Ted Cruz is “thrilled” that Jimmy Kimmel‘s talk show has been pulled from ABC because he’s not a fan of the man, but he thinks the FCC Chairman Brendan Carr‘s threats are “dangerous as hell.”
The Republican senator from Texas made some surprising comments about the controversy, showing he’s not fully on Trump‘s side over this issue.
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Cruz spoke out on a new episode of his podcast Verdict.
“Look, look, I like Brendan Carr,” he said. “He’s a good guy. He’s the chairman of the FCC. I work closely with him. But what he said there is dangerous as hell.”
“[Carr] threatens it, he says, ‘We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way,’” Cruz said, using a mob boss voice to impersonate Carr.
Cruz continued, “I’ve gotta say, that’s right out of Goodfellas. That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘Nice bar you have here. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.’”
“I’ve gotta say, look, I understand. Jimmy Kimmel has mocked me so many times I cannot count. The corporate media, they’re dishonest, they are liars, I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said. I am thrilled that he was fired. But let me tell you, if the government gets in the business of saying, ‘We don’t like what you, the media, have said. We’re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don’t say what we like,’ that will end up bad for conservatives,” Cruz said.
Cruz said that this can come back to bite the conservatives in the future.
“Going down this road, there will come a time when a Democrat wins again – wins the White House … they will silence us. They will use this power, and they will use it ruthlessly. And that is dangerous,” Cruz said.
“I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying, ‘We’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off air if we don’t like what you’re saying.’ And it might feel good right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel,” the senator said. “But when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.”
One of Brendan Carr‘s tweets has been going viral because of how surprising it was.
Source: justjared.com