Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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enough. I'll say again, by the way, yeah, I say this because it makes you mad. I think I enjoy it. But I think I enjoy bothering you with this. I have a lot of respect for Alyssa Milano. While I would not agree with many of her positions politically or otherwise, she is the real deal. She's not just celebrity drive-by. She's invested. She's got skin in the game. She is trying to make the country…

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opinions all the time, but you say, well, okay, that's a reasonable person who's actually trying to do what's good for the country in their own way.

All right. There was a poll, I guess this one was Rasmussen, I believe. And it showed that only Democratic voters believed by majority anyway, only Democratic voters believe by majority that, quote, it's so funny it's hard even to read the sentence. You know I've told you before that the news and humor have completely merged. There's no real difference between comedy and the news. But what you see is funny will be different than what I see is funny based on, you know, what team you're on, what direction you're looking at your things. But there's no such thing as just comedy anymore. You know, nobody, almost nobody makes a comedy movie, you know, because people will be offended and nobody's gonna go anyway. But politics is still funny. And it's funny without even trying.

And you tell me if this isn't funny. All right, I'm just gonna read, I'm gonna read the sentence the way it was tweeted, I believe, in Rasmussen's Twitter feed about t

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he study, their own study. I'll just read it straight and you tell me that this straight fact is not funny. All right, here it is. Only Democratic voters believe most reporters are simply trying to report the news in an unbiased fashion. Funny that there's somebody in this country, and they can be easily identified with one side of the political divide, believe that the news is actually the news.…

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