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CBS Calls Out Stephen Colbert's Lies About Talarico Interview

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Greg and Jim start with the CBS and Stephen Colbert dispute over James Tallarico. The opening rests on a claim, a correction, and the gap between the two. They keep coming back to the point that the update matters more than the story people had already settled on. Brian Stelter comes up as one place where the truth started to come into focus. The hosts treat the equal-time explanation as the part that deserves scrutiny. They care about the spin, but they also care about what the story does politically. The conversation then moves to New York City. Zoran Mamdami's fiscal pitch gives them a new target. They go through the size of the city's budget problem and the promise to make the wealthy and profitable corporations pay more. Their view is that New York City cannot do that on its own. Kathy Hochul becomes the main political obstacle because the state has to be involved, and she is up for reelection this year. That leaves Mamdami's pitch sounding, in their telling, more like a slogan than a complete answer. The episode frames middle- and lower-class residents as the ones who could wind up carrying the tax burden if the math does not work. The tone stays skeptical and dry throughout. The back and forth is quick and familiar. The hosts use plain language to bring grand promises back down to size. They do not stay on one point longer than they need to. The segment moves because the argument keeps moving. Near the end, the show gives Robert Duvall a brief farewell. The tribute is short and plain. It lands as a quiet change of pace after the political argument. The episode signs off in the usual Three Martini Lunch style.

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A brisk update that moves from the Colbert/CBS correction to New York's budget fight.

Greg Karambas and Jim Garrity open with the CBS, Stephen Colbert, and James Talarico story, then correct the record by noting that CBS did not ban the show.

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You want the Colbert-CBS correction and the New York tax fight, without the fluff.

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