Elon Musk Mocks Vanity Fair After They Compare Him to KKK Grand Wizard David Duke

Vainness Truthful pulled again the curtain a bit on how the media will cowl Republicans within the 2024 presidential election cycle, attacking Ron DeSantis’ alternative of asserting his marketing campaign by means of Twitter chief Elon Musk, whom they evaluate to former KKK grand wizard David Duke.

Let the unhinged stupidity video games start!

Bess Levin, a politics correspondent for Vanity Fair whose bio self-describes her as “an important voice of our present tragicomedy,” grew to become the tragicomedy with a five-paragraph diatribe criticizing the DeSantis-Musk announcement.

The headline alone alerts a stage of petty ignorance one would anticipate from an ill-informed baby:

Report: Ron DeSantis Will Formally Announce His 2024 Bid With Elon Musk, As a result of Apparently David Duke Wasn’t Out there

“He’s mentioned to be planning to formally leap into the 2024 race throughout a dialog on Twitter with Elon Musk, as a result of apparently different neo-Nazi sympathizers weren’t out there,” ol’ Bess writes, as a result of apparently precise journalists weren’t out there.

That is within the “information” part of Vainness Truthful—a paper I had as soon as dreamt of writing for. And I’m appalled.

Observe phrases like: “David Duke Wasn’t Out there” & “Different Neo-Nazi sympathizers weren’t out there.” These are phrases being thrown round wildly and irresponsibly—like little… pic.twitter.com/FhIj9Dt6v3

— 🚨 Katherine Brodsky (@mysteriouskat) May 24, 2023

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Vainness Truthful Smears Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis with David Duke Blast

The Vainness Truthful smear of Musk as David Duke is a thinly veiled swipe on the Republican candidate himself and his associations. They’ve completed this repeatedly through the years with Trump.

They compelled the previous President to repeatedly denounce Duke but nonetheless continued to fake he hadn’t. They’ll little question do the identical to DeSantis and Trump this election cycle.

It’s a sneak peek into the fact that these considering DeSantis shall be handled any extra kindly by the media than Donald Trump – as a result of he’s supposedly the extra level-headed candidate – are merely fooling themselves.

“Anyway, simply as a reminder, a DeSantis presidency is as horrible a prospect as a Trump one,” Levin provides to her column. Astonishing – there are actually two Hitlers operating for President?!

She was summarily ripped to shreds on social media.

Enterprise capital founder David Sacks wrote, “The media has misplaced its thoughts.”

The media has misplaced its thoughts. pic.twitter.com/j9awsApaY2

— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) May 24, 2023

True, however that occurred a protracted, very long time in the past. Truly, nevermind. You’ll be able to’t lose what you by no means had.

Musk himself chimed in suggesting the Vainness Truthful article evaluating him to David Duke was so ridiculous that it needed to be satire.

Seems to be like Babylon Bee has some competitors for satire

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 24, 2023

Christina Pushaw of DeSantis’ fast response crew additionally fired again.

“They’re dropping their place as gatekeepers … and so they can’t deal with it,” she tweeted.

They’re dropping their place as gatekeepers … and so they can’t deal with it. https://t.co/abDoPpgIIm

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) May 24, 2023

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Whined Over DeSantis Not Giving Them Entry

Pushaw’s evaluation may very well be spot on. Vainness Truthful’s David Duke smear could also be little greater than bitterness.

Left-wing media retailers like this have been overtly fretting that Republicans are going to shut them out through the 2024 election cycle.

“GOP politicians are more and more shirking sit-down interviews, barring journalists from 2022 occasions, and skipping debates — an aversion to media scrutiny that would upend how the subsequent presidential election cycle is roofed,” Vainness Truthful wrote.

Republicans “are more and more shirking sit-down interviews, barring journalists from 2022 occasions, and skipping debates—an aversion to media scrutiny that would upend how the subsequent presidential election cycle is roofed,” writes @charlottetklein https://t.co/sCndzbyQQQ

— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) July 26, 2022

Odd. There wasn’t a lot outrage over an ‘aversion to media scrutiny’ when the present face of the Democrat Occasion, President Biden, consistently avoided sit-down interviews, perpetually denigrated networks which may provide scrutiny, and spent a lot of his 2020 marketing campaign locked in a basement.

For years, GOP lawmakers and politicians have made themselves out there to far-left media retailers corresponding to MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Put up, and the New York Occasions to call a couple of.

Why would any one in all them of their proper thoughts give credence to an outlet like Vainness Truthful which is prepared to check Musk and/or DeSantis to David Duke?

President Biden introduced his 2024 re-election marketing campaign in a three-minute YouTube video. There was no snarky commentary from Bess Levin evaluating him to his “buddy” and “mentor,” the late Senator Robert Byrd, a one-time prime officer within the Ku Klux Klan.