On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy Kimmel reads a 2022 post by then-FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr calling political satire "one of the oldest and most important forms of free speech" that people in power have always targeted for censorship. Kimmel then plays a 2022 video of the man who later appointed Carr chairman of the FCC, saying "if we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country," and asks how that guy turned into this guy.
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- Jimmy Kimmel
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- monologue - Jimmy Kimmel Live
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- 59 seconds, unedited within the cut
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There was an FCC commissioner back in 2022 who worked under Joe Biden, who was spot on. He wrote, President Biden is right, political satire is one of the oldest and most important forms of free speech. It challenges those in power while using humor to draw more people into the discussion. That's why people in influential positions have always targeted it for censorship. You know who wrote that? FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who later was appointed chairman of the FCC by this former crusader for free speech. If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country. It's as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple, just like dominoes, one by one, they'll go down. That was also in 2022. and I wonder how did that guy turn into this guy?
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