As rifts developed between President Trump and Elon Musk, the Media Research Center got mad that the truth was being reported about it. Intern Ashley Taylor found a Republican congressman to try and tamp things down in a June 6 post:
On Thursday night’s broadcast of The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett turned the tables on CNN and accused the network of overhyping the escalating feud between Elon Musk and President Trump while ignoring the very economic anxieties of working Americans.
The moment came during a panel, alongside Texas Democrat Vicente Gonzalez, where Collins pressed Burchett to weigh in on Musk’s recent explosive social media tirade against the President. In a series of posts, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had called for Trump’s impeachment and endorsed JD Vance as his replacement, as well as baselessly accused Trump of being listed in the Epstein files, a move that stunned political observers and dominated headlines.
Burchett made his stance clear: “I’m on President Trump’s side. He’s our Commander-in-Chief. Elon Musk is a private citizen, he’s allowed to speak his mind, but he doesn’t have a vote in this.”
The Congressman was quick to downplay the drama, calling Musk’s remarks “bogus” and “personal,” especially referencing allegations Musk made about Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. “You don’t lie about someone like that, especially something so serious,” Burchett said.
But his main criticism wasn’t directed at the recent social media buzz, it was aimed squarely at the media. He then directed the conversation at Collins, and the media at large, “You, as a legitimate member of the media, should shake your head at that whole thing.”
“In two weeks, nobody will be talking about this,” Burchett said. “Y’all will be finding something else to run the country down about. It’s a shame the media seized on this, because America is more worried about paying more taxes right now.”
Another intern, Lucas Escala, groused about the coverage of a legitimate news story in a post the same day:
Regardless of where you stood on President Trump and Elon Musk’s heated social media battle, anyone could take a moment to appreciate the people who were most definitely getting it wrong. Many in the media were quick to blow the debate out of proportion Friday morning, and CNN This Morning was no exception.
During their roundtable discussion of the posts, two guests, New York Times journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro and CNN senior reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere, passed on reporting facts to share their views on the matter.
As host Audie Cornish reveled in the reaction of “Democrats just with popcorn,” Garcia-Navarro explained her view on where Trump would take matters:
[…]Where was she even getting this from? Since when had the government had the power to kill a man who disagreed with the president over social media? Even with Trump’s threats of canceling contracts with Musk, nothing here was an overreach of presidential power, and she even acknowledged that herself.
Of course, that’s not what’s important to fear-mongering liberals. What counts is hammering home in every situation that Trump is an abusive authoritarian, even when it is irrelevant to the conversation.
Tim Graham served up his own grousing in his June 6 podcast:
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are now dramatically at odds, and no one is happier than the left-wing press. Time magazine’s giddy headline was “The Musk-Trump Implosion Can Be Seen From Space.” ABC “comedian” Jimmy Kimmel compared his thrill to being a kid at Christmas.
The New York Times today said Trump and Musk “retook the White House, slashed the federal government, and reshaped U.S. alliances…Yesterday, that relationship imploded in public. Perhaps, for two mercurial billionaires with large personalities and little tolerance for dissent, it was inevitable.”
On CNN, New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro claimed “if you look at the history around the world of authoritarians breaking up with their oligarch buddies, those oligarch buddies don’t end up in a good place. They either end up impoverished, imprisoned, or dead.”
Jeffrey Lord served up a similar whine in his June 7 column:
They love it.
You can almost smell the popping popcorn in the various offices of the nation’s liberal media as they zero in on whatever is the latest in the President Trump versus Elon Musk circus.
And make no mistake. For the liberal media the dust-up between the two men is manna from headline heaven.
[…]The real question here is: why?
Past Presidents have parted ways with senior advisers, whether in the Cabinet or senior staff. As a Reagan White House alum, I well and vividly recall the abrupt resignation of then-White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan as a result of the “Iran-Contra” scandal affair and, no small thing, his disfavor with First Lady Nancy Reagan.
But it didn’t take long for Regan to vanish from the headlines, a similar fate for other high-ranking presidential appointees in other administrations.
[…]The real question here?
What serious effect will all of this media circus have both on the two major players, not to mention on the considerably serious issues at play?
At this point it is too soon to tell. But that there will eventually be some lasting impact on not just the men involved but on the serious fiscal and budgetary governmental policy that is at the center of all the to-do over the “Big Beautiful Bill” there can be little doubt.
And without doubt, the liberal media, making this into a media circus, is loving every minute of it. For them, this hoo-ha can’t go on long enough.
You mean like how the MRC tried to make a right-wing media circus out of every controversy involving a Democratic president?