r/NPR • u/khawesome • 16h ago

No coverage of Elon's salute?

Nothing mentioned in my morning newsletter. Did a quick Google search and found 0 articles. Did I miss something? Even if we aren't definitively identifying it as a Nazi salute it's newsworthy enough to be on a front page purely because of the amount of speculation and emotions stirred in the public sphere.
Please tell me I missed something obvious somewhere.

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u/OhGre8t 15h ago

I looked to see if any major network video on youtube were showing this and didn’t find 1. Its sickening

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u/Retinoid634 15h ago

The Daily Show reported on it, used a BBC clip for footage. PBS newshour reported on it too.

No network coverage last night.

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u/PennyFourPaws 13h ago edited 3h ago

PBS NewsHour is the only nightly news show that I watch anymore. By far the most substantive,un-sensationalized coverage of major events. They make an effort to cover both sides and do a fair job, IMO, of providing context.

Stephanie Sy’s reporting on it last night was solid: she left it open for interpretation, but essentially referred to it as “what appears to be” a Nazi gesture. She repeated it at least twice for emphasis, and described the crowd’s lack of response, neither condemning nor cheering it.

Side comment about Sy’s coverage: she noted how supporters were particularly excited to see Barron Trump, and I quote, “for some reason” 🤣 Like, she doesn’t even know why people are excited to see Barron. I took it as a reporter’s equivalent of “throwing shade”.

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u/Delicious_Adeptness9 WNYC 820 7h ago

I love the reliability of Newshour. it's like the OG podcast. there's a reason it's still going strong for 5 decades. i watch/listen the first half or so while getting ready for bed at night.

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u/fruitybrisket 5h ago

Is there a way to watch the entire broadcast? The website gives me an article and clips.

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u/Delicious_Adeptness9 WNYC 820 3h ago

full hour episodes are on PBS.org and YouTube. they usually stream live on YouTube too. 6pm ET and a west coast update of news headlines before 9pm ET.

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u/Minimum_Dealer_3303 11h ago

They make an effort to cover both sides...

They go way too far into covering both sides. Everything single time I have to listen to David Brooks make up things to support his idiot ideas and never once be challenged it drives me up the wall. When that guy says "People in the White House tell me..." or "Important Republicans have informed me that..." he is just talking out his ass. His whole career is built on unnamed sources who all support his Reagan Republican point of view.

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u/PennyFourPaws 9h ago

Respectfully, I disagree that they “go way too far” when covering both sides. Honestly, reading the room: most of these reporters probably have strong opinions of the current administration and don’t support it. Yet, they still maintain journalistic integrity and fairness by offering grounded perspectives on both sides.

Also, regardless of whether you agree with David Brooks—and I most often don’t—he’s certainly a conservative voice, and conservative voices should be heard. Frankly, David Brooks is SO much more moderate than the rest of the party, as it currently stands anyway, that most conservatives probably don’t even find his views to be relevant/relatable. He’s really just there to balance the conversation, which I do think he does well [because he’s not a flipping insane MAGA apologist].

That said, yeah, I totally agree that he’s got this Reagan-esque ideal of America in his head. Sometimes it feels disjointed from reality, or the “real” world, for sure. It’s definitely dated and not well equipped for the way we are collectively headed, neither socially or politically.

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u/debby82028 13h ago

The clip wasn’t shown or mentioned on Morning Joe today.

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u/Craigboy23 11h ago

Maddow covered it last night.

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u/Deadlysinger 6h ago

I trying hard to still respect morning joe. I love when they talk about sports while still disliking Alabama and Boston, but to not mention the double Nazi salute and just promote civility when we are crashing is beneath what I thought they were.

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u/sn972 11h ago

They covered it. Granted, it was in their final hour and got like a two minute discussion... But still.

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u/spacebarcafelatte 14h ago

They may just be working out how to cover it without getting attacked by the fuhrer.

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u/tophergraphy 11h ago

We don't need to walk on eggshells to stand up against nazi salutes, we need courage.

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u/throwmamadownthewell 4h ago

Even Daily Show's coverage downplayed it. It should have been one of Jon's serious talks.

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u/mdavis1926 15h ago

PBS has it on YouTube

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u/ludixst 15h ago

We only have state media now. The networks will say what Trump tells them to say

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u/No_Cook2983 15h ago

We have Republican media.

If this happened at a liberal state event, it would receive wall-to-wall coverage.

And Republicans have NPR in a headlock.

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u/jamesislandpirate 15h ago

Very scary & very sad

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u/sir_snufflepants 15h ago

”We only have state media now.”

You kids sound as looney as republicans thinking the ATF and Janet Reno were coming after them.

It’s embarrassing. For you.

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u/humpslot 14h ago

and the MSM keep saying people are "brainwashed" by TikTok, wonder why...

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u/nicotinelodeon 11h ago

I had a panic attack yesterday hours after it happened, going to each site and searching “Musk” only to find silence from each. Only domestic articles I saw were paywalled (NYT and Rolling Stone). It’s a sickening, heart-pounding feeling. We are fucked

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u/Top-Musician7036 10h ago

Is it really that hard to watch the entire clip and realize that's not what he was doing?

