Ian Hislop: 'We should have got on to Elon Musk earlier'

Ian Hislop's unvarnished opinion on controversial billionaire Elon Musk #LBC #politics #elonmusk #ianhislop #Shorts

[@CyberController-]

It's the peak of irony that Musk brands himself and his platform as some kind of truthful news source, then turns around and blocks people's accounts when they post stories he doesn't like.

[@armondtanz]

Hislop talking about a smear campaign whilst sitting in an establishment who outsource and commission smear campaigners on a huge scale. Peak peak irony.

[@CyberController-]

@armondtanz LBC? I've always found them to be frustratingly impartial. Like, why do they need to let Reform on their show once a week? Nothing worth hearing from them.

[@armondtanz]

@CyberController- wow. Sum days I wish I was doomb as u. Here I am pulling my hair out wondering what's happening to our once great country and then theres you who just need hot choc choc and a warm blankie and a "shush their plebonian we'll think on behalf of you" from a mother like figure. You should start a sub stack writing how to devote yourself to someone else and give up all autonomy in a cult like enterprise.

[@zoranblackie5921]

​@CyberController- if they were fully impartial they have Ed Davey on weekly, instead of just when Elon Musk childishly insults him

[@zoranblackie5921]

​@armondtanz please regale us with evidence of commissioning smear campaigns?

[@smith2781]

I remember a couple of years ago I was watching a Joe Rogan podcast. The guest on there was talking about his neighbour who worked for Tesla and Elon fired him because he was in the hospital while his wife was giving birth to their first child and Elon wanted him in the office.

[@brianferguson7840]

Would anyone's lives really be in any way worse if Twitter and Facebook didn't exist any more ? 🤔(Serious Question)

[@tonybrett5209]

Twitter doesn't exist. Facebook keeps people in touch. Sad but true.

[@Alex-on-youtube]

A very small minority would be worse off. There are charities that work through facebook and it helps keep people in touch over the years. Twitter... not so much...

[@MyCastleHepworth]

I’ve never used either,and am better off for it.

[@JohnUk65]

Yeah, we would lose the truth!

[@rob8049]

​@JohnUk65 Facebook and twitter are not reliable sources

[@perm4125]

As usual, Hislop is completely on the ball. Thank you Ian for stating the truth and obvious. 👏🙏

[@aleph8888]

Everyone liked Musk until he started supporting free speech. The EU even has a contract with SpaceX to launch its satellites.

[@bern2076]

hislop seems quite upset about musk bringing up child abuse in england how very odd

[@J-sy9kt]

@@bern2076you mean the chap that has worked for the BBC for the last 30 years? No, never!

[@MaryPester]

The world is a scary place with the likes of Musk and trump allowed to walk around doing and saying what they want, when they want.

[@bern2076]

@ grow up mary

[@missizaskun]

A correct analysis by Mr Hislop

[@cjwhiterabbit1]

I'm sure at some point the venerable Mr.Hislop wants to retire to private life ; but for the sake of the nation ) and press / political accountability who's gonna pick up the baton ... bear in mind The Eye was on VIP Covid Contract Lanes (called out the shadiness of Mone, Hancock's mate, etc from day 1) , Bojo's general unsuitability for any public office (too many to list here ; infedility, complicity in planned violence against journalist, fabrication of facts for publication ~ and got fired for it ) , the failings of Truss / Sunak et al let alone the torch they carried for a decade over the Post Office Scandal ... This man has been a stalwart paragon of TRUTH above and beyond his services to HIGNFY

[@jeffreyheeks]

Absolutely spot on. Though sadly no criminal charges against any he has exposed. Yet, criminality seems to be part of the establishment machine. No one is ever accountable.

[@jeffreyheeks]

@@Rory_B_Bellowes like? PPE? Corruption? Criminality? Ten's of thousands of deaths? Meeting KGB agents without security detail? Decorating flats? Partying whilst the country was not allowed to see loved ones at the final stages of life? Illegally paroging parliament? Lying to the monarch? Crashing the economy? Brexit disaster? Bankrupting the country? Post office? Grooming gangs report? Doing nothing. Pumping huge amounts of money into track and trace farce? Baroness mony taking millions with her husband? What is it labour is responsible for at this stage???

