Elon Musk is no freedom fighter, but he does stray from allowable opinion at times, especially when he goes after the mainstream media.
Case in point, Musk sat down for an interview with “60 Minutes,” and the program took the opportunity to selectively edit the interview.
Musk points out in this tweet:
This is a very misleading edit. Please post the full transcript where I complete the sentence.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2018
Thankfully, someone got their hands on the full transcript, and this is what was said:
“Yes…handpicked her? I asked for a chair, and the rest of the board was very supportive of that.”
“I mean that’s not realistic because I am the largest shareholder in the company and a very high percentage of the shareholders support me and the company. So essentially I could just pull for a shareholder vote and get anything that I want provided I could get support for at least a 1/3 of the other shareholders. Not certain, but likely. At the end of the day the shareholders pull the vote.”
Why anybody bothers with taped interviews is perplexing. If you ever participate in an interview with a major news network that is known to distort facts, mislead the people, and report fakes news, do so when it’s live.
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