{"id":19542,"date":"2025-09-12T23:11:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=19542"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:20:48","slug":"media-larry-ellisons-comments-on-reporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2025\/09\/12\/media-larry-ellisons-comments-on-reporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Larry Ellison&#8217;s comments on reporters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is a social media meme that Larry Ellison noted Elon Musk builds rockets &#8211; while reporters just write random stuff on their Macbooks, often criticizing Elon Musk. Ellison really did make comments like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Generated with Microsoft Co-pilot AI)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was passionately defending Elon Musk against critics who doubted Musk\u2019s capabilities, especially in aerospace innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the essence of what Ellison said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re saying Elon\u2019s an idiot. The guy\u2019s landing rockets! Who are you!? \u2026 We\u2019re out here watching this rocket land, which I think is really cool, and you\u2019re there in front of your Apple Macintosh typing up an article saying Elon\u2019s an idiot. I just want to know who you are so I know why I should believe you, as opposed to my friend Elon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellison\u2019s remarks were widely shared and later reposted by Musk himself, highlighting their friendship and mutual admiration. The quote you referenced is a paraphrased version, but it captures the spirit and tone of Ellison\u2019s original statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Larry Ellison did suggest reporters are stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}