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A second Elon Musk, in fact.

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John Malone, a right-wing billionaire who stood to become a major shareholder on the new Warner Bros. Discovery board, said that CNN could learn a few things from the reporters at Fox News.

Like what? How to get sued for nearly $800 million?

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You’d think the Dominion settlement would have been the finally nail in the coffin of the “we report, you decide” myth. But apparently, the billionaire class still believes it.

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There are three WOC on the board right now. But, yeah, it's mostly white men.

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Only instead of being rich himself, he was utterly beholden to some rich guy.

I mean UTTERLY beholden. When this guy said jump, Licht said how high.

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Oh goody. We get to hear Keith Olbermann sing "Ode to Joy" in the original German on "Countdown" again!

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"Schadenfreude, Goetterfunken,Tochter aus Elysium ... "

Oh, wait ...

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Well, ya gotta admit, some of them Fox News reporters are hot babes!

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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It's not just the media that is chockablock with them.

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Maybe he's the illegitimate child of some Canadian noble. They couldn't call them all "Snow," so they just went with the province. Somewhere a Nunavut native is saying "you know nothing, Ari Quebec."

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Footnote -- Love the Mothers of Invention from the 60s, but oh my God, after he fired the Mothers and got real musicians, his music got vastly better .... there is just no comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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Ta, Liz. Licht licked himself, without votes.

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It just fits the music so nicely! It's how I often sing it.

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Or what Tim Hortons calls themselves in Alberta.

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Ah, bummer, I got that one as a freebie. I thought it was a gift link but it might have just been that I have been reading The Atlantic recently.

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Oh, they don't BELIEVE it, they want to FORCE it on people. Slightly different.

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