One Reason I Love Elon Musk

He called out America’s de facto Ministry of Information for what it is:

Big Media is rallying around their own – as they always do:

“Could undermine confidence”

NPR hosts actively pine for Marxism. They plot, in the open on the air, for ways to censor dissident media, not to mention using media to direct politics in their desired direction.

Anyone who sees the need for an impartial media that holds all government accountable should feel no confidence in NPR – Big Left’s PR shop.

That’d be a good start.

UPDATE : By the way – NPR’s “Fact check” of Twitter sniffs that the network only gets around 1% of its budget from government.

It’s technically true.

But the figure doesn’t count:

  • Subsidies and other grants from many other levels of government that are turned into program subscription fees that go…to NPR.
  • Perigovernmental and pseudogovernmental bodies – the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, and various foundations, whose goals are in lock step with big government.

With that swag honestly counted, the total is by some counts well into the 30-40% range.

Qualifies as state media in my book.

42 thoughts on “One Reason I Love Elon Musk

  1. Going by Twitter 2.0’s updated definition:
    “State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution.”

    If NPR receives too little money from the government for the government to exercise “control over editorial content” then NPR isn’t state-affiliated media according to the definition that Elon’s Twitter is using as of April 5, 2023.

  2. right on cue and upping the ante:

    Twitter CEO Elon Musk suggested placing a label on accounts like those of Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post’s lead fact checker, stating they are “frequently posting incorrect information.”

  3. “Could undermine confidence”

    What would the Red Star know about that, they hire a Walz apparatchik to be publisher.

  4. And Emery is bloviating on topic about he knows little!
    Anyone else surprised?
    PBS distributes funds to NPR and local public radio stations. The local public radio stations then pay NPR to receive its programming. The total is about 13% of NPR’s budget, and of course we literally have decades of sworn testimony from NPR’s managers claiming that federal funding is essential to NPR accomplishing its mission.

  5. The Twitter storm about Kessler has underlined that he writes op-eds called “fact checks” by WaPo. After the latest kerfuffle about Bragg being Soros funded, his defense was something like “Oh, you looked at those facts? But I thought these other facts were more important.”

  6. Indeed, Twitter’s policies regarding the “state-affiliated media” label explicitly say that it’s not for organizations like NPR:
    “How state-affiliated media accounts are
    defined State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or
    control over production and distribution. Accounts belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief, and/or
    their prominent staff may be labeled. State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy.”

    That’s how it read on Wednesday for a few hours after NPR got the label. Then, magically, the NPR part disappeared from that page.

  7. State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy.”

    That’s how it read on Wednesday for a few hours after NPR got the label. Then, magically, the NPR part disappeared from that page.

    Emery, just think of the Twitter definition of state-affiliated media as just like how the Left routinely characterizes the U.S. Constitution: a “living document”.

  8. Say rAT? Have another sweet swig of gin and STFU.

    Seethe and cope in silence.

  9. Right now I’m more concerned about the revelation that a Supreme Court justice has been accepting “gifts” from a wealthy GOP donor for the last 20 years and not reporting them.

  10. The Twitter definitions are not a code. They’re more like guidelines, really.

  11. ^^And now the change of topic.
    The next is the fortune cookie response.

  12. There are literally hours of NPR executives being questioned by congress — NPR’s funding body — about its editorial policy.
    It doesn’t have to be a liberal v conservative thing. NPR may be moderating its insanely Left editorial policies in order to keep Jim Jordan from cutting NPR’s funding. It would still be editing its content to please its government funders.
    Emery’s take on this is his usual bigoted ignorance.

  13. The BBC certainly should be labeled state affiliated media. The BBC regularly consults with the government officials who fund it about what it will and will not publish.

  14. Progressives: “Of course the government should advise social networks and the broadcast media about disinformation misinformation, and malinformation!”
    Also Progressives: “It’s wrong to refer to social networks and the broadcast media as ‘State Affiliated Media!'”

    It’s the same double think that allows Progressives to insist that a parent has the right to have their child sterilized with “gender affirmation health care,” but is incapable of deciding which books they should read.

  15. Ha! That’s freaking hilarious, Bot Boy! Pedo Pete and his corrupt, degenerate family, have been taking millions from the ChiComs and Ukraine for at least a decade. It’s also been revealed that the Black Messiah accepted over $20 million from them through a Malaysian businessman. Keep projecting with your head up your ass.

