Back to episode — Episode 446 Scott Adams - Press Secretary Sanders Botched “Fine People” Hoax Question From CNN
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Now what should she have done? Well luckily I've got a whiteboard with two sides. And on this side, here's how you convince people that this is a hoax. People are going to say, my God, I saw it with my own eyes. I heard it with my own ears. It's not a hoax. It's what he actually said on television. And then you say to them, well compare that to the hypothesis that instead of an extraordinary, min…
← Previous segment →Now here's the fun part. Because CNN brought this up and they were obviously looking for some programming. They were generating news. I've told you before that the news business, they stopped reporting the news and now they're more in the business of manufacturing it. That press conference you watched right in front of your eyes, if you saw it, and if you saw the replay, you'll know you watched CNN attempting to manufacture news where there was none. That was the type that was good for their ratings, and so they created this.
But most of you have already been weaponized on this topic and you know that this is a hoax and you know exactly what to say about it. So what's different is they managed to raise this topic at their worst possible time. Because at this point there are thousands of Trump supporters who have been exposed to the strong argument as opposed to Sarah Sanders' completely failed attempt of just saying, well that one time he disavowed these groups. That's not persuasive because it still allows the possibility that he said it in the first place, which just didn't happen. And that's the part you need to persuade against.
So it may be that they've created a monster that they didn't want to create. Had this never become another headline story, people would have just gone on believing it was true if they believed it in the first place, because there was nothing in the headlines to say, hey, give this a second thought. Hey, you didn't interpret this right. But now it's a national story. Now there are thousands of people armed with the kill shot. And this is the kill shot.
So try that with your friends. You will find that it works almost every time. They will almost certainly end up changing the topic to some other perceived evil that they think the president did once you have totally annihilated this argument.
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So I'm going to keep it short to make this more viral in case you want to pass it around. And that is all I have today, and I'll talk to you later.
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