FCC opens investigation into Stephen Colbert’s controversial Trump insult
Stephen Colbert apparently provoked the ire of more than just Trump supporters and the LGBTQ community when he made a controversial joke on The Late Show earlier this week. According to The Hill, the Federal Communications Commission has opened an investigation into Colbert’s comments to see if the joke, which illustrated a sexual act between the president and Vladimir Putin using the word “cock,” meets the Supreme Court standards for “obscene” content. Colbert half-heartedly apologized for the joke on Wednesday, saying his words were “cruder” than they needed to be following the #FireColbert boycott that spun up on Twitter in the aftermath.
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