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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Stephen Colbert tells his audience about who was not allowed on his show: "That's Texas state representative James Talarico. He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast. Then, I was told, in some uncertain terms, that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on. And because my network clearly does not want us to talk about this ... Let's talk about this."

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The crowd is LOVING James Talarico on Stephen Colbert[image or embed]

-- Team Talarico (@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social) Feb 17, 2026 at 2:40 AM

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Hey ballwasher, time to dust off your Pravda digs for this one, eh?

/s yeah right

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 10:53 AM | Reply

JPW... thanks for posting this, but I got 'cha by a few mins:

drudge.com

Includes the video.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-17 11:02 AM | Reply

Bari Weiss will get to the bottom of this!

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-17 11:24 AM | Reply

As long as this is here it doesn't matter who posted it.

Keep pushing that red line in front of them and see who finally breaks and who doesn't.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 12:46 PM | Reply

On Stephen Colbert's last day I am canceling my subscription to Paramount. I'll vote on their foolish decisions with my dollars.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-17 01:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Rogers for the Tie Breaker!

Thread up twice already...pls consolidate posts:

drudge.com

drudge.com

Trump just boosted Talarico to National prominence with this stupid move.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-17 01:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Here's the full interview that CBS refused to put on air, done on Colbert's YT channel:

www.youtube.com

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-17 01:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Wow, this news article ONLY quotes Colbert. No other perspective is given and no mention of even reaching out to CBS execs for comment.

#8 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-17 01:30 PM | Reply

Robert Reich

@rbreich.bsky.social
Reminder that Paramount Skydance needs approval from Trump's minions to buy Warner Bros.

Yesterday, its subsidiary CBS banned Stephen Colbert from airing an interview with TX Democrat James Talarico.

Larry Ellison is sucking up to Trump by turning his media empire into MAGA propaganda.

bsky.app

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-17 01:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#5 | Posted by BellRinger

Did you by chance check out Corky's link with the video link?

Nice try cancel culture warrior. You don't get much more canceled than by the government. I watched the interview. Not to mention the View. Don't for get your party and I am sure hero did away with the equal time doctrine. Doesn't hurt Billionaire owning Paramount and buying Warner Bros is Ellison.

#10 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2026-02-17 01:54 PM | Reply

#1

I've already cancelled Paramount. But I still get CBS through basic cable. I'm not really ready to give up basic cable. yet.

#11 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2026-02-17 01:55 PM | Reply

" Did you by chance check out Corky's link with the video link?"

I read the article embedded in this thread.

#12 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-17 02:14 PM | Reply

I thought Dinger said CBS was left wing biased main stream media?

#13 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-02-17 02:32 PM | Reply

Well, Colbert has nothing to lose at this point. Go for it.

#14 | Posted by bat4255 at 2026-02-17 02:58 PM | Reply

Dinger said CBS was left wing biased main stream media?

Those puff pieces they did on the Trump administration should have been his first clue.

The problem CBS has is FOX News has programmed their braindead viewers to view it as a liberal hellscape, so even with the recent acquisition by Larry Ellison and the complete overhaul of the staff, MAGA is still programmed to hate it.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-17 03:05 PM | Reply

Go up to #2

#16 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2026-02-17 03:36 PM | Reply

Wow, this news article ONLY quotes Colbert. No other perspective is given and no mention of even reaching out to CBS execs for comment.

#5 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Hey dumbf*^#, what possible information could you hear from CBS that would make this OK?

I knew your stupid ass would dodge the obvious. After whining out "duhhhhh PrAvDAz!!" for years when it wasn't true, suddenly you're giving the MSM the benefit of the doubt when it is true.

What a pathetic sack of unprincipled, disingenuous s^*%.

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 03:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

For the record if what Colbert is alleging is accurate then this is outrageous.

#18 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-17 03:41 PM | Reply

" 10 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-02-17 03:37 PM | FLAG: "

It's called responsible journalism. Something that is beyond your capacity to understand.

It is nice seeing lefties denounce censorship for a change even though it's totally situational.

#19 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-17 03:44 PM | Reply

CBS official statement:

THE LATE SHOW was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Rep. James Talarico. 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 LATE 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.

#20 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2026-02-17 03:44 PM | Reply

Colbert explained on his show that the FCC's "equal time rule" was the given reason for the Talarico interview being yanked off the air. He instead ran the interview on the show's YouTube channel, which is not under the jurisdiction of the FCC. CBS's statement suggests that the network would have allowed the interview on air had Colbert also invited Crockett on his show for an equal amount of time and promotion.
www.mediaite.com

#21 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2026-02-17 03:46 PM | Reply

" What a pathetic sack of unprincipled, disingenuous s^*%.

#10 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-02-17 03:37 PM | FLAG: "

You can eff right off with that. You cheered when Biden's handlers were jawboning tech companies into being their personal censors.

#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-17 03:46 PM | Reply

#13 and 14. Good to see he came up with a workaround although he shouldn't have needed to.

#23 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-17 03:48 PM | Reply

It's called responsible journalism. Something that is beyond your capacity to understand.

It is nice seeing lefties denounce censorship for a change even though it's totally situational.
#12 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Then this idiot tried to act all high and mighty as if he's not a giant hypocrite and walking know gobbling reach around.

You're a pathetic fool with zero consistency or standards, no matter what lies you tell yourself.

#24 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 03:54 PM | Reply

" You cheered when Biden's handlers were jawboning tech companies into being their personal censors."

What a riot. Zuckerberg never MENTIONED what that was about, despite the fact he'd have every reason to divulge it ...

... if it would've bolstered his case.

The fact he didn't, suggests we're talking about something akin to the EAT TIDE PODS campaign.

Censorship is only when the editorial board DISAGREES, and they're forced to do something AGAINST their will.

#25 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-17 04:02 PM | Reply

On Stephen Colbert's last day I am canceling my subscription to Paramount. I'll vote on their foolish decisions with my dollars.

#1 | Posted by donnerboy

that's great...seriously...I approve.

just like viewers for more than a couple of years now have done the same to his

show....with or without paramount.

#26 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 04:05 PM | Reply

Here numbnutz, this all stems from Trump's FCC changing rules to target late shows.

A change that I don't even see how it arrives at a complete suppression of this interview.

But go ahead, act as if this is different and, therefore, why your incessant puling about non existent censorship is suddenly unnecessary when actual censorship is happening right under your nose.

#27 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 04:05 PM | Reply

LMAO you ------- morons...

This just in from CBS: "THE LATE SHOW was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Rep. James Talarico. 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 LATE 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."
x.com

#28 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-17 04:05 PM | Reply

No surprise you're still clinging to the giant flop known as the Twitter files.

Turley is a giant hack yet you can't seem to bring yourself to stop ------- his leg.

#29 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 04:07 PM | Reply

x.com
#9 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

X.com, the perfect source for "news".

Couldn't find anything better on TruthSocial?

#30 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-17 04:08 PM | Reply

Trump just boosted Talarico to National prominence with this stupid move.

#2 | Posted by Corky

WELL GLADYS.....

---I"ll ask this question again...........hee hee......what if.....HA HA>...it's a big IF

BUT WHAT IF.....chuckle....the wannabe HO and idiot who said..." just because you commit

a crime doesn't make you a criminal".....DAT JASMINE GULL BEATS HIM ?.

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#31 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 04:09 PM | Reply

Colbert should have AOC on this week....I always enjoy looking at the only two things she had

going for her....3 if you count her big lips.....but perhaps steven can

explain what the equator is.....

#32 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 04:11 PM | Reply

THE LATE SHOW was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview

This is the official response, from CBS.

