All right, let's talk about the campaign ad that President Trump is running that CNN has labeled on their top left of their page. So as I've taught you, the top left of a news page is the news that the news organization has judged is the most important news.

All right, so CNN's most important news just a few days before the midterm is "Trump campaign releases racist ad." Now here's the thing. That's an opinion. It's purely an opinion that it's a racist ad, and they're actually reporting it like it's news. And then they don't show the ad.

So it's the most important news that the ad is racist and they don't show it. At least I didn't see it. Right below that, what is the second most important thing on the CNN news? You're gonna love this. The second most important thing, so it's the top left of the page, the second one down, it's "Don Lemon says this is Trump's ad and here are the facts."

So in other words Don Lemon, who just came out as a racist, he literally just came out on TV publicly as a racist who's got a problem with white men. That really happened. It sounds like I'm exaggerating but please, if you think that sounded like even a little bit of an exaggeration, just Google "Don Lemon white man." You'll see the video in which he says that the real problem in this country... yeah, you should really hear it in his own words because I don't want to accidentally mischaracterize it.

But his essence is he has a problem with white men as the problem in this country. Now I'm not gonna fact-check that. I'm just saying that he said that. And by the standards of this country that would be racist as I understand what the word means. You know, with someone who's biased against a particular race or gender. In this case too, because he made it male.

So he's talking against Trump's ad. The CNN has labeled as racist. The ad itself, if you haven't seen it I'm not going to play it, but the ad itself shows a cop killer who I guess must have come from south of the border. And he's the cop killer in court being, I guess he just got convicted for killing two cops, and he's laughing and saying that he wished he'd killed more. And it's translated from Spanish so you can tell that he wasn't born in this country.

Now it's just one guy. And then it shows other criminal types in the caravan, etc. Now is it racist to show one guy who accurately did come across the border and then killed two cops? Is it racist? Can facts ever be racist? I guess that's the question I would ask you. Can facts ever be racist?

I guess they could, depending on how you organize them, right? If you organize them so you left out other facts and it created a misleading narrative. Well I didn't see anywhere in the ad this suggested that everyone in the caravan was a cop-killer. That wasn't there. In fact I would think any reasonable adult looking at that ad would say, "Oh there are some bad people in this group and we don't know how many."

I don't know how you could come to any other conclusion except that some of them coming across the border, whether it's in the caravan or just the general immigration, that some number of them are committing bad crimes. Is that racist? I get how they take it.

Now they're comparing it of course to the Willie Horton ad back in the George Bush era. And I don't remember exactly the Willie Horton ad itself but the sense of it was that Willie Horton was an African-American man who had committed some kind of crime. He got out I think on some kind of early release and then he killed somebody. I think that's the basic idea there.

And I don't remember the ad itself but I guess it had more racial, you know, it was trying a little bit harder to make a racial case. But I'm not sure that that applies so much when you're not talking about domestic actors and you're not talking about necessarily one country. You're talking about a whole region. You're talking about crime that's coming in. Nobody doubts crime is coming in. They just disagree about how much of it or how much it matters.

But it's interesting that CNN reports as news their opinion. Have you seen anything like that before? Who reports as news something that's clearly an opinion even if the opinion is right? It doesn't even matter whether the opinion is true or false. I'm saying that how do you report that as news? It's very much an opinion.

All right. The other amazing and funny thing is, did you all see the Jon Stewart interview? So Jon Stewart was from *The Daily Show*, as you all know. He sort of disappeared from the news and he came back and he essentially was saying that Trump is triggering the media and that the members of the media are taking it personally. And because they're taking it personally they're falling into his trap and overreacting and putting all the attention on what he wants.

And I read this article. I just saw for the first time an article. See if you had the same reaction I did. My reaction was this... sorry, I know you loved it when I cleared my throat on Periscope. I had the same reaction to Jon Stewart's comment, which is, uh-oh, their only smart guy came back. Did you have that impression?

It feels like he's the only person who understands what's going on who's also a Democrat. I guess I think he would classify himself as a Democrat. Have you heard anyone on the entire anti-Trump, the Democrat side, have you heard anyone say what Jon Stewart just said, which is so obviously true and matters and frames it correctly and could possibly help them recover from their Trump derangement syndrome?

And here's the best part. Jon Stewart is not suffering from Trump derangement syndrome. He's actually looking at it from the outside. He's on the inside of the political bubble and yet he gave you a view of what it looks like from the outside. How many people on the left have the intellectual capability to do what Jon Stewart, who is a political comedian I guess for a living or was, that's pretty unusual.

All right, so credit where credit is due. Jon Stewart just completely accurately framed the problem on the left. And I don't know if they can hear it. That's the other interesting thing. So it became viral, which means that got a lot of attention because it was unique. It's because it was from him. Things he does is more interesting. He gave us a new look at something that we were used to seeing the old looks. But his take on it was that the media is taking it personally and that that's causing a lot of their problems. Is that they're falling into Trump's trap because they take it personally.

And I think it was brilliant and you got to give him credit. Oh, you know, somebody, Michael Moore. Okay, I will give you Michael Moore as another person who does seem to understand what's going on from both the inside and the outside. I'll give you Michael Moore as well. But I think Jon Stewart is at a higher level of credibility because Michael Moore understands things. He understands Trump better than I think almost anybody on the left. That would be true, which I think too is credit because Michael Moore understands a certain segment of the population that Trump also understands.

So I think whatever you want to say in Michael Moore's politics, etc., he certainly understands this topic. Bill Maher. Somebody saying Bill Maher. Now I think Bill Maher is in the Trump derangement syndrome category on this topic. He seems to be taking it personally. I believe there's actually some bad blood between Bill Maher and Trump in the past. There was some kind of interaction they had that wasn't good.

So those are your big stories. Let's see what else is happening on CNN that a week before the event they think. Bob Woodward on Trump: "We are being had. He's doing things to distract us from policies." So Bob Woodward is sort of agreeing with Jon Stewart that Trump is having his way.

By the way, did you see the clip? Oh I hope you saw the clip of when Trump announced he wanted to end birthright citizenship with an executive order. And of course the experts, I think 90 percent or 95 percent or 99 percent of the experts are saying you can't do that. But see, you then realized that it was a distraction from other issues and that it was a positive distraction.

In other words, if Trump was successful distracting people and making them think about birthright citizenship, it was a real good last thought going into the midterm election. And they knew they were being had and they couldn't stop talking about it.

If you haven't seen that clip of the CNN hosts saying he's just tricking us to make us talk about this, and then the host would say, "But we're talking about it. It's working. We can't not talk about it. But he's tricking us. We know he's tricking us and it's working and we're still doing it. But it's the news. What are we gonna do?" It was freaking hilarious because they were so unhappy. They were so unhappy talking about the news because the news is what the president says. It's just always what the president says because he's the president. After they had to report it. Well boy did they not want to report that.

It was one of the funniest things you will ever see to watch them essentially sabotaging themselves on live TV because it's not the message they want out there.