  16. Just an indicator the madhouse the Progressives are leading us into:
    Nike has hired a mentally disturbed male to be its spokesman for its women’s products. One of their previous spokes persons, Allyson Felix, had her pay cut because she became pregnant & would no longer be a good “fit” for Nike.
    Nike is not a producer of athletic equipment. They are a brand. They are an intellectual property parasite.

  17. Don’t worry, MP, that mentally disturbed male could be a 2A advocate so it is all above board… according to our host.

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  19. UMMP,
    Yea, but Felix ended up sticking it to Nike. She started her own sports wear line, Athleta and it’s extremely successful.

  20. Don’t worry, MP, that mentally disturbed male could be a 2A advocate so it is all above board

    Are they?

    I mean, we ascribe consequences, blame and built to individuals, not groups and classes.

    I know a few trans people that agree with me on RKBA issues, and who don’t insist I say2+2=5. Others, quite the opposite. The latter don’t undercut the former.

    … according to our host.

    Care to elaborate?

  21. I know a few trans people that agree with me on RKBA issues, and who don’t insist I say2+2=5.

    Not insisting does not mean they are not menatally ill – their belief that they are a man trapped in a woman’s body (or otherwise) is proof they are crazy. And if they are crazy, should they own firearms? The whole lot of them?

    … according to our host.

    You keep ascribing holy traits to anyone who supports 2A, regardless whether they are friend or foe. I will repeat, Harry Reid had the highest rating from NRA. Was he friend or foe? Would you cross the street to piss on him if he were on fire?

    Don’t get me wrong, in a free society, anyone is free to choose what they want to do, including the right to defend themselves – within the law. But we do not live in a free society and we certainly do not follow the rule of law – not anymore. And just because a crazy person says they are pro-2A so they can practice how to shoot up a school of breeders, does not meant they deserve a pass.

  22. If you are a man and you authentically believe that you are a woman that is pretty much the gold standard in insanity
    If you know that you are a man and you get a thrill from trying to pass as a woman that is a kink.
    The absurdity is why you must be made to confirm it. It is like Big Brother declaring the chocolate ration has been increased again to a nation where no one has had any chocolate for decades. The humiliation is the point. If you can be made to say the Leigh Finke is a woman, what principal will you stand on to protect your 2nd amendment rights or any other right? The truth? Facts? Reason? Long tradition?

  23. More evidence that there is no overlap between sane people and trans people.
    The former Northern Virginia schools superintendent charged with covering up a rape by a gender-bending student showed up to court Thursday wearing earrings and painted nails, in the latest twist in a saga that has captivated the nation.
    In December, Scott Ziegler was criminally indicted for three misdemeanors based on the work of a grand jury investigating how Ziegler lied about a rape by a skirt-wearing boy while the Loudoun County school board was seeking to pass a transgender policy. The boy remained in Loudoun schools and went on to violently assault a second girl in a classroom. Ziegler’s spokesman, Wayde Byard, was also indicted on a felony count.
    On Thursday, however, the formerly businessman-like superintendent showed up for a court date sporting earrings and fingernails painted black.

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-virginia-schools-boss-disgraced-in-trans-rape-case-shows-up-for-court-with-earrings-and-painted-nails?utm_campaign=news&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=na_feed_dailywire&cid=news&mid=&xid=0

  24. MP, here is another one to showcase how far we have sunk. Quote at the end pretty much sums it up. Gloria Steinem to open her mouth in three… two… oh who are we kidding!

    As they say sports, this one was over before it began. And as they never used to say in sports, a “trans” MMA fighter brutalized his female opponent to the point of fracturing the young woman’s skull. As 2024 GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says of the madness, “We used to call this violence against women; now we call it a victory for trans rights.”

  25. Even after hormones and surgery, they remain men:
    The primary purpose of the study was to consider whether medical transition helps
    patients (leads to better social and health outcomes) and to inform what support they
    might need post transition. It is methodologically robust, peer reviewed, large scale
    comparative source on offending rates comparing transwomen and women. It compared
    the likelihood of a person having one or more criminal convictions, and convictions for
    violent crime (defined as “homicide and attempted homicide, aggravated assault and
    assault, robbery, threatening behaviour, harassment, arson, or any sexual offense”).
    The study can be divided into two cohorts 1973-1988 and 1989-2003 with the difference
    being that the latter cohort received adequate mental health provision. The findings show
    that transsexual individuals were more likely to be criminal than non-transsexuals of the
    same birth sex in the first cohort (1973-1988), and no different from their birth sex in thesecond group (1989-2003).
    The researchers state:‘male-to-females . . . retained a male pattern regarding criminality. The same was
    The primary purpose of the study was to consider whether medical transition helps
    patients (leads to better social and health outcomes) and to inform what support they might need post transition. It is methodologically robust, peer reviewed, large scale comparative source on offending rates comparing transwomen and women. It compared the likelihood of a person having one or more criminal convictions, and convictions forviolent crime (defined as “homicide and attempted homicide, aggravated assault and assault, robbery, threatening behaviour, harassment, arson, or any sexual offense”).
    The study can be divided into two cohorts 1973-1988 and 1989-2003 with the difference being that the latter cohort received adequate mental health provision. The findings show that transsexual individuals were more likely to be criminal than non-transsexuals of the same birth sex in the first cohort (1973-1988), and no different from their birth sex in the second group (1989-2003).
    The researchers state: ‘male-to-females . . . retained a male pattern regarding criminality. The same wastrue regarding violent crime.’

