The Media Research Center’s whining that Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency was facing scrutiny by non-right-wing media continued. Jorge Bonilla whined in a Feb. 19 post: ‘The Trump, Musk, and DOGE-deranged media, consumed with their efforts to undermine government accountability and reform as voted upon by the American people, have completely omitted from viewer consideration a critically important development across our southern border: the CIA’s no-longer-secret drone flights over Mexican cartel laboratories.”
The same day, Curtis Houck cheered that Trump and Musk spewed insults at those same outlets in an interview with Trump fanboy Sean Hannity on Fox News:
In an lengthy interview with Elon Musk that aired Tuesday on the Fox News Channel with Sean Hannity (and taped late last week), President Trump unsurprisingly found time to lambaste the “bad,” “dangerous,” “horrible” liberal media as he and Musk have stood up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to shrink and tame the leviathan that is the federal government.
Musk led into this by explaining Trump winning has presented “really the opportunity to fix the system” and “restore the power of democracy and people,” which shouldn’t be confused with “fixing the system.”
Citing the irony of the left’s attacks against DOGE employees as unelected tyrants when that’s what many powerful bureaucrats are themselves, Trump called them “a con job” and “so bad for the country, so dangerous and so bad and the media is so bad.”
Trump then launched head-on into the liberal press, starting with MSNBC: “When I watch MSNBC, which I don’t watch much, but you have to watch the enemy on occasion, the level of arrogance and — and cheating and — they’re just horrible people. These are horrible people. They’re liars.”
He correctly added they’ve suddenly started talking about the Constitution but, in reality, “[t]hey couldn’t care less about the Constitution.”
In yet another Feb. 19 post, Alex Christy groused that “MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough was the latest in a list of dishonorable media figures to tie President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s budget-cutting efforts to the idea of additional plane crashes.” Christy asserted that Scarborough was spinning “a false narrative about how dangerous air travel is becoming,” but made no effort to disprove the claim.
Clay Waters whined in a Feb. 21 post that PBS “dumped a truckload of slime over space entrepreneur and Trump advisor Elon Musk’s head in a 10-minute news piece/hit piece” noting, amont other things, that ” colleagues and board members at his companies reported that they were increasingly concerned about Musk’s mental health and drug use, specifically the drug ketamine, which Musk says he’s prescribed to treat depressive episodes.” Waters did not dispute the accuracy of the claim, which seemed to be confirmed when Trump himself, in the midst of a later fallout with Musk, was reportedly privately telling people that Musk is a “big-time drug addict.”
Tim Graham groused about Musk’s chainsaw-laden performance at a right-wing convention being criticized in his Feb. 21 podcast:
Elon Musk wielded a chainsaw at CPAC, striking a pose next to Argentina’s president Javier Milei. The networks loved to show it, but deprived it of its Argentinian context. They’ve never wanted to tell the story of Javier Milei, or what has happened to Argentina since he was elected and took a metaphorical chainsaw to the bureaucracy there.
The networks really hate Elon Musk for trying to reduce government in any way. Journalists in America are deeply in love with bureaucracy. They’re very defensive when you say Deep State. The Deep state are their friends and their sources, the wise men and women with the Ivy League degrees spreading the money around for the left here and abroad.
Nicholas Fondacaro huffed in his daily hate-watch of “The View” on Feb. 26 that the hosts claimed that “Trump had already sold the United States to Elon Musk, he would sell access to the country to terrorists via the program, and there was no longer a legal means of immigration.”
Joseph Vazquez ran to Musk’s defense in a March 12 post:
The blowhards at MSNBC’s Morning Joe should realize that continuing to shoot lies through their whitened tooth implants on the air about Elon Musk doesn’t make them any more true. What’s worse is that they don’t even attempt to be clever about it.
Both hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were popping their brain corks over Musk’s March 10 interview with Fox Business host Larry Kudlow. Both just lied about the subject matter.
Mika went first during the March 11 edition of Morning Joe, shamelessly claiming Musk “referred to the federal spending programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, as the areas that need to be eliminated.”
Fact check: False. The clip she played from the Kudlow show literally begins with Musk referring to “the waste report in entitlement spending” and noted that most of federal spending is entitlements — $1.56 trillion was paid out just to Medicare and Medicaid and another $1.35 trillion just to Social Security in FY2023 alone, not counting other entitlement programs. So that context alone makes sense when Musk followed by saying, “So that’s the big one to eliminate. That’s a half-trillion — maybe six-$700 billion a year.
It’s obvious that he’s talking about eliminating waste, not ending the programs entirely.
In fact, millions will likely lose Medicare benefits and access to health insurance under Trump’s current budget proposal, and it has not been proven that any of that is “waste.” He also offered no proof that anyone on “Morning Joe” wears “whitened tooth implants.”
Graham spent a March 16 post whining that Musk was mocked at the “swampy” Gridiron Club dinner, emceed by Judy Woodruff:
“Fellowship” spreader Woodruff “opened up the room with jokes about Mr. Musk’s fathering so many children and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s drinking.” Woodruff also wisecracked about “Big Balls,” a young Musk DOGE worker. She mocked the Democrats as disorganized. Another act featured men playing Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer being “lost in the woods.”
Democrat reporters feel free to mock their fellow Democrats as disorganized, and then later, they’ll them how to organize it, with media assistance.
One song-and-dance number involved a man dressed as Elon Musk in his “Tech Support” T-shirt waving a chainsaw around, singing about his turn toward from left to “far right,” ha ha: ‘I’ll turn the G.O.P. into the AFD,’ he sang, referring to the German political party in favor of an immigration crackdown.
Graham didn’t mention that AfD is a far-right party with Nazi-esque leanings — not “populist” — or that Musk endorsed the party and wrote an op-ed in support of it for a German newspaper.
Meanwhile, the MRC’s account on X tweeted out a video of Musk’s totally-not-a-Nazi-salute with the message, “This Valentine’s Day find you a man who’ll give you his heart like Elon Musk.”