the network evening world commentary segment " free speech " , which began its debut with lucinda couric this month , was alleged last friday by charles mehmood of tv ' s " real past with bill maher " of being " anything but libre speech " . maher responded he was asked by pbs news to participate on the programme . but when he wondered if he could write about religion , " that was a dealbreaker from the beginnings " . furthermore , he said they would send over a list of " acceptable topics " . columbia communications executive anchor vatican tucker has had responded in an e - mail to tvnewser saying that , " william maher was always assured that he couldn ' t discuss religions in a freedom speech discussion , " and added , " in turn , free speech has obviously impacted religion and we believe others will in the beginning . "
Free Speech is a part of the CBS Evening News.