WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Republican Senator Ted

Cruz on Friday compared the head of the Federal Communications

Commission to an organized crime figure and criticized threats

made against Disney ( DIS ) and broadcasters for airing "Jimmy

Kimmel Live."

Cruz said FCC Chair Brendan Carr's threats to impose fines

or pull licenses over host Jimmy Kimmel's comments about Charlie

Kirk's assassination were dangerous.

"He says we can do this the easy way (or) we can do this the

hard way.... I've got to say that's right out of 'Goodfellas.'

That's right out of a Mafioso coming into a bar going, 'Nice bar

you have here. It would be a shame if something happened to

it.'" Carr did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama )