After falsely portraying a ruling that voided Elon Musk’s absurdly huge compensation deal with Tesla for part-time work as “lawfare” (It’s not “lawfare” if a Tesla shareholder led the effort to void it), the Media Research Center continued in Musk PR mode. Tom Olohan was on stenography duty in a Feb. 7 post:
X owner Elon Musk repeatedly blasted President Joe Biden’s administration for encouraging “illegal immigration” to benefit Democrats while leftist media outlets went out of their way to make excuses for the president.
In a Feb. 2 post on X, Musk pointed out Biden’s “Simple, yet effective,” two-pronged strategy to advance his anti-American agenda by exploiting illegal immigration. He accused Biden of attempting to “get as many illegals in the country as possible” and to “[l]egalize them to create a permanent [Democrat] majority – a one-party state.”
He added, “That is why they are encouraging so much illegal immigration.” Musk continued to hammer this point over the next few days arguing that Biden was “rolling out the red carpet” for illegal immigrants.
[…]While Musk criticizes the Biden Administration on X for violating his constitutional obligations to secure the border, media outlets like NBC and ABC have done everything to downplay Biden and company’s culpability for the humanitarian crisis.
The replacement theory Musk is spouting is a racist conspiracy theory, but Olohan’s employer has a policy of insisting that it’s neither racist nor a conspiracy theory.
Olohan served up more Musk-fluffing the next day:
The world’s second richest man, X owner Elon Musk, is exposing and avenging diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) discrimination in a series of damning posts on X.
Musk revealed on Tuesday alleged internal documents from Disney, showing what he characterized as the “mandatory, institutionalized racism and sexism” in Disney’s inclusion standards. Stunningly, Musk followed up with a major promise: the individuals whom Disney discriminated against will receive legal support. “Here is the full racist, sexist, etc discriminatory set of laws enforced by Disney’s DEI Gestapo,” Musk said, also sharing a screenshot of the alleged Disney document. The purported document showed Disney offered preferential treatment to “underrepresented groups” and other victims of DEI.
The alleged documents require that “50% or more” of actors, writers, and other employees of Disney productions “come from underrepresented groups,” while placing other discriminatory burdens on potential productions.
Despite these requirements, which Musk called “laboriously vile” and “illegal” the other documents strenuously deny that this decision will harm people who do not belong to an underrepresented group. The documents gaslight employees by arguing that removing “systemic barriers” will achieve these mandatory goals. The same documents claimed that productions are “encouraged” to hire job candidates who lack the needed experience.”
In other words, move out of the way, we’ve got to reach our 50 percent quota.
Musk has already offered his support to former The Mandalorian actress Gina Carano, who sued Disney for firing her with a statement criticizing her social media use.
That’s a strange statement, given how the MRC opposes labor unions and supports at-will hiring, meaning that a person can be fired for any reason or no reason. Still, the MRC has bestowed victimhood on Carano because she spouted right-wing talking points. Olohan then quoted Musk obsessing over DEI while claiming Disney was obsessing over DEI:
Musk went on to tie Disney’s obsessive focus on DEI and the onerous requirements from these documents to recent Disney box office failures: “No wonder most of their content produced over the past several years has sucked. Just trying to navigate the DEI minefield is going to crush the creative process!” Musk said that this ideology “crushes the spirit” of those who seek to “make great art.”
Of course, by opposing DEI Musk (and, thus, Olohan) is endorsing discrimination in hiring and the idea that non-white people are incompetent and cannot get a job without being labeled a “diversity hire.”
You’d think that with all this racism, Olohan would be pointing out that Musk is a racist the way his MRC colleague Nicholas Fondacaro loves to smear “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin with the tag, despite having less evidence to back up the claim. But he’s a Musk-fluffing activist, not a journalist of any kind.