Hey everybody, welcome to the Michael Stiller podcast. Well, settle back for this conversation.

I think you're going to enjoy this quite a bit. I'm joined today by Andy Borowitz. He's a

satirist New York Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for the New Yorker

since 1998 and is the creator of the Borowitz report, which is a wonderfully satirical news column

that you can catch in the New Yorker. He's written a book entitled Profiles in Ignorance,

How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber. He gets into examining the ignorant leaders

who have endangered our country and how sometimes we just a little bit ignorant in electing them.

It's a great conversation. I hope you will enjoy it. So stick around and stay tuned for

a little bit of satirical fun with Andy Borowitz right after this.

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Well everybody, I hope you just settle back and get ready for what I think will be a just delightful

conversation with Andy Borowitz who has written a hell of a funny book, insightful book.

And I think important ways that are that some may think are subtle, but I think you're

really upfront about this idea around these profiles of ignorance, how ignorant are politicians.

I've been saying this for years. Someone who's dealt with these people and admittedly it was one

myself. I tried never to be an ignorant politician, but you waste no time in sort of setting the stage

in the book. I loved it. Let's just focus on a sense of where we're going here. You start

and you go, imagine a hypothetical job applicant. He can't spell the simplest words such as

Heel and Tap, confused by geography. He thinks there's an African country called Nambia.

As the American history, he's under the impression that Andrew Jackson who died in 1845 was angry

about the Civil War and that Frederick Douglass who died in 1895 is still alive. Given the

alarming state of his knowledge, you might wonder what job he could get. Unfortunately, he's not

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