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should call the next variant the DeSantis variant. Wow. Zing. Zing. You know who taught Jim Acosta this technique? Who taught Jim Acosta to cleverly brand people to make their political careers less successful? Who was it? I'm getting an image. Somebody orange. Somebody that Jim Acosta doesn't like that much. That's right. Jim Acosta just became Trump. He knew it was going to happen. Let me ask…
← Previous segment →agine that he would have come up with let's call it the DeSantis variant. It's just too lame because the words sound a little too technical or something. They just don't have that populist punch.
But CNN's playbook looks like this. Here's a thing they like to do. They like to identify a top GOP contender for president. So they find out who's the most dangerous Republican at the moment. That's either Trump or DeSantis. Would you all agree? You know Ted Cruz has been sort of in that conversation and they attack him. But at the moment DeSantis is I'd say the top contender who's not Trump.
So they identify a top contender and then they attack the contender as either being anti-science or racist. They have two arguments and they will make those arguments no matter what the facts. It doesn't matter how many facts you have. They're just going to call you a racist and anti-science no matter what.
And then the third part is to produce an epic takedown. Get one of your hosts to do something t
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hat's quote worthy. In this case Acosta. So CNN becomes the news instead of the reporter of the news. That's right. CNN makes themselves the news and then they report on it. So basically they're manufacturing news. So it's not really fake news. It's more like manufactured news. Roly-Poly sent me some audio files. Let's see if I can play one of them now. I was trying to get like an introduction to…
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