Former President Donald Trump aired a full-minute special message on NBC while they were covering Sunday Night Football, which more than likely ended up pulling in far more viewers than Vice President Kamala Harris’ stunt on Saturday Night Live the evening prior. And that just goes to show that NBC’s attempt to use the comedy sketch show to help push and promote their candidate of choice, Harris, ultimately backfired on them in a big, big way.
The Equal Time rule, put in place by the Federal Communications Commission, made it so that NBC was not allowed to host Harris on SNL while excluding the former president. Brendan Carr, the commissioner of the FCC, slammed NBC and the vice president for what he called a “clear and blatant” course of action to slip around rules that exist to prevent networks from promoting one candidate over the other just ahead of an election.
via The Daily Wire:
Following the SNL stunt, Trump’s team was allowed time on NBC, per the Equal Time rule. “NBC has told the FCC that VP Harris appeared on Saturday Night Live for one minute and 30 seconds ‘without charge,’ triggering an opportunity for other campaigns to request time,” Alex Weprin reported.
NBC has filed a notice with the FCC, disclosing that Kamala Harris appeared on SNL for under two minutes without charge.
Under federal law, if Donald Trump requests equal time, NBC would be required to provide it before the election. pic.twitter.com/aMvHJjpwC2
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 4, 2024
In a major backfire, Trump was likely able to reach far more viewers than Harris since his message played toward the end of the NBC broadcast of NASCAR’s Xfinity 500 and the network’s coverage of the Minnesota Vikings-Indianapolis Colts NFL game. Sunday Night Football routinely garners more than 20 million viewers. SNL, by contrast, typically gets a fraction of that, with the show’s four-year-high ratings sitting at just 5 million viewers.
“The worst economic numbers in generations were just announced two days ago,” Trump went on to say in the clip, making a reference to the latest jobs report. “We’re losing jobs. We’re losing everything, including viability. We’re going to end up in a depression based on what’s been happening.”
“We’ve never seen anything like it, at least for the last 40 years,” the 45th president added. “We have to straighten out our country, we have to close our borders, we have to lower our taxes, we have to get rid of inflation, and we’re going to do it.”
Contrary to what many mainstream media outlets are telling the general public, the vast majority of where people get their news lean heavy to the left. In fact, they are practically propagandists who have abandoned any semblance of journalistic ethics and integrity in favor of being the lapdog of the higher powers within the progressive movement, eager to lick up the crumbs from their table.
Let’s hope enough people woke up during this election cycle to make the right choice at the polls.
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