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Stephen Colbert takes on the FCCs empty threat to sanction CBS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7DPSP65JA
#Colbert #Trump #FCC #BrendanCarr #1stAmendment #FreeSpeech
Stephen Colbert takes on the FCCs empty threat to sanction CBS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7DPSP65JA
#Colbert #Trump #FCC #BrendanCarr #1stAmendment #FreeSpeech
Okay, it is NOT the FCC's job to recommend content!!!
https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-carr-announces-pledge-america-campaign
#RemoveBrendanCarr #BariWeiss #CBS #LarryEllison #DavidEllison #BrendanCarr #ShariRedstone #USPol
“The #FCC has an enforcement action underway on that,” Chairman #BrendanCarr told reporters after an agency meeting Wednesday, in response to a question about whether there were an investigation into the daytime series over potential violations of the “equal time” rule. “And we’re taking a look at it.”
#law #Trump #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #independence #FederalAgencies #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #USpol
A daytime #TalkShow NOT a #news program FFS. This is fascist persecution.
#FCC chairman says the agency is investigating #ABC network’s '#TheView' over equal time rule
#law #Trump #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #independence #FederalAgencies #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/view-fcc-stephen-colbert-abc-cbs-4fd679462e08de2cdc340071f48a83a9?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-19-Investigation+into+%E2%80%98The+View%E2%80%99
“The #FCC has an enforcement action underway on that,” Chairman #BrendanCarr told reporters after an agency meeting Wednesday, in response to a question about whether there were an investigation into the daytime series over potential violations of the “equal time” rule. “And we’re taking a look at it.”
#law #Trump #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #independence #FederalAgencies #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #USpol
“We looked & we can’t find one example of this rule being enforced for any talk show interview, not only for my entire late-night career, but for anyone’s late-night career going back to the 1960s,” #StephenColbert said.
Although #BrendanCarr said in January he was thinking about getting rid of the exemption for late-night talk shows, he hadn’t done it yet. “But #CBS generously did it for him,” Colbert said.
#law #FirstAmendment #FCC #censorship #Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
#StephenColbert then took a copy of the #CBS statement, wrapped it in a dog poop bag, & tossed it away.
#Colbert had instead shown his Talarico interview on YouTube, but told viewers why he couldn’t show it on CBS. The network was concerned about #FCC Chair #BrendanCarr trying to enforce a rule that required broadcasters to give “equal time” to opposing candidates when an interview was broadcast with one of them.
#law #FirstAmendment #censorship #Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
#StephenColbert then took a copy of the #CBS statement, wrapped it in a dog poop bag, & tossed it away.
#Colbert had instead shown his Talarico interview on YouTube, but told viewers why he couldn’t show it on CBS. The network was concerned about #FCC Chair #BrendanCarr trying to enforce a rule that required broadcasters to give “equal time” to opposing candidates when an interview was broadcast with one of them.
#law #FirstAmendment #censorship #Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
“We looked & we can’t find one example of this rule being enforced for any talk show interview, not only for my entire late-night career, but for anyone’s late-night career going back to the 1960s,” #StephenColbert said.
Although #BrendanCarr said in January he was thinking about getting rid of the exemption for late-night talk shows, he hadn’t done it yet. “But #CBS generously did it for him,” Colbert said.
#law #FirstAmendment #FCC #censorship #Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
#StephenColbert isn’t backing down in an extraordinary public dispute with his bosses at #CBS over what he can air on his late-night talk show.
On “The Late Show” Tuesday, Colbert said he was surprised by a statement from CBS denying that its lawyers told him he couldn’t show an interview with Democratic #Texas #Senate candidate #JamesTalarico — which the host said had happened the night before.
#law #FirstAmendment #FCC #censorship #Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
https://apnews.com/article/colbert-talarico-cbs-trump-fcc-014a0531715f098fbcd7902476a22590?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-18-Colbert-Talarico+interview
#StephenColbert then took a copy of the #CBS statement, wrapped it in a dog poop bag, & tossed it away.
#Colbert had instead shown his Talarico interview on YouTube, but told viewers why he couldn’t show it on CBS. The network was concerned about #FCC Chair #BrendanCarr trying to enforce a rule that required broadcasters to give “equal time” to opposing candidates when an interview was broadcast with one of them.
#law #FirstAmendment #censorship #Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
Silencing free speech will kill democracy. If we can’t remove Trump, we can certainly send a message by doing our damnedest to remove “fixer” Brendan Carr.
