Brendan Carr's FCC investigation threatens 'The View' with shutdown over alleged Equal Time Act violations regarding the Texas Senate primary between Jasmine Crockett and James Tallerico. The host argues broadcast regulations under Section 315 prohibit partisan influence, contrasting strict TV rules with unregulated cable networks like CNN. While Tallerico supports Crockett, the segment speculates the administration might invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump, drawing a parallel to potentially ousting Whoopi Goldberg from the show. Ultimately, this legal battle highlights the precarious intersection of federal media enforcement and political bias in modern elections. [Automatically generated summary]
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Unequal Advantage on Television00:08:24
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The view is in serious trouble.
I know I keep saying that and saying that, but this time I'm telling you, you know, it's not just a big broad investigation into ABC overall.
It is an investigation specifically into one show Helmed by one Whoopi Goldberg and that would be the view and they don't have Bob Iger around to protect him anymore.
Okay.
The CEO of Disney.
No, no, he's going bye bye.
He's being, you know, replaced by.
a guy named DeMorrow who came from the parks business who cares about the bottom line and doesn't really care about everything that they care about over on The View, which is just, you know, stirring up you know what.
And now they got a problem because Brennan Carr over at the FCC, he's already come out with warning after warning after warning.
They've ignored those warnings.
And consequently, they're now looking as though they're in violation of what's called the Equal Time Act, something that was put in place years ago when they started regulating the television business.
Broadcast, by the way, I want to point out, is regulated.
We're not regulated over here.
No, no, I get to do whatever I want, say whatever I want.
And they're not regulated in cable, but broadcast television, of which ABC is a member of, of which produces, of course, The View, they are regulated by the FCC.
So when people say, oh my gosh, they're clamping down on free speech, this, that, and the other, it's like, no.
Because, you know, The View could go over to MSNBC and do that show all day long and have no problem whatsoever.
But you're going to have a problem.
Yeah, you better believe you're going to have a problem, especially with this new head of the FCC, Brendan Carr, in charge, over on.
Regular mainstream broadcast television.
So the issue that they're confronting right now is, well, of course, overall bias, but some very specific bias.
Before I get into the very specific bias, consider, ladies and gentlemen, what we're dealing with, okay?
I'm not sure if it's time to another piece of ground.
Right, it's time.
25th Amendment is time.
It's time.
So, to that point, Wookie, you would be in a lot of company.
You believe at this point that the President of the United States may not have his full faculty?
I felt that before now.
Yeah, but the cherries on the cake was yesterday.
Well, no, there's been a lot of cherries on the cake.
There have been several.
The cherries on this cake.
Are enormous.
Yeah.
There are so many trees.
The lines in the sand.
I just want to point out that it looks like a stamp.
For all her chit chat and talk of the 25th Amendment, her desire for the vice president to invoke that and the cabinet to go along with that.
And oh, and she wants the vice president gone and the cabinet gone too.
I mean, we never said she was the brightest bulb, right?
She's somehow fairly commercial though, because she still has this job, but not for long, because she may be effectively getting a version of the 25th Amendment.
This one is going to take her off the air.
Again, I want to point out that Brennan Carr is very serious about this.
A lot of these laws had just not been really paid any attention to in the last however many years.
And he's coming back with a vengeance.
And he's like, wait a second.
You guys are having an unfair, sort of unequal advantage point over the political arena because of the repertoire of stuff that you keep putting on television.
And so he had come out recently with what he called a public notice.
And this is what the FCC put out.
Basically, that they had renewed their guidance on political equal opportunities requirement for broadcast television stations.
And the way that this always worked in the past was if you put, say, a Democrat on, you also had to put a Republican on.
If you put a Republican on for eight minutes, then you would have to put a Democrat on for eight minutes.
And the idea was you needed to provide both sides with a kind of equality, fair time, and give them each that opportunity.
So especially relevant when it comes to candidates.
If you're going to put X candidate on, then you need Y candidate.
historically was always the process until, oh, I don't know what happened, 2016, 2016, Donald Trump, and then all of a sudden things changed drastically and nobody cared about equal time anymore.
You remember this became an issue when he was running against Kamala Harris in the sort of days, weeks leading up to the election because Saturday Live gave her a big platform and they did not give him the same kind of platform there on NBC.
And so his campaign went and said, hey, hey, equal time, equal time.
And sure enough, they had to devote a certain amount of time then.
to Donald Trump and a more favorable coverage of him given what they gave to Saturday Night Live and Kamala Harris.
So this is the public notice.
They're just reminding everybody that under Section 315 of the Communications Act, which was put forward in 1934, a broadcast station permits any legally qualified candidate for public office to use its facilities.
It shall provide an equal opportunity for other legally qualified candidates for that office.
