Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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ually living in reality and living in the real world, and maybe you are. Maybe you are. How would I know? The only thing I'm sure is I don't know. But maybe you got the right one. Speaking of reality, here's why you could say with certainty we have no news industry in this country. The most basic fact that you would want to know as a news consumer is this. So Biden recently said, I think yesterda…

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obvious we have no news industry, because I can't tell if Biden is telling the truth that the industry is to blame or the industry is telling the truth that the government is to blame. And I would think that both the news on the left and the right, if they knew the answer, would report it exactly the same. Oh yeah, they'd love to build a refinery but the government's too burdensome, or not, whatever it is.

So I was watching the new press secretary, Biden's press secretary, trying to answer a question about the economy, and she attempted to answer it by saying there's a bunch of stuff that isn't that bad right now, which is true. So it's not all bad. We're not in a recession now, blah blah. But my overall impression of her was she didn't seem qualified for the job. Does anybody else have that feeling? She seems unqualified for the job.

Now I couldn't remember her name. Is it Jean-Pierre? Is that her name? What is her actual name? So I'm at least being respectful when I'm talking about her because I feel somewhat disrespectful I couldn't remember her name. All right, well look, Karine Jean-Pierre. But I'm going to put a positive spin on it.

Do you remember when Conan O'Brien first became a late show host and he would do his monologue? And I don't know if he had the same reaction I did, but my first reaction to Conan O'Brien was, oh God, he makes me nervous because he looks lik

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e he's not qualified or he knows he's not qualified or he just seemed so uncomfortable in his own skin on stage that it made me uncomfortable. But then he got better, because it's one of those things you can't really practice. There's no way to practice being a late-night show monologue guy because it's not real practice. And then I would argue that he became one of the best at it because he got t…

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