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Back to episode — Episode 2517 A Conversation With Michael Ian Black

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aves it out too. Do you notice that it's not in his quote? Don't you think it would be relevant for Biden to have said at the same time he said that he said I condemn totally the racists because that would mean not a moral equivalence? Yes. However what I think you're ignoring is the larger context in which all of this took place and it goes back to the beginning of his campaign which I think you…

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h it is.

I'm a registered Democrat who on the right who agrees with a lot of things. So you're a conservative Democrat.

I don't like the label myself. I actually said you're a Democrat. You just literally labeled yourself for clarification. I'm a Democrat so that I don't get on a list of Republicans because that sounds dangerous at the moment. That's another conversation. But your Democrat is on the right. Got it. But I don't associate with all the topics of the right. It's just I like Trump. Okay. More like a Democrat who likes Trump. There's a lot of those now. Sure. Bill Maher, Elon Musk, a lot of the tech guys. So it's a very common category. But anyway the point is that Snopes says very clearly that it's a common hoax that the president said that. We'll send you some videos after. So there's a whole compilation clip of Biden saying it. So I'll send that after.

Okay. All right. So here here's a couple other things just to make it quick. When the year 2000 bug came out people were worried but I wasn't because I had experience in tech and I said no they'll just write a program to find the things and correct it and that's what happened.

Let's get to I think you want to get to climate change. You want to jump into that?

No I just want to talk about the media which we haven't talked about at all. I'm not interested in talking about specific issues so much as how they're reported.

Are you trying to do some like weird little thing where you're not you're going to say that all the things I say are fake don't count because no. Oh God. The media. It seems like you're not being honest right now. It feels like you're just playing some kind of game here. Can we go back to the beginning of our conversation. The very beginning where I said I'm interested where we talked about the tweet that you sent that I responded to. You cannot have a political conversation with somebody who believes that the news is real. That's what's happening right now.

Okay hold on. Then you said me go through let and I and you said I'm able to discern what is real in the news and then you gave me how and why because of your MBA and your hypnosis and your expertise in all sorts of things and I granted all of that. I said okay great. And then we've got to specific issues. The issues themselves to me are irrelevant to the conversation about the media and how the media reports things. So that's what I'm interested in talking about. That's a separate conversation.

Okay but I don't understand that. So the topics are as reported by the news and if I say this topic was reported wrong by the news am I in the wrong conversation?

No you're absolutely in the correct conversation.

So if we talked about how the news reports climate change and then I tell you why I think it's wrong would that be in the right conversation?

It would be except that we're moving on from topics where I feel like you're I I'm not done with the topic but I feel like you are and so you want to move on to the next topic. Which one? The fine people at Charlottesville. So what I'm interested in is quotes where Biden said Nazis are very fine people. I'm interested in journalists saying that Trump said Nazis are very fine people. Because then we could agree. If a reporter had said Trump Donald Trump was out today saying Nazis are very fine people then I would go yeah Scott you're absolutely correct that is wrong that they said that.

So how about this. So that that would be a point of fact which I believe tens of millions people would agree with and you would not. But we could solve this after. Why don't we follow up it now because it seems to me if the Charlottesville hoax is as prevalent as you say then why you wouldn't have this at the tip of your fingertips because I already demonstrated that Biden didn't say it. Have that information. That's all I'm asking for is a number of journalists saying that Trump said that Biden said that Trump said Nazis are very fine people.

All right. So I thought by now somebody would send me. So I've watched a number of those clips just today. People hoax clips. So find people in the hoax. So trouble is doing searches online. I was able to do searches very quickly online and I found arguments that countered yours.

Well you didn't look on Twitter or X. Do you mean Twitter or X? On X there are a bunch of videos that show that should be widely available I would imagine on YouTube or Google.

Okay but is the question whether I can do it while you're watching? If you want to wait I'll do it.

Yes. Yes actually because we're having a conversation about whether something is true or not and if you can't show me that it's true then okay great. I'm happy to hold. So to my users on X could you do me a favor and send me the links. Just DM them if you're watching and I'll search for them at the same time. But it's surprising to me I have to say because I know you spent a lot of time on this.

No this is common knowledge. So I don't have a link. Not common knowledge if you can't support it.

All right. But the question is did reporters say that Trump said Nazis are very fine people?

Oh actually let me ask AI. Will you take that?

Not really. We all know AI hallucinates.

Fair enough. Let's see where could I search for that that you would. Google. Yahoo. Well the trouble is I don't know what the search term would be because if I do find people hoax I get too many hits. What I'm looking for is something within it. It seems like you've been talking about this for years that you should have it at the tip of your fingertips and I don't understand why you don't.

Well I don't have at my fingertips that Trump said those things about immigrants. That's common knowledge. I had it. Well you looked it up. That was easy to look.

Yeah I'm asking you to look it up. That's all I'm asking for is you to look it up.

All right. So let's see. Looking things up on my phone is always a mess but let's do that. Okay. Find people. Here we go. Here we go. Donald Trump and Charlottesville. You ever called neo-Nazis very fine people? Who called all those folks who walked out of that. They were neo-Nazis shouting hate. Their veins. He said specifically that he was condemning them. He said he did not. He said he walked out and he said let's get this straight. He said there were very fine people in both groups. Anti-Semites carrying. That's exactly what he said. He said can you specifically say Nazis were very fine people? He said no. He said they were very fine people on both sides. So that's not at all supporting what your claim is. Biden is saying that Trump said he was very fine people both sides. Say Nazis are very fine people. Biden directly says no he did not say that. We can play the clip again. Let's play it again just to get it clear. Play it again damn it. There it is. Why was that not play today. We are here to exam critical and debating. Well you win. It appears hoax. Cool. What's that? I disproved your claim. Cool. I'm happy. No you won that. I can't find it while you're waiting. Exist Scott because I just. Oh hold on because it doesn't exist. That listen Mr. Vice President are you aware that you're misquoting Donald Trump and Charlottesville. Still he never called neo-Nazis very fine people. He called all those folks who walked out of that they were neo-Nazis shouting hate their veins. He said specifically that he was condemning them. He said he walked out and he said he said very fine people in both groups. Very fine people on both sides. He never said Nazis are very fine people. He just said they were Nazis. Yes he described what he saw which is people with veins bulging and marching and saying terrible things. Then the reporter says but did you say Nazi are very. Did you hear him say Nazis are very fine people? He says no. Let's get this straight. He said there were very fine people on both sides. He did not say who is he referring to. Who is he referring to if not the Nazis. God you're playing semantic games. What you said was your claim is Biden said Trump said Nazis are very fine people. The clip you just played disproves that claim. He did not. You're of his way. Let me just finish. Biden out of his way to say no let's get this straight he said meaning Trump they were very fine people on both sides. Biden disagre

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ed with the statement that Trump said Nazis are very fine people. So I don't know. He agreed with it. He agreed with it. He didn't. Why don't we get we've played it twice. Let's play it a third time. All right. All right. So listen for the yes Mr. Vice President are you aware that you were misquoting Donald Trump in Charlottesville. He never called neo-Nazis very fine people. No he called all thos…

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