[@craigcharlesworth1538]

The Eye seriously blotted their copybook with their MMR coverage. But they're right far more often than they're wrong.

[@britpackdog4545]

Nah

[@robsengahay5614]

The responses from the mindless Musk sycophants and cult followers was entirely predictable.

[@JesusHChrist-q9d]

Half of them are AI generated.

[@balonius]

Ian Hislop is my hero. That’s how middle aged I am.

[@milohenry1233]

😂

[@Emelina2025]

Those who've been around longer than his new 3form bestie have always known how sensitive he is. Remember the tantrum he threw at the disabled worker who had to ask him on twitter if he still had a job because no one was responding to his private emails?

[@lesonline2268]

How sad you are more like.

[@armondtanz]

He should of got the part in the oliver hardy & stan laurel movie. Coogan done him rotten.

[@QPO5555]

Shieeeet in that case the uk is really fked. Does lying through your front teeth also a part of being middle aged😭😂

[@tendecades007]

The Thai incident put me off him forever.

[@arafathabib111]

For me, it was his public outrage against Covid restrictions because his share values were falling due to those restrictions/lockdown. That told me that this guy possessed 0 morality, 0 empathy.

[@pauln6803]

​@@arafathabib111 It's utterly amazing that a billionaire that has bought his way into government is charged with reducing US government spending, yet it was actually government subsidies that helped Tesla expand and is the sole reason that SpaceX can exist!

[@redacted9290]

Oh,convid 😂

[@JayzVeez]

What was the Thai incident?

[@tendecades007]

@@JayzVeez search thai cave rescue.

[@chrisspeakman8114]

We have to protect Hislop at all costs

[@mike-myke22]

We're doomed. Idiocracy is now a thing.

[@EileenHall-j9f]

Well said, a bit of sound intellectual analysis, trouble is it’s in short supply.

[@LICKSTERxx]

Sounds like an establishment gatekeeper panicking

[@JayzVeez]

​@@LICKSTERxxsounds like another Musk cultist

[@BradLevangie]

Why is anyone paying attention to musk.....he's rich....he's in no way qualified to give political opinion

[@TimsterUnion]

Also, it's painful to watch him orate.

[@RichardBeard-zs8rm]

Politicians aren’t even qualified to give political opinions.

[@Ironmonkeynuts]

Who is qualified? journalist? activists? satirists? Only them?

[@medalion1390]

You answered your own question: he’s rich. And unfortunately to a lot of people, that’s the equivalent of being intelligent.

[@andishawjfac]

He's literally advising the most powerful politician on the planet and is very soon going to be a government employee. Why should we NOT pay attention exactly?

[@user-kf1he2pk3l]

Ian Hislop right as usual.

[@michaelkemp6857]

The voice of sanity!

[@KelculesIII]

Elon called Vernon Unsworth (Cave Diver who saved lives), The Peado Guy. Yet Elon owns "X" which is rife with CSAM and is complicit in its distribution. Simple as that.

[@SteveSlaughter-ko2uv]

😂 That’s funny. You’re funny.

[@KelculesIII]

@SteveSlaughter-ko2uv Funny coz it's true! But then again, not funny as it is true!

[@woodlandbiker]

A lot of Labour lean that way too. google labour 25+51. All found guilty in a court of law.

[@RevolutionibusOrbiumCoelestium]

@@woodlandbiker what’s the weather like over there in Moscow?

[@woodlandbiker]

@@RevolutionibusOrbiumCoelestium lm English. If you don't believe Google labour 25+51. Everyone of them have been found guilty in a court of law. All links to the court cases are on this list. Cope.

[@debrathompson1972]

Speak to Raja Miah MBE, an Oldham Muslim who has been speaking out for years on these atrocities and has numerous death threats because of it. He has given out a lot of information that makes your jaw drop.

