adopted social media and technology. He wrote a department dedicated to FCC in ” Project 2025“A comprehensive scheme for The federal workforce is destroyed The federal agencies of the Trump administration were dismantled by the Conservative Heritage Foundation. Trump claimed that he did not know anything about the 2025 project, but many of his topics are in line with his statements.
In March, Car said it opens Investigation of Walt Disney and ABC To find out if they “promote dangerous forms of DEI discrimination”. It also opened separate investigations in CBS and NBC News.
Speaking of Kimmel’s status on Fox News Wednesday, he said that broadcasters with licenses of the Federal Communications Committee “have a unique commitment to work in the public interest. Over the years, the Federal Communications Committee has moved away from applying this public interest commitment. I don’t think we are in a better position in that.”
In July, he praised the merging of Paramount-Skydance as an opportunity to achieve more balance with CBS “once”.
The Federal Communications Committee (FCC) was approved by the integration after months of turmoil on Trump’s legal battle with the CBS “60” program. With the Trump administration’s ghost prohibits the deal, Paramount agreed to A 16 million dollar settlement With the president.
Then CBS announced that it was Stephen Kolbert’s “late offer” is canceled A few days after the comedy actor is sharply criticized on the air. Paramount cited financial reasons, but large names inside and outside the company questioned these motives.
Shortly before the Federal Communications Committee agreed to integrate, Paramount agreed to employ Grievance Secretary at CBS News To investigate the complaints of political bias. The mission went to Kenneth WinsteinThe former head of a governor’s research tank has made many donations for Republican reasons, including President Donald Trump’s campaign for 2024.
On Wednesday, Car Kimmel seemed to be deliberately effort to mislead the audience that the murderer of conservative activist Kirk was in support of Trump right. Kimmel commented on Kirk’s death, “is really ill” and said that his agency had a strong case to hold Kimmel, ABC and Disney accountable for publishing wrong information.
Kirk was the best governor, Firing Last week in the appearance of a university campus in Utah.
Kimmel made several statements about the reaction to Kirk’s death last week to “Jimmy Kimmel Live”, including that “many in Maga Land are working hard to benefit from the death of Charlie Kerk.”
“This is a very serious issue at the present time for Disney,” said Car in Podcast Benny Johnson. “We can do this in an easy or difficult way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there will be additional work in the Federal Communications Committee (FCC).”
On Thursday, Democrats in the House of Representatives called on Car’s resignation and accused him of “bullying” ABC to the Kimmel comment.
In a joint statement, the leaders – including the leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, said that this step was part of Trump’s efforts and the Republicans to launch “war on the first amendment.”