Reporters Rage as Free Speech Heroes Bill Maher, Elon Musk Meet

Why the Media is Attacking Bill Maher and Elon Musk

Late-night hosts are known for kissing up to their celebrity guests, but it takes on a surreal component when the guests hold the levers of power. Stephen Colbert gushes over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Vice President Kamala Harris, or another Democratic lightweight, and the media never calls them out for it. Yet, when Jimmy Fallon did something similar to Donald Trump in 2016, he endured brutal attacks from both the Left and mainstream media reporters. Now, several media outlets are furious that the host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” played nice with fellow free speech hero Elon Musk.

The Media’s Negative Spin

TheWrap.com used random Twitter users to frame its coverage of the Maher/Musk summit. Rolling Stone, which once represented both free speech and the counter-culture, similarly framed the summit in the most negative way possible. The extreme Left Daily Beast strikes a Mean Girls pose in its Bill Maher/Elon Musk coverage. The left-leaning Mediaite also used the “F” word – fawning – in its coverage.

Why the Media is Attacking

Maher uses his HBO platform to slam woke overreach, defend free speech, and criticize his fellow liberals. Every. Single. Week. Musk’s crime? He bought Twitter, streamlined the operation, let many banned accounts back onto the platform, and opened the books on pre-Musk Twitter. The Twitter Files exposed a massive, speech-suppressing operation that overlapped with the Biden administration’s attacks on the First Amendment. For that, Musk is now a supervillain. Never mind his groundbreaking work on the electric car front or his spectacular space innovations. Musk and Maher heart free speech, and that’s put a media target on their back. And boy, do they have little interest in hiding it.

Conclusion

The media’s negative spin on the Maher/Musk summit is a clear indication of their bias against free speech. It’s time for the media to stop attacking those who defend free speech and start reporting the news objectively.