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Charles Ingram and the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire scandal - Game Shows Part III

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The Coughs of Live Television Taping

Coughs happen all the time during live television taping. On its own in a vacuum, there's nothing inherently suspicious about a single cough. The fact that this one question doesn't have a cough is going to do nothing to help Charles eventually prove his innocence. He considers every possible answer to the amusement of the audience before finding his way back to Switzerland. I don't know what your strategy and some strategy is, but it's working. You've just got 16,000 miles. Me, what could he say? Dude knows his cheese. This far into the taping, it's too early for anybody in production to notice that there was no cough on the second one. With

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