FCC chair Brendan Carr says media were 'lied to' over Stephen Colbert controversy

[mysteryowl]

The chair of the US’s top media regulator claimed on Wednesday that journalists had been tricked into covering claims by the late-night host Stephen Colbert that he had been blocked by his network from interviewing a Texas Senate candidate.

Brendan Carr, the avowedly pro-Trump chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), made his comments after Colbert accused the Trump administration and CBS of censorship.

CBS has countered Colbert’s claims in a statement, saying it had not blocked him from interviewing James Talarico, a Texas Democrat, but had merely provided legal guidance that such an interview might trigger equal time regulations that would require him to also platform Talarico’s campaign rivals.

“I think yesterday was a perfect encapsulation of why the American people have more trust in gas station sushi than they do in the national news media,” Carr said, speaking at an FCC meeting in his first public comments on the controversy. “I think you guys should feel a bit ashamed for having been lied to and then run with those lies.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/18/fcc-brendan-carr-stephen-colbert


I was looking for the emoji of shoveling shit.

[mysteryowl]

1. ...more from the article...

“It’s not for the FCC to go around sniffing around what The View did three months ago,” Sohn said. “[Carr] has a tendency to start his own investigations when nobody is complaining. If Carr sets his enforcement bureau out to find liberal bias shows and starts to go after them, that’s not how the equal opportunities rule is supposed to work.”

Carr ended his comments to reporters with an attack on Colbert, who has relentlessly mocked him on his show. Carr said that Colbert sees that, with the cancellation of his show, his time in the limelight is “coming to an end”.

[Skittles]

2. "go around sniffing around" is all Trump whores do

yes INDEED

[vapor2]

3. F**K Carr

[Trueblue1968]

7. Lol..... Where do you propose Carr be "F'ed". ... .... ?????

[RockRaven]

4. Oh, the media is being lied to all right... Someone give this Carr fellow a mirror.

[mysteryowl]

6. Nice

[struggle4progress]

5. How can anyone suspect dear sweet Brendan of being a nazi tool?

September 19, 20251:27 PM ET
David Folkenflik

... suspension of late night comic Jimmy Kimmel by ABC is just the latest example of Carr's intervention over political speech.

It is also the most blatant.

While Kimmel's remarks over speculation by some of the president's supporters about the ideological motivations of the murderer of Charlie Kirk sparked an uproar among conservatives, it was Carr's reaction that led to a swift domino effect.

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Carr told the right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson. "These companies can find ways to change conduct to take action on Kimmel or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead" ...

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-5546764/fcc-brendan-carr-kimmel-trump-free-speech

[durablend]

8. Is Brendan in the files too?

[C_U_L8R]

9. Brendan is obfuscating

Fact is he just may have elected a (gasp) Democrat.