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California Democrat calls for breaking up Sinclair Broadcast Group, drawing rebuke from FCC chair
Fox ^ | 23 Sep 2025 | Gabriel Hays

Posted on 09/24/2025 3:47:05 AM PDT by blueplum

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr blasted Democratic California state Sen. Scott Wiener on Tuesday for calling to break up Sinclair Broadcast Group because it's keeping late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off its ABC stations.

Carr pointed to Wiener as an example of Democratic lawmakers accusing opponents of stifling free speech while engaging in it themselves.

"And there it is. On Kimmel, the Democrats are engaged in nothing more than Projection and Distortion," the Trump appointee posted on X in response to Wiener’s post...

He added Democrats distort the issue by blaming Trump rather than Disney...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: abc; brendancarr; disney; fcc; jimmykimmel; kimmel; scottweiner; scottwiener; sinclair
San Francisco democrat state senator Wiener dog barks again
1 posted on 09/24/2025 3:47:05 AM PDT by blueplum
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I guess it’s kind of “Inverse Censorship” - along with telling media outlets what they cannot broadcast, the government tells them what the MUST broadcast.

Say what you will about the 1950s with US censorship by Americans, we NEVER went as far as the Democrats are now taking it.


2 posted on 09/24/2025 3:54:24 AM PDT by BobL
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Sen. Scott Wiener is a member of FAG, and I’m not talking about the Film Actors Guild. He has authored his share of proposed new degenerate California laws.


3 posted on 09/24/2025 4:04:32 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: blueplum

This guy must work with
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Mental dopplegangers.


4 posted on 09/24/2025 4:35:02 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: blueplum

Some lowly nutter from Cali says something stupid .
Why even report there nutter nonsense .


5 posted on 09/24/2025 4:42:20 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil. )
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To: blueplum

When democrats don’t get their way they always default to some type of lawfare.


6 posted on 09/24/2025 6:14:05 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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Sure does. Saw in another article he is ghey. Nor surprisef.


7 posted on 09/24/2025 6:18:07 AM PDT by sauropod
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California Democrat calls for breaking up Sinclair Broadcast Group.

And they call Trump an authoritarian some words have different meaning to the Bolsheviks.


8 posted on 09/24/2025 7:57:48 AM PDT by Vaduz
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CALIF HAS BEEN OVERLY SUCCESSFUL IN DRIVING REFINERIES OUT


9 posted on 09/24/2025 8:40:05 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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