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“Unintelligible yelling”: CNN’s closed captioner is fed up with tonight’s GOP debate and doesn’t care who knows it

This is just beautiful -- just beautiful

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GOP Debate (Credit: CNN)
GOP Debate (Credit: CNN)

It’s an open secret that I’m legally and for all practical purposes deaf, and watch Fox News every day with the closed captioning on, so as I was covering tonight’s Republican debate, I watched as I always do — and about two hours into it, I was rewarded for my deafness as the person responsible for captioning the debate just threw his or her hands in the air and surrendered, as any rational person would do.

The cover image on this story says all that needs to be said. Here is video of the moment that spurred the caption.

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By Scott Eric Kaufman


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