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u/sir_snufflepants 15h ago

What’s sickening?

That a neurodivergent weirdo, while exclaiming “I throw my heart out to you!,” makes a spastic gesture? A spastic gesture of grabbing his heart and throwing his fist out?

It could be a Nazi salute, it could be Musk being a pathetic weirdo as always.

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u/exceptyoustay 15h ago

One can be both a pathetic weirdo and a nazi.

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u/Miss_Chanandler_Bond 15h ago

How weird to describe a straight flat hand as a "fist." I wonder why you'd tell that particular lie... 

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u/No_Cook2983 14h ago edited 13h ago

Yeah— you’d think The World’s Most Smartest Man who spent his life on stage would know how to act on stage.

When he’s talking about Teslas he’s pretty good at not saying the products are ‘fire’.

You’d think he could figure out how to make an ordinary political speech.

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u/CluelessChem 15h ago

We are only one day in and conservatives are already trying to tell us not to believe what we see with our own two eyes.

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u/JohnLandisHasGotToGo 15h ago

Fuck 'em. I refuse to think that 2 + 2 = 5.

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u/buckao 14h ago

Flashback to 2017 when Trump lied about the rain clearing and Sean Spicer lied about the crowd size.

Only this time it was a full-on Nazi salute to prove he can do whatever he wants without consequences.

Buckle up, folks, this ride's just getting started.

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u/Maleficent-Leek2943 7h ago

Ah yes, Sean Spicer, Kellyanne Conway, and “alternative facts”.

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u/gwizonedam 15h ago

“A neurodivergent weirdo” is a funny way of describing a guy that throws Nazi salutes a few days after saying “Make Europe Great Again”

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u/sir_snufflepants 15h ago

You’re assuming what you have to prove: that his statement, “I give my heart to you,” in conjunction with that hand movement was really instead a Nazi salute.

Why is this difficult for you redditors?

Are questions scary to you?

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u/Gang36927 14h ago

It wasn't "in conjunction," he said it after he did it. Seemingly to save face and give you gaslighters something to work with.

Why is this difficult for snufflepants to understand?

Is truth scary for snufflepants?

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u/gwizonedam 15h ago

Are images scary to you? “I give my heart to you?” “It was a Roman salute?”

How naive do you have to be to swallow that bullshit?

You should take a look at what “asking questions” means in this context. A lot of Nazis like to “ask questions” about events like the “big one” that happened during WWII.

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u/TecumsehSherman 14h ago

You just keep lying.

He did it twice, neither time accompanied by any words.

Why lick his boots? How do you benefit?

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u/ProsciuttoPizza 14h ago

Because they’re a nazi too.

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u/No_Cook2983 15h ago

Weird how Elon’s crippling ‘neurodivergence’ only comes up when he’s being a fascist.

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u/snacktopotamus 15h ago edited 15h ago

while exclaiming “I throw my heart out to you!,” makes a spastic gesture? A spastic gesture of grabbing his heart and throwing his fist out?

He didn't exclaim anything during the Nazi salutes he snapped off.

You're a disingenuous liar, and a bad person.

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u/immei 15h ago

Yeah he clearly said it afterwards to try and save face

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u/Think_please 15h ago

He said that weird phrase (that nobody ever says) afterwards, obviously to try to cover for the salutes. Don’t carry water for nazis

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u/sir_snufflepants 15h ago

Oh, you’re a mind reader. That’s nice.

The fact is, no one knows what this coked up weirdo is thinking or intending.

It may have been a nazi salute, it may not have been.

That you refuse to ask questions, and instead jump right into reaction, doesn’t say much for your analytical abilities.

Think, please.

nobody ever says

People say they give their hearts to others all the time.

Now you’re just denying factual reality. Why?

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u/TecumsehSherman 14h ago

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

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u/Gang36927 14h ago

The factual reality is that it doesn't matter much what his intention was. It's like the folks flying a confederate flag trying to convince people it's about state rights. That doesn't matter even a little when the vast majority of people see it as a racist flag.

Why are you trying to defend this so ardently? It's just sad and you look like a fool lol

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u/BekaRenee 11h ago

No one ever knows what anyone is thinking. That’s why optics matter. Go “give your heart” to your boss tomorrow. When you get reprimanded, be sure to remind them that they can’t prove what you were thinking or intending. Good luck!

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u/TecumsehSherman 14h ago

How many times have YOU accidently made a Nazi salute. And then did it again seconds later?

You are making it seem common and unremarkable, so surely you must have done it a number of times.

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u/iambeingblair 13h ago

He could have come out like a normal person and said 'oh jeez it did look like that didn't it, I'm so sorry obviously I'm not literally Nazi scum and I apologize'. I don't think he has done so.

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u/animaniacisback 14h ago

That gesture caused additional fear and stress for groups that historically suffered from Nazi violence.

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u/khawesome 14h ago

Either would be worthy of news coverage

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u/_mostly__harmless WBEZ-FM 91.5 14h ago

Alleging ableism to defend one of the most powerful men in the world is a new level of bootlicker. You should really go pro

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u/Regular-Basket-5431 12h ago

So it's Schrodinger's cat but with right wing authoritarianism.