Elon Musk Tells Our Corporate Overlords To F*** Themselves

By now you’ve probably seen footage of Elon Musk’s remarks at the New York Times DealBook Summit last night. This is an annual summit that brings together business leaders, and several of them are interviewed on-stage. Normally it’s not particularly newsworthy. Anytime you gather together a bunch of corporate CEO’s and business owners, you typically get a lot of carefully choreographed language. It’s all very brand-safe, by design.

But this year’s DealBook Summit was unique, mainly because of this one moment. It came during Musk’s interview with CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin. Sorkin began by asking Musk about the ongoing advertiser boycott of X, and whether Musk is desperate to win those advertisers back. Here’s what Musk said in response: 

This is one of the most extraordinary 5-minute clips I’ve ever seen on this app. An epoch-making exchange. pic.twitter.com/DbAFF5MkWD

— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) November 30, 2023

There’s more context for that clip, which I’ll play in a little bit. But for now, what you just heard is Musk telling the CEO of Disney, Bob Iger, in no uncertain terms, to go f*** himself. This is the head of one of the most powerful entertainment companies on the planet. And Bob Iger was apparently in the audience when Musk said that, which is awesome. 

But Musk wasn’t just talking to him. He was delivering the same message to every other corporate advertiser that has suspended advertising on X, as a way to force him restore the old censorship regime of Twitter. As of now, the list of advertisers boycotting X includes more than 100 companies, including some of the largest corporations on the planet. Musk was telling all of these corporations — which are now clearly trying to destroy him for political reasons — to go to hell.

It goes without saying that nothing like this has ever happened before. That’s what Andrew Ross Sorkin was completely and totally shellshocked; he could barely get a word out. In the business world, what Musk did was unthinkable. The owners of major corporations aren’t exactly known for standing on principle, even when that principle could destroy the business model of their entire company. But that’s exactly what Musk did. And mainstream journalists like Sorkin certainly cannot conceive of anyone actually standing up to corporations like Disney. These are all subservient, masochistic little weaklings who bow to our corporate overlords. They are shocked to see anyone do otherwise. 

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At the same time, what was even more interesting than Musk’s remarks — and what ultimately proved his point — was how the corporate news media responded to what Musk said. They were universally outraged. They didn’t even try to hide their disdain — even though Musk wasn’t addressing them. 

And that’s odd, when you think about it — or at least, it should be odd. After all, these media outlets claim to be interested in reporting the news. They claim that they’re not simply vessels for corporate messaging. But last night, they couldn’t help themselves. One after another, these outlets unloaded on Musk in the most disparaging possible terms. It was clearly personal. Watch:

Did you catch the disclosure at the end there? Musk was calling out Comcast at the DealBook Summit and Comcast, incidentally, is the parent company of NBC Universal. And then NBC News just so happens to accuse Elon Musk of hating Jewish people.

And then there’s the deranged segment from KTLA in Los Angeles — the flagship station of the CW Television Network — in which the analyst explains that no one will ever trust Musk ever again, because he’s such a horrible person. He’s created a “toxic landscape.” They even suggest that Musk is going to try and steal customers’ credit card numbers, because he told off Bob Iger. They’re not just attacking him for what he said, they’re saying, preemptively, that if he pivots X to a subscription model, that you shouldn’t trust him because he’s going to rip you off.

This kind of demented coverage has been relentless. It’s been coming from every single corporate media outlet. Fox News accused Musk of antisemitism last week, for example. And just a couple days ago, ABC News ran a segment in which the anchor (and panelists) took turns trashing Musk and X. The segment ended with ABC News urging the White House — as well as everyone in the ABC News audience — to abandon the platform. They could not have been more explicit about their activism.

What’s extraordinary about that clip — beyond what you just saw — is what they didn’t talk about. I watched all seven minutes of the full segment, at no point did ABC News disclose that the parent company of ABC News is The Walt Disney Company. Somehow they didn’t mention that their boss, Bob Iger, had suspended his company’s ads on Twitter. That conflict of interest never came up once. They were too busy telling you to abandon Twitter at all costs, because it’s a “sewer.” And for good measure, they were begging the White House to do the same.

It goes without saying that ABC News never once mentions what Media Matters did in order to smear X as a quote “sewer.” They don’t talk about Musk’s lawsuit against Media Matters for misleading X’s advertisers about this.

ABC doesn’t tell their audience that Media Matters went to great lengths to engineer a scenario that would put corporate advertisements near “objectionable” content on their timelines. You’re just supposed to take it on faith that X is somehow the only platform where you could engineer a scenario like this — even as Instagram’s algorithm has been shown to connect pedophiles with child pornography.

What you can gather from the sheer dishonesty of the clips I just showed — and many more like them — is that the corporate news media understands, for good reason, that Musk’s criticism of mega corporations is also an attack on them. In some cases, that’s because these media companies are directly owned by the corporations that Musk is attacking. In other cases, it’s because these media companies are completely beholden to these corporations for their own advertising dollars.