Kinda like when they tried to kill the story on El Salvador's CECOT prison involving Trump administration deportations.

When the rest of the world aired it, the official response was that it wasn't ready yet.

CBS killing the Colbert Talarico interview will make sure more people watch it than had they simply allowed it to air.

#33 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-17 04:15 PM | Reply

Like I said, your have no standards. You cheered it when it was being done by Democrats. I'm denouncing this precisely because I have actual standards unlike an unprincipled hack like yourself.

#34 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-17 04:29 PM | Reply

Like I said, your have no standards.
#21 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

You said that?

The guy who is proudly a member of the Guardians of Pedophiles Party.

You support a criminal president who bragged about sexually assaulting women and was found guilty of rape.

Your only standard seems to be you will support anyone who causes the most damage to America.

#35 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-17 04:35 PM | Reply


Trump just boosted Talarico to National prominence with this stupid move.

#2 | Posted by Corky

No he didn't Colbert did, because people like you are so ------- gullible.

As an Asian, I can believe that two rich white men conspired to deny equal air time two weeks out from an election to a black woman.

The unmitigated racism against Jasmine is incredible, and Corky, Clownshack and WhatsAnIdiot supports this sort of racism.

#36 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-17 04:40 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

No he didn't Colbert did,

Colbert did what?

Share your conspiracy theories with us.

We could all use a good laugh.

#37 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-17 04:46 PM | Reply

#14... really needs to get a Refund on his ESL classes.

Trump's FCC quashed the Interview and sent it viral in the internet.

Colbert and every other such interviewer was always going to interview Talarico this cycle.

Perhaps it's not the ESL instructor's fault, though. Perhaps it's the haplessly (look it up) helpless and hopeless 1NONuts himself.

Or their self, as the case may be.

#38 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-17 04:48 PM | Reply

The unmitigated racism against Jasmine is incredible, and Corky, Clownshack

Me, the poster who has on several occasions expressed my enthusiastic support Jasmine Crockett?

Too funny.

Meanwhile, you're the poster who discovered he's Asian when he needed to attack Black people in San Francisco.

Womp womp

#39 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-17 04:50 PM | Reply

Crocket and Talarico, btw, get along famously.

Some people like James better than Jasmine because he doesn't take corporate money... or Israeli money.

But both of them would vote to limit or eliminate such bribery.

#40 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-17 04:55 PM | Reply

There is no well deep or wide enough for sleazy, unprincipled mouth-for-hires Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz to be chucked into forthwith.

Both of them made tidy sums of money as legal kapos and should be disbarred and ostracized nationwide for their blasphemies.

How these two miscreants smugly live with themselves is anyone's guess.


#41 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-17 04:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Hi Corky:

I bet young master James Talarico gets along well with everyone, even those across the aisle.

#42 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-17 05:01 PM | Reply

#19

I think his quotable catch-phrase about how it's not really Left vs Right in this country, but that it's Top vs Bottom.... as he ended the Colbert interview with, is a winning proposition for a lot of people.

FDR won 4 elections with those kinds of policies... not that he's FDR, but he has a bit of youthful charisma like JFK had... and Shady could play Nixon really well in that scenario, lol.

What I want to know is if one of his aides decided to give him that little dash of grey in his hair so he doesn't look like a high schooler. ;-)

#43 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-17 05:13 PM | Reply

F the FCC

Howard Stern was right!

#44 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2026-02-17 05:16 PM | Reply

Trump's FCC quashed the Interview and sent it viral in the internet.

Because Trump is a Clinton supporting fellow Democrat crushing small government conservatives. Nobody cared about Talarico until today.

#45 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2026-02-17 05:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You cheered it when it was being done by Democrats.

Which didn't happen, dips*&^.

You continue to fall for and fail to recognize the pattern of the GOP getting out ahead of their own poor behavior by accusing the Dems of it and convincing their idiot base it's not a big deal because "the Dems do it too!"

You fall for it. Every. Time.

And continue to believe it even after it's clear that that's the real narrative.

#46 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 05:25 PM | Reply

I'm denouncing this precisely because I have actual standards unlike an unprincipled hack like yourself.

#21 | Posted by BellRinger

You aren't denouncing this.

You're running your usual play book - give some mealy mouthed, couched "denunciation" up front, then defend, deflect and ignore the actual practice of the concept.

You've done this multiple times over the last year.

#47 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 05:38 PM | Reply

" You're running your usual play book - give some mealy mouthed, couched "denunciation" up front, then defend, deflect and ignore the actual practice of the concept."

I've done none of those things, moron.

Like I said, you cheered (and still are) when Democrats were engaging on censorship.

#48 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-17 05:40 PM | Reply

You're engaging in project. Just because you are an unprincipled hack doesn't mean everyone else is too.

#49 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-17 05:41 PM | Reply


Comedian Stephen Colbert blasted CBS on Monday and said his own network's attorneys barred him from hosting Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico.
POSTED BY JPW A

This was a lie.

BrianStelter:
This just in from CBS: "THE LATE SHOW was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Rep. James Talarico. 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 LATE 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."
x.com

Why? Pretty cut and dry explanation.
The Elite Dems don't want Rep. Jasmine Crockett to win.

Stephen Colbert wanted to air an ad for his new favorite political candidate, then lied that the FCC and CBS was "censoring" the interview.

Lumpers support systemic racism.

#50 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-17 05:52 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

X.com
#28 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

You already posted this bullshht.

Posting it again doesn't make it true.

#51 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-17 05:54 PM | Reply

But both of them would vote to limit or eliminate such bribery.

#18 | Posted by Corky

either would have a state income tax within the first 2 years.

#52 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 05:56 PM | Reply

OneTrumper,

Who would normally trash Jasmine Crockett, wants everyone to believe Stephen Colbert doesn't want to interview Jasmine Crockett.

This is the best lie CBS could muster.

#53 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-17 05:56 PM | Reply


" What a pathetic sack of unprincipled, disingenuous s^*%.

#10 | POSTED BY JPW

This is pretty funny, you got played JPW. JPW tells us he's an "educated" person, but just can't seem to get it through his thick skull how often people in his party lies about Trump and his administration. The bus runs over JPW (again), then he complains its Bellringer thats pathetic unprincipled.

Can there be anymore projection than that?

Before this point, intelligent people with principles were leery of any thing Colbert says, but not our "educated" JPW, he jumps in balls first.

Is not that JPW's positions on topics are wrong, but he's just an idiot of biblical proportions.

#54 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-17 05:58 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#23 THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (current count only)

Thank you for your very kind in-kind contributions to the Democratic Party and its candidates.

No need to spend a single dime pointing out how stupid, illiterate, gullible, and naive you people are...

... when there are people like rightnut bushlover2 afkabl2 shrimpsized(30-40)genitaliahiddenbyataco"Danielle" (38 plonks) who willingly volunteer their efforts proving that objective reality... on a daily basis.

#55 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 05:59 PM | Reply

"The Elite Dems don't want Rep. Jasmine Crockett to win."

Here's a dime, buy a clue:

Here's a dime, buy a clue

Anyone wanting to see the Democrats take the House and the Senate are pulling for Talarico in 2026.

Your impotent gaslighting notwithstanding.

#56 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

IAMRUNT swears up and down twitter is the best source for CSAM.

#57 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-17 06:24 PM | Reply

We must support the most progressive candidates in the field to take back the House and Senate in 2026.

Americans are sick and tired of the status quo which led us into the ditch we are in today.

For more granularity, see the results of the NYC Mayoral win and other elections last November.

A true socialist won in Washington State and a true communist won in Ithaca, NY.

