Ted Cruz’s Finest Hour
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Most Republicans are afraid of uttering even a syllable of disapproval about the Trump Administration, so kudos to Ted Cruz for noticing the danger from Brendan Carr’s use of regulatory threats to stifle free speech.
The Texas Senator used his podcast on Friday to criticize Mr. Carr, who runs the Federal Communications Commission, for his threats against Disney , its ABC network and its station affiliates if they didn’t punish Jimmy Kimmel. Disney then pulled the late-night host off the air “indefinitely.”
Mr. Carr “says, ‘We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way,’” Mr. Cruz told his listeners, quoting Mr. Carr. “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.’”
The Senator added that he’s no fan of Mr. Kimmel, but he warned conservatives that government power abused in this way won’t hurt only the left. “What [Mr. Carr] said there is dangerous as hell,” Mr. Cruz continued. “It might feel good right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, but when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.”
That’s exactly right. Mr. Carr used to understand this too, and he criticized Democrats for using government power to censor conservatives when he was a commissioner in the FCC minority. But now that he’s chairman, he follows the whims of the White House.
In more good news, Pennsylvania Sen. Dave McCormick backed up Mr. Cruz’s remarks on X.com on Friday evening. “Agree with Senator Cruz. Good riddance to Jimmy Kimmel and his disgusting rhetoric. Ted also raises important concerns about the comments of the FCC chairman,” Mr. McCormick wrote.
These are Senators with solid conservative credentials defending an important principle of liberty that conservatives embraced before President Trump’s second term. We’d add that Mr. Cruz has in recent years emerged as a rare Member of Congress willing to defend free-market economic policies in his post as Chairman of the Commerce Committee.
As Mr. Trump and his appointees escalate their use of government to punish opponents and coerce business, Republicans will have to decide if they want to rubber stamp this misuse of regulatory and prosecutorial power. If they do, they won’t have grounds to complain when the same screws are turned on them by the next Democratic President.
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Sounds like Cruz tripped over his Memory Box and rediscovered he was a conservative republican.
Just goes to show how unconstitutional and over the top the Trump administration has gone to earn the ire of Ted Cruz. Even MTG has steered (slightly) away from total Trump submission.
I was actually surprised when he said that!
I hate it when I have to agree with the likes of Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson, but here we are.
I made the same point last week in one of the threads which only got deflection in reply.
We know that the left engaged in a much more concerted and pervasive effort to silence conservatives across platforms than Carr's public criticism. No progressive Senator denounced the Biden admins attempts to censor speech when it came to light. Progressives In general mocked any mention of it.
Whether Carr spoke out or not, why would anyone have any reason to believe progressives will act any differently should they regain power? There's no evidence that any progressives support these principles when they are in power and no reason to expect Carr's statement has any impact on that one way or the other moving forward.
Is this one of your "we know it" but cannot prove it examples?
Your professed ignorance of these stories proves my point. As an example, I posted the interview the other day where Zuckerberg talked about how the Biden admin would call screaming at his staff to censor posts and memes and they didn't like.
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Both PBS and NBC reported what Zuckerberg said, no more than that.
Was he indicted for perjury, as he made those statements under oath?
Then you have the twitter files etc etc..
Still deflecting?
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Your refusal to cite any studies to confirm your claim proves my point. Your claim is more bullshit.
PBS and NBC put him under oath? By what authority?
I read it and got your point - it's pure 'whataboutism' deflection.
If the Trump admin did the same to Zuckerberg, and PBS and NBC reported the same, you and your fellow leftists would be screaming FASCIST.
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It's a term I rarely use and Lindbergh is dead.
Cruz is right (gawd I hate writing that!). But if someone doesn;t step in and stop the likes of Carr, conservatives are going to lose their voice, too
Well, even a stopped clock . . .
Brendan Carr made those comments in response to a question, but he was better off staying out of a company's decision.
Or he made those comments to suckup to 'Little Balls'.
Must be time for Ted Cruz to run for President again. At least he won't have to contend with Trump.
Brendan Carr was shooting dead horses. The TEA Party already killed the public television meme. So, that talking point is deader than dead. But Carr felt he had to shoot that dead horse again.
All these whiny TEA Party Republicans need to be reminded that the culture war is over - and - they won. Brendon Carr has to go much too far just to get a rise out of a dead horse. And shooting that dead horse only raised a stink. Might be a good idea to just let these dead horses lie.
They are never over, every succeeding generation has their very own and all are part of coming of age.
Ted Cruz should be careful about what he says. He won't be able to hide in Canada so easily now since he renounced his Canadian citizenship and so Canada withdrew it.