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Imagine if they had done actual damage to that freeway.... That's 20 miles with zero exits and any time out of service would have a catastrophic impact to any travel or commerce going between the LA and San Diego. Amateur hour, all the way down...

What a clown show

It certainly says something that a Dukakis-esque stint cosplaying at the fry station was hailed as one of the greatest act of politics in recent history.

"Pro-Life President" lol

Complaining about "old white people", the largest and most consistent voting demographic, is certainly a strategy

I think they oughtta, certainly. But the real takeaway about the video is that it kinda lays bare the whole affect of this administration... They spent a great deal of time flapping their gums about these protests, but when push comes to shove, all they have to push back with are crappy, childish AI slop. It makes them look juiceless

But why does the press just accept it? Something that is quite obviously not true and they just can't quite get there in determining that it is, in fact, not true. I get that there are folks out there who would jump off the Mackinac Bridge for this guy, but the press oughtta be able to ask basic questions about actual facts. Maybe it belongs in Media Meltdowns, but FFS

Why isn't there one ****ing reporter who will just tell him to his face that he's full of **** on this? Or that he's delusional? Like, nothing he says about Portland is actually happening, or Chicago for that matter, and they let him off the hook. Every single time

Counterpoint: Obviously the media, to the extent they fail to contextualize reality, is an issue. But he's the President of the United States. And Presidents, who all have access to the best intelligence in the world (at least for the time being anyway) should not be watching TV news coverage to learn what's going on in the country they govern. So yeah, it's more of a "him" issue than a media issue Imo

Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? Sometimes he says stuff that's too on the nose lol

And why are they facing tough times, Class?

There was a hint of sarcasm mixed in there

I mean, the horse has been beaten to absolute death in this thread, yet whether it's Tigeraholic or Archie, the message still seems to fly over their heads. Almost seems like willful ignorance at this point

Sinclair owns stations in Rochester, NY, St Louis and the Champaign/Urbana/Peoria/Springfield markets. Their ownership leans red, but it's more mixed than is given credit for. Nexstar is similar, they own stations all across Upstate New York (Syracuse, Binghamton Albany), Hartford CT, and Richmond VA. I don't see any way how this doesn't harm all of them more than Disney/ABC running Kimmel harms Disney.

There ya go. Make Sinclair the one to deprive the people of their entertainment choices.

I certainly understand the logic that led them to do what they did, but the reality is that institutions that bend to this government also risk retaliation from the consumers as well. And there's a point where the cost outweighs whatever gain is made from giving in. No doubt this is what happened here. The bigger lesson for institutions here is that giving into the demands of a tyrant doesn't make him go away... ABC settled a lawsuit they would have won for $15 million dollars, but ultimately that didn't make the threat go away. And in the process, they alienated wide swaths of the customer base. Very few elites seem to understand this. Luckily for me, my Governor (Pritzker) is one of them. I hope they see what happened here and recalibrate and understand that this administration is there is much more to be gained by standing up to them versus folding like a cheap tent at the first sign of trouble

This isn't bordering on idolatry... it *is* idolatry

This would imply that pressure exerted on the advertisers was the reason they pulled it

But why wouldn't they just run it anyway?

On this front, ever since this controversy has started, have kinda found it bizarre the idea that Sinclair or Nexstar would have *that* much leverage over Disney (ABC's parent company). Particularly Sinclair, who isn't even party to a merger at the moment These companies own assets (over the air stations) whose time and importance have peaked, and the value that Disney has in terms of it's media empire is wrapped up in ESPN and it's sports holdings over anything else. People tune into ABC-affiliated Sinclair stations for ABC's programming... They don't tune in simply because they are owned by Sinclair. Sinclair can threaten Jimmy Kimmel and ABC all they want, but what are they gonna do when they don't get their way... pull college football off the airways? What's the endgame exactly?

People want to avoid the conclusion out of false hope, but do need to consider the possibility that they may be getting heat (ie. advertisers, employees, perhaps even ABC)

Front page of the Chicago Tribune... Jim Edgar (RIP) aside, just a firehose of catastrophe