What is Stephen Colbert’s problem with strong black women?
We ask because the late-night host had such a meltdown after his bosses said he’d need to give equal time to Rep. Jasmine Crockett or they couldn’t air his interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico.
You see, the two are the main candidates for Texas Democrats’ Senate nomination in the March 3 primary, with early voting already underway. (The other guy on the ballot, businessman Ahmad Hassan, is a chronic candidate with no chance to win.)
Basic fairness, and federal equal-time laws, pretty much require the so-called comic to bring Crockett on, too — but Colbert apparently refused, and then staged a public tantrum over it.
Worse, he (with the likes of CNN’s Jake Tapper playing along) pretended the order had come from the Federal Communications Commission, which in fact had not acted.
Though FCC chief Brendan Carr has ruled that late-night “comedy” shows no longer qualify for the exemption from equal-time rules granted to news reporting — eminently defensible, given how partisan (and wearisome) Colbert and his ilk have become.
Meanwhile, the illusion of Trump-administration free-speech suppression has helped Talerico raise $2.5 million off the contretemps.
So the injured party here definitely isn’t Colbert or Talarico, it’s Crockett. We’d love to hear Colbert explain why that doesn’t (as the usual leftist rules would suggest) make him a sexist bigot, or at least a privileged twit.
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