While Carr complained that Democrats interpreted his comments as a threat to Disney, he didn't mention that his comments were also interpreted as a threat by several prominent Senate Republicans. Disney suspended Kimmel's show last week after Carr said ABC affiliates could have licenses revoked for "news distortion," but reinstated Kimmel yesterday after facing backlash from the public. Kimmel will be back on the air on many ABC-affiliated stations, but not those run by Nexstar and Sinclair, which have replaced Jimmy Kimmel Live! with news and other programming.
19 Comments
kn0wmad1c@programming.dev · 84 pts · 352d
Bro, even Teddy Fucking Cruz said that you were using threatening "mafioso" language.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub · 25 pts · 351d
These people don’t even have the congruence to recognize their own actions. It’s always blaming others and shameless lying. I truly despise politicians.
rayyy@piefed.social · 4 pts · 351d
Don't forget to include the right wing media like OAN and Faux.
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 351d
Politicians? Both sides…
tonytins@pawb.social · 64 pts · 352d
HowlsSophie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 351d
Come here to say this. Nothing like the feeling of gaslighting in the morning.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 351d
Sinclair directly referenced him in their statement.
GuyFawkes@midwest.social · 10 pts · 351d
So now that it’s been cleared up Sinclair can go ahead and stop their bullshit, right?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 351d
No. https://youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo
logicbomb@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 351d
When he said "We can do this the easy way or the hard way," there's a reason why it sounded like a classic threat. Because it is.
Lots of people are really stupid, but they aren't so stupid that they don't recognize this as a threat.
GuyFawkes@midwest.social · 7 pts · 351d
MAGA would like to have a word with you about their stupidity.
logicbomb@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 351d
It's such a transparent threat that instead of blaming stupidity for that, I'd blame cognitive dissonance.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 351d
Lies are part of a Nazi governments program. One could even call them a foundation of said government.
ech@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 351d
Threatened them, bragged about it, then threatened others. What a slimy piece of shit.
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 352d
Thug doesn't think himself a thug huh.
SGGeorwell@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 352d
The hairy egg recants reluctantly.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 351d
Another flip flopper trying to convince everyone that they are not a shitty person by lying. Its lying to us but to them its just making your own reality.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 351d
Big talk when Trump is behind you. Small talk when he isn't. These wafflers are the worst.
Etterra@discuss.online · 5 pts · 351d
Colbert's FCC bit last night was pretty great.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 351d
shuean@lemmy.sdf.org · -5 pts · 352d