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"Bode Miller had just tied for a bronze medal in the men's super-G at the Olympics in Sochi, Russia, on Sunday and it was time to be interviewed. NBC had already established Miller's quest as an emotional story line, putting a microphone on his wife, Morgan, to hear her reactions to his races, and having the couple sit for an interview with Tom Brokaw. He was being humanized — as the changed man, the family man, the mature 36-year-old whose brother had died last year.

This is the type of storytelling that lubricates NBC's prime-time Olympic engine.

This time, the engine backfired.

It was not out of bounds for NBC's Christin Cooper to ask a medal winner questions about his brother's death."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
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