#BrendanCarr #FCC #Consolidation #CBS #NoDisney #NoHulu #NoESPN #FCC #Sinclair #Nexstar #ABC #Paramount #ShariRedstone #FirstAmendment #USPol
Frankly, it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to spend a ton of time analyzing stories from last September, but I think it's still important for us to note how immediate, obvious, and direct the connection was between Charlie Kirk's assassination, Trump's increased efforts to consolidate dictatorial power, and the larger American fascist movement's propaganda to justify those measures. Take for example this September 2025 article published in Rolling Stone magazine.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-authoritarian-week-kirk-kimmel-antifa-khalil-1235431626/ (archive: https://archive.ph/UOKcQ )
Donald Trump’s Most Authoritarian Week Yet
"It was clear Donald Trump and his allies would ramp up their crackdown against any and all opposition in the wake of the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk — and this week, the president’s second administration unleashed its most authoritarian blitz yet.
The Trump administration got late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show taken off the air by threatening companies’ broadcast licenses if they continued to run his show. Trump and his team threatened to strip the tax-exempt status of liberal nonprofit groups, while the president called for left-wing activists to be jailed for protesting him at dinner. Trump announced he’ll once again try to designate “antifa” — America’s disparate anti-fascist movement — as a terrorist group, with no legitimate basis, clarifying once again where he stands on the whole fascism question.
Meanwhile, the administration worked toward its goal to deport a legal U.S. resident for speaking out against Israel’s relentless assault on Palestine. Reports trickled out that Trump would fire a U.S. attorney for failing to bring charges against one of his enemies, before Trump publicly called for his departure and he quit.
This ugly, authoritarian week didn’t happen in a vacuum. Trump just last month mused about how Americans want a “dictator,” and the administration now appears to be using Kirk’s shocking murder as an excuse to escalate Trump’s ongoing campaign for total power."
With all due respect to Perez, Ramirez, and Suebsaeng, who are all fine journalists, this is hardly Woodward and Bernstein hooking up with Deep Throat to expose Nixon's Watergate conspiracy here. The entire fascist American right, including the Trump administration itself, spent the first week after Kirk's death openly arguing that Trump was now allowed to do fascist dictator shit because "the left" (read: some individual person disgusted by Kirk's hatemongering) killed Charlie - and then testing the limits of how far that presumed power to transform America actually goes. At one point Trump was literally threatening to pull media broadcasts licenses for outlets that criticized him "too much," while implying that NPR (a government-supported public broadcaster) might be working with the very same "antifa" he just said he wanted to declare a terrorist organization.
I'm not going to summarize the rest of the article here, but if you actual do read it you'll see that in each and every power grab, or authoritarian exercise of state power to force compliance with fascist ideological goals, Trump regime officials directly linked the justification for doing so to the idea that "the left" was a domestic and even national security threat because Charlie Kirk caught a bullet and expired. This wasn't a mystery you had to solve, this was the Trump regime's openly articulated intention. Which probably should leave you asking why, if the guys at Rolling Stone could sniff out that Trump was using Kirk's death to do dictator shit, this same realization escaped so much of our (complicit) corporate media complex - who spent most of that same week decrying political violence and weeping crocodile tears for poor ole deadass Charlie. I guess they were just too afraid of Brendan Carr and the Trumpenreich FCC; which doesn't bode well for US media independence going forward under the Swine Emperor.
#Trump #GOP #Fascism #antifa #Dictatorship #PorkReich #CharlieKirk #FCC #BrendanCarr #Media #Censorship
Silencing free speech will kill democracy. If we can’t remove Trump, we can certainly send a message by doing our damnedest to remove “fixer” Brendan Carr.
#BrendanCarr #FCC #Consolidation #CBS #NoDisney #NoHulu #NoESPN #FCC #Sinclair #Nexstar #ABC #Paramount #ShariRedstone #FirstAmendment #USPol
I've been staring at this empty box for a while now, because the first and perhaps most important event shaping the fascist environment in America today that happened while I was away from writing, was the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The simple truth is that I don't have anything important to say about the assassination, the person who shot him, or the various conspiracy theories surrounding Kirk's death that you haven't already heard elsewhere. Furthermore, I have almost no desire to talk about dead ass Chuckie himself, if I'm being quite honest. I don't think the world is a worse place without Charlie Kirk, I'm not sad he's dead, and asking me to mourn a guy who was in the middle of arguing trans people like myself are inherently mentally unstable and should be locked in camps to protect American society when his words finally caught up with him, is an intentional act of subjugation I refuse to participate in.
