Trump scores free prime-time ad slot after NBC's 'SNL' skit scandal with Harris



Former President Donald Trump secured a free election promotion on NBC following complaints that the network attempted to give opponent Kamala Harris a boost with voters by featuring her on "Saturday Night Live." The network was accused of violating the Federal Communications Commission's "equal time" rule.

Trump's advertisement aired on Sunday evening after NASCAR's Xfinity 500 and the NFL's Minnesota Vikings-Indianapolis Colts football game.

'Just remember, Kamala and her friends broke it.'

The ad featured a "special message" from Trump to sports fans.

"We're two days away from the most important election in the history of our country. We've got to save our country, and it needs saving — it's in very bad shape," Trump stated. "The worst economic numbers in generations were just announced two days ago. We're losing jobs; we're losing everything, including viability."

Trump warned viewers that America is currently headed toward an economic depression.

"We've never seen anything like it, at least for the last 40 years," he continued.

Trump called for closing the borders, lowering taxes, and eliminating inflation.

"Just remember, Kamala and her friends broke it," he added. "I'll fix it."

"Go and vote," Trump concluded.

The ad directed viewers to a webpage with a form to obtain voter location and registration information.

NBC was forced to give Trump the free airtime after featuring Harris for a minute and a half in a cold open sketch for "SNL," the show's final episode before Election Day, Blaze News reported.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr called the skit "a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC's Equal Time rule."

"The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct - a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election," Carr continued. "Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns."

NBC filed an Equal Time notice with the FCC late Sunday after the pushback.

Carr told Fox News Digital that the network's filing confirms that it "views the Harris 'SNL' appearance as a free use of their facilities and airwaves within the meaning of the federal Equal Time rule."

Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital that Harris' cringeworthy sketch indicated her campaign is desperate to appeal to voters.

"Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to offer the American people, so that's why she's living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on 'Saturday Night Leftists' as her campaign spirals down the drain into obscurity. For the last four years, Kamala's destructive policies have led to untold misery and hurt for all Americans. She broke it, and President Trump will fix it," Cheung told the news outlet.

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NBC strategically timed Harris' promo on 'SNL' to get around federal law: FCC commissioner



NBC's apparent attempt to give Kamala Harris a last-minute boost with a cringey spot on "Saturday Night Live" — which some critics have called an "in-kind donation" — appears to have been strategically timed in order to "evade" Federal Communications Commission rules, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said ahead of the Nov. 2 broadcast.

Carr, in the Republican minority on the commission, noted on X ahead of Harris' appearance, "This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC's Equal Time rule. The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct — a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election."

While the FCC's equal opportunities rule established by the Communications Act of 1934 does not require that networks like NBC "provide opposing candidates with programs identical to the initiating candidate," networks generally must provide "comparable time and placement."

Carr indicated that in recent elections, NBC at least made an effort to follow the equal time rule.

The Hollywood Reporter noted, for instance, that in 2015, then-candidate Trump appeared on "Saturday Night Live" during the Republican primary for a total of 12 minutes and five seconds. NBC subsequently offered the same amount of airtime to his opponents.

"NBC stations publicly filed Equal Opportunity notices to ensure that all other qualifying candidates could obtain Equal Time if they sought it," wrote the commissioner. "Stations did the same thing when Clinton appeared on SNL."

The equal time rule did not require NBC to seek out President Donald Trump and ask him if he similarly wanted to appear on "Saturday Night Live" but requires that the network entertain requests by the Republican president.

Carr suggested that the last-minute nature of Harris' "Saturday Night Live" spot was ostensibly the liberal outlet's way of flouting the FCC's rule.

'This requires FCC action.'

"Federal law requires that broadcasters provide comparable time and placement to all legally qualified candidates when the Equal Time rule is triggered," wrote Carr. "With only days before the election, NBC appears to have structured this appearance in a way that evades these requirements. What comparable time and placement can they offer all other qualifying candidates?"

Not only did "Saturday Night Live" leave the appearance to the last moment and its final show before the election; the head of the show appears to have misled the Trump campaign with the suggestion in a September interview that the show would ultimately have neither Harris nor the 45th president on the show prior to the election.

"Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels told the Hollywood Reporter, "You can't bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the equal time provisions."

