Back to episode — Episode 528 Scott Adams - Manufactured Word-News, China Trade, Russia, Iran
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will happen? Are we to believe that that message has not yet ever been delivered? What now? I don't know that it has been delivered. I wasn't in the room. I haven't listened to any private conversations between Russians and the United States. But nothing would surprise me more than to find out that against all common sense, against all logic, against everything you know to be smart, that somehow t…
← Previous segment →it science? Was there collusion or was there conspiracy? Was there obstruction or was there just somebody doing his job? I mean almost all of our news is about somebody interpreting words. Did the president say fine people? Did AOC say that? So pretty much the news is people acting as if they don't understand how words work. Something like 80% of all the news is that somebody has to pretend they don't know how ordinary words work and so they misinterpret it. It's like, "Oh I get it. You only read the first part of the sentence. Let's make some news out of this." Well if you read the second part of the sentence you'd know that the first part wasn't misleading. Well let's just ignore the second part.
Somebody says look at all Taleb comments. Why would that matter? It wouldn't matter to this. So apparently as the Democrats continue to self-destruct, Nancy Pelosi asked, she invited an anti-Israel imam to deliver the prayers in the US House. Just think about this. Nancy Pelosi I assume accidentally, I think she just didn't know who she had invited, invites an imam to give the prayer and he's got a pretty solid record of being anti-Israel. I saw some of the quotes and it's pretty hard to imagine they were taken out of context. And I thought it's like they stopped trying or something. I mean are they trying to lose this election? I'm starting to see people speculate that the reason they're running Biden is that they know they won't win and then so Biden is just the sacrificial politician. Everybody's thinking okay Biden is not going to ever want to run for president after this election. I mean he'll be far too old then. So we can burn one, use the old white guy. We can say see old white guys don't work and then we go back to what we wanted to do if you're a Democrat. And so people are actually talking like this whole Biden thing it looks like they're not serious. I mean it's starting to look like they don't even, they're not even playing to win.
But here let me give you a prediction. The news business relies on exciting news. So if you're CNN or you're Fox News what do you think about having a President Trump? Well you love it. You love him or you hate him but he's interesting all the time. President Trump is interesting from the moment he wakes up to the time he goes to sleep. If he ever sleeps, we don't even know if he sleeps. But he's interesting all the time. He is gold for the news business and everybody would acknowledge that. What is Joe Biden? Joe Biden is whatever kills the news business. Joe Biden is so freaking boring, you know, except for his gaffes and whatever, that I think the news business looks at him and thinks, "Oh my God he might actually get the nomination. This elect
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ion will be horrible. It just won't be fun at all." Because most of the things that they want to say about the president don't work if he's running against Biden. Here are things that don't work. Hey we shouldn't have an old white guy as president. Well that doesn't work. Hey we can't have somebody who long ago said something that you know 32 years ago sounds terrible to our ears in 2019. Well tha…
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