Suhr and Leamer Condemn Ad Targeting Carr

be blocked. “The pay-television industry’s newest ally in a fight over media ownership is a virulently anti-Trump, illegal migrant advocacy group,” wrote Suhr in a post for The National Pulse Friday. “This is not who we are as a telecom community,” said Leamer in a post on X. “Time for the source of funding for these lies to come clean and repent.” MFV has so far declined to comment on why it ran an ad focused on the FCC. The group’s policy agenda lists its priorities as Latino voter turnout, civil rights and Latino representation, access to abortion and legal immigration. A search of MFV’s website for past references to FCC issues got no hits. Suhr’s article repeatedly said that MFV is a left-leaning group: “When the White House, Chairman Carr, or Republican members of Congress think about this issue, they can have a good hint where to land by looking at who’s on the other side.” Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, a vocal opponent of Nexstar/Tegna who is close to President Donald Trump, has repeatedly argued that conservatives should oppose the deal. “We can’t fix big Tech consolidation by creating massive TV ownership, which, by the way is almost entirely liberal and opposes Republicans,” said Ruddy in November (see 2511240055). That month, President Donald Trump condemned proposals to increase broadcast TV consolidation. “If this would also allow the Radical Left Networks to ‘enlarge,’ I would not be happy,” Trump said then in a Truth Social post (see 2511240055).