🔗 CBS Pulls Colbert Interview With Dem Politician

Colbert says he was also told by network lawyers that he also couldn’t mention he was told by CBS to not have him on, a request he proceeded to immediately ignore in a … rant about Brendan Carr and the censorial, authoritarian, and pathetic Trump FCC.

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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.

💬 Steven Colbert

> “As I write, the video of Talarico’s interview has been viewed over 6 million times—more than twice the size of the Late Show’s nightly broadcast audience, and four times more than watched any part of his interview last year with Taylor Swift. So if Carr’s goal was to silence Talarico or chasten Colbert, it was an abject failure. According to Talarico, his campaign took in $2.5 million in contributions in the 24 hours after his interview was posted, and Colbert’s interview is still racking up viewers on his YouTube page, where criticism of the Trump administration seems to outperform other content by a factor of 10”

… over on Slate.

Now up to 8.2 million.