The senior Republican commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission blasted Vice President Kamala Harris’ “Saturday Night Live” debut as a “clear and blatant effort” to evade the Equal Time rule.
Brendan Carr stressed that the FCC’s “equal time” requirements mandate opposing candidates to get the same air time, and alleged that NBC “structured this appearance in a way that evades these requirements” by timing it so close to Election Day.
“This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule. 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,” Carr wrote on X.
“Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns.”
Harris, 60, made a surprise appearance on SNL and came face-to-face with
her impersonator Maya Rudolph in the show’s cold open where she urged sought to encourage voters to back her on Nov. 5 and poked fun at her boisterous laugh.
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