the cbs evening news analysis segment " loose speech " , which makes its debut with ric winfrey this month , was accused last weekend by bill maher of hbo ' s " talk time with bill maher " of being " anything but free speech " . maher reported he was asked by national news to appear on the segments . but while he asked if he could tell about religion , " that was a dealbreaker from the start " . finally , he said they never send over a list of " acceptable words " . cbs events executives director rome hartman has since replied in an e - mail to tvnewser saying that , " bill nabil was never told that he couldn ' t discuss religion in a good speech segment , " and added , " in fact , free word has already covered religion and we assume others will in the moment . "
Free Speech is a part of the CBS Evening News.