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“This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney,” Brendan Carr said on September 17. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”

“This” #1 was talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s claim that “the MAGA gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who [allegedly] murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”

“This” #2 was Carr’s threat, as chair of the US Federal Communications Commission, against the broadcast licenses of the 200 television stations which, as affiliates of Disney-owned ABC, carried Kimmel’s show.

Within hours, two multi-station ABC affiliates — Nexstar and Sinclair — fled in........

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