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What the SNL ‘Equal Time’ Drama Was Really About
Trump’s man at the FCC tried to turn Kamala’s SNL moment into a scandal. Get ready for four more years of such nonsense.
It would have been an asterisk in the history of the 2024 presidential election had Kamala Harris won, but last weekend’s “equal time” micro-scandal over her SNL cameo now feels like a warning about what’s to come under the second Donald Trump administration. What’s more, this rule does not generally apply to news coverage (because it would be impossible to keep score), nor does it cover cable networks or social-media platforms or streamers like Netflix or YouTube, because the FCC doesn’t have the same jurisdiction over those mediums as it does over-the-air channels. The Saturday before the 2008 election, Senator John McCain, then the Republican nominee for president running against Barack Obama, made not one but two appearances on SNL,both in the cold open and “Weekend Update.” And you know what the response was?
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