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MEDIA BUZZmeter

Stephen Colbert Calls CBS Denial of Killing Interview with Democratic Candidate ‘Crap,’ Jimmy Kimmel Hosting DCCC Fundraiser

MEDIA BUZZmeter

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News, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.1582 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Howie Kurtz on Stephen Colbert blasting CBS for not airing an interview with a Democrat Trump critic, the continuing search for Nancy Guthrie and the efforts by TMZ founder Harvey Levin to assist the FBI investigation, and Tricia McLaughlin resigning as the top spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security under Kristi Noem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.

0:38.4

We begin today's super serious podcast with story number one,

0:44.2

which I hereby dub late show pissing matches.

0:48.6

And despite my little attempt at levity,

0:52.3

there's some serious political implications here and First Amendment

0:58.1

implications as well. So unless you've been living under Iraq, you probably know that Stephen

1:03.4

Colbert, who's scheduled to go off here in May, is in a major league feud with his network, which, as he tells it, and he went into this in great detail,

1:16.8

refused to allow him to air an interview he had already taped with a guy named James Tala Rico,

1:23.9

a Texas state rep running now as a Democrat for Congress.

1:28.3

By the way, this is the best thing that ever happened to tell Rico,

1:31.3

because no one had heard of him before, and now he's making the rounds.

1:34.3

So it was a political gift.

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