Elon Musk Humiliates "Journalist" Who Has, Get This, a Leftwing Agenda and NPC Talking Points

Before getting to that: NPR rage-quit Twitter, as Clownfish TV put it.

Here's NPR's own story announcing their rage-quitting.

NPR [flounces out of ] Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, becoming the first major news organization to go silent on the social media platform. In explaining its decision, NPR cited Twitter's decision to first label the network "state-affiliated media," the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China and other autocratic countries.
The decision by Twitter last week took the public radio network off guard. When queried by NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn, Twitter owner Elon Musk asked how NPR functioned. Musk allowed that he might have gotten it wrong.
Twitter then revised its label on NPR's account to "government-funded media." The news organization says that is inaccurate and misleading, given that NPR is a private, nonprofit company with editorial independence. It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
By going silent on Twitter, NPR's chief executive says the network is protecting its credibility and its ability to produce journalism without "a shadow of negativity."

PBS was also tagged "State Funded Media," and they have also quit.

"PBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no plans to resume at this time,"a spokesman for the outlet told The Hill. "We are continuing to monitor the ever-changing situation closely."

Oh, they'll be back. Proggy weirdoes can never quit Twitter. Or -- they can quit, they just can't stay quit.

They don't have real lives and only exist on social media that they control and curate.

On to the state-funded BBC:

Elon Musk sat down for an interview with James Clayton of the State Funded BBC. (Twitter has branded the BBC, correctly, as "State Funded." They probably should go back to just calling it "state media.")

Musk had rules, though: The interview would be live-streamed as it happened. This, you will see, took away Clayton's power to edit Musk's answers to give Musk the Reality TV Assh*le Edit and to give himself the Reality TV Hero Edit. We got to see exactly what was said and what happened, without the media cleaning it all up later to make themselves look like Competent Professionals.

It didn't go well for this credentialed "Journalist."

BBC ‘journalism’ at its finest 🤦🏻‍♂️

BBC Journo: “There’s been a rise in hatful content on Twitter.”@elonmusk: “Give me an example.”
Journo: “I can’t.”
Musk: “You just lied.” pic.twitter.com/wOfzn5vGfJ
— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) April 12, 2023

WATCH: The moment @elonmusk confronts @BBC reporter @JamesClayton5 for not being able to provide a single example of hate speech he has witnessed on Twitter.
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Elon also points out the BBC’s double standards regarding Covid misinformation. pic.twitter.com/EBRCcOrTP4
— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) April 12, 2023

Clayton was so embarrassed by the interview that he's not commenting on the interview he himself did --he's just posting other people's prior articles about Musk and what a poopyhead he is.

He's just pretending that the humiliation he suffered didn't happen.

Oh wait, he did make one comment about the interview:

C
James Clayton
@JamesClayton5
What a crazy interview.
So many news lines I thought I'd do a [thread]
First up, The @nytimes on how the "emotional strain" of running Twitter has been "painful" Musk spoke of the "emotional strain" that came with buying Twitter.

"What a crazy interview." That's his single acknowledgement that the interview took place.

No mention that the "journalist" was "crazy unprepared" or "crazy agenda-driven" or "crazy about tired talking points."

Simon Doherty
@oldspeak1
How did it feel to lose the editing safety net and for the raw data to be published in real time?

Edward Baran
@edward_baran
But you seem to be omitting the part about it being a huge car crash failure in which he humiliated you and the BBC. And the part where he called out the BBC's endless 'Covid' lies and misinformation and its failure to report vaccine injuries.

Danny Armstrong
@DannyWArmstrong
Where's the line about you being embarrassed by Musk over your distinct lack of fact collecting and basic interview preparation when asked to provide one example of the increase in 'hate speech' to the point you had to deflect from your own question?

pic.twitter.com/u2mpS1fmLa
— NautPoso 🇮🇪☘️ (@NautPoso) April 12, 2023

Posted by: Ace at 01:00 PM

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1 Gray

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 14, 2023 01:03 PM (u73oe)

2 Musk showed exactly how to handle these dolts.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 14, 2023 01:03 PM (u73oe)

3 ?

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at April 14, 2023 01:04 PM (OUMaO)

4 Called em

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 14, 2023 01:04 PM (u73oe)

5 Elon Musk was great with that silly man.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 14, 2023 01:04 PM (fQarn)

6 See, if I hadn't read the content, I coulda planted flag on this one. Rookie mistake, but I know my limits.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at April 14, 2023 01:04 PM (OUMaO)

7 All it takes is a willingness to tell them to fuck off politely or impolitely as one dares.

I mocked a stupid fucker for calling abrupt climate changes a catastrophe rather than "weather."

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 01:05 PM (Lzpvj)

8 Coulda been first but I stopped to sample the sweet, sweet tears of Nihilist Propaganda Radio rage.

Was worth it!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 14, 2023 01:05 PM (N3zMI)

9 I'm not sure cucks (doubtless literal cucks in some cases but surely figurative cucks when not) who print leftwing press releases can be shamed or humiliated. They have more self-importance but less dignity than truckstop hookers.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 14, 2023 01:05 PM (ppBhU)

10 Yo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 14, 2023 01:06 PM (Q4IgG)

11 Musk did something no Republican would ever do, call a popular leftist a liar to his face during an international broadcast.

Joe Wilson came close under his weak breath.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 14, 2023 01:06 PM (DMyTF)

12 This was a great example of how everyone should treat the media. Don't accept their premise and just stammer.

Denounce their premise, demand examples, show that they are lying fuckchops.

Musk fucked that guy up so bad he caught Tourettes.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 14, 2023 01:06 PM (A3uq/)

13 Willowed-
Parler is no more

https://tinyurl.com/3b7ukbca

Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2023 01:06 PM (NpAcC)

14 If they get such an insignificant amount of money from taxpayers then they won't miss it when it is eliminated?

Posted by: Dingbat at April 14, 2023 01:07 PM (W4uN5)

15 13 Willowed-
Parler is no more

https://tinyurl.com/3b7ukbca
Posted by: redridinghood

Buy my new book.

Posted by: Dan Bongino at April 14, 2023 01:07 PM (DMyTF)

16 "NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds"

52 official feeds? I think I see the problem right there. What the hell does NPR need 52 feeds for? What 52 different topics or subtopics or whatever does NPR have that it needs or even wants 52 feeds?

Ace is right, Twatter is little more than leftists yelling at each other from their 52 feeds all day and all night. Get a fucking life.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 14, 2023 01:08 PM (iFTx/)

17 they get such an insignificant amount of money from taxpayers then they won't miss it when it is eliminated?

Posted by: Dingbat at April 14, 2023 01:07 PM (W4uN5)

It's like how Planned Parenthood never ever does any abortions and yet not funding them would be the biggest blow to abortion rights since the Ten Commandments.

Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:09 PM (oGB6/)

18 Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson

The Interview. Starts Monday. 8pm ET on Fox News.
@elonmusk

https://tinyurl.com/3ymvv9tk

Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2023 01:09 PM (NpAcC)

19 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 14, 2023 01:09 PM (T4tVD)

20 Cabal is playing Chicken with the whole world on multiple fronts. Every front. They're saying we will burn it all down and punish you unless you quit.

Musk just laughed and said OK bro.

DJT is doing the same.

RUS is doing the same.

CHN is doing the same.

Etc etc etc

We'll see how psychopathic they are I guess...

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 14, 2023 01:09 PM (1ais2)

21 Musk had rules, though: The interview would be live-streamed as it happened. This, you will see, took away Clayton's power to edit Musk's answers to give Musk the Reality TV Assh*le Edit and to give himself the Reality TV Hero Edit.

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Katie Couric hardest hit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2023 01:09 PM (eOudo)

22 "This was a great example of how everyone should treat the media. Don't accept their premise and just stammer.

Denounce their premise, demand examples, show that they are lying fuckchops." - AlaBAMA

Actually was in a position to provide exactly this guidance to a fairly high level in the center of one of the top stories/issues of the day, a few years back. Guy agreed and seemed to get it. Then 10 minutes later with the Der Spiegel editors, he reverts to typical passive stupid form (typical for 99% of all non-idiotic public figures), as they ask ridiculous false-premise questions.

It's not hard. It's obvious. But only a few ever do it. One very high level guy did it, but only intermittently, for several years - but most here and elsewhere never watch the raw material, so only know of his tweets and have their standard lame take on the matter.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2023 01:09 PM (OTzUX)

23 NPR and PBS seem to be very put out by being properly labeled as "state affiliated media."

I mean, it's true, so why so offended state affiliated media? It's not like you're labeled "state run media." Which is also true.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 14, 2023 01:10 PM (Q4IgG)

24 Bongino doesn't own Parler. He had money in it at the beginning until he didn't then he picked up Rumble. That has done way better for him. He has significant skin in the game of Rumble.

Posted by: Jaimo at April 14, 2023 01:10 PM (DBrN4)

25 Bongino mentioned that yesterday, I think, and Much destroyed this clown. He could not recall one mention of "hate speech" on Twitter, but he still said Twitter has a large amount of hate speech there.

Clown.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 14, 2023 01:10 PM (d2bW3)

26 Does anyone else when thet type out the words Planned Parenthood feel like they are typing a curse word? Just me?

I feel dirty now. It's really weird.

Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:10 PM (oGB6/)

27 By going silent on Twitter, NPR's chief executive says the network is protecting its credibility ...

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BWAHAHAHA ... Credibility?

"When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 14, 2023 01:10 PM (cFPS2)

28 Indeed. Anytime leftists are allowed to edit interviews, they always end up like the Jan 6th Committee's videos.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 14, 2023 01:11 PM (ynpvh)

29 @rhomboid, it's actually one of DeSantis's strengths that he pushes back against the premise of the reporter's question. Ted Cruz will do it too.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 14, 2023 01:11 PM (7B5FA)

30
I'm-uh. uh-s-s-seeing-uh, uh-uh s-s-spots
s-s-spots

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at April 14, 2023 01:11 PM (vwCZJ)

31 "NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds"

"Fresh" content? What does that mean? Does it mean that NPR will continue to post "content" but not "fresh content"? I think I see the loophole here. NPR won't abandon Twatter. It can't. Dumb leftwing virtue-signaling on Twatter is NPR's lifeblood. It can't abandon that any more than a fish can abandon water.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 14, 2023 01:11 PM (iFTx/)

32 Parler, I barely knew you.

Posted by: runner at April 14, 2023 01:12 PM (5a2xV)

33 22 Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2023 01:09 PM (OTzUX)

You have to be willing to risk your access to their exposure time.

It is not a small thing, but our elected leaders who are sent to lobby for our interests in political combat are the worst poker players in the world.

Their "Shit Arthur" lies in state in his ongoing funeral in Arizona and DC but the reality is too many normal people are too addicted to adulation from people who beneath the smug at best want their way of life destroyed and at worst want them dead.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 01:12 PM (Lzpvj)

34 21 Musk had rules, though: The interview would be live-streamed as it happened. This, you will see, took away Clayton's power to edit Musk's answers to give Musk the Reality TV Assh*le Edit and to give himself the Reality TV Hero Edit.

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This is why Musk is winning. I don't know what he's winning but you know what I mean.

Posted by: Seems Legit. at April 14, 2023 01:12 PM (DcKNO)

35 52 official feeds? I think I see the problem right there. What the hell does NPR need 52 feeds for? What 52 different topics or subtopics or whatever does NPR have that it needs or even wants 52 feeds?

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You need one for each gender and one more for non-gender-specific bullshit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2023 01:12 PM (eOudo)

36 this reminds me of fauci in a deposition recently: asked about those studies he claimed showed that masks worked, he was asked to name any of them and he said he couldn't remember any of them in particular. (pardon me if my working isn't so good.)

but you don't really need to be prepared when you are towing water for the establishment.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 14, 2023 01:12 PM (B1FKF)

37 Credibility. That's fucking rich.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 14, 2023 01:13 PM (+Wcyp)

38 NPR can argue they are not State Media with the way they were under Trump.

Maybe it would be more accurate to call them Deep State Media.

Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:13 PM (oGB6/)

39 Musk has done more for the conservative movement than any Republican politician in the last 10 years.

And he's not even really a conservative, basically just a redpilled person that's sick of the bullshit and has the resources to push back.

Posted by: Blago at April 14, 2023 01:13 PM (cOFom)

40 23 NPR and PBS seem to be very put out by being properly labeled as "state affiliated media."

