{"id":9646,"date":"2025-01-05T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T11:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=9646"},"modified":"2025-01-05T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T11:04:48","slug":"watters-jokes-that-trump-should-appoint-hannity-to-lead-fcc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=9646","title":{"rendered":"Watters Jokes That Trump Should Appoint Hannity To Lead FCC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fox News host Jesse Watters humorously suggested that former President Donald Trump should appoint colleague Sean Hannity to the Federal Communications Commission if he wins, so Hannity could \u201cknock heads together\u201d and \u201cyank licenses\u201d from other cable networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent weeks, Trump has intensified his angst against the legacy news media following several instances of phony or exaggerated reports, taking him out of context, skewing debates, and selectively editing segments with Vice President Kamala Harris to make her sound better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has also said that broadcast licenses should no longer be free and that outlets should be subject to losing them if they continue to mislead the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watters proposed his own idea for how Trump could execute his plan if he wins the election, suggesting a restructuring of the FCC that would include promoting his Fox News colleague Hannity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-host Greg Gutfeld mocked Comedy Central\u2019s Saturday Night Live for what he called \u201ccomedy welfare for the Democratic candidate\u201d after the show featured Vice President Kamala Harris this past weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watters echoed FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr\u2019s criticism of SNL for violating the \u201cequal time\u201d rule, which mandates that licensed broadcasters provide equal airtime to both political candidates to prevent bias ahead of an election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Harris] should\u2019ve done [Joe] Rogan, and she did this instead, and that tells you everything about the Harris campaign, and the symbolism of breaking the law to hurt Trump tells you what they\u2019ve done and what they are going to do if he wins,\u201d Watters said during a Monday segment on \u201cThe Five.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey should\u2019ve invited Donald Trump. It would\u2019ve been funnier, would\u2019ve gotten better ratings, but they\u2019re willing to sacrifice their mission, which is laughter and profits, to hurt Trump,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really think it matters because it\u2019s too late. It\u2019s not like this is going to change anyone\u2019s mind, but it shows you that Trump has to run through the rigged system to win, whether it\u2019s \u201960 Minutes\u2019 or the biased debate moderators [at ABC\u2019s presidential debate] or anything like that. And when he wins, it\u2019s going to make it more sweet,\u201d Watters added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[Journalist] Glenn Greenwald was on my show, and he said a lot of his friends in the mainstream media say that they think the mainstream media is pro-Trump, they think the network brass and producers, writers, they think they are actually biased in favor of Trump. These are the types of people we\u2019re dealing with,\u201d he noted further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo when Trump says we will have to yank licenses, it\u2019s because these people are political operatives, they\u2019re not journalists. If Donald Trump wins, I expect him to appoint somebody really strong at the FCC, like Hannity, so he could knock heads together and yank licenses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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