write the story and they believed it. That's a wrap-up smear. So this is an example of that, but happening in real time.

Do you know the author Malcolm Gladwell? He looks like one of those dandelions. You know, when a dandelion goes bad and it's got that big crazy white hair, he kind of looks like a big dandelion. Anyway, he's getting a little more political and he's suggesting that somebody like Oprah could really help us out in politics. And the example was that Oprah could ask Elon Musk if he didn't want to be seen as a Nazi, why didn't he give a Nazi salute? What? What? Are you kidding?

I thought it was only the dumbest Democrats who believe that Musk gave a Nazi salute. Let me say it as clearly as I can. Anybody who thinks that Elon Musk intentionally got on the stage after winning everything, you know, the election was won and everything was good, you actually believe that he got on the stage and gave a Nazi salute? That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. You're an idiot if you thought that was true even for a second.

And you know, I would see interviews on the street where there'd be some low-information voter who believed that there was a Nazi salute and I'd say to myself, oh, well, a low-information voter just believes what they're told. But Malcolm Gladwell is entering the fight like he's one of the educated, well-intentioned smart guys. How in the world could you be that dumb? I mean, this isn't one you have to research. You just have to ask yourself, really? Really? You think that Elon Musk decided that it'd be a good idea to give a Nazi salute or even that you think that he would want to do that? So dumb. I mean, that's like seriously, seriously dumb. Like at a level that's hard to even understand.

So I think the Musk Nazi salute hoax is the new fine people hoax. The fine people hoax was the same thing. Did you really think that the sitting president complimented neo-Nazis in a public speech? Really? That you thought there was some chance that happened in the real world? It didn't. The opposite happened. But how dumb did you have to be to believe that the fine people hoax was ever real? And again, how dumb do you have to be to believe that Musk gave a Nazi salute or even was in that frame of mind that that would even make sense in any world. I don't even understand this one. I mean, that's stupidity at a level that's almost mind-boggling. But maybe it's more about persuasion. I don't know. You know, maybe they're just hypnotized. It could be a TDS story more than an intelligence story. But if your intelligence can't let you see past that illusion, your intelligence is not very high-powered. That is really, really dumb.

Mike Benz had a good observation about David Brooks. He was on one of the shows and remember how when Trump did anything that wasn't perfectly copacet