The "center" is a myth that supports the status quo, not changes it.

For more granularity, read about the French, Russian, and Iranian Revolutions.

The status quo anywhere would love to see the "center" take over, like the short-lived White government of Kerensky in 1918.

#58 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-17 06:27 PM | Reply

how often people in his party lies about Trump and his administration.

How often?

What are some of the lies?

I'm sure you've got some substantial information to share.

Before this point, intelligent people with principles were leery of any thing Colbert says,
#31 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

Source, "Trust me, bro!"

#59 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-17 06:38 PM | Reply


Because Trump is a Clinton supporting fellow Democrat crushing small government conservatives. Nobody cared about Talarico until today.

#22 | Posted by lee_the_agent

Willy, its a lie, you got the purpose of the lie Colbert told everyone, don't you get it yet?

#60 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-17 06:44 PM | Reply


Trump's FCC quashed the Interview and sent it viral in the internet.
~ CorkyTheSystemicRacist

BS, Brian Stelter confirmed Colbert lied .....

#61 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-17 06:47 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#26 No such thing.

#62 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:47 PM | Reply


I bet young master James Talarico gets along well with everyone,

Master? LOL confirming the racism at play.

#63 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-17 06:48 PM | Reply

#26 No such thing.
#27 | Posted by A_Friend a

The link is in my post

#64 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-17 06:49 PM | Reply

Colbert told the truth.

www.washingtonpost.com

#65 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-17 06:51 PM | Reply

#29 X.com?

Try again, loser.

And bear in mind The Donnerboy Rule:

I need two (2) independent sources** from any Trump sycophant for any 'proof' they offer before it is even considered, much less replied to.
**Any source that contains "Trump's FBI said...", or "The DOJ announced..." or "The White House proclaimed..." - or any iteration thereof - will immediately be considered not an independent source. - Try again.

#66 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:52 PM | Reply

"Master? LOL confirming the racism at play." #28 | Posted by oneironaut | Flag: After Mistress said No, then said Go home.

#67 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:55 PM | Reply

I've done none of those things, moron.

#48 | Posted by BellRinger

You've done it at multiple instances where the administration was doing something blatantly illegal to normalize the behavior.

You've shown your "constitutional" principles to be nonexistent like the rest of MAGA world.

#68 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 07:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Lumpers support systemic racism.

#50 | Posted by oneironaut

Wow. Shocker.

Onelumpofs*&^ presents the administration's bulls*&^ rationalizations (which themselves rely on targeting Trump critics...) as valid and anything more than government censorship.

F*&^ off, idiot.

#69 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 07:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

but just can't seem to get it through his thick skull how often people in his party lies about Trump and his administration.

Onelumpofs*&^ isn't even trying to hide his foreign paid agitator status anymore.

The only person saying this with a straight face are those with an interest in propagating the false narrative.

#70 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 07:24 PM | Reply

The "center" is a myth that supports the status quo, not changes it.

No, it's not.

You're selectively latching on to the few places and cases where an out of the norm candidate could work and want to act like it will apply outside of those spaces.

The worst thing progressives do EVERY TIME is think they're just on the cusp of acceptance because [insert highly interpretative reason here], only to find nope, they're not and they lose hard.

The real myth is that progressivism is the winning ticket held back by the middle.

#71 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 07:28 PM | Reply

Ballwasher is a ------- idiot and a pathetic coward

#72 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-17 07:30 PM | Reply

INUTCASE would be totally confused with an old English movie like Robin Hood or something where Master (where we got Mister) was a title of respect... just as was used about Talarico above.

I'm beginning to think this Bot is due for a major Revision soon.

#73 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-17 07:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Chumper remains a chump

#74 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-17 07:31 PM | Reply

The real myth is that progressivism is the winning ticket held back by the middle.
#71 | POSTED BY JPW

Where's this mythical "middle" you believe is such a good place to be in?

Progressive to want our tax dollars to pay for healthcare, education and our communities rather than the obscenely wealthy, the military complex, the police state.

Trump ran on waging a literal war on America and has been destroying this nation.

Find me the middle.

#75 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-17 07:47 PM | Reply

#75 The middle, Clown?

Those are the 33%- > 50% of Americans who are eligible to vote, but fail to show up when it counts.

Breate them?

Or welcome/encourage them?

And what are the magic words necessary to win not only their votes, but their commitment to show up at the polls when it counts?

#76 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 07:56 PM | Reply

Try again, loser.
- A_Moron

Brian stelter is a verified user.

---- people here are posting substack from anon authors as threads and you don't question the veracity.

#77 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-17 08:12 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Those are the 33%- > 50% of Americans who are eligible to vote, but fail to show up when it counts.
Breate them?
Or welcome/encourage them?
And what are the magic words necessary to win not only their votes, but their commitment to show up at the polls when it counts?

#76 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 07:56 PM | Reply

Plot twist. There are no magic words. It's a magic act, and that magic act is getting the party people that talk to much to shut the ---- up already.

#78 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-02-17 08:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#77 And I'm a verified user here.

So?

#79 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 08:15 PM | Reply

"You're engaging in project. Just because you are an unprincipled hack doesn't mean everyone else is too."
~BellRinger

Ah, THAT's the reason my irony meter exploded so loudly.

#80 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-17 08:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Where's that gutter ---- Ballwasher and his phony 1st amendment --------?

#81 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-17 08:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#80

#82 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 08:20 PM | Reply


#77 And I'm a verified idiot here.
~ A_MORON

verified idiot, Stelter is a national media figure.

CBS Denies Forcing Stephen Colbert to Not Air Interview With Democratic Candidate, Says It Provided Legal Guidance' About FCC Equal-Time Rule
variety.com

Now what BS are you going to use?

#83 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-17 08:31 PM | Reply

Master (where we got Mister) was a title of respect... just as was used about Talarico above.
~ CorkyDaSystemicRacist

Respect, of course, he had whip!

#84 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-17 08:33 PM | Reply

#83 "Stelter is a national media figure."

So was Ted Bundy.

So?

#85 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 08:35 PM | Reply

Whites like you were whipping African slaves that "disrespected them", the racist whistle was loud and clear with the use of "MASTER".


#86 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-17 08:36 PM | Reply

So was Ted Bundy.

He wasn't a media figure.

Prove it, give me one article he wrote in the national news media.

You're out of ammo. Now you talk stupid talk.

#87 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-17 08:37 PM | Reply

#84

The Scarecrow finally got a brain... perhaps 1Nutcase could too! Naw.

lmao! CBS Denies... 1Nutjob BELIEVES!

#88 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-17 08:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#86 Well, now, that certainly explains why Democrats, up and down the ballots, continually receive the majority of the votes of people of color.

Thanks for highlighting that fact.

#89 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 08:38 PM | Reply

The pecking order is Trump, the FCC Chair, and then the CBS exec.

Somehow 1Nut has it backwards... yet again.

#90 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-17 08:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm beginning to regret the Flying Tigers saving China's ass from the Japanese...

#91 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-17 08:42 PM | Reply

#87 Why, Ted Bundy wrote just as many as Charles Manson ... Charles Whitman ... David Berkowitz ... Ed Gein ... Jeffrey Dahmer ... Dennis Rader ...

#92 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 08:45 PM | Reply

We can't have healthcare or decent public transport, like most the industrialized world because our absolute reliance on oil, and now coal.

Find me the middle.

#93 | Posted by Clownshack at 2026-02-17 10:30 PM | Reply

As of today, Rush Limbaugh's been dead for five years! The damage he did, though, lives on

#94 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-02-17 11:00 PM | Reply

Rush Limbaugh dead for five years?