I mean, it's true, so why so offended state affiliated media? It's not like you're labeled "state run media." Which is also true.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 14, 2023 01:10 PM (Q4IgG)

They want to hide the truth about themselves so they can continue to falsly claim they are independent. But as we all know, with all the current and ex-gov folks working for them, NONE of the major libbie media players are truly independent and ALL are Gov't sponsored and controlled.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 14, 2023 01:13 PM (ynpvh)

41 The only thing Musk did wrong was letting him off the hook. I would have kept hammering him until he assumed the fetal position, started sucking his thumb and shit himself.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 14, 2023 01:13 PM (A3uq/)

42 "Fresh" content? What does that mean? Does it mean that NPR will continue to post "content" but not "fresh content"? I think I see the loophole here. NPR won't abandon Twatter. It can't. Dumb leftwing virtue-signaling on Twatter is NPR's lifeblood. It can't abandon that any more than a fish can abandon water.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 14, 2023 01:11 PM (iFTx/)

Terri Gross's new show, "Fetid Air." At least it's moar honest.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 14, 2023 01:13 PM (N3zMI)

43 >>>Bongino doesn't own Parler. He had money in it at the beginning until he didn't then he picked up Rumble. That has done way better for him. He has significant skin in the game of Rumble.

Posted by: Jaimo

Correct. He made the right decision to pick up Rumble.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 14, 2023 01:14 PM (d2bW3)

44 Have told this one before. A BBC guy who was just rotating through came up to me, in a humorously "surreptitious" manner, almost whispering, to say "WTF is going on here? These press people would have treated the Nazis like the good guys and the Allies as the bad guys in WWII!". I could only laugh and tell him I wouldn't betray his wrongthink to any of his colleagues.

And that one time the BBC story got a material fact wildly incorrect, I bothered to call London direct and got a groveling apology. And to imagine their predecessors were a weapon and light during WWII, and pretty useful in the Cold War.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2023 01:14 PM (OTzUX)

45 34 21 Musk had rules, though: The interview would be live-streamed as it happened. This, you will see, took away Clayton's power to edit Musk's answers to give Musk the Reality TV Assh*le Edit and to give himself the Reality TV Hero Edit.

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Memo to republican candidates:
Please put reasonable conditions on your appearances in debates. Force the issue. Get other r candidates to agree. Use your brains. Don't go along to get along. That never works.

Posted by: Seems Legit. at April 14, 2023 01:14 PM (DcKNO)

46 Cartoon World is just not funny.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 14, 2023 01:14 PM (fWTJL)

47 re me at 36: pardon me, "if my working isn't so good"

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 14, 2023 01:14 PM (B1FKF)

48 I saw a meme where they added the pornhub header. And titled it "African American Destroys BBC."

Posted by: buzzion at April 14, 2023 01:15 PM (aRLgQ)

49 35 52 official feeds? I think I see the problem right there. What the hell does NPR need 52 feeds for? What 52 different topics or subtopics or whatever does NPR have that it needs or even wants 52 feeds?

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You need one for each gender and one more for non-gender-specific bullshit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2023 01:12 PM (eOudo)

Well if it was 57 feeds, I'd say one for each state Obama visited during his presidential run.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 14, 2023 01:15 PM (ynpvh)

50 It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

And yet, cutting that 1% would be the end of civilization.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 14, 2023 01:15 PM (z99Zw)

51 That's the first time I've watched a video of Musk. I'm very impressed! That was Total Ownage, delivered calmly and logically. Almost any reporter can be rekt that way, but few interviewees apparently have the skill.

Contrast that to MTG. When Leslie Stahl asked (paraphrasing) 'show me the evidence that Dems are pedos,' for some very mysterious reason she didn't have the Biden kid-groping vids on her phone, ready to whip out. She could have revealed those videos to all the old fart 60 Minute viewers who have never seen or heard of them before. But she whiffed.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 14, 2023 01:15 PM (MvF+J)

52 Did you see musk's tweet on tranny surgery for minors? Parents and doctors should be in prison for life.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at April 14, 2023 01:15 PM (8viKR)

53 41 The only thing Musk did wrong was letting him off the hook. I would have kept hammering him until he assumed the fetal position, started sucking his thumb and shit himself.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 14, 2023 01:13 PM (A3uq/)

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Oh. I read that as "shot himself."

"Shit himself" is good too, I guess.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2023 01:15 PM (eOudo)

54 The SF DA called out Musk as being reckless because he said SF was dangerous after the Lee stabbing... That was before it came out that it was someone Lee knew... She said SF is safe... She's everything you would expect she would be... don't want to sound racist as I know we are no doubt being
monitored."

Posted by: It's me donna at April 14, 2023 01:15 PM (bs+z0)

55 Hatful of rain

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 14, 2023 01:15 PM (63Dwl)

56 This James Clayton guy is a fucking retard. He should have known that Musk wasn't just going to sit there on his hands if he was challenged. At a minimum, Clayton should have had a few examples at the ready, even if they were crappy examples. Instead, he waltzed in there dickless and got bent over.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 14, 2023 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

57 Quitting smoking is easy. I have done it forty or fifty times!

Posted by: Hairpin Corner Concrete Truck Collision Take Me Now at April 14, 2023 01:16 PM (9ymqI)

58 When David French pops in and sees that this BBC post is about the network, boy is he gonna be disappointed.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 14, 2023 01:16 PM (ppBhU)

59 41 The only thing Musk did wrong was letting him off the hook. I would have kept hammering him until he assumed the fetal position, started sucking his thumb and shit himself.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 14, 2023 01:13 PM (A3uq/)

It would not be thumb he'd be sucking.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 14, 2023 01:16 PM (ynpvh)

60 >>>And he's not even really a conservative, basically just a redpilled person that's sick of the bullshit and has the resources to push back.

Posted by: Blago

Well, when people call you a Nazi, etc., you eventually get tired of it.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 14, 2023 01:17 PM (d2bW3)

61 LOL, that Ghana Dancing Pallbearers meme never gets old.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 14, 2023 01:17 PM (cFPS2)

62 'Musk has done more for the conservative movement than any Republican politician in the last 10 years."

Leaving aside the "movement" stuff, and also not word-gaming with "Republican" or "politician", it seems some part of the story is being overlooked here.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2023 01:17 PM (OTzUX)

63 48 I saw a meme where they added the pornhub header. And titled it "African American Destroys BBC."

Posted by: buzzion at April 14, 2023 01:15 PM (aRLgQ)

LOL, that's funny.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 14, 2023 01:17 PM (ynpvh)

64 Trust in Federal Reserve > Trust in Elon Musk

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 14, 2023 01:17 PM (DMyTF)

65 57 Quitting smoking is easy. I have done it forty or fifty times!
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Yep. Only the smart kids start again.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 14, 2023 01:17 PM (fWTJL)

66 Yo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 14, 2023 01:06 PM (Q4IgG)

Yao

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 14, 2023 01:17 PM (e+csY)

67 So...nobody goes to the NPR website imma guess. Only staunch liberals listen to NPR and then only when driving. Now Ford has announced that they will kill the AM option in their vehicles due to interference with the EV's systems...

So, if NPR falls in the woods, does anyone hear it?

The answer is no. They will have to return to twitter.

Posted by: thesgm at April 14, 2023 01:17 PM (VhDvQ)

68 In before the guy who says, "nothing will happen."

Posted by: JoeF. at April 14, 2023 01:18 PM (mR6Gs)

69 Katie Couric hardest hit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2023 01:09 PM (eOudo

Well she's been doing butt stuff since the 90s.

Posted by: Mishdog at April 14, 2023 01:18 PM (LZL30)

70 56 Posted by: Elric Blade at April 14, 2023 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

Reporters are arrogant retards.

They think 15 seconds of scholarship make them SMEs at best, and at worst they outsource the 15 seconds of scholarship to an assistant.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 01:18 PM (Lzpvj)

71 People run and people hide, but with these government funded, media propagandists, it has always been about the essence of poop.

But you can't say that because they're still saving the world like they were three generations ago!

We're saving the world, people!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 14, 2023 01:18 PM (uAY3R)

72 58 When David French pops in and sees that this BBC post is about the network, boy is he gonna be disappointed.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 14, 2023 01:16 PM (ppBhU)

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That reminds me, remember the good ol' days when we use to disappoint Obama?

Those were fun times.

Posted by: Seems Legit. at April 14, 2023 01:18 PM (DcKNO)

73 51 That's the first time I've watched a video of Musk. I'm very impressed! That was Total Ownage, delivered calmly and logically. Almost any reporter can be rekt that way, but few interviewees apparently have the skill.

Contrast that to MTG. When Leslie Stahl asked (paraphrasing) 'show me the evidence that Dems are pedos,' for some very mysterious reason she didn't have the Biden kid-groping vids on her phone, ready to whip out. She could have revealed those videos to all the old fart 60 Minute viewers who have never seen or heard of them before. But she whiffed.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 14, 2023 01:15 PM (MvF+J)

Was the interview unedited and uncut?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 14, 2023 01:18 PM (ynpvh)

74 Memo to republican candidates:
Please put reasonable conditions on your appearances in debates. Force the issue. Get other r candidates to agree. Use your brains. Don't go along to get along. That never works.
Posted by: Seems Legit
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Trump was especially stupid with this. Including who he sits down and does interviews with.

You don't see Democrat politicians sitting down with people like Tucker Carlson, why would a Republican do the equivalent for some left wing hack?

Posted by: Blago at April 14, 2023 01:18 PM (cOFom)

75 The statement made to Musk was hateful. It was content that would solicit a reaction.

Posted by: Hairpin Corner Concrete Truck Collision Take Me Now at April 14, 2023 01:19 PM (9ymqI)

76 Yo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 14, 2023 01:06 PM (Q4IgG)

Yao
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 14, 2023 01:17 PM (e+csY)

Yahoo

Posted by: runner at April 14, 2023 01:19 PM (5a2xV)

77 Trump was especially stupid with this. Including who he sits down and does interviews with.

You don't see Democrat politicians sitting down with people like Tucker Carlson, why would a Republican do the equivalent for some left wing hack?
Posted by: Blago at April 14, 2023 01:18 PM (cOFom)

+70mil votes

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 14, 2023 01:19 PM (1ais2)

78 Morning.

Just The News: Ex-Biden Energy Department official Brinton gets no jail time in luggage theft plea deal

https://tinyurl.com/4dkay5rd

Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2023 01:19 PM (1Yy3c)

79 Elon Musk Humiliates "Journalist" Who Has, Get This, a Leftwing Agenda and NPC Talking Points

Is this not true of all journalists?

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 14, 2023 01:19 PM (DRSnL)

80 Yoohoo

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 14, 2023 01:20 PM (A3uq/)

81 >>>You don't see Democrat politicians sitting down with people like Tucker Carlson, why would a Republican do the equivalent for some left wing hack?

Posted by: Blago

It's why GOP candidates should never have a debate with a leftist "moderator."

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 14, 2023 01:20 PM (d2bW3)

82 52 Did you see musk's tweet on tranny surgery for minors? Parents and doctors should be in prison for life.
Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at April 14, 2023 01:15 PM (8viKR)

I would go for having them also "reassigned" by using a blowtorch.

Posted by: Roy at April 14, 2023 01:20 PM (rqgpJ)

83 Morning?

Wait a damn minutes, it's already noon.

*Ahem*

Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2023 01:20 PM (1Yy3c)

84 The Strawman Argument seems to be very popular with these folks.

It's all about "somebody, somewhere said they saw bad things, but I can't bring up specifics right now."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2023 01:20 PM (YIVH2)

85 "52 official Twitter feeds"

Could NPR be any more bloated?

An aside: bloat is the reason they went with FM over AM. More stations are needed. They cost more to run. More employees are needed. A bigger river of money is required.

52 official Twitter feeds, just for NPR's national brand. How many hundreds more for each individual station, show, and local personality?

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 14, 2023 01:20 PM (iKBwy)

86 78 Morning.

Just The News: Ex-Biden Energy Department official Brinton gets no jail time in luggage theft plea deal

https://tinyurl.com/4dkay5rd

Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2023 01:19 PM (1Yy3c)

Funny that. Probably didn't want to spend time in a women's prison anyway.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 14, 2023 01:20 PM (ynpvh)

87 I mean NPR has a point. It's not as if if Republicans held the Presidency and Congress they'd suddenly become all supportive of Republicans. They are publicly funded party controlled media.

