Leroy N. Soetoro
2024-11-05 01:47:00 UTC
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A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner has claimed that
Vice President Harriss recent appearance on Saturday Night Live,
commonly known as SNL, violates the equal time rule.
This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCCs Equal Time rule,
Commissioner Brendan Carr posted on the social platform X on Saturday in
response to a post from The Associated Press about Harris being on the
show that night.
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. Unless
the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns, Carr, a
Trump appointee, continued.
The FCCs equal time rules let rival candidates ask for equal air time.
During her appearance on this weeks episode of SNL, Harris joined
comedian Maya Rudolph, who often impersonates her, for a cold open sketch.
While Rudolph was playing the vice president, Harris began her SNL debut
on the other side of a mirror from the comedian.
Im just here to remind you, you got this, because you can do something
your opponent cant do you can open doors, Harris told Rudolph,
seemingly referring to a video from earlier in the week in which former
President Trump had a hard time grabbing the handle of a garbage truck
door.
The executive producer of SNL, Lorne Michaels, had said in a past
interview that neither Harris nor Trump would make appearances on his show
during this election cycle.
You cant bring the actual people who are running on because of election
laws and the equal time provisions, he said to The Hollywood Reporter two
months ago. You cant have the main candidates without having all the
candidates, and there are lots of minor candidates that are only on the
ballot in, like, three states, and that becomes really complicated.
In an emailed statement to The Hill, a spokesperson for the FCC said the
agency has not made any determination regarding [political] programming
rules, nor have we received a complaint from any interested parties.
Harris joins former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President
Obama and former President Trump as one of the many politicians who have
become guest stars of SNL.
The Hill has reached out to NBC and the Harris campaign for comment.
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