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Episode 600: Pressing Pause

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Politics, Charles C. W. Cooke, Conservatism, Conservative, Policy, Government, News, Jim Geraghty, Rich Lowry, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Current Events, Noah Rothman, Madeleine Kearns, Society & Culture, Public Policy, National Review

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Noah, Jim, and Charlie discuss Media Matters' spat with X, the pause in fighting in Gaza, and the latest bad polling for Joe Biden

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0:20.0

Elon Must Elon Musk loses the plot, a ceasefire in Gaza and Biden's birthday inferno. We'll discuss all that and more on this, the 600th episode of the editors.

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I'm Noah Rothman, Rich is out today.

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In his absence, we're joined by Charles C.W. Cook and Jim Garrity. You are of course listening to a National Review

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So Elon Musk finds himself in a bit of hot water, famous for his relative lack of impulse control on the internet.

1:04.7

The CEO of TwitterX, whatever we choose to call it today, SpaceX, the boring company,

1:10.6

and a variety of other very successful commercial ventures

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encountered a tweet that read the following.

1:16.0

Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred

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against whites. They claim they want people to stop using against them.

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To which Musk replied, you have said the actual truth. The universe came down around his shoulders after that one and that

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should have. This is a pretty classic anti-Semitic trope, the idea that Jews hate

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whites and rather therefore there should be some solidarity movement among white people to coalesce against the nefarious influence of the Jewish peoples with whom they're surrounded.

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And it dovetails a little bit with something that I think has the left on edge because

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as we've seen this explosion of anti-Semitism on the left in college campuses in the streets,

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we've seen a reciprocal phenomenon on the right between some of the

2:05.7

rights more provocative influencers, some of whom are retailing pretty medieval

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stuff. This idea about Jews having some particular hatred

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towards Christians and oddly Muslims as being Christians, Christianity's

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