If at this late an hour, you still have any questions whatsoever about why I feel that way, please allow Charlie to tell you himself in the article below. This is a collection of direct quotes from Kirk, about a variety of subjects that are super important to American nazis precisely because they are nazis, that should more than demonstrate why Kirk's passing was not a significant loss for American society or indeed human civilization. Please keep in mind, these quotes are by no means exhaustive; nor does this represent the worst things Charlie Kirk has ever said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefs
Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’
"Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023"
"We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 April 2024"
Right, so the guy was a fucking nazi and I've got too many tears to cry for the victims of nazi violence and oppression in America, to spare any for dead ass Chuckie fucking Kirk. So why are we talking about him here? Well, unfortunately and as we'll see going forward in this thread, pretty much everything the Trump administration has done to accelerate its project to transform America into a literal fascist dictatorship under a quasi-permanent state of martial law, has been justified in whole or in part, by the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Furthermore, because of the way all of the events immediately after Kirk's assassination played out in the political discourse, most Americans don't realize the Trump regime is still openly behaving as if everything they said about leftists and Democrats organizing terrorist cells to commit political violence is true.
In the wake of the assassination, the larger fascist American right tried to transform Kirk into a martyred civil rights icon on par with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, but for the rights of cracker Christian Nationalists and other assorted nazis. This when combined with Trump regime accusations of left wing organized terrorism, and right wing media arguments that Democrats and "liberal" media outlets (rightly) calling the Trump regime fascist were responsible for Kirk's murder, was ultimately supposed to be Trump's "Reichstag Fire." Using Kirk's murder as a pretext, the regime sought to suppress online speech, repurpose the counterterrorism apparatus to punish his perceived political and social enemies, and by transforming Kirk into a modern Horst Wessel figure, generate widespread popular support to literally turn the Hitler trick and complete America's transformation into a real as steel fascist dictatorship under the Swine Emperor.
The problem (for the regime) is the propaganda portion of this operation didn't work. After a few days of handwringing and several hundred illegal firings for social media comments, even America's "liberal" centrists came to their senses and cried bullshit. Kirk didn't become a civil rights martyr, Trump's fascist dictator agenda didn't garner widespread support, and nobody, not even the actual goddamn nazis, really believes milquetoast lib No Kings protestors are terrorists or doing a terrorism. There is however just one problem for the rest of us too; namely that hasn't stopped Trump's Injustice Department and the larger War on Terror-fueled counterterrorism apparatus from behaving as if Stephen Miller's antifa insurgency fantasies involving liberal wine moms going full Al-Qaeda are entirely real. Much in the same way everyone knowing the regime's bullshit about a drug cartel invasion is fake hasn't stopped them from using the US military to do white nationalist repression on our streets, the Trump regime clearly intends to fake it until they make it - where "it" remains a fascist dictatorship under Trump and his shadow chancellor Miller.
#Fascism #Trump #CharlieKirk #HorstWessel #Dictatorship #GOP
Frankly, it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to spend a ton of time analyzing stories from last September, but I think it's still important for us to note how immediate, obvious, and direct the connection was between Charlie Kirk's assassination, Trump's increased efforts to consolidate dictatorial power, and the larger American fascist movement's propaganda to justify those measures. Take for example this September 2025 article published in Rolling Stone magazine.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-authoritarian-week-kirk-kimmel-antifa-khalil-1235431626/ (archive: https://archive.ph/UOKcQ )
Donald Trump’s Most Authoritarian Week Yet
"It was clear Donald Trump and his allies would ramp up their crackdown against any and all opposition in the wake of the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk — and this week, the president’s second administration unleashed its most authoritarian blitz yet.
The Trump administration got late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show taken off the air by threatening companies’ broadcast licenses if they continued to run his show. Trump and his team threatened to strip the tax-exempt status of liberal nonprofit groups, while the president called for left-wing activists to be jailed for protesting him at dinner. Trump announced he’ll once again try to designate “antifa” — America’s disparate anti-fascist movement — as a terrorist group, with no legitimate basis, clarifying once again where he stands on the whole fascism question.
