Bill O'Reilly was shocked to find out that pot is legal in Colorado
%uh earlier this week he was talking about that and for some reason he linked
it very directly
to the texting habits above the average American
and specifically he said that we're falling behind China
because the chinese are studying hard in school and we're just sending dick pics
and stuff like that in San specifically that we met
now the next day on The Daily Show Jon Stewart took him down
because he had actual information about what he was talking about
and he cited a study that said the chinese do more text messaging than
anybody else in the world
perhaps because it is an index it inexpensive way to communicate
because the Chinese language can squeeze a lot of information
into a small space so
but Bill O'Reilly postulate something without information
they text less than us and that's why they're smarter information is presented
to him
but is going to accept it no in fact he comes back after seeing that episode The
Daily Show which apparently he obsessively watches in the same way that
we do here
and he brought on a China expert they say I don't think she's an expert in
China but the broader on
to try to bunk with Jon Stewart said and I played out like this
now the texting thing do we have any data about Chinese children
text you know the Internet is relatively new
to China and the impact for the population has access to it is much
smaller
I but we do have data that shows that they the Chinese you to spend more time
on the internet in school they spend some might now in school
yeah and studying but I'm talking about texting
10 you know like and there's one major element they text more
there's one measure that shows socially HD so surely do have addictions to
was web surfing chatting and those are the things that have
people back at him camps as hey I can imagine
you don't have to imagine that the information has been presented to you
by people you don't agree with like John store and people you offensively agree
with
like Martha McCallum I actually feel a little bit sad for him because you can
hear
socially socially I brought you on here to confirm what I already believe about
the world not to bring in your
information from China and so once again he goes to bat against Jon Stewart and
once again he fails like
he had a belief the information is presented to him
goes in just goes out he doesn't change his mind textbook
rightly textbook stubbornness he actually has a theory for how this works
let's %um Telep
Tigers in tide goes out never miscommunication you
can't explain it you can explain why the Tigers right goes the anti going to have
water the tide comes in
and it goes out misuse of how many will always come out on top of Mount Olympus
who's making the tides go when I would you can explain and I'm
in you can't explain why when presented with very obvious survey information for
over two thousand Chinese young people about their texting habits
he can't accept but yes perhaps they're communicating with each other
about the same sorts of things that american children are and I think
there's a very
very obvious if you know the right wing mind a very obvious reason for that
he cannot accept the similarities and differences between american children
and Chinese children
because to him they're not the same sort of thing
veira foreign other that lives across the world
but maybe he once went to Beijing for a weekend or something like that
probably got like a hand job or something that's just my speculation
any things that he knows them but they can't be the same he has the night
because he sees them as a robotic
other he doesn't see them as having the same sorts of day-to-day goss up in just
laying send pictures to each other and talking about cats insuring BuzzFeed
articles
the same certain things that our young people do apparently Chinese young
people are doing
but to him they have to be different because they're from another country
they speak a different language and the insurer look different than us
tell Riley and at the same time the differences between us
he celebrates for a very odd reason he said in his original thing
that no they have to be they can be texting in the same way that has to
explain the difference they leave these regimented lives
they spend all their time in school work because the government and the family
requires that
that's the differences between American and in Chinese students
and for some reason he celebrates that although he seems to be saying
that the best thing about china is the big 29 children freedom
supposedly right-wing a response like freedom in America but he doesn't like
it
when applies to our children the way that he thinks that already doesn't
apply
the chinese children now turns out that actually true
but don't expect that he's going to change his mind now we've told you
before the program about research showing
that when someone believe something if you show them information that proves
that that is not the case
in many cases rather than real valuating their preconceived notions and changing
a based on new information
they will in fact double down and believe just like in that video Bill
O'Reilly that
believe even more strongly in what they previously believed
and we know this is true from research that's been dates back decades
but very rarely do we get to see it played out in real time
on the news Bill O'Reilly showing their that despite the fact that
in a way that is true about very few americans his fourth every day to stay
up to date
are what's going on he has information presented to him every day
despite that he learns nothing he doesn't have all
evolution apparently not true when it comes to the house a Fox News