This complete reversal of precedent to censor political foes is brought you by Project 2025 leader Brendan Carr.https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/17/colbert-interview-trump-administration-pressure-00783626Stephen Colbert blasted CBS on Monday night after the network killed a planned interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, citing concerns that going through with it would raise the ire of the Trump administration.The network’s decision to block the interview is one of the highest-profile instances of the Trump administration applying pressure to rein in media personalities it views as unfriendly. Colbert panned President Donald Trump as “a toddler with too much screen time.”At issue: the Federal Communications Commission’s equal time provision, which requires radio and broadcast programs to offer equal time to all candidates in a particular race. News programs have long been exempt from the rule, which has generally also been extended to talk shows. But guidance issued by FCC Chair Brendan Carr in January signaled the agency could go after late-night talk hosts or shows like the “The View” by citing the provision.“Carr said he was thinking about dropping the exception for talk shows because he said that some of them were motivated by partisan purposes,” Colbert told his audience. “Well, sir, you’re chairman of the FCC. So FCC you. Because I think you are motivated by partisan purposes yourself.”The FCC did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Colbert’s criticism. Talarico and other Democrats criticized the move.“This is yet another troubling example of corporate capitulation in the face of this Administration’s broader campaign to censor and control speech,” Anna Gomez, the FCC’s lone Democratic commissioner, said in a statement. “The FCC has no lawful authority to pressure broadcasters for political purposes or to create a climate that chills free expression.”
“The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal-time rule for two other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled,” the network said. The show “decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on-air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing the equal-time options.”As far back as his first term, Trump has floated using the FCC provision to go after talk show hosts. Since his return to the White House last January, Carr and other administration figures have aggressively targeted media institutions the president has criticized.Carr pressured ABC and several television station operators to temporarily take late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show off the air in September amid conservative anger over comments he made after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Trump cheered the move, also calling for NBC to go after its own late-night hosts, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon.“Let’s just call this what it is,” Colbert said. “Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV.”Colbert’s time with CBS is winding down. Paramount Global, the network’s parent company, announced last summer that it would soon be cancelling “The Late Show” amid criticism from the president. Even though Paramount called the move a financial decision, it prompted widespread condemnation from Democrats and press freedom advocates.The talk show host did go through with his planned interview with Talarico, though only for his show’s YouTube page.“I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on,” Colbert said of his interview with Talarico. “I could not mention me not having him on. And because my network clearly doesn’t want us to talk about this, let’s talk about this.”
The interview Project 2025 doesn't want you to see.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59AIn other Brendan Carr news, he immediately proved he was lying about his threats to CBS by starting in investigation into another show.https://apnews.com/article/view-fcc-stephen-colbert-abc-cbs-4fd679462e08de2cdc340071f48a83a9Furthermore, he refuses to enforce these standards to talk radio which always have a right wing bias confirming the this is censorship pushed by conservatives, again.
>>1490911 Freedom of the press does not mean freedom to quote the president if the result makes the president look bad. We need to hold these people accountable and consider only allowing outlets approved by the DOJ or FCC be allowed to report on news approved by the POTUS
>>1490913This Talarico guy seems promising.
>>1490928Either intentionally or unintentionally, Carr and trump trying to censor Talarico created the mother of all Streisand effects since early voted started the day they tried to keep him off TV.
>>1490913Project 2025 isn't realYou're living in an echo chamber.
>>1490955Yes it is lmao. Trump is literally following it.
>>1490956Trump is following Agenda 47. He's not been following Project 2025
>>1490955>>1490959This isn't /pol/, your gaslighting is useless here.
>>1490960It's just one of those made up thingsYou'll never find a clip of Ronald Reagan or HW Bush saying "I implemented Trickle down Economics" because they don't believe in that. That is a smear used to degrade the idea.You can't find a clip of Donald Trump or JD Vance saying "I endorse project 2025" because they don't believe in it. It's a smear used to distract people from their actual agenda, agenda 47
>>1490961>Doubling down on gaslightingThe anti freedom, anti American Project 2025 is real no matter how much you want to claim otherwise.