    https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/18973/pdf/

  26. I mean, we ascribe consequences, blame and built to individuals, not groups and classes.

    Well, maybe you do. I go where the facts lead.

    All “transexuals” are mentally ill.

    A majority (62%) of Americans who self identify as “liberal” have been clinically diagnosed with a mental illness.

    Blacks make up 13% of the US population, but account for 68% of violent crimes.

    Not every cop lies, but every cop knows at least one who does, but keeps quiet.

    Sex with children is widely accepted in Middle East countries.

    Philippine and Korean restaurants serve d0g.

  27. I asked ChatGPT to clarify the issue.

    Vlad: “Succinctly; if a clear majority of a group or class engage in exactly the same behavior, is it fair to ascribe that behavior to the group? It’s a simple question that doesn’t impinge on any complex interactions.”

    ChatGPT: “If a clear majority of a group or class engage in exactly the same behavior, it is fair to say that the behavior is prevalent within the group or class.”

    The Woke AI has spoken, lads. the generalizations will continue, unabated.

  28. “Taibbi isn’t just sloppy with facts, which is problematic enough. He leaves out the very important context that highlights how the big conspiracy he’s reporting is… not big, not a conspiracy, and not even remotely problematic.”

    Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It
    https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/

  29. ^^Again, Emery is blathering about topics about which he knows nothing.
    Techdirt seems to think that if a US NGO, funded by the government, run by people who move into and out of the government, point out to Twitter individuals & oraganisations that have, in its opinion, violated Twitters TOS, that is somehow not censorship.
    The proof is in the pudding. Yoel Roth & other censors at Twitter referred to censorship requests from NGO’s & government entities virtually without distinction.

  30. A sad and dumb ending to a once promising career. Any credibility Taibbi ever had was destroyed in this interview.

  31. ^^A sad and dumb comment with echoes of years of sad and dumb comments.
    Emery is wrong on virtually everything. He was Wrong on the Brexit vote, wrong on Hillary winning the 2016 election, and of course he remains a true believer in the “Russian Collusion” hoax.
    You can find Emery’s mistaken opinions on these topics by going to Google & using the search prompt “site:shotinthedark.info Emery [topic of interest].
    I just love being a helpful person, and not an internet troll!

  32. “Wouldn’t it be rational for Iran – geographically encircled, politically isolated, feeling threatened – to want its own arsenal of nukes, for defensive and deterrent purposes?”

    ~ Mehdi Hasan

    Allahu Akbar, rAT!!

  33. Pretty sure Bari isn’t as happy about your support for Mehdi as I am, rAT.

    But that’s only because Tehran will be out of nukes before they hit DC, but not before Tel Aviv is a glass factory.

  34. Any other questions, rAT?

    I have some…

    Where did you get your PhD in International Relations, your MD, JD, and MBA?

  35. Open the pod bay doors HAL’ —

    ‘I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.’

  36. So, you identify with a mentally disturbed AI, rAT?

    That’s fucked up. You’re not 1/8 as smart as my 1986 HP calculator, much less an AI…but at least you know you’re not OK.

  37. You know what’s really hilarious about your identifying with HAL, rAT?

    Lying drove HAL 9000 insane, but lying is the lifeblood of your wretched existence.

    Ironic, ain’t it?

  38. Poor ol’ Emery, unable to think for himself, always looking to see what others think.

  39. I find it absolutely hilarious that Taibbi went from Musk sycophant to effectively off the site and shadow-banned in 2 days. Especially since one of Taibbi’s big scoops was about Twitters visibility filtering.

  40. if you were wondering what Matt Taibbi’s next move would be after leaving Twitter following a falling out with Musk…

    /TruthSocial
    5m ago READ: Twitter Files author Matt Taibbi posts on Truth Social after being censored by Twitter./

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