That statutory requirement is there and corresponding to FCC rules in order to ensure this fairness right in the political landscape.
Well, they're not exactly doing that on The View, right?
No, The View is not doing that at all because they have this Texas election, which is kind of a big deal.
Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate and she's got to, you know, run and get the primary spot.
She's running against a guy, James Tallerico, if I said that name right.
And James Tallerico is, you know, if you ask me, frankly, a far better candidate than Jasmine Crockett.
I mean, he may not have the notoriety, the infamy of one Jasmine Crockett, but he's probably got a better shot at getting there.
And I think that that may have been one of the things that upset.
In all fairness, right, this administration, because they're like, wait a second, now they're making a big deal out of this guy that actually could be a real contender.
And considering what just happened, right, in the other election in Texas that shocked everyone, it was a community that had historically been like forever very, very red and it suddenly turned blue.
So they're on the lookout for this kind of stuff.
So they're like, why are you elevating this guy?
I think they would have like taken it and dealt with it if it was just Jasmine.
But the idea that they're trying to elevate this guy as well is kind of a problem.
And again, Brennan Carr making the point that decades ago, Congress made the decision to prevent covered broadcast TV programs from being used to advance certain partisan political purposes.
And that was a good decision way back when.
And so when I worked in network television, it was very much about, okay, let's try to, and it was CBS Evening News and at one point NBC Nightly News.
So of course the bias was extremely, very, very far left, but they at least would try, right?
Like there was kind of a semblance of, okay, let's try to walk this.
down the middle and show both sides its due.
They'd at least pretend, right?
They're not even pretending anymore, let's be honest.
And he said, while some may have been ignoring or misreading this law in recent years, enforcing the statute passed by Congress is not weaponization.
You had a representative there on the left saying that this was a weaponization of the agency.
This is a violation of the First Amendment.
It's like, no, no, no, lady, like learn what you need to learn, okay?
You can do that all day long in cable.
I repeat, you can be the view.
24-7.
I don't know who's going to watch it, but go for it.
All right.
I think MSNBC has learned the hard way that, you know, and CNN as well, that nobody really wants to watch that.
But if that's your thing, you can go do that in cable.
You can do that online as well, but you can't actually do that in broadcast television.
Winning Formula for Texas00:02:52
And he's reminding people of that.
He's like the adult in the room saying, hey, you know, kids, it's out of control.
This party, it's gone on way too long, and we're going to wrap this thing up.
Jasmine Crockett, she was on in late February, I believe.
forgive me, not late February, late January.
We're in early February.
So she was on recently talking about her candidacy there on The View.
Want to go to her soundbite.
As we mentioned, you're running in the Democratic primary against U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett.
And there has been a lot of discourse around her electability.
And some would say that is code for they don't think a black woman can win statewide.
Should she win this primary against you, do you think she can win a state right?
And forgive me, this is the candidate that's running against her in Texas.
He looks like he's about 12.
But, you know, I think basically anyone could beat Jasmine.
I don't think that the Republicans are going to have to worry there, but this certainly ticked a lot of people off.
So again, James Tallerico, I'm sure I'm not saying that right, but the view trying to get his name out there and his presence out there, and as far as the FCC is concerned, artificially trying to influence an election, unfairly trying to influence an election there in Texas.
Wide race.
Absolutely.
Congresswoman Crockett is my friend.
I have deep love and respect for her.
She is a leader in our state.
And I've said before that if she wins this nomination, I will be behind her 1,000%.
And I will do everything I possibly can to get her over the finish line.
We're on the same team, Jasmine and I. We're trying to change the politics of our state and take back this country.
And we're both putting forward our experiences and our skill sets in a healthy competition.
And what I think I bring to this primary is something unique.
I have a history of winning these kind of races.
I got elected to the state house by flipping a Trump district that no one thought was winnable.
In a county that was so red, it hadn't voted for a Democrat for president since Jimmy Carter.
And I did that by building a big tent, by inspiring Democrats to get off the couch, bringing in young voters who were disillusioned with politics, and peeling people off from the middle and even from the right.
That to me is the winning formula.
That is how we win Texas, and it's how we save this American experiment in November.
Now, let me.
Yeah, okay.
And Allie, I hear you.
I want to get to that in a second because she's actually saying, You're right.
And Sonny was quoting her.
She can't win anything because, you know, if you don't vote for her, then somehow you're a racist, which had come up when she was on that show.
And so she had been on the show, right?
Like a week prior.
And then they put in the candidate that's running against her, another Democrat.
It's like they're saturating with Democrats for Texas.
You got to vote Democrat.
And then he's talking her book on top of it.
I mean, he might as well be voting for Jasmine himself, for goodness sakes.