Meanwhile, the administration worked toward its goal to deport a legal U.S. resident for speaking out against Israel’s relentless assault on Palestine. Reports trickled out that Trump would fire a U.S. attorney for failing to bring charges against one of his enemies, before Trump publicly called for his departure and he quit.
This ugly, authoritarian week didn’t happen in a vacuum. Trump just last month mused about how Americans want a “dictator,” and the administration now appears to be using Kirk’s shocking murder as an excuse to escalate Trump’s ongoing campaign for total power."
With all due respect to Perez, Ramirez, and Suebsaeng, who are all fine journalists, this is hardly Woodward and Bernstein hooking up with Deep Throat to expose Nixon's Watergate conspiracy here. The entire fascist American right, including the Trump administration itself, spent the first week after Kirk's death openly arguing that Trump was now allowed to do fascist dictator shit because "the left" (read: some individual person disgusted by Kirk's hatemongering) killed Charlie - and then testing the limits of how far that presumed power to transform America actually goes. At one point Trump was literally threatening to pull media broadcasts licenses for outlets that criticized him "too much," while implying that NPR (a government-supported public broadcaster) might be working with the very same "antifa" he just said he wanted to declare a terrorist organization.
I'm not going to summarize the rest of the article here, but if you actual do read it you'll see that in each and every power grab, or authoritarian exercise of state power to force compliance with fascist ideological goals, Trump regime officials directly linked the justification for doing so to the idea that "the left" was a domestic and even national security threat because Charlie Kirk caught a bullet and expired. This wasn't a mystery you had to solve, this was the Trump regime's openly articulated intention. Which probably should leave you asking why, if the guys at Rolling Stone could sniff out that Trump was using Kirk's death to do dictator shit, this same realization escaped so much of our (complicit) corporate media complex - who spent most of that same week decrying political violence and weeping crocodile tears for poor ole deadass Charlie. I guess they were just too afraid of Brendan Carr and the Trumpenreich FCC; which doesn't bode well for US media independence going forward under the Swine Emperor.
#Trump #GOP #Fascism #antifa #Dictatorship #PorkReich #CharlieKirk #FCC #BrendanCarr #Media #Censorship
Sinclair banned Jimmy Kimmel to "protect local communities," yet routinely airs election fraud conspiracy theories and medical disinformation. FCC licenses REQUIRE stations to serve the public interest, not act as partisan gatekeepers.
By blocking programming to score political points, Sinclair and Nexstar betray the communities they’re supposed to serve. That’s why we must fight back.
#Nexstar #PerrySook #Sinclair #MediaCancer #TheHill #FCC #BrendanCarr #USPol
Sinclair banned Jimmy Kimmel to "protect local communities," yet routinely airs election fraud conspiracy theories and medical disinformation. FCC licenses REQUIRE stations to serve the public interest, not act as partisan gatekeepers.
By blocking programming to score political points, Sinclair and Nexstar betray the communities they’re supposed to serve. That’s why we must fight back.
#Nexstar #PerrySook #Sinclair #MediaCancer #TheHill #FCC #BrendanCarr #USPol
This Texas US Senate race is clearly going to be a BIG one with a lot of media coverage because Jasmine Crocket is also running in the March 3rd primary for a shot at taking down a typically Republican held Senate seat.
I think in this race Crocket likely has the most name recognition among voters under 40 as she's been on the national stage and an early adopter of social media.
This will be an interesting primary and election cycle
And once again, we're having to watch comedians of all people having to standup for our basic constitutional rights.
It's a relief to see Colbert not take the injustice of the FCC censoring his show laying down.
Colbert was told to quietly drop the interview and not mention it at all on the air. Instead he did the opposite, he aired his option on the bullshit situation during his regular broadcast.
Full remarks👇🏿
https://youtu.be/oh7DPSP65JA?t=80
—>> #TheLateShow ⦁ What The #FCC ⦁ #StephenColbert <<—
Why #CBS Didn't Broadcast
Stephen Colbert's Interview With Rep. #JamesTalarico
#Colbert #Comedy #Humour #Humor #BrendanCarr
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
https://youtu.be/oh7DPSP65JA
—>> #TheLateShow ⦁ What The #FCC ⦁ #StephenColbert <<—
Why #CBS Didn't Broadcast
Stephen Colbert's Interview With Rep. #JamesTalarico
#Colbert #Comedy #Humour #Humor #BrendanCarr
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
https://youtu.be/oh7DPSP65JA
