Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) offered some rare Republican congressional criticism of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr , whose threat to ABC stations was followed by the network pulling Jimmy Kimmel ‘s show from its schedule.
On his podcast, Cruz even compared Carr’s remarks to an intimidation tactic out of Goodfellas , and the senator even took to imitating mafia voices to get his point across.
Cruz said that, in his comments about Kimmel earlier this week, Carr “threatens explicitly. ‘We’re going to cancel ABC license. We’re going to take him off the air so ABC cannot broadcast anymore.’ And I got to say he threatens it, he says, ‘We can do this the easy way, but we can do this the hard way.’ And I got to say, that’s right out of Goodfellas . That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a b