By Hank Berrien
The Washington Post, among the myriad of news outlets that have not asked a single question of Vice President Kamala Harris since she was anointed the Democratic presidential nominee, criticized Elon Musk’s interview with former President Donald Trump on X, carping that Musk asked “softball questions.”
According to X, the interview and the discussion that revolved around it generated nearly 1 billion views.
The Post, which commonly repeats Democratic talking points, titled their piece, “Trump returns to X with technical glitches, softball questions from Musk.”
Musk explained the technical glitches before the interview got going, stating, “There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X. Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.”
The Post, however, framed the glitches as an “embarrassment” for Musk and Trump, opining: “It was the latest mishap for the Republican nominee as he has sought to regain his footing amid a surge in Democratic enthusiasm for his new rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. … The joint appearance was also a high-profile embarrassment for Musk’s X, which has faced numerous outages since the entrepreneur’s takeover and suffered from a server meltdown during a presidential campaign launch last year.”
The Post insisted that Musk “focused on comfortable topics for Trump, such as undocumented immigration.” However, according to a February 2024 report from Gallup, immigration has become a priority issue for Americans under the Biden-Harris regime. “Significantly more Americans name immigration as the most important problem facing the U.S. (28%) than did a month ago (20%),” Gallup explained. “Immigration has now passed the government as the most often cited problem, after the two issues tied for the top position the past two months.”
WaPo’s one author, or, perhaps their “entire” editorial board can have their opinion and see if they can sell copies based on it.
OTOH, one BILLION people have a different opinion.
And that’s why they listened in.The old paper press sure like being able to “buy it’s ink by the barrel,” but hates outlets that can use free pixels and electrons.
Too bad.
When Kamala put her phone call with the Obama’s online a whopping 547 computers or phones were listening in.
The “glitches” are an embarrassment for America because where we have the 1st Amendment, we also have a government and media that try to destroy it.
Any question that the interviewee has an answer to is, by definition, a “softball question”, and that’s a problem for the left. Trump has answers. The left may not like them and do all they can to misstate his responses as a result, but he can and will answer any and all questions. Democrats, on the other hand, are ALWAYS in the mode of covering up their true intentions and past, so almost any real question on actual issues is a “gotcha” question. Their “softball questions” are “So, you like ice cream?” or ” So, you like Vinn diagrams?”. Further, if an actual question of substance actually gets asked, the Democrat is allowed to bloviate, obfuscate, bob and weave without any follow up questions.
The Washington Compost like the New York Slimes prefer to ignore the Backgrounds of the Demon-Rats while going after the GOP nothing New they have been doing this for Years