Stephen Colbert Tears Into CBS For Banning James…
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Stephen Colbert is in a lame duck section of his standard late-night show, and he no longer has a f*** to give. It must be extremely tough to work for a community that is actively working to spoil the model that you constructed brick-by-brick. When a media company eschews bravery and embraces worry, we’re all worse for it, particularly these days when the American people are trying for unflinching voices to present correct info and maintain energy accountable.
That must suck.
May 21, 2026, would be the ultimate episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and it seems that the ending will probably be very, very bitter. According to CNBC, Colbert ripped CBS a new one after he was told that his current interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico wouldn’t be allowed to air on TV as initially deliberate.
“You know who’s not one of my guests tonight? That’s Texas Representative James Talarico,” Colbert told his show’s studio viewers for Monday evening’s broadcast of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
“He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,”
Colbert went on to say that he was told that he shouldn’t reveal this to his viewers, so he wasted no time revealing it to his viewers and explaining why he was being censored.
The FCC lately gave directives to the three major networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) about an antiquated and hardly ever adopted law that requires equal airtime for a political candidate’s opponent if one ought to seem on a news show.
Even though Colbert’s interview with Talarico didn’t air on TV, it’s accessible online in full.
For their half, CBS issued a assertion utilizing semantics as cowl for pressuring Colbert to be as scared as they’re of FCC head honcho Brendan Carr, the same man who Donald Trump sic’d on Jimmy Kimmel.
“The Late Show was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Rep. James Talarico.”
“The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal-time rule for two other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett [D-Texas], and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled,”
Sure, Jan.
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