Is Stephen Colbert a bigot, or just a twit? – Latest News
What is Stephen Colbert’s drawback with robust black girls?
We ask as a result of the late-night host had such a meltdown after his bosses stated he’d need to present equal time to Rep. Jasmine Crockett or they couldn’t air his interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico.
You see, the 2 are the primary candidates for Texas Democrats’ Senate nomination within the March 3 major, with early voting already underway. (The different man on the poll, businessman Ahmad Hassan, is a persistent candidate with no probability to win.)
Basic equity, and federal equal-time legal guidelines, just about require the so-called comedian to deliver Crockett on, too — however Colbert apparently refused, after which staged a public tantrum over it.
Worse, he (with the likes of CNN’s Jake Tapper enjoying alongside) pretended the order had come from the Federal Communications Commission, which in reality had not acted.
Though FCC chief Brendan Carr has ruled that late-night “comedy” exhibits no longer qualify for the exemption from equal-time guidelines granted to information reporting — eminently defensible, given how partisan (and wearisome) Colbert and his ilk have turn out to be.
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Meanwhile, the phantasm of Trump-administration free-speech suppression has helped Talerico raise $2.5 million off the contretemps.
So the injured occasion right here undoubtedly isn’t Colbert or Talarico, it’s Crockett. We’d love to listen to Colbert clarify why that doesn’t (as the same old leftist guidelines would recommend) make him a sexist bigot, or at the least a privileged twit.
