"I have not seen ever before a direct infringement on the right to free speech like that," CNN's @jaketapper tells @nickgillespie on The Reason Interview podcast. pic.twitter.com/42LHYb2sPt
— reason (@reason) October 29, 2025
It's only been a little more than a month since Brendan Carr, the head of Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission (FCC), explicitly called for late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to be pink-slipped by ABC and its corporate parent Disney. The president also chimed in at the time, averring, "I would think maybe their [ABC's] license should be taken away."