Dennis Kneale tried to portray Elon Musk as the victim of a government conspiracy in his Dec. 18 Newsmax column:
Every now and then, there is a tear in the Matrix, a ripping apart of the reality that is fed to us by the media, our leaders, the government, and NGOs. This reveals the truth behind the facade, the real intent of the players and their worst flaws.
And so it is that the Biden administration, via the Federal Communications Commission, has attacked its Public Enemy No.2: Elon Musk — on a new front. The FCC just rescinded an $885 million contract it had awarded to Musk’s SpaceX in 2020.
The contract called for SpaceX to beam high-speed internet service to 640,000 rural homes and businesses across 35 states. For 20 years, this has been a goal of the government amid fretting that poor Americans in the back-country would be left behind in a Digital Divide.
Now the Democrat-controlled FCC has set this aside in favor punishing a political enemy. The government is baring its claws and showing its real intent.
In fact, the reason the FCC reaffirmed a 2022 decision — before Musk even bought Twitter — to rescind the subsidies to SpaceX subsidiary Starlink was because the company couldn’t meet basic program requirements and didn’t demonstrate it could deliver the service it promised.
But since narrative is more important than truth, Kneale went on to claim that this was “only the latest swipe against Elon Musk” and insisting he’s really trying to help us:
All of this is part of a strategic, all-out assault on Elon Musk. A lot of us, if we had one-tenth of his wealth, might give up and retire to life on our own island, but this man keeps working incredibly hard to improve the world. Why is the federal government out to stop him?
Kneale didn’t say how he thinks Musk endorsing anti-Semitism and censoring his critics will “improve the world.”