"Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert said that an attorney from the CBS network said "in no uncertain terms" that his show could not broadcast his interview with pro-LGBTQ+ state Rep. James Talarico (D), who is running for U.S. Senate, after a threat from Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an ostensibly independent federal agency that President Donald Trump has used to intimidate broadcasters."
""Let's just call this what it is: Donald Trump's administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV," Colbert said of the censorship. At the start of his interview, Talarico said he thought that Trump was worried that he might soon flip Texas' U.S. Senate seat from Republican to Democrat."
""[Republicans] are the party that ran against cancel culture," Talarico told Colbert. "And now they're trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read. And this is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture, the kind that comes from the top." He then noted that Trump has used the FCC to go after the women-led daytime talk show The View, late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, and even Colbert after he criticized his parent company for "bribing" Trump."
An attorney at CBS told Stephen Colbert that the network could not air his interview with pro-LGBTQ+ state Rep. James Talarico following a threat from the Federal Communications Commission, which President Donald Trump has used to pressure broadcasters. CBS contested Colbert's account, saying legal guidance warned the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal-time rule for other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and offered options to satisfy equal time. Millions have watched the interview online, and an FCC commissioner publicly criticized the suppression. Colbert and Talarico argued that the administration and corporate media are curbing speech and weaponizing regulatory power against critics.
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