Benjy (Benji Weiss?)

So you had lots of people in MAGA trying to claim now, oh, this isn't a free speech thing, this was just ABC, Disney,

They just all of a sudden said that they didn't like Jimmy Kimmel's ratings.

It had nothing to do with anything that they claiming that Jimmy Kimmel said or just ignore the fact that Sinclair put out a statement saying that they were going after Jimmy Kimmel because of what they claimed he said about Charlie Kirk.

I'm going to read you what Kimmel said.

Just forget that Nexstar wanted a merger with Tegna, its main rival, to allow it to basically aggregate the most local stations in the entire country and that it needs a waiver to exceed the 39% ownership ceiling that the FCC would provide.

Give it if you just give Donald Trump a little quid pro quo.

So just ignore all of the actual facts and data out there.

This was this was about the ratings.

That's what they tried to push, because even right wing media, I think, was starting to realize, wow, this is a pretty fascist precedent that could come back and actually hurt us.

But then Donald Trump on Air Force One's like now.

You can't criticize me.

If you are getting licenses from the federal government, you can't criticize me.

You can't hit Trump.

You can't hit Trump.

This is what he literally said.

You can't hit Trump if you want to work with the federal government.

Here, play this clip.

Thank you, everybody.

Says they're not allowed to do that.

They're an arm of the Democratic Party.