Sam Harris Buries Elon Musk for ‘Defaming’ Him in Rant to Bill Maher: ‘This Is Why We’re No Longer Friends’
Author and podcast host Sam Harris told comic, pundit, and podcast host Bill Maher he’s “no longer friends” with Elon Musk because Musk “defamed him” and “high-fived” conspiracy theorists in the process.
Harris — whose cultural brand is similar to Maher’s liberal-who-takes-on-liberals persona — was the guest on this week’s edition of Maher’s Club Random Podcast.
Among the topics discussed was Musk’s online behavior, which many — including Harris — view as reckless.
Citing Musk’s treatment of Yoel Roth, Harris told Maher that Musk will put “identifiable civilians on blast in front of 200 million people knowing that that’s going to completely fuck over their lives. Like Yoel Roth, the head of trust and safety for Twitter, who he called a pedophile based on no fucking evidence and the guy had to like flee his house because he was getting so many death threats.”
He then revealed why he and Musk fell out as friends:
SAM HARRIS: He will, he will eh-, a PizzaGate lunatic like literally one of the people who gave us PizzaGate. You know, I’m not going to name them because they would be happy to be named in this context. But it’s a couple of guys who gave us Pizzagate. You remember what Pizzagate was–.
BILL MAHER: Of course! That Hillary Clinton was running a pedophile ring out of a pizza parlor in Washington DC–.
SAM HARRIS: Out of the basement of a pizza parlor that doesn’t have a basement, yeah.
BILL MAHER: In their defense. The pizza was fantastic.
SAM HARRIS: Right. So the people who gave us that are people who are in very good standing with Elon, who Elon will talk to them in Twitter spaces and like, you know, give them the mic and boost them and just high five-them like.
And he knows, like I’ve pointed out how crazy these people are to him. These people will send him a clip from my podcast or some other podcast, maybe this podcast. Maybe we’ll do it here, right?
Making it seem like I’ve said the opposite of what I said in context. Like they sent him one where I seem to be saying that I didn’t care about the chaos at the border, whereas I have exactly Elon’s view of the border. And in context you can hear that.
But they’ll send me send the opposite and Elon will react to that. He doesn’t have time to listen to the podcast, obviously, so he’ll just react to the clip saying, you know, “Sam Harris is a total moron,” right? Like it was something like that.
But amplify this, to, to millions of people. And I will email him and say, “Elon, you are being gamed by right wing trolls who gave us Pizzagate. This is this is not what I said in context.”.
Right? And he will tell me to go fuck myself. And he knows– so he knows when.
BILL MAHER: He read the e-mail.
SAM HARRIS: Yeah. He will respond to the email, “Go fuck yourself.”.
He does not care if he’s defaming someone in public who used to be a friend. So, I mean, it was. And this is why we’re no longer friends. So it– he’s the guy the guy is snorting ketamine and on Twitter all day long.
Watch above via Bill Maher’s Club Random Podcast.