State funded I think is a good label for them.

Posted by: mikethemoose at April 14, 2023 01:20 PM (AmpGx)

88 Quitting smoking is easy. I have done it forty or fifty times!

Quitting smoking is 100X easier than losing weight though

Posted by: JoeF. at April 14, 2023 01:21 PM (mR6Gs)

89 "NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds"

Why does NPR need 52 feeds???

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 01:21 PM (Y2tls)

90 Just The News: Accused leaker Teixeria charged under Espionage Act, taking national defense info, classified docs

https://tinyurl.com/2kju3j97

Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2023 01:21 PM (1Yy3c)

91 There was that WH interview where Stahl (? coulda been another interchangeable vapid media nitwit) was counter-filmed by WH staff, and was immediately busted on some nonsense she tried to pull. Was hilarious, but of course got little notice. Stahl was extremely huffy of course. This technique is not new. Odd thing is, a member of the borg actually was one of the first to use it when he rose, disastrously, into some semi-important position during the disastrous Clinton years.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2023 01:21 PM (OTzUX)

92 This James Clayton guy is a fucking retard. He should have known that Musk wasn't just going to sit there on his hands if he was challenged. At a minimum, Clayton should have had a few examples at the ready, even if they were crappy examples. Instead, he waltzed in there dickless and got bent over.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 14, 2023 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

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He could've at least screamed "Some kid tweeted out a math problem, and math is hatefully racist! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 14, 2023 01:21 PM (cFPS2)

93 I just sent Elaine an autographed wifebeater

Posted by: Jimmy Jordan at April 14, 2023 01:21 PM (us2H3)

94 "Was the interview unedited and uncut?"

It was surely edited and cut. But if Stahl had stopped MTG from citing the videos, MTG would be talking about it. Also, it's imperative to shoot your own video of all news reporter interviews, so you have an unedited copy to present. If MTG didn't do that, she's not savvy enough to talk to the media.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 14, 2023 01:21 PM (MvF+J)

95 By going silent on Twitter, NPR's chief executive says the network is protecting its credibility and its ability to produce journalism without "a shadow of negativity."
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Yes. Silence would be the only way for them to have credibility.

Because the other way to have credibility would be to be credible, but they can't do that.

Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:21 PM (oGB6/)

96 89 "NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds"

Why does NPR need 52 feeds???

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 01:21 PM (Y2tls)

less useful that tits on a boar hog.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 14, 2023 01:21 PM (ynpvh)

97 Another anti-1st amendment journalist...
They're everywhere, like fleas.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, a literal ray of sunshine at April 14, 2023 01:22 PM (jTmQV)

98 Quitting smoking is easy. I have done it forty or fifty times!

Quitting smoking is 100X easier than losing weight though
Posted by: JoeF.

Yeah. You can taper off smoking. Kinda hard to taper off eating.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 01:22 PM (Y2tls)

99 One report used a headline claiming that Musk was FURIOUS. If by FURIOUS they meant Musk calmly disagreed, it would be accurate. But it was just a hateful comment intended ti illicit a reaction. Exactly the premise of hate speech according to the hit piece journalist conducting the interview.

Posted by: Hairpin Corner Concrete Truck Collision Take Me Now at April 14, 2023 01:22 PM (9ymqI)

100 >>>Yeah. You can taper off smoking. Kinda hard to taper off eating.

Posted by: rickb223

Is this about me?

Posted by: Tank Abrams at April 14, 2023 01:22 PM (d2bW3)

101 It NPR is no longer providing content that they used to, can I get a refund on the funding I've had to provide them?

Posted by: Simple Stevo at April 14, 2023 01:22 PM (R5JlW)

102 Musk
Tucker
Taibbi
Greenwald
None are conservatives OR Trump fans, but all of them have done more in the past few months than Conservative Inc.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 14, 2023 01:22 PM (mR6Gs)

103 Oh my - here I thought the Bob Lee murder in San Fran was some horrible random attack - nope, shoulda knowed it. Killer was someone who did contract work for him, and they were hanging out in a car together when the stabbing happened. Just more gay sex gone bad.

well I feel even less sorry for Bob Lee now than I did before.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 01:22 PM (trdmm)

104 90 Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2023 01:21 PM (1Yy3c)

His stepfather was a MSG with the same unit big in real estate.

There is a much bigger story here we will not be privy to.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 01:23 PM (Lzpvj)

105 Picturing Elmo sitting in the dark corner at a PBS board meeting, glassy eyed and grumpy as he comes down from a four day cocaine and Scotch binge. " We need to do something about that South African piece of shit before he does us in and when I say do something, I mean something very unpleasant. "

Posted by: Sock Monkey * invictus maneo at April 14, 2023 01:23 PM (mDXyw)

106 That's why fasting works well for weight loss. Gets you used to eating at a specific time and increasing the duration between.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 14, 2023 01:23 PM (A3uq/)

107 "NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds"

Why does NPR need 52 feeds???

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 01:21 PM (Y2tls)

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One for each gender?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 14, 2023 01:23 PM (cFPS2)

108 We are NOT state media, that is just where we get all of our money.

BBC
PBS
NPR

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 14, 2023 01:23 PM (h1jJh)

109 npc talking points observed this week:

DeSantis needed to personally use a straw and drink the rain the hit Ft lauderdale, just like Buttegieg, eh republicans?

Clarence Thomas got free stuff from billionaire and that is corruption

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 14, 2023 01:23 PM (MLrvz)

110 >>>It's all about "somebody, somewhere said they saw bad things, but I can't bring up specifics right now."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

>Look, I can't comment on an ongoing investigation, so you'll just have to get in line to tongue my balls.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 14, 2023 01:23 PM (uAY3R)

111 other npc talking point, these three Tennessee politcians are souper

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 14, 2023 01:23 PM (MLrvz)

112 103 Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 01:22 PM (trdmm)

Regardless he got his just desserts.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 01:23 PM (Lzpvj)

113 None are conservatives OR Trump fans, but all of them have done more in the past few months than Conservative Inc.
Posted by: JoeF. at April 14, 2023 01:22 PM (mR6Gs)

You and I have done more than conservative Inc, since even nothing is better than actively working to support Biden and the trannies.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 01:23 PM (trdmm)

114 NPR/CPB can quit taking govt dough anytime.

Posted by: BignJames at April 14, 2023 01:24 PM (AwYPR)

115 It's illegal for anyone other than CNN to record or film a CNN interview. Tune in to CNN to find out all the information you need to know about CNN.

Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:24 PM (oGB6/)

116 Oh my - here I thought the Bob Lee murder in San Fran was some horrible random attack - nope, shoulda knowed it. Killer was someone who did contract work for him, and they were hanging out in a car together when the stabbing happened. Just more gay sex gone bad.

well I feel even less sorry for Bob Lee now than I did before.
Posted by: Tom Servo

We were supposed to feel sorry?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 01:24 PM (Y2tls)

117 98 Quitting smoking is easy. I have done it forty or fifty times!
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Quitting smoking is 100X easier than losing weight though
Posted by: JoeF.
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Easy fix, just start smoking again. Satisfies you desire to eat.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 14, 2023 01:24 PM (fWTJL)

118 ", they'll be back. Proggy weirdoes can never quit Twitter. Or -- they can quit, they just can't stay quit."

you know how I know conservatives are dumb?

Some guy got arrested for posting a meme in 2016. on twitter.

that shit should shut us all up. stay away from the internet.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 14, 2023 01:24 PM (MLrvz)

119 101 It NPR is no longer providing content that they used to, can I get a refund on the funding I've had to provide them?
Posted by: Simple Stevo at April 14, 2023 01:22 PM (R5JlW)

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You would have to give back the lovely tote bag and the complete collection of Rich Steves DVDs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 14, 2023 01:24 PM (eOudo)

120 Yeah. You can taper off smoking. Kinda hard to taper off eating.

When you quit smoking, you just QUIT. And you get rid of ashtrays, lighters etc

You don't just quit eating....so the temptation for seconds or that piece of cake or that extra beer is ALWAYS there

Posted by: JoeF. at April 14, 2023 01:24 PM (mR6Gs)

121 Musk just responded to NPRs flounce from Twitter

"Defund@NPR"

I'm beginning to really
Like Elon.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 01:24 PM (1JnfY)

122 There was a really good NPR affiliate in Ignacio, Co. They had excellent music during the day and whenever there was a concert in Durango, the musicians came out to the station and played a mini-concert. My office mates knew when the news came on because they'd hear me saying bullshit with great frequency and ever increasing volume until I'd turned it off.

Posted by: huerfano at April 14, 2023 01:24 PM (dTFZY)

123 Oh my - here I thought the Bob Lee murder in San Fran was some horrible random attack - nope, shoulda knowed it. Killer was someone who did contract work for him, and they were hanging out in a car together when the stabbing happened. Just more gay sex gone bad.

well I feel even less sorry for Bob Lee now than I did before.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 01:22 PM (trdmm)

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I previously speculated a Love Triangle Gone Wrong with Paul Pelosi.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 14, 2023 01:24 PM (cFPS2)

124 Reality has a State Run Media bias.

Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:25 PM (oGB6/)

125 Memo to republican candidates:
Please put reasonable conditions on your appearances in debates. Force the issue. Get other r candidates to agree. Use your brains. Don't go along to get along. That never works.
Posted by: Seems Legit.
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I don't get it. Where is the payoff for me?

Posted by: Thom Tillis at April 14, 2023 01:25 PM (TqUi+)

126 >>>None are conservatives OR Trump fans, but all of them have done more in the past few months than Conservative Inc.
Posted by: JoeF.

Agreed.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 14, 2023 01:25 PM (d2bW3)

127 92 This James Clayton guy is a fucking retard."

today there's an IQ test that you gotta fail in order to get hired by the media.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 01:25 PM (trdmm)

128 NPR DOES NOT GET MONEY FROM THE GOVERNMENT!

THE GOVERNMENT GIVES HALF A BILLION DOLLARS TO THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING, WHICH THEN GIVES IT TO NPR!

THAT'S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!

Posted by: NPR! at April 14, 2023 01:25 PM (2tUFv)

129 Musk landing haymaker after haymaker. Can Trump, DeSantis and Musk all be Satan at the same time?

Posted by: Regular joe at April 14, 2023 01:25 PM (nnp+f)

130 What I really like is his ability to turn the tables here. The left has always had the edge in interviews, dialogue, etc. due to their double standard.

A leftist can make a sweeping assertion and it is given the presumption of truth.

A conservative has always been held to courtroom standards of proof when they make a statement.

Musk would not buy into their rigged game of accepting one of heir premises by responding to this type of questioning. Even if they don't like him, Republicans could learn a lot from this.

Posted by: RM at April 14, 2023 01:25 PM (0eYOS)

131 "Twatter is little more than leftists yelling at each other"

That's what I thought until I set up my first account a few months ago. I've tuned mine so it's almost all STEM, non-political, and it's wonderful for that. Very informative and timely content. My only political follow is Libs of Tik Tok.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 14, 2023 01:25 PM (MvF+J)

132 118 Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 14, 2023 01:24 PM (MLrvz)

Remember when we lost the blog for a bit and had the better featured backup site?

Yeah yeah.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 01:25 PM (Lzpvj)

133 NPR can argue they are not State Media with the way they were under Trump.
Maybe it would be more accurate to call them Deep State Media.
Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:13 PM (oGB6/)

NPR is soothing lies in a comforting voice to reassure the invested that the world is exactly how the government says it is.

I liked it better when the stations were mostly doing classical music.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2023 01:25 PM (xhaym)

134 well I feel even less sorry for Bob Lee now than I did before.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 01:22 PM (trdmm)

How is that possible?

Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:25 PM (oGB6/)

135 Freedom of speech has a simple premise.

I have to tolerate a$$h013s so that a vastly unpopular Truth has the chance to be heard. Lies may not have rights per se, but no one can act as censor without their prejudices denying the rights of Truth.

Posted by: mikethemoose at April 14, 2023 01:26 PM (AmpGx)

136
"Well, Mr. Musk. Let's just see if the FAA allows you to fly that billion dollar rocket of yours."

Vengeful angry retards are in charge everywhere.

Posted by: Auspex at April 14, 2023 01:26 PM (j4U/Z)

137 I listen to NPR here in the Berkshires for the comedy

Posted by: REDACTED at April 14, 2023 01:26 PM (us2H3)

138 This James Clayton guy is a fucking retard."

Not saying James Clayton is the dumbest guy in town.

