Multi-billionaire and Twitter proprietor Elon Musk argued that leftists person "no consciousness of humor" due to the fact that their worldview is "premised connected a lie," during an interrogation with parody tract the Babylon Bee.
"The essence of drama is to uncover the truth. A hidden information that radical recognize intuitively oregon explicitly, and there’s that infinitesimal of revealed, kernel of often unacknowledged truth. And successful that unacknowledged information is the humor," Musk said successful the interrogation posted to Twitter Wednesday.
"If you’re premised connected a lie, you tin nary longer beryllium funny, due to the fact that there’s nary revealed truth," helium added.

Multi-billionaire and Twitter proprietor Elon Musk argued that leftists person "no consciousness of humor" due to the fact that their worldview is "premised connected a lie," successful an interrogation with parody tract The Babylon Bee. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
That’s the reason, Musk said, that galore liberals aren’t funny.
"A batch of radical connected the near person nary consciousness of humor. They’re not funny. If determination are truthful galore no-fly zones that you person to debar each the clip past there’s thing near to marque amusive about."
Musk has often travel nether onslaught from wide media sources and salient journalists for jokes that helium has made connected and disconnected of Twitter. Most recently, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed retired astatine Musk for allowing a parody relationship making amusive of her to beryllium connected Twitter.
"FYI there’s a fake relationship connected present impersonating maine and going viral. The Twitter CEO has engaged it, boosting visibility. It is releasing mendacious argumentation statements and gaining spread. I americium assessing with my squad however to determination forward. In the meantime, beryllium cautious of what you see," she wrote.
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Musk besides took much shots astatine National Public Radio (NPR) during the interrogation with Babylon Bee. "I deliberation they got to propulsion their punches erstwhile critiquing the authorities astatine NPR. Just a guess, based connected their utmost dependence connected authorities funding."
"You don't mostly wound the manus that feeds you," Musk said.
NPR's relationship was labeled "state-affiliated media" earlier this period earlier Twitter changed the outlet's label to "government-funded media."
"If we're going to telephone immoderate media state-affiliated, well, there's plentifulness of organizations successful the West that are state-affilated. So past we should use the statement equally," Musk explained.

Musk took much shots astatine NPR during the interrogation with Babylon Bee. "I deliberation they got to propulsion their punches erstwhile critiquing the authorities astatine NPR. Just a guess, based connected their utmost dependence connected authorities funding." ( (Left: Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images/ Right: REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo))
The Babylon Bee, which archetypal posted its interrogation with Musk exclusively connected Twitter, is different tract that has been criticized for utilizing wit to face leftist narratives connected politics, civilization and religion. Notably, the relationship was reinstated by Musk aft helium completed his takeover of Twitter.
The satire tract was kicked disconnected Twitter for 8 months aft it jokingly awarded its "Man of the Year" grant for 2022 to Dr. Rachel Levine, who identifies arsenic a transgender female.
"We're back. Let that descend in," The Bee wrote, a notation to Musk hauling a descend into Twitter office aft helium took implicit the site.
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Fox News’ Gabriel Hays and Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
Jeffrey Clark is an subordinate exertion for Fox News Digital. He has antecedently served arsenic a speechwriter for a furniture caput and arsenic a Fulbright teacher successful South Korea. Jeffrey graduated from the University of Iowa successful 2019 with a grade successful English and History.
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