>>1490921Go back to Nazi Germany MAGA nut.
>>1490961i feel sorry for your mother
LOLThe GOP: won't protect your guns OR your speech.So what are they for exactly? To keep billionaires from paying any taxes at all?>in b4 yer a commie tranny demmyThe Democratic Party is insane too, but they at least pretend to care about the poor and middle class.
>>1490970Whachoo say 'bout my mamma!? Mmmm?Tray! Bring yo' simple ass here!
>>1490971Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.
>>1490971This is why I am voting blue no matter whoNobody has more gun rights than New Yorkers, Californians. New York will protect my right to bear arms. California's big tech companies will protect my right to speech
>>1490982>posting that on this honeypot
>>1490988>88Just repeating leftoid memes back at them bro.
>>1490982That is exactly what it means and you know it, glowie. You can try to turn it on its head, but people still know the truth, even now.If you were correct, there would have been no need for a 1st amendment.
>>1490985True. I live in WA State and have less gun rights than Germany, much less New York. WA is "blue", but it's really red, they just cheat like hell. No one here but Seattleites want higher taxes and softer hands for criminals.But yeah, straight blue. Destroy the GOP, it's the least we can do.
I mean it, I won't vote for a Republican ever again because the GOP at every level has watched Trump rape this country for Russia and Israel and laughed as we ordered them to do their jobs.Guess they're all pedos.
>>1491010What are you talking about?How did Trump rape this country for Russia and Israel?It was Bidens weakness which lead to the war between Russia and Ukraine. There is a reason Russia didn't invade Ukraine while Trump was president, and did while Biden was presidentThere is a reason Palestine didn't attack Israel while Trump was president. October 7th and the subsequent war happened under Biden's watchIt is like you are taking all these things that happened while Biden was president, and then projecting that failure onto Trump
>>1491014you're literally not american
>>1491017How would you like me to prove that I am?
>>1491018you're esl shill, your identity is a fait accompli
>>1491019I think you are from Quebec Canada. They use French and English interchangeably, like you are doing now
esl shill thinks "english" is some sort of pure language, LMAO
>>1491022You call everyone else an ESL, but you don't use the english language like a native speakerIt's projection. How's the weather in Montreal Pierre?
i love how esl shill knows his own name. and now he's trying to argue linguistics with me when he has already exposed himself as a clueless dunce from the jump
I noticed none of you troons and jeets have called out this fake news yet. Trump didn't do shit and CBS even admitted to it. Colbert then pivoted to crying about Trump being a bully, even though the entire issue was they denied having Jasmine Crockett on to push the Satanic fake christian pedo "talamudico"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/stephen-colbert-cbs-james-talarico-paramount-fcc-trump.html
esl shill brought up his fetish for no reason again
>>1491006>glowieI'm glad that train delivered a Darwin Award to Terry Davis: a subhuman retard.I hear that the driver of that train was listening to the Greatest Hits of Black Sabbath: including Paranoid.
>>1491006Didn't google admit that leftoids were censoring them for having badwrong opinions.3.5 years later and leftoids still can't admit the standard they set was wrong
>>1491046>Lying this badlyIt might work if trump didn't immediately go after another show for the exact same threat he used against Colbert. >>1490913
>>1491051Hello Ivan
>>1490911>NOOOOO!!! MUH propaganda!!!Darn, what a shame. I'm literally heatborked over this faux 1st amendment disaster.
>>1491101It's a leader pressuring journalists not to publish opposing political views. It is literal fascism. You are a fascist pedophile enabler.
>>1491112>Opposing views>Equal time requirement.More like it prevents one-sided propaganda.
>>1491144The why is Project 2025 leader Carr not applying it to talk radio as well which is also under the jurisdiction of the FCC but swings heavily to the right wing?
