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y I said it or what the intention was or why I would say something so obviously out of place? The amount of the entire press, it was a national headline for days and days and days, weeks actually. It was trending for weeks. How many of them asked me why? That's nothing. Not a single one. Not even one. Isn't that the most obvious question? If that were news, don't you think they would ask me why I…
← Previous segment →of a product, it's not related to the headlines, has nothing to do with climate change, has nothing to do with race, has nothing to do with anything that we debate about every day. I've got a feeling that's pretty good. Probably pretty good. Meaning that they probably are real scientists who are doing something real and getting real results. Sometimes wrong, sometimes right, but they crawl toward the truth over time.
But is it my imagination? If any science is in the headlines such as climate change, it's always fake, isn't it? Is it just another way to launder opinion? It is. Yeah, science is just a way to launder opinion.
And I saw the funniest quote. I'm going to skip ahead here. I wasn't planning it but speaking of that. So Anderson Cooper was talking about the new ownership of CNN and how Chris Licht or whatever, he was, you know, I guess he's gone now. But Anderson Cooper was saying that he didn't understand the whole thing that management wanted them to do because Anderson Cooper said he's an anchor. He's not an opinion guy. He's a news guy, not an opinion guy. Anderson Cooper said that. Like that's a real thing that came out of his mouth. He thinks he's a news guy, not an opinion guy. That's everything that's wrong with CNN. He actually thinks he's a news guy. So what, he gives you his opinions. He thinks he's telling you the news because he thinks it must be. He must think they're facts. I mean I'm just guessing. I can't read his mind. But the logical implication of that is that he thinks the things he's saying are true and factual and news. Does he really think that? Don't you wonder if he actually really thinks that? Or is that just something he said because, you know, people say things they don't believe. But could he actually believe that he's a news guy and not an opinion guy?
Now this is one of the reasons I've always had more respect for Fox News. If you ask Hannity are you an opinion guy or a news guy, I'm pretty sure he'd say opinion guy, right? Tucker, do you think Tucker would say he's a hard news guy or an opinion guy? I think he'd say opinion, right? And you could pretty much go down the line. You get to Bret Baier and you say are you an opinion guy or a news guy and he'd say I'm a news guy. And then you say yeah, oh yeah, well I'm going to check. And then you'd find out he's a news guy. Pretty much sticks to the news.
So it's just amazing. I can't really tell when people are having a mental problem or when they're just lying. Do you think that Anderson Cooper is unaware that other people see him as only an opinion guy? Really? Do you think he knows? Because I actually don't know.
Here's one of the dangerous things about perception. I guess humans are pretty good at determining if somebody's mentally disrupted, wouldn't you say? Humans are pretty good. In person you can kind of tell if somebody's got a mental disorder. You know if it's one of the kind that is going to affect their immediate behavior. So to me he always looked like he had a mental disorder but, you know, I'm not a doctor. And if I were you'd be telling me you don't diagnose somebody you don't know. I'm just saying that when I look at his face when he talks about Trump-related stuff he looks like he's in actual mental distress. In other words he projects it. I can't say I know what he's thinking. That would be unfair. I'm saying that as an observer of behavior he presents as a person with a mental disorder.
Now I have the same feeling about Bill Maher but only when he talks about some Trump stuff. He seems to be completely mentally healthy in every other domain but when he hits that one domain there's something that happens. I don't know if it's just a personal problem but it presents itself as a mental disorder. TDS specifically. It does look like a mental disorder. And I wonder if there's something like that on the right or even something like that that I do where I look like I'm rational most of the time but it'll be something I talk about that you'll say I think you've got a mental disorder there, Scott. Foreign. You're going to come out. You're going to throw out some examples of where you disagree with me on policy. That's not what we're talking about. I'm talking about just being bat crazy. Yeah, everybody has blind spots. Everybody has bias. We're not talking about that. I'm talking about bat crazy.
So yeah, any news that's in the headlines is fake most of the time. Do you think that that's a fair statement? That science you don't hear about is probably pretty valid over time. Not every experiment is going to work but that if it's in the headlines there's almost not, there's really not much chance it's real. You know even the pro and the con are not really trying to be real. Well I think it's fake.
RFK is the first politician who has made a legitimate attempt to be honest about the science and pulling it off. You know maybe other people had it in their minds that they were trying to do that but they didn't. It didn't come off that way. He's the only one who seems to b
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e literally looking at the science as we understand it and then doing a good job of interpreting it. No, I feel like everybody else was just, nah, climate change is real. Uh-uh, it snowed today. And he's just dismantling them through a much better process. All right, but he's only dismantling the agenda. Just the agenda. I saw a tweet today because I was complaining about free speech as I often d…
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