Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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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 wo…

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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 Fox News.

And so I tweeted 20% of it is just that. And within a few minutes Brian Stelter tweeted back at me and he said, "No it does not." Or I don't know if he tweeted not necessarily at me. And here's the thing: when I'm using social media I forget sometimes, especially if it's somebody famous who's like Brian Stelter or somebody, I forget that they actually read it. Somehow my brain can't handle the fact that I'm typing using a tool which of course the whole point of it is people are reading it. And I still can't get it in my head that when I type a response to somebody famous they'll actually read it. It still blows me away.

And so when he tweeted back I was thinking, oh, he actually read that. And I understand when I do it why people are so mean and ugly to me, because every now

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and then I'll respond back to some troll who just said something awful about me and sometimes they'll say something like, "Whoa, whoa, I didn't think you'd read it." So just remember there are real people reading this stuff. Jack Posobiec reports that he's hearing from his multiple insider sources at the White House that Kamala Harris is getting the full PDB. What is that? The presidential daily…

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