[@lyndadonoghue9637]

Brave man

[@hecateswolf6007]

I’ve beard of him he’s a brave man who’s battled alone to expose council corruption and the grooming gangs

[@peazedtea1963]

Agree 100% with Ian Hislop.

[@MARKVERNON-l7e]

How to we wean ourselves off his platforms, I told my daughter something wasn’t true, her retort was it must be, I saw it on the internet. Scary, especially if it comes from a Musk outlet.

[@arafathabib111]

Need an alternative to X/Twitter

[@medalion1390]

It’s bad enough when the phrase used to be “It must be, I saw it on TV” but at least then there was a modicum of checks and balances.

[@brandonc2333]

I remember when people used to laugh at the idea of getting their information from the internet and social media. Now its all people do. Ignorance and manipulation got Trump elected and is building up Farage. Its terrifying

[@nrawe2]

My belief is that it's simpler than that: the more antagonistic he is, and his platform in general is, the more people will talk about it and the more revenue will come to him. It's the basest form of marketing dressed up in tails.

[@JesusHChrist-q9d]

Half the people have left and it's just a far right echo chamber now though. That will be fun for a while but fascism always ends up playing out badly and this time will be no different.

[@TheHiddenite]

also let's all ban Twitter in uk and Facebook

[@ghost-anon]

until they put in place serious fact checkers, ban extremists and safe gaurd children, something they claim to care about they should be banned from the UK... along with tik tok if that goes down the same route, only social platforms that implement this should be allowed.

[@stuartbaines2843]

Well said Ian 👍😀

[@Writhty-rw6cy]

You are spot on Ian!

[@SteveSlaughter-ko2uv]

About what?

[@willyhill7509]

If the MSM hadn't covered for the Government for 50 years we wouldn't need alternative sources of information.

[@AndrewLakeUK]

what does the s stand for?

[@crncrn6370]

@@willyhill7509 does alternative mean incorrect?

[@gordonstrong5232]

​@@crncrn6370 Oftentimes Alternative media has shown itself to be massively biased, dishonest, partisan and opaque, it certainly hasn't lived up to the hype.

[@scots_knight4706]

The majority of alternative media like for example Alex Jones is driven by making money with little regards to the facts, he knew he was lying about the school shooting but some sort of conspiracy pulls in an audience.

[@NoName-cu4gr]

The billionaires want their own voice and noone elses heard... be very careful what you wish for.

[@TheHiddenite]

ian hishop a man of Reason 👏🏼✊🏼

[@GregoryBreen-e9c]

Go tell it as it is. Ian, you tell the truth

[@greenberry6019]

Oh, some of us have been wise to him even since before that. For example, he once pitched a news platform on Twitter that would be immune to fake news, because the users would be able to vote on the veracity of articles. Imagine... And even worse, he wanted to call it "pravda"... the utter clown!

[@aacmove]

We can all avoid him if we stop mentioning him.

[@kriskeeling6243]

Ian hislop what you saying about Julian Assange, precisely why the world needs these people to expose the TRUTH

[@danielx8]

Elon Musk doesn't know anything about the TRUTH

[@geoffpegler4506]

​@@danielx8👌

[@fahmad7194]

X is a con 😡

[@benneave-ck1ti]

We’ve got one over here called Farage. The more he lies the more people like him

[@SteveSlaughter-ko2uv]

Could list some of the lies? Maybe your top 10 for each person?

[@JesusHChrist-q9d]

@@SteveSlaughter-ko2uv No because I've tried posting 4 replies to your question and youtube are censoring them. Well done. 👏👏

[@Emelina2025]

Hislop is 100% right. Gets even harder to avoid when you've got media outlets reporting on every little thing Melon does.

[@keithbrandon3660]

He has no power over me.

[@traditionalateliers]

The current situation in US reminds me of the Omen III

[@MichaelHirst-w3s]

Yeh Joe Biden in charge what a nightmare

[@dotmurphy7279]

As a citizen of USA I hope I get to tell him what I think of him. I ain't gonna pay to get on twit to tell him.

