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29 Jul 2020
Sinclair postponed and reworked a segment featuring Julia Makovitz due to criticism regarding conspiracy theories about Fauci.

So here's what happened with Sinclair at the end of last week that Alex is now covering. They did a great job. They did. So Eric Bolling did an episode of his show where he interviewed the woman from Plandemic, Julia Makovitz, and they did a ridiculous conspiracy piece about the allegations that Dr. Fauci created COVID-19. It was straight-up InfoWars shit, and they probably felt really good about it when they shot the video, but unfortunately they'd flown too close to the InfoWars sun, and people like Oliver Darcy at CNN took notice. Darcy wrote an article on CNN pointing out how embarrassing this episode of Bowling's show was, and in response, Sinclair decided to postpone the episode and, quote, rework it. Wow, something Bowling did was embarrassing? Oh, that's crazy. They thought that they could put it out and just fly under the radar, but it turns out that people noticed, and Sinclair rightly realized that putting out this episode would probably be damaging to their brand. Hey guys, whoops-a-doodle on our part. On Monday, Sinclair announced that they were giving up on trying to rework the segment and were just going to shelf the entire thing and not air it.