作者：莎拉·林奇·鲍德温
更新时间：2026年2月18日 / 美国东部时间上午9:47 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
周二晚间，《深夜秀》主持人斯蒂芬·科尔伯特再次批评哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS），此前该网络就其与德克萨斯州民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉利科（James Talarico）的采访发表了一份声明，而这场采访前一晚并未在广播电视上播出。
“律师们未经与我沟通就发布这份声明，这真的很令人惊讶。我甚至不知道该如何对待这些废话，”科尔伯特谈到声明时表示，他将声明揉成一团塞进垃圾袋并丢弃。
但科尔伯特补充称，他“甚至不生气”。
“我真的不想与公司建立敌对关系。我从未有过这样的关系，”他说。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系哥伦比亚广播公司及其母公司派拉蒙（Paramount）——后者也是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的母公司——就科尔伯特的最新评论作出回应。
科尔伯特于周一晚间首次批评CBS，称该网络因美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）近期关于日间脱口秀和深夜电视节目需为竞选同一政治职位的候选人提供平等时段的指导方针，阻止了他对美国参议院候选人塔拉利科的采访播出。这场采访被发布在一个不受FCC规则约束的平台——YouTube上。
CBS随后在一份声明中表示，他们并未禁止《深夜秀》在电视上播出塔拉利科的采访。
“该节目获得的法律指导指出，播出可能触发FCC平等时段规则，涉及另外两名候选人，包括众议员贾斯敏·克罗克特（Jasmine Crockett），并提供了满足其他候选人平等时段要求的方案。《深夜秀》决定通过其YouTube频道播出该采访，并在广播电视上进行宣传，而非提供平等时段选项，”哥伦比亚广播公司的声明称。
科尔伯特周二晚间讽刺这份声明，称：“现在很明显，这份声明是由——我猜是——律师们撰写的。”
他表示，“他们非常清楚，我周一晚间剧本的每一个字都经过CBS律师的批准，据记录，他们批准了所有播出的剧本。”
在他周一晚间的独白和关于该事件的播出讨论之间，他称“被叫到后台听取这些律师的更多指示，这在以前从未发生过。他们告诉我们需要用特定语言描述平等时段例外情况，而我使用了那种语言。”
FCC上月发布通知，强调了一项数十年来的法律：任何获得FCC许可的广播公司，若允许政治候选人通过其电波出现，必须为竞选同一职位的所有其他候选人提供“平等机会”。该法律豁免“真正的新闻广播”和新闻采访。
由特朗普总统任命、与总统结盟的FCC主席布伦丹·卡尔（Brendan Carr）当时在社交平台X上表示，传统电视网络多年来“一直假设其深夜和日间脱口秀符合‘真正新闻’节目标准——即使其动机纯粹是党派政治目的。今天，FCC提醒他们有义务为所有候选人提供平等机会。”
科尔伯特指责卡尔本人“受党派目的驱使”，并表示特朗普政府“想要压制任何在电视上批评特朗普的人，因为特朗普所做的就是看电视，好吧？”
周二，科尔伯特表示，“我们只是惊讶于这样一家庞大的全球公司竟然不敢对抗这些恶霸。”
“我们查阅了所有资料，不仅在我整个深夜职业生涯中，而且回溯到20世纪60年代以来任何人的深夜职业生涯，都找不到任何该规则被执行的例子，”科尔伯特说。
由前总统拜登提名的FCC委员安娜·戈麦斯（Anna Gomez）周二在科尔伯特最新评论前表示，CBS根据《第一修正案》有权“决定播出哪些采访”。
“这使得其屈服于政治压力的决定更加令人失望，”戈麦斯在社交媒体上写道。“企业利益不能成为回避播出具有新闻价值内容的理由。”
周三，白宫发言人戴维斯·英格尔（Davis Ingle）在给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的声明中称科尔伯特“是个可悲的闹剧，毫无才华且收视率糟糕，这正是为什么CBS取消了他的节目并将其赶下台的原因。”
“FCC主席布伦丹·卡尔只是在履行职责并执行规则，”英格尔说。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系FCC寻求置评。
塔拉利科竞选团队宣布，在《深夜秀》争议开始后的24小时内筹集了250万美元，该团队称这是其单日筹集的最大金额。
艾米丽·梅·察霍（Emily Mae Czachor）对本报道有贡献。
Stephen Colbert slams CBS again amid controversy over James Talarico interview – CBS News
By Sarah Lynch Baldwin
Updated on: February 18, 2026 / 9:47 AM EST / CBS News
“The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert criticized CBS again on Tuesday night after the network issued a statement about his interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico that didn’t air on broadcast television the night before.
“For the lawyers to release this without even talking to me is really surprising. I don’t even know what to do with this crap,” Colbert said about the statement, which he crumpled up in a dog poop bag and discarded.
But Colbert added he is “not even mad.”
“I really don’t want an adversarial relationship with the network. I’ve never had one,” he said.
CBS News has reached out to CBS and its parent company Paramount, which is also the parent company of CBS News, for its response to Colbert’s latest comments.
Colbert first criticized CBS on Monday night, saying the network blocked his interview with U.S. Senate hopeful Talarico from airing on TV over recent FCC guidance about daytime talk shows and late-night TV programs providing equal time to candidates running for the same political office. The interview was posted on a platform where FCC rules don’t apply – YouTube.
CBS later said in a statement it did not prohibit “The Late Show” from broadcasting the Talarico interview on television.
“The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal-time rule for two other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled,” the CBS statement said. “THE LATE SHOW decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on-air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing the equal-time options.”
Colbert took a dig at the statement Tuesday night, saying, “Now clearly, this statement was written by – and I’m guessing for – lawyers.”
He said “they know damn well that every word” of his Monday night script “was approved by CBS’ lawyers who, for the record, approve every script that goes on the air.”
Between his Monday night monologue and his on-air discussion about the issue, he said he “got called backstage to get more notes from these lawyers, something that had never, ever happened before, and they told us the language they wanted me to use to describe that equal-time exception, and I used that language.”
The equal-time rule was spotlighted last month when the FCC issued a notice about a decades-old law requiring any FCC-licensed broadcaster that lets a political candidate appear on its airwaves to offer “equal opportunities” to all other candidates running for the same office. The law exempts “bona fide newscasts” and news interviews from the equal-time rule.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who was appointed by President Trump and is an ally of the president, said on X at the time that legacy TV networks have, for years, “assumed that their late night & daytime talk shows qualify as ‘bona fide news’ programs – even when motivated by purely partisan political purposes. Today, the FCC reminded them of their obligation to provide all candidates with equal opportunities.”
Colbert accused Carr of being “motivated by partisan purposes” himself and said the Trump administration “wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, OK?”
Colbert said on Tuesday he is “just so surprised that this giant, global corporation would not stand up to these bullies.”
“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.
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, who was nominated by former President Joe Biden, said Tuesday, before Colbert’s latest comments, that CBS is protected under the First Amendment “to determine what interviews it airs.”
“That makes its decision to yield to political pressure all the more disappointing,” Gomez wrote on social media. “Corporate interests cannot justify retreating from airing newsworthy content.”
In a statement to CBS News on Wednesday, White House spokesman Davis Ingle called Colbert “a pathetic trainwreck with no talent and terrible ratings, which is exactly why CBS canceled his show and is booting him off the airwaves.”
“FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is simply doing his job and enforcing the rules,” Ingle said.
CBS News reached out to the FCC for comment.
The Talarico campaign announced it raised $2.5 million in the 24 hours after “The Late Show” controversy began, which the campaign said is the largest amount it has raised in a single day.
Emily Mae Czachor contributed to this report.