Back to episode — Episode 632 Scott Adams - HOAX #5
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Okay, the amazing thing about this New York Times story is that it's not a story except in one half of the country. Imagine if you will that the New York Times got caught on secret recording telling their news crew, you know, the newsroom, how to cover the news for the next year before the events actually happened. So to tell them to frame things in a racial frame. This story is definitely bigger…
← Previous segment →But here's the amazing thing. How much is the New York Times story being reported on the left at all? You know, did CNN and MSNBC even cover it? They may have mentioned it. You know, they may have said, oh there's a secret recording, here's a link to it. But do you think they framed it the way Fox News, the way Breitbart, etc., framed it? Probably not. It's the biggest story by far. Name one story that's bigger than that. I mean, you know, there have been bigger stories. You know, North Korea was a big story when we were, you know, it looked like we were on the edge of war. But at the moment, what's a bigger story than the New York Times admitting they make up the news? There's nothing bigger than that because that affects everything. So that's amazing.
Now I woke up this morning and I wanted to get the score of the big game, you know, the big game meaning Proud Boys versus Antifa, the costumed event, sporting event that happened in Portland. So I opened up CNN. How much coverage has CNN had of the mass protests in Portland? None. None. Nothing. Not a single link to a story on their front page. None. Now I don't know if it was buried in some subsidiary page but it's not on the entire front page. So I went to MSNBC to see how much the Portland protests were covered. Guess how much? None. There was major, semi-violent, a little bit violent protests in a major city and it wasn't even a headline.
Now I went to Fox News and sure enough it wasn't like their top story but right near the top there was a link to give you an update. Now think about that. All the poor bastards who depend on the news, the left-leaning news, they're not even getting news. Those poor bastards have no idea what's going on. Think about it. Those poor bastards don't know what's happening. They really don't. Because their news sources aren't telling them and they're not going to go to Breitbart or to read about it. They have no idea. It's the biggest story in the country. Nope, don't know anything about that one.
All right, well it's amazing and head-shaking and you know even I am going to just sort of shake my head and walk away from it because there's not much you can do about it. You know, I can tweet about it and talk about it but I'm only going to be tweeting and talking to that narrow silo of people who follow me who already know about it. I can't get out of my silo partly because social media platforms are going to throttle me if I try, but nobody's going to read it anyway. So there's this gigantic black hole of knowledge on one side of the country and there's no mechanism to fix it because the news won't give them news and the people telling them that the news isn't giving them news are invisible to them because the platforms just sort of keep us apart, partly by choice and partly by algorithm.
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I was thinking, trying to think of ways to counter hoax five. So hoax five, for those of you just joining us, is the idea that the orange man causes racism, not the fake news and the way they cover it. And this was the fifth of the major hoaxes. It's like chapter five. If this were a chapter book this would be chapter five, the other hoaxes. So here's a way to, I was thinking of reframing the whol…
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