"You can't have the main candidates without having all the candidate, and there are lots of minor candidates that are only on the ballot in, like, three states, and that becomes really complicated," Michaels said, suggesting that his program might have politicians on the show after the election.

A senior adviser for the Trump campaign reportedly informed Fox News that "Saturday Night Live" did not extend an invitation to Trump.

Carr stressed that "this requires FCC action" but indicated that the initiative must be taken by the commission's chair, Biden appointee Jessica Rosenworcel.

Rosenworcel has demonstrated an unwillingness to hold fellow travelers to the same standard as conservatives.

In September, Rosenworcel joined her fellow Democratic commissioners in approving Democratic mega-donor George Soros' controversial purchase of over 200 radio stations in over 40 markets with the help of unvetted foreign investors who were spared the cusomary national security review process.

After "60 Minutes'" apparently deceptive edit of its Harris interview, Rosenworcel lashed out at Trump last month for requesting that CBS News be held to account.

'She's living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on "Saturday Night Leftists."'

While Democratic commissioners on the FCC might let NBC skate for its apparent evasion of federal law, the risk taken by "Saturday Night Live" still does not appear to have been worth it.

Harris appeared in the show's cold open, sitting opposite her fictional self, played by actress Maya Rudolph. Pretending to be mirror reflections of each other, the duo took turns talking up the vice president.

While some critics suggested that the Harris skit was a "cringe fest," in part owing to the accent the Democratic candidate decided to employ and her reliance on neoligisms rythming with "Kamala," others noted that it once again evidenced Harris' lack of originality.

Radio host Ari Hoffman was among the many critics who highlighted the resemblance between NBC's Harris skit and Trump's September 2015 skit on Jimmy Fallon's "The Tonight Show," writing, "Kamala continues her pattern of ripping off Trump."

In the 2015 spot, Jimmy Fallon, dressed up as Trump, sat opposite the future president with a fake mirror between them and conducted an interview.

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung wrote, "In addition to stealing policy ideas, @KamalaHarris has now resorted to stealing comedy skits."

Cheung was likely referring to Harris' adoption of Trump's proposal to eliminate taxes on tips as well as her campaign's apparent plagiarization of the defunct Biden campaign's policy agenda. Harris' alleged plagiarism in her 2009 book, "Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer," indicates the vice president's lack of originality is nothing new.

Trump senior adviser Jason Miller wrote, "Pathetic."

Cheung told Fox News, "Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to offer the American people, so that's why she's living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on 'Saturday Night Leftists' as her campaign spirals down the drain into obscurity. For the last four years, Kamala's destructive policies have led to untold misery and hurt for all Americans. She broke it, and President Trump will fix it."

Blaze News has reached out to Commissioner Carr and NBC for comment.

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Trump focuses on top issues, Harris makes 'SNL' appearance



Just two days from Election Day, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are going into the homestretch with contrasting campaigns.

Trump traveled from the Rust Belt to campaign in North Carolina and Virginia on Saturday, largely focusing on top issues like the economy and immigration.

'Over the past 4 years, Kamala has orchestrated the most egregious betrayal that any leader in American history has ever inflicted on our people.'

"If Kamala wins, you are 3 days away from the start of a 1929-style economic depression," Trump said in a post on X. "If I win, you are 3 days away from the best jobs, the biggest paychecks, and the brightest economic future the world has ever seen. ... I will massively cut taxes for workers and small businesses — and we will have NO TAX ON TIPS, NO TAX ON OVERTIME, and NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY benefits!"

"As we rescue our economy, I will also restore our borders," Trump said in another X post. "Over the past 4 years, Kamala has orchestrated the most egregious betrayal that any leader in American history has ever inflicted on our people. She has violated her oath, eradicated our sovereign border, and unleashed an army of gangs and criminal migrants from prisons and jails, insane asylums and mental institutions around the world, from Venezuela to the Congo — stealing countless American lives."

Harris also spent time in the Sun Belt, campaigning in Georgia and North Carolina. Harris has refocused on policy issues like immigration, noting that she has served as attorney general of a border state.

"I was attorney general of a border state," Harris said in a post on X. "Strengthening our border is not new to me."

Under Harris' purview as "Border czar," there have been over 8.7 million migrant encounters across the southern border alone, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Harris also reminded voters of her goal to "restore reproductive freedom" and implement a $6,000 child tax credit, as well as her "economic plan" that "taps into the aspirations of the American people."

