JOHN BERMAN: And this abrupt resolution got here after FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened to tug affiliate licensing over Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, additionally concerning the MAGA motion’s response to it. Overnight, President Trump prompt extra could possibly be coming. This is what he wrote on-line. Congratulations to ABC for lastly having the braveness to do what needed to be executed. Kimmel has zero expertise and worse scores than even Colbert, if that’s potential. That leaves Jimmy and Seth to whole losers on pretend information NBC. Their scores are additionally horrible. Do it, NBC.
With us now, NCS Political Commentators Scott Jennings and Bakari Sellers.
Bakari, I wish to learn you one thing that Brit Hume, who’s an analyst, and knowledgeable White House reporter over a Fox News what he wrote. Overnight, Brit wrote the First Amendment doesn’t defend performers like Jimmy Kimmel from being canceled by their non-public sector employers, however I’d’ve appreciated the result rather a lot higher if the chairman of the FCC had not concerned himself in it.
What do you consider that, Bakari?
BAKARI SELLERS: I imply, that’s what we’re seeing. We’re seeing that fascism, we’re seeing that forceful suppression of the opposition led by the FCC chairman. This is what occurred. This shouldn’t be a choice or a enterprise resolution that was about Disney’s backside line. People who have been saying which might be simply mendacity. This is the FCC chairman on the behest of the president of the United States placing stress on people to take away dissenters and voices they don’t like.
Now, on a really elementary stage, watching all of my associates on the precise develop into snowflakes, as a result of abruptly they don’t recognize what individuals are saying might be probably the most damning critique I may give this morning. If Americans, once they get up this morning at 7:30 aren’t outraged, merely outraged by the pure callousness, authoritarianism, fascism is being displayed by these people on the precise, significantly the president of the United States and the FCC, then they’re being blind to what’s taking place on this nation proper now.