That Didn’t Take Long: Musk’s Twitter Criticism Called Sexist

CLAY: So here’s the deal. We talked yesterday with Miranda Devine, who was a great guest, about her book, Laptop from Hell surrounding Hunter Biden. And one of the questions I asked her was have you gotten any indication of what Elon Musk thinks of your article at the New York Post about Hunter Biden and the entanglements there being refused to be shared, and banned and censored, effectively, by Twitter?

And that was an interesting discussion because she said, “No, I haven’t specifically,” and I’m paraphrasing for her. “But based on Elon Musk’s overall persona, it seems likely that he would have this as being an issue.” Okay? So here’s what he tweeted: “Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate.”

So this is the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, directly commenting on the decision that was made to not allow that story to be shared — to lock the New York Post account — in the weeks before Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s election officially went to the polls. And, by the way, while people were already voting and early voting all over the country.

That’s a pretty significant statement from Elon Musk. He also followed it up commenting on all of the different issues from the Twitter employee decisions that they are making. And for this, the Twitter employees have fired back. It turns out that two people who were prominently involved in that decision to censor the New York Post story are, in fact, women.

Who cares? But they’ve accused Elon Musk — wait for it — of misogyny for saying that their decision to block that story was, quote, “obviously incredibly inappropriate.” And again, he said it’s a truthful story. I think we can repeat this because I think it’s a manifest statement by Elon Musk about how he would run Twitter.

“Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate.” This is, Buck, in terms of substantive statements that could be delivered about the world that Elon Musk would run at Twitter has sent shockwaves all throughout the mainstream media because they covered up this story.

Elon Musk wouldn’t have done it, and that might well, to your point, have changed everything because all it takes is one or two brave people in media to actually shine the light on a story like this, and it would have been hard for Twitter — given the popularity of Twitter — it would have been hard for the media to ignore this if it was widely allowed to be distributed.

BUCK: I mean, you look at the politics all of place like Twitter and you look at the donations — I know this has been shared pretty widely on social media — of Amazon, Uber, Twitter, Netflix, it looks like the voting patterns that occur in some authoritarian state, like the voting patterns of Kazakhstan or North Korea. Not that they vote there, but you get the idea. Saddam’s vote. There was voting in Saddam’s Iraq back in the day, and guess what? It was like 98%.

CLAY: He was really popular. Really popular, that Saddam guy.

BUCK: Saddam really knew how to turn out those independent voters in the swing provinces.

CLAY: He really motivated —

BUCK: I mean, the soccer moms in Bakuba were like, “I’m voting Saddam.” Yeah, of course we’re kidding ’cause Saddam… They were just making up a number, yes, sir, you are 98% of the vote. And there’s no one allowed to run against you so the other 2% is people that just couldn’t figure out, you know, where to sign or whatever. But here we are seeing this unraveling of the leftist mind about the Twitter situation.

And I gotta say one of the reasons I think we’re so excited is that, yes, it’s great for the country, it’s great for free speech, but all of us feel like we’ve had to be — and when you’re really engaging and you’re in the middle of it even on social media as much as it’s not real life it’s part of your job if you’re in media. We’ve all been having to fight.

We’ve been in a boxing match on Twitter with an arm tied behind our backs the whole time. And all of a sudden everyone’s kind of feeling like, oh, man they’re kind of listening up the shoulder, getting ready to be able to throw some haymakers with the right hand because for me, the pandemic was the single biggest failure.

Yes, you could hard that the Hunter Biden laptop might have changed the trajectory of the election. That’s true. You can’t prove that one way or the other, but I think it very well would have — or might have, I should say. But on the pandemic, Clay, we weren’t allowed to even share data that contradicted the official narrative!

We weren’t allowed to say, “Hold on a second. What about the failures of this or that mandate or policy?” And the weaponization of this term “disinformation.” “Disinformation” just became the official word for disapproved of by the regime, by the people in power. The apparatus says you cannot say something. Therefore, it is disinformation.

That became something… You were hearing this talked about on CNN. Barack Obama just headlined a disinformation conference, as if this is the biggest threat facing democracies. The people who are the threat to democracy — and this is what the whole Twitter situation shows — are the ones who use the term “disinformation” and think that they’re the good guys. They’re the ones who are actually threatening the republic. They’re the ones who actually destroy political debate, discussion, and freedom.

CLAY: There’s a big topic now of the right and wrong side of history. And I’ve argued for a long time — history major here; I know you’re a history nerd, too, Buck — you typically don’t know the right and wrong sides of history for sometimes hundreds of years. Here’s an easy lesson, though.

The people who are in favor of censorship are almost always on the wrong side of history, and that’s the Democratic Party right now. They are terrified of Elon Musk allowing a true marketplace of ideas on Twitter and not putting a rigged system out there. They can’t handle it. They’re terrified of it.