Staff Reports
Benny Johnson’s recent Tesla giveaway was a reminder that real Americans still believe in giving back to their communities instead of sitting in glass towers and lecturing the rest of us on how to live. Johnson ran an open sweepstakes for a Tesla, inviting subscribers to enter and promising a random winner would take home the electric vehicle — a grassroots stunt that rewarded ordinary supporters for showing up and paying attention.
The mechanics behind the giveaway were straightforward and legal: the sweepstakes ran from March 23 to April 15, 2025, with one winner to be selected at random and announced on The Benny Show, and the winner explicitly responsible for taxes, registration, and insurance per the official rules. That kind of transparency is the opposite of the backroom deals and bureaucratic handouts we’re fed from Washington; it’s private generosity, not another entitlement program.
Of course the predictable chorus of left-wing media watchdogs and partisan outfits tried to turn the story into a scandal instead of celebrating a creator giving away a car to a fan. Outlets like Media Matters have spent months accusing platforms like YouTube of enabling conservative voices — a narrative designed to shut down independent creators rather than treat them as the innovators they are. If the legacy press hates it when creators succeed outside their control, that’s the problem — not the creators.
Let’s be blunt: the left’s instinct is to regulate, shame, or weaponize every successful conservative fundraiser or giveaway rather than admit there’s a hunger for unsanitized, patriotic commentary. Benny’s audience didn’t ask for permission from reporters or bureaucrats to celebrate a giveaway; they showed up and supported the show. The real story here is cultural: ordinary Americans appreciate directness, authenticity, and a host willing to reward real loyalty.
This Tesla giveaway also underscores a broader point about the American economy — private citizens and small teams can create big moments without taxpayers footing the bill or bureaucrats deciding who is “worthy.” While the elites posture about virtue-signaling giveaways, creators like Johnson are actually building audiences and creating value the old media can’t muster. That’s entrepreneurship, plain and simple, and it deserves praise, not partisan attacks.
Patriots should cheer when one of our own turns success into something tangible for a subscriber, and we should push back against censorship-minded critics who would turn every populist triumph into a talking point for the administrative state. Support the creators who speak for the silent majority, enroll in their channels, and keep rewarding the kind of independent media that still answers to viewers, not appointed editors.
