CBS Faces Heat After Nixing Talerico Interview
“The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert revealed the reason his interview with Senate hopeful and Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) and the reason does not look good for CBS. Colbert scorched his own network Monday night…
“The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert revealed the reason his interview with Senate hopeful and Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) and the reason does not look good for CBS.
Colbert scorched his own network Monday night as he mocked CBS for “enforcing” Federal Communication Commission chairman Brendan Carr’s new federal guidance on political airtime as one made out of fear of the Trump administration, per Mediaite.
“Then 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,” Colbert said. “And because my network clearly doesn’t want us to talk about this, let’s talk about this.”
Colbert, whose show will end in May, told viewers network lawyers had called his team “directly” to stop the interview with Talarico from airing on cable, but allowed it to air on the show’s YouTube channel.