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cost Taylor Swift for that several hundred million dollars. Now you could argue that Elon Musk cost himself way more than that for endorsing somebody. You might say that me endorsing Trump cost me some number of millions of dollars, which it did. And it’s expensive. So I have to admit I kind of appreciate that she’s willing to basically lose hundreds of millions of dollars to use her free speech…
← Previous segment →that’s what I used to think. And when I say used to think I mean yesterday. I have modified my belief on this topic because the moment or even before the debate was over I saw the first person on the right say, “Hey that was really three against one.” And I thought, oh yeah that’s a clever way to frame it because you’re saying that the moderators were for one side three to one. And I saw somebody else say it and then somebody else and somebody else and somebody else and it was exactly like that fiery thing. It looked like it. But I’m pretty sure this is not the case. It looked like every Republican got a memo instantly saying you should say it’s three to one. Just say it’s three to one. Now that didn’t happen. I feel confident that there was no memo and nobody told anybody to say that but everybody said it. Everybody said it. It’ll be in the comments. You watch the comments and the people who didn’t hear me say this as they’re coming in, the first thing they’ll say is it was three to one.
So sometimes it looks like it is a memo. I’m sure that was true with the “dark” thing during the 2016 thing. Everybody say dark. His speech was dark. That was definitely a memo. But apparently this can happen spontaneously as well. And I’d love to know who was the first one to say it. Did it come from one of the Fox News hosts who said it first? Because it must have been something that a lot of people saw. Was it one of the Trump campaign people who said it? So if anybody knows who was the first person to say that it would be interesting because that just swept through everything. And I’m so bored with it. I don’t want to ever hear it again because it already feels like “swimming is the best exercise.” It just feels like the most basic thing you could say about the debate. So I’m like I’m so bored with that. But we will talk about it.
All right. So the debate happened. I’ll be a little bit all over the place on this because I took so many notes. But I saw a screen that I thought was a joke. So it showed Daniel Dale, the fact checker for CNN, and next to him it showed a graphic that I knew was fake when I saw it because it said that Trump had 33 lies and Harris had one. And I thought, okay that’s a pretty good meme but I’m surprised that they didn’t go to zero. Why would you do one if you’re going to make a meme joke? And then I saw it again and I thought, oh wait a minute. The second person who’s sending it around isn’t indicating it’s a joke. And then I had to go look at the source and play the video for myself. It was real.
Did any—how many of you watched the debate? Can you even believe that somebody called the CNN fact checker scored it 33 to 1? We’re going to talk about all the lies. I mean I won’t have time to talk about all of them because the thing was it was just full of lies and hoaxes. But how in the world do they have the balls to say it was 33 to 1?
I’m going to mention all the things that were obvious lies and that Daniel Dale didn’t catch any of them except whatever the one was that obviously had no—obviously whatever the one was was one that doesn’t matter. In other words he must have randomly picked out of the many, many lies that Harris said. He must have picked the one that wouldn’t hurt her so that he could say he found one. I mean he needs to quit like immediately. If it was his own idea that there was only one problem on Harris’s side, just one, he needs to quit or be fired. He’s an embarrassment to CNN at this point.
I’ve been curious about him because I wondered if does CNN tell him what to say or are these actually his opinions? Yeah so at this point it’s obvious. I think it’s obvious. I don’t want to be a mind reader but how many of you would agree with the following statement: Daniel Dale knew he was lying a lot with his analysis. Would you agree with that? I don’t know any other way to explain it because the lies were so obvious and so numerous and the people watching it all knew and he couldn’t catch more than one. That’s just—there’s no way that’s an honest attempt at doing your job. That is completely dishonest. And I wonder was he forced to do it at the risk of losing his job? Was there somebody who said look here’s the deal I only want you to say there was one. “Well but there were 15.” “Yeah I know but I want you to say there was one or we’ll fire you.” Do you think that happened? Because if it didn’t happen he’s a piece of—I mean that is one worthless piece of person unless he was forced. And I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt that he was coerced to be that bad. Because if he did that naturally, if that was organic—no it couldn’
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t have been because I’ve seen him work. I mean you can tell he’s biased but he’s not an idiot, right? So he was presenting himself as really just an idiot and there’s no way that’s real or organic because he isn’t. He’s clearly unethical and corrupt. That seems obvious. But he’s not dumb. Anyway so that wasn’t a joke. Bill Mitchell had a list of the things Harris said wrong. I had maybe a quibble…
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