Even as they promise a better future, politicians continue to lower the bar. Andy Borowitz, comedian and author of “The Borowitz Report,” joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how social media and the 24-hour news cycle have produced politicians who score cheap points without the facts to back them up. Plus, we’ll hear about a few absurd anecdotes of egregious behavior. His book is “Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber.”

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