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Brendan Carr

Brendan Carr

Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission of the United StatesWikipedia

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Sep 24, 2026

Anthony DavisHOST
10:13
He's just not smart enough for this job.
Anthony DavisHOST
10:16
But unfortunately, the people around him, the likes of Russ Vogt and Stephen Miller and Brendan Carr and Pete Hegseth, these people have their own agenda.
Anthony DavisHOST
10:28
They are instructed, I presume, by the Heritage Foundation and the other puppeteers in this storyline.
Anthony DavisHOST
10:38
And there is an amount of elder abuse that is going on because they know that he is checked out and he cares about the stuff you just mentioned, the ballroom and the triumphal arch and the pictures of his face and the Kennedy Center and the construction projects.
Chris MichaelsHOST
16:21
For what you will.
Chris MichaelsHOST
16:23
Moving on to Brendan Carr.
Chris MichaelsHOST
16:25
Now, Brendan Carr is part of Trump's FCC, right? He's the chair.
Chris MichaelsHOST
16:31
It's been revealed because somebody is trying to do a hit on him that he was part for at least a decade of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group.
Chris MichaelsHOST
16:42
In Washington, D.C., yes, and guess what they did? They basically created a little cult, and they engaged in all kinds of group sex and all the rest.
John RochaHOST
32:04
As I said, they own TikTok.
John RochaHOST
32:05
They've got X. they've got CNN, CBS now, maybe ABC and NBC are left, but they've got FCC chairman Brendan Carr going after ABC and NBC trying to sue them for daring to speak negative things about Donald Trump.
John RochaHOST
32:20
So this idea that there's a left-wing media, that day is done.
John RochaHOST
32:25
It is over.
Thom HartmannHOST
4:29
These are the same billionaires who handed Trump a check for $16 million to settle a frivolous lawsuit against 60 Minutes, then canceled Stephen Colbert's program days after he referenced that as a big fat bribe, then reportedly offered the Trump White House up to $20 million in free public service announcements and installed a Trump-humping ombudsman at CBS News to police bias at the network.
Thom HartmannHOST
4:53
And the FCC, run by Trump's favorite brown-noser Brendan Carr, has blessed Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, taking a 49.5% equity stake in the new entity that will control two of the three most important news networks in America.
Thom HartmannHOST
5:08
Don't expect any future analysis of Saudi involvement in 9-11, critical exploration of what Trump gave up in exchange for a $400 million 747 jet, or the billions that have gone to Kushner and the Trump boys Uday and Kusei.
Thom HartmannHOST
5:22
Because of momentous decisions made by Presidents Reagan and Clinton, freedom of the press in America is now as much an economic issue as a political one.

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Thom HartmannHOST
12:53
Reporters Without Borders found that a dozen once-powerful media owners were pushed to sell to intelligence-linked companies, while the handful of businesses who backed Sisi got to keep theirs.
Thom HartmannHOST
13:04
The spy agency's media group now owns the ON, CBC, Al-Hayah, and DMC networks, and those Egyptian journalists who dared criticize the regime all went to prison.
Thom HartmannHOST
13:16
Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines used regulatory power the same way Trump lickspittle Brendan Carr's FCC does today.
Thom HartmannHOST
13:23
The country's largest newspaper, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, was forced to sell to a billionaire Duterte ally under threat of imprisonment for breaking media rules.
Christopher MitchellHOST
4:04
That's the report, right? And under the Democrats, there's usually more of a sense of like, all right, like, is this really working for most Americans in terms of are they getting the speeds or, you know, is it reliable? Is it affordable? Those are the things that are considered.
Christopher MitchellHOST
4:19
When Carr took over for the Trump administration, he was like, none of that matters.
Christopher MitchellHOST
4:24
What matters is how did the telecommunications companies feel about it? And not all of them, let's be honest, not most of them.
Christopher MitchellHOST
4:31
How did the big ones, the big ones that like I depend on for support, how do they feel about things? And so it's a different report.
Christopher MitchellHOST
4:40
how you have something to say? Yeah.
Shawn GonsalvesHOST
4:44
No, it's just a question, but can I guess how the big telecom companies feel about it
Christopher MitchellHOST
4:49
and how Brendan Carr feels about it? How do you think they feel about it?
Shawn GonsalvesHOST
4:52
It's going terrific.

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Jim Acosta

Sep 23 · 1 Mention

Jim AcostaHOST
49:21
But we need a moment of clarity.
Jim AcostaHOST
49:24
Don't we need a moment of clarity? If you can work on a dig on Brendan Carr, that would be great too.
Jim AcostaHOST
49:30
But we need to know where we stand.
Jim AcostaHOST
49:33
Do we have a free press or not? Do we have freedom of speech or not? Do we have the right to express ourselves freely in America or not? If we don't, what kind of message does that send across this country? What kind of message does that send across the world? Some very big important stakes.
RudyHOST
30:36
Fox News again, story number 11, FCC chair blasts House Democrats' extreme position on gender ideology and kids programming in a fiery letter.
RudyHOST
30:44
Brendan Carr cited Disney Junior's Muppet Babies, Netflix, and Strawberry Shortcake, among others, pushing trans content.
RudyHOST
30:52
Which I agree,
RudyHOST
30:54
right? This is, you know, I think anything sexual
Jim AcostaHOST
44:56
But we need a moment of clarity.
Jim AcostaHOST
44:59
We need a mo- don't we need a moment of clarity? Um, if he could work in a dig on Brendan Carr, that would be great, too.
Jim AcostaHOST
45:05
Uh, but we need, we need to know where we stand.
Jim AcostaHOST
45:08
Do we have a free press or not? Do we have freedom of speech or not? Do we have the, the right to express ourselves freely in America or not? And if we don't, what kind of message does that send across this country? What kind of message does that send across the s- a- across the world? Um, some very big, important stakes, uh, involved in this press ban.
Dana LoeschHOST
28:50
You wanna talk about protecting Christian holy sites, Erdoğan? What happened to the great church there in Istanbul? What happened to Hagia Sophia? What happened to it? If you wanna talk about protecting Christian sites, Erdoğan, what happened to it? Why can't we go and worship in that church anymore, Erdoğan? Geez.
Dana LoeschHOST
29:15
I would say what needs to be said, but Brendan Carr does not, only gave me one get out of jail free card, courtesy of the FCC.
Dana LoeschHOST
29:23
Just saying.
Dana LoeschHOST
29:25
Yeah, the Hagia Sophia would like a word.
David Van CampHOST
103:02
This is just bizarre from The Guardian.
David Van CampHOST
103:06
So they're going after the FCC chairman, Brendan Carr.
Scott BessentSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
103:10
Okay.
David Van CampHOST
103:10
And the headline is this.
David Van CampHOST
103:12
Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue alcoholics anonymous group some labeled a cult.
David Van CampHOST
103:20
And the story is that there was this group in the D.C. area where the guy who was running it was abusive towards some of the female members.
David Van CampHOST
103:31
Now, Brendan Carr is not implicated in any of that.
David Van CampHOST
103:35
He was a guy who was trying to better himself, going to, well, Alcoholics Anonymous.

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