g to do that. Whoever does that is an NPC.

So it's not about liars. It's not about liars. It's about designated liars. And what I mean by that is there's a group of Democrats. Now you could make an argument that happens on the right. We'll talk about that as well. But on the left, if you see any of these people be the chief character in a story, now the chief character would be somebody who wrote the big article that everybody's talking about or somebody who's always on the news talking about it.

If you see Phil Bump of the Washington Post making a claim that other people are saying, hmm, I'm not so sure that's true, Phil Bump is an absolute signal that it's a fake story. It's almost synonymous with fake news. Now he would deny that of course and he denied it quite a bit because he's under fire in the news.

And so Jonathan Turley and Miranda Devine, is it Devine or Divine? Divine. Miranda Devine has an article and basically it's just mocking Phil Bump for being a ridiculous character.

Now in terms of full disclosure Phil Bump does work for the Washington Post which in the Dilbert Reborn comic is where Ratbert works as a writer. A rapper I guess I should tell you. Here his current incarnation as a writer for the Washington Poop. So in the Dilbert Reborn comic that you can only see by subscription it's the Washington Poop and Ratbert basically plays Phil Bump. Now I don't use the name but in your mind if you see it just tell yourself it's Phil Bump and it's funnier.

All right. So Phil Bump is one of my mascots. So full disclosure he is one of the people who comes after me in public and was quite, he was dancing on my grave when I got canceled, primarily by his newspaper which started the rest of the newspapers. So when the Washington Post canceled me that allowed everybody else to do it at the same time.

So just know that I'm not objective but Phil Bump's a good signal for fake news. The other ones, you know, Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Jamie Raskin, Jerry Nadler, Dan Goldman, Blumenthal, Brendan Clapper. Now they're the ones that I call the designated liars.

Here are the names that are not on the list. Corinne Jean-Pierre. Do you understand why she's not on the list? Because she's not a signal of fake news. She's somebody who lies and spins everything all the time but she'll spin a positive, a thing that's real. She'll spin a thing that's not real. You can't really tell. So she's not a signal because she's just out there spinning all the time.

The other people that are not a signal would be leadership. So Schumer, Biden, Pelosi and Harris because they're going to talk about everything all the time because they're in leadership, right? So if you see them saying something that's true or not true it's not really a signal. They're just talking about everything all the time. Same as Corinne Jean-Pierre. So I don't consider them designated liars. They would just be ordinary politicians who don't always tell the truth and spin a lot.

Now the Republicans have a lot of those. Republicans have people who are wrong. You know they believe things that are not true. They have people who are under-informed let's say. Not banning TikTok for example might not understand it so they might have a bad opinion. There are people who maybe just have different philosophies. There are people who maybe they know they're bending or spinning or something. And probably there's some people who just know they're lying on the Republican side.

But here's what's different. There is not an identifiable squad of liars on the right that I'm aware of. If I'm missing it because I have some bias somebody should suggest it to me. Now if you say to me but Scott here's somebody who lied again, it's not about lying. They're all going to be lying sooner or later except for Thomas Massie. I have to throw Thomas Massie in there every time I call Congress liars because he's so obviously not one that I just feel shitty when I don't. Yeah, Rand Paul's not a liar. There are others too, right? There are others that I do trust or not lie.

But Republicans have a different set of credibility problems. I don't think they have designated liars but if they do, well. Somebody's saying what about Crenshaw on Ukraine. That doesn't seem to me like a designated liar. That seems like somebody who has an opinion you don't have because Crenshaw is not identifiable with the guy you stick forward to say the things that are never true. He's just somebody who disagrees with you deeply on a big issue and I probably disagree with him as well but that doesn't make him a liar and it certainly doesn't make him a designated liar.

Adam Kinzinger, there's something going on with Adam Kinzinger that has more to do with the Ukraine war. I don't see Adam Kinzinger as sort of the designated liar. I think he's honestly, it looks like he has some mental difficulties is how it projects. Now I don't know that. I'm not a doctor. But when I see Adam Kinzinger I don't see mental health. He doesn't display mental health in the way that I normally would recognize it. So if you're displaying something that looks like maybe there's something you're working on on your own that's just its own category.

All right. So would that be helpful? If you tell me, tell me the truth if you could for a moment be unbiased. I know it's impossible. Would this be useful if you were teaching somebody how to look at the news? Would it be useful to have a list of these ten people or designated liars? You know they're alive. That's the only reason they're on TV. It would be useful, right? Yeah.

All right. Here's some fake science. All right, here's the thing. I believe I'm going to explain this to you correctly but if later you say to me Scott you've got that story completely wrong, well I'll change it. I'll change my mind. But I gotta tell you what I think I know.

All right. So you know what a placebo is, right? You're all smart educated people. You know that a placebo is a fake pill that if you have a pill that you think will be r