The Walt Disney Companys broadcast arm is once again under scrutiny for allegedly turning publicly owned airwaves into a de facto campaign arm for the Democratic Party rather than a neutral platform serving all viewers.
According to Breitbart, the controversy intensified after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr announced in February that he had opened an investigation into whether ABCs daytime talk show The View violated the FCCs equal-time rules, prompting the far-left program to abruptly halt the booking of politicians altogether.
Equal-time regulations require that non-hard news programs and The View, along with the late-night comedy shows, clearly falls into that category provide comparable access to all qualified candidates within a defined window around an election if they grant airtime to one. While cable personalities such as Jon Stewart and Bill Maher are exempt from these rules, broadcast figures like Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and the hosts of The View operate on the publicly owned spectrum and are therefore bound by obligations to the public interest, not partisan agendas.
For years, those rules went largely unenforced, allowing what critics describe as self-serving narcissists like those at The View and Late Night to turn network platforms into full-Democrat Party super PAC operations without consequence. President Trump and Chairman Carr have now moved to end that era of impunity, signaling that broadcasters who profit from public resources will be expected to follow the law rather than function as unregulated political operatives.
Faced with the prospect of having to offer Republicans equal access, the groomers who run Disney and the harridans at The View appear to have decided it is better to have no politicians on whatsoever. As the original report acidly asks, Hows that for intolerance?
The Hollywood Reporter, cited in the coverage, underscored how routine political bookings once were on the show. Indeed, a review of The Views guest bookings going back six months show that political guests were a common occurrence (putting aside December, when the holidays interrupted the regular programming), including appearances from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and John [sic] Sen. Fetterman.
That pattern shifted dramatically once the FCC probe began. Politics were still a frequent hot topic of the conversations ever [sic] day, of course, but the guest lists conspicuously shifted, with actors, authors and filmmakers filling the guest lists, and political figures absent.
Now, ABC appears to be testing the limits of the rules with a maneuver involving Democrat Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey. In order to have Democrat U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on this week, hes being snuck on the day before the race officially begins with the filing deadline for the June primary, the report notes, adding, Hopefully, this trick wont work, and the FCC will still push The View to give Bookers qualified Democrat primary opponents equal time.
The calculation is obvious: But Booker is such a precious in the Democrat Party, Disney (which owns ABC) doesnt want to give his primary opponents any publicity or the opportunity to say something that might hurt him in the general election or in a possible presidential run. Thats how devious and hyper-politicized Disney has become.
Such behavior might be less objectionable if Disney were operating solely on private platforms, without special access to a public resource. Which would be fine if it were operating on its own dime.
But Disney is not. Disney has made and continues to make billions of dollars using the public airwaves. At a minimum, critics argue, it should respect the law and the public, rather than exploiting taxpayer-owned spectrum to shield favored Democrats while freezing out competition and conservative voices.
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