>Mr Musk called Mr Unsworth a "pedo" in a July 15 post on his Twitter account after Mr Unsworth, in an interview with CNN, dismissed Mr Musk's attempts to help rescue the boys as a "PR stunt".
Hate on Musk (or anyone). Be accurate is the message here.
Musk calling a hero a pedo with no evidence in response after (correctly?) being accused of having a garbage solution that couldn't work and he could stick it on international tv is appalling.
Added: I wonder if it was the pro or anti musk faction that flagged the call fo accuracy ad provided references. Even more amusing if both.
is a better article for sequence, although the twitter dates are not helpful - the embedded in a tweet interview clip has the date of the tweet and not the date of the interview. That was tweeted after the Musk pedo tweet.
The quote was:
He can “stick his submarine where it hurts,” Unsworth said during the interview in Thailand.
before going in detail about why the sub idea was impractical (as was stated by several others at the time).
It doesn't justify the "Pedo Guy" accusation though, Musk was clearly being a attention seeking nuisance and getting in the way of an ongoing rescue effort.
His help WAS going to be useless (mostly because Musk's design completely failed to account for the cave geometry) and of course it was a publicity stunt. There's a team of international cave rescuers and medical professionals on scene, but what do they know? Musk literally announced his "plan" to the media before anyone on scene. That's the definition of a publicity stunt.
Oh, and if you just called me a pedophile to the world, WHILE I've been up for 30 hours straight coordinating a cave diving rescue, and the media keeps asking me "Why not Musk's submarine?", you know what, I'd probably say something a lot less polite than "he can stick it up his ass".
I don’t disagree with any of that other than I’m pretty sure the sequence is the other way around. The guardian story linked, published at the time has the sequence cnn interview calling it a publicity stunt and the pedo guy tweet after that. Unless I’m reading it wrong somehow or they messed up the story?
