Sinclair Broadcasting has ordered its ABC affiliates not to air Nightline on Friday.

This move is pathetic and disgusting. Sinclair rationalizes its decision by saying the program, which will air the pictures and names of those killed in the Iraq war, hurts the war effort. That excuse is BS, and their word rings hollow when one looks at the fact that Sinclair has donated $112,000 to Republicans (and $0 to Democrats) since 2000.

I'm sure viewers in Sinclair's ABC markets won't have to worry about missing important programming like The Bachelor (note to fans of the show: I'm not advocating censoring the Bachelor. You just need to ask yourselves why you watch such tripe). The bottom line is the powers that be at Sinclair ought to be ashamed of themselves for depriving a segment of the country from having the opportunity to devote 40 minutes of their day to honoring our troops who have died in the line of duty.

In just over a month, America will celebrate Memorial Day. Using Sinclair's logic, maybe we should just go ahead and cancel that too.