[@rowdysaudy]

Whoever conceived Ian Hislopp has alot to answer for...

[@kennethrollo7891]

Elon gorbels

[@EwanMacKeachan]

Spot on.

[@Greedygoblingames]

Dictator Musk and first lady Trump 😂 they shall probably both come to a sticky end

[@logos9434]

Leave this rotten app and he can say what he likes and we don't have to suffer it.

[@Ian-c5o]

He's basically describing every politician that ever lived

[@nbb6609]

“The only people who notice anything are those sat in their bedrooms” this is exactly where we are today. Expertise and facts are given the same weighting as opinions and conspiracy theories! We are doomed.

[@jowen001]

He's turned out to be a mega-deplorable

[@cmmbac]

that is why so many in Murikkka love the guy

[@petersimms4982]

His slop needs to be a government advisor 😊

[@SteveCopps]

I used to think,when I heard Elon Musk mentioned,that it was a kind of aftershave! I honestly did!!!

[@frankshailes3205]

Well he does smell.

[@jillprice8507]

Voice of reason.

[@englishbob9492]

I’m not a Musk fan but he’s currently doing the job that Ian Hislop should have been doing. How far we have fallen.

[@teddansonLA]

Musk is not doing any job here. He's simply using the most incendiary topic to slur Labour ministers. Musk has revealed nothing that hasn't been known in public for at least 10 years, so if you only found out now, then that's your problem.

[@clairrollings3988]

This is wonderful to watch,thr establishment sqirming and screeching over the truth being exposed,its like dropping salt on slugs!😂

[@sandiee6637]

Exactly 😂

[@jillprice8507]

@clairrollings3988 not read Private Eye then? Establishment is the last thing you would call Hislop. Try actually informing yourself & l don’t say that nastily, but too many have uninformed opinions & don’t search for truth. The targets Farage & Musk aim for.

[@toowoo6770]

What truth? Everyone knows the situation and have known for years as it's been in the public domain. So suddenly acting all horrified about the abuse now is fu**ing pathetic. Musk is exploiting the abuse of children to gain political influence and you are giving it to him for some fu**ed up reason.

[@TheSuzberry]

Hislop is a hero.

[@HarpoonB2]

Elog is just like Dump, its all projection and confession.

[@bibibrin5035]

Serious sociopaths and psychopaths now occupying the White House give us chills 🥶😡

[@Worldgonecrazy2]

It’s easy to avoid musk.

[@DavidDingley]

Hislop? Is he the bloke that used to be slightly amusing on HIGNFY?

[@andylane247]

Editor of Private Eye.

[@lyndadonoghue9637]

He's still amusingly intelligent on HIGNFY

[@dp7580]

Yeah, the guy that was talking about the post office scandal way before ITV. The guy who exposed some of Welby’s mates. You know, that Hislop?

[@andylane247]

@@DavidDingley Back under the bridge...

[@spezzington]

That's the one. Then it went all woke. Sad really. Used to be hilarious.

[@SC-ys9or]

IH a rare voice of sanity and decency

[@lisadefries6718]

Yep it’s almost better it’s not true for his purposes. World needs to recall what Fascism is and check History books before we are at the point of no return

[@JesusHChrist-q9d]

Some of us did and were told "He's funny though, isn't he?"

[@robinlee28]

Running scared if you ask me. Because that is a description of the legacy media. Soon to be over.

[@jimcourt9164]

Who funds nearly every single private radio station in U.K., Capital, Heart, Smooth , Gold and LBC.. Lord Allen of Kensington.. a labour Luvvy

[@kingflynxi9420]

Sure. You'd be shocked how many tory spox and right wing columnists have held high level jobs in the BBC.

[@capitalb5889]

LBC had Farage as a presenter for ages, and has plenty of right leaning presenters.

