Wednesday, June 18, 2025

I've just seen a clip of the Ted Cruz Tucker interview...

The ‘gotcha’ where Tucker asks Cruz what the population of Iran is and Cruz doesn’t know. - Daniel Jupp
This is a version of the Price of Bread Fallacy.
One of the things that always annoyed me was the Price of Bread question
Reporters would ask a politician the price of a few everyday household items.
  • If they knew, that meant they were ordinary, down to earth Average Joes you could trust to keep in touch with the common man. 
They did their own shopping!
  • If they didn’t know, that meant they were privileged, elite, know nothing ivory tower wankers that couldn’t be trusted because they were lost in a bubble of wealth far from the concerns of you and me...

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