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Jon Stewart Says Elon Musk Flaked on 'Daily Show' Interview Offer

www.hollywoodreporter.com Jon Stewart Says Elon Musk Flaked on 'Daily Show' Interview Offer

'The Daily Show' host Jon Stewart says X boss Elon Musk backed down on the TV interview offer the moment he called his bluff.

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Surprising nobody.
- Well at least we know why trump grabbed on to him.
Brave Sir Elon ran away. Bravely ran away away. When danger reared it's ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled. Yes, brave Sir Elon turned about And gallantly he chickened out. Swiftly taking to his feet, He beat a very brave retreat. Bravest of the brave, Sir Elon!
- Came here for this and was not disappointed.
- Easy rod...
- That’s a pussy in your country?
Musk probably watched Stewart’s conservative show interview appearances over on YouTube, dating back to his first stint on the daily show. They couldn’t trip Stewart. He rolled over all of them. The interviews stopped, again, surprising no one.
- Jon Stewart single-handedly got CNN's "Crossfire" ( featuring a not-yet-fully-crazy Tucker Carlson) cancelled just by going on the show and doing his thing.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart's_2004_appearance_on_Crossfire
  
  In the final exchange before a commercial break, Carlson remarked that he thought Stewart was "more fun on your show, just my opinion." Stewart responded, "You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show."
  
  (Shit, that was over 20 years ago. I'm old ....)
  
  Carlson never recovered from that bowtie burn
  
  Right? Makes you feel old, doesn’t it?
  
  Elon can’t handle it so he ducked out. In addition, Tesla probably texted him and said don’t.
  
  I don’t know how my mother convinced me to watch Crossfire. I was a kid. She thought it was intellectually awesome.
  
  EDIT: To be clear, I don’t remember anything about Crossfire.
  
  (Shit, that was over 20 years ago. I’m old …)
  
  i watched that crossfire interview when it first aired and i think it's telling that stewart & the daily show et al. are still the primary vanguard of american liberalism when the rest of the world has changed; especially so when they solely focus on stoking the culture war fires and ignoring the class war that creates them.
I'm shocked. Right up there with his cage fight with Zuck. He can't handle pressure. He got booed at Chappelle's standup show, and reportedly locked himself in his office to the point where people had to check on him and were worried he was self harming. He's fucking 10 ply.
- He's spare parts.
  
  Not at the rate of his drug usage... His parts wont even be usable.
- He’s fucking 10 ply.
  
  Okay, I almost did a literal spit-take when reading that. I had just taken a sip of coffee.
  
  Well done. 🤣
- That's a Texas-sized 10-4 good buddy
  
  You knows, I'd normally not be okays withs callin a guys soft. As my women studies teacher says it's only the performance of the's masculinities and the threats of takins its away that keeps the cycles of the patriarchies going. That's beings saids, Elon's nots exactly what's the kids today's are calling woke.
- That's extremely thick toilet paper
  
  10 ply = soft
- Geez, Elon self-harming? What's not to like?
  
  He's too weak to make a proper job of it.
- He got booed at Chappelle’s standup show
  
  Even as much of a hot mess as Chapelle has become, I assume that Musk had to pay him to come onstage with him. I wonder how much it was.
What a fucking coward. I was actually excited for this. I should have known better.
- He has nothing to gain from talking to intelligent people. They will easily show how dumb he is.
- I also still want him to fight Mark Zuckerbutg.
- To be honest, I'm less disappointed by this than I am with his avoiding a good ass kicking by Zuck.
  
  I mean I hate both of those people so the idea of one winning a fight didnt excite me.
- Ask yourself this, why would he do anything that makes you excited? He wouldn't. He doesn't care about anyone but himself, and it doesn't help him.
I knew he was going to pussy out. Conservatives who are routinely in the public eye can't survive outside of their safe spaces. That's why Republican politicians are cancelling their town halls. They can't handle anything other than a gentle interview on FOX or OAN with the questions sent to them ahead of time so they can get their answers from the heritage foundation.
- the right suddenly stopped talking about masculinity is jaw-dropping
  
  It's insulting to president musk and his fat, gross lap dog.
I’m sure he’ll be on Joe rogan again getting verbally fellated and reassured that he dodged a bullet not going on the violent left wing propaganda deep state media show
- From what I've seen, if you watch any of Rogan you'd find that he's not actually shouting MAGA to the heavens. He's literally the "I'm just asking questions" guy, a useful idiot who normalizes right-wing thought for them, not the place they go for reassurance. Bannon and the like are the ones saying crap like deep state conspiracy.
  
  Mischaracterizations are what fuel the right's rhetoric when they try to say we don't know what we're actually talking about.
  
