Fox host ties Musk's Twitter takeover to the midterms
Varney: “It's an opportunity to restore free speech, and I think most importantly restore a level playing field for the elections that are coming up in November”
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Citation From the April 26, 2022, edition of Fox News' Fox and Friends
STEVE DOOCY (HOST): We love this story because essentially a week and a half ago, when there were rumblings that [Elon Musk] would like to buy it, the Twitter board pretty much put out: Try it, you will never get it. Because we will put a poison pill in there to kill you off. Well now he is the boss.
STUART VARNEY (FOX BUSINESS HOST): Yes, indeed. I love this because it's an opportunity to remake what is a fading company. Twitter was failing before he came along. It's an opportunity to restore free speech, and I think most importantly restore a level playing field for the elections that are coming up in November. I mean, before Musk came along, it was a failing company.
STEVE DOOCY: Sure.
STUART VARNEY: Their revenue from ads is only 5 billion dollars. It's 270 billion at Google and 115 billion at Facebook. Twitter is nowhere in that deal. Well along comes Musk, makes this strong bid, $54.20 per share. Takes the company, he can now redo that company, make it profitable, make it dynamic, make it go places, and at the same time restore free speech. When Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweets out that this is a danger to democracy, you know Musk is doing something right. He is not a danger to democracy. It's the possibility of restoring equality in political presentation right before the elections.