Stephen Colbert

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68 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 17 Feb

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The Don Lemon Show · HOT TOPICS | MAGA & Epstein Freaks Taking Over Mainstream Media?! · 17 Feb 2026 podcast

That's Texas State Representative James Tallarico.

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 doesn't want us to talk about this,

LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS.

You might have heard of this thing called the equal time rule, okay?

It's an old FCC rule that applies only to radio and broadcast television, not cable or streaming, that says if a show has a candidate on during an election, they have to have all that candidate's opponents on as well.

It's the FCC's most time-honored rule right after no nipples at the Super Bowl.

There's long been an exception for this rule, an exception for news interviews and talk show interviews with politicians.

Now, that's crucial.

How else were voters supposed to know back in 92 that Bill Clinton sucked at saxophone?

But on January 21st of this year, a letter was released by FCC chairman and smug bowling pin Brendan Carr.

Well, sir, you're chairman of the FCC, so FCCU.

Because I think...

Now, here's the thing.

I don't usually say this to a guest, but if people are watching this right now, it's because they found us online, on YouTube.

I did an act of the show that's on tonight explaining why it's not the first time you've caused some drama.

FCC opening probe into The View after appearance by Tallarico.

Do you mean to cause trouble?

I think that Donald Trump is worried that we're about to flip Texas.

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