That’s why what Musk said at the DealBook Summit was so important. It wasn’t just a cathartic declaration of war against corporate censors. It also exposed many of the so-called journalists and news organizations that are completely beholden to these censors. Which is why they’re telling you not to trust Musk anymore, because he was mean to Bob Iger.

Meanwhile, they’re running endless advertisements for Big Pharma. And yet, despite that, you’re supposed to trust them when they report on Ozempic, or the tenth version of the COVID booster. You’re also supposed to blindly trust their “experts on disinformation,” whom they’ve hired directly from the FBI and the CIA. These are people who have lied to your face for years, about everything from Russiagate to the pandemic. And now they’re trying to destroy Musk for one tweet — out of tens of thousands of tweets — that he clarified almost immediately. (He also apologized at the DealBook Summit for his remarks being poorly worded, not that any of these ghouls care about that, and not that he owed any kind of apology at all.)

The truth is, they were never upset about what Musk said about the ADL and other Left-wing groups like it. They’re not even really pretending he’s “antisemitic” anymore. They seem to recognize that would be an odd charge to make, after Israel’s prime minister rolled out the welcome mat for Musk the other day. So now they’re back to old-fashioned mafia tactics. They’re not hiding the fact that they despise him for exposing how corporate control of the media works. That’s why they’re smearing him as someone who’s going to steal your credit card. It’s why they’re smirking about some random mayor in Europe leaving X, as if that matters. Their tactics are getting desperate and obvious.

A little while ago, I told you that I would play some more of Musk’s remarks. This is the part of his comments that didn’t get as much play on social media, but it’s just as important as what he told Bob Iger and the other advertisers. Watch:

MUSK: “The judge is the public.”

SORKIN: “And you think that the public is going to say that Disney is making a mistake?”

MUSK: “Yes.”

SORKIN: “And they’re going to boycott Disney?”

MUSK: “They already are.”@elonmusk pic.twitter.com/3LDxuk8wDC

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) November 30, 2023

That’s not a moment that the major media outlets are going to play on loop. They’re going to fixate on the big f-bomb, and try to portray Musk as some kind of unhinged lunatic. But this part of Musk’s conversation with Sorkin was just as important, if not more important, than what he told Bob Iger.

Disney does not create anything of value, in fact they create negative value. More people than ever recognize that now. At the very same DealBook Summit where Musk spoke, Bob Iger made that very clear. As if to prove that point, here’s a CNN headline summarizing what Iger said: “Disney CEO Bob Iger says ‘No. 1 priority’ is turning around Marvel, acknowledges ‘too many sequels’ after box office misses.”

That’s Disney’s top priority. They’re going to work on cranking out more Marvel movies, flooded with Left-wing propaganda, that no one will watch. They’re not attempting to launch rocket ships to Mars. They’re entirely focused on Marvel films, and putting as much gay propaganda in children’s content as possible. And people are rejecting it. The movies are bombing. Disney Plus recently lost more than 10 million subscribers. 

By contrast, Musk is accomplishing things that help humanity, they’re not. They’re doing the exact opposite. And those are the people Musk can’t stand. They’re the people we shouldn’t tolerate either.

What Musk did yesterday was to declare war against the executives responsible for debasing our culture and force-feeding us a stream of lobotomized garbage, while they play the role of censor. He made the simple and obvious point that a CEO who’s fixated on Marvel movies should not be in charge of free speech in this country. Entertainment executives shouldn’t be telling everyone else what “hate speech” is, or demanding censorship. No corporate CEO should have that power. They should be worried about their own products. That’s it. They shouldn’t spend a second thinking about what you can say online.

But for a very long time now, CEO’s have had the power to censor you. They simply apply pressure to media organizations and social media companies, and they get what they want. They use coercion and blackmail to effectively destroy the First Amendment. And they can always claim that it has nothing to do with the First Amendment, because these are “private companies” imposing these speech restrictions.

The truth is that the distinction between the corporate world and the government has become increasingly irrelevant. The Democrats use corporations to impose speech restrictions that they could not impose legislatively.

But Musk has just challenged this whole regime, as explicitly as he possibly could. And now, as he said, the chips will fall. If people don’t want free speech — if they want the Marvel guy to tell them what to think — then free speech will die. X will collapse, and shortly afterwards, so will your ability to say what you think on the Internet.

This is preventable, but it takes some work. It takes people standing up and saying what they know is true, regardless of the personal cost they might face. And that’s been happening more and more. It’s happened with the gender debate. It’s happened with Target selling satanic merchandise to children. It’s happened with affirmative action, which is now broadly unpopular in this country. It’s happened with Ukraine funding, too. Now, as Musk said, people need to turn on the corporate censors who have silenced them for so long.

These companies need to suffer real consequences for what they tried to do here. For that to happen, Americans need to do what Elon Musk did last night, and tell all of these would-be overlords, in no uncertain terms, that they need to go f*** themselves.