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The Hill cited CEI’s annual Julian L Simon Dinner

The regulatory-reform-focused Competitive Enterprise Institute’s president, Kent Lassman, made a pointed joke about the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) at its swanky annual dinner last week in wake of commission Chair Brendan Carr’s comments about stations airing Jimmy Kimmel’s show. Lassman recounted the joke to me: “I noticed there’s a little bit of tension in the air earlier. Maybe some of you were worried. … We have a lot of regulators here tonight. We have very senior staff from across the whole government, people from the SEC, the Speaker’s office, all across the Senate and the House. … I even noticed someone from the chairman’s office at the FCC. I think that might be the tension, or why some people were a little on edge. And I want you all to know there is no reason to worry. Even though I didn’t run tonight’s monologue past him, I think everything is going to be just fine.” Ba-dum-tss!

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