>>1491144Yeah. Preventing ideas you don't like from being published by using your office's power to leverage the media means you are a literal fascist.The trump admin preventing one-sided propaganda, is a fucking hilarious idea. You probably think Kirk was a national hero with no sense of self-awareness because you're too much of a pussy for a woman to respect you without the government and the bible making rules that say she explicitly has to.
>>1491158It's funny you bring up the bible when the trump regime is shutting down a christian who doesn't subscribe to far right christian supremacy which is one of the pillars of the fascist right
>>1491158>Preventing ideas you don't like from being published by using your office's power to leverage the media means you are a literal fascist.You mean like what democrats did during covid?
>>1490921This, and freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences
>>1491171>>1491173>WhataboutAnd the vatniks have arrived
>>1491178>Preventing ideas you don't like from being published by using your office's power to leverage the media means you are a literal fascist.Preventing ideas you don't like from being published by using your office's power to leverage the media is whataboutism
>>1491112>NOOO WE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TOJUST GO ON TELEVISION AND SPREAD FALSE NARRATIVES. STOP CENSORING JOURNALISTS
>>1491198The president openly lies on his own press conferences all the fucking time. What about the interview was a lie?
>>1491163He's pretending to be a Christian because he's running in Texas. Voters are not buying it, which is why Crockett is beating him in polls. He's the Jewish candidate, which is all why the media is shilling for him
>>1491199The entire narrative that Trump wouldn't let them interview talumedic is falseCBS even put out a statement for it. There's no point lying about this
>>1491198That's what all the right wing news networks do after all.
>>1491201Source?
>>1491203When CNN said there was WMDs in Iraq, that was a lieWhen CNN said that Trump was colluding with Russia, that was a lieWhen CNN said that Michael Brown had his hands up saying "Don't shoot" that was a lieWhen CNN said "if you get vaccinated you can't catch covid and you can't spread covid" that was a lie
>>1491205Vaccines don't prevent you from getting a disease. They prime your immune system to be able to recognize and fight common versions of the disease. People who were vaccinated got sick less frequently when exposed and had less severe symptoms against covid, because that's how vaccines work.
>>1491211NTA, I love how that last part is the only line you care about. Hell, that anon forgot to cover all the lies said about Rittenhouse.>He crossed state lines with an automatic weapon!>His mother dropped him off in the middle of a riot!>He fired 60 rounds into a crowd of black people!>His firearm was illegal and everyone else involved wasn't!>He's a white supremacist!
>>1491212https://nypost.com/2020/07/24/washington-post-settles-250m-suit-with-covington-teen-nick-sandmann/Or all the lies told about Nick Sandmann and the other Covington Catholics
>>1491190>We can do this the easy way or the hard way
>>1491211>People who were vaccinated got sick less frequently when exposed and had less severe symptoms against covidThere is literally zero evidence this was true for the covid vaccines though. And no, I"m not an anti-vaxxer. That's retarded. The covid vaccines just didn't do anything to help or hurt
>>1491211>They prime your immune system to be able to recognize and fight common versions of the disease.Vaccines provide immunization against diseases. What you're describing is a prophylactic, which isn't the same thing.
>>1491218>>1491221Least obvious samefag
>>1491200Right-wingers are pro-Jew now, anon. Keep up.>>1491201>well CBS said they weren’t doing this really bad thing, so thereCan’t argue with that. Mainstream media would NEVER lie to you, right? Especially for political reasons, that’s just absurd.
>>1491201>Conservatives would never lie>When Carr was already caught lying about his threats since he is attacking another show for not towing right wing propaganda.
>>1491230To be fair everyone lies, but no one lies more than Democrats.
esl shill is projecting again
>>1491234>Everyone is evil so nothing mattersSup vatnik
>>1491237Break time?
>>1491239apparently not, you're still posting
