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't been executed or imprisoned. Must be pretty uncomfortable but at least it exists. So what do you think? What do you think of the analogy? They do want to force people to be their religion. That seems true. Except they haven't enforced it. The Jewish people who live in Iran, they haven't forced them to convert. So I think the bigger crime is if you're ever a Muslim and you try to get out of it…
← Previous segment →his own person. Laura Ingraham. You know all of them are just unique personalities. But on CNN it looks like everybody's a version of Jake Tapper. You've got gay Jake Tapper, Black Jake Tapper, female Jake Tapper. But they're all like a Jake Tapper-ish.
But apparently at least Fox News is saying that Jake Tapper is the most professional journalist on CNN. Well Jake Tapper just mentioned a deadly insurrection that never happened. So President Trump accused CNN of, you know, or just mocked them for their low ratings. And the most professional journalist on CNN responded with fake news. Literally fake news. And insurrection.
Now as I've said before, everybody is a version of Jake Tapper. What would Jeffrey Toobin be? What version of Jake Tapper would Jeffrey Toobin be? Well I call him Jake Fapper. Jake Vapper. I'll just let that sit with you for a moment. Jake Fapper. You're welcome. Yes that was my best joke of the day.
CNN averaged 654,000 viewers during the second quarter. Six hundred and fifty-four thousand viewers. That's the size of my Twitter feed. So every tweet I send out has at least the potential — you know the algorithm decides who sees it — but every tweet I send out has the same potential audience size as CNN. So is CNN important anymore?
Now of course their television viewing audience is probably trivial compared to their online presence and their website. So really we shouldn't count their TV viewership. We should count their website stuff as well to be fair. All right. I'm loving watching that story between the fight between Fox News and them.
Let's talk about Gwen Berry. So Gwen Berry is the hammer thrower who was in the Olympics and she didn't want to face the flag or acknowledge the national anthem. But she's defending herself now and she said, quote, "I never said that I hated the country. I never said that. All I said was I respect my people enough." My people, I guess that would be Black Americans. I'm guessing that's the context. "That I respect my people enough to not stand for and or acknowledge something that disrespects them. I love my people. Point blank period."
So I'm not sure that anybody explained to Gwen Berry what she's doing at the Olympics. I don't think the Olympics are designed for the athletes, are they? When the Olympics were designed, did people say let's do this giant worldwide thing for this tiny group of athletes because that's what it's for? We really want to spend billions of dollars and make a global event
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so that we can benefit a few elite athletes who can throw a hammer really far, for example, and can ski and shoot? Was the Olympics designed for the athletes? I feel like no. The Olympics were designed for world cohesion, you know, for the benefit of the audience, for the benefit of the countries involved and their status. But it wasn't for the athletes. Of course we want the athletes to be treat…
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