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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Apr 17, 2025, 05:36 PM Apr 17

Trump's FCC chair blasts MSNBC for 'news distortion' and refusal to call deported man a 'violent' MS-13 member

FCC chairman Brendan Carr raged at Comcast Wednesday evening and asserted it was guilty of “news distortion” because its cable news channel MSNBC didn’t carry a White House press briefing that featured the administration continuing to defend its decision to wrongfully deport a Maryland man.

Donald Trump’s hand-picked FCC commissioner’s suggestion that the NBC parent may have violated its broadcasting licenses over the way its networks covered the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia piggybacked on the White House calling CNN and MSNBC “shameful” for declining to air the presser.

This is also just the latest example of Carr and the Trump administration attacking media outlets over their editorial direction while threatening them with investigations and punishment.

“Comcast outlets spent days misleading the American public—implying that Abrego Garcia was merely a law abiding U.S. citizen, just a regular ‘Maryland man.’ When the truth comes out, they ignore it,” Carr tweeted on Wednesday night.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fcc-chair-blasts-msnbc-134139071.html

If he was given due process that likely wouldn't have happened. However, even your obese sweaty boss admitted they erred.

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Trump's FCC chair blasts MSNBC for 'news distortion' and refusal to call deported man a 'violent' MS-13 member (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 17 OP
These people like Brendan shithead Carr just lie continuously. They have zero credibility. Blues Heron Apr 17 #1
Remind Carr that Trump has 34 more felony convictions than Garcia. Vinca Apr 17 #2
And FOX "News" is the epitome of veracity and accuracy? no_hypocrisy Apr 17 #3

no_hypocrisy

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3. And FOX "News" is the epitome of veracity and accuracy?
Thu Apr 17, 2025, 05:48 PM
Apr 17

This is indeed a new chapter in Alice In Wonderland.

MSNBC has journalists and fact-checkers, unlike FOX. It is not a propaganda network.

There is no evidence that demonstrates that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13 and/or illegally in the United States. For one thing, the TSF accusations haven't been tested and adjudicated in a court of law.

Brendan Carr, acting as the mouthpiece for TSF, is furious that he can't control "The Message".

My best guess is that Carr's next target will be Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now".

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