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Pototan

(2,230 posts)
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 05:23 AM Tuesday

Scott Jennings Humiliated on CNN

CNN’s Scott Jennings and Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell brawled on Monday over the salute Elon Musk gave at a rally last week.

The Tesla CEO, who spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to return President Donald Trump to the White House, spoke at a post-inauguration rally last Monday where he thanked supporters. In doing so, Musk placed his right hand on his chest and thrust it upward in a manner identical to a Nazi salute. Musk and his supporters – including Jennings – have scoffed at the idea Musk intended the gesture as an homage to Nazism. But on Monday’s CNN NewsNight, Rampell dared Jennings to make the same salute on television, which he unsurprisingly declined to do.

Full article with video:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/do-it-right-now-on-tv-catherine-rampell-dares-scott-jennings-to-mimic-musks-salute-after-he-claims-it-wasnt-a-sieg-heil/

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no_hypocrisy

(49,754 posts)
1. It may be tangential, but if Elon's "gesture" is so innocuous,
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 05:29 AM
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why didn't he make it when he was visiting Auschwitz?

thomski64

(595 posts)
5. ..perhaps if E-dolf were to shout..
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 06:44 AM
Tuesday

...Zeig Heil, Kampf bis zum Zeig, while making this definitely not a Nazi gesture; it would be more clear that this definitely not a Nazi salute.

hueymahl

(2,698 posts)
8. Interesting take
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 07:45 AM
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Over in X (unsurprisingly) the take is that he destroyed Rampell with logic. They also said she freaked out.

We are living in parallel worlds.

mitch96

(14,876 posts)
18. Yup, "We are living in parallel worlds." they admit The moon is a sphere, Mars is a sphere but the earth is flat??nt
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 10:03 AM
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Joinfortmill

(16,985 posts)
10. Musk is, by all accounts, a white nationalist. So, yeah, that was likely the Nazi salute.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 08:13 AM
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And like all Nazi types, he doesn't have the balls to own up to it, which also makes him a goddamn COWARD.

Bernardo de La Paz

(52,062 posts)
11. Nazis call Muck's salute nazi; progs call it nazi; middle says "meh". So: it is nazi. . . . . nt
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 08:15 AM
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Timeflyer

(2,812 posts)
12. Musk was a Nazi before his very public Nazi salute. His money allows him to act it out in public.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 08:16 AM
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Response to Pototan (Original post)

2naSalit

(94,641 posts)
15. And THAT...
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 08:31 AM
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Is how it's done!

Force them to back up what they claim. Call them out in public, force them to reveal their shittiness.

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