I will say Clayton better hope the dumbest guy doesn't die.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 01:26 PM (Y2tls)

139 The DNC is a private entity too.

Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:26 PM (oGB6/)

140 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

141 Wow James Clayton is a pathetic stupid twat.

Posted by: Watching Beeb gits get pummeled is always entertaining at April 14, 2023 01:26 PM (V6LRK)

142 Parler is no more

https://tinyurl.com/3b7ukbca
Posted by: redridinghood

Oh no!

Anyway...

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 14, 2023 01:26 PM (iKBwy)

143 Best part was how Musk kept laughing at the bum for not coming up with one example.

Posted by: Roy at April 14, 2023 01:27 PM (rqgpJ)

144 Guess I was right about the Bob Lee murder!

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 14, 2023 01:27 PM (iFTx/)

145 Crowder discussed this the other day and labeled it Breitbart'esque, and he's right.

Musk didn't back down, pushed back and made the 'journalist' eat his own shit.

Moar please.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)

146 I mean NPR has a point. It's not as if if Republicans held the Presidency and Congress they'd suddenly become all supportive of Republicans. They are publicly funded party controlled media.

State funded I think is a good label for them.
Posted by: mikethemoose
____

That example works for Republicans, but not Democrats.

Ultimately, whoever pays your bills has control.

Do I think a Democrat controlled government can tell NPR and PBS what to report on or censor and will they do it? Absolutely. Of course this stuff is done in the shadows and much of it is ideological.

But sponsorship can be very close to censorship.

Posted by: Blago at April 14, 2023 01:27 PM (cOFom)

147 122 There was a really good NPR affiliate in Ignacio, Co. They had excellent music during the day and whenever there was a concert in Durango, the musicians came out to the station and played a mini-concert. My office mates knew when the news came on because they'd hear me saying bullshit with great frequency and ever increasing volume until I'd turned it off.
Posted by: huerfano at April 14, 2023 01:24 PM (dTFZY)

I listen to WETA which is 24/7 classical but has 5-minute NPR nooz updates on the hour during drive-time. I never cease to enjoy slamming the "off" button and yelling, "Aw, shaddap!!"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 14, 2023 01:27 PM (N3zMI)

148 I'm beginning to really
Like Elon.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 01:24 PM (1JnfY)

wut r u warin ?

Posted by: Musk at April 14, 2023 01:28 PM (us2H3)

149 Musk landing haymaker after haymaker. Can Trump, DeSantis and Musk all be Satan at the same time?

Posted by: Regular joe at April 14, 2023 01:25 PM (nnp+f)

and yet conservatives on Twitter like Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway say that Musk has gone back on his promises.
Davis has been banned numerous times and i never found out why

Posted by: JoeF. at April 14, 2023 01:28 PM (mR6Gs)

150 It has become less a question of ownership and more about shared membership in the religious cult of Holy Globalism. That and they're all married to each other.

Posted by: Zek at April 14, 2023 01:28 PM (5FPX4)

151
"But NPR isn't government funded, conservatard!"

"Ok, we'll make sure that NPR isn't government funded."

"Noooooooooooooo!!!!"

Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:28 PM (oGB6/)

152 Minneapolis Star Tribune: Minneapolis becomes first major US city to allow all five Muslim daily prayer calls

https://tinyurl.com/bdp6shyp

Translation: Suck it, dhimmis!

Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2023 01:29 PM (1Yy3c)

153
David Brooks and the two clean, black, homosexual talking heads with nice pant creases will not be covering on this all things considered PBS story time news Friday night.

Posted by: Auspex at April 14, 2023 01:29 PM (j4U/Z)

154 One report used a headline claiming that Musk was FURIOUS. If by FURIOUS they meant Musk calmly disagreed, it would be accurate. But it was just a hateful comment intended ti illicit a reaction. Exactly the premise of hate speech according to the hit piece journalist conducting the interview.
Posted by: Hairpin Corner Concrete Truck Collision Take Me Now at April 14, 2023 01:22 PM (9ymqI)
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It looked like the journalist was getting more furious than Musk. All Elon wanted was a SINGLE example tweet. Surely, if there was a particularly hateful tweet, that would stick in the journalist's mind, would it not? And if it's so prevalent on Twitter, then it should be a simple matter to whip out the phone and find one on the app. Takes just a couple of minutes. Couldn't even be bothered to do that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2023 01:29 PM (YIVH2)

155 145 Crowder discussed this the other day and labeled it Breitbart'esque, and he's right.

Musk didn't back down, pushed back and made the 'journalist' eat his own shit.

Moar please.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)

=========

It's been obvious for years that most of the reporters in the MSM have little idea of what they're asking about, and that they are nothing but houses of cards easily toppled by anyone willing to just give the smallest of blows in that direction.

All it takes is evening out the playing field by taking away their ability to edit you to nonsense, like that Katie Couric gun interview where the people being interviewed taped it themselves and Couric was dumb enough to try and edit them to make them sound stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 14, 2023 01:29 PM (UVZX7)

156 Big Bird is part of the rich 1%, he makes bank through merch. And he now whores himself out to HBO Max.

If PBS and NPR get soooo little from our taxes, (only 1% really?), we should cut them off. Will help us with all the deadbeat DACA recipients healthcare and the student loans we will be now paying taxes for.

Posted by: LizLem at April 14, 2023 01:29 PM (CrzI5)

157 It was surely edited and cut. But if Stahl had stopped MTG from citing the videos, MTG would be talking about it. Also, it's imperative to shoot your own video of all news reporter interviews, so you have an unedited copy to present. If MTG didn't do that, she's not savvy enough to talk to the media.
Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 14, 2023 01:21 PM (MvF+J)

Take out your phone, put it in stopwatch mode, set it on the table between you.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 14, 2023 01:29 PM (z99Zw)

158 What's funny is that the leftists are staring to hate Musk but think he's some kind of sooper-genioos that can always outsmart them, simply because he's got a rational world view about like we do. This doesn't make him conservative by any means, but it does make him Not An Idiot, which puts him a whole order of magnitude smarter than any leftist out there.

We all used to think "well there's smart people on the other side, too" but that's changed - nowadays, no. There aren't any.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 01:30 PM (trdmm)

159 152 Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2023 01:29 PM (1Yy3c)

The squareheads chose POORLY.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 01:30 PM (Lzpvj)

160 Who, besides a professional journalist, could have expected the follow-up comment to "Hey, I've sure noticed a lot of this sort of vague stuff..." to be "Give me an example of said stuff"?

Oh wait, I think I'm starting to see the problem...

Posted by: Simple Stevo at April 14, 2023 01:30 PM (R5JlW)

161 Parlor > Parler

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

162 Remember when the right said "Stop funding Big Bird" and the left shit themselves?

Yeah. Government funded.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 01:30 PM (Y2tls)

163 151
"But NPR isn't government funded, conservatard!"

"Ok, we'll make sure that NPR isn't government funded."

"Noooooooooooooo!!!!"
Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:28 PM (oGB6/)

=========

"You're going to starve Big Bird!"
"PBS sold Big Bird to HBO years ago. They made Big Bird a wage slave. NPR is capitalistic and must be destroyed."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 14, 2023 01:30 PM (UVZX7)

164 Minneapolis Star Tribune: Minneapolis becomes first major US city to allow all five Muslim daily prayer calls

https://tinyurl.com/bdp6shyp

Translation: Suck it, dhimmis!
Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2023 01:29 PM (1Yy3c)

Fucking Lutherans

Posted by: JoeF. at April 14, 2023 01:30 PM (mR6Gs)

165 The Republicans should do the same thing when a propaganda minister yells about Republican voters suppression. Say "name one voter who was suppressed". They should also bring cameras and/or recording equipment to every interview

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 14, 2023 01:30 PM (xi9RM)

166
=========

It's been obvious for years that most of the reporters in the MSM have little idea of what they're asking about, and that they are nothing but houses of cards easily toppled by anyone willing to just give the smallest of blows in that direction.

All it takes is evening out the playing field by taking away their ability to edit you to nonsense, like that Katie Couric gun interview where the people being interviewed taped it themselves and Couric was dumb enough to try and edit them to make them sound stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 14, 2023 01:29 PM (UVZX7)

Heh. You said 'blows.' Heheheheheh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

167 I just don't know how I can get by without NPR on twiter.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 01:31 PM (iayUP)

168 122 WDCB is the best jazz station I know of. But I don't need the government running it. Besides, I've got 128GB of jazz on the thumb drive in the car audio player, and I've got 128TB of jazz queued up on YT at home, so who the hell needs public radio?

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 14, 2023 01:31 PM (MvF+J)

169 The world would be a lesser place without Ira Glass...and Terry Gross. Oh, wait, no, we would be fine.

Just for your entertainment, here's a picture of the engaging Ms. Gross:
https://tinyurl.com/229bebx3

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2023 01:31 PM (TqUi+)

170 161 sitting room >>>Parlor > Parler
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

Posted by: Musk at April 14, 2023 01:31 PM (us2H3)

171 "Well, Mr. Musk. Let's just see if the FAA allows you to fly that billion dollar rocket of yours."

Vengeful angry retards are in charge everywhere.
Posted by: Auspex at April 14, 2023 01:26 PM (j4U/Z)

Except, at the moment, the only other manned flight to orbit fly out of Baikonur or Jiuquan

AWKWARD!

Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2023 01:31 PM (xhaym)

172 The best part was when Musk opened up questions to the audience and then immediately asked the reporter if he likes BBC. Elon is an African American so it’s a fair question.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 14, 2023 01:31 PM (X4R3E)

173 Every conservative needs to step up to blatantly false accusations with "just show me one example."

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 14, 2023 01:31 PM (bOS38)

174 and yet conservatives on Twitter like Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway say that Musk has gone back on his promises.
Davis has been banned numerous times and i never found out why
Posted by: JoeF. at April 14, 2023 01:28 PM (mR6Gs)

Because Elon didn't buy the infrastructure and code on which Twitter runs. That stuff is off-site prob in Utah.

His changes have been mostly ineffectual stuff.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 14, 2023 01:31 PM (1ais2)

175 A "journalist" who does exactly zero effin' independent research. Just, "Hey, I read somewhere some time ago that blah blah blah..." after just asserting, as fact, that something is true. If only he had a giant clown nose to hide behind, and an edited tape, he could've buried the fail.

Yep. That is Journalism today by the entirety of MFM. One mammoth propaganda outlet a la 1984.

Never talk to MFM without your own recording; and, if you're powerful, never do an interview that isn't live.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 14, 2023 01:32 PM (aXxgO)

176 The last thing good I heard on public radio was Car Talk. Recently listened to some episodes from a few years back and it was amazing how funny and ordinary it was. Not everyone insane with OMG Racism!!, Global Enwarmening!!, etc.

Posted by: Zek at April 14, 2023 01:32 PM (5FPX4)

177 A reporter once asked Trump to comment on rising oil prices. Trump simply asked him if he knew what the price of oil was that day. Reporter had no idea. Almost looked like he had no idea was oil was.

Moral of the story: Just the slightest bit of pushback causes these dumb cunts to crumble. Ask them to show their damn work!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 14, 2023 01:32 PM (KbCG3)

178 Alan Chartok is da man

Posted by: REDACTED at April 14, 2023 01:32 PM (us2H3)

179 Why does NPR need 52 feeds???

Posted by: rickb223

Because that's 52 interns the managers can boink.

DUH!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 14, 2023 01:32 PM (jzzG8)

180 What is sad, is that literally every single interview with the media would go like this if conservatives merely demanded the same rules:
Only livestreamed.
No panels.
No commercials.

And then simply demand "who, what, when and where" to every question.

Every question that doesn't at least set that out is a trap.

But, we have a bunch of sad-sack, limp-dicked, candy-assed crypto-Democrats as "Republicans"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 14, 2023 01:32 PM (Jicyp)

181
Because Elon didn't buy the infrastructure and code on which Twitter runs. That stuff is off-site prob in Utah.

Hello friends!