Harris also made a surprise appearance on "Saturday Night Live" alongside Maya Rudolph. Many pointed out that the skit looked like a recreation of Trump's 2015 appearance with Jimmy Fallon, both of which showed the presidential hopefuls speaking to their reflection, played by one of their co-hosts.

"It is nice to see you, Kamala," Harris said to Rudolph. "And I'm just here to remind you, you got this, because you can do something your opponent cannot do. You can open doors."

While her appearance sparked a huge amount of online discourse, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr criticized Harris' appearance as a violation of the FCC's "Equal Time rule."

"The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly the type of biased and partisan conduct — a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election," Carr said in a post on X. "Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns."

The campaign season took another unexpected turn last night when Ann Selzer released a poll alongside the Des Moines Register showing Harris three points ahead of Trump in Iowa. This is a huge turnaround for Harris compared to the four-point deficit she was facing in the state, according to a previous poll from Selzer.

Iowa is not considered a swing state but has had a split voting record. Trump won the state in both 2020 and in 2016, but former President Barack Obama won the state in 2012 and 2008.

At the same time, many criticized this poll as a fluke, calling it a last-ditch attempt to "demoralize Trump voters." Notably, major projections have all included Iowa as a red-leaning state.

"No President has done more for FARMERS, and the Great State of Iowa, than Donald J. Trump," the former president said in a Truth Social post on Sunday. "In fact, it’s not even close! All polls, except for one heavily skewed toward the Democrats by a Trump hater who called it totally wrong the last time, have me up, BY A LOT."

Trump is set to campaign in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia today. Harris will make multiple campaign stops in Michigan.

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WARNING: George Soros and the FCC are dismantling talk radio



The progressives have set their sights on talk radio, which could dismantle the world of radio and absolutely crush free speech.

Soros Fund Management, which is run by George Soros and his billionaire son, is on the verge of taking control of Audacy, the second-largest broadcaster in America.

Last year, Soros bought around fifty radio stations that all happened to be Spanish-speaking.

Glenn Beck finds this “gravely concerning,” as Audacy currently owns 220 stations — and 80% of people still listen to the radio.

In addition, an investor based in Singapore is trying to take over Cumulus Media, which is the third-largest broadcaster.

“How does this bid for America? You have George Soros, and a Singapore company, and then iHeart all alone,” Glenn says.

But it gets worse.

The FCC is now ordering all broadcasters to start posting a race and gender scorecard that breaks down the demographics of their workforce.

“We have to start hiring based on gender and everything else,” Glenn says, adding, “I don’t care what you know, male, female. I don’t care who you sleep with. I don’t care what color you are. Really don’t. I want to know what’s inside your head.”

In the wake of these new rules, Glenn believes now is a more important time than ever to take a stand, especially for your small, local radio stations.

“I want you to support your local radio station,” he says. “Local radio is critical. You’ve got to have a local radio station that is not controlled by the Borg.”


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Biden's plan to control EVERY ASPECT of the internet EXPOSED



The Biden administration has a new plan for “digital equity,” which masquerades as a way to control every aspect of the internet.

The plan will affect all internet services and infrastructure and calls for the Federal Communications Commission to apply a far-reaching set of government controls.

"Never before in the roughly 40-year history of the public internet has the FCC or any federal agency, for that matter, claimed this degree of control over it."

“This is breathtaking control of all information,” Glenn Beck warns.

In a statement from the FCC’s commissioner, Brendan Carr, he writes “The federal government has a roving mandate to micromanage nearly every aspect of how the internet functions.”

This will affect everything from “how internet service providers allocate capital [and] where they build to the services that consumers can purchase — from the profits that ISPs can realize and how they market and advertise services to the discounts and promotions that consumers can receive.”

Not only is Glenn horrified at what this means for the internet in general, he recognizes how this might affect his own company, TheBlaze.

“This is so far-reaching that it will mean even TheBlaze, because we are on the backbone of the internet,” he says, “we will now have to comply by government FCC regulations.”

Glenn, who has done broadcasts under FCC regulations for 48 years, knows well what this means for free speech.

“This is a very big deal,” he says.


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Big Tech Should Ban Invasive TikTok App That Mines Personal Data For China

Apple and Google should comply with Brendan Carr's request and remove TikTok from their app stores immediately.

