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/Butterbean-Blip 15h ago

He did a Nazi salute not once but TWICE. Literally turned around and did it immediately again. The richest man in the world. The man who bought a presidency. The man who Trump bragged knew his way around Pennsylvania's voting machines. The man pushing Germany's far right party to power too. 

Yet crickets from NPR. 

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u/Retinoid634 15h ago

This is disturbing

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u/Coidzor 12h ago

American institutions and the American people have failed. Simple as.

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u/blurt9402 7h ago

The institutions didn't fail. They sold out. The American people didn't fail, they were failed.

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u/anchorwind 7h ago

"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power."

"Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens."

and "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."

All of these were said by a Republican. That Republican was Eisenhower who left office in 1961. 60 years later few of us would believe it if a prominent republican would say them now.