Throughout Monday afternoon’s protection of President Trump’s second inauguration, the co-anchors of the protection, PBS Information Hour hosts Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz, had been disturbed on ex-President Biden’s behalf by the distinguished seating of company tech chieftains, and repeated Biden’s hypocritical warning a couple of rising Trumpian “oligarchy.”
They turned to Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who’s written a e-book on Massive Tech:
Geoff Bennett: You symbolize the Bay Space, which is the again yard of Silicon Valley. While you see the heads of Meta, Apple, Google, Amazon, Elon Musk after all, having actually front-row seats to this inauguration, in some ways making an attempt to get in and keep in Donald Trump’s good graces, how does that strike you?
Khanna provided a slightly gentle response, which dissatisfied the liberal hosts.
Khanna: Properly, Musk is a separate case as a result of he was all-in on the marketing campaign. However for lots of the others, Tim Prepare dinner, Sundar Pichai, they did the identical factor when Trump gained the primary time, Tim Prepare dinner was within the Oval Workplace. I feel the fact is that they’re searching for their very own enterprise pursuits, in Invoice Gates’s case for his personal philanthropic pursuits. They usually do that whoever’s in energy.
So the ethical management goes to have to come back from the grassroots of the nation, from the Democratic Celebration. I do not suppose we might be trying to enterprise leaders to be doing something aside from maximizing their very own shareholder earnings.
That reply wasn’t adequate for PBS anchor Amna Nawaz, who adopted up with Khanna, urgent him to endorse Biden’s farewell deal with:
Nawaz: That stage of affect these leaders appear to now have although, with the incoming president, I imply they had been sitting in entrance of his Cupboard nominees at that inauguration ceremony. What does that say to you, does that fear you? And is that this what President Biden was speaking about when he warned about this rising tech oligarchy?
Talking of oligarchy — then-President Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom upon activist left-wing billionaire George Soros, and Trump’s Democratic opponent Kamala Harris was endorsed by dozens of wealthy enterprise executives, together with liberal billionaire Marc Cuban. No “oligarchy” there?
PBS additionally continues to disregard the truth that the Biden Administration spent 4 years working hand in glove with that very same “tech oligarchy” when it was doing the administration’s censorious bidding on points like COVID, gender ideology, and most notoriously, the Hunter Biden laptop computer exposing Biden household corruption.
