{"id":68872,"date":"2026-02-17T13:09:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68872"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:20:38","slug":"nice-work-cbs-banning-the-steven-colbert-interview-with-james-talarico-got-them-way-more-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68872","title":{"rendered":"NICE WORK CBS! Banning the Stephen Colbert Interview with James Talarico, Got Them Way More Views"},"content":{"rendered":"

He’s at it again! Wannabe dictator Donald Trump has dictated to his Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to further erode the protections of the Constitution’s First Amendment for freedom of the press. It is just his latest attempt to shape the media into the propaganda arm of his Reich House operation.<\/p>\n

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Three weeks ago Trump’s crony FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, announced that he was considering a plan to alter the long-standing rules regarding \u201cEqual Time\u201d<\/em> on television. It was a blatant attempt to put an end to criticism of Trump from TV talk show hosts and their guests. Since the Equal Time rules were implemented there have been exceptions for newsworthy interviews on both news and entertainment programs. But Trump’s childish and emotional insecurity has resulted in his seeking to stifle his critics by any means necessary.<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: Trump\u2019s FCC Threatens to Change \u2018Equal Time\u2019 Rules to Suppress the Free Speech of Trump Critics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

On Monday night’s episode of “Late Night with Stephen Colbert,”<\/em> Colbert revealed that the executives at CBS had prohibited him from airing an interview with James Talarico, a Democratic Senate candidate from Texas. However, Colbert, whose number one show has already been canceled and will end it’s ten year long run in May, was not taking this censorship quietly. He delivered a smackdown of CBS and the FCC that was both troubling and hilarious. What follows are some choice excerpts followed by the video…<\/p>\n

“You know who is not one of my guests tonight? That\u2019s Texas State Representative James Talarico. He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network\u2019s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast. I was told, in some uncertain terms, that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on. And because my network clearly does not want us to talk about this, let\u2019s talk about this. […]<\/p>\n

“Carr said he was thinking about dropping the exception for talk shows because he said some of them were motivated by partisan purposes. Well, sir, you\u2019re chairman of the FCC. So, FCC YOU! Because I think you are motivated by partisan purposes yourself.” […]<\/p>\n

“[Trump] wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV. He\u2019s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diapers. So, it\u2019s no surprise that two of the people most affected by this threat are me and my friend Jimmy Kimmel.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n