{"id":194114,"date":"2025-09-19T23:14:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T23:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/ted-cruz-celebrates-kimmels-suspension-but-denounces-fcc-threat-as-dangerous-as-hell\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T23:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T23:14:54","slug":"ted-cruz-celebrates-kimmels-suspension-but-denounces-fcc-threat-as-dangerous-as-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/ted-cruz-celebrates-kimmels-suspension-but-denounces-fcc-threat-as-dangerous-as-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz Celebrates Kimmel\u2019s Suspension, But Denounces FCC Threat as \u2018Dangerous as Hell\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ted-cruz\/\" title=\"Ted Cruz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ted Cruz<\/strong><\/a> is \u201cthrilled\u201d that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" title=\"Jimmy Kimmel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s talk show has been pulled from ABC because he\u2019s not a fan of the man, but he thinks the FCC Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/brendan-carr\/\" title=\"Brendan Carr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brendan Carr<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s threats are \u201cdangerous as hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Republican senator from Texas made some surprising comments about the controversy, showing he\u2019s not fully on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" title=\"Donald Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Trump<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s side over this issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2143629\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cruz<\/strong> spoke out on a new episode of his podcast <em>Verdict<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, look, I like <strong>Brendan Carr<\/strong>,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s a good guy. He\u2019s the chairman of the FCC. I work closely with him. But what he said there is dangerous as hell.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jimmy Kimmel Fired-Was it Right &amp; Should the FCC have Gotten Involved plus Trump Designates ANTIF...\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l6KYixCBTJc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[<strong>Carr<\/strong>] threatens it, he says, \u2018We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way,\u2019\u201d <strong>Cruz <\/strong>said, using a mob boss voice to impersonate <strong>Carr<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Cruz <\/strong>continued, \u201cI\u2019ve gotta say, that\u2019s right out of <em>Goodfellas<\/em>. That\u2019s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, \u2018Nice bar you have here. It\u2019d be a shame if something happened to it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve gotta say, look, I understand. <strong>Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong> has mocked me so many times I cannot count. The corporate media, they\u2019re dishonest, they are liars, I hate what <strong>Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong> said. I am thrilled that he was fired. But let me tell you, if the government gets in the business of saying, \u2018We don\u2019t like what you, the media, have said. We\u2019re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don\u2019t say what we like,\u2019 that will end up bad for conservatives,\u201d <strong>Cruz <\/strong>said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cruz <\/strong>said that this can come back to bite the conservatives in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing down this road, there will come a time when a Democrat wins again \u2013 wins the White House \u2026 they will silence us. They will use this power, and they will use it ruthlessly. And that is dangerous,\u201d <strong>Cruz <\/strong>said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying, \u2018We\u2019re going to decide what speech we like and what we don\u2019t, and we\u2019re going to threaten to take you off air if we don\u2019t like what you\u2019re saying.\u2019 And it might feel good right now to threaten <strong>Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong>,\u201d the senator said. \u201cBut when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>One of <strong>Brendan Carr<\/strong>\u2018s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/18\/fcc-chair-brendan-carrs-response-to-glees-kevin-mchale-goes-viral-amid-jimmy-kimmel-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> tweets has been going viral<\/a> because of how surprising it was. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/19\/ted-cruz-celebrates-kimmels-suspension-but-denounces-fcc-threat-as-dangerous-as-hell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Cruz is \u201cthrilled\u201d that Jimmy Kimmel\u2018s talk show has been pulled from ABC because he\u2019s not a fan of the man, but he thinks the FCC Chairman Brendan Carr\u2018s threats are \u201cdangerous as hell.\u201d The Republican senator from Texas made some surprising comments about the controversy, showing he\u2019s not fully on Trump\u2018s side over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-194114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}