The Media Research Center has switched its defense of Elon Musk from DOGE-centric to fretting about his businesses. For a March 31 post, Justine Brooke Murray pulled another of her protester-harassing stunts (such as those done in service of her employer’s hatred of public broadcasting) in hassling protesters at a Tesla dealership:
If you watch the circus linked to this article, you may believe I had embedded myself among escapees from the local looney bin over the weekend. But instead, I was attending “Tesla Takedown Day,” a nationwide demonstration of enraged Leftists shrieking outside local dealerships everywhere to protest its CEO Elon Musk.
Affluent leftists once praised the electric vehicle as a token of their devotion to fighting climate change, as suburban socialists rushed to buy their Tesla to virtue signal support.
But now, the once hip logo is considered a Swastika, because leftists are outraged over Musk helping President Donald Trump’s administration trim down wasteful government spending.
Reigning in big government overreach apparently makes you a fascist, according to the mob of angry boomers who picketed around me on Saturday, screaming that I “hate democracy” for asking them to explain their logic.
The mob grew even more aggressive as I tried to ask why they were demonstrating.
Perhaps because they understood she was a bad-faith activist whose goal was solely to mock them?
Jorge Bonilla spent an April 8 post whining that NBC took too long to do a story about a former mine where federal retirement records are stored that had been attacked by Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency:
NBC’s report on the Pennsylvania limestone mine currently occupied by the Office of Personnel Management’s retirement division is insightful, clarifying, fun, and…should’ve aired a month and a half ago. Consider that reporting on things that would’ve been insightful a long time ago is its own form of omission.
[…]I’m old enough to remember when DOGE was covered like it was the plague, with nightly victim porn stories designed to fearmonger the public into believing that Elon Musk was a villain on the scale of George Soros.
Hey, if Bonilla’s employer can maliciously smear Soros as a villain to advance a partisan agenda, why isn’t turnabout fair play? But Bonilla couldn’t stop whining:
One now HAS to question the timing of the airing of such a light and refreshing story (which absolutely delighted The White House, as it should) after all the damage has been done. This story would have been useful BEFORE deranged leftists were burning Tesla service centers and smearing poo on parked Model 3s.
Now? The limestone feature, although a great report on its own, has an odor similar to that of all the campaign postmortems disclosing the extent of President Joe Biden’s catastrophic cognitive decline.
No mention, of course, of the reasons why such records are in a former mine in the first place — it’s highly secure, basically fireproof and protected from natural disasters, while digitization of records has been ongoing for years.
Alex Christy was in comedy-cop mode for an April 24 post defending Musk and Tesla:
As Elon Musk starts to contemplate wrapping up DOGE’s mission to identify wasteful spending in the federal government and return to Tesla on a more full-time basis, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel had a suggestion. On Tuesday, he brought back an old STD bit and suggested to Musk that he sell the company to “someone more likeable, like chlamydia or AIDS.”
Kimmel began, “And then we have Mr. Congeniality, Elon Musk, who has been lying low as of late and reportedly wants to get out of DOGE. Musk says that he will dial back his work with the government so that he can spend more time with all ten of his families. People forget Elon, he can’t spend all his time in Washington. He has a company to run into the ground.”
Reaching for the Nazi card, Kimmel continued, “In the first three months of this year, Tesla’s profits fell 71 percent, which I guess is what happens when your CEO turns into white Kanye before your eyes.”
No mention, of course, of Musk’s totally-not-a-Nazi-salute earlier this year, a legitimate reason why one might put that tag on Musk.
Tom Olohan fretted about another Musk operation in an April 25 Free Speech America post:
Politico noted the European Union’s apparent failure to crush Elon Musk’s X alongside other Big Tech platforms in an April 23 article headlined “The EU has fined Meta and Apple. What happened to X?” In her article, Politico tech reporter Eliza Gkritsi suggested that the EU’s European Commission might prefer forcing X to make changes instead of paying horrifying fines, since the former decision “could have a meaningful impact on users.” However, Gkritsi labelled opponents of the European Commission’s authoritarian push as “far right” while offering more neutral terms to proponents of radical EU laws.
She added, “Those remedies could return X users to an earlier era, one when blue check marks were handed out based on users’ verified positions rather than on cash, and Community Notes were supplemented by robust fact-checking.”
In other words, the European Commission could bring the return of pre-Musk Twitter censorship by forcing X to heed anti-free speech fact-checkers who flag content for removal.
As usual, Olohan is falsely conflating lies and misinformation with “free speech” and efforts to address such things is “censorship,” and the Politico article makes clear that the issue with the EU is lack of content moderation and lack of transparency. Olohan performed this same feat of dishonesty in an April 28 post, with added Soros hate:
X owner Elon Musk is challenging a radical leftist attorney general about the enforcement of a law that would likely make online censorship explode during election cycles.
X filed an April 23 lawsuit against Soros-funded Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Ellison is responsible for enforcing a law that criminalizes posting images and videos or “deep fakes” made by artificial intelligence featuring political candidates. The law imposes prison sentences of up to five years for repeat offenders or a fine of up to $10,000 or both. Additionally, a candidate who violates this law may be prohibited from taking office for this speech. Minnesota, like Romania, is placing claims of fighting disinformation above the will of the people.
When did deep fakes and disinformation become “the will of the people”? Olohan didn’t elaborate.
Olohan defended transphobic hatred on X in a May 6 post:
Trump’s State Department condemned an anti-free speech government pressuring X to censor.
The State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor went after Australia in a May 1 post on X after the country “required X to remove a post criticizing an individual for promoting gender ideology.” Removing this post would have cut off not merely an Australian audience from hearing the speech of a silenced user, but also the rest of the world. “The Department of State is deeply concerned about efforts by governments to coerce American tech companies into targeting individuals for censorship. Freedom of expression must be protected – online and offline,” The State Department wrote.
Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has pressured Elon Musk’s X to take down a post criticizing a transgender activist who was tapped to join the World Health Organization’s (WHO) trans health panel.
Olohan once more kept his silence about the nasty content of the offending post — “People who belong in psychiatric wards are writing the guidelines for people who belong in psychiatric wards” — and why he believes transgender people must be denigrated that way on X.