Back to episode — Episode 294 Scott Adams Enemy of the People, Wildfires, Tweets, and Whitaker
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Let's talk about other things that are happening. Are you watching the devious and diabolical work of the enemy of the people? The enemy of the people being the fake news industry, whoever they might be, especially if the fake news is the dangerous kind.
So here's the fake news that's being spread by CNN right now, which is by their reporting, the racist reporting. And by the way, CNN is going full racist now, so that they're not hiding it anymore. They used to be a little bit, I don't know, maybe a little bit more clever about it, but now CNN has just gone full racist. And they're reporting that the president is singling out black women for criticism. Now that's just a lie. That's fake news because he's criticized everybody from Macron in France to Jim Acosta to whoever that guy was who stood next to Jim Acosta. It's hard to think of anybody who hasn't criticized this week, at least anybody who's on the other side.
So the reality is he criticizes everybody. And it's actually really good news that there are so many African-American women in important jobs. They have excellent jobs, which is why they're in the line of fire. Same as Jim Acosta. Why is Jim Acosta in the president's line of fire? It's because Jim Acosta has a really good job. Why are the other women that Trump is, well he did, I'm not going to say alleged, but the other women that he insulted, what do they have in common? Okay, if you see and then what you say they have in common is that they're black women. If you are not a racist, you say that what they have in common is excellent jobs.
I apologize for the cursing. Sometimes it just comes out. But I'm watching the enemy of the people, the fake news industry, report it like it's fact that the president singles out black women for insults when right in front of our eyes we observe that not to be the case. That rather he insults all of his enemies, his critics, and he's nice to all of his friends. It's pretty consistent. If you can't notice that, you ought not to be in the news industry.
So I think CNN has now just disgraced itself and gone full racist with that claim because, you know, the essence of it is that his supporters are in on his giant racist scheme. But if this is the kind of thing that they use to make their case, they are the enemy of the people. There's no other way to spin this anymore. There's no other way to spin it. They are full racist enemy of the people at this point.
That being said, one of their biggest complaints, and I think Bernie Sanders said the same thing, is that the midterms were a racist campaign and that some of the races, the individual races, were racist. And that in particular there was a racist ad that was so bad according to CNN even Fox News wouldn't run it. Was that racist?
Here's my take on that. I saw the ad and the first thing I thought is, oh crap, people are going to say this is racist and then people will complain. And if you're Fox News you have an obligation to your stockholders. And when people complain and there's enough of complaints, you have to act because you're that kind of a company.
So is it true what Fox News is, I'm sorry, what CNN is reporting, that even Fox News won't run this ad because it's so racist? That is not true. That is fake news. What is true is if Fox News is not running the ads, that's true. What is not true is the reason. CNN says it's obvious that they're not doing it because even in their minds they know it's racist. Fox News has never said that. They may have said, which would be completely consistent with every corporation, they may have said we can't take the heat, this isn't worth it, so we don't want the advertising money because the complaints are greater than the value of the advertising money. Now that would be a good reason not to run the ad because the corporation can't handle that kind of pressure. That's very different from saying that Fox News decided the ads were racist so they wouldn't run them. So it's just fake news.
Now I'm not saying that they couldn't be. I know they're wrong. All I'm saying is that if the news is based on mind-reading, in other words CNN's assumption of what Fox News people are thinking, but having said if they're judging what they're thinking from what they're doing, I would say they've got one explanation which fits the data. If Fox News thought it was racist that would be a perfectly good reason not to run the ad. But why didn't they think that in the first place? Why did they run it in the first place? I'll tell you why they ran it in the first place. Because when they looked at it, it didn't look racist to them.
When the public looked at it and the half of the country that's completely hypnotized by the enemy of the people, those people said, my God, this is clearly racist. That's just like the Willie Horton situation. When they said it's just like the Willie Horton ad, what kind of logic were they using? Was it an analogy? Yes it was. They were making an analogy to the Will
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ie Horton ad, which I think is less ambiguous. The Willie Horton ad was pretty racist. It's hard to defend that. And here's why the Willie Horton ad was racist. Because of all the criminals in the world, did you have to pick the black guy? Now I understand that this particular criminal had an especially bad record so he was extra scary. But I don't think anybody's believing that he was randomly pi…
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