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every day. Well, in the news, a producer at CNN has been accused of being a pedophile. They've got quite a bunch of evidence about it. And apparently this particular CNN producer mostly worked with political analyst John Avlon, which means that when John Avlon was preparing to do his weekly anti-Trump pieces about how horrible a human President Trump is, he was being prepared for that by a pedoph…
← Previous segment →t is true is that there are several employees of CNN who have not been accused of any sex crimes at all. And that's pretty good, you know?
Sometimes I think that MSNBC is nothing but CNN but without all the sex crimes. Seems like that's the main difference. So we got that going on.
Wait, I'm getting an update. Okay, cancel everything I just said. Two questions for you. Did I say this yesterday? Did I just have it on? I can't remember if I said this or I thought it. You ever been in that situation? Did I say this already or did I think about saying it? You'll tell me in a minute.
So I tweeted yesterday, I think it was after the live stream, so I haven't said it yet. If someone invented a technology that eliminated your ability to make good decisions, would you let them use it on you? In the comments, if somebody made a technology that eliminated your ability to make good decisions, would you use it? You wouldn't use it,
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because that technology already exists. It's called the news. The primary purpose of the news in the current era is to make it harder for you to make decisions. Am I wrong about that? That feels to be the primary purpose of news now. I feel like it used to be some kind of a public good where we'd become educated, we'd become better citizens and everything, but it's not that anymore, is it? It doe…
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