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Back to episode — Episode 632 Scott Adams - HOAX #5

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So I tweeted earlier today that by my count the latest hoax is hoax number five. Now I've talked about the hoaxes. Of course there are so many to choose from, but I'm choosing just the media hoaxes. Number one was the Russia collusion hoax. Number two, the fine people hoax. Number three, everything about Kavanaugh. Hoax number four, the Covington kids hoax. And number five is the latest chapter,…

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Now here's the question I asked. You people keep asking, well, why do so many races support President Trump? Now the quick answer is conservatives always support Republicans because I'm pretty sure it wouldn't matter who is running on the Democrat side. Pretty much all the Democrats, you know, probably 95 percent of them would support whoever, just because Democrat. How is that not obvious? And I wonder, is it really not obvious that all the conservatives, 95 percent, are going to vote Republican no matter who it is, and vice versa? So it has nothing to do with looking at their policies, looking at their personality. There's some small number of people who are in the middle, but they're not the ones we're calling racist, right? The ones who are the independents in the middle who could go either way, nobody calls them racist. So that's your answer.

Now the question I ask you is, if you are a racist and you were trying to determine if President Trump was on your side, what news sources would you watch to believe that the president was on your side? Well, you couldn't watch Fox News because Fox News says that President Trump disavows racism. They showed the videos. They're very consistent. You wouldn't get that from Breitbart because Breitbart calls out the fine people hoax, etc. You would have to watch MSNBC and CNN in order to have the opinion that your own racist views somehow were compatible with the president, because that's not reported on any of the news sources that are the natural news sources from the right-leaning part of the country. They don't report that. That's never in their reporting. They talk about how other people are saying it, but they don't report that there are facts to back it up.

So the odd thing about the racists supporting President Trump is that the only place they could be learning this is from the left-leaning media. It's the only way. Now ABC says that there have been 36 criminal cases that invoked Trump's name, whereas the number of criminal cases that evoked Obama or Bush before him was zero. So what do you make of the fact that there are 36 criminal cases invoking Trump's name? Where did the people who made those crimes get their information? Where did they get their news? Probably CNN.

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So when we're dealing in the next year with hoax number five, which is the New York Times has announced they're going to make the news in this coming year all about racism, I saw the first take of it this morning. They wrote an article. The headline says that the reason we don't have universal health care is racism. I mean, they're really serious about making every story about racism. Now I didn't…

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