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our 80-year product projections for climate change. What is one of the base assumptions of the assumption that climate change will be devastating in the future? Well, the problem is that things that are working now will break, such as people who have access to water might have droughts in the future and other people might have floods. And I've been saying forever that you can't do that kind of an…

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"Damn straight." "Damn straight." It trended today but I don't think it's going to turn into anything. It feels a little like "no malarkey," if you know what I mean. People who don't know how to do this trying to do it.

This morning Brian Stelter tweeted—he showed a screenshot that I've been laughing about for a while. So apparently when Biden was giving a speech, if Fox News ran a chyron, the words that go at the bottom of the screen there, they ran a chyron that said—and what's funny about this is that this is a news channel and the amount of partisanship sometimes it crosses that line where you just have to laugh. It's just hilarious.

So here's Fox News's label for Biden's speech while he's talking. So while he's talking below it says, "Low bar: Biden survives short scripted speech." Survives? What kind of news is that? He survives it? Because it gives you the impression, especially because it's allegedly a news channel, it gives you the impression that there was some chance he would die right in front of you or that his career would be over because you would be so undependable that you would just spout out with something crazy and it would be over.

Now let me say if CNN had done a chyron as ridiculous as this one, I would have also called it out. So this works both ways. But I have to give Fox News credit because theirs is pretty funny. I think if it's funny you get a little extra forgiveness, right? I feel like Fox News accomplished that. So whoever it is—I know there's some Fox News producer watching this right now—but whoever it is who was in charge of that chyron, good job. From an entertainment perspective, it was a good job.

So here's the second part of that story. After I saw this, and it was Brian Stelter

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from CNN talking about Fox News and how they cover stuff, I tweeted that 20% of all news involves people in the news business criticizing each other. Now when I said 20%, that wasn't to be taken as an actual estimate, right? It's just that it seems like they spend a lot of time criticizing the other channel. If you turn on Fox News, they're talking about CNN. You turn on CNN, they're talking about…

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