Nolte: Paramount and 12 State AGs Settle, Clearing Path for Warner Bros. Merger

Noam Galai/Getty Images for Paramount To the surprise of no one who knew Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison held all the cards and these 12 fascist Democrat state attorneys general had no legal grounds to stand on, a settlement has been reached between the two parties, which makes it almost certain the merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) will be finalized. Best of all, at least for Ellison, it will be finalized before October 1, which is when he would be required to pay a $7 million per day ticking fee to the WBD board. “Paramount has reached a deal with 12 state attorneys general that removes a major obstacle to closing its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery,” reports the far-left Variety. “The merger was on hold pending the outcome of the states’ antitrust lawsuit, which was set for a trial on March 2, 2027. The $111 billion merger is the largest in Hollywood history.” Had Ellison waited until the trial in March, that ticking fee would have added up to about a billion dollars. Variety also admits that what we all knew to be true was true… The discussions also focused on editorial oversight of CBS News and CNN, a key concern for East Coast attorneys general. Sources said the settlement does not require Paramount to make any major divestitures. Here’s what we so far know about the specific settlement terms… “The states that held out longer did succeed over the past week in securing independent editorial boards for CBS and CNN as part of the deal,” reports the far-left Bloomberg. “The terms are said to include a financial penalty [of $30 million] “for each film that falls short of” Ellison’s promise to produce 30 movies per year. This fascist move to force a private corporation to run a news outlet in a State-approved way was the only true sticking point. Everyone knew the merger was a real and necessary one. With Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook), Apple, and Netflix involved more and more in entertainment content, WBD and Paramount could either merge and become larger and therefore more competitive, or they could eventually be eaten alive by an already mammoth company, which meant an even worse outcome for competition. It made no business or regulatory sense to stop the merger. This was all about partisan politics. This was all about California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s fear that Ellison might stop CNNLOL from continuing to do this… The ‘Modern-day Lynching’ of Black People Hoax Natalie Harp ‘Jumped Into the Trunk’ of a ‘Car’ Hoax Pete Hegseth Bought Millions In Lobster for Himself Hoax Zohran Mamdani Was Target of Terror Attack Hoax Trump ‘Quietly’ Withdraws National Guard Hoax Only 14% of Deportees are Criminals Hoax Canadian Mass Shooter Was ‘Female’ Hoax ‘Melania’ Doc Is a Box Office Flop Hoax The Rural America Can’t Live Without NPR/PBS Hoax The ICE Detains Five-Year-Old Hoax The Hegseth ‘Kill Everybody’ Hoax Trump “Destroying” White House Hoax Trump Didn’t Expect Iran to Block Strait of Hormuz Photo of Starving Gaza Baby Hoax Israeli Troops Murdered Food-Seeking Palestinians Hoax Trump Tariffs Will Explode Prices Hoax Maryland Man Hoax Black Newborns Much More Likely to Die If Doc’s White Hoax Elon Musk Nazi Salute Hoax Mass Hysterectomies Performed on Immigrants Hoax The All-White Trump Party Hoax Springfield Bomb Threat Hoax Trump Called for Liz Cheney to Be Executed Hoax Violent Crime Down Under Biden/Harris Hoax Arlington Cemetery Hoax Kamala Was Never America’s Border Czar Hoax Russia Collusion Hoax Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax Jussie Smollett Hoax Covington KKKids Hoax Very Fine People Hoax Seven-Hour Gap Hoax Russian Bounties Hoax Trump Trashes Troops Hoax Policemen Killed at Mostly Peaceful January 6 Protest Hoax Rittenhouse Hoax Eating While Black Hoax Border Agents Whipping Illegals Hoax NASCAR Noose Hoax Georgia Jim Crow 2.0 Hoax Trump Threatened Pope Hoax Trump Assaulted Secret Service Agents and Grabbed Steering Wheel of Beast Hoax MAGA Assaulted Paul Pelosi Hoax COVID Lab Leak Theory Is Racist Hoax Hunter Biden’s Laptop Is Russian Disinformation Hoax Joe Biden Will Never Ban Gas Stoves Hoax COVID Deaths are Overcounted Is a Conspiracy Theory Hoax Mass Graves of Native Children in Canada Hoax Trump Killed Japanese Koi Fish Hoax Trump Told People to Drink Bleach Hoax Hamas Hospital Hoax If Reelected, Trump Will Execute People Hoax The 900,000 Kids Hospitalized with Coronavirus Hoax Dozens of Environmental Hoaxes The Alfa Bank Hoax Libs of TikTok Murdered Non-Binary Teen Hoax Aaron Rodgers Sandy Hook-Truther Hoax ‘Bloodbath’ Hoax Biden ‘Sharp-as-a-Tack’ Hoax Iowa Poll Hoax Now, you watch… No one at CNN will squawk even a little bit about the government sticking its nose in CNN business. Why? Because in this case, CNN agrees with the government. Hey, fascists of a feather… The bottom line is that David Ellison won all the marbles. He outmaneuvered Netflix, even after WBD agreed to a deal with Netflix. Then he muscled these communist attorneys general by making a very real threat to move Paramount to Tennessee, which he would have done, and I hope he still does. Anyway, in your face, Mark Ruffalo.