Posted by: Mitt Romney at April 14, 2023 01:32 PM (mR6Gs)

182 A leftist can make a sweeping assertion and it is given the presumption of truth.

Posted by: RM at April 14, 2023 01:25 PM (0eYOS)
----
Yep. Had to put up with that the other day during an interview with a job candidate. He made some rather sweeping assertions from an SJW perspective. I basically just had to sit there and listen since if I spoke up I would probably have lost my own job.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2023 01:32 PM (YIVH2)

183 By going silent on Twitter, NPR's chief executive says the network is protecting its credibility and its ability to produce journalism without "a shadow of negativity."
____

Producing journalism without a shadow of negativity is actually a standard? Is this what you learn from a hack diploma mill like Columbia School of Journalism?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2023 01:33 PM (fs1hN)

184 Do the really have more than 50 Twitter feeds?

Yeah, they'll be back.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at April 14, 2023 01:33 PM (mE3yi)

185 All NPR has to do is refuse any government funding, subsidies, and tax breaks.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 01:33 PM (iayUP)

186 NPR is basically the liberal equivalent of every conservative AM talk radio show getting free tax dollars.

Yet Republicans have never been able to cut this off in the last several decades?

How quickly do you think Dems would have found a way to cut off Rush Limbaugh if he was getting paid by the government?

Posted by: Blago at April 14, 2023 01:33 PM (cOFom)

187 Vengeful angry retards are in charge everywhere.
Posted by: Auspex

Clowns being supervised by monkeys which is why we are being inundated with disaster on a daily basis

Posted by: Sock Monkey * invictus maneo at April 14, 2023 01:33 PM (mDXyw)

188 "Well, Mr. Musk. Let's just see if the FAA allows you to fly that billion dollar rocket of yours."

Vengeful angry retards are in charge everywhere.
Posted by: Auspex at April 14, 2023 01:26 PM (j4U/Z)

All that crap you want launched into space... by me... says you'll let me launch eventually. -- Elon

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 14, 2023 01:34 PM (z99Zw)

189 Just for your entertainment, here's a picture of the engaging Ms. Gross:
https://tinyurl.com/229bebx3
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2023 01:31 PM (TqUi+)

Exactly how i pictured her

Posted by: Mitt Romney at April 14, 2023 01:34 PM (mR6Gs)

190 182 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2023 01:32 PM (YIVH2)

Quite, election 08 ended the west.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 01:34 PM (Lzpvj)

191 176 The last thing good I heard on public radio was Car Talk. Recently listened to some episodes from a few years back and it was amazing how funny and ordinary it was. Not everyone insane with OMG Racism!!, Global Enwarmening!!, etc.
Posted by: Zek at April 14, 2023 01:32 PM (5FPX4)

Well, Tom and Ray did jump on the "SUVs are gonna kill us aaaaalll!!" bandwagon sometimes, but otherwise yes.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 14, 2023 01:34 PM (N3zMI)

192 "Vengeful angry retards are in charge everywhere.
Posted by: Auspex

Clowns being supervised by monkeys which is why we are being inundated with disaster on a daily basis"

Dumpster fires stokes by rageaholic fuckbrains.

Posted by: Zek at April 14, 2023 01:34 PM (5FPX4)

193 stoked

Posted by: Zek at April 14, 2023 01:35 PM (5FPX4)

194 Yet Republicans have never been able to cut this off in the last several decades?

How quickly do you think Dems would have found a way to cut off Rush Limbaugh if he was getting paid by the government?
Posted by: Blago at April 14, 2023 01:33 PM (cOFom)

Mitch McConnell loves him some NPR.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 01:35 PM (trdmm)

195 Elon is the PT Barnum of this century

Posted by: REDACTED at April 14, 2023 01:35 PM (us2H3)

196
Remember when we lost the blog for a bit and had the better featured backup site?

Yeah yeah.
Posted by: sven

Remember the fun we had with [ you ] on the backup site?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 14, 2023 01:35 PM (n+4am)

197 This poor BBC clown was wholly unprepared for Elon Musk. The guy was a stammering idiot who repeatedly contradicted himself (I haven't read Twitter for weeks, I check every day, I don't use that account much, I keep getting hate mail on that account, etc). He came across very poorly and looked the fool, very unprepared etc.

Basically he was using leftist talking points all agreed upon by his bubble and unquestioned, and when questioned was utterly unprepared.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2023 01:35 PM (0hOvj)

198 The "Musk is Furious" thing is similar to when Trump or MTG or anyone firmly on our side gives a calm informed and factual speech about something and the headlines ALWAYS describe some formation of "Bizarre Unhinged Rant".

Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:36 PM (NW06I)

199 Musk: “I’m interviewing you, too. You weren’t expecting that.”

Clayton: “Let’s talk about something else.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 14, 2023 01:36 PM (EXyHK)

200 "The last thing good I heard on public radio was Car Talk. "
Those guys were great. For the uninitiated, they were 2 brothers, car mechanics and they would take callers about car problems. Sometimes a caller would call in about a problem with a 1979 Cavalier and the 2 brothers would bust out laughing before the problem was even discussed.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, a literal ray of sunshine at April 14, 2023 01:36 PM (jTmQV)

201 WDCB is the best jazz station I know of. But I don't need the government running it. Besides, I've got 128GB of jazz on the thumb drive in the car audio player, and I've got 128TB of jazz queued up on YT at home, so who the hell needs public radio?
Posted by: Receive gp's

NPR & PBS should have been removed from the federal tit when the internet became commercialized.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 01:36 PM (Y2tls)

202 186 Hear, hear! It seems like defunding NPR would be dead easy for the GOP to do, if they really wanted to. Like so many other things they aren't doing.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 14, 2023 01:36 PM (MvF+J)

203 "NPR is basically the liberal equivalent of every conservative AM talk radio show getting free tax dollars."

A lot of AM radio is funded by Ad Council commercials. I think it's the only thing that keeps our local station alive.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 01:36 PM (iayUP)

204 Breaking news: The Tater has landed at Vanity Fair as a Special Correspondent.

No word on whether "Special Correspondent" includes duties as a Sex Machine.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 14, 2023 01:37 PM (a3Q+t)

205 How quickly do you think Dems would have found a way to cut off Rush Limbaugh if he was getting paid by the government?
Posted by: Blago at April 14, 2023 01:33 PM (cOFom)

the new EV cars made by Ford, BMW, etc will not have piped in am radio

Posted by: REDACTED at April 14, 2023 01:37 PM (us2H3)

206 Just for your entertainment, here's a picture of the engaging Ms. Gross:
https://tinyurl.com/229bebx3
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2023 01:31 PM (TqUi+)

That's a MAN baby!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

207 The "Musk is Furious" thing is similar to when Trump or MTG or anyone firmly on our side gives a calm informed and factual speech about something and the headlines ALWAYS describe some formation of "Bizarre Unhinged Rant".
Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:36 PM (NW06I)
---
Asking for specific examples is the surest signed of a deranged, unhinged individual. /sarc

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2023 01:37 PM (YIVH2)

208 I've got 128GB of jazz on the thumb drive in the car audio player, and I've got 128TB of jazz queued up on YT at home, so who the hell needs public radio?
Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 14, 2023 01:31 PM (MvF+J)

All that jazz

Posted by: A dude in MI at April 14, 2023 01:37 PM (/6GbT)

209 Just for your entertainment, here's a picture of the engaging Ms. Gross:
https://tinyurl.com/229bebx3
___

Eh, we like to rub up on her legs.

Posted by: Ms. Gross's Cats at April 14, 2023 01:37 PM (fs1hN)

210 My favorite portion of the interview is very subtle, but it really caught my attention, the "Let's move on, we only have a certain amount of time" line from the BBC guy.

You have the richest man in the world sitting there talking with you, and you throw out there "Look, I don't have all day buddy."

What could that dude possibly have to do that supersedes his interview with Musk that day?

"I'd love to talk more with you, most followed internet person and richest man in the world, but I have to pick my sons up from ballet class?"

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 14, 2023 01:37 PM (Gf3mx)

211 There was a night here when everyone was sven. I always thought sven liked it but now I'm not sure.

Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:37 PM (NW06I)

212 201 Hear, hear!

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 14, 2023 01:38 PM (MvF+J)

213 Car Talk was a total set up

Posted by: REDACTED at April 14, 2023 01:38 PM (us2H3)

214 We all used to think "well there's smart people on the other side, too" but that's changed - nowadays, no. There aren't any.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2023 01:30 PM (trdmm)

I have posted about this other places, but they are clearly people who have outsourced their understanding, values and attitudes to other people and institutions. This idiot reporter was not asking questions, he was interrogating Musk according to "everyone knows" memes and expecting the standard response

Michael Malice calls them midwits and the interwebz call them NPCs but these are people who have learned this by rote and don't understand what they are pushing, only that if they don't push it correctly they lose their livelihoods and status in their own communities.

This makes them the most fearful people in the world because they never know when they are going to get it wrong, and no one has their backs if they wander into "heresy"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2023 01:38 PM (xhaym)

215 Car Talk > Coffee Talk

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 01:38 PM (Zz0t1)

216 Oh, they'll be back. Proggy weirdoes can never quit Twitter. Or -- they can quit, they just can't stay quit.

Yeah they will be back. And its sort of surprising to me that they are objecting, its obvious that they are state media. They are literally media created by and funded by the US government. How else can you possibly define them?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2023 01:39 PM (0hOvj)

217 196 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 14, 2023 01:35 PM (n+4am)

Which fun the "wow 198,000+ posts of yours lost?"

I dunno....I did enjoy the GUI there more.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 01:39 PM (Lzpvj)

218 Remember when we lost the blog for a bit and had the better featured backup site?

Yeah yeah.
Posted by: sven

Remember the fun we had with [ you ] on the backup site?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 14, 2023 01:35 PM (n+4am)

Green.

Green green green green green green green green green green green!!!!!!!

Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2023 01:39 PM (1Yy3c)

219 Also, I don't think ace included the video, but Elon read some questions from the Twitter Spaces feed for them to answer.

Several commenters kept asking the reporter to answer if "he liked BBC".

Elon was cracking up and kept asking him.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 14, 2023 01:39 PM (Gf3mx)

220 "I want to bring America together."
-Trump
"Trump gives speech calling blowing up of America."
-Media

"I want to kill the people who didn't vote for me."
-Biden
"Biden gives unifying speech."
-Media

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 14, 2023 01:40 PM (UVZX7)

221 Apropos of nothing, I cannot get this POS x11vnc server to init on bootup no matter what I do.

ssh'ing into the bloody machine to start vnc is sub-optimal.

Is it 5'OClock yet?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2023 01:40 PM (up/3i)

222 And THAT is why I default to assuming these fucktards are lying fucktards.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 14, 2023 01:40 PM (Dx86L)

223 I wonder if never funding NPR has anything to do with Republicans never doing a fucking sliver of a thing they say they're gonna do at campaign time. Maybe, maybe nah bro.

Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:40 PM (NW06I)

224 "All that jazz"

Hard to believe, but 95% of the stuff I've got queued up I've never heard before, even though I've been listening to jazz for 50 years. The internet is the best thing since Gutenberg. We take it for granted.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 14, 2023 01:40 PM (MvF+J)

225 Never *defunding* NPR. FFS SwiftKey

Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:40 PM (NW06I)

226 211 Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:37 PM (NW06I)

I think it was awesome, messed with my literary fingerprint and probably sent Bob from the NSA to therapy.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 01:41 PM (Lzpvj)

227 Michael Malice calls them midwits and the interwebz call them NPCs but these are people who have learned this by rote and don't understand what they are pushing, only that if they don't push it correctly they lose their livelihoods and status in their own communities.

This makes them the most fearful people in the world because they never know when they are going to get it wrong, and no one has their backs if they wander into "heresy"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2023 01:38 PM (xhaym)

Spot freaking on. See: Colbert's audience clapping when he announced that Trump had fired Comey.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 14, 2023 01:41 PM (KbCG3)

228 NPR played this song...on Memorial Day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytd8ZALbLuY

Posted by: BignJames at April 14, 2023 01:41 PM (AwYPR)

229 James Clayton talks like a fag, and his shit's retarded.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2023 01:41 PM (tkR6S)

230 A lot of AM radio is funded by Ad Council commercials. I think it's the only thing that keeps our local station alive.
Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 01:36 PM

This message brought to you by [some leftist assholes] and the Ad Council!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 14, 2023 01:42 PM (Wnv9h)

231
Just for your entertainment, here's a picture of the engaging Ms. Gross:
https://tinyurl.com/229bebx3
Posted by: Mike Hammer
=================

I'd hit it...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 14, 2023 01:42 PM (vwCZJ)

232 221 I use VNC on headless Raspberry Pi's. It's cool.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 14, 2023 01:42 PM (MvF+J)

233 We need a weekly jazz thread!

Posted by: gourmand du jour, a literal ray of sunshine at April 14, 2023 01:42 PM (jTmQV)

234 And THAT is why I default to assuming these fucktards are lying fucktards.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 14, 2023 01:40 PM (Dx86L)

The universe, solved in one statement.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)

235
Apropos of nothing, I cannot get this POS x11vnc server to init on bootup no matter what I do.

ssh'ing into the bloody machine to start vnc is sub-optimal.

