Its not that they didnt; its that Ive played chess, watched Peckinpah and eaten Thai food so much without them that I like those things all by myself now. (Both per FiveThirtyEight.) From there, the embrace only tightened. The reason, according to the Times, was humiliation. You cannot demand that people listen to what you have to say and have them do so unless the nuclear football is not far behind you when you say it.
CNN has less than a million viewers.
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CNN has less than a million viewers .
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