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If you know anything about the Biden administration, you know that sexual orientation and/or skin color are the top criteria for new nominees.
NBC News came out with a hot take regarding Biden’s nominee for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
The news organization posted an article entitled, “Smear campaign targets nominee who would be FCC’s first openly gay commissioner.”
The article went on to describe the backlash coming from the right which is obviously due to the fact that she’s gay.
It’s getting old and tiresome, NBC.
In the subheading, NBC wrote, “The nomination of Gigi Sohn, who would be the FCC’s first openly gay commissioner, languished in a Senate committee. Now, she’s the subject of articles from The Daily Mail and Fox News that even her some of her rivals say are out of bounds.”
The opposition to this nominee couldn’t be due to the fact that she tweeted calls to ban conservative media by revoking their licensing and referred to Fox News as “state-sponsored propaganda.”
It couldn’t be because she has the support of groups who want to defund the police and call them agents of white supremacy.
According to Fox News, “a coalition of advocacy and business groups wrote to the committee leadership to argue that it’s important to have all points of view represented on the FCC as it does its work.”
One of the groups in the coalition, 18 Million Rising, once tweeted that
“policing has never been an effective response to violence because police are the agents of white supremacy.”
The group Move On, another member of the coalition, tweeted that “Defunding the police … is a #reproductivejustice issue.”
Our Revolution, a third co-signor on the letter, lists defunding the police as a priority of the organization.
In 2021, the group tweeted “that police departments use surplus safety equipment from the Department of Defense to ‘brutalize’ American communities.”
Sohn is up for a new hearing in the Senate this week. Her nomination “stalled out in the last Congress” but with a Democrat majority, it is likely that she’ll earn the votes to proceed.
Senator Ted Cruz, a ranking Republican on the committee, spoke to Fox News Digital about the FCC nominee. He said, “from her repeated hostility to conservative speech to her noted anti-police bias, Ms. Sohn has time and time again proven herself to be an extreme partisan. Given the way FCC decisions can impact what we watch, read, and ultimately think, the FCC is a dangerous place for a radical who has suggested the government should censor Americans who hold views contrary to her own.”
“Ms. Sohn will have much to answer for at her hearing this week,” Cruz said.
Top law enforcement groups are publicly opposing this nomination.
The National Sheriff’s Association (NSA) and Fraternal Order of Police highlighted her link to anti-police groups.
The NSA sent a letter to the Senate Commerce Committee voicing concerns about statements Sohn has made that “denigrate law enforcement.”
The confirmation of Sohn would tip the balance in the commission that currently includes two Democrats and two Republicans.
