‘Colbert Report’: Cheering America’s Olympic Failure
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.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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