Wonder if anybody check the Epstein files for his name.

He lived in Florida, if I recall correctly.

#95 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-17 11:31 PM | Reply

Progressive to want our tax dollars to pay for healthcare, education and our communities rather than the obscenely wealthy, the military complex, the police state.

I got bad news for you.

Most of the middle wants this stuff too. Why do you think these topics usually poll well within the electorate at large?

You don't have to find the middle. It's right in front of your face.

What happens to make "the left" lose the middle is they go beyond those core issues and start pushing social issues ahead of the core issues.

That is when people turn off and either stay home or vote for someone else.

#96 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 11:32 PM | Reply

Those are the 33%- > 50% of Americans who are eligible to vote, but fail to show up when it counts.

Failing to show up in 2024 was inexcusable because they allowed complacency to blind them to the unique nature of the threat. They assumed it was all systems nominal normalcy.

Pre-Trump, the most frequent driver of those folks staying home was the fact that both parties often turned them off and they didn't find either side compelling enough to earn their vote.

#97 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 11:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's a magic act, and that magic act is getting the party people that talk to much to shut the ---- up already.

#78 | Posted by sitzkrieg

The major take away from the recent electoral blowouts was, IIRC, to run a candidate who matches the district. Running some CA librul preaching pink hair for all, they/them birthing people who produce eggs reparations while also giving everyone all the free s*&^ they want isn't going to work in a district in suburban Kansas or Texas or Michigan...

But I'm sure that message will be ignored and a bunch of progressive fruit loops will take it as a sign that "not Trump" is a viable strategy again and will do anything but STFU.

#98 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 11:41 PM | Reply

"The Middle" or the "Center": "I'm not in the top strata of economic and political power, but I'm not angry enough to do something about it."

#99 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-17 11:47 PM | Reply

I normally use the Guest portal when using U-Tube as I'm too broke to sign up for it. I've never been kicked out until today. Now it keeps promting me that there's something amiss with my "account," and now requires I sign in to gain entrance. Given the effectiveness of Colbert's U-Tube end-around to reach his audience--and in light of his network's curious admonition to not even mention Talarico's booking, I find it beyond odd that my access to U-Tube now requires I "sign in." No thanks. These are vexatious times, friends. I'm thinking I may have made a mistake parting with my old man's gun locker.

#100 | Posted by dutch46 at 2026-02-18 12:17 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The major take away from the recent electoral blowouts was, IIRC, to run a candidate who matches the district

#98 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 11:41 PM | Reply | Flag:

That's poli sci 101 stuff.

Minimum Differentiation, Hotelling (1929)
Median Voter Theorm, Black (1948)

#101 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-02-18 08:00 AM | Reply

As of today, Rush Limbaugh's been dead for five years! The damage he did, though, lives on

Nah, you got to put a positive light on it...

Rush Limbaugh has been clean and sober for five years.

Just like Ashli Babbit.

#102 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-02-18 08:17 AM | Reply

James Talarico Raised $2.5 Million After Stephen Colbert Interview Was Shifted From Broadcast To YouTube

Link: deadline.com

Much obliged, Bari Weiss!

#103 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-18 09:00 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The major take away from the recent electoral blowouts was, IIRC, to run a candidate who matches the district

#98 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 11:41 PM | Reply | Flag:

Also this is Austin County. It's majority Hispanic. Neither candidate is one. It has a high % of new voter registrations. They register and then do not vote. It's a tech driven area with a high median household income. That means college educations. In Texas having a higher voter efficacy doesn't mean they vote, often the opposite, as they know their vote doesn't matter. Single party state ----.

#104 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-02-18 09:37 AM | Reply

Colbert told the truth.
www.washingtonpost.com

#65 | POSTED BY REINHEITSGEBOT

Stephen Colbert ALWAYS tells the Truth.

If he was to ever inadvertently say something that wasn't true or questionable he would label it as such and say "allegedly" and make a joke out of it he would immediately come back and apologize.

Unlike Commie Spyboy OneNut and his fellow Humpy Trumpy liars who never admit (or god forbid apologize) for their hateful lies.

They never admit to a mistake but just double and triple down on their lies.

Anyway I want to thank the idiots at the FCC for this wonderful gift to Texas democrats.

#105 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-18 11:41 AM | Reply

Colbert apparently lied. CBS legal team did not prohibit him from airing the interview on his show. They advised it might violate "equal time", which is a FCC rule that long predates Trump, and gave options on how to manage the rule should it be invoked. I guess one could argue that CBS execs are the ones who are lying but if Colbert has come out with that allegation, I have yet to see it.

#106 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 12:33 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Colbert apparently lied."

Uh huh. Sure. And we would believe your side of the story exactly why again?

Nothing coming from this administration (or any of its rabid supporters and you are one) can be believed or trusted without verification from at least 2 reliable sources.

You have yet to provide that. So the default trust in judgement goes to Colbert.

But do carry on with the current maga lie of the day!

#107 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-18 12:46 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm not quoting this administration and I have no side in this one. Crocket and Ahmad were the only ones with any kind of beef had this aired on CBS.

You want to make the case that CBS is lying? Go ahead and be sure to show your work.

#108 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 12:53 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

In this case it appears the FCC didn't do anything.

For the record, I think the equal time law is antiquated in this day and age and should be done away with legislatively. But until that happens it remains the law of the land.

#109 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 12:54 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

You want to make the case that CBS is lying? Go ahead and be sure to show your work.

POSTED BY BELLRINGER

CBS is submissive to the whims of the Mad King.

CBS is not an independent reliable source. CBS is a Trumpy supporter.

So the odds are CBS is lying.

"and I have no side in this one"

You have clearly chosen your "side" on everything that is posted here. You don't get to suddenly pretend you don't.

#110 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-18 12:58 PM | Reply

"In this case it appears the FCC didn't do anything."

Trumpy throws ketchup at the wall.

An aid calls the FCC.

The FCC calls Ellison.

Ellison calls Bari Weiss.

Bari Weiss calls The Colbert Show.

Stephen Colbert refuses to lie about it.

You come here to take your (Trumpy's) side about it.

For an audience of one. Apparently.

And thus the circle of Life is complete!

#111 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-18 01:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" Right Angle News Network

@Rightanglenews

Follow
BREAKING - A fuming Jasmine Crockett has released a statement defending the federal government, confirming that Stephen Colbert and her Democratic opponent James Talarico were lying about the Trump administration pulling his interview."

x.com

So, per usual Donnerboy has nothing. Put up something substantive or take the "L" and move on.

#112 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 01:04 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

#111. Yeah, because "Trumpy" is known for working hard to boost Crocket's political career.

#113 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 01:06 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#111 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY

LOL Oh FFS The idiocy is strong in this one.

#114 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-18 01:08 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#112 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Posted 50 posts ago. Nothin will change their minds. Facts, Evidence....

Even A_MORON is stuck on Ted Bundy is equivalent in the National Media space to Brian Stelter.

Its really time to close this website, there's just so much stupidity here.

#115 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-18 01:10 PM | Reply

Look in the mirror, ------.

#116 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-18 01:10 PM | Reply

#115 As usual, the silence and ignorance and incompetence of onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut continues, unabated.

#117 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-18 01:16 PM | Reply

Its really time to close this website, there's just so much stupidity here.
#115 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Have you considered taking a long walk off a short pier?
No, it's okay, you'll not be missed by a soul.

#118 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-02-18 01:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

In this case it appears the FCC didn't do anything.
#109 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

You're wrong.

But you love being wrong.

It's how you seek attention.

