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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr on Thursday said it may be “worthwhile” to consider investigating ABC’s “The View” amid controversy about late night host Jimmy Kimmel’s firing.
“I would assume you could make the argument that ‘The View’ is a bona fide news show, but I’m not so sure about that,” Carr said during an appearance on CNN’s “The Arena.”
“And I think it’s worthwhile to have the FCC look into whether ‘The View’ and some of the programs that you have still qualify as bona fide news programs and therefore exempt from the equal opportunity regime that Congress has put in place,” he added.
Carr on Wednesday criticized remarks Kimmel made on his show Monday about the suspect arrested for the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. He also said “licensed broadcasters” should stand up against Kimmel, a remark that many observers saw as suggesting government action could take place.
Top Democrats have called for Carr to resign following Kimmel’s dismissal, alleging that he and other Trump administration officials were attempting to censor programming.
News of Kimmel’s removal was conspicuously not discussed during “The View’s” trending “Hot Topic” segment on the show on Thursday.
Hosts of the show have taken shots at President Trump and Republicans in the past.
On Wednesday, co-host Joy Behar said Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie was the only lawmaker from the Republican Party people could “respect.”
Alyssa Farah-Griffin, a former Trump staffer who now serves as a co-host on the show, lauded Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for verbally supporting disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.
“There’s a handful, but we’ve praised them before,” Griffin told Behar. “There were a handful of women who supported the discharge petition, but it should be released.”
