{"id":1933468,"date":"2023-05-18T13:38:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T17:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-takes-long-pause-gives-activist-reporter-perfect-answer-to-question\/"},"modified":"2023-05-18T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T17:41:19","slug":"elon-musk-takes-long-pause-gives-activist-reporter-perfect-answer-to-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-takes-long-pause-gives-activist-reporter-perfect-answer-to-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk pauses before giving perfect answer to activist reporter&#8217;s question."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Felon-musk-takes-long-pause-gives-activist-reporter-perfect-answer-to-question%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=1933468&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--><h2>Elon Musk Defends Free Speech in Interview with CNBC<\/h2>\n<h3>By Johnathan Jones | May 17, 2023 at 10:21am<\/h3>\n<p>The corporate media is so irredeemably far left that even a centrist such as tech billionaire Elon Musk is considered polarizing to its activist reporters.<\/p>\n<p>That was evident Tuesday when the Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX CEO sat down for a one-on-one interview with CNBC\u2019s David Faber, who essentially asked Musk to answer for opinions he has expressed on his own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> and in a free society.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter\u2019s attempts to paint the 51-year-old business magnate as extreme or short-sighted were ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>Musk made himself the wealthiest person in the world in recent years, and he remains near the top of the list for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>Faber, meanwhile, works for a company whose apparent goal is just to further the power the Democratic Party has over ordinary people.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter sat down with Musk in Austin, Texas, to discuss topics ranging from the health of Musk\u2019s companies to the billionaire\u2019s work ethic.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Faber almost demanded that Musk answer for his unfiltered tweeting \u2013 tweets Faber linked to \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, for example, Musk compared leftist billionaire and Democratic Party mega-donor George Soros to \u201cX-Men\u201d villain Magneto.<\/p>\n<p>Faber said to him, \u201cYou said he wants to erode the very fabric of civilization and Soros hates humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk replied, \u201cYeah, I think that\u2019s true. That\u2019s my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Faber fired back that people who buy Teslas might not agree with the tweets and some advertisers might think twice about using Twitter to pitch their products and services because of them.<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded he is allowed to say what he wants, quoting one of his favorite films after a lengthy pause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I\u2019m reminded of \u2013 there\u2019s a scene in \u2018The Princess Bride,\u2019 a great movie, where he confronts the person who killed his father and he says, \u2018Offer me money, offer me power, I don\u2019t care.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Faber replied, \u201cSo you just don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk then offered a masterclass in being genuine and unapologetic in his response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll say what I want to say, and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Musk does not align with most conservatives on a lot of prominent issues, but there is an intersection between the South African native and freedom-loving Americans when it comes to the non-negotiable right to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-strips-cnn-naked\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked\">free speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Elon Musk will become more conservative?<\/p>\n<p>Americans have been canceled or deplatformed for years for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-takes-long-pause-gives-activist-reporter-perfect-answer-to-question\/\" title=\"Elon Musk pauses before giving perfect answer to activist reporter's question.\">challenging left-wing orthodoxies<\/a> and generally speaking truth to those who control the discourse.<\/p>\n<p>Musk put his money where his mouth was when he bought the cesspool that was Twitter before his takeover.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to see how he will ever make a profit from the company after the $44 billion acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps the point truly was to preserve the ability for people to speak unfettered and without fear of punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is out billions of dollars, and he seemingly doesn\u2019t care about losing more if it allows him to be himself.<\/p>\n<p>In a culture that claims to put a value on authenticity or a person\u2019s ability to live as their most genuine self, Musk will say whatever he wishes at any point without fear of blowback.<\/p>\n<p>He quite literally owns the platform to do that.<\/p>\n<p>We inhabit a world where the insane so often try to police the sane, and Musk will not be among those shackled.<\/p>\n<p>Neither should anyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s recent interview with CNBC&#8217;s David Faber highlighted the left-leaning bias of corporate media. Despite being a centrist, Musk is considered polarizing by activist reporters due to their extreme views. The interview covered topics related to Musk&#8217;s companies, including Tesla, Twitter, and SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":1933469,"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":[548],"tags":[5327,5973,4249,4250,4022,4424,5926,4738],"class_list":["post-1933468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-activist","tag-answer","tag-elon","tag-musk","tag-pauses","tag-perfect","tag-question","tag-reporters"],"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\/1933468","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\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}