Laura Ingraham: This is so predictable, it’s almost boring

[0:00] When you think of the quintessential sneering white liberal journalists, [0:04] this woman from The Economist comes to mind. [0:07] People think that this man who has all his power, he's the world's richest man, [0:12] he thinks he has a right to influence our politics. [0:15] It's why people loathe you. I mean, some people do loathe you. [0:19] Maybe some people do loathe me. And that's probably true. I don't care. [0:25] But the fact that, as you pointed out, [0:28] a quarter billion people follow me is that I think a lot more people actually like me than don't. [0:36] And I think a lot more people hate you and the media more than you realize. [0:40] Gosh, I love this. I loved every minute of this interview. [0:44] 100% correct. And Ms. Beddows, this woman, is absolutely clueless. [0:50] Her rank hatred for Musk is obvious in every syllable she uttered in this just published wide-ranging interview. [0:57] Now, the indisputable truth is that Democrats are the ones who've gone off the [1:01] deep end, not Musk. They're going to die, apparently, on this transgender hill of men [1:06] playing in women's sports. Then they're abandoning the once-pragmatic approach to immigration. [1:12] This administration, the Bush administration, has done nothing to control the problem that we have. [1:19] We've had 5 million undocumented workers come over the borders since George Bush took office. [1:25] It has become an extraordinary problem. [1:29] And the reason the American people are concerned is because they are seeing their own economic position slip away. [1:36] Yeah. Obama used to be sane. [1:39] But today, many Democrats would call that Obama a fascist, a xenophobe. [1:44] And the economist would probably brand his views far-right. [1:49] But the fact is, those are the views, sweetheart, of the majority of Americans. [1:55] You support not just the populist right, but the far-right. [1:58] In fact, very fringe parties in some countries. [2:00] No, I support the normal people. [2:02] Okay. [2:02] What do you call the far-right, falsely? [2:05] You think it's the normal person? [2:06] Okay. [2:06] Yes. [2:07] Literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years, and these policies were completely normal. [2:16] Yeah. [2:16] I mean, all of those policies, again, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, [2:22] all held most of these views. [2:25] So when he took the bold step of buying Twitter, Elon Musk triggered widespread alarm and public scorn on the left, [2:32] especially among D.C.'s media elite. [2:35] There was this headline from The Washington Post, [2:37] why Elon Musk is so polarizing. [2:40] Journalists rejected his stated goal, which was to restore free speech to social media, [2:45] as the reason he bought Twitter. [2:48] And instead, they accused him of platforming myths and disinformation. [2:53] It's clear he has very little understanding of the complexities that go into content moderation. [2:58] They want to come in and be able to punch people in the face and walk around and laugh about it [3:02] and not have anyone be able to stop them. [3:04] Elon Musk, I guess he, you know, he misses the old South Africa in the 80s. [3:08] He wants, he wants that back. [3:09] It's not just free speech in the abstract. [3:11] He's publicly courting a right-wing partisan constituency in the U.S., at least for now. [3:19] So predictable. [3:21] It's almost boring. [3:22] And, of course, Musk committed the cardinal sin when he lifted the Twitter ban of Donald Trump back in 2022. [3:28] They wanted Trump off the field altogether. [3:30] And then to really set him off, Musk decided to head up Trump's Doge effort. [3:35] And although he wasn't able to push through all the cuts he wanted, [3:39] Musk did invaluable work in exposing the obscene waste in government spending. [3:44] And for that, he was fully excommunicated from some of his old pals. [3:49] Because when Musk was an Obama supporter back in, like, 2014, he was cool. [3:54] And when he described himself as an independent back in 2018, he was super cool. [3:59] The electric car guy was loved by the Greeniacs. [4:02] But when he realized that the Democrats had gone crazy, woke and extremist, [4:06] and then he started to gravitate a little bit