‘Colbert Report’: Cheering America’s Olympic Failure

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‘Colbert Report’: Cheering America’s Olympic Failure

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When ~~President Obama~~ Chicago lost out to Rio for the 2016 Olympic Games, none were more pleased than the members of a conservative organization called—wait for it—Americans for Prosperity. Well, they didn’t specify whose prosperity they were rooting for, as Stephen Colbert points out in this clip. —KA

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