Here we go again. "F.C.C. orders a review of ABC’s broadcast licenses," The New York Times reports. Since ABC/Disney hasn't moved fast enough to fire Jimmy Kimmel because of his joke about Melania Trump being an "expectant widow" last week -- before the presumed assassination attempt on the President on Saturday -- the FCC is flexing is fascist muscles.
The Chair of the FCC threatened to do this in September 2025, if Disney didn't do its bidding and fire Kimmel because Trump and company were tired of Kimmel's delightful barbs at the President's expense. Back then, Disney complied, but correctly reversed itself after the popular outcry against getting rid of Kimmel.
Popular outcries -- they're in many ways the essence of democracy. So is the First Amendment and its insistence that the government keep its hands off speech and press. But Trump and his henchmen couldn't care less about such essential freedoms. The feelings of the President are much more important to them.
As I've been saying now for decades, the FCC, created in the Communications Act of 1934, was unconstitutional the moment it was created. In a major failure of our judicial system, it was never struck down as the blatant negation of our Constitution that the FCC was and is.
Someday, some enlightened Supreme Court will do that. Until then, the best we can do is resist the thuggish actions of this miscreant agency.
See also The Firing of Jimmy Kimmel: The Latest Step on the Road to Fascism
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