Sen. Ted Cruz apparently is backing the First Amendment over partisan politics.
The Texas lawmaker hinted in an interview today that he doesn’t believe the FCC should wade into the latest dust-up between Jimmy Kimmel and Donald Trump. “It is not government’s job to censor speech, and I do not believe the FCC should operate as the speech police,” Cruz told Punchbowl News.
While not addressing the situation directly, Cruz seems to be taking a stand against FCC Chairman Brendan Carr‘s order to do an early review of Disney‘s owned-and-operation TV stations over Kimmel’s recent joke about Melania Trump.
The latest Kimmel-FCC kerfuffle started last week, when the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host used his monologue to deliver an “alternate” White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech ahead of the real thing in Washington D.C. During the bit, he cracked: “Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania,
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