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Last week, Bari Weiss and her fellow travelers at The Free Press sought to amplify the most salient, albeit obvious, point from the impassioned national discourse around Disney’s vexing suspension of Jimmy Kimmel: No matter what anyone thought of Kimmel or his remark about Charlie Kirk’s assassin, the FP argued in an editorial, F.C.C. Chair Brendan Carr could not use governmental threats to tell a private company how to run its business—a tactic known as jawboning. Thanks in part to Bari, the phrase has now reentered the public lexicon.
