Episode 514 Scott Adams: My Hot Take on Barr

Date: 2019-05-02 | Duration: 8:43

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Hot take on Barr

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[0:08]

buh-buh-buh-buh-buh I'm gonna be simultaneously sipping my coffee while the rest of you get in here if you have the beverage you could join me here comes the first one
there will be more because we're sipping and talking we're chatting and imbibing at the same time and I wanted to come to you before everybody uses up all the good Bob our talking points I think there's a little bit of territory that hasn't been chewed up and digested yet and so I wanted to jump in and mm-hm why is the traffic so low is something going on right now that I don't know about looking at the number of people coming online and it's startling Lelo I wonder if I have an option turned off maybe I have an option for tweeting this

[1:09]

maybe I have an option for tweeting this that got turned off all right here's my take on bars situation so as I understand it so first of all let me say this I think the news the press at least the TV cable news kind of did a bad job on this story because I watched it and it felt like the story was changing the facts not just the spin but I felt like that the facts were changing as I watched it did you have that experience then it seemed like at first we thought that that Muller was only concerned about how the media was spinning the story but maybe that's not true didn't it feel like didn't feel like the story wasn't clear and not not sure it still is so I would I would say it was an unusually bad job by the media in in

[2:10]

unusually bad job by the media in in terms of giving us the facts but it was a fog of war and I suppose we'll get the we'll get the real story from Muller but I want to give you my take on this one thing that I believe the allegation now has as it's clarified a little bit there's a little less fog of war it seems to be that the the real complaint for a Muller and again that we have to wait for Muller because you can't believe anything these days but it seems like he may have complained that bars summary was not sufficiently complete and therefore could leave a misleading impression and apparently Muller offered some kind of summary of his own now here's the thing that I don't hear anybody saying that is the only thing that matters sort of the only frame on this that makes it all make sense and that is that there's no such thing as data

[3:13]

that there's no such thing as data without spend in 2019 not any kind of a political sense there's no such thing as just give us the facts it's not an option it can't be done no matter what you do will unintentionally create a first impression there isn't any way to avoid that the only thing you can do sometimes is decide who goes first and whoever goes first is going to have a huge advantage in shaping the narrative but there is no situation where a narrative doesn't give formed you only have narratives it said so if if Barr had not put his own narrative on it which we may understand and we don't know yet but it looks like might have been different in the least some way then what Muller would have done well we

[4:13]

then what Muller would have done well we need to hear from Muller to really get the full flavor of it not just his letter and and said oh I do have a question as to why Barr we now have the letter so we know exactly what Muller was complaining about I haven't seen that but it doesn't matter to my point my point is that somebody had to spin it and somebody had to go first it would have been irresponsible for Bob Barr to not create a narrative because even if he tried not to that would be the narrative if Bob Barr had done had gone out of his way to just say I'm just gonna say the fact or if I'm not sure there was any way to create a summary there wasn't also a narrative it was probably impossible so Barr could either make a narrative that was let's say defendant friendly or a narrative that would be seen as

[5:14]

a narrative that would be seen as defendant unfriendly in this world you would prefer that the person found not guilty or at least no evidence of guilt that is sufficient to indict you want that person to be treated with the presumption of innocence and if there's going to be a narrative the very best person given all the choices because the other choices are the the illegitimate media creates a narrative that's no good or the the Democrats create the narrative well that's not going to be something you could trust or the president himself creates the narrative well that's no good or the president's people create the narrative that's terrible or the Senators who don't have all the information create the narrative well that's no good or the pundits create the narrative that's bad social media creates the first narrative that's a disaster you only have bad choices

[6:15]

you only have bad choices there weren't any good choices so let's stop imagining there was some good choice where there was it was possible to summarize this incredibly big body of work and have the summary not lean toward one narrative or another that's not a thing you can't do that there's no lawyer who's good enough to to thread that needle so under the situation that a narrative it shall be formed and it will not be necessarily the facts it'll be a narrative that's the world we live in this way we understand our world it's why we remember things this is the way we give importance to things the bare facts were never gonna be the thing it was always gonna be the narrative there's somebody put it on top so who gets to do it well I would argue that an attorney general who was recently confirmed by the Congress who's doing his work in public

[7:16]

Congress who's doing his work in public in public he's showing his work took a few weeks so there's a timing question but he did always say he's gonna show the work he told you why there was a delay it was a good reason you're handling the redactions responsibly and so he was completely transparent so given this somebody has to create the narrative do you want CNN to do it do you wanna do you want to one of the elected politicians on either side to do it do you want the President to do it these are all bad choices but Bob Barr at least did we lose you I lost the comments here for a moment so I don't I can't tell if anybody can actually hear me anymore but at the very least Bob Barr is a public servant he was recently approved by Congress confirmed and he was leaning he created a narrative that leaned friendly toward the person who was not going to be indicted that is exactly what you want if you could tell me that

[8:18]

what you want if you could tell me that that's the worst system it's gonna be hard to make that argument and if you can tell me that that the narrative should not lean toward the person who is not going to be indicted after a great investigation I would say I'd rather live in the world where the narrative does move in that direction all right it looks like I am all frozen up so I'm gonna leave and see what happened