{"id":769665,"date":"2026-09-13T20:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769665\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T20:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:06:13","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-and-james-talarico-accused-of-hoax-by-fccs-brendan-carr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769665\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel and James Talarico accused of \u2018hoax\u2019 by FCC\u2019s Brendan Carr"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FCC chairman Brendan Carr has accused Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> and Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico<\/a> of a \u201choax\u201d over their recent late-night interview.<\/p>\n

Kimmel announced during his opening monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> Wednesday that he would be \u201cinterviewing James Talarico tomorrow night under unusual circumstances.\u201d <\/p>\n

The late-night host explained that the interview would go directly to YouTube and not air on ABC amid the network\u2019s ongoing FCC issues.<\/p>\n

However, in a post on the social media site X<\/a>, Carr responded to accuse Talarico of \u201crunning the same hoax he did a few months ago on Colbert for the purpose of getting clicks and donations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carr added: \u201cHe\u2019s banking on people not understanding the statute or operating as partisan lemmings.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe FCC\u2019s Brendan Carr has accused Jimmy Kimmel of a \u2018hoax\u2019 over his interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico (Getty)<\/p>\n

In February, Stephen Colbert posted his own interview with Talarico to YouTube. It has since been watched 9.6 million times.<\/p>\n

So far, Kimmel\u2019s interview, which is billed on YouTube as one \u201cthe FCC Doesn\u2019t Want You To See\u201c, has been watched 8.1 million times.<\/p>\n

Carr\u2019s argument is that the FCC would not prevent Talarico from being interviewed on broadcast television as long as rival candidates were given \u201ccomparable time and placement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carr wrote: \u201cThe Equal Time statute does not prohibit anyone from interviewing anyone on broadcast TV. It is about more speech, not less. Congress wanted to ensure that voters would decide elections, not media gatekeepers picking winners and losers by providing preferential airtime to some candidates and not others.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cIndeed, when the statute applies, it simply requires broadcast stations to offer comparable time and placement. And comparable does not necessarily mean an interview by the same person on the same program either.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FCC\u2019s scrutiny of ABC has become closely intertwined with Kimmel\u2019s own clashes with the agency.<\/p>\n

Last year, Carr infamously threatened action against Kimmel after the comedian\u2019s comments about Charlie Kirk\u2019s killing, warning ABC and its affiliates that they could deal with the FCC \u201cthe easy way or the hard way\u201d shortly before the network briefly pulled Kimmel\u2019s show from the air.<\/a><\/p>\n

Last month, the network and its parent company Disney filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the government agency,<\/a> accusing it of launching a \u201cretaliatory campaign\u201d <\/a>over its news coverage and programming. The suit specifically cites Carr’s comments<\/a> about Kimmel.<\/p>\n

The FCC has asked a court to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the case belongs in a federal appeals court and that its review of ABC\u2019s broadcast licenses is justified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-769665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}