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I even involved in this question? It's much more credible if women make the decision. Doesn't mean it's right. Doesn't mean it's wrong. And it doesn't take away your right to participate. I don't want to take your right to participate in any question. I'm just saying if you want the most credible outcome, it would be women deciding what women do with their bodies, even if there were lots of disagr…
← Previous segment →afraid. That's the only reason you get it, right? I mean, you might not be very afraid, but let's say at least concerned. Because whether you get vaccinated or don't get vaccinated, it's all based on fear. The fear is the only thing that's making any of it happen. He thinks one side is operating on fear. That's everybody. That's Keith Olbermann. He's literally afraid that other people won't get vaccines. It's all fear. There's no non-fear opinion involved in any of this right now. You might not have much fear, but if you had zero fear, you wouldn't even be involved in the conversation.
Anyway, the most important question about his video—and I think Twitter user Angela pointed this out—what we'd like to know is whether the spittle that Keith Olbermann was producing in this rant, was it foaming? Was it just straight spittle? It was a little rabid foaming, I think. That's the important question.
All right. Well, most of you probably saw this story, which is the funny story of the day. That apparently at sporting events all over the country, a lot of the spectators are starting a chant. What's the chant? I think you already know the chant. It's "Fuck Joe Biden," except they use the full word. And I guess there was a NASCAR race in Alabama's Talladega Speedway, and the winner was a fellow named Brandon Brown. He was being interviewed afterwards, and the chant broke out: "Fuck Joe Biden! Fuck Joe Biden!" And the interviewer—and I still don't know yet if the interviewer was completely aware of what the real chant was—but the interviewer very cleverly, because it was live TV, said, "Look, they're chanting 'Let's Go Brandon!'" No, wait. What do you say? It was "Let's Go Brandon."
Now that's hilarious, because you know we've all had that Yanny and Laurel experience. So when you first hear that, you think to yourself, maybe it was. Maybe that is what they're saying, because I've been fooled by all these other audio illusions. Maybe that's what they're saying. But I'm going to say, because I don't know the answer yet—maybe somebody here knows the answer to the question of whether the interviewer knew exactly what they were doing, or did the interviewer actually think that the chant was something about the race car driver? Does anybody know? I haven't seen—oh, she laughed. Oh, the interviewer is laughing. Well, okay, maybe that's the giveaway.
But here's the part I love about the story. What makes this spread? What makes it spread is that Fox News reports it, right? If Fox News keeps reporting every time there's a stadium that erupts in this chant—and they do, they do report it every time—does CNN report it every time? I don't think so. How
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about MSNBC? Do they report that every time? No, probably not. So what happens when Fox News reports it every time? It guarantees it's going to happen, right? Is it really news? Is it newsworthy that people are chanting this? Well, the first time, maybe. Even the second time, it might be newsworthy, you know, if it's some specific kind of event. But watching Fox News make this happen and pretend t…
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