toward the Republicans, [4:10] well, the break with the old liberal gatekeepers was complete. [4:15] It's just normal people. [4:16] It's just normal people. [4:16] And here are the principles. [4:19] And tell me, which of these sound terrible? [4:22] That we should have secure borders, that we should have safe cities, [4:26] that we should have sensible spending. [4:29] Which of those three are far-right fringe? [4:31] Those three. [4:32] And I would like to just admonish you and the media [4:37] for the absurd characterization of the far-right. [4:41] It is false and misleading and nonsense. [4:45] Please keep this part in. [4:47] Well, of course, she did not edit that part out. [4:49] He called her out. [4:50] But she did try to bait Elon with the same old tired pejoratives [4:54] that we've heard for years. [4:56] Your interventions, however well-intentioned they may be, [5:00] risk making Europe's problem a lot worse. [5:02] How? [5:03] Because you are putting your support behind people [5:06] who are proto-authoritarians but who have very clear fascist tendencies [5:11] and you will cause huge divisions within Europe. [5:14] I think what you're saying is total fiction. [5:17] And really, I'm simply saying that there needs to be, [5:21] there needs to, that Europe has to have secure borders. [5:25] Okay. [5:25] And should not let in vast numbers of people [5:27] with views that are antithetical to the accepted views in Europe [5:33] and where there will not be some level of safe cultural integration. [5:39] This is simply common sense. [5:40] And by the way, Europeans are turning against [5:43] the grand migration of the Middle East [5:47] and Islamic extremists into their countries. [5:50] Even Sweden is becoming much more anti-immigrant. [5:52] But of course, The Economist, which Ms. Bedsoe runs, [5:56] she's the editor-in-chief, they just loathe Trump. [5:58] In her own words, she told The Guardian, [6:00] I'm deeply liberal and said she was passionate [6:03] about pushing the agenda of social and economic liberalism. [6:07] And eight years later, blinded by Trump hatred [6:09] and left-wing ideology, The Economist endorsed [6:12] DEI dimwit Kamala Harris for president. [6:15] We wanted to make the case that we think [6:19] the risks posed by Donald Trump, [6:21] the second term for Donald Trump, [6:23] are unacceptably high, both for the U.S. and for the world. [6:27] What a hateful woman. [6:29] Now, the risks of an open border, [6:31] those weren't unacceptably high for Ms. Bedsoe [6:34] or the risks of losing our edge to China, [6:37] those weren't unacceptably high [6:39] because The Economist has been consistently [6:41] for open immigration and open markets. [6:44] essentially for creating a world where people [6:47] who cross borders are just as fungible [6:49] as the goods we trade. [6:51] Back in 2000, The Economist argued [6:53] that free trade with China would undermine communism, [6:57] calling it probably the best thing the West can do [7:00] to stack the odds against the regime. [7:02] Then in 2004, The Economist whiffed again, [7:05] calling outsourcing a myth, [7:07] and that outsourcing actually sustains American jobs. [7:12] So, doesn't it make you wonder with her track record, [7:15] how is The Economist still in business? [7:19] In the real world, where there are bad actors, [7:21] trade sheets, communists, terrorists, criminals, [7:24] the Economist positions are just indefensible. [7:28] So, it wasn't surprising that in this interview, [7:30] Ms. Beddows really didn't engage with Mosque on substance, [7:34] but instead took the lazy route with gotcha questions. [7:38] Are you anti-Muslim? [7:39] If people are coming to a country with antithetical views, [7:47] I am against that. [7:49] I'm against rape and murder. [7:51] I'm against the imposition of rules and laws [7:59] that are contrary to what we've come to accept in the West. [8:07] I think it's a crying shame [8:09] that the sort of traditional media like you [8:12] don't recognize this. [8:15] At that point, Elon should have just dropped the mic [8:19] and gone out for a beer, [8:21] and that's the angle. [8:22] All right. [8:23] All right. [8:23] Thanks for watching. [8:24] Check out my new podcast, [8:25] Hanging Out With Me, Sean Hannity. 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