Jorge Bonilla served up more defense of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency in a Feb. 27 post, angry that he faced more criticism:
Today’s portion of the ongoing “legacy” media meltdown over the role of Elon Musk and DOGE in the current administration centered around Musk’s participation in the Cabinet meeting. Musk drew scrutiny in a way that escaped Jill and Hunter Biden as when they attended similar meetings.
[…]The general gist of the media’s reporting on Elon’s appearance at the Cabinet meeting was mean girl hissing at his presence there.
Of course, mean-girl hissing is the prevailing tone of the MRC’s “media criticism,” so Bonilla should be quite familiar with that.
The next day, Dawn Slusher whined that Chuck Lorre, ” the infamous creator of Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory” (she didn’t explain why those shows are “infamous”), musing about moving to New Zealand in his vanity card mocking Musk’s demand that government employees tell him what the did all week:
I can just see the multi-millionaire sitcom producer sitting in his plush office, surrounded by Emmys and yes-men, scribbling this vanity card while the rest of us are busy doing our taxes and working hard so we can afford to put gas in our tanks. He’s fretting over rehearsals and writing a book about himself while the average citizen worries about feeding their kids.
So, let’s break this down, shall we? Elon Musk, the billionaire genius responsible for such marvelous tech innovations as self-driving cars and reusable, self-landing space rockets, cares enough about how the average citizen’s tax dollars are being spent that he’s laser-focused on reducing government waste and inefficiency. And this somehow makes Lorre want to abandon ship and flee to a country with a smaller, more efficiently run government with much lower debt than most other developed countries? #MakeItMakeSense
Geoffrey Dickens served up a March 1 compilation post complaining that some pointed out that some pointed out that the inevitable result of Musk’s aggressive DOGE cuts to aid is death for some. Joseph Vazquez served up a similar complaint in a March 5 post:
We thought we had seen it all with the astronomically stupid media takes surrounding Elon Musk and DOGE cutting up the federal government’s credit cards, but lefty magazine The New Republic just potentially one-upped them all.
“Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Could Kill Your Dog,” TNR staff writer Kate Aronoff grumbled in an insane March 5 screed.
Aronoff took aim at Musk’s reported cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which Aronoff railed “could have unexpectedly deadly consequences for your pets—not to mention your own health.” Aronoff was adamant that the cuts would hinder NOAA’s ability to pass information “about harmful algal growth and toxicity on to municipal water treatment plants in time for them to protect people, pets, and businesses from being poisoned.”
Uh, it’s pretty safe to assume that canines don’t exactly care about President Donald Trump and Musk slashing enormous waste in the federal government.
Vazquez called on “Climate Depot founder Marc Morano” — a former writer for the MRC’s now-defunct “news” division CNSNews.com, who turned into a right-wing climate denier despite having no training in climate science — to serve up more talking points in rebuttal.
Bonilla returned to fret about more criticism in a March 7 post:
The daily DOGE drumbeat continues apace, and the strategy behind the “legacy” media’s reporting is now plainly apparent. They want to drive a wedge between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Consider ABC’s report in its entirety, as aired on ABC World New Tonight on Thursday, March 6th, 2025[:] […]
Within a matter of seconds after anchor David Muir’s lengthy introduction, Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce hypes the AstroTurf town hall protests, and suggests they are driving impetus to “curtail” Musk by shifting the responsibility for firings to the Cabinet agencies. But the reality is, this is where such authority has always been.
But somehow this is presented as a reining in of DOGE. Nothing could be further from reality.
When DOGE cuts at the Veterans Administration were pointed out, Bonilla insisted that veterans don’t really deserve that much aid from the government they served:
With the media’s assent, the American people are gaslit into believing that the sacred duty to defend our veterans includes the provision of a lifetime government job. That is simply not the case. This entire angle is also crafted with the intent of wedging Musk away from Trump, who enjoyed broad veteran support en route to his Election Night victory.
The media have little left in their quiver beyond trying to separate Musk and Trump. DOGE coverage in general has sought to ramp the hysteria to 11, even if it is unburdened by