FCC commissioner fumes over Harris’ SNL look, says it violates ‘Equal Time’ rule

A senior Federal Communications Fee (FCC) commissioner has lambasted Kamala Harris’ Saturday Night time Dwell debut. Taking to social media on Saturday, Brendan Carr claimed that the vice chairman’s look on the present was a “clear and blatant effort” to violate the company’s “Equal Time” rule.

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Brendan Carr slams Kamala Harris’ SNL look

The 45-year-old Republican defined that the FCC’s Equal Time rule mandates opposing candidates to get the identical air time. Carr argued that NBC “structured this look in a manner that evades these necessities.” In an announcement shared to X, previously Twitter, the commissioner wrote, “This can be a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule.”

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Carr’s assertion got here in response to a submit from the Related Press in regards to the Democratic nominee’s look on the present. “The aim of the rule is to keep away from precisely this kind of biased and partisan conduct – a licensed broadcaster utilizing the general public airwaves to exert its affect for one candidate on the eve of an election. Except the broadcaster supplied Equal Time to different qualifying campaigns,” he added.

Harris’ SNL debut got here simply days forward of Tuesday’s showdown, the place she appeared alongside her impersonator Maya Rudolph. Lorne Michaels, the present’s govt producer had stated in a previous interview that neither Harris nor Donald Trump would make appearances on his present throughout the 2024 presidential race.

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“You may’t deliver the precise people who find themselves working on due to election legal guidelines and the equal time provisions,” he advised The Hollywood Reporter months in the past. “You may’t have the primary candidates with out having all of the candidates, and there are many minor candidates which can be solely on the poll in, like, three states and that turns into actually sophisticated,” Michaels added.