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With Elon Musk making his formal offer to out-right buy Twitter, liberal media defender and CNN+ host Brian Stelter appeared desperate on Thursday’s Reliable Sources Daily as he looked for other “tech players” to step in and make their own offers. He even suggested that Musk would turn Twitter into a less-successful social media site such as “Parlor or Rumble.”
“Elon Musk is saying Twitter needs to be transformed, so he’s offering to it. He’s offering to buy the company for about $43 billion and take it private. Make no mistake this is a hostile takeover bit rattling Silicon Valley,” Stelter warned in a very sober tone.
After admitting Musk’s offer is “higher than Twitter’s closing price on Wednesday” and “a lot higher” than when” he became a shareholder last week, Stelter brought on Puck News co-founder William Cohan and tried to argue that Musk’s offer wasn’t enough because Twitter’s stock price was higher over a year ago.
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