#119 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-18 01:24 PM | Reply

A fuming Jasmine Crockett has released a statement
#112 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

It's a shame she's getting involved in the mud slinging.

She was stronger before she stopped so low.

Talarico going on a talk show isn't the scandal republicans have turned it into.

Once again democrats lose the narrative to the republican propaganda machine.

#120 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-18 01:28 PM | Reply

"Trumpy" is known for working hard to boost Crocket's political career.
#113 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

Trump will support Crockett as a means of hurting both her and Talarico.

#121 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-18 01:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

LOL Oh FFS The idiocy is strong in this one.

#114 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Says the lying commie spyboy ...

#122 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-18 01:38 PM | Reply

Its really time to close this website, there's just so much stupidity here.
#115 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

You poor, poor thing.

Perhaps it's time you stop visiting this website.

But.

You wont.

You can't.

You must keep posting republican propaganda.

As if your life depended upon it.

#123 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-18 01:39 PM | Reply

" Once again democrats lose the narrative to the republican propaganda machine.

#120 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK AT 2026-02-18 01:28 PM | REPLY"

Colbert and Talarico are the ones engaged in propaganda.

#124 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 02:00 PM | Reply

CBS Newsmax is letting the daughter-boning orange chomo decide what they can broadcast.

#125 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-18 02:03 PM | Reply

Colbert and Talarico are the ones engaged in propaganda.

#124 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

So, they're like you?

#126 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-18 02:06 PM | Reply

Colbert and Talarico are the ones engaged in propaganda.

#124 | Posted by BellRinger

Good ol' Gutes Deutsch never ceases to disappoint.

Against censorship and "Pravda" right up until it's the righties doing it. Then it's the evil Dems who are actually the propagandists!

What a f*&^ing stooge.

#127 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-18 02:20 PM | Reply

Its really time to close this website, there's just so much stupidity here.
#115 | POSTED BY IAMRUNT

You'd be better off just scrolling through all of the he CSAM on twitter full time.

#128 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-18 02:32 PM | Reply

That's poli sci 101 stuff.
Minimum Differentiation, Hotelling (1929)
Median Voter Theorm, Black (1948)

#101 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Yet this is a constant stumbling block for Dems.

I was repeating what was said in media articles by prominent Dems following the wins.

#129 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-18 02:38 PM | Reply

" Against censorship and "Pravda" right up until it's the righties doing it. Then it's the evil Dems who are actually the propagandists!

What a f*&^ing stooge.

#127 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-02-18 02:20 PM | FLAG: "

My comment is based on CBS's explanation of what transpired. If you have something substantive to refute their statement I'll gladly give it a look.

Colbert and Talarico have the most to gain by painting this as a controversy.

#130 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 03:13 PM | Reply

The same CBS being run by a right wing moron who was placed solely because she's Trump's kind of loon? The one that has already squelched stories critical of Trump?

You're a f*&^ing idiot. Only question is whether it's intentional or not.

#131 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-18 05:24 PM | Reply

Show your work that this is what happened.

Bari Weiss is a center left moderate. Because you insulate yourself with like-minded people she seems to the right to someone like you.

#132 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 05:35 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

You are emotionally invested in this one. It appears you've been duped. Facts don't matter on this. Only your emotions. Not very scientific of you.

#133 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 05:36 PM | Reply

Bari Weiss is a center left moderate.

LOL

She got a taste of the MAGA victim complex and jumped onboard. She's anything but what you claim she is, idiot.

Why do you think she was placed in charge of CBS despite having zero qualifications to be in that position? And why do you think she's gone out of her way to squash stories critical or unflattering for Trump?

#134 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-18 05:38 PM | Reply

You literally have zero clue of what reality actually is but you speak as if you're some wise old sage.

#135 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-18 05:40 PM | Reply

#133 bell boi says ...


:-)

#136 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-18 05:41 PM | Reply

"Bari Weiss is a center left moderate."

And the Nazis were Socialists!

#137 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-18 05:45 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

My comment is based on CBS's explanation of what transpired.

My comments are based on what Stephen Colbert said and is still saying. And Stephen Colbert is not known for lying for Donald Trump or anyone else. But CBS is.

Colbert and Talarico have the most to gain by painting this as a controversy.

#130 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

We know what CBS has to gain from lying.

What does Stephen Colbert gain from lying?

#138 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-18 05:49 PM | Reply

Suffice it say that this was -------- with hair on it. Trump's second term has been a serial attack on the free press and the speech of his critics. He's ordered the prosecution of members of Congress for a video, filed libel suits with abandon, and used his FCC to bully and cow the networks (successfully in the case of CBS and ABC). He succeeded " very briefly " is getting Jimmy Kimmel kicked off the air.

But last night we saw the latest attempt at state-sponsored censorship " precisely the sort of thing that the First Amendment was supposed to prohibit " and the craven capitulation of a major network that is so, so desperate to avoid the wrath of Donald Trump.

This latest fiasco is the result the new guidance from Trump's loyal FCC toady, Brendan Carr, about enforcement of the "equal time" rule. The rule requires broadcasters to offer comparable airtime to rival candidates if a qualified political contender appears. As Mediaite notes, "Historically, news programming " and in practice " many late-night shows have been treated as exempt under the bonafide news' exception."

But Carr is suggesting an end to all that. And that is what brought us to what we saw last night. Colbert was direct:

#139 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-18 05:55 PM | Reply

"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. Okay? He's like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diapers. So, it's no surprise that two of the people most affected by this threat are me and my friend Jimmy Kimmel.

#140 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-18 05:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"To back up for a moment:

On Monday, Late Show host Stephen Colbert told his audience that the network said that he couldn't interview Talarico on the show, citing the FCC's new guidance on equal time rules for political candidates.

"[Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast," Colbert told the audience.

"Then I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on."CBS responded Tuesday with a statement explaining its reasoning round the equal time rule, which in turn sparked pushback from Colbert, who said that he "really don't want an adversarial relationship with the network."

;;

"So we obeyed our network and put the interview on YouTube where it's gotten millions of views. And I can see why," Colbert said Tuesday.

"I wish we could have put it on the show where no one would have watched it ... but here's what I do want to tell the lawyers how to do their jobs.

They know damn well that every word of my script last night was approved by CBS's lawyers, who for the record approve every script that goes on the air " whether it's about equal time or this image of frogs having sex. That's a true story."

www.yahoo.com

#141 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-18 06:01 PM | Reply

www.msn.com

For Ballwasher's benefit.

#142 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-18 06:04 PM | Reply

Bari Weiss is a center left moderate.
#132 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

So was Mildred Gillars.

#143 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-18 06:22 PM | Reply

@#132 ... Bari Weiss is a center left moderate. ...

So was Pres Trump.

en.wikipedia.org

... In a 2004 interview, Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzer: "In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat", explaining: "It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans.

Now, it shouldn't be that way. But if you go back, I mean it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats...

But certainly we had some very good economies under Democrats, as well as Republicans. But we've had some pretty bad disaster under the Republicans."[21] ...


#144 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-18 07:07 PM | Reply

" www.msn.com

For Ballwasher's benefit.

#142 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-02-18 06:04 PM | FLAG: "

Some of the criticisms are legitimate but damn, that piece read like an op Ed, a heavily biased one at that.

#145 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 07:12 PM | Reply

@#132 ... Bari Weiss is a center left moderate. ...

But now she works for a corporation owned by apparent MAGA devotees.

For her, it may likely be...

Obey or good-bye.

Case in point, what happened to the Bureau of labor Statistics Director when the BLS published data Pres Trump did not like?


