Discussion: Sinclair Pushed Must-Run Segment Downplaying Family Separations

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I thought Boris and Natasha were cartoon characters. Looks like Putin has his stooge in American media.

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Register people to vote. Get to the polls. The criminal FCC must be stopped!

Between Fox and Sinclair I’m surprised people know anything at all.

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I have doubts this actually ran on any local news shows. Boris didn’t tell us 5 times in 4 minutes what the weather outside the window was. And he didn’t sign off with a chuckle fest with the sports guy over a water skiiing squirrel GIF. I call shenanigans!

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They know where Lil’ Debbie Snack Cakes® are in the grocery aisle. What else is important?

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Am I the only one who finds Sinclair’s ostentatious training of crazy old white people to identify Russian accents with Republican policy a thing worthy of noticing? How is it, exactly, that his status as a naturalized citizen makes it beyond the pale to suggest that his constant spewing of the straight Putinist line might, just possibly, not be a coincidence?

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Another example of “Thank you for the tax cuts”

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It seems like some local station ought to just have an anchor, with a straight face and a calm voice, offer: “Now we will run a brief segment from our station ownership”, and then run the clip.

The undertones would seem about as clear as can be, and I would like to dare Sinclair to fire me over it.

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This is the two minutes of hate that you read about.

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Yeah, whatever Sinclair assholes, we’re taking you down eventually anyway.

Even more significant and disturbing about Sinclair Broadcasting…From the Daily Intelligencer at NY Magazine:

It currently airs original programming on 193 channels throughout the country, enough to reach 39 percent of all American homes. By next year, it will likely reach 72 percent.

The expansion of tRump TV should concern every American.

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Makes no sense to run this with Boris Epshteyn, when there’s any number of glib blondes willing to say anything for airtime. It ends up sounding like this:

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We have to contact Sinclair’s advertisers.

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Is @squirreltown on vacation?

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Sinclair has been doing this for a very long time.

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His argument is literally “Placing children in shelters is not the same as killing 6 million Jews, therefore everything is fine and dandy.”

The argument is false since its conclusion is false.

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In my local area Sinclair’s advertisers are companies like Mr. Appliance who runs around carrying washers and dryers over his head screaming Bruce Lee sounds like EEEEEEEEYAA! and Chucky’s chainsaw art specializing in beaver sculptures and Salmons splashing out of the river with the occasional Bigfoot strolling across the open field.

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And the results?

It’s like coping eith slow erosion. Any one episode can be dismissed but the overall impact is dire.

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Leni Riefenstahl would be so proud of Sinclair Broadcasting…

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Isn’t Boris an immigrant? Oops. I’m sorry. He’s white. And Russian. Making him even more attractive to the tRump kleptocracy.

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