NBC Runs Illegal Ad for Kamala Harris

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Following FCC concerns over Kamala Harris' last-minute Saturday Night Live appearance, NBC has given Donald Trump 90 seconds of free ad time.

On Sunday, the network reportedly aired a clip of Trump addressing voters during its coverage of the NASCAR Playoffs race, after Harris' SNL cold open cameo may have violated the FCC's Equal Time Rule ahead of Election Day on Tuesday.

Trump-appointed FCC commissioner Brendan Carr previously accused SNL of a "clear and blatant effort" to evade the Equal Time Rule, which requires broadcasters to provide rival candidates comparable time -- news programming is exempt. The rule is often confused with the Fairness Doctrine, which was abandoned in the 1980s, requiring stations to present different points of view.

Noting that Harris' SNL cameo came just three days before the presidential election, Carr posted on X, "What comparable time and placement can they offer all other qualifying candidates?"

Reed Hundt, a former FCC chairman, wrote on X that Carr is "wrong" that SNL was engaged in an effort to evade the rule. "He's clearly and blatantly trying to help the Trump campaign. That's also wrong," Hundt wrote.

David Strom writes that NBC previously said that neither candidate would appear, "because of election laws."

But then they violated those laws anyway.

Even worse, apparently SNL wrote an entire sketch just to raise awareness of Tim Kaine, who is locked in a tight race in Virginia with a great Republican candidate named Hung Cao.

Obviously, the immigrant Hung Cao is the one who needs name recognition, and "mainstreaming" of his name. But SNL instead flacked for Hillary Clinton's running mate.

Not only was the Kamala Harris appearance terrible, but it was also a ripoff of Trump's 2015 appearance:

I don't know what ad Trump ran during the NASCAR race, but I hope it was this one:

Update: Apparently the free ad ran during Sunday Night Football, not during NASCAR:

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:01 PM

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