Elon Musk is being defending online by some pretty notable figures, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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00:00Elon Musk and the fervent defense of that gesture that he made on inauguration, on the
00:08night of the inauguration.
00:10Not self-defense on his part, the defense of a lot of people in his orbit.
00:14A lot of people in his orbit and just people in general who feel like that was not a Nazi
00:20salute.
00:21You know, look, maybe you could say he got the biggest defense he could from the Prime
00:29Minister of Israel.
00:32Benjamin Netanyahu said Elon Musk is being falsely smeared.
00:36He's a great friend of Israel.
00:38He visited Israel after the October 7th massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst
00:42atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
00:44He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel's right to defend ... I'm sorry.
00:49This isn't the issue.
00:51You can see the rest of it.
00:52I'm not going to read the rest of it.
00:53I agree with you.
00:54I just don't feel it's the issue.
00:55Well, we should also tell you this is what Elon Musk said about this, and I think both
01:00of these quotes show what's really happening here.
01:02The radical leftists are really upset that they had to take time out of their busy day
01:05praising Hamas to call me a Nazi.
01:08Look, here's the thing.
01:10What's happened in this country is if you support one side, you support everything they
01:17do.
01:18If you oppose one side, it doesn't matter what they say.
01:21Even if it's something that's reasonable that you would otherwise agree with, you disagree
01:24with them.
01:26That's what happens.
01:27I mean, it's happening on cable news, by the way, and it happens in society.
01:30We've had this argument for more than a year now about the fact that you can defend Israel,
01:37or you can be against Israel as a state, and it doesn't make you anti-Semitic.
01:42You can also defend Israel as a state, but still do something that is very clearly a
01:48Nazi salute, and that's not okay.
01:50I got to say, at the very least, Elon Musk, rather than saying, oh, it's the left that's
01:57doing this, it's like, no, look at the imagery and just say, look, I didn't mean it, I know
02:04what it looks like, I'm sorry.
02:05It looked like it, but it wasn't a Nazi salute.
02:11Because he said it, Harvey, and you've got ... I know what a lot of people want it to
02:15be.
02:16I didn't want, no.
02:17I did not want it to be that.
02:18Mike, this is not about what I want it to be.
02:19I don't care.
02:20The next line is, my heart goes out to you.
02:22We did not even write that in our post.
02:24He says, my heart goes out to you.
02:25The next line, we didn't include it.
02:28The Donald Trump's Nazi stuff didn't stick.
02:30Are you saying that Elon Musk is not an intelligent enough man to know that you can say, my heart
02:36goes out to you, and not do what he did, and I'm not going to repeat it, because I'm smart
02:41enough to know what that is.
02:43Are you saying that Elon Musk is not smart enough to know what that is?
02:46Of course Elon Musk is smart enough, and I'm sure he knows that it did look like it, and
02:51that's why it's funny.
02:52And why has he not said that?
02:53But why not just say that?
02:54What do you want to hear him say?
02:56How about, look, I know what that looked like.
02:58It wasn't meant to be that.
02:59Sorry.
03:00Just leave it at that.
03:01Instead, he made it political.
03:02He made it political.
03:03He made it political.
03:04And it's not political, Mike.
03:05But it looked like it.
03:06It is political, though.
03:07But it looked ...
03:08It is political.
03:09Actually, it's not, Mike.
03:10It's like, if you look online, there are plenty of people who are actually Republicans who
03:14feel like that was a Nazi salute.
03:17I could ...
03:18It doesn't mean that you ...
03:19Give me 20 seconds on my computer.
03:21I will give you 10 people who have criticized Elon Musk, who have made the same hand gestures.
03:27He's an awkward person.
03:28It looked bad.
03:30I don't like the way it looked at all, but the bottom line is it was not a Nazi salute.
03:35It was not.
03:36Please tell me.
03:37Can we stop with this?
03:38I'll accept what you're saying.
03:39I totally will accept what you're saying.
03:41He didn't want to do a Nazi salute.
03:44It didn't look like it.
03:45And it was a high profile thing.
03:47And it upset people.
03:49Just say ...
03:50Who did it upset, Harv?
03:51Me.
03:52But if his intent was to do a Nazi salute, of course, I will be the first person.
03:57No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
03:58I promise you I'll be the first person.
03:59We're not talking about his intent.
04:00And I'm not talking about his intent, Mike.
04:02That's not the issue.
04:03We're talking about the perception of it.
04:04We're talking about what he did.
04:07I could just perceive what you just did, Harv, sticking your arm out then as a Nazi salute.
04:11It wasn't.
04:12You didn't stick it out that way.
04:14I could put my arm out, but not the way he did.
04:17And I'm just saying, I'm not ...
04:18I just don't know what you're arguing about here.
04:20I don't get it.
04:21I'll accept everything you're saying.
04:23But when you watch that video, it's like, ugh, hey, if I'm Elon, I didn't mean ... I
04:30know the way that looked.
04:31I'm sorry.
04:32It was just a gesture I made.
04:33Had nothing more than that.
04:35I'm sorry.
04:36I mean, done, over, right?
04:39And now it's political.
04:41And now it's, you know, the Prime Minister of Israel is getting involved.
04:45And I feel like, in a way, he loses credibility because of that.
04:49The Prime Minister.
04:50I mean, I just think it's ... sorry.
04:52Hi, I'm Marie from Richmond, Virginia.
04:56And Elon Musk knows better.
04:59He's a public figure.
05:01And that's not the first time he's been on a massive stage like that.
05:05And perception is everything.
05:07I grew up indoctrinated into learning about Holocaust history.
05:12And this just feels like we're about to be publicly gaslit for the next four years.
05:17Yeah.
05:18I don't know.
05:19What's the other thing?
05:20What are you going to believe?
05:21Me or your lion eyes?
05:22Yeah.