Brendan Carr

Well, I don't think everything they're saying there in terms of their understanding of the way this rule operates is right.

But listen, if a collateral unintended consequence of me doing my job is we've got a lot more converts to small government conservatism, I guess I'll take it as a win.

But to your point, think about it this way.

A lot of times the Republicans are in government and they get gavels.

They take their gavel and they go to the farthest flung corners of the earth and they bury the gavel in the sand.

And they say, if we were to actually just apply the law in a even handed way, then Democrats will get the gavel again and they'll weaponize it.

And what that fundamentally misreads, among other things, is we have a job to do.

The statute requires this.

Let's apply it.

Let's not weaponize it.

let's not abuse it let's not be biased about it but let's apply it in an even-handed way and that's what i'm doing now what democrats do when they get gavels is they weaponize it and we saw this at the fcc when the democrats were charged in the fcc during the biden years they went after fox broadcast tv station and threatened to not renew their license for programming they didn't like on fox news cable

which is not regulated by the FCC.

You had Democrats that pressured cable companies to drop Fox News and OAN and Newsmax, and that campaign worked.

You had senators on the Democrat side calling for the FCC to investigate Sinclair, a broadcaster, for news distortion because they were viewed as a conservative outlet.

And so Democrats actually weaponized.

Whenever Democrats get gavels again at the FCC, let me tell you something, they're going to weaponize

What we need to do is that when we're here, let's just apply the law.

Let's not weaponize it against Republicans or Democrats, but the law is on the books.

If people want to get together and go to Congress and say change the law, then they should do that.

But up until then, we're just going to do this in a fair, even-handed, and balanced way.