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WATCH: Colbert Wags His Finger at Tim Cook for Coming Out
The Colbert Report host chastised Cook for violating corporate tradition by being honest.
 Jami Smith
          
          Nov 06, 2014
          
        
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In his popular segment "Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger," Stephen Colbert mockingly gives the finger wag to Apple CEO Tim Cook for publicly coming out of the closet.
"As a corporate titan, this man should follow tradition and hide his sexuality in the Caymans," Colbert said. And now that Apple's CEO is gay, Colbert joked that, "two years from now, Microsoft's CEO will also come out as gay." 
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