Oct. 30, 2018 - Real Coffe - Scott Adams
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| Hey everybody, come on in here. | |
| It's time for Drinking Water with Scott Adams, also known as the Tears of Our Enemies. | |
| Get a big glass of the Tears of Your Enemies and join me for the simultaneous sip. | |
| So my voice is kind of shot because I don't usually talk so much during a day, but I'm promoting Winbigley. | |
| If you didn't know, the paperback version of Winbigley dropped today. | |
| So pick it up. | |
| Yeah, I'm not sick. | |
| I've just been talking too much. | |
| As a cartoonist, I don't do that much talking. | |
| So, let's talk about Hillary Clinton's joke. | |
| I think most of you saw it, but let me just call it up here. | |
| Hillary... joke. | |
| Holder. This should come up in a minute. | |
| I'm pretty sure all of you saw it. | |
| So Hillary was on video and she was being interviewed recently by Kara Swisher. | |
| So the question was, there was some question in which Kara Swisher, she confused Cory Booker with Eric Holder. | |
| So Kara Swisher was interviewing Hillary and the person interviewing Kara Swisher confused Cory Booker with Eric Holder in terms of what one of them said. | |
| Hillary smiled and said, I want to get the exact quote, She said, so this is Hillary saying, quote, Yeah, I know they all look alike. | |
| Clinton joked, triggering holes of laughter. | |
| Now, some people said, hey, that's racist. | |
| You can't say that two African-American people look the same and you can't tell them apart. | |
| But I'm in the awkward position of defending Hillary Clinton, and here's how. | |
| You can't separate the message from the messenger. | |
| For example, if you happen to be African-American and you use the N-word, you're okay because the messenger and the message are compatible. | |
| If you were a white person and you use the N-word in any context, even if you're just talking about it, you're probably in a lot of trouble because the messenger and the message are always connected. | |
| The clip that we all saw of Hillary Saying this thing that would normally be racist if it came from another person, the context is often edited out. | |
| The context just before this bad joke was Hillary talking about the need to be more diverse and how the Democrats have more diversity in their party. | |
| And basically she was saying all the right things that would be compatible with someone who's a positive influence, at least in terms of race. | |
| Now, I'm not reading her mind, not talking about the past, I'm not talking about, you know, anything she did 20 years ago. | |
| But at the moment, she's the standard bearer, in a sense, for the Democrat brand. | |
| And the Democrat brand is very pro-inclusivity, very pro-diversity. | |
| That's just a fact. | |
| So, within that context, Hillary told a joke that other people can't tell. | |
| Because if a Trump supporter told that joke, you know, they would be, you know, they'd be fired, they'd be kicked off social media, etc. | |
| But it's not because of what they would have said. | |
| It would be because the message and the messenger are out of sync. | |
| Hillary, I'm gonna give a pass. | |
| I know you hate that, but I try to be consistent. | |
| It was intended as a joke and because her credentials, at least in the modern era, her credentials for being good with diversity are so strong that it came off as a joke. | |
| So in other words, let me put it in clearer terms. | |
| She was making a joke about people who say that. | |
| It's very different saying it is different from joking about people who say it. | |
| That's very different. So I would say that in this case I wouldn't even ask for the 48-hour rule for a clarification because I think she's in a unique situation where she can say that. | |
| Consider, for example, if a black person had said exactly the same thing. | |
| Suppose, let's just say any African-American was on the stage and let's say that Kara Swisher had asked the same question and Kara Swisher had confused Cory Booker and Eric Holder. | |
| If a black person was sitting in the chair and said, yeah, I know it's hard to tell them apart, you wouldn't take that as a racist comment because the person saying it is connected to the message. | |
| I'm going to say that Clinton has earned sort of an inside position. | |
| She's not African American, but she's been good on that topic to the point where when she makes a joke, talking about people who say it, As opposed to just saying it, that she's in good situation. | |
| Now, remember that story, and let me tell you my awkward encounter this morning with Diamond and Silk. | |
| All right, so I was on Fox and Friends this morning, and I walked into the green room, and I see Diamond and Silk there, and Candace Owens was there, and I saw some of the hosts come by, Ed Henry, So, it's sort of a fun atmosphere because you see all these people you see on TV. So, | |
| at one point, Diamond and Silk, who had been on Fox& Friends earlier, came back into the green room and Diamond sat at my table. | |
| So, the green room is a bunch of little tables and some couches. | |