Is it 5'OClock yet?
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I recommend a hammer.

Gotta show the server who's boss.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 14, 2023 01:43 PM (n+4am)

236 "I want America to be free and prosperous."
-Trump

"Trump calls for murder of political opponents."
-Media

"I just want the Trump drama to end."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 14, 2023 01:43 PM (UVZX7)

237 Sometimes a caller would call in about a problem with a 1979 Cavalier and the 2 brothers would bust out laughing before the problem was even discussed.
Posted by: gourmand
-----

For a while, I did some contract work with a firm that specialized in accident reconstruction/failure analysis. Mostly industrial incidents, but occasionally vehicle-related things.

I asked a guy, returning to the office after looking into a seemingly spontaneous fire, what had occurred. His reply, 'Well...it's a Fiat'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2023 01:43 PM (TqUi+)

238 Apropos of nothing, I cannot get this POS x11vnc server to init on bootup no matter what I do.

ssh'ing into the bloody machine to start vnc is sub-optimal.

Is it 5'OClock yet?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2023 01:40 PM (up/3i)

And I thought MY life sucked.

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at April 14, 2023 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)

239 Go Elon Go!

Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2023 01:44 PM (ug/lW)

240 185 All NPR has to do is refuse any government funding, subsidies, and tax breaks.
Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 01:33 PM (iayUP)

Ah, yes. The dog that isn't barking.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 14, 2023 01:44 PM (/iWhV)

241 I think MGT did a good job of walking into the Lion's Den of 60 Minutes. Should she have had her own video crew? Yes. But she went, and when Stahl said "how can you defend saying such and such" she just defended it. She didn't quail from it. And people who would not have heard her otherwise heard it.

Musk did a thing that will never work again. No journalist is going to allow livestream. And if for some reason they DO allow it, they aren't going to come in with their lameass "some people said a thing about you defend yourself from it" gambit. Musk just taught them it doesn't work. Good on Musk for exposing the sham of reporting, but they'll be more cadgy from here on out.

Posted by: blaster at April 14, 2023 01:44 PM (pwExq)

242 Its so funny watching the argument whenever defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

They say both "the CPB cannot exist without government funding" and "they get hardly any money from the government anyway" at the same time, without even a smirk. I doubt they even have the understanding of logic to recognize that there's a conflict here.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2023 01:44 PM (0hOvj)

243 227 Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 14, 2023 01:41 PM (KbCG3)

Having a clearance is similar.

It is fun watching people who back Antifa openly and say "well it is just an idea" get more passes than the cute unknown girl in a Sybil Daning Prison Lesbian flick on night one but God forbid you point out the probable outcome correctly on the Rittenhouse trial.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 01:44 PM (Lzpvj)

244 Well, Mr. Musk. Let's just see if the FAA allows you to fly that billion dollar rocket of yours."

Vengeful angry retards are in charge everywhere.
Posted by: Auspex at April 14, 2023 01:26 PM (j4U/Z)

Musk also has NASA over a barrel. He does a lot of launches on their launch sites and pays a considerable amount for each launch. They know that if doing business with them becomes too difficult, he has the finances to move to a country that will support his space endeavors.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 14, 2023 01:44 PM (BdMk6)

245 "The last thing good I heard on public radio was Car Talk. "
Those guys were great. For the uninitiated, they were 2 brothers, car mechanics and they would take callers about car problems. Sometimes a caller would call in about a problem with a 1979 Cavalier and the 2 brothers would bust out laughing before the problem was even discussed.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, a literal ray of sunshine at April 14, 2023

***
Their website, too, featured a "good mechanic shops" list, where you selected your state or zip and got a list of shops recommended by listeners. I know it was for rel; my long-time mechanic was on the list for this state. I used a recommended shop in a far suburb to check out a Toyota Avalon I was thinking of buying. They came back with several major issues, so I passed on the car. No charge. I made sure to run by at my next oil change and let them do it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2023 01:45 PM (J2vNu)

246 242 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2023 01:44 PM (0hOvj)

In the 90s it was pointed out the "well read left" were already in the land of doublethink....

we gained an 8 year reprieve now it is all of them.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 01:45 PM (Lzpvj)

247 I think MGT did a good job of walking into the Lion's Den of 60 Minutes. Should she have had her own video crew? Yes. But she went, and when Stahl said "how can you defend saying such and such" she just defended it. She didn't quail from it. And people who would not have heard her otherwise heard it.

Posted by: blaster at April 14, 2023 01:44 PM (pwExq)

It did remind me that Leslie Stahl is a bitter shriveled old hag......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)

248

Can I come back now?

Please?

I promise I won't bang Lindsey Lohan anymore. Anyway, she's too old, er, I mean I never did until she was 18, er, uh, I mean...

Posted by: Garrison Keillor at April 14, 2023 01:45 PM (kOFPS)

249 221 IT is an endless graph of problem-solving. It's so much fun, unless you have to do it to a deadline, or the requirements keep changing, or you have to waste all your time on the phone or in meetings, or ...

... OK, it's not fun. It can be soul-destroying.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 14, 2023 01:46 PM (MvF+J)

250 Apropos of nothing, I cannot get this POS x11vnc server to init on bootup no matter what I do.

ssh'ing into the bloody machine to start vnc is sub-optimal.

Is it 5'OClock yet?

I'm going to guess there's nothing in the logs to tell you why it's being a PITA, or you'd have it running already. Usually when I have a mystery issue like this it's either permissions on an obscure file or the process is trying to start as the wrong user.

So probably not either of those, because that would be too easy.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2023 01:46 PM (Bd6X8)

251 I used to listen to Terry Gross' fresh air in the 80's. I am amazed she is still un-cremated.

I guess it is important to destroy the phylactery.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2023 01:47 PM (xhaym)

252
"I just want the Trump drama to end."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 14, 2023 01:43 PM (UVZX7)

This. At least 99% of the "ickyness" associated with Trump was media shrieking.

Posted by: Emmie at April 14, 2023 01:47 PM (Emce2)

253 My mechanic is booked a couple weeks in advance, appointment only, no drive ups.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, a literal ray of sunshine at April 14, 2023 01:47 PM (jTmQV)

254 Musk also has NASA over a barrel. He does a lot of launches on their launch sites and pays a considerable amount for each launch. They know that if doing business with them becomes too difficult, he has the finances to move to a country that will support his space endeavors.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 14, 2023 01:44 PM (BdMk6)

Any semi-wealthy country that doesn't have a space program would probably love to host SpaceX. It'd allow them to rapidly bootstrap their own program, not having to develop low-orbit capability.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at April 14, 2023 01:48 PM (MIb2C)

255 Musk did a thing that will never work again. No journalist is going to allow livestream. And if for some reason they DO allow it, they aren't going to come in with their lameass "some people said a thing about you defend yourself from it" gambit. Musk just taught them it doesn't work. Good on Musk for exposing the sham of reporting, but they'll be more cadgy from here on out.
Posted by: blaster at April 14, 2023 01:44 PM (pwExq)

I can understand not wanting to livestream. They do have shows to produce. That said, and this could prove more chilling, just put a condition in that you get to record the entire interview and will release it shortly after their interview airs.

Okay, you want to go ahead and chop it up to make someone look bad? Just know that five minutes later, the actual interview will be aired.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 14, 2023 01:48 PM (KbCG3)

256 NYPost: Mary Quant, ’60s designer who invented the miniskirt, dead at 93

https://tinyurl.com/2r3pkecy

Let's say a prayer for Ms. Quant.

Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2023 01:48 PM (1Yy3c)

257 Wow I had forgotten how funny Lucifer's Hammer was on Hot Fudge Tuesday.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 01:48 PM (Lzpvj)

258 My mechanic is booked a couple weeks in advance, appointment only, no drive ups.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, a literal ray of sunshine at April 14, 2023 01:47 PM (jTmQV)

That's why, if possible, I do all the work myself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)

259 I have been informed that it is Earth month. Do all of the other planets get a month too?

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 01:48 PM (iayUP)

260 Also, I don't think ace included the video, but Elon read some questions from the Twitter Spaces feed for them to answer.

Several commenters kept asking the reporter to answer if "he liked BBC".

Elon was cracking up and kept asking him.
==
O lordie I thought that was a joke.

Posted by: i'm just sayin at April 14, 2023 01:49 PM (rPKO/)

261 A nice question to ask any journalist or lib relative is "what do you mean by [that]?"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2023 01:49 PM (fs1hN)

262 Musk did a thing that will never work again. No journalist is going to allow livestream.

Then no journalist will ever interview Musk again.

They need him. Not the other way around.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 01:49 PM (Y2tls)

263 I have been informed that it is Earth month. Do all of the other planets get a month too?
Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 01:48 PM (iayUP)

Earth DAY is the 22nd. Didn't know there was a whole MONTH dedicated. So close to PRIDE month? That's just rude.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

264 Pluto, that unloved little planet, never got a month.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 01:49 PM (iayUP)

265 Apropos of nothing, I cannot get this POS x11vnc server to init on bootup no matter what I do.

chmod 777 is the hammer

Posted by: blaster at April 14, 2023 01:50 PM (pwExq)

266 My big chuckle with the Elon Musk interview is that the smarmy little latte twizzler actually thought he had the smarts to hold his own with somebody like Elon Musk, no doubt because he did so well getting his journalism degree.

High self esteem is a worthy goal, but only if there is some tangible achievements to back it up. Being Mummy's favorite little guy yes you are! doesn't hack it in the big bad world.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at April 14, 2023 01:50 PM (oedLL)

267 Musk asks reporter if "he likes BBC".

(TikTok link)

https://tinyurl.com/y6pemskp

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 14, 2023 01:50 PM (Gf3mx)

268 I have been informed that it is Earth month. Do all of the other planets get a month too?
Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023

***
I'm first in line for Venus Month!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2023 01:50 PM (J2vNu)

269 What % of MLB season is Jackie Robinson involved?

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 14, 2023 01:51 PM (1ais2)

270 I have been informed that it is Earth month. Do all of the other planets get a month too?
Posted by: fd

Uranus gets every month on Pornhub.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 01:51 PM (Y2tls)

271 NPR isn’t State controlled media.

NPR is pure shit.

Pure. Shit.

Oh, and more funeral dancers please.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 14, 2023 01:51 PM (R/m4+)

272 Then no journalist will ever interview Musk again.

They need him. Not the other way around.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 01:49 PM (Y2tls)

They will be just fine spewing whatever random stuff they say. It's not like their viewer is going to have a problem with it.

Posted by: blaster at April 14, 2023 01:51 PM (pwExq)

273 252 Posted by: Emmie at April 14, 2023 01:47 PM (Emce2)

I want the Trump drama to end, that said our political foe successfully obliterated the right got rules put in place giving them an "I WIN!" button and paid no price for it....

but hey I am certain they will be totally fair with "insert non-Trump candidate x."

I say this as someone who went on record that I wanted someone other than Trump the minute he lost, but opponents seldom quit doing the things they gain success from.

Posted by: sven at April 14, 2023 01:51 PM (Lzpvj)

274 What happened was the so-called 'journalist' wanted to scream about 'hate speech' in their continued effort to stampede the sheep I to agreeing to ban 'hate speech', WITHOUT A CONCRETE DEFINITION.

Then AFTER they banned 'hate speech', they would include crap like using the wrong pronoun.

That's what this is about. Musk FIRST demands a definition. The reporter refuses to provide one because he knows goddamn well that what normal people consider 'hate speech' (things like racial or sexist slurs), have NOT gone up.

So if he provides an example he either gives Musk the win for tamping down on actual hate speech, or he exposes whatever ludicrous definition the left is using.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at April 14, 2023 01:51 PM (d42j3)

275 The libs in my family are "educated" fucktards. All that school and they have no solutions to any problems.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 14, 2023 01:51 PM (+Wcyp)

276 Someone pointed out in another thread about this elsewhere, about NPR and the CPB getting much of their funding from private sources.

