MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow has urged CBS and its parent company, Skydance Paramount, to reconsider its decision to cancel Stephen Colbert’s late-night show.

Maddow told Nicolle Wallace on her The Best People podcast that Paramount-Skydance merger has been a “huge embarrassment.”

“Maybe you can now see where in history you’re going to end up, and now’s your chance to try to alter that and try to get right,” Maddow said. “And I think that a lot of institutions are in that same boat.”

Even though CBS said the decision to cancel the show was “purely financial,” given his poor ratings and high overhead, Maddow said that the company got rid of Colbert for political reasons.

“It was absolutely transparent what CBS and Paramount were doing with getting rid of Stephen Colbert. ‘Oh, it’s

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