CBS Doesn't Need to Be Told Anymore

A year of capitulation, from paying off the president to killing stories to blocking interviews.

On Monday night, Stephen Colbert told his audience that CBS’s lawyers had called The Late Show staff directly and told them, “in no uncertain terms,” that they could not air a scheduled interview with James Talarico, a Texas state representative running for U.S. Senate. Then they told Colbert he wasn’t allowed to mention on air that the interview had be…