• Cosmic Cleric
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    322 months ago

    From the article…

    Musk appeared to accept the challenge, replying Tuesday to one user, “I will do it if the show airs unedited.”

    “The Daily Show” took notice, reposting the message Wednesday from its official account accepting the terms.

    • @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      292 months ago

      Unedited, streamed live.

      Though this does remind me of that asshole and wife abuser Steven Crowder bailing from a debate with Sam Seder.

      Seder took steps to make sure Steven was available and couldn’t just say, “oh I got a thing”, used Ethan from H3h3 to rope a dope him.

      And then came the showdown and Steven bailed.

  • punkisundead [they/them]
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    -52 months ago

    So they want to platform a fascist? Giving a nazi access to their audience which he normally wouldn’t reach? This guy is part of an ongoing coup and they want to give him primetime attention?

    They must think that they are very clever.

      • punkisundead [they/them]
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        32 months ago

        That dude is on of the most embarrassing men on earth right now. Just look at his Twitter account. You cant really emberass him any more than he already did himself.

        • @qprimed@lemmy.ml
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          82 months ago

          a top-of-his-game Jon Stewart would almost certainly make musk dance to a totally foreign (and illuminating) tune.

          remember this is the man who cancelled crossfire and sent tucker carlson packing.

          I think jon has more than enough left in the tank (backed by facts and razer sharp witt) to out musk for what he is. this is exactly why I will be shocked if musk actually shows up.

    • Chozo
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      42 months ago

      You can’t platform the richest man in the world.

  • breakfastmtn
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    The headline makes it sound like they were in talks with each other. Musk gave his “terms” to a random Twitter user. I seriously doubt this will happen. Stew beef would completely humiliate Musk and his mediocre white guy confidence wouldn’t save him.

    • Shadow
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      Too bad there’s no SEC to force him into the interview like when he offered to buy twitter.

  • JohnnyFlapHoleSeed
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    If anyone can do this it’s Jon Stewart. I know he’s mentioned on several occasions that he doesn’t have any political ambitions whatsoever, and he’s been true to his word. But sometimes circumstances allow great men to take great leaps, and on rare occasions, do great things.

    The fact that The Hill is already running a piece trying to play him off as a comedy star from an era that has all but vanished due to the corporate landscape, is all I need to know to believe what he has to say. They’re already trying to downplay and dismiss the results before they’ve occurred.

    What are the terms of the interview? Will it be in person in front of an audience, via webcast, in front of the burning reichstag, etc…

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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      2 months ago

      What are the terms of the interview?

      Musk just wants it to air unedited. Which means no matter what they do, he would be able to claim it was edited if things don’t go his way and he ends up looking like (an even bigger) fool.

        • @ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
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          82 months ago

          Do multiple cameras, but display them all continuously, and then do all the tricks people use to try to make it obvious no editing was done and put them in the foreground and background of all the angles.

          • @iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
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            Nah…He’d still play the it was edited bullshit. The only thing that is nearly impossible to defend is “it was edited while being played live”. There, his embarrassments are his own, and they’re very very hard to downplay to any other causes.

      • @Skyrmir@lemmy.world
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        62 months ago

        Just shows how stupid Elon is. Stewart is an accomplished interviewer, with the backup of being a comedian. Watch Stewart keep his composure after smashing his coffee cup the other night. He assessed the cut, laughed it off, and finished the monologue instantly. Elmo doesn’t have the composure to handle a problem like that.

          • @Skyrmir@lemmy.world
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            52 months ago

            Was real, they taped him up during the commercial to finish the interview. Probably just a minor cut, but at his age he’s probably on blood pressure, or heart meds, so small cuts bleed like crazy.

    • billwashere
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      32 months ago

      Fucking pay per view that shit. I’d pay $49.99 to watch that.

      • @iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
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        12 months ago

        That one should be a public service. Why limit it’s viewing rate when a lot of the country needs to view his idiocy fumbling for answers he obviously never thought of.

    • @lobut@lemmy.ca
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      For those that don’t know … Bill Burr called out billionaires and warned them for the shit they were pulling (or to be “put down like rabid dogs”).

      Elon “Free Speech” Musk basically restricted Bill’s Twitter account which Bill found funny because he hadn’t posted in months or years or something like that.

      Bill also doesn’t hold back and will roast the shit out of anyone and is really good at it. Elon “Man of the People” Musk is a thin-skinned little bitch that is awkward as fuck but acts tough online like all his “alpha-male” friends like when he acted like a bitch when Don Lemon called him out and then Elon “I’m the smartest man alive” Musk fired Don Lemon for doing so 'cause he’s a bitch.

  • @yesman@lemmy.world
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    Jon Stewart regularly hosts chuds like Bill O’Reliy. The reason these people keep going on his show is because he hasn’t held feet to fire.

    Stewart is steeped in neoliberalisim and both-sidesism, don’t be surprised if he pitches softballs.

  • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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    172 months ago

    I’m pretty sure every interview is segmented to run ads and if it goes badly then that will be his complaint. See! they cut it! They went to commercial but that’s when I Said Very Smart Things™ that They Don’t Want You To Hear™©® so I’m suing them to take the video down.

    • @qprimed@lemmy.ml
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      332 months ago

      you best believe jon is willing and able to release raw video of the entire thing.

      my money is on musk backing out - the same way he slunk off with his tail between his legs over the absolutely stupid “mma match” with that fool of a zuck(erberg)

      • @conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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        I wish he’d followed through. I am almost certain that even if Zuckerbot had set himself to stun, it would have been too much for Musk’s potato body to handle.

  • @Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    Elon won’t do it. He’s a pussy. He will back out and start calling Stewart a pedo on social media.

      • @Shapillon@lemmy.world
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        It should’ve been some kind of extreme badass death match deluxe: nobody gets out of the cage while any one of them is still breathing.

          • @Shapillon@lemmy.world
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            22 months ago

            I agree that “either” is more specific. And I don’t mind being reminded of it.

            Otoh “any” is defined as ∃ x and every definition I found explicitely specified that cardinality is irrelevant. Either then is a subset of any, not a separate category.

            So imho this isn’t a mistake and you’re way more unconditional than you should.

            PS: as long that everyone remains sufficiently mutually understandable we should adopt a descriptivist attitude towards languages instead of a prescriptivist one.

            PPS: Don’t get me started on language as a class marker. This is a threat. c:

    • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      182 months ago

      He could just go and say/do something that would prevent airing

      Then if they take it out it’s been edited

      • @5too@lemmy.world
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        I assume they’ll have to edit for length regardless - so I imagine they’re planning to make the unedited clip available online, like they’ve done with their other extended interviews. Lot less restrictions on what can air that way, too.

      • @assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world
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        I imagine he’ll go on and start dropping hard r’s and quoting mein kampf and when the daily show wants to beep it out he’ll throw a fit and send lawyers to block its release.

      • @bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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        42 months ago

        What is he going to do, whip his dick out? I’m confident someone would leak it even if it didn’t make it past S&P.

  • mycelium underground
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    “I will do it if the show airs unedited.”

    That’s the best outcome. Therefore he will be a scaredy musk and elon his way out of the show. Hopefully it will be like his attempt to elon his way out of buying shitter and we will get a full unedited interview and at least a couple of people might realize he is so full of shit and a damned junky.

    Edit: corrected autocorrect and my own spelling.

    • enkers
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      This’d be much much better. Even Joe Average can see muskrat is physically unfit, but his intellectual dishonesty is much easier to cover up.