The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Between the Scenes - Making Sense of Jussie Smollett's Alleged Attack

Episode Date: February 20, 2019

Trevor weighs in on actor Jussie Smollett's unraveling hate crime claims and discusses people's tendency to embrace stories that confirm their political biases. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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how many of them come out on Thursday? Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart wherever you get your podcast. Yeah, I don't know what the details of the Jesse Smollett story are going to end up being. What I do know is right now the story just doesn't make sense in the pieces that it's laid out as, right? Like I'm not saying that his story story story story story story story story story story story story story story story story story story story story story story story doesn't thooooooo doesn't tho-s tho-s tho-s tho tho tho them doesn't them them them them them them them them them them them th them th them theme theme theme theme theme them them them them them them them them them them them them them them them them them them th them th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th the the the their their their their their their their their the the the the the the the the. to come come come come come out to to to to the. theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. the. the. doesn't make sense in the pieces that it's laid out as right Like I'm not saying that he is lying. I'm just saying that his story doesn't seem to line up with what's happening Because these guys admitted to punching him So that part of the story is now? that part of it or not? So that part of to be like, well then why did they do this to you just randomly? Like, wow, two Nigerian guys walking around in Chicago's freezing weather and then shouting,

this is mega country. It's a weird thing to shout as a Nigerian person. This is like a strange, so yeah, no, like it's, I don't know where it's going to go, I's gonna go I do know if I was Trump this is a home run in my world because so many people jumped on board before they even like waited to see what it was about they like it's just like I don't know we live in a world where people are too enthusiastic at jumping at stories that confirm their biases and instead of just pausing and going, what do I make of the story? What do I make of this story of my own volition?

Forget your political anythings. You know, this is like what he, does it confirm your biases? That's when I always think you have to be even more vigilant, is when it confirms everything, you've believed. And this goes for both sides of people, like because Trump supporters in the deepest conspiracies ever It's not like anyone's immune to this But I think increasingly since Trump has come into power People have become increasingly willing to accept any story that confirms anything that?

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right now it really, it's either Jussie gets these guys arrested and sent to jail or he comes out and says, no, I worked with them. That's the only, you realize those are the only options. These guys go to jail for hate crime by the way, not just assault for a hate crime or, you know, and now he's like, oh the cops, how do we trust these Chicago cops? They've lied about so many, yes, yes, don't get me wrong. The Chicago PD has liedto further their own goals. This had nothing to do with them. Wasn't a story about police, wasn't the story?

Yeah, they lied about Lequan McDonald, they lied about shootings, they lied about drugs on people. But this is a completely separate thing where they had nothing to gain or lose by him being proved right or wrong. Like, either way in the story, they were see why the cups are suspected in it. But we'll see how it unfolds. It'll be interesting.

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