Fox News’ Bill Hemmer Asks FCC Chair if The View Is in His ‘Crosshairs’ After Joy Behar Called Trump Fat

Fox News’ Bill Hemmer played a clip of Joy Behar insulting President Donald Trump before asking FCC Chair Brendan Carr whether The View is in the “crosshairs” of the administration on Thursday.

Carr joined Hemmer on America’s Newsroom, where Hemmer pressed him on both the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show and whether the administration would target The View after Behar called Trump fat and jealous of former President Barack Obama.

After discussing Colbert, Hemmer played a clip of Behar on The View blasting Trump over his claim Obama committed “treason” in the 2016 presidential election. The claim, which Obama denies, stems from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claiming his administration manufactured evidence  to suggest Russia favored Trump in the presidential election. Multiple intelligence agencies concluded that Russia did meddle in the election on Trump’s behalf.

In the clip played by Hemmer, Behar claimed Trump is being driven crazy because Obama is “everything he is not.”

“First of all, who tried to overthrow the government on January 6? Wait, let me think. Who was that again? That was not Obama. The thing about him is that he’s so jealous of Obama because Obama is everything that he is not,” she said. “Trim. Smart. Handsome. Happily married. And can sing Al Green’s song, Let’s Stay Together better than Al Green. And Trump cannot stand it. It’s driving him crazy. Jealousy is not a good — green is not good color.”

The White House released a statement responding to Behar on Wednesday, calling her an “irrelevant loser.”

“Joy Behar is an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” the statement reads. “It’s no surprise that The View’s ratings hit an all-time low last year.”

“Is The View now in the crosshairs of this administration?” Hemmer asked Carr after reading the statement.

Carr responded:

Look, it’s entirely possible that there’s issues over there. I mean, again, stepping back, this broader dynamic, once President Trump has exposed these media gatekeepers and smashed this facade, there’s a lot of consequences. I think the consequences of that aren’t quite finished. And look, The View‘s got a lot challenges there. It wasn’t that long ago, I think, one episode, one show alone, they had to stop, interrupt the show, and read four separate legal notices to try to avoid legal liability. So I’m not surprised to hear people saying that their ratings are struggling.

Before asking about The View, Hemmer pressed Carr on theories that Colbert’s cancellation is somehow tied to a pending merger between Paramount and Skydance. The cancellation followed CBS, which is owned by Paramount, settling a lawsuit from Trump for millions. The president celebrated Colbert’s cancellation following the announcement.

“Did President Trump have anything to do with the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show?” Hemmer asked at the top of the interview.

Carr blasted “legacy” media outlets, but did not directly make a connection between Trump and the cancellation.

He said:

What is important to keep in mind is when President Trump ran for election he ran right at these legacy broadcast media outfits and the New York and Hollywood elites that are behind it and he smashed the facade that they are gatekeepers that control what Americans can think and what Americans can say. Once you do that you have exposed a business model of a lot of these outfits as being nothing more than a partisan circus. So I think there are a lot of consequences that are flowing from President Trump deciding, I won’t play by the rules of politicians in the past and let these legacy outfits dictate the narrative and terms of the debate. He is succeeding. Look at what is happening. NPR has been defunded, PBS has been defunded, Colbert is getting canceled. You’ve got anchors and news media personalities losing jobs downstream of president trump’s decision to stand up. He stood up for the American people. American people don’t trust the legacy gate keepers anymore.

“I asked a very direct question,” Hemmer noted after the answer. “I did not hear a yes or a no in your answer. I heard a maybe.”

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