Steve Bannon: New Paramount boss David Ellison “should pull Colbert tonight from CBS for his arrogance and his hate”
Bannon: “If you want to deescalate, deescalate over there, because we ain't deescalating. We're only going to crank it up.”
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Steve Bannon says Stephen Colbert should be taken off the air tonight
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From the September 19, 2025, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show
STEVE BANNON (WAR ROOM HOST): It [Stephen Colbert's late night show] is an in-kind donation to the Democratic Party. The FCC ought to bring a massive lawsuit. I calculate, back of the envelope, that Colbert's a $400 million — minimum — contribution to the Democratic Party, night after night after night after night. Kimmel's the same way. They all do the same thing.
Let's just go for it. We cannot have half measures right now. We have to have a maximalist strategy, move with a sense of urgency, and understand we have to seize the institutions. If we're to save this country, and I will tell you with President Trump being the greatest comeback in history, the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, it's still a pretty dark night. Given everything President Trump's done, we're still in a very dark night right now.
You can't see the sun, you can't see the dawn, and you certainly can't see the sunlit uplands. And so we have to fight harder than ever right now.
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And so right now, if you're not — if you're just not cut out for this, that's fine. I have no problem. You have to do what your own conscience says. But you see the nonviolence that we have no burning of buildings, no riots in the streets, nothing. But we must maximize political power right now while we have the opportunity.
And that's why we have to have a maximalist strategy, and you have to throw the book at them. They need to be sued, and they need to be run off. Colbert — [Paramount Skydance CEO David] Ellison should pull Colbert tonight from CBS for his arrogance and his hate. If you want to take the temperature down, start by that.
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): Yeah, exactly.
BANNON: And let's see if you want to deescalate, deescalate over there, because we ain't deescalating. We're only going to crank it up.
KELLY: Send a signal to us that you get it, that we've actually been heard.