Sources like the Karen and Edward Stazi-owski Foundation. Or some names like that. Always a pair of upper west side flaming libs. Never sources like the Koch Bros (except they are not really conservative.)

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 14, 2023 01:51 PM (KiBMU)

277 Musk did a thing that will never work again. No journalist is going to allow livestream. And if for some reason they DO allow it, they aren't going to come in with their lameass "some people said a thing about you defend yourself from it" gambit. Musk just taught them it doesn't work. Good on Musk for exposing the sham of reporting, but they'll be more cadgy from here on out.
Posted by: blaster at April 14, 2023 01:44 PM (pwExq)

It seems a shame that Musk had to teach those J-school grads that they had to do their job.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2023 01:52 PM (xhaym)

278 Then no journalist will ever interview Musk again.

They need him. Not the other way around.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 01:49 PM (Y2tls)
----
Yep. If Musk wants to put out PR about his projects, he has the resources to do that on his own (see Twitter).

*They* need the clickbait. He doesn't.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2023 01:52 PM (YIVH2)

279 I love how the reporter falls back on argument by authority.

It's such an easy sign of a weak mind.

"My betters say this, so it must be true."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 14, 2023 01:52 PM (UVZX7)

280 Didn't know there was a whole MONTH dedicated. So close to PRIDE month? That's just rude.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

According to the email from ebay:

"Look what we did together. Go team.

You and eBay buyers and sellers across the globe showed up for the planet this year by choosing more sustainable ways to shop."

And then they gave me a 15% off coupon for Earth Month.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 01:52 PM (iayUP)

281 chmod 777 is the hammer

It's like using a 10lb sledge hammer to drive finishing nails, but it can get the job done.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2023 01:52 PM (Bd6X8)

282 261 A nice question to ask any journalist or lib relative is "what do you mean by [that]?"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2023 01:49 PM (fs1hN)

I also like how Jordan Peterson often responds... I don't like how that question is asked, what do you mean by... then force them to define the buzz word being used as a trap.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 14, 2023 01:52 PM (oHd/0)

283 275 The libs in my family are "educated" fucktards. All that school and they have no solutions to any problems.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 14, 2023 01:51 PM (+Wcyp)

What they lack in accuracy they make up for in certainty.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 14, 2023 01:52 PM (KbCG3)

284 "POS x11vnc server to init on bootup"

Is server using systemd, or inittab?

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 14, 2023 01:52 PM (MvF+J)

285 Its 2Pm on Friday afternoon and 72 degrees and Sunny. In Cleveland. In APRIL.

Posted by: so we'll probably get a foot of snow next week at April 14, 2023 01:52 PM (x+Uqd)

286 I didn't even know I was sustainably shopping but whatever.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 01:53 PM (iayUP)

287 NPR [flounces out of ] Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'

NPR and PBS quit Twatter after having a rolling around on the floor tantrum because they were accurately labeled for being funded by the Federal government.

I see an upside here.

How does one go about having Twatter have all the left wing MSM media outlets accurately labeled as members of the propaganda division of the Democrat party? The collective tantrum would be epic.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 14, 2023 01:54 PM (iGfKR)

288 So, if NPR falls in the woods, does anyone hear it?

The answer is no. They will have to return to twitter.
Posted by: thesgm at April 14, 2023 01:17 PM (VhDvQ)

Has NPR ever been on AM? I've always found it on FM, usually at the far left of the dial.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2023 01:54 PM (tkR6S)

289 Earth Month is just another marketing scam like Sinko da Mayo.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 01:54 PM (iayUP)

290 In an historic ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court this morning held that Texas Accountant Michelle Cochran has the right to challenge the constitutionality of her Administrative Law Judge’s (ALJ) removal protections in federal court before undergoing an administrative adjudication. Writing unanimously for the Court, Justice Kagan’s opinion stated, “The statutory review schemes set out in the Securities Exchange Act and Federal Trade Commission Act do not displace a district court’s federal-question jurisdiction over claims challenging as unconstitutional the structure or existence of the SEC or FTC.” “The ordinary statutory review scheme,” she wrote, “does not preclude a district court from entertaining these extraordinary claims.”

Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2023 01:55 PM (RHGPo)

291 279 I love how the reporter falls back on argument by authority.

It's such an easy sign of a weak mind.

"My betters say this, so it must be true."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 14, 2023 01:52 PM (UVZX7)

Which further betrays his stupidity because everyone knows you start those questions with, "There are some who say..." or, "Critics argue..."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 14, 2023 01:55 PM (KbCG3)

292 NPR is strictly FM. No static at all.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 01:55 PM (iayUP)

293 That's what this is about. Musk FIRST demands a definition. The reporter refuses to provide one because he knows goddamn well that what normal people consider 'hate speech' (things like racial or sexist slurs), have NOT gone up.

So if he provides an example he either gives Musk the win for tamping down on actual hate speech, or he exposes whatever ludicrous definition the left is using.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at April 14, 2023 01:51 PM (d42j3)
---
That's a good point. Musk and the Journalist argued about tweets that might be considered slightly offensive. Musk wanted to know what would be offensive enough to consider banning. They he launched into asking for specific examples, if only so both parties in the conversation could then have a common frame of reference. The journalist refused to provide that, trying to deflect Musk, because he knew that once both parties could look at the same Tweet, viewers might draw different conclusions.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2023 01:55 PM (YIVH2)

294 That was a satisfying interview.

Shame it won't matter. The press will continue to lie unabated and unashamed. This will do exactly zero to the credibility of the press to those who have determined to follow their tribe.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 14, 2023 01:55 PM (JMAcK)

295 and they try to dance around the fact that they are not majorly "federally" funded, but if you see how they get their money, it's laundered through various schools, colleges, and other entities paid for by the tax payers.

Liars. I would bet close to 100% if truly scrutinized. Yeah there will be people who donate - wealthy people who want their name on a plaque, but like we are finding out with a lot of things the tax payer would vote against their taxes going to, it's hidden and laundered.

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 14, 2023 01:55 PM (uQPen)

296 Earth Month is just another marketing scam like Sinko da Mayo.

Are you telling me that Cinco de Drinko isn't real?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2023 01:55 PM (Bd6X8)

297 Sabaton - 1916 (Motörhead cover)

https://youtu.be/HgGhhnQB1gw

Posted by: Robert at April 14, 2023 01:55 PM (1Yy3c)

298 Weird having a month for Earf but none of the other planets. Seems pretty racist.

Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023 01:56 PM (AveMB)

299 Earth DAY is the 22nd. Didn't know there was a whole MONTH dedicated. So close to PRIDE month? That's just rude.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

1957-58 was the Geophysical year. Remember when these meaningless celebrations of the state actually had some meaning?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2023 01:56 PM (xhaym)

300 I can understand not wanting to livestream. They do have shows to produce. That said, and this could prove more chilling, just put a condition in that you get to record the entire interview and will release it shortly after their interview airs.

Okay, you want to go ahead and chop it up to make someone look bad? Just know that five minutes later, the actual interview will be aired.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 14, 2023 01:48 PM (KbCG3)

Sure. But like I said the livestream condition won't work again.

If I am Rumble or O'Keefe Media Group I am sending people on our side a package with a camera/streaming setup. Something stupid easy - put camera here and press this button. When you get back to the office plug camera into the computer and go to this website to upload. Oh and put a GPS tracker on it because the media will steal them.

Posted by: blaster at April 14, 2023 01:57 PM (pwExq)

301 One thing to remember about Musk.

Musk's entire mission is to GET TO MARS!

Tesla - You cannot use internal combustion engines on Mars
Space - X -- How else are you going to get there?
Boring Company - You cannot live on the surface of Mars
Twitter -- Musk knows he needs to protect his companies and his assets. Bezos has the WaPoo. Gates has his NGO's and lobbyists.

Musk has Twitter.

Posted by: rd at April 14, 2023 01:57 PM (Z32m1)

302 Elon Musk @elonmusk

Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life
6:33 AM · Apr 14, 2023

9.3M
Views

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 14, 2023 01:57 PM (uQPen)

303 Uranus month =Pride Month

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 14, 2023 01:57 PM (xi9RM)

304 @250

So probably not either of those, because that would be too easy.

No, everything is where it should be, permissions are correct, conf files are confed.

Perhaps it's an incorrect run level.

Well, sometimes you gotta RTFM, so here I go RTFMing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2023 01:57 PM (up/3i)

305 Elon Musk takes BBC to task over COVID "misinformation” and claims of increased “hate speech” on Twitter: “Does the BBC hold itself at all responsible for misinformation regarding masking and side effects of vaccinations and not reporting on that at all?”

Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2023 01:57 PM (RHGPo)

306
Does big media need a revenue stream?

CNN seems to not think so.

Ownership seems to have bigger fish to fry.

Mobs of torch bearing plebes are not screaming outside corporate headquarters or demonstrating on Joy Behar's lawn at 1 am.

Posted by: Auspex at April 14, 2023 01:58 PM (j4U/Z)

307 Earth Month is just another marketing scam like Sinko da Mayo.

Are you telling me that Cinco de Drinko isn't real?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 14, 2023 01:55 PM (Bd6X8

Sinko day quatro, you idiots. Geez......

Posted by: Baroke Owebama at April 14, 2023 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

308 Weird having a month for Earf but none of the other planets. Seems pretty racist.
Posted by: ... at April 14, 2023

***
Nine planets, twelve months. What would the other three be for?

Oh, right. Pride, Women, and Climate Change.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2023 01:58 PM (J2vNu)

309 TexasLindsay @TexasLindsay_
Apr 12
Replying to @elonmusk and @zerohedge

PBS begging on twitter over the years to have people support their federal funding.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3ey54p

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 14, 2023 01:58 PM (uQPen)

310

No, everything is where it should be, permissions are correct, conf files are confed.

Perhaps it's an incorrect run level.

Well, sometimes you gotta RTFM, so here I go RTFMing.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2023 01:57 PM (up/3i)

Well, just know that no one will talk to you until your hardware is at the latest and greatest firmware update and your driver files have all been updated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 01:59 PM (Zz0t1)

311 "1957-58 was the Geophysical year."

IGY and Sputnik brought science enthusiasm to kids in the late fifties and early sixties. I know it influenced me.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 14, 2023 01:59 PM (MvF+J)

312 Sources like the Karen and Edward Stazi-owski Foundation. Or some names like that. Always a pair of upper west side flaming libs. Never sources like the Koch Bros (except they are not really conservative.)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 14, 2023 01:51 PM (KiBMU)

And those foundations get federal grants. So money laundering in a way. Also.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2023 01:59 PM (xhaym)

313 The single most bizarre aspect of the woke left is that they respond to challenges to their worldview, cognative dissonance, and the way reality refuses to conform to their demands with anger, but also with this strange mystical crap called "manifesting."

Its their response to bashing into the wall of reality over and over. They have taken on this magical bullcrap ideology where they can imagine, believe, and expect from "the universe" certain results and eventually those will manifest into reality.

This does not work, of course, which leads to even greater anger. This video does a great job explaining why the left is so upset

https://youtu.be/ypsO05yJ70c

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 14, 2023 01:59 PM (0hOvj)

314 I have been informed that it is Earth month. Do all of the other planets get a month too?
Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023

There's plenty of mooning during Pride Month.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 14, 2023 01:59 PM (a3Q+t)

315 Mexican Word of the Day: Butternuts

Butternuts told me she was a man!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 01:59 PM (Y2tls)

316 The journalist refused to provide that, trying to deflect Musk, because he knew that once both parties could look at the same Tweet, viewers might draw different conclusions.
____

What was funny to me was his deflection - "I've seen an upsurge of hate in my (personal twitter app thingy)" Musk-examples please? "Uh, I haven't actually accessed my personal app in quite ahwile, but they're there"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2023 02:00 PM (fs1hN)

317 But, we have a bunch of sad-sack, limp-dicked, candy-assed crypto-Democrats as "Republicans"

****************

We have more fags, trannies, pedos, incels, simps and soys in the GOP leadership than the entire population of San Francisco and Seattle

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger at April 14, 2023 02:00 PM (VTu1l)

318 chmod 777 is the hammer

It's like using a 10lb sledge hammer to drive finishing nails, but it can get the job done.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

add ../. to that chmod.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2023 02:00 PM (QNdPI)

319 I have been informed that it is Earth month. Do all of the other planets get a month too?
Posted by: fd

Every 28 days - Blood Moon

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 02:00 PM (Y2tls)

320 In honor of Earth Day, it should be allowed that each tree hugging lefty can chop up their spouse, partner, other whatever and lock their remains in a trunk then go on vacation to Paris.