[@grandmaskeate6279]

Maybe the government should consider banning twitter in the UK until it all calms down Can do the same with bitchbook, instagram and threads If everyone stops buying Tesla cars and solar equipment that would also help send a very strong message Carry on Ian

[@scarboroughrider]

People arnt in there bedrooms they are out on the streets witnessing the complete and utter shambles this once great country has become . Open your eyes hislop and get out those trendy London restaurants you mumble your gazpacho soup in.

[@---Tre---]

Are you all ready to abolish Billionaires yet?

[@JesusHChrist-q9d]

We need to get a Luigi in

[@sandiee6637]

Like Soros and Gates etc....

[@JesusHChrist-q9d]

@@sandiee6637 Yea... What a silly question.

[@---Tre---]

@alfsmith4936 That's all conservatives have.

[@---Tre---]

@@sandiee6637 ALL OF THEM!!!

[@the_famous_reply_guy]

Thunderf00t has been calling him out from day one! A real scientist.

[@stevebubbs]

The only difference between him and Murdoch is the platform they own.. Musk is just emulating that, and nobody made as much fuss.. if we stopped Murdoch early, this probably wouldnt be happening now

[@SteveSlaughter-ko2uv]

The Left: “Hey he’s doing what we’ve been doing for years.. get him!”

[@gordonstrong5232]

Yeah, no.

[@damianglenn2565]

They just don’t like being found out

[@harryross9377]

Ian Hislop used to be great. Now he is an establishment poster boy.

[@robsengahay5614]

Oh. Are you just upset because he has criticised the moronic Musk. Be a free thinker, not a cultist.

[@harryross9377]

​@@robsengahay5614No I'm not upset. If you listened to Hislop 15 years ago he was a straight talking that always questioned the government and the establishment. Now he is a Starmer poster boy who pebbles woke ideology and defends labour at every turn.

[@robsengahay5614]

@ Have you considered the possibility that he hasn’t changed but that you have? If you read Private Eye or listen to him objectively you will hear him critique all politicians of all persuasions as he did 15 years ago. There is a tendency as we age to get more right wing and then perceive bias where we didn’t before.

[@JesusHChrist-q9d]

You're the one sticking up for the government..

[@ab8588]

Sort of how the first world media talks about governments in Latin America or Africa ?

[@alisonhill137pll]

I agree. He’s clearly a brilliant man in many respects but power goes to peoples heads and I think this is what’s happened here

[@heathermarsh3425]

Amazing man Ian Hislop

[@fawfulBeans]

And now he has direct access to the US bank account.

[@JohnNaylor-x4x]

My wife nor i use either, and no intensions of changing that

[@Derpfriar]

the MSM have had the same power coluding with government and the wealthy. The issue is that just one man has that power now.

[@supremeworld87]

How does he have power?

[@brendanwalding9892]

Agree with you Ian... 😢

[@cactusimon]

It is sooooo easy to avoid him. Turn off your devices and go outside.

[@danb7040]

It's -5c

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Where was Hislop over lockdowns, the "cures" and what happened in the 2020 US election? I think that tells you everything you need to know about him and Private Eye.

[@andylane247]

@alphabetaxenonzzzcat The Earth is a sphere. Covid-19 isn't caused by 5G towers. We went to the moon in 1969. Those white trails in the sky are frozen jet engine exhausts NOT government chemicals. Hope this helps. Plus you could join your local library.

[@kingflynxi9420]

He was likely criticising the dodgy PPE deals, and how Trump tried to overthrow a fair and democratic election on January 6th 2021.

[@capitalb5889]

Your question tells us the all we need to know 🤔. How strange

[@andylane247]

@alphabetaxenonzzzcat We went to the moon in 1969. 5G towers do not cause Covid-19. The Earth is a sphere. Those white trails in the sky are frozen jet engine exhausts NOT government chemicals. Hope this helps...

[@glennisfryd]

Well don't give him the oxygen of publicity then.

[@bern2076]

hislop seems quite upset elon brought up the subject of child abuse in england how very odd?

