""We looked and we can't find one example of this rule being enforced for any talk show interview, not only for my entire late-night career, but for anyone's late-night career going back to the 1960s," Colbert said."
""But CBS generously did it for him," Colbert said."
""I don't know what this is about," Colbert said. "For the record, I'm not even mad. I really don't want an adversarial relationship with the network. I've never had one.""
A late-night talk show host confronted network restrictions after lawyers warned that airing an interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico could trigger the FCC's equal-time rule. The host said CBS had previously approved the script but later issued a statement denying that lawyers had instructed him not to air the segment. The host instead posted the interview on YouTube and theatrically discarded the network statement. The FCC chairman's proposal to remove the late-night exemption prompted network concern, even though the host and others noted a lack of historical enforcement of the rule for talk show interviews.
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