FCC Chair Calls Censorship Claim A 'Hoax' While Confirming They Would Have Gone After Colbert
FCC Chair Brendan Carr and Fox's Laura Ingraham dismissed claims of censorship as a "hoax" by Democrats while confirming that his agency would have gone after Colbert over an equal time rule that doesn't apply to shows like his.
As we already discussed here, CBS's lawyers refused to broadcast an interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico, which was blasted by Stephen Colbert who defied the attorneys and ripped into them and the FCC for pulling the interview.
Lawrence O'Donnell also tore into their lawyers and the network for caving to Trump instead of standing up to him, and for basically handing over bribes to Trump.
Ingraham asked Carr if he would "set the record straight" on what happened, and Carr proceeded to downplay the fact that there has been a chilling effect from the FCC that has led to these networks behaving the way they have, and ignoring the fact that the rule should not apply to talk shows like Colbert's, and admitting they would have tried to enforce it anyway.
CARR: Well, President Trump has been so far ahead of the curve on so many issues, as you noted, on the economy, on border security, and perhaps nowhere else when he called out the legacy media for being fake news.