FINALLY, SOMEONE HAS SAID IT.
WE GOT A CONSERVATIVE TALK SHOW
HOST, CHARLIE SYKES, AND HE SAYS, DONALD TRUMP, WE CREATED
THAT MONSTER.
WHAT HE IS TRYING TO POINT OUT TO HIS AUDIENCE,
AND HE IS DEEPLY CONSERVATIVE, SOME OF THE THINGS DONALD TRUMP
SAYS ARE NOT TRUE, THEY DON'T BELIEVE HIM.
SO HE GOES ON FACEBOOK AND HE SAYS --
IN OTHER WORDS, HE IS SAYING
WE TOLD OUR AUDIENCE FOR DECADES
TO NEVER TRUST THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEVER TRUST THE MEDIA,
NEVER TRUST ANYBODY, SO NOW THEY DON'T TRUST THEM.
WHEN I TRIED
TO TELL THEM THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES DID A FACT CHECK, IT IS
REAL, THEY GO, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.
AND THEN HE SAYS --
WELL, I BELIEVE THAT IS CALLED THE CHICKENS COMING HOME
TO ROOST.
ALL OF YOU CONSERVATIVE TALK SHOW HOSTS,
COMMENTATORS, AND REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS, YOU MADE YOUR
BED, NOW YOU'VE GOT TO LIE IN IT.
IN FACT HE AGREES, HE SAYS --
THAT MONSTER IS NOT JUST
DONALD TRUMP, WHAT HE'S
REFERRING TO IS ALL THE CONSERVATIVES IN THE COUNTRY WHO
DON'T BELIEVE IN FACTS ANYMORE.
THEY LIVE IN AN ALTERNATE
REALITY.
I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU THIS ALL THROUGHOUT, AND THIS
CAMPAIGN IS EVEN MORE STARK.
A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE SUPPORTING
DONALD TRUMP DON'T BELIEVE BARACK OBAMA WAS BORN IN THE
UNITED STATES.
A MAJORITY BELIEVE HE'S A MUSLIM, EVEN
THOUGH HE IS NOT.
THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN REALITY.
IT GOES ON
AND ON, THERE ARE AMAZING EXAMPLES WHERE REPUBLICAN VOTERS
AND SUPPORTERS GO, NOPE, NOT INTERESTED IN SCIENCE, NOT
INTERESTED IN YOUR STINKING EDUCATION, AND NOT INTERESTED IN
YOUR MEDIA, NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR REALITY.
AND NOW ONE OF THEIR OWN IS ADMITTING IT.
AND HE
SAYS --
AND THE ANSWER, CHARLIE SYKES, IS A LOT.
NOT
SPECIFICALLY AS ONE INDIVIDUAL, BUT AS AN INDUSTRY CONSERVATIVE
PUNDITS WENT AFTER SCIENTISTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, THEY WENT AFTER
PROFESSORS AND SAID THEY LIVE IN THEIR IVORY TOWERS, DON'T
BELIEVE THEIR EDUCATION, THEY WENT AFTER THE MEDIA, THEY WENT
AFTER ANYONE WHO WOULD BRING YOU FACTS, AND INSTEAD THEY TRIED TO
FILL YOUR BRAIN WITH THEIR RIGHT-WING PROPAGANDA INSTEAD.
AND NOW, YES, YOU ARE REAPING THE WHIRLWIND.
YOU HAVE CREATED
A SIGNIFICANT MINORITY OF AMERICANS THAT ARE ZOMBIES, THAT
ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THIS REALITY-BASED WORLD.
THEY ARE
INTERESTED IN PROPAGANDA THAT THEY ARE SPOONFED.
THEY DON'T
WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH, THEY JUST WANT TO HEAR THEIR
WORLDVIEW CONFIRMED, AND THAT WORLDVIEW IS FULL OF ANGER AND
FEAR, SO WHEN A GUY LIKE DONALD TRUMP STEPS INTO THE VOID AND
PROVIDES THEM THE EXACT KIND OF ANGER AND FEAR THEY ARE FILLED
WITH, THEY ARE LIKE, I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE FACTS, I JUST
WANT THAT ANGER AND FEAR.
THAT IS THE MONSTER YOU CREATED.