Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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Can somebody answer me that? Was it only an opinion person who covered it? Because I think I saw Jesse Watters cover it last night. He was filling in for Tucker Carlson. Tucker had it. But really that's an opinion show. Dana Perino just had Jonathan Turley. Oh, he would be a great guest anyway. So you probably know this story by now, which is if the indictment is telling us what we think it's tel…

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ng to overthrow the government by colluding with Russia literally, allegedly, and then blaming Trump for it. It's really mind-boggling, isn't it? It's mind-boggling.

Exactly what Q said all along. Somebody says, okay, but read Joel Pollak's write-up in Breitbart because that'll give you some good background.

Well, since we're talking about fake news, this is one of the biggest stories for the last several years, you know, the Russia collusion hoax. And now we know it's just a complete hoax. So that's what we know about the news. So the major media that we know this for sure, the major media just for years covered a story exactly the opposite of the truth. Exactly the opposite of truth.

Now that's your context, that the news can be complete BS. Here's some more context. I talk about this often: the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, which is that if you're an expert in a specific field and you see a news story about that, you know all the problems with it. Oh, the journalists got everything wrong. I'm an expert, I know. But everybody else reading it doesn't know. They think, well, probably got that right. But as soon as you read something that you're not an expert on, you start believing it. Oh, well, that's probably right. But the experts don't think so.

Now this also works with celebrities. Let me tell you, I know this firsthand, reporting on celebrities. And how many times have you seen this about me? How many times have you seen a news report — usually I tweet them in — in which somebody's described me incorrectly or my opinion incorrectly? You've all seen it, right? I'm pretty sure every one of you has seen a fake news article about me. And how many times have I been falsely accused in my personal life of heinous crimes? Pretty often. Pretty often. It's a celebrity problem. You get accused of usually sex crimes.

I've talked about someone. The worst offender is somebody I never met, somebody with mental health issues who lives in Canada, and it's pretty sure I'm flying up to Canada and ransacking her computer and sexually molesting her on a regular basis. And she calls the people I work with to tell in great detail about all the crimes I did in Canada while I was not in Canada.

Now if you're a normie and you're not famous, you say to yourself that sounds like maybe there's something wrong with you, Scott. You seem to get a suspiciously large number of false accusations. With all of that smoke there's got to be a little fire there. Nope. Nope. If I could teach you one thing, it is that celebrity news typically is just wrong and just completely wrong. There's no fire there. There's just smoke.

And this brings me to the Dave Portnoy hit piece. Now if you know Dave Portnoy, he's the founder of Barstool, right? It's a big site. He's made a lot of money. He's rich. He's famous. He appears on Tucker Carlson's show, does lots of stuff that gets him some attention. But a Business Insider spent eight months trying to find some dirt on him, and the only thing they could find was sketchy stuff about his sex life.

I don't think — somebody says, "Scott, you are not a celebrity." Seriously? Okay. So the best I could find is some women who had these vague accusations about, I don't know, rough consensual sex. What? That's it? They had consensual sex that may have involved some consensual choking or something. Which, by the way, if you don't know this, is the number one requested thing by women. That you women won't know this is necessarily true, or maybe you do. But in the comments, can the men confirm? At least the single men, single men who have been single recently. So I don't know what it was like 20 years ago, but if you've been single recently, can you confirm for me that one of the most frequently requested things by women is to be rough

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with me, including choking specifically? Actually, all right. I'm seeing lots of yeses. Yes, it is confirmed. Confirmed. So it doesn't matter how many people say no. It doesn't matter if you've never seen it. Look at all the yeses, right? So basically Dave Portnoy is a victim of a hit piece in which the entire point of it is his sex life is a lot like normal. That's it. That was the hit piece. Hi…

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