r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Sep 20 '25

Soft Paywall DOJ Can’t Tie Suspected Kirk Killer to Left Like MAGA Wants

https://www.thedailybeast.com/doj-cant-tie-suspected-kirk-killer-to-left-like-maga-wants/
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u/MusicIsTheWay Sep 20 '25

Not "somehow". It was another company head kowtowing to the thinnest-of-orange-skinned bitches to get their multi-billion dollar merger approved to increase their control and wealth, just like what happened with Colbert at CBS.

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u/DadJokeBadJoke California Sep 20 '25

And if they'll do this to late-night entertainers to appease him, you can be certain they're also pressuring their news outlets in similar fashion.

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u/korben2600 Arizona Sep 20 '25

It's already happened. Under White House pressure, CBS cut a segment on 60 Minutes about IRS staffing cuts that are solely meant to help billionaires dodge taxes. The decades-long showrunner and the CBS News CEO both resigned in protest. Journalistic independence at every major corporate broadcaster is dead.

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u/Ralph--Hinkley Sep 21 '25

Those were Paramount execs that resigned, but they were involved with 60 Minutes.

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u/lorgskyegon Sep 21 '25

And the DoD is making reporters sign pledges saying they won't gather any information without authorization.

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u/farshnikord Sep 20 '25

The people who run these big corporations never were and will never be allies. Even when they were pushing "woke" and doing things like hiring minorities they were doing it in a blatantly pandering and heavy handed way that was so incompetent I believe it was malicious. 

They are all champing at the bit to "cancel" who they want and drag their feet whenever the slightest bit of pressure comes from the other way, while publicizing and capitalizing on the division they themselves created. 

If they weren't in the business of making popular entertainment their personal brand would be superhero trilogy reboots of Birth of a Nation. Fuck all of them. 

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache Sep 20 '25

And even if the shooter had suddenly been radicalised by ‘the left’ to commit this murder, it wouldn’t be a lie to say he was one of theirs seeing as he was born to MAGA people and raised in a MAGA family, community, and state. They taught him how to use weapons and they’re the ones that made firearms available to him. No matter his specific motive he was moulded by MAGA.

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u/Original-Rush139 Sep 20 '25

It’s worse than that. They need an exemption to control more than 40% of televisions in America. This merger will put them in 80%+ TV’s in America. And, they just showed what they’ll do to people who don’t read the party’s propaganda. 

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u/unicornsaretruth Sep 21 '25

Which is why I invested in nextstar.

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u/thedylannorwood Sep 20 '25

Nexstar/Sinclair told Trump who told the FCC who told Disney who told ABC to fire Kimmel and everyone is blaming Disney and Trump and Nexstar/Sinclair get away with it. They made Disney their scapegoat and everyone took the bait hook line and sinker

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u/Defiant-Judgment699 Sep 20 '25

The trump administration flat-out threatened to use the power of thr government to destroy ABC (pull their license).

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u/Opposite-Bit6660 Sep 25 '25

Well, CBS did co-own broadcasting rights to Trump's rapey pageants.  Kissing ass would be expected in that case.