Back to episode — Episode 232 Scott Adams - The Battle of the Sexes, 2018
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So let's get to it. After the simultaneous sip. Join me, will you? Mm. Simultaneous sip. Raise your coffee or your glass. Cheers. Your mug, coffee optional.
← Previous segment →So there's a poll asking who do you believe in the Kavanaugh situation. Christine Ford, people who believe her: 36 percent. Brett Kavanaugh: 30 percent. So more people believe Christine Ford, but almost an equal number in both of those categories are unsure.
Now how does that poll compare to the poll you saw that said only 25 percent of women believed the accuser? Completely different, right? Right. And this is a Fox News poll, so you would expect that they would want the result to come out saying that nobody believes the accuser. You know, you would assume that that would be their bias.
So that first poll that people like me tweeted around? Absolutely fraudulent. Who did that first poll that said there was only 25 or 28 percent of people who believed Christine Ford? I think Tucker highlighted it. I'm sure I tweeted it. And when I find out where that came from, I won't be tweeting that source again ever.
So the first thing you should keep in mind is that that first poll you saw is so different from this one that one of them is just made up. This one, the Fox one, is opposite of what you think their bias should be, so it automatically is more credible because it doesn't support their own preferred story, one assumes. Whereas the other one was just, oh. So yeah, it was a Huffington Post poll.
So Huffington Post had a poll. This is weird what's happened to the world. So Huffington Post ran a poll result that was opposite of what they would want it to be, and then it was debunked by a Fox News poll that was the opposite of what Fox News would want it to be. Is that a step in the right direction? I don't know. I don't know if that's a step in the right direction.
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All right, let's talk about a few more things. It doesn't seem like it's shaping up, this Thursday event with Christine Ford and Kavanaugh, Christine Ford's testifying in particular. Does it seem like this is battening up? It's forming the battle of the sexes again. Those of you who are not old enough, let me explain what the battle of the sexes refers to. So it was the '70s, I think, in which ex…
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