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Hey, he said "No offense" what more could you ask for?

Can't speak to the ratings, but given the nature of things, I wouldn't be surprised if ratings were a fairly secondary concern.

This was a PR nightmare, people who didn't care one way or another about the show were outraged. People were cancelling Disney+ subscriptions that had nothing to do with the show.

The administration may have even pushed things back in place so they could come out with this backpedaling with some degree of 'credibility'. They saw that the Colbert way worked without unacceptable blowback, but more direct threats and immediate action are the line that starts making things riskier. Besides, the late night hosts are relatively harmless outlets for those upset with the administration, bread and circuses and all. Sure they may boo the administration, but it doesn't matter. They were booing all through the 2024 campaign season and it didn't phase things at all.

So Kimmel is probably safe until at least the midterms are settled, no matter the ratings.

Because if there's one thing they hate more than Jews, it's Arabic people.

Colbert was given most of a season to carry on and all involved had a long time to figure out options, and there weren't explicit overt threats from government. "How bad could it be if they are letting him keep saying everything he wants for months?". Also people looking to to throw money at South Park which was been gloves off against Trump.

Kimmel was sudden and with direct specific threats from the government during such a contentuous time.

Not a guarantee, just a qualifier to show it's not a "done deal" to save someone a degree of dread.

Well nothing said was objective. You can say vaguely bad opinions about someone all day, it's only defamation when you claim some objective things that is a lie.

So it's in poor taste, I hope most people would disagree with it, but it's opinion based so no legal standing.

Based on my conversation with some Germans, even if afd did have the most offices held, they wouldn't have the majority. The other parties would tend to work together and afd would tend to be on their own.

He said they could do it the easy way, or the hard way.

He went on to say the FCC would "find" a lot of work to do with regards to abc and their affiliates. Maybe they could find some unrelated nitpicky stuff to sit them down. At the very least inducing a lot of cost to deal with just logistics of dealing with an antagonist FCC.

It's not all of the problem, given Sinclair's history I wouldn't have been surprised if the affiliates had applied pressure anyway, but the FCC guy was absolutely and materially contributing to the situation.

It's about making headless bots unreasonably expensive to make massive requests with.

This is something I think Tucker Carlson gets. These right wing pundits thrive on the victim narrative, and when the FCC chair exercises his authority to shut down media explicitly in the name of if being leftist, it ruins their schtick.

Not even the trees. He saw one shrub and couldn't be bothered to even check if there were trees.

Is anyone except Donald Trump himself with Eric Adams?

Everyone saw his open corruption and as near as I can tell he has some nothing to endear himself to anyone and his platform is basically "well I should be mayor..."