How it happened

Via Aaron Parnas:


  • FCC Chair Brendan Carr harshly criticized Jimmy Kimmel for calling Charlie Kirk’s suspected shooter a MAGA Republican, suggesting ABC affiliates could face license reviews if such “news distortion” continued.
  • In an interview with YouTuber Benny Johnson, Carr said affiliates risk license revocation if they keep airing Kimmel’s show without changes, floated the possibility of suspension or firing, and invoked the FCC’s public interest rules.
  • Carr linked his warning to broader Trump-era media shake-ups — including Colbert’s Late Show cancellation, defunding of NPR and PBS, and pressure on CBS News — arguing that Disney (ABC’s parent company) must rein in Kimmel.

The struggle

Yesterday morning, I watched as Joe Scarborough tried to explain that crime statistics don’t matter when the (white conservative) men he knows tell him about car jackings and being held at gunpoint and it scared them.

Symone Sanders came in and put him in his place.

Trying to pin Epstein on Obama

MULLIN: There was a sweetheart plea deal that was struck in 2009 under ObamaTAPPER: No. It was 2008. The US attorney was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become Trump's secretary of laborM: Who was in office at the time?T: BushM: No. Obama was in officeTAPPER: Not true

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-07-27T13:22:11.390Z

Holy shit — Markwayne Mullin insists later in the interview again that Obama oversaw actually oversaw the sweetheart deal with Epstein, even after Tapper (accurately) fact-checked him. Yikes.

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-07-27T13:24:25.876Z