  Oh no he pretends to be balanced to some degree but he's completely bought into the maga propaganda. He may be a useful idiot, but he's a useful idiot who is all in 100%. They're not mischaracterizing him at all.
  
  Bannon is smart enough to know it's all a means to an end but nobody's going to him for reassurance. Especially not Musk. Bannon loves shit talking Musk.
  
  Rogan literally said Musk "saved us" - before the election no less.
- Him "smoking" the spliff on that show was the epitome of a "pick-me".
Hey Elon!
Typical far-right behavior. They stay in their safe spaces and pay to artificialy amplify their unpopular messages.

What was it, like a quarter of all the accounts on Facebook and Twitter are just AI chat bots trying to get people to engage?
- Lol a quarter? I doubt even the real ones comprise a quarter.
Did his mom tell him no? Like with the Zuckerberg fight?
Not surprising. Fuck you, Musk pathetic racist asshole...
- What’s that?
  
  I think they're calling elon a pussy, which is ironic because a pussy is far stronger than he will ever be
  
  It's a San Diego
I don't think that man wants to be in a room with someone smarter than him on live TV
- someone smarter than him
  
  ...and that's a LOT of the population.
- Which is why he entirely avoids live TV. Elon is at best an idiot savant. And I'd put emphasis on idiot.
  
  He Mr Magoon'd his way to being the wealthiest man in the word
What else would a coward do?

He couldn't even follow through on his fight with clothing store mannequin Mark Fuckerberg.
- Even though he's just 5'7" and 155 lbs, I don't think I'd want to take Zuckerberg on.
  
  I've got half a foot and a hundred pounds on him, I would jump at the opportunity.
  
  Eh, I don't think he's been upgraded to the liquid metal version yet so you'd probably be OK.
Ya'll need to watch the clip that goes along with the article.

Funny and fucking terrifying.
- Your time is up
  My time is now
  You can't see me
  My time is now
Elon is a punk ass removed.
Musk demands unedited interviews but can't handle unfiltered criticism—irony at its finest.

😺😺😺😺
And nobody is surprised even slightly.
We know fElon is a coward. Always has been.
He a removed like asmongold
- I stopped paying attention to asmon after he started openly supporting genocide of muslims and brown folk. Has he doubled down on that stance in the last few months?
  
  Edit: downvotes from asmon stans on lemmy? Quick poll to the downvoters: what's your instance? I have a guess, but I want to see if I'm right.
  
  Never been a fan. He shows up in my feed sometimes.
  
  Recently someone called him Jew, prejoratively, and he not only was offended but like, really angrily corrected the record that he's German, ok? (I guess to him this is the opposite of Jewish?) and idk just the whole interaction and his demeanor in that moment was a bright red flag.
  
  This was all in the wake of the Elon fake gamer shit. Maybe I read into that small interaction too much but my Nazi senses went 5 alarm.
  
  He’s a mediocre gamer at best
- Asmongold looks like he smells of cum and teenage girl perfume
  
  That seems to be his appeal, if you can believe that. He serves as validation for a specific type of degenerate lifestyle I think moreso than his views.
What a shock. Jon wouldn't hold back punches, and Musk knows that. Musk only goes on Podcasts where the host's opinions change depending on the guest.
- For me the weirdest moment was when Joe Rogan - before the election - said that Musk "saved us". Not "is going to save us", already saved us.
  
  Drumpf also alluded to "he's got the best coders, it's just one line of code," fElon will hand us the win! Before the election.
  
  fElon also said before the election, "If he [Drumpf] doesn't win, I'm probably going to prison," [sic] alongside President Elect Drumpf
- There's also a huge huge risk of speaking with a master debater (yw). Smart people are everywhere. People who are genuinely good at debating are terrifying to argue with. It's a rabid animal except they have facts and logic and easy to understand, well structured arguments. It's infuriating.
  
  Wish my school has offered debate.
Just like he backed down from fighting Zuckerberg... Chicken-shit Nazi
Jon also talks about it here: https://youtu.be/OeUZI5RnYGg?t=55s
Is anyone surprised? Elon is dumb, but he's knows better than to go up against Jon.
Fuckin' weenie.
All talk. No substance. Like all of MAGA. Just a bunch of J@cka$$e$ 🙄
Let me tell you all how surprised I am.

Ok, I'm done.
Figured Elon would wait until the day off to back out, not immediately after Jon announced it was on
Musk is a removed with a big ol pussy
He has shut down other interviews too. Its clear all he wants is people who kiss his ass and tell him his smart he is.
Every one of these people in Trump's cabinet is a pussy.
- fElon isn't in his cabinet. That's kinda one of the many Constitutional Crises that are playing out in real time.
What a surprise.
like so many others...

called it!
Im so shocked

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