| I was at a table by myself. | |
| So there were a few chairs there, so Diamond comes and sits down. | |
| Now she was just, you know, using an available chair. | |
| People were just sitting all around. | |
| But I thought, oh, I love Diamond and Silk. | |
| I'm going to introduce myself. | |
| So I introduce myself to Diamond and I, you know, extend my hand and say, hi, I'm Scott Adams, I'm a big fan. | |
| And she shakes my hands and, you know, she's polite. | |
| But as soon as I shake her hand and introduce myself to Diamond, Silk walks up to the table right next to me. | |
| And I think, oh, I'm going to have to, you know, I better introduce myself to Silk because I just introduced myself to Diamond. | |
| So you have to get this physically to understand it. | |
| You have to get this physically. | |
| So I'm sitting at the table, and Silk walks up, but she's here. | |
| So I'm not looking at her face. | |
| I just know that this is Diamond, and obviously this is Silk, because I can see around the corner of my eye. | |
| It's Silk. So I stand up and I go like this. | |
| Hi, I'm Scott Adams. | |
| I'm a big fan. And Silk looks at me, And she says, I'm not Silk. | |
| And it wasn't. | |
| It was one of Diamond and Silk's friends who was just with them. | |
| So, now imagine how awkward that is. | |
| I just said that I'm fans, which I am. | |
| I actually love Diamond and Salt. | |
| They're terrific. I love what they're doing with their career. | |
| I love their act. | |
| I'm very much, I'm definitely a fan. | |
| But because of the proximity, I just assumed. | |
| Here's Diamond, the person walking up to her and talking to her, who out of the corner of my eye is a woman of, you know, roughly in the same demographic. | |
| I'm thinking, ah, it's silk. | |
| I better introduce myself. | |
| So now I've introduced myself to the wrong silk, and I did it right in front of Diamond, and I'm thinking to myself, What is the good way to get out of this situation? | |
| There's no good way. | |
| So I just said, well, I'll be your fan too. | |
| And I just sat down. | |
| And now I'm sitting across from Diamond in literally the most awkward situation you could ever be in. | |
| And so, now I'm not like most people in lots of ways, I suppose. | |
| But one of the ways I'm not like most people is that embarrassment, even if it's my own, I find hilarious. | |
| So even if I'm embarrassed, I can't stop laughing at it because it's so funny. | |
| And so I had to pretend I was looking at something funny on my phone because I didn't want to just get up and leave the table. | |
| And I felt like it would be awkward to continue the conversation. | |
| So I just looked at my phone and pretended I was laughing at something on my phone because there's just no place to go with that. | |
| Anyway, I'm still laughing at it. | |
| It's pretty funny. Yeah, so I'm seeing in the comments that, so the problem, of course, is the assumption that I can't tell the difference. | |
| But the real problem was I wasn't looking at her when I extended my hand. | |
| I literally turned and extended my hand and introduced myself before I'd even really looked at her face. | |
| Because when you shake hands, you're sort of looking at the hand to make sure you're getting a good grip on the handshake. | |
| But I'll tell you, if you were observing it, There's no way in the world that you would have a positive, you know, a positive opinion of me, which is what makes it so funny. | |
| All right, so my apologies to Silk. | |
| And then, of course, the real Silk is there, and I'm like, oh, God, I can't introduce myself now. | |
| It's just too awkward. So I didn't. | |
| I did get to meet later at a different time. | |
| I got to meet Candice, who was one of her biggest fans, and that was a big treat for me. | |
| All right. | |
| So I'm going to be on Reddit AMA. | |
| at 3 p.m. Eastern. | |
| Eastern Time, which is about half an hour. | |
| So if you have questions you want to ask, go over there. | |
| I just tweeted the link so you can see that in my Twitter feed. | |
| What was Diamond's reaction? | |
| She didn't really react to it. | |
| Which I think made it more awkward for me. | |
| And I don't know what she was thinking or feeling, but she was also busy doing something. | |
| So she was sort of involved with whatever she was doing on her phone. | |
| So I'm not sure it registered necessarily. | |
| Somebody said, I sound like every rich guy you've ever met. | |
| *laughs* You're not wrong. | |
| All right. | |
| So, how many of you saw me on Fox & Friends? | |
| Because I got to use my point about the Charlottesville hoax, that it was really about both sides of the statute question and not both sides of Antifa versus the racists, when the President said there were fine people on both sides. | |
| And I don't know if anybody said that on a national news program before. | |
| Have you ever heard that? I think I might be the first one to say that. | |
| Anyway, I've got to get ready for my AMA, and I've got to answer some questions. | |
| And I will recognize... | |
| I'll talk to you later. |
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