Brendan Carr, the Trump-aligned Republican chairman of the FCC, accused James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for the U.S. Senate, of running a “hoax” to garner attention and campaign donations by sitting for an interview with Jimmy Kimmel — which ABC put on YouTube instead airing it on broadcast TV to avoid a potential clash with the FCC.
\n\nIn a post on X Saturday night, Carr wrote that Talarico is “just running the same hoax he did a few months ago on Colbert for the purpose of getting clicks and donations — he’s banking on people not understanding the statute or operating as partisan lemmings.”
\n\nCarr’s post included a meme mocking Talarico and Kimmel. It depicts Kimmel riding a bike with Talarico tucked into a baby backpack carrier on the TV host’s shoulders; Kimmel then inserts a stick into the spokes, causing the bike to crash.
\n\nVariety has reached out to Talarico’s press office for comment.
\n\nKimmel on Wednesday announced on his ABC late-night show that the interview Talarico would be on YouTube and not TV, saying the decision was made “out of consideration for our local stations, especially our ABC affiliates in Texas who would have to deal with…
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