DC: On Memorial Day this year, we learned of the most heroic job in America.
No, it’s not Navy SEALs risking their lives to take out terrorists — it’s female journalists who tweet out Elon Musk’s name.
That’s the opinion — only slightly exaggerated — of Daily Beast contributor Erin Biba. Biba managed to write a whole column about her harrowing experience of receiving tons of mean tweets from Musk fans, whom she refers to as “MuskBros.”
The journalist received all these rude messages after she tweeted out criticism of the Tesla CEO. “A billionaire w/massive power @elonmusk lashed out at two of the most under-attack industries in the country: Journalism and Science. Both are essential for democracy. We should criticize our important institutions, but we shouldn’t threaten their existence w/powerful ignorance,” read one of her tweets.
Musk responded with a civil tweet saying he hasn’t attacked science, just “misleading journalism like yours though.”
That one reply brought Biba hundreds of messages from Musk fans who disagreed with her take. Some were pretty rude and vulgar, and this very serious journalist decided to write a whole article about how she survived these horrifying tweets.
She even interviewed one woman whose incredibly bad tweets has made her “an expert in being harassed online.” A real achievement!
Biba spends her final paragraphs bemoaning how hard it is for her to courageously criticize Musk and to suffer the horrible burden of angry tweeters. Keep Reading.
SNIP: As a taxpayer, I’m not of fan of Tesla, but he is correct about Leftist journalism.
Funny that when Progs (especially women) attack first, and you defend yourself, you’re then called a nazi/misogynist/racist/bully/anti-science…
Quite frankly, I’m not sure who I should root for.
I’m glad she got “mean” tweets. They think they are immune to any criticism. Well grow the hell up bambi.
We should go back to what we old folks were taught growing up and taught our kids, sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you. People didn’t spend their life back then looking to be all offended and butt hurt.
Pearl-Clutchery, Bead-Strumming and swooning with the vapors when a Conservative calls Bullshit on ’em must get expensive buying all those Hemorrhoidal Suppositories! Maybe they should take a tip from Slo Joe Biden. He’s so cheap he ties a string to his…
Don’t You go were the Muskbros go
and don’t You burn that ole black Coal (in Your Electric Car)
Can’t they both lose?
This is like watching the Iran and Iraq War.
ROTFLMAO
-MJA
Nuthin grows where the Muskbros goes
Wait.
She says criticizes Musk.
Musk responds.
She’s upset.
Well, boo hoo.
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
I have little faith in Tesla. The entire rechargeable electric car concept seems fundamentally flawed.
I have even less faith in “journalists.”
But SpaceX has possibilities. Even Boeing is taking notice.
We’ll never get to Mars if we wait for the Gov’t to do it.
And if the muzzies are as smart as advertised, they’d have already been there.
“Journalism and Science. Both are essential for democracy. We should criticize our important institutions, but we shouldn’t threaten their existence w/powerful ignorance,”
Are you shitting me? Can you hear the shit coming out of your mouth? What a sheltered existence this shlub must lead. This is an externalized symptom of someone who cannot bear to have the tenets of their reality challenged. Because they know they cannot refute a reasoned attack.
That way lies ruin.
“Journalism and Science. Both are essential for democracy…”
Well, dearie, it’s a good thing we live in a Republic.
This, my compatriots, is known as a ‘spectator sport.’
Sit back, enjoy, and pass the popcorn.