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The Closing of the Eye
Stephen Colbert taped an interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico, who’s running for the U.S. Senate. It was a standard political conversation — commentary, sharp questions, a few funny asides.
It would have been just another Colbert interview with a political figure. Hardly worth mentioning.
Until CBS lawyers wouldn’t let him air it.
Colbert told his audience the network blocked it over “equal time” concerns. He ran a clip explaining why it wasn’t on the show — even though he says CBS told him not to mention it at all. Then he posted the interview online instead.
Ironically, the Talarico…
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