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Let me address something though. This
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week I gave a thing at Syracuse
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University. I was talking about things
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that I've talked about a lot about CNN
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and the Ellison's owning it.
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>> Oo, a little controversy this week and I
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saw that.
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>> Listen, this is what happened. I was
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telling things I've said 109 times
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before. I don't want to work for a tech
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mogul. I don't. I just never have. I've
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said that to you on this podcast a dozen
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[ __ ] times. Right. What I did was
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Scott McFarland, who left CBS and is now
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with Midas Touch, said to him, I said,
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"You're you made the right decision."
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And I I was looking directly at him and
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joking. I'm like, "You don't want to
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work for the Ellison's. I mean, he's a
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terrible person." I was just like like
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laying it on as a joke. The whole crowd
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laughed. I don't think Larry Ellison's a
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terrible person. He's actually very
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funny. I don't agree with him on a lot
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of things. He's an amazing entrepreneur.
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He has great aesthetic taste, by the
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way, and his boats are fantastic.
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Somehow these reporters were like, Cara
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Swisser thinks Larry Ellison is a
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terrible person. And then it became a
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thing. Let me just be clear. I like
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David Ellison. He's a nice guy. Larry
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Ellison is a tough dude. I'm sorry. He
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really is. And people can dislike him
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because he's been a tough cowboy over
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the many years. That said, I do think
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he's very innovative and has done an
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astonishing things. And so, but I don't
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want to worry for tech people. I don't.
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And I I think it's perfectly legitimate
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and frankly the decisions they've made
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have been terrible around stuff that
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concerns me and that worries me of them
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taking over CNN. So, what big deal?
