It took just three days for Nexstar & Sinclair Broadcasting to cave in, and give up their boycott of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
Nexstar, which owns the CW Network, and, locally, WTEN, an ABC affiliate, and Sinclair, which owns a number of cablers and, locally, CBS affiliate WRGB and CW affiliate WCWN, separately announced Friday afternoon that they would lift their bans on the show after national numbers over the previous three days since Kimmel returned to the air showed that viewers across the country could see right through the lies from the Trump administration, particularly FCC chairman Brendan Carr.
File photo courtesy Albany Times-Union.
Since Kimmel returned on Tuesday, president Trump has threatened a fresh lawsuit against ABC/Disney, but I don't think it's going anywhere, especially since Trump and Carr were trading on lies in the first place. Carr, in particular, purposely misled the country by taking some remarks in Kimmel's September 15 monologue out of context in the wake of the murder five days earlier of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk. Kimmel's barbs were directed at the emotionally fragile Trump, not Kirk. Tuesday's broadcast, for example, produced some of the biggest numbers for Kimmel in years, which again puts to rout Trump's persistent lies about Kimmel and ratings.
Just cut the cord, Donald. It'll save you some headaches.
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