Back to episode — Episode 2062 Scott Adams - OTC Narcan Approved, DeSantis & 1A, Media Causes All Our Problems
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t deck of cards, I wish I could. I forgot the name of the company or person that makes the cards. I want to give them a shout out because I bought the cards. Mike Mandel. Thank you Mike Mandel. He's a hypnotist and I just saw his cards advertised on the internet and I thought oh I'll get those, see what that's all about. So I got the Mike Mandel hypnosis cards and I was looking through them and su…
← Previous segment →the government has a full appreciation of that. Like even people like Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, some of the smartest people who have ever drawn a breath. But do you think they have a unique understanding of persuasion and persuasion tools? I don't know. I mean they know a lot of stuff. They might but I doubt it. So that's a big risk.
All right, I love watching CNN reporting on Fox News because it's always so biased and they like to slip in their fake news in the sentence that just otherwise seems innocuous. So you just assume that the fake news is real because the rest of the sentence seemed pretty reasonable. All right here's an example. If you're following the Fox News and Dominion lawsuits, here's what CNN says about it. Now this isn't just as part of a larger article but this is just one sentence that I want to call out for amazing weaselness.
All right here CNN website says but that was several weeks ago before Dominion unleashed a trove of embarrassing text messages and testimony from Fox executives and personalities that suggested they knowingly aired Trump's false claims about the 2020 election. Huh? Did that happen in the real world? Did that happen? No, no that didn't happen. But they just put it in a sentence like well we all know this happened. Just sort of obvious has happened.
Now let me be more specific when I say it didn't happen. There is no smoking gun in the Dominion lawsuit because we've seen the texts that are the most embarrassing. The most embarrassing ones do not have any admission that they were aware that Trump was wrong. How could they? How could anybody know Trump was wrong? You could know some of his specific claims didn't hold up in court. I mean that's verifiable. But you don't know he's wrong. You can't prove a negative.
So according to CNN yeah they can not only read the minds of the people but then they look at their writing that does not say what they wanted to say. It does not say we knew that he was lying and we acted like we didn't know. Nobody said anything like that. They said stuff like this is the content that our people want to see. They've said in some cases that they didn't believe the election was rigged but that has nothing to do with whether Trump believed it. If Trump believed it that's the news. Then they were just reporting the news. Yeah so I don't think that there's any evidence that somebody knowingly put something on that they knew was false. I don't think that's evidence. So it always amuses me to see that and see that it will just drop that in there like it's a fact when it's not.
Did you know that Ron DeSantis is trying to make it easier to sue the media if you're a public figure? What do you think of that? Do you think that public figures should be able to sue the media more easily? I think that's a good idea. Yeah, if I had any lawsuits there it would probably end the media. Do you think it's a good idea if you knew it would put the news business out of business or that the news business would not say negative things about people because they might be afraid of getting sued?
The First Amendment would allow anybody to say anything as long as it's not knowingly malicious. But I guess the proposed change would make it easier for the public figure to sue. Now let me ask you this. The headline of almost every major publication in the last month ran a story about me that painted me as a racist. Was that an accurate story? It was a headline. There was a headline everywhere. Is that accurate? How many of them reported that I w
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as complaining about racists who didn't like me? That the context was about other racists and that those racists didn't like me so I'd want to stay away from those racists. Did any of them report that? Do you think that it cost me any money? Millions. Yeah, millions and millions of dollars. Fake news. Now what I say is fake I only mean that they left the context out that would have reversed the m…
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