In late January, the Oversight Project released Fedflix, an interim report about Netflix’s suspicious relationship with law enforcement and the intelligence community. Our report highlighted how Netflix has a board of directors largely made up of highly partisan Democrat operatives and donors; pushes programming with LGBT content to children; and produces content that has been slavishly pro-FBI and intelligence community, anti-populist, and pro-left wing. We released our report against the backdrop of a potential Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Given Netflix’s clear ideological bent in its programming, we opposed the proposed merger. That deal, thankfully, fell apart. After the deal with Netflix collapsed, Warner Bros. Discovery has found a new dance partner in Paramount. The sides announced the approval of Paramount’s nearly $111 billion acquisition in Warner Bros. in late February. Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders overwhelmingly approved the merger in an April 23 vote. Government regulators around the world are currently evaluating the deal. As the new merger barrels ahead towards approval, a firestorm of mainly left-wing opposition to the deal has emerged. Hollywood A-listers including Robert De Nero, Pedro Pascal, and Ben Stiller signed an open letter opposing the deal under the banner “Block the Merger.” The letter has gained more than 5,300 signatures. Frequent lawfare practitioner Norm Eisen and his group Democracy Defenders Fun co-led the initiative with Jane Fonda’s Committee for the First Amendment. On its face, the letter opposing the new merger appears to raise reasonable points in opposition: media consolidation reduces competition among broadcasters, costs jobs for actors and behind the scenes employees, and reduces choice for consumers. The same concerns about media consolidation and job losses were just as present with a Netflix-Warner Bros merger. Our concern with the potential Netflix merger was specifically about Netflix getting bigger and more powerful since it effectively produces propaganda for Democrats, globalists, and deep state interests. Our other major concern was that if Netflix grew even larger, our children would be exposed to even more LGBT propaganda. But for those same reasons, the Hollywood elite are now teaming up with Eisen to try and save the old deal by attacking this new one. We take the inclusion of Eisen and his ilk as further confirmation of the key findings that underpinned our Fedflix report: primarily that Netflix has operated as a main media arm of the Democratic party and its allies embedded in the bowels of government. There is, after all, a reason why the Obamas went to Netflix post-presidency. The failed Netflix-Warner Bros. Discovery merger would have made the cabal of powerful leftists even more powerful. That’s why they’re upset, organizing, and trying to get the initial plan of an even more turbocharged Netflix back on track. The astroturfing campaign underway should be seen through this lens. It should also be viewed for its hypocrisy. As our colleague DataRepublican has pointed out, some of the loudest voices opposing the new merger were curiously quiet when Netflix looked like it would reap the benefits from merging with Warner Bros. Discovery. Don’t take this hypocrisy at face value. When these actors are involved, there’s always something behind the curtain. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of the Daily Signal.