One of the things that’s most upsetting to conservatives is the way liberals pose as the apostles of kindess and compassion and decency. Their hearts bleed for people, to use the old joke. But in today’s rhetorical hothouse, the so-called bleeding hearts relish the idea of death for their opponents, starting with Scott Galloway wanting Elon Musk executed as a "traitor."
MRC Business Associate Editor Joseph Vazquez and MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider are experts on Musk's businesses, including Twitter.
Galloway was arguing that Musk was a traitor because his firm Space X restricted Starlink satellite internet speeds in Ukraine last month, reportedly disrupting Ukrainian military operations during the country's war with Russia. "Elon Musk throttling back Starlink," Galloway said. "And my question is, or my thesis is, we took the Rosenbergs and put them up against a wall and executed them for being traitors. And I realize this is an incendiary statement, but I'll make it, and I believe it. I think Elon Musk is a traitor to the West."
On a recent episode of the "Pivot" podcast with co-host Kara Swisher, Galloway made similar comments, saying, "We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall. This is a traitor to the West, and he should be held to the same standards as every other traitor in the West."
Musk said Ukraine was using Starlink in violation of the service's restrictions, saying, "Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed."
Also making the left's incessant urge for violence against conservatives, leftist podcaster Jennifer Welch and her co-host Angie Sullivan broke out into laughter while reading a fan's post aloud: "We're digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again." David Bozell also criticized the hosts, telling Fox News Digital, "If Madison Ave. would stop sponsoring gutter trash, gutter trash would go out of business." Point and laugh at Don Lemon on Instagram, where he wrote about a chat with Welch:" In need of a political detox?"
Comedian Dave Chappelle was caught on camera at a concert approving of Kirk's killing: Ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered, and I shouldn’t say this publicly but…. I feel better.” There were laughs and scattered applause. “I know I shouldn’t say it, but it’s just a feeling,” he added. “I just be driving around like, ‘why am I in such a good mood … oh!” He also joked Kirk was in Hell: “I’m sure Charlie Kirk is looking up at us right now laughing so hard he can’t breathe."
The bitterness of leftist political rhetoric is returning in kind from the Trump White House. In his latest interview with 60 Minutes on CBS, new correspondent Ross Douthat raised an atypical question from CBS: "Let's say you pass away, you're entering the next life, and all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, anyone who you have expressed hate for over the years. Do you think you can do it?"
Trump said, "Well, then I wouldn't be real, would I?" He called them "extremely dishonest people, very bad people, very bad for our country." Douthat asked: "Is the answer no, then?" Trump underlined: "The answer is no. I want to be honest, no." This all suggests a very bitter political environment for the next two years.
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