Trump's Attempt to Silence Stephen Colbert and James Talarico Was a Huge Mistake [View all]

Mike Nellis

Donald Trump and his MAGA cronies in this administration simply cannot help themselves when they see an opportunity to abuse the power of the federal government to silence their opposition.

Last night on CBS, Stephen Colbert was supposed to interview Texas Senate candidate James Talarico—one of the best Democratic candidates in the country this year. And Brendan Carr at the FCC and Bari Weiss at CBS stepped in and told Colbert he couldn’t interview Talarico. Couldn’t talk about him. Couldn’t show an image of him. Couldn’t even mention what was happening on air.

And like an employee who’s two weeks from quitting and finally out of fucks to give, Stephen Colbert said: screw that.

He opened his show by calling out CBS and the FCC for trying to suppress a Democrat who dares stand up to Donald Trump. He called it what it is—blatant abuse of government power to control what he can and cannot say on his own show because they don’t like his politics or his comedy. And then he had James Talarico on anyway.

They couldn’t air it on CBS. So they put it on social media.

https://endlessurgency.com/p/trumps-attempt-to-silence-stephen