Ep. 319 - Has Trump Changed the Game?
The Andrew Klavan Show
The Andrew Klavan Show
4.8 • 22.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | According to a new study by a neuroscientist, the brains of journalists show a lower than |
| 0:06.0 | average level of executive functioning, with a low ability to regulate emotion, suppress |
| 0:11.2 | biases, solve complex problems, and show creative and flexible thinking. |
| 0:16.4 | This is a real study. |
| 0:17.8 | On average, it found journalists were not as competent or intelligent as bankers, traders, |
| 0:23.4 | salespeople, rodents, crackhors, comapotions, or that guy on the New York subway, who |
| 0:29.4 | pretends to strom a guitar that's actually a cardboard box. |
| 0:33.2 | The journalists were, however, about equaling intelligence to college professors and |
| 0:37.5 | paving stones. |
| 0:39.2 | The scientists who performed the study, who warned that the average IQ of the journalists |
| 0:43.8 | may have been unfairly lowered by including Chris Cuomo, who is, of course, the idiot |
| 0:48.6 | child of the Cuomo family, and was thus sent to work at CNN in the hopes that no one |
| 0:52.6 | would notice his idiot because he just blend in. |
| 0:56.7 | Unfortunately, even at CNN, that didn't work, and Cuomo just looks like an enormous idiot |
| 1:01.2 | surrounded by other idiots. |
| 1:03.3 | The study analyzed the responses of 40 print and broadcast journalists under certain test |
| 1:07.8 | conditions. |
| 1:08.8 | For instance, the journalists were gathered in a room and then shown a picture of Donald |
| 1:12.1 | Trump. |
| 1:13.1 | They reacted by running around hysterically in different directions, phoning each other |
| 1:16.7 | in fake Russian voices while pretending to be anonymous sources, and then confirming |
| 1:20.8 | the legitimacy of their sources by calling in another fake voice to vouch for the first |
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