Federal Communications Commission Chair and Project 2025 co-author Brendan Carr is now claiming that he never meant to imply that local ABC affiliates could lose their broadcasting licenses if they failed to “take action” on Jimmy Kimmel. According to his own interpretation of the First Amendment, a lie that’s this egregious should get Carr banned from television. Then, yesterday morning, Carr spoke at the Concordia Summit in New York where he told the attendees that he did not threaten to revoke broadcasting licenses from TV stations over Jimmy Kimmel Live! They work that out, and there doesn’t need to be any involvement of the FCC.”AdvertisementAdvertisementIn his speech, Carr conspicuously ignored the irony that he, the FCC chair, explicitly advised those affiliates to pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel Live! Carr then claimed that the consequences of a local ABC affiliate continuing to carry Jimmy Kimmel Live!