#146 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-18 07:17 PM | Reply

Acting like CBS was held in high regard prior to Weiss being brought on is flat out risible.

Credibility of the entire MSM is in the crapper.

#147 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 07:17 PM | Reply

@#147 ... Acting like CBS was held in high regard prior to Weiss ...

High regard? Back in the day, yes.

Down at the level of FoxNews? Well, is that the level Ms Weiss is aiming for?


... Credibility of the entire MSM is in the crapper. ...

I agree that public opinion seems to show that their is more trust in social media feeds than the news reporting of credible news sites.

Why is that?

The apparent (stay tuned) addiction caused by the algorithms of social media?



#148 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-18 07:23 PM | Reply

#147 So, which one of these MSM headlines are fake?

Which one of these MSM headlines are lies?

CBS: Anderson Cooper to depart "60 Minutes" at end of season, with multiple stories still to run

Walton County News: New documentary series highlights Walton County's beach dispute

Spectrum News: Orlando Poet Laureate highlights mental health barriers in Black community

Yahoo Finance: Garmin Q4 Earnings Call Highlights

KXAN: Austin weather history: The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest Valentine's Days

Atlanta News First: First Alert Forecast: Warm weather highlights the week with rain returning Wednesday

Well?

Which ones are fake news?

Which ones are lies?

#149 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-18 07:23 PM | Reply

I'm sure this had no bearing on trying to make this into a scandal:

"

James Talarico
@jamestalarico

Follow
BREAKING: Our campaign raised $2.5 million in 24 hours after the FCC banned our Colbert interview."

#150 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 07:29 PM | Reply

A Friend:

You are better off like Tevye rather than wasting your important time with a foreign agitating troll: www.youtube.com

#151 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-18 07:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Acting like CBS was held in high regard prior to Weiss being brought on is flat out risible.

Awe, poor thing, your first lie failed, time for a second lie.

Credibility of the entire MSM is in the crapper.
#147 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

This idiot gets all his "news" from X and TruthSocial.

#152 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-18 07:34 PM | Reply

60 minutes was held in high regards.

Until Trump killed it.

#153 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-18 07:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Tons of gaslighting and zero substantiation other than the words of Talarico and Colbert.

#154 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 07:53 PM | Reply

Tons of gaslighting and zero substantiation
#154 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

That's what we've all come to expect from you.

What a sad attention whore you are.

#155 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-18 08:00 PM | Reply

#155

That's really why I killfiled him; it was sad to watch.

Like watching Lassie turn into Shaggydog.

#156 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-18 08:09 PM | Reply

60 Minutes was held in high regards.
Until Dummkopf Trumpf and the sinister mega-oligarch Ellison family killed it.

#153 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-18 07:35 PM | Reply | Flag: ;-)

#157 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-18 08:19 PM | Reply

The other 98%
@other98

CBS tried to spin this as a misunderstanding and it blew up in their face.

After Colbert told viewers that CBS lawyers had said in "no uncertain terms" that James Talarico could not appear on The Late Show or even be mentioned, the network rushed out a legalistic statement insisting the show had never been
"prohibited" from airing the interview.

It read like classic corporate damage control from a company that folded fast under a Trump packed FCC and only found its courage once the backlash hit.

Colbert was not buying it.

On Tuesday he walked back on stage with receipts literally in hand, holding up the CBS statement and mocking it as "crap" and "a surprisingly small piece of paper considering how many butts it is trying to cover," while reading out how he had been told he could not have Talarico on or even talk about not having him on. He also said the warning his team got about possible consequences from the Trump FCC "sounded like a threat of physical violence," turning what CBS framed as neutral regulatory advice into something that felt like raw intimidation.

In true late night truth to power fashion, Colbert turned the whole thing back on the suits and the administration they are scared of.

He blasted the Trump FCC and commissioner Brendan Carr as politically "motivated by partisan purposes" and framed the pulled interview as censorship from the top, not some neutral civics rulebook being enforced.

For viewers on the left, the episode landed like a case study in how corporate media and a vengeful White House work together to police which Democrats get to speak on national TV and which ones are quietly disappeared.

#158 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-18 08:28 PM | Reply

@#154

OK, grateful to my TiVo, on which I recorded the show, starting at 11:35PM on Feb 16 and 17. After I watched the shows, I deleted them, but TiVo keeps a ~trash can~ of all the shows I've recorded, watched and deleted going back over the past month or so ...

OK, I just "undeleted" the 2/16 and the 2/17 shows.

I offer the following unofficial transcript of what I hear in the Feb 16 show ...

... But we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast. The, then I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I have not him on, but I could not mention me not having him on. And, because, my network clearly does not want us to talk about this, let's talk about this ...

I offer the following unofficial transcript of what I hear in the Feb 17 show ...

... Carr issued a letter saying he was thinking of getting rid of that talk-show exception [from the equal-time rule]. He had not gotten rid of it yet.

But, CBS generously did it for him. And told me, unilaterally that I had to abide by the equal time rules.

Something that I have never been asked to do in the interviews for the 21 years of this job

Now, that decision, I want to be clear, is their right.

Just like I have to talk about their decision on air.

...

Anyway, I said my peace last night, I said my peace, I mmade some jokes, that's what they pay me for. I was ready to let the whole thing go.

Until a few hours ago, when my group chat blew up ...

Without ever talking to me, the corporation put out this press release [shown on the air]

Now, this is a surprisingly small piece of paper considering how many butts it is trying to cover ...


#159 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-18 08:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#159 ... Now, this is a surprisingly small piece of paper considering how many butts it is trying to cover ...

That was my impression as well.

CBS knew they blew it, and was in retreat.

Just like ABC and Jimmy Kimmel.


#160 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-18 08:35 PM | Reply

imo, it is good that this discussion has been brought to the fore.

It seems to sohw how Pres Trump's FCC is trying to encourage (OK, force) broadcasters to stop saying bad things about Pres Trump.


imo, that is what happened here.

Only, it blew up in Chair Carr's face once his Trump-doting efforts became more publicized.

#161 | Posted by lamplighter at 2026-02-18 08:54 PM | Reply

This was Colbert's initial statement.

" You know who is not one of my guests tonight? That's Texas State Representative James Talarico. He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast. Then I was told, in some uncertain terms, that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention not having him on."

Then after CBS put out their statement he followed with this:

" They know damn well that every word of my script last night was approved by CBS lawyers, who, for the record, approve every script that goes on the air ... CBS told me unilaterally that I had to abide by the equal time rules, something I have never been asked to do for an interview in the 21 years of this job ... I was even pulled backstage during taping for notes' from lawyers on language to use " unprecedented"

Gee, his story changed. Yet JPW buys it hook, line and sinker. And then mocks anyone who approaches Colbert with even a hint of skepticism.

#162 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 09:07 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Pres Trump's FCC is trying to encourage (OK, force) broadcasters to stop saying bad things about Pres Trump.

Of course he is.

Authoritarian dictators abide no criticism.

Trump is a weak man. A spoiled brat. A petulant child.

#163 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-18 09:07 PM | Reply

This was Colbert's initial statement.

Hilarious.

That's the best you got?

"Called my lawyers" vs "reached out to me"?

---- off moron.

#164 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-18 09:13 PM | Reply

#162 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

By the way, you planning on linking the X.com account you're copying that from?

So we can all laugh.

#165 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-18 09:20 PM | Reply

60 minutes was held in high regards.

Until Trump killed it.

#153 | Posted by ClownShack

so DT forced 60 mins to edit answers from the illiterate ---- during the campaign ?

--I did not know that.

