XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:18:58 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.   
   Sherman) wrote:   
      
   >>> | Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose   
   >>> | Anti-ICE Accounts   
   >   
   > |   
   > | On Monday night, the Trump administration made a hefty   
   > | in-kind donation to a Senate candidate in Texas. But the   
   > | beneficiary wasn't incumbent Sen. John Cornyn or even his   
   > | scandal-plagued challenger, Attorney General Ken Paxton. In   
   > | fact, it wasn't a Republican at all.   
   > |   
   > | This slug of earned media went to Democrat James Talarico,   
   > | who made front-page news after CBS refused to air his   
   > | appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.   
   > |   
   > | On his show, Colbert said he'd been "told in no uncertain   
   > | terms by our network's lawyers, who called us directly,   
   > | that we could not have him on the broadcast."   
   > |   
   > | "Let's just call this what it is. Donald Trump's   
   > | administration wants to silence anyone who says anything   
   > | bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV.   
   > | Okay?" Colbert riffed. "He's like a toddler with too much   
   > | screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his   
   > | diapers." (Watch below.)   
   > | ...   
   >   
   >   
   >    --bks   
      
      
   Equal time provisions are not new.   
      
   DUH.   
      
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