WND Joins MRC In Demanding That You Don't Believe Your Eyes On Elon Musk's Salute -x

WorldNetDaily joined the Media Research Center in telling you not to believe your eyes regarding what we all saw Elon Musk do at a pro-Trump rally. David Brummer huffed in a Jan. 21 article that “it was not” a Nazi salute:

Leftists – and most prominently U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D–N.Y. – took to X in droves Monday night, following Elon Musk’s speech after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, claiming the tech billionaire had given a Nazi salute.

A clearly pumped and emotional Elon, while saying “My heart goes out to you,” touched his heart and immediately raised his right arm in appreciation of his audience. It was instinctive – and potentially not brilliantly thought-through. But a Nazi salute it was not.

However, the attempt by leftists and a corporate media whose ratings are in the toilet to equate Musk – and therefore, the whole MAGA movement with Nazism – shows they still haven’t learned the lessons from the crushing 2024 election defeat.

X was flooded with claims and counter-claims. Those defending Musk said it was a Roman salute, while also referencing his self-acknowledged position on the autism spectrum and his arm-raise was a misplaced expression of exuberance.

Meanwhile, others post images of members of the Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, side-by-side with Musk, claiming it was indeed a Nazi salute. Other accounts showed stills of four Democrat politicians – President Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and Hillary Clinton – with their right hands outstretched, showing that catching people in a certain pose can be twisted to suit a particular narrative.

Brummer also made sure to play whataboutism:

The overwrought reaction to Musk’s salute is all the more galling as Leftist politicians and their defenders in the media never raised a peep of protest against pro-Hamas supporters performing genuine Nazi salutes at their anti-Jewish rallies, promoting the actual genocide of Jews, both in the Jewish state and the world beyond. However, a neurodivergent person makes an inelegant gesture and they have no problem jumping up and down over it.

If a liberal had done the same thing, It’s highly doubtful that WND would give that person a pass for being “neurodivergent’ and “inelegant.”

From there, WND reposted a lot of outside right-wing content to reinforce the narrative it was tasked to promote:

Again: WND would never have devoted this much space to apologists if a liberal had been caught making a similar gesture.

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