The horror, the horror…

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 14, 2023 02:00 PM (R/m4+)

321 " Minneapolis becomes first major US city to allow all five Muslim daily prayer calls"

I bet they prohibit church bells on the grounds of noise ordinances, though.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 14, 2023 02:00 PM (ou9hh)

322 We have more fags, trannies, pedos, incels, simps and soys in the GOP leadership than the entire population of San Francisco and Seattle
==
Shut up and DM me a picture of your junk.

Posted by: The Lincoln Project at April 14, 2023 02:01 PM (+AAwT)

323 263 I have been informed that it is Earth month. Do all of the other planets get a month too?
Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 01:48 PM (iayUP)
===
When is old fat white honkie day/week/month?

Posted by: Dingbat at April 14, 2023 02:01 PM (W4uN5)

324 Mexican Word of the Day: Butternuts

Butternuts told me she was a man!
Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 01:59 PM (Y2tls)

Hershey's.

"Careful with that one, Juan, I hershey's got balls.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 02:02 PM (Zz0t1)

325 We need a weekly jazz thread!

Good idea.

Posted by: Said nobody ever at April 14, 2023 02:02 PM (Xrfse)

326 Somebody noted that NPR used to be:

- Car Talk
- Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
- BBC News Hour

Now, NPR is:

- Republicans Are Killing The Planet
- Republicans Are Killing Trannies And Gays
- Republicans Are Killing Black People

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 14, 2023 02:02 PM (2tUFv)

327 Sen. Ms. Lindsey wistfully looks at the calendar: 6 more weeks until 6 months of Pride.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 14, 2023 02:02 PM (iGfKR)

328
Good idea.
Posted by: Said nobody ever at April 14, 2023 02:02 PM (Xrfse)

Blow me.

Posted by: Dave Clark at April 14, 2023 02:02 PM (Zz0t1)

329 It was legendary! I have watched it 5-7 times or more and it just keeps getting better.

Thank God for Elon Musk, the real Tony Stark of this era! Is there any way Musk can coach G.O.P. Reps and Senators to stop wetting themselves whenever they sit down with these leftists masquerading as "journalists" and go on offense?

I know, I know. That's waaay too much to expect of Republicans, I mean total pussies!

Posted by: Tracy at April 14, 2023 02:03 PM (4mHyB)

330 Nood

Posted by: NCKate at April 14, 2023 02:03 PM (d5Qya)

331 I have been informed that it is Earth month. Do all of the other planets get a month too?

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023

----------

I think we should push the meme that Mother Gaia has transitioned into a transgendered man.

Father Gaya?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 14, 2023 02:03 PM (FGoi8)

332 Hershey's.

"Careful with that one, Juan, I hershey's got balls.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2023 02:02 PM (Zz0t1)

Budweiser

"Hot looking chick, budweiser Adam's apple so big?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 14, 2023 02:04 PM (OgrpQ)

333 " Minneapolis becomes first major US city to allow all five Muslim daily prayer calls"

I bet they prohibit church bells on the grounds of noise ordinances, though.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

If people had a backbone, they could bring the city to a screeching halt.

EVERYONE claims five calls to prayer per day. Generally right in the middle of rush hour.

When it is denied, sue.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 02:04 PM (Y2tls)

334 We need a weekly jazz thread!

Good idea.
Posted by: Said nobody

As I wave both of my hands above my head.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 14, 2023 02:04 PM (iGfKR)

335 Also humilate them by showing & telling them how they use to know, used to try. In the case of the PBS, how they brought so much important information to citizens in the past. (i.e., NPR dot org, Sept 19, 2019, National Security, Edward Snowden on the NSA, He won't cooperate with Russia)

They're gutless, lazy and stupid & choose the easy path that's been offered. (There's only so much BS intersectionality available.)

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 14, 2023 02:04 PM (GshMh)

336 @323 according to the left, every day/month/year is old fat white honkie day/week/year

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 14, 2023 02:04 PM (xi9RM)

337 >>Musk has Twitter.

And Twitter is going to become App X.

One app to bind them.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 14, 2023 02:04 PM (ZLI7S)

338 What was funny to me was his deflection - "I've seen an upsurge of hate in my (personal twitter app thingy)" Musk-examples please? "Uh, I haven't actually accessed my personal app in quite ahwile, but they're there"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 14, 2023 02:00 PM (fs1hN)

That to me was the most amazing part. It wasn't "owning" it was just asking very simple questions.

reporter: There is more hate on Twitter now Musk: Really where? reporter: All over my Twitter feed. Musk: Really name one. reporter: well actually I haven't looked at my feed in like 6 weeks Musk: How did you see it then?

Posted by: blaster at April 14, 2023 02:05 PM (pwExq)

339 Has NPR ever been on AM? I've always found it on FM, usually at the far left of the dial.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2023 01:54 PM (tkR6S)

Yes, NPR is on AM in Oregon, there were three stations originally for Oregon Public Broadcasting that grew out of the college stations. They tend to be on the far left of the dial like 550 AM.
Lot of FM too, now.

NPR used to be one of a series of public broadcasting groups, the others were Public Raido Intermational out of MN and Pacifica Radio out of California. I think they are all gone now.

Peter Schikele's Shikele Mix was on PRI, as well as a couple others. Pacifica did some weird stuff, something with Noetic sciences and music from the heart of space I think

Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2023 02:05 PM (xhaym)

340 The left will sweep everything under the rug and make 2024 all about abortion.

It will be awesome, the shock-and-awe campaign to drive this one loudly into everyone's room, everyone's car, everyone everywhere.

Women's right to choose. Woman's right to choose. Vote by mail today!

It is the single issue that can make the young want to vote, it makes the suburban women want to vote twice, the blacks will line up for it, it allows the MFM to portray the right as fascist haters, as people of the most dangerous kind.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 14, 2023 02:05 PM (KiBMU)

341 @310

>>Well, just know that no one will talk to you until your hardware is at the latest and greatest firmware update and your driver files have all been updated.

I gave up asking for help on linux forum 25 years ago.

The help they provide is grudging, incomplete and comes at a price of being berated unrelentingly every step of the way.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2023 02:06 PM (up/3i)

342
The recent lack of coverage about Jimmy Carter's hospice treatment and imminent passing should sadden us all and be a reminder of how far-right media influencers are a real danger to democracy.

Posted by: Auspex at April 14, 2023 02:06 PM (j4U/Z)

343 Recall that the SFSU trantifa thugs demanded money -- ransom -- to permit Riley Gaines to leave the closet they had her locked in.

Nood Rosa

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2023 02:06 PM (QNdPI)

344 302 Elon Musk @elonmusk
Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life
6:33 AM · Apr 14, 2023
9.3M
Views
Posted by: artisanal ette

Does that include significantly retarded teenagers who are easily victimized by pedos, and arguably should not reproduce?

Posted by: Just Askin at April 14, 2023 02:06 PM (kOFPS)

345 In 2020 in Portland, a black family, the Kinneys, who were "sovereign citizen" nuts, decided that they were under no legal obligation to pay their mortgage anymore on the "Red House" that they owned.

The lender moved to foreclose, and all hell broke loose - there was even a armed Antifa militia "protecting" the property from the cops and anyone else who might try to enforce the foreclosure.

An reporter for Oregon Public Broadcasting, Sergio Olmos, accurately reported that the Kinneys weren't actually living in the Red House, but were renting it out.

OPB's response was to fire Olmos, and issue a groveling apology for doing journalism that went against the Narrative.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 14, 2023 02:07 PM (2tUFv)

346 What the interview showed was Jounalists are grotesquely unprepared for their interviews.

Posted by: Inspector kemp at April 14, 2023 02:10 PM (+DS2f)

347 Now, NPR is:

- Republicans Are Killing The Planet
- Republicans Are Killing Trannies And Gays
- Republicans Are Killing Black People
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 14, 2023 02:02 PM (2tUFv)

NPR is far shorter than "Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines" after all

Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2023 02:11 PM (xhaym)

348 My idiot neighbor down the street has been building an ark or something big in his backyard for 2 years now. Today a cement truck pulled up in his driveway and is pumping concrete to this backyard. Is he building the fucking thing out of cement? The noises during last summer were annoying. Asshoes.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 14, 2023 02:12 PM (DMyTF)

349 My idiot neighbor down the street has been building an ark or something big in his backyard for 2 years now. Today a cement truck pulled up in his driveway and is pumping concrete to this backyard. Is he building the fucking thing out of cement? The noises during last summer were annoying. Asshoes.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 14, 2023 02:12 PM (DMyTF)

when the animals start showing up, get you and your wife into the cow costume, stat

Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2023 02:14 PM (xhaym)

350 280 Didn't know there was a whole MONTH dedicated. So close to PRIDE month? That's just rude.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Before much longer, these special "Months" will be extended to the entire year, and before you know it, we'll have our own sort of Chinese Zodiac system modeled after LGBTQITAEtc+

Posted by: Simple Stevo at April 14, 2023 02:15 PM (R5JlW)

351 The left will sweep everything under the rug and make 2024 all about abortion.

It will be awesome, the shock-and-awe campaign to drive this one loudly into everyone's room, everyone's car, everyone everywhere.

Women's right to choose. Woman's right to choose. Vote by mail today!

Stephen King just had a run-in with that. He urged people to protect women from restrictions on abortion. And then the trannies jumped him because men can have abortions too.

Which is why it's a minefield if they actually try and do that.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 14, 2023 02:15 PM (ZGrMX)

352 The most recent incident occurred on Wednesday, when a 14-year-old student attacked two nine-year-old girls with an axe in rural Farias Brito, severely injuring one of the victims. The assailant smuggled his weapon into a classroom to carry out the attack.

... smuggled an axe into school ... why not a longbow ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2023 02:15 PM (RHGPo)

353 ***
I'm first in line for Venus Month!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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I've been kind of put off Venus since seeing a statuette of her with a clock in her stomach.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2023 02:18 PM (TqUi+)

354 @290 --

That is a BIG friggin deal.

Wowzers!

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 14, 2023 02:21 PM (MkuC5)

355 Is he building the fucking thing out of cement? The noises during last summer were annoying. Asshoes.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 14, 2023 02:12 PM (DMyTF)

Ferro-cement boat (and ship) hulls have been a thing for decades.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2023 02:25 PM (tkR6S)

356 Yes, NPR is on AM in Oregon, there were three stations originally for Oregon Public Broadcasting that grew out of the college stations. They tend to be on the far left of the dial like 550 AM.
Lot of FM too, now.

KERA - Dallas.
90.1 FM DFW
88.3 FM Wichita Falls
100.1 FM Tyler
99.3 FM Sherman
13.1 Television

I have no clue what is on DFW AM radio.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2023 02:35 PM (Y2tls)

357 Minneapolis becomes first major US city to allow all five Muslim daily prayer calls"

I bet they prohibit church bells on the grounds of noise ordinances, though.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

the only churches left there are too busy having drag shows and performing gay weddings to worry about the bells

Posted by: brak at April 14, 2023 02:39 PM (25k9m)

358 When David French pops in and sees that this BBC post is about the network, boy is he gonna be disappointed.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 14, 2023 01:16 PM (ppBhU)

LOL!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 14, 2023 02:47 PM (Zvtjl)

359 Just weighing in on Elon Musk's media strategy. Every conservative needs to adopt the same conditions when being interviewed by state media. It must be broadcast or streamed live. That way they can't edit it to make you look bad by taking things out of context. Oh sure, they'll try by distributing unflattering clips later on, but the full unedited interview will always be there to back up your side of the event.

Posted by: Rusty Trawler at April 14, 2023 02:49 PM (1gif2)

360 Elon Musk is the Dali Lama of Lithium-Ion tongue kisses.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 14, 2023 03:50 PM (uAY3R)

361 of? can I edit in an "of"? dammit! - "of" - tongue kisses.

BOOM!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 14, 2023 04:02 PM (uAY3R)

362 This AI editor at the HQ is a bastard.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 14, 2023 04:03 PM (uAY3R)

363 Twitter Bird Larry just took a poo right on NPR and PSB. And he is just getting started

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo bird at April 14, 2023 05:32 PM (wGqjj)

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