Elon Musk’s Toady CEO Can’t Even Prevent Her Former Company From Pulling Its Ads on Xitter
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On Friday, NBC Universal became the latest company to pull its ads from X – formerly known as Twitter, and informally known as the Musk Midlife Crisis Corporation, or Xitter.
NBC joined Apple, Disney, IBM, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Lionsgate in doing so this week.
The most recent loss of ad dollars comes thanks to X owner Elon Musk agreeing with an anti-Semitic tweet that accused Jews of pushing “hatred of whites.” The tweet also accused Jews of supporting the influx of “hordes of minorities” to displace said White people.
“You have said the actual truth,” Musk replied, prompting predictable and justified backlash.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino tried, unconvincingly, to clean up her boss’ mess.
Quite notably, of all the companies to yank their business from the platform, this one may cut the deepest for her. After all, NBC Universal is where Yaccarino spent nearly 12 years refining her reputation as a marketing and client-facing maven after 19 years at Turner Broadcasting. That reputation – built over three decades – is now ablaze, along with the platform for which she holds a fake title.
If you think that characterization is too harsh, take it up with Musk.
“CEO is fake title,” he tweeted in August, just two months after he hired Yaccarino. “You need a president, a controller and a secretary for a C Corp, but all the chief [whatever] officer stuff is superfluous.”
Musk demeaning her title, while personally insulting, is nothing compared to the professional headaches he induced for her in subsequent weeks. Indeed, it’s not every day when a CNN anchor accuses one’s boss of promoting “unvarnished anti-Semitism.”
After an unsuccessful attempt at backpedaling by taking a not-so-veiled shot at Palestinians seeking “decolonization” – however defined – Yaccarino approvingly retweeted her boss and wrote a message of her own.
“X has been extremely clear about our efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination,” she said. “There’s absolutely no place for it anywhere in the world.”
The only way this statement can be true is if Musk launched his social media platform into space on one of his rockets so that X is no longer “in the world.” And it’s not just Musk who’s spreading and amplifying anti-Semitic garbage. Some of X’s users have been contributing to a mind-blowing surge in Jew hatred on the platform.
Yaccarino is not some helpless bystander. She can quit at any time. Yet she is still trying to clean that which is irredeemably filthy. On top top that, she looks horrendous while doing so.
She was interviewed at September’s Code Conference, where this supposed marketing guru turned in a breathtakingly putrid performance. At one point she asked, “Who wouldn’t want Elon Musk sitting by their side running product?”
Some attendees raised their hands, which seemed to irritate Yaccarino.
“There may be a few show of hands to get the cute chuckles you’re getting,” she said. “But I would say the percentages in this room are about 99%, ‘Who would say no to that?’”
Therein lies the problem with Yaccarino and all Musk enablers.
They don’t say, “No.”
This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.