FCC commissioner calls for Apple, Google to ditch TikTok from their app stores: A wolf in 'sheep's clothing'



After yet another user data breach in China, the social media app TikTok is once again in the crosshairs of U.S. officials, this time from the FCC.

Earlier this month, BuzzFeed reported that ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, had access to private data information about American TikTok users. Now, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has reached out to executives at Apple and Google to request that the two tech giants remove the TikTok app from their app stores.

In a letter addressed to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Carr warns about the national security threat posed by the social media app that is popular with Americans, especially teens and 20-somethings.

"TikTok is not what it appears to be on the surface," Carr wrote. "It's not just an app for sharing funny videos or memes. That's the sheep's clothing. At its core, TikTok functions as a sophisticated surveillance tool that harvests extensive amounts of personal and sensitive data."

According to the BuzzFeed report, audio recordings at ByteDance collected between September 2021 and January 2022 revealed that nine employees located in China had openly discussed accessing sensitive American user data, including phone numbers and birthdates.

On one recording from last September, a ByteDance employee in TikTok’s Trust and Safety department says, "Everything is seen in China."

In his letter, Carr claims that ByteDance "is beholden to the Communist Party of China and required by Chinese law to comply with the PRC's surveillance demands."

And Carr is just the latest to sound the alarm regarding TikTok. Politicians from across the political spectrum — including President Biden, former President Trump, Sens. Chuck Schumer and Tom Cotton, and others — have expressed misgivings about TikTok.

"The concerns over TikTok are shared on a bipartisan basis," Carr notes.

TikTok has recently attempted to quell some of those concerns. On the same day that the BuzzFeed report dropped, TikTok announced publicly that "100% of US user traffic is being routed to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure."

Routing U.S. user traffic through Oracle, an American company headquartered in Austin, does not fix the problem, though, according to Carr, since the data can still be accessed outside the United States, including in Beijing.

Because of the severity of the security issues that TikTok has repeatedly demonstrated, and Apple's and Google's obligation to honor their own security standards and protocols, Carr closes the letter by asking Apple and Google to remove the app entirely from their stores.

Otherwise, he demands that they explain in writing how "the surreptitious access of private and sensitive U.S. user data by persons located in Beijing, coupled with TikTok's pattern of misleading representation and conduct, does not run afoul of any of your app store policies."

FCC commissioner shoots down demand that government step in, block Elon Musk from buying Twitter: 'Absurd'



Brendan Carr, a commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, shot down Wednesday a demand that his government agency block Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter.

What is the background?

On Tuesday, the left-leaning Open Markets Institute demanded that the FCC, Justice Department, and Federal Trade Commission intervene to block Musk from purchasing Twitter.

"The Open Markets Institute believes the deal poses a number of immediate and direct threats to American democracy and free speech," the organization declared in a statement.

Barry Lynn, director of the OMI, claimed that Musk's acquisition violates several laws, most of which are more than 100 years old. But Lynn's chief complaint is that Musk's purchase of Twitter while he owns Starlink, a satellite-powered broadband internet service, violates antitrust laws.

Lynn classified Starlink and Twitter as "essential platforms," invoking antitrust legal vernacular. Some legal scholars argue that digital behemoths like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Comcast, Verizon, etc. essentially should be considered like the railroads of the 19th century, thus expanding the essential facilities doctrine to Big Tech.

How did Carr respond?

Carr, who has served as an FCC commissioner since 2017, decisively rejected OMI's demand.

"The FCC has no authority to block Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, and to suggest otherwise is absurd," Carr said in a statement. "I would welcome the full FCC making it clear that we will not entertain these types of frivolous arguments."

Carr is one of four FCC commissioners (the fifth commissioner seat is currently vacant).

Anything else?

While the question of expanding the essential facilities doctrine to digital platforms is being debated in scholarly circles, a recent case demonstrates that federal courts do not yet apply the doctrine to Big Tech.

When AT&T attempted to buy Time Warner in 2017, the Justice Department sued, claiming the acquisition would harm American consumers because of the size and scope of both company's holdings.

But a federal district judge disagreed, ruling in 2018 that the merger would not violate antitrust laws. The Justice Department appealed the decision, and the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the lower court's decision. The Justice Department declined to appeal to the Supreme Court.