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[–] [email protected] 139 points 5 months ago (1 children)

De Niro, who has been a frequent critic of Trump through the years, had been scheduled to receive the NAB award, its highest individual honor, “in recognition of charitable work and public service.”

“I don’t mean to scare you. No no, wait, maybe I do mean to scare you. If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss away these freedoms that we take for granted, and elections, forget about it … He will never leave,” De Niro said.

'Seems like De Niro is still doing public service with these comments though.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If Facebook is anything to go by, he really rustled some jimmies.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah, Facebook.

It should be renamed: Bots and Boomers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What does that make X/Twitter, Crouch-Rot and Clankers?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure! Or just The Shithole of the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait, I thought that was Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

There can be multiple points of shit entry

[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A “bipartisan” group doing the most partisan thing they could to punish someone with opposing views.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago

It is particularly weird to claim to be bipartisan after this move. I feel like if they claimed to be nonpartisan, that could make some sense.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I used to be a NAB member. They are utter shit. Totally beholden to Sinclair, News Corp. et al.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago

Sinclair, News Corp. et al.

"That is a danger to our democracy"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You couldn’t be more correct. The NAB became shills for Sinclair. I have to deal with Sinclair on a yearly basis, usually on New Year’s Eve when they try to bully people into accepting their shitty contracts. Fuck Sinclair too, they’re part of the problem our country has right now with the dissemination of misinformation. Fucking trolls the whole lot of them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

usually on New Year’s Eve when they try to bully people into accepting their shitty contracts

Just completely devoid of shame, aren’t they?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Yeah, they use it as a negotiation tactic since they know we have to have a team member at every location we own across the country on standby ready to pull the plug. Since no one wants to be at work on New Year’s Eve they think it works against us. What they don’t understand is that even though none of us want to work that night we will gladly pull the plug on their asses even if that means working on New Year’s Eve. Somehow a deal is usually reached just before midnight.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

No wonder broadcast media is dying. They really jumped the shark when they hired that squid

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ha! Not exactly, but okay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yes exactly.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

This event is proudly bipartisan, uniting those from across the political spectrum to celebrate the impactful work of local broadcasters and our partners

This makes me wonder what would shake the media out of their business-as-usual attitude. Even if the Republican party didn’t represent an existential threat to democracy in this country, the unprecedented conviction by a jury of a former president on 34 out of 34 felony counts seems newsworthy enough to warrant taking a stand on the side of “fuck that guy”.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

It's a shame that the NAB have decided to do this. But oh well, there's more than one award in the world.

I would like to present Robert DeNiro with the Balls Of Steel award for being a decent person, for taking a stand, and for kicking serious ass. Respect.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

De Niro aint a river in Italy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Was it the Rubicon award?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

So, the NAB can tell people what they can of cannot say? Was Biden there? Was it a campaign rally? Sounded more like a public service announcement.