HOLY COW !!!!!

DISNEY FOUND ITS SPINE. SOMEBODY NOTIFY THE PRESS.

ABC just did something so unexpected, so shockingly out of character, that scientists are still trying to classify it.

THEY FOUGHT BACK.

Yes. THAT ABC. The same network that handed Donald Trump $15 million in December 2024 like a hostess gift at a fascism party.

The same Disney corporation that spent years perfecting the art of the preemptive grovel.

The same organization that apparently had "WELCOME, PLEASE WIPE YOUR AUTHORITARIAN BOOTS ON US" embroidered on the corporate doormat.

They hired PAUL CLEMENT.

For the uninitiated, Paul Clement is not just any lawyer. He is the legal equivalent of calling in an airstrike By an enormous flight of F-22 Raptors.

Solicitor General under George W. Bush. One of the most decorated Supreme Court litigators alive. The man has argued more cases before the Supreme Court than most attorneys argue in a lifetime.

Disney didn't hire a lawyer.

Disney hired a weapon.

So What Exactly Is The FCC Doing?

FCC Chairman Brendan "The Fascist Freak" Carr has apparently decided his job description includes "personal media critic for the President of the United States."

His agency is attempting to retroactively strip The View of a news exemption it has held completely unchallenged since 2002.

Twenty-two years of zero problems. Then Trump gets his feelings hurt by Whoopi Goldberg and suddenly the regulatory machinery roars to life like it's been sitting in the garage waiting for exactly this moment.

The FCC also threatened Jimmy Kimmel's show. Twice. Over jokes. Presidential jokes. The kind of jokes Americans have made about presidents since George Washington was getting roasted over his wooden teeth.

They launched DEI investigations into ABC stations.

They initiated an early license review of all eight ABC-owned stations simultaneously, something that hasn't happened to a major network in decades.

And while all of this was happening to Trump critics....

Glenn Beck? Fine.

Mark "Isreal's Mouthpiece" Levin? Totally fine.

Every shrieking conservative radio host in America? Not a single regulatory eyebrow raised.

ABC called this out with the precision of a surgeon and the fury of someone who has finally, FINALLY had enough:

"The agency has questioned talk shows that criticize the president but not radio shows that support him."

That is not media regulation.

That is state media.

The First Amendment Portion Of Today's Program.

ABC's filing contains a line so clean, so constitutionally precise that it deserves to be carved above the entrance to the FCC building:

----"Some may dislike certain viewpoints expressed on 'The View.' Such dislike cannot justify using regulatory processes to restrict those views." ----

The First Amendment. In plain English. Fired directly at the federal government like a legal heat-seeking missile.

The Part That Should Make Every Conservative's Head Explode

Even Ted Cruz, a man who has demonstrated Olympic-level flexibility in abandoning his own principles, looked at this situation and said the quiet part out loud:

"If the government is allowed to discriminate on the basis of viewpoint in a Republican administration, there is little preventing it from doing so when the Democrats are in charge."

Ted. CRUZ. Is worried about government media control.

When Ted Cruz is the voice of constitutional reason in the room, you have achieved a level of authoritarian overreach that is genuinely historic.

The Bottom Line

The Trump administration built a regulatory fast lane specifically designed to punish media outlets that criticize the president and reward those that praise him.

*****That is, by every meaningful definition, state control of the press.****

And for a brief, embarrassing chapter, the networks were complying. Settling. Folding. Writing checks. Perfecting their submissive crouch.

ABC just stood up.

Paul Clement just loaded the legal cannon.

The First Amendment just got a very expensive, very aggressive attorney.

Let's see if democracy can still win one.