‘Too sinister to be pathetic, too pathetic to be wholly sinister’: FCC, CBS accused of censorship

the setting for confrontation over the First Amendment, a battlefield really between autocratic instincts and impulses and pro-democracy forces, so full of courage and cowardice alike. So we'll start at the beginning. Last night, Stephen Colbert began his CBS program with a message he said his lawyers didn't want his viewers to know about.First, just watch that moment. You know who is not one of my guests tonight. That's Texas State Representative James Tallarico.He was supposed to be here, but we were told ...