{"id":1715375,"date":"2022-10-28T17:18:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T21:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1715375"},"modified":"2022-10-28T17:18:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T21:18:35","slug":"unhinged-screw-loose-colbert-mocks-elon-musks-twitter-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unhinged-screw-loose-colbert-mocks-elon-musks-twitter-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unhinged \u2026 Screw Loose\u2019: Colbert Mocks Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funhinged-screw-loose-colbert-mocks-elon-musks-twitter-takeover%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1715375&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Thursday night, late night host Stephen Colbert, whose leftist bona fides were established long ago, mocked Elon Musk after Musk tweeted a video of himself entering Twitter headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Musk took over Twitter on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tesla-engineers-take-control-of-twitters-algorithms-away-from-twitters-engineers-the-bird-is-freed\">firing<\/a> leftist CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal policy, trust, and safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week, Elon Musk announced that he is going to buy Twitter and the deal will be final by tomorrow, right,\u201d Colbert began. \u201cIn anticipation of the takeover Musk changed his Twitter bio to \u2018Chief Twit.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot bad. Not too bad,\u201d Colbert continued. \u201cNot too bad; I would have gone with \u2018Twit for Rent.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Colbert started his mockery of Musk: \u201cMusk also posted this tweet: \u2018Entering Twitter HQ \u2014 let that sink in!\u2019 alongside a video of him walking into the building holding a sink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Entering Twitter HQ \u2013 let that sink in! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D68z4K2wq7\">pic.twitter.com\/D68z4K2wq7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1585341984679469056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet it? He wanted to visualize a pun. Let me try!\u201d Colbert declared.<\/p>\n<p>Holding up a swinging hinge, Colbert taunted, \u201cElon, you\u2019re clearly unhinged.\u201d He then held up a large screw as he mocked, \u201cYou have a screw loose. You have a screw loose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colbert brandished a plastic bag filled with nuts. \u201cYou\u2019re nuts! You\u2019re nuts!\u201d Holding up a watch, he continued, \u201cAnd, frankly, hard to watch, since you\u2019re a tool (holding up hammer) of Russian (holding up a bottle of Russian salad dressing) prop\u2014 prop\u2014 prop\u2014 prop-a-gander (holding up a picture of a goose). You okay? That bit almost killed our stage manager, Mark over there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to Twitter on his first bad day as CEO. \u2018Our stock is in the toilet!\u2019\u201d Colbert jeered.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>In another lame attempt at comedy in June, Colbert mocked the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decision in the case of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/it-is-just-incredible-to-know-that-i-did-nothing-wrong-joseph-kennedy-celebrates-scotus-win-for-religious-freedom\">high school football coach who prayed on the field<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He got roasted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Supreme Court is going to allow prayer in the middle of a high school football field, they should allow high school football games in the middle of a church,\u201d Colbert taunted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If the Supreme Court is going to allow prayer in the middle of a high school football field, they should allow high school football games in the middle of a church.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenAtHome\/status\/1541971967686807552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colbert was referencing the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-supreme-court-affirms-religious-liberty-rules-in-favor-of-public-high-school-football-coach-punished-for-praying-after-games\/\">Court\u2019s decision<\/a> in <em>Kennedy v. Bremerton School District<\/em>, which revolved around Joseph Kennedy, the Washington state public high school football coach who was placed on administrative leave by the school district and banned from participating in the football program for praying on the field after games.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Neil Gorsuch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/21-418_i425.pdf\">wrote<\/a> in the majority opinion, \u201cHere, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a brief, quiet, personal religious observance doubly protected by the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment. And the only meaningful justification the government offered for its reprisal rested on a mistaken view that it had a duty to ferret out and suppress. Religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech. The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKennedy\u2019s private religious exercise did not come close to crossing any line one might imagine separating protected private expression from impermissible government coercion,\u201d Gorsuch added.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert\u2019s tweet engendered derision on social media as his supposed comedic genius got dragged.<\/p>\n<p>Dan McLaughlin of National Review: \u201cI miss comedy that wasn\u2019t just college sophomores thinking they just discovered arguing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I miss comedy that wasn&#8217;t just college sophomores thinking they just discovered arguing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N8XWCkJzn6\">https:\/\/t.co\/N8XWCkJzn6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baseballcrank\/status\/1542291508476477441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Harsanyi of The Federalist: \u201cGold. You can understand now why they give this guy $15 million a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gold. You can understand now why they give this guy $15 million a year. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZCmmxyyJyl\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZCmmxyyJyl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/status\/1542196918092066816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Radio host Steve Deace: \u201cAlexa, show me a dumb*** attempting to connect things that literally have nothing to do with each other whatsoever, which will then prove his dumb*** audience nodding in approval is even dumber than he is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alexa, show me a dumbass attempting to connect things that literally have nothing to do with each other whatsoever, which will then prove his dumbass audience nodding in approval is even dumber than he is. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zt6wasDJhj\">https:\/\/t.co\/Zt6wasDJhj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveDeaceShow\/status\/1542211956676984837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, late night host Stephen Colbert, whose leftist bona fides were established long ago, mocked Elon Musk after Musk tweeted a video of himself entering Twitter headquarters. Musk took over Twitter on Friday, firing leftist CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal policy, trust, and safety. \u201cThis week, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1365151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1365151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}