Lawrence O'Donnell Shreds CBS Over Colbert Cave: ‘The Weakest, Most Cowardly’
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The "Last Word" host excoriated CBS for caving to pressure from the FCC and spiking Stephen Colbert's interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D).
MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday torched CBS for pulling an interview from “The Late Show” after “the weakest, most cowardly corporate lawyers in America” caved to pressure from the Federal Communications Commission under President Donald Trump.
“In 2006, Stephen Colbert started using the phrase ‘the Colbert bump’ to describe the surge in popularity that could happen for someone just by being on TV with Stephen,” said O’Donnell. “A surge in book sales or, in the case of politicians, a bump up in the polls.”
The MS NOW host continued, “And now the Colbert bump has taken on new meaning and we here at ‘The Last Word’ stand ready to accept any guest on this program after that guest is bumped out of Stephen Colbert’s show by cowardly corporate lawyers.”
O’Donnell went on to play a clip of Colbert revealing Monday that his interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) had been spiked over fears related to the FCC’s equal-time rule, which O’Donnell tore apart — before interviewing Talarico himself.
“The CBS lawyers are factually and legally wrong, as anyone who knows the law should know,” O’Donnell said Tuesday. “It would be impossible for James Talarico’s appearance or any politician’s appearance on Stephen Colbert’s show to trigger the FCC equal-time rule.”
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The "Last Word" host excoriated CBS for caving to pressure from the FCC and spiking Stephen Colbert's interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D).