The President says a network host's characterization of his endorsement record as having “mixed results” is a purposeful inaccuracy, and that she will therefore be reported to the FCC for “rebuke or punishment.” Within the same post he describes his record as 100 percent, 98 percent, and 99 percent, and separately as “the strongest Endorsement in the History of Politics,” a claim he assures readers he would be the first to disown if untrue.
Omitted is any mechanism by which a federal commission would punish a broadcaster for an on-air opinion about a politician's win-loss record. The FCC is chaired by a presidential appointee, licenses individual stations rather than anchors, and has no remit over commentary; the post's own theory of “freely given Public Airwaves” is offered in place of a legal one. Also unmentioned: the possibility that a race described as barely covered was in fact covered, including in the post's own retelling of it.