Late-night hosts kiss as much as their visitors on a regular basis. It’s within the job description.
That’s the way you deal with superstar visitors, one of many few parts at the moment’s far-left hosts retain from the Johnny Carson blueprint of yore.
it takes on a surreal element when the visitors maintain the levers of energy. So when Stephen Colbert gushes over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Vice President Kamala Harris or one other Democratic light-weight, it lands in a different way.
They do it anyway and the media by no means calls them out for it.
But when Jimmy Fallon did one thing just like Donald Trump in 2016 he endured brutal assaults from each the Left and mainstream media reporters.
However we repeat ourselves.
Now, a number of media shops are livid that the host of HBO’s “Actual Time with Invoice Maher” performed good with fellow free speech hero Elon Musk.
The Tesla billionaire joined “Actual Time” Friday night time, and the 2 shared how a lot they’ve in widespread on speech, innovation and extra.
Notably, they detest what Musk as soon as dubbed the “woke thoughts virus.”
The free speech averse web site TheWrap.com used random Twitter customers to border its protection of the Maher/Musk summit.
Maher was clearly thrilled to have Musk in entrance of him – and the “Actual Time” viewers made notice of it, saying in numerous ways in which Maher was “kissing a–.”
“No one can tongue bathe a racist billionaire higher than Invoice Maher,” one particular person wrote.
This simply in: One particular person stated one thing, and journalists throughout the nation are scrambling to share his or her thought with the plenty. This can be a creating story…
However wait, there’s extra…
A number of different Twitter customers shared related ideas as a result of they, just like the media, hate Musk for permitting extra voices to be heard on his social media platform.
Rolling Stone, which as soon as represented each free speech and the counter-culture, equally framed the summit in essentially the most adverse manner doable.
The headline is nearly comical in its bile.
Elon Musk and Invoice Maher Warn Towards the ‘Woke Thoughts Virus,’ a.ok.a. Historic Reality
The story is even worse.
Their dialog … included a strained dialogue of the “imaginary” woke thoughts virus.
Imaginary? Inform that to readers who grew up on books by Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss and Agatha Christie. Their basic tomes have been contaminated by stated virus.
Rolling Stone equally raged towards Dave Chappelle, who’s black, for telling the “improper” form of jokes from numerous phases.
The intense Left Each day Beast strikes a Imply Women pose in its Invoice Maher/Elon Musk protection.
Invoice Maher Drools All Over Elon Musk in Softball Sitdown
The article features a message asking readers in the event that they “Like This Article? Help Journalism Like this for Much less Than 11 cents a day.”
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The article itself assumes a extra impartial, AKA journalistic tone albeit with loads of qualifiers.
Invoice Maher performed a chummy interview on Actual Time Friday with “likable man” Elon Musk, with the 2 bonding over what they deemed to be threats to free speech and what Musk has lengthy derided because the “woke thoughts virus.”
Would The Each day Beast ever describe a Colbert chat with Dr. Anthony Fauci as chummy? We all know the reply to that, despite the fact that Dr. Fauci’s report all however calls for a critical, probing interview from even the silliest of comics given his monitor report.
Musk’s achievements dwarf that of Dr. Fauci, however the media inexplicably fawns over the latter.
The left-leaning Mediaite additionally used the “F” phrase – fawning – in its protection.
Why?
Why would media shops exit of their approach to negatively spin the Maher/Musk dialog?
it’s easy.
Maher makes use of his HBO platform to slam woke overreach, defend free speech and criticize his fellow liberals.
Each. Single. Week.
Musk’s crime? He purchased Twitter, streamlined the operation, let many banned accounts again onto the platform and, better of all, opened the books on pre-Musk Twitter.
The Twitter Recordsdata uncovered a large, speech-suppressing operation that overlapped with the Biden administration’s assaults on the First Modification.
For that Musk is now a supervillain. By no means thoughts his groundbreaking work on the electrical automobile entrance or his spectacular area improvements.
Musk and Maher coronary heart free speech, and that’s put a media goal on their again. And boy, have they got little curiosity in hiding it.
