"On January 21st of this year, a letter was released by FCC chairman and smug bowling pin, Brendan Carr. In this letter, 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're chairman of the FCC, so FCC you. Because I think you are motivated by partisan purposes yourself. Sir, ya smelt it 'cause ya dealt it. You are Dutch-ovening America's airwaves,"
"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, OK? He's like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper,"
"told, in some uncertain terms, that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on."
CBS network lawyers canceled a planned Late Show interview with Texas state representative and Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, citing concerns about violating the FCC's equal-time rule. The Late Show host ran an extended nearly eight-minute segment addressing the cancellation and repeatedly criticized FCC Chair Brendan Carr. The interview with Talarico was released as a web-exclusive on the show's YouTube channel. The FCC's January 21 guidance proposed reinterpreting equal-time rules, potentially removing a talk-show exception and pressuring late-night programs to include more conservative viewpoints, a move framed as targeting critics of the Trump administration.
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