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The Michael Steele Podcast

Quick Take: A Celebration of Stupid

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Best-selling author and New Yorker satirist, Andy Borowitz, joins The Michael Steele Podcast to discuss his new book, "Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber." The pair discuss how the rise of TV and media has changed our politicians, what Americans prioritize over intellectual leaders and how ignorant leaders have evolved, from Reagan and Bush to Palin, DeSantis and Trump.

Check out the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Profiles-Ignorance-Americas-Politicians-Dumber/dp/1668003880

If you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to leave a review or tell a friend! Follow Andy on Twitter @BorowitzReport, Michael @MichaelSteele and the podcast Twitter @steele_podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Michael Steel Podcast listeners, Michael Steel here with another quick take from the

0:12.5

Michael Steel Podcast.

0:14.3

Check out what's going on right now.

0:16.7

Welcome back everybody to the Michael Steel Podcast.

0:19.1

I told you it was going to be an enjoyable conversation with Andy Borough with Sturick

0:24.4

Times best selling author and a comedian who has written a very, very good book.

0:33.3

It's, you know, one of the things I said Andy about this period they were in is that the

0:40.3

political scientists, the psychologists and the psychiatrists are the ones who are going

0:46.5

to have to write the story and help us understand it.

0:50.1

Also the comedians are going to have to write the story and you have in your book profiles

0:55.2

and ignorance.

0:57.2

So as we were, before we went to the break we were talking about at least two of the three

1:02.6

stages of ignorance and we talked a little bit about ridicule.

1:08.5

We were talking about acceptance.

1:11.4

Tell us about celebration.

1:13.0

Okay, so just to recap for those who are with short attention spans which I want to

1:19.7

prove exactly.

1:21.4

So ridicule was dumb politicians pretending to be smart.

1:26.9

Acceptance was dumb politicians being proud of being dumb and embracing their ignorance.

1:33.3

Now we're in celebration which is the phase we're in now and we've gone completely through

1:37.2

the looking glass and in celebration smart politicians have to pretend to be dumb.

1:43.2

Now when I use a word smart and dumb, just let me be a little specific because we have

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