Episode 452 Scott Adams: Talking About the Fake News of the Day

Date: 2019-03-15 | Duration: 12:12

Topics

Our opinions are assigned to us by the media we follow Did fake news CNN weaponize the New Zealand whacko? If you only watch CNN, it’s garbage like the “fine people” hoax Joel Pollack article links to CNN’s original reporting on Charlottesville CNN’s themselves reported correctly that “fine people” referred to people on both sides of the statue debate, NOT the Nazis.

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## Transcript

[0:09]

bum-bum-bum-bum-bum hey everybody come on in here what a horrible horrible day terrible shooting in New Zealand 47 people so far died from some crazy monster his name will not be honored we shall not speak the name of the crazy killer and even when I see it I make sure I don't remember her to take note and I think that's a good idea so before we get going shall we enjoy one of life's a few pleasures the simultaneous it grab your mug your cup your glass you're spying you're jealous your thermos fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me for the simultaneous end well just when you think CNN could not get any worse they've grown to a whole new level so as you know most of you've been following

[1:09]

you know most of you've been following the drama I've been hammering on CNN for their fine news fake reporting which is causing things like the New Zealand shooting so I'm just gonna say it directly if if there's somebody who did a big shooting and it looks like that's what the The News is reporting that he was encouraged by his belief that the president was a white supremacist where would he have gotten that belief do you think that the New Zealand shooter got his belief that the president is a white supremacist by watching Fox News no Jews Fox News says the opposite do you think the New Zealand shooter came to believe that the president is a white supremacist because he read breitbart no

[2:10]

supremacist because he read breitbart no because Bray Bardot's will say that says the opposite do we think that the shooter came to that opinion by looking at real news and and coming to his own judgement no because nobody does that the dizzyland shooter didn't do it nobody on this broadcast did it you think you did but you didn't we are all assigned our opinions by the news for the most part I'm not I'm not sure I'm exempt from that now the only thing I do to give myself a little bit of you know at least hope for independent thought is that I watch the news sources continually on both sides so I'm never I'm never completely in a silo I use the trick of whatever the whenever the TV news has a commercial for pharmaceuticals I switched to the

[3:12]

pharmaceuticals I switched to the competing channel and then the competing channel has that same commercial and I switch back so I'm so I try to stay out of the silos and sample them all all the time now what do I see what I see is different reporting I see one network saying one thing and the other networks saying that thing is not true so when I look at I go huh oh no I guess I have to make up my own mind but suppose you only watch one network what will you imagine about President Trump if you only watch CNN you would believe he was a white supremacist and then you might start at manifesto to say so
so and you might feel emboldened to go shoot up some mosques so I think CNN has to answer for creating this environment and primarily they threw the the hoax that that they report that President

[4:16]

that that they report that President Trump once said this is the hoax not real that he once said that the neo-nazis were fine people that of course never happened one of the ways that I know that never happened is this CNN reported it didn't happens it's actually a still on their new site so back closer when to when the show is full of empty originally happened they have actually accurate reporting and saying that the fired people quote referred to people there who were protesting statues and not referring to the Dino Nazis who are also protesting but they had their own deal going on so amazingly I think in the last 24 hours CNN has pushed that same fake news at least three times that I know of I think may or may be four in 24 hours it's the worst most divisive unscrupulous

[5:16]

worst most divisive unscrupulous damaging immoral completely immoral fake news because it's all about damaging the president and is not about accuracy because the accuracy is that when he said they were to find people on both sides he clarified it completely clearly and said he was not talking about the neo-nazis for other people who were there to protest both sides of the statute questions now Joel has another great to follow up to the same point that I'm making about Zenon's fake reporting I tweeted that around and you should definitely read that and it should be the link that you that you use when you're responding to people because what's good about Joel's most recent story is that it includes a link in it to CNN CNN's own original reporting that's the opposite of what they're saying now so that's sort of the kill

[6:17]

saying now so that's sort of the kill shot for this hoax is to show that CNN has at one point reported it accurately and it's still on their website it's not deleted because it's true probably so so we're watching a situation and I and I swear this is true so last night when I first heard the words or heard the news about the New Zealand shooting I heard that somebody went into actually I just heard that somebody went into a mosque and shot a bunch of people the minute I heard that I said to myself CNN's gonna blame the president for this how are they going to do that it's in New Zealand how are they gonna blame President Trump for this and sure enough wall-to-wall coverage blaming President Trump for the problem that they created so CNN's got this great business model where they they create a problem and then they assign the problem to somebody else and then

[7:18]

the problem to somebody else and then they report on how bad that person is for something that the person didn't do but rather see it ended CNN creates the problem assigns it to someone else and then reports about that other person being bad that's a good business model it's totally unethical but it's a good business follow Skyy you blame CNN for what happened in New Zealand but complain when CNN does it to Trump that comment makes no sense that's a nonsense
just leave your comments right now so we haven't seen the shooter's manifesto but some people who some people who have seen it are reporting that that the guy

[8:19]

seen it are reporting that that the guy was more left than he was right so he might have been a president Trump fan because he believes CNN's fake news Wow
would you watch a video of the shooting yes I would as so so let me let me say this with some more context I'm quite happy if the video of the shooting is grub from the internet and I never get to see it so so if the the powers that be decide to just take that video out of circulation so that there's no way I could ever see it I would be happy with that I would support that but somebody asked the question if I could see it would i watch it the answer is yes I would watch it because I don't know how I could not watch it so if somebody says don't watch it it's

[9:21]

somebody says don't watch it it's disgusting if somebody some of you have seen it over some of you have seen that I didn't even know that it was available on the Internet I just assumed that it was not available
somebody said I did see it it was horrible yeah I mean I I think it's the sort of thing that if you can stomach it and if it's available to watch it's it's gonna give you a clearer view of how bad the world is and maybe that's useful so I don't think I don't think the truth is always you know something you need to run from but if it's so bad that it's gonna damage you for the rest of your life don't watch it I'm surprised so many people watching it because I didn't think it would be easily available I don't know where you found it where did you find it to even watch it how could you how could you watch it lively so the few sites that still have it all right

[10:23]

few sites that still have it all right it's out there but links are shut down quickly okay so as soon as it goes up somebody shutting it in all right well I don't think I want to talk about that anymore so let's talk about Beto's hands I suppose there won't be any news except this this New Zealand stuff and of course more fake news about fine people but the president got it it's hard to talk about anything else is that you know I want to talk about other topics but it just doesn't feel right like I wanted to I want to talk about Beto's hands because that would be funny but just uh it's just not today I guess today is not the day too soon and you know what i I just I just don't

[11:30]

and you know what i I just I just don't feel like I can enjoy the periscope this morning so I think I'm gonna I'm kind of can we cut it off short because you know when there's news like this that's just this bad it just doesn't feel right talking about anything else for a while you know we just have to sort of let this sink in a little bit well you know marinated it a little bit and you know see if we can figure out a way to a better world all right so I'm gonna I just don't want to talk about anything fun today it just feels inappropriate so I'm just gonna make it short today and I will talk to you later