Ben Meiselas (host)
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We know you want to do what Putin does.
Use Antifa as your pretext to go after leftists and radicals and all the people who you are just inventing in your minds when y'all are the ones who are using the violent rhetoric and dividing our country over and over again.
By the way, does everybody remember when Donald Trump said over and over again, I've banned all government censorship and restored free speech?
Oh, yeah, we've got the receipts here.
Play this clip.
Or you remember back on January 23rd, 2025, when Donald Trump says, I'm pleased to report again, America is a free nation once again.
And on day one, I signed an executive order to stop all government censorship.
This is what these people do.
They are the ones who are engaged in the censorship, in the fascist authoritarian conduct, but then they project out on their enemy people who want peace, people who want democracy, who want empathy and love.
Here's when Donald Trump said it on January 23rd, 2025.
This is the FCC Chairman and Commissioner Brendan Carr saying I want to thank Nexstar and then also there was Sinclair for doing the right thing.
Local broadcasters have an obligation to serve the public interest while this may be an unprecedented decision to fire Jimmy
Kimmel, it's important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming that they determine falls short of community values.
I hope that other broadcasters follow Nexstar's lead.
And then he sends this meme to a reporter, Brian Stelter, when he asked...
FCC chair Brendan Carr, if he had any comment on ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel's show, he does a meme of the actors in the office raising the roof.
Also behind this, just so you know, is Nextar wants to merge with its rival Tegna and control all of the local affiliate stations.
Nextar owns like two dozen plus ABC affiliates.
Tegna owns a lot.
Sinclair owns a lot.