Back to episode — Episode 960 Scott Adams - Fake News, Bad Math, Bad Mind-Reading, Bad Behavior in the News
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l play a pretty high-risk kind of a game. I don't think there's evidence they panicked, so let's not say that. Here's some for you. Usually you're going to see more and more articles about how the economy is the worst since the 1930s. You know, the worst since the Great Depression. Oh, this is all ridiculous. It's all ridiculous. Here's what didn't happen in the Great Depression: sixty percent of…
← Previous segment →e it's good for their careers. And then they give the management these fake numbers to say it works. And then what does the CEO do with that? Suppose the CEO doesn't believe it. Suppose the CEO says, you know, they would have bought this much anyway. I don't think you did anything. Would the CEO say that? Or would the CEO say, as all CEOs do, well, it looks like under my management we went up this much. It's because of all the good things we did. Our marketing's firing on all cylinders. Our products are good. No, the CEO is going to take it because it makes the CEO look like they did their job as well.
So it's this weird little fiction that companies run that the advertising works. And again, it does work in the special cases, but I'm talking about the general cases. All right, keep that in mind when you're looking at stories such as the number of test kits that will be available. You know, I told you everybody's lying about that. All the companies are lying because why wouldn't they? Of course they would lie.
All right, see what else we got. There was a great line written by Tim Graham who wrote on the Fox News site. And I'm only going to repeat this because I loved the way he put the sentences together. All right? So just enjoy this for the writing. It's not even any bigger point than that. He says a press conference for Trump has the feel of diving into a tank of hungry sharks. A press conference for Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden carries the vibe of getting free pizza and game tokens at Chuck E. Cheese. Biden's virtual press conference April 2nd only lasted twenty minutes, and he jabbered for seven minutes before he took his first question. Blah blah blah.
So here's what I loved about it. The "it has the vibe of getting free pizza and game tokens at Chuck E. Cheese." You know, I've told you before that we're visual people, so this is such visual writing. You know, a Trump event feels like jumping into a tank of hungry sharks. Like you can see it, right? You can almost see the press conference. You can sort of see him jumping into the shark tank. It's so visual. And then just the same thing about it's like getting pizza and game tokens at Chuck E. Cheese. Because you get the pizza, you see it. You've got the game tokens, you see it. And then there's the Chuck E. Cheese. You see it. And then you build the story in your h
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ead. It's brilliant writing. It's really good. And then the second part, he uses the word "jabbered." He jabbered for seven minutes. Now of course this is highly biased political writing, but you know it's on Fox News. You expect that in the opinion pieces on both CNN and Fox. You know, if it's an opinion, it's an opinion. So you can say jabbered. But jabbered is a great word. Jabbered. Because y…
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