Back to episode — Episode 1214 Scott Adams - Fang Fang, Hunter Biden, Rapid Testing, CNN Versus Trump
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at needs to happen. We're not in the same galaxy with that, just to be clear. Now here, let me tell you what the big story is to me. The big story is not that there was this one person who said this one thing, because we live in a big world of crazy people. There's always going to be somebody saying crazy things you don't like. Here's the part that just is chilling. She lives in a world, meaning…
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Let me add my own explanation. Why, what other reason could you think of? What other reason would Trump supporters deny that the election was fair? Could it be because there's no chance it was fair? Could be. Could be. What would be another explanation? Well I'll just put this out there. One possible explanation for why Republicans don't believe the news they see on CNN is that CNN has been feeding them fake news for four years. If your source of this information is literally something called fake news, is it really a surprise that if some real news were to come along, allegedly, that people wouldn't believe it? Let me ask you this. If you would watch the political news on CNN for four years and you had simply made this one adjustment in your thinking that the real news is the opposite of whatever they report, would you have had a better idea of what happened in the world or worse? If in political topics every time they reported the news you said to yourself it's probably opposite of that, which would have been a better picture of the world? It's the opposite one. It really is. If you had just said Russia collusion, okay they're saying it happened, okay it didn't. Just that kind of stuff. Just the reverse every single time, you would have been a lot closer to the truth.
And now I've saved my best point. Aren't you glad you waited? Here's my best point. I prepare you now. You may know of course you know that the media has been accusing President Trump of over, what is the count, 22,000 lies, 25,000 lies, something like that. So in CNN's view of the world Trump has lied 22,000 times and therefore people don't know what to believe. So Trump has polluted things to the point where his base will disbelieve anything in the news because of all that Trump lies. But let me ask you this, and here is my best point. Has anybody tried to count the number of lies on CNN? No, nobody has. What do you think they'd get? CNN is on all day long. How many times has CNN said just the fine people hoax? Just that one thing. How many lies have they told just about the fine people? Thousands. Thousands. What do you say when you say that there are at least a thousand times that they've lied just on that one lie? Now add in Russia collusion. What does the number get to? If you had Russia collusion, tens of thousands. If you look at all their programming, all the hours, all the commenters, probably tens of thousands. Nobody has ever counted the number of lies in the mainstream news. So let's count them. Let's compare them. And maybe every time somebody says President Trump told 25,000 lies, which in his case are generally hyperbole, you know, for some good persuasion purpose, whereas the news is just lying to you. And I know it would be more than 22,000.
Why did we let them get away with four years of telling us that one person was lying without anybody counting how many times they lied? I mean it's a lot of work and there's a lot of opinion. Now when they say that President Trump is lying it's also opinion because they would say he said this but we say that so therefore he's lying. No, it just means you say different things. Doesn't necessarily mean he's lying. It just might mean that you don't report the same fact. So that's what I would like to see. I'd like to see the mainstream news fact-checked and count how many lies they have. And then maybe I could explain to you why Trump supporters reflexively assume that whatever is on the news is the opposite. So after spending four years of opposite news and then a virus comes along and then they treat the virus, you know, right. Just say hey this is really a real virus and it's deadly. It might be the fi
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rst true thing they said. What the hell are all the people who have been deluged by fake news for four years, what are they supposed to think? They just reflexively say if CNN says that it can't be true because they have a whole four years of knowing that that's the pattern. Don't expect people to break pattern. It's hard to do. Somebody says but it isn't true. It is a low risk. Well it can be a…
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