[@spezzington]

Interesting level of polarisation going on here. That seems to be an LBC objective these days. Let's face it, Hislop brings his bias to the game, Musk brings his immaturity to the game, and we all get caught up in the wake rather than focusing on the real issue. Genius distraction from the real issues. Congrats LBC.

[@IMP1963]

Hislop has lost the plot and very woke 😮

[@JulieLevinge]

Amazing feat of deception, by the world’s richest man! Yet people follow him like 🐑 to the slaughter!?

[@ryanwalters6184]

It's like they're talking about Trump. They should have went after him when he was on their side. 😂😂😂

[@thetruth1167]

I trust Musk over Hislop everyday of the week

[@garydunne1692]

And over LBC

[@richardgroves8565]

Well said

[@TheShmoo123]

If musk needs a task….he could go and sort South Africa out, then once he’s done that, he could reach out to the rest of the World…..but until then, mind your own business!

[@mrkayero]

He may be this or that however he has made the mistake of over exposure , his star is about to explode he should be exiled to his beloved mars

[@NaseemAkhtar-um7eo]

Sad people and losers sit in their bedrooms and tweet messages of lies and hate. Keyboard COWARDS not keyboard Warriors. Nothing heroic about these people. It might come as a surprise to these losers but there is a World full of love and truth if you care to look for it.

[@finchy-the-slug3848]

Old media crying till the end 😂

[@GarethWaith]

Well He is the X man😮

[@Alan-qe2qb]

Hislop you push your own narrative

[@monkeyboy8424]

I'm no fan of Tommy Robinson, but I'm less a fan of injustice. Robinson is in jail on a CIVIL matter. He has not been attacked, but is kept in solitary confinement as extra punishment.

[@geoffpegler4506]

I think you will find, if you could be bothered with facts, that he is in solitary confinement for his own protection.

[@gordonstrong5232]

He's in jail for blatant contempt of court, and in solitary confinement to keep him safe, not extra punishment. Defamation is against the law. If you lose a defamation case, you can't just repeat the defamation without consequences. If people were able to do that, it would effectively legalise defamation because there'd be no repercussions.

[@monkeyboy8424]

@gordonstrong5232 Your reply has no basis in law. He has not been attacked in jail and has not requested solitary confinement protection. He is there entirely as extra punishment - an injustice. Clearly, you are not impartial.

[@gordonstrong5232]

​@@monkeyboy8424 Nonsense. But fine, put him in gen pop and see what happens.

[@monkeyboy8424]

@@gordonstrong5232 Reply after you have listened to Robinson's recent phone call posted on KZbin. Until then, remain uninformed and in agreement with Keir Stalin's two tier, oppressive regime.

[@linlew4222]

I think you have to take into consideration that he's bipolar. Although it's no excuse for trying to influence European and UK politics

[@Jacobdaddy.12]

Ian Hislop so far woke left he’s left hand down going around in circles 😂😂

[@gordonstrong5232]

Try that again in English.

[@keefwolfson]

Sold his soul to the BBC years ago.

[@GloriaHoulihan]

I have not seen Lily Moo or Ayaan Hirsi Ali mentioned in the MS press. Am I wrong?

[@bobthompson3739]

The main man

[@stuartr2764]

When did Hislop become such a corporate BBC type gaslighter? Some years ago I guess - but anyone who denies the games the MSM have been playing is either a fool of complicit. And Hislop’s no fool…

[@Ahuman1-o1y]

This is what frustrates me, Musk has clearly either gone loopy or is distracting us from something else, but to link it with the idea that pivots with the idea mainstream media presents anything like useful unbiased news, is a false dichotomy. Sadly posh Hislop is now as out of touch as the rest, and even his brand of satire is out of date, living within the current framing.

[@leeanderson242]

Hislop...clueless and smug as usual.

[@jamesnewman7658]

Yeh .....and Elon is so accurate ...not

[@allanjones4915]

Intelligent and accurate...beyond your comprehension Lee...😂

[@Jonbob-v5s]

Boohoo you lefts😅😅😅