My opinion of Elon Musk is based on very little more than that he ticked off millions of leftist by buying Twitter. But that alone has made him a sort of folk hero for me. For all I know he’s an incipient Bond villain preparing to blow up the planet to sate his gargantuan ego.
But as long as he does things like this I will applaud him. Watch the video clip. It’s the usual hit and run interview where the reporter asks the victim if he still beats his wife. But Musk breaks down the questioner’s accusations one by one and shows that they weren’t based on any concrete example he could provide.
Between this and the NPR incident Musk had made it a fun time to be on Twitter. Now he’s talking of changing the name which sounds like a great idea. Lots of people think that Musk’s eventual plans for Twitter are a lot more interesting than the current message board for the politically obsessed. I can’t say that I know anything about that but I tend to believe it because otherwise he’d have been insane to pay $55 billion for it.
Well, anyway, Elon, you magnificent bastard, that was one funny slap down.
I certainly enjoyed Elon’s takedown of the villain–and he did it so effortlessly.
It was odd. The guy had nothing. It was as if he had only ever interviewed people like Mitt Romney whose reaction to attacks is to roll up in a ball and fink on his allies.
It was good to see Elon push back on the BBC reporter’s attempting at shaping the narrative using the canard of ‘some people said some things.’
Yeah, Elon’s not a complete pushover. It’s good to see.