00:00So Jimmy Kimmel came out with an off-color joke about Charlie Kirk.
00:04Jimmy Kimmel off-color? I'm shocked here.
00:07But it was also a fake news because he pretended that it was a MAGA person who shot Charlie Kirk,
00:14which was the opposite of the truth.
00:15But was that what offended you or was that what caused you to write a warning letter?
00:22Well, I don't know about offended, but you're right. This was part, honestly, of a political campaign.
00:27So you saw at the end of the week leading into that Kimmel episode, Eric Swalwell and others were pushing
00:33this talking point that Charlie Kirk's assassin was somehow MAGA-affiliated.
00:40And then on that night, what happened was Jimmy Kimmel told what I don't even think can be really characterized
00:46as a joke, per se, or not that it even matters from my perspective,
00:49but left people with the impression that the motives of one of the most significant political assassinations of our time
00:55was completely different than what it was, suggesting that he somehow had MAGA motivations.
01:00And look, the FCC does have a policy in place against what we call news distortion.
01:06And we simply reminded broadcasters that that exists, and that's for, in the first place, the national programmer like Disney
01:13and the local TV stations to work that issue out amongst themselves.
01:17That can take place relatively quickly, or they can bring it to the FCC, and it's a longer process, but
01:22we'll deal with it.
