Another Reason The Left Made A Monster Of Musk

How The Left Created Its Own Monster

Yesterday, ZeroHedge shared a post by Jonathan Turley, arguing that part of the reason Elon Musk is eviscerating the left's sources of funding in Washington is the left's attempt to cancel Musk after he bought Twitter. 

From Turley's post: 

As for Musk being a democracy-devouring Frankenstein, the rhetoric is again outstripping reality. The fact is that liberals rarely hunt monsters, they create their own monsters.

The making of “Muskenstein” can be found in the cancel campaign launched against him as soon as he pledged to restore free speech on Twitter. An unprecedented alliance of government, corporations, media, and academia were arrayed against him.

This same alliance has worked countless times to get corporations and CEOs to comply with its demands for censorship. But Musk, the wealthiest man in the world, was unbowed.

Another Way The Left Created Its Own Monster

What Turley wrote is right, as far as it goes, but it turns out one woman may have played an outsized role: Kara Swisher, arguably the most prominent reporter in Silicon Valley. 

In a post on X over the weekend, Richard Hanania relayed Kara's on comments about Elon and other Silicon Valley titans in a recent appearance on Ezra Klein's podcast. 

Here's the full text of Hanania's post: 

I just listened to Kara Swisher on the Ezra Klein show.

I now have much better insight as to why Silicon Valley has s[h]ifted to the right.

Her entire "analysis" is petty and personal insults about the men she covers. Contempt just absolutely drips off her tongue in every sentence.

To Swisher, they're just scared little boys who want people to love them. They have "little dick energy." And so on.

Psychologists have a norm that they don't diagnose people who aren't their patients. But she has a story for each billionaire whose politics she doesn't like and knows exactly why they became who they are.

This is the person that the media crowned as perhaps their most prominent "tech reporter." It's all psychobabble drivel not held to any kind of evidentiary standards, obviously motivated by pettiness and contempt disguised as journalism.

This would radicalize anyone against the media.

Others weighed in in support of Hanania's observation, including serial founder Palmer Lucky: 

Never underestimate the impact of an angry woman, even if that impact ultimately comes back to bite her. 

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