SO DT forced cbs news to attack DT on deporting Godfrey Wade ...a vet here for 50 years

but later had to admit that WAde was arrested at a traffic stop when a deportation order came

up from 2014......

==I did not know that...

....OOPS better tell you that obama was potus then since you're a total idiot.

-

#166 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-18 09:21 PM | Reply

@162 ... Gee, his story changed. ...

Likely because CBS retreated.

... but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast. ...

That apparently was CBS' initial dictum.

Then, after it started to blow up in their face, they backtracked and issued...

... CBS told me unilaterally that I had to abide by the equal time rules ...

CBS still seems to be retreating.

#167 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-18 09:26 PM | Reply

I HAD A STRENUOUS DAY TODAY.....

--had to show my ID at the airport and then again for the rental car.

I used my ID to get some cold medicine at the drug store.

--I went to the bar to have an alcoholic beverage but I could not

force myself to participate in such a racist system anymore......

so I went and voted instead.

#168 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-18 09:26 PM | Reply

@#168

And that is relevant to this thread...

How?

#169 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-18 09:34 PM | Reply

so DT forced 60 mins to edit answers from the illiterate ---- during the campaign ?
--I did not know that.
SO DT forced cbs news to attack DT on deporting Godfrey Wade ...a vet here for 50 years
but later had to admit that WAde was arrested at a traffic stop when a deportation order came
up from 2014......
==I did not know that...
....OOPS better tell you that obama was potus then since you're a total idiot.
-
#166 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Hey Pedo,

Kamala Interview: 14 seconds edited
Trump Interview: 62 minutes edited

Godfrey Wade: The traffic stop was for failure to signal and he also didn't have his license on him. He had a valid license and no citizen is ever arrested for this. He was a legal resident and veteran with an honorable discharge. Yeah, CBS News was right to attack Donald Trump.

You done lying, Pedo?

#170 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-02-18 09:35 PM | Reply

The final interview that aired was 13 minutes long:

" The Kamala Harris "60 Minutes" interview segment that aired on October 7, 2024, was approximately 21 to 25 minutes long"

Sycophant says:

" Kamala Interview: 14 seconds edited"

You were only off by 586 seconds.

Slash Sycophant:

" Trump Interview: 62 minutes edited"

Of course, you don't substantiate your claim, per usual. And also, of course, Trump gave a much longer interview which of course necessitates more cutting for time.

The controversy was not only HOW the Harris interview was edited, it was like aisle clean up at a grocery store. That's bad enough but then the refusal to release the full Harris transcript, which happened immediately after Trump's interview.

#171 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 09:55 PM | Reply

" Trump Interview: 62 minutes edited"

Those are Cobert's formal statements, idiot.

#172 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-18 09:57 PM | Reply

Given the choice between believing Colbert or CBS' blatant lame attempt at ass-covering, I'm going with Colbert until I hear tape of CBS' lawyers saying something different.

#173 | Posted by morris at 2026-02-19 12:40 AM | Reply

@#171

Got links?

thx.


#174 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-19 01:56 AM | Reply

Can't wait until May, just remove his show from the air now. Maybe some reruns of the Beverly Hillbillies could fill the time slot!

#175 | Posted by gasman21 at 2026-02-19 06:35 AM | Reply

#175
You're right to not "get it," especially if you think "Beverly Hillbillies" is real-life TV.
(Sheesh, these MAGAts ... )
Ever considered switching channels, not watching the show?
Decisions, decisions, life is suuuuuuuch hard werk.
*Sigh*

#176 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-02-19 06:56 AM | Reply

Who knew that we would be spelling "fox" CBS?

#177 | Posted by danni at 2026-02-19 07:08 AM | Reply

"Who knew that we would be spelling "fox" CBS?
#177 | Posted by danni at 2026-02-19 07:08 AM"

Just change their name to See BS

#178 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2026-02-19 07:28 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Seriously though it 7is sad to see such a great news gatherin8g organisation being turned int4 garbage. 1 doubt if they are much better but i do watch1 NBC vor ABC instead.

#179 | Posted by danni at 2026-02-19 07:47 AM | Reply

Except for Stephen Colbert, of course!

#180 | Posted by danni at 2026-02-19 07:52 AM | Reply

"Can't wait until May, just remove his show from the air now."

lol

You poor dear.

Is your tuner broke?

It must be horrible for you to be so stupid that you don't know how to change a channel.

It will be interesting to see how many cancel their paramount (+!) accounts in May.

I know I am. Because I also vote with my dollars.

#181 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-19 08:04 AM | Reply

Some of the criticisms are legitimate but damn, that piece read like an op Ed, a heavily biased one at that.

#145 | Posted by BellRinger

LOL believes Beri Weiss and the weaponized FCC while calling an outside assessment an "op ed" that is "biased."

STFU ballwasher, you pathetic stooge.

All your puling about non-existent censorship under Biden and you immediately fall in line when there's clear government interference and control of media.

Idiot.

#182 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-19 10:03 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

A fuming Jasmine Crockett has released a statement
#112 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

It's a shame she's getting involved in the mud slinging.

She was stronger before she stopped so low.

Two things. Crockett wasn't fuming at all. That was so ridiculous it made me laugh. And who the fcck would post such a stupid thing? Crockett was on Colbert's show multiple times already..

Second thing: Shame on accepting that that bullshit was true and accepting the premise. That should've been shoved down Bellringer's gaping hole. I'm going to post the transcript of what Crockett said in my next post.

It must be horrible for you to be so stupid that you don't know how to change a channel.
Not only is that poster stupid they demand that everyone else have no choice and think as stupidly as they. They call that "freedumb" and it's the base call of MAGA. "We cancel things we don't like so we don't have our fee-fees hurt!"

MAGA - the very definition of "cancel culture."

#183 | Posted by YAV at 2026-02-19 10:47 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Crockeett's initial statement on this Trump/Republican/MAGA cancel culture (transcript):

I have been briefed somewhat about this Colbert situation, not fully and I'm waiting on a segment. Um, I have done Colbert a number of times if you pay attention. I've done the View a number of times. I've done Kimmel a number of times. I've done all these shows a number of times. We did receive um information suggesting that um the federal government did not shut down this segment.

Number one, that is my understanding that the federal government did not didn't shut this down and we will do an official statement once we get another official statement
that we anticipate is going to be coming um from Carr. All right. So, we will read
what they say and then we'll go from there.

It is our understanding that Colbert either Mr. Colbert or CBS decided that they just get more (distorted) and this was because of a fear that the FCC may say something to them and that there may have been advice to just have me on and then they could clear the issue.

Um it was my understanding that someone somewhere decided we just don't want to do that and instead we're going to just do it this way. So, I don't believe and and let me be clear, I don't have any love for the current FCC. I don't want anybody to believe that I do. I do not have any love for them.

I do think that there are additional layers um at play here. And so before we put
out our formal statement, I do want to make sure that Paramount, who is um the parent company, puts out theirs and we have exactly what happened um versus kind of the mania that just so happened to play out on the very first day of early voting, which feels kind of (distorted).

www.youtube.com
Given Crockett's been on multiple times, across the networks, including the View (which has also been strong armed over Talarico) CBS should have just shut their mouths.

But I'm damn glad they didn't! LMAO!

#184 | Posted by YAV at 2026-02-19 10:50 AM | Reply

Gee, his story changed. Yet JPW buys it hook, line and sinker. And then mocks anyone who approaches Colbert with even a hint of skepticism.

#162 | Posted by BellRinger

That's not a change in story, dips*&^.

#185 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-19 11:38 AM | Reply

" LOL believes Beri Weiss and the weaponized FCC while calling an outside assessment an "op ed" that is "biased."

STFU ballwasher, you pathetic stooge.

All your puling about non-existent censorship under Biden and you immediately fall in line when there's clear government interference and control of media.

Idiot.

#182 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-02-19 10:03 AM | REPLY | FLAG"

You have nothing but an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory. I already showed that Colbert lied QUOTING HIM DIRECTLY. You have a narrative. You are an excuse driven useful idiot.

#186 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-19 12:42 PM | Reply

" That's not a change in story, dips*&^.

#185 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-02-19 11:38 AM | FLAG: "

Yes, he did. Do you need me to refer you back?

#187 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-19 12:44 PM | Reply

You people are so divorced from reality. It is truly astonishing to watch.

#188 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-19 12:46 PM | Reply

You people are so divorced from reality.

#188 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

The Phantom Zone weighs in.

#189 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-19 12:48 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

You people are so divorced from reality. It is truly astonishing to watch.
#188 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

It couldn't be that notorious liar, Trump, and his dog at the FCC, are lying.

It's everyone else that's lying.

Way to keep digging that hole.

#190 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-19 12:57 PM | Reply

You have nothing but an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.
#186 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

Projection 101, blame others of what you yourself are guilty of.

#191 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-19 01:01 PM | Reply

You have nothing but an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory. I already showed that Colbert lied QUOTING HIM DIRECTLY. You have a narrative. You are an excuse driven useful idiot.

#186 | Posted by BellRinger

LOL you don't even know what these terms mean. It's not conspiracy theory at all, numbn*&s.

Yes, he did. Do you need me to refer you back?

#187 | Posted by BellRinger

You're the kind of person who thinks public health officials updating guidance based on new information means they were "lying."

So don't bother wasting your or my time because what he said in those two quotes aren't a changed story or a lie, idiot.

You people are so divorced from reality. It is truly astonishing to watch.

#188 | Posted by BellRinger

This from the dumbf*&^ who couldn't stop rimming Jonathon Turley but now fully supports obvious political influence in media.

The primary thread in all you shart into the universe, ballwasher, is the willingness to swallow anything this administration and MAGA gives you, no matter how contradictory or false it is.

Funny part is I don't even think you're aware you're doing it.

#192 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-19 01:13 PM | Reply

The funniest thing is, this is Dems with Colbert playing his usual role of Democrat Party apparatchik chucking Crocket, a black woman, under the bus because as the party has constantly shown, they will always put their thumbs on the scale to get their preferred candidate through the primary even if it means ditching identity politics and chucking the black woman for the white man.

" The primary thread in all you shart into the universe, ballwasher, is the willingness to swallow anything this administration and MAGA gives you, no matter how contradictory or false it is."

This is a manufactured non-controversy and because your tongue is so far up the DNC's rear you are incapable of seeing it. Trump lives in your tiny head.

#193 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-19 01:23 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

This is a manufactured non-controversy ...

... brought to you by Brenden Carr and the GOP.

Remember folks, if you like banging children, the GOP is the place to be.

#194 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-19 01:34 PM | Reply

Perhaps the funniest thing is, if "equal time" were to be invoked it would give a platform to 2 other Democrats. Republicans aren't even in the equation on this because this is a Democrat primary.

But, JPW laps it all up like a willing dupe, per usual.

#195 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-19 01:35 PM | Reply

I'm still waiting for BullBringer to post the X.com page he copied his information from.

Will he ever man up and provide it?

#196 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-19 01:35 PM | Reply

Perhaps the funniest thing is, if "equal time" were to be invoked

But it isn't being invoked. Or enforced.

It was simply a tactic the GOP to tried to utilize to prevent Talarico from appearing on the Late Show.

Instead, all they did was draw a lot of extra attention to it.

#197 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-19 01:38 PM | Reply

From Forbes:

By 12 p.m. EST Wednesday, more than 5.7 million people had watched Colbert's interview on YouTube, which was posted late Monday despite the host telling his audience that CBS' lawyers would not allow him to have Talarico on the broadcast.

Adding in views from Colbert and Talarico's Facebook, X and TikTok accounts that also posted the video, the Talarico campaign claimed it had been viewed more than 40 million times by Wednesday morning, including more than 12 million views on an X post when the Senate candidate referenced "the interview Donald Trump didn't want you to see" (a Forbes tally found views of the clip across measurable platforms was around 30 million).

www.forbes.com

#198 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-19 01:43 PM | Reply

Talarico got $25M in donations 24hrs later. Mission accomplished.

#199 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2026-02-19 01:54 PM | Reply

" Talarico got $25M in donations 24hrs later. Mission accomplished.

#199 | POSTED BY LEE_THE_AGENT AT 2026-02-19 01:54 PM | REPLY"

Yep. This has been a very successful hoax. Smollet is taking notes.

#200 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-19 02:04 PM | Reply

This has been a very successful hoax.
#200 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

What's the hoax?

Perhaps you can explain it.

In your own words.

#201 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-19 02:29 PM | Reply

they will always put their thumbs on the scale to get their preferred candidate through the primary

Wait. Suddenly it's controversial for a political party to...support their candidate for a particular run?

First you tried to let Weiss and the FCC off the hook for doing everything you couldn't stop claiming the Dems were doing from 2020 to 2024, and now you're so desperate to attempt the 'duhhh DeMz ArE RaCisTz!' angle you're going to act like a party supporting a particular candidate for a race is somehow scandelous?

Just STFU you idiot.

#202 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-19 02:46 PM | Reply

"Trickle down economics is NOT a theory; IT IS THEFT."

-James Talarico

#203 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-19 02:48 PM | Reply

This is a manufactured non-controversy and because your tongue is so far up the DNC's rear you are incapable of seeing it. Trump lives in your tiny head.

#193 | Posted by BellRinger

Just put your Trump flag up, sign up for half a dozen auto-enrolled MAGA donation chain letters telling you you're the heart of America and start getting all your "news" from FaceBook memes like msgt.

You're cooked. Not sure you were ever really bringing much to the table, but what little there was is looooong gone.

#204 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-19 02:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Perhaps the funniest thing is, if "equal time" were to be invoked it would give a platform to 2 other Democrats. Republicans aren't even in the equation on this because this is a Democrat primary.
But, JPW laps it all up like a willing dupe, per usual.

#195 | Posted by BellRinger

Funny thing is you actually think anyone here would object to that because you're f*&^ing stupid enough to believe that's what this is all about.

Again, just f*&^ off. You no longer offer even a modicum of useful thoughts or opinions.

#205 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-19 02:50 PM | Reply

Yep. This has been a very successful hoax. Smollet is taking notes.

#200 | Posted by BellRinger

Duhhhh HoAx!!!

Idiot.

#206 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-19 02:52 PM | Reply

I'm still trying to get BullBringer to explain what the hoax is.

Colbert lied?

Trump is a very litigious person.

If he had an opportunity to sue Colbert for lying or misrepresenting the facts, there would already be a lawsuit filed against him.

#207 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-19 02:55 PM | Reply

" Wait. Suddenly it's controversial for a political party to...support their candidate for a particular run?"

I'm not saying it's controversial. It's not particularly democratic but it's not controversial.

#208 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-19 04:13 PM | Reply

" 205 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-02-19 02:50 PM | FLAG: "

I've owned you on this thread with Colbert's own words. All you have is unsubstantiated conspiracy BS.

It's all you ever have.

#209 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-19 04:14 PM | Reply

You can't even state what the hoax is.

#210 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-19 04:58 PM | Reply

I've owned you on this thread

Trump owns you.

Take a victory lap!

#211 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-19 05:00 PM | Reply

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