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it was just screechy? Did they notice it was a lot of mentally ill women who got radio shows? They probably did. Now some of it might be that social media is more interesting or whatever, but yeah, turns out NPR literally turned from a news business into a propaganda business. And during at least the second half of that they dropped almost all of their business. They're basically on the way of goi…
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I've got enough arrows in my back that any of the new arrows are just going to hit the other arrows. Kind of invulnerable at this point.
All right. Now in a shocking twist that you will not expect, I'm going to debunk a hoax about The View host Sunny Hostin. You're going to have to put up with us. You're not going to like it. You know that I've debunked the fine people hoax and the drinking bleach hoax from President Trump. And you know that I've told you exactly how those hoaxes are created by taking something out of context and just leaving out the context, right? And I've described them in detail and I've told you how terrible it is that the news creates these hoaxes.
Well, the same thing happened to Sunny Hostin. So the people on the right can no longer say that they are innocent of this behavior. And I'm not going to name names, but a number of people believe that Sunny Hostin said on live TV — they believe this happened — that she said the eclipse might be caused by climate change. Now that was the story yesterday and it was going around social media and clips were shown so you could look at the clip yourself and you could see her doing it, right?
How many of you saw the clip and said to yourself, well, I saw it. I don't know what you're talking about. I saw it myself. I saw every bit of that. How many of you think you saw it? Right? So a lot of you, yeah. So you're saying she did say it. She did say it.
Now do you remember what happens when I debunk the fine people hoax in front of a Democrat? What did they say? "But Scott, he did say it. I heard it." What happens when I debunk the drinking bleach hoax and a Democrat hears me do it? They say, "Oh Scott, I heard it with my own ears. You can't tell me it didn't happen. Stop gaslighting me."
What happened when I told you that this is an obvious hoax? I'm going to tell you exactly how it was done. I'm going to tell you what they left out to fool you. And you'll still see in the comments, "But I saw it myself. I heard it myself." So watch how persuasion is not limited to one side. And I do this because this is why you watch my show. The reason you watch my show is that I'm not going to just take the side because it's the side.
Sunny Hostin, who I generally disagree with on almost everything, is a victim of a hoax. And I'm now going to defend her completely because this isn't cool. That's not cool. I'm not. I don't want to be on the team that's hoaxing the other side. Not cool.
Now I'm very much in favor of winning at all costs. I think winning is important. But she's not running for office. She's just a commentator. So I'm going to surprise you. Here's what actually happened. There were two contexts. She started out joking about it as a sign of the end times. Now when you're talking about a sign of the end times and you're sort of jokingly talking about it, is that serious? Do you think she actually believed that? She named the eclipse, earthquakes and cicadas happening at the same time as maybe signs of the end times. But very obviously it was in a joking context. Would you agree with me so far that when she mentioned end times that she did mention those three categories — earthquakes, cicadas and eclipses — and that she did say, "Wow, it feels like the
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end times"? You all heard that part that she definitely said that. Now here's the part you missed because it's taken out of context. Then the context switched and it switched to climate change. And then when she talked about climate change she sort of wondered out loud if earthquakes and cicadas could be — maybe there's a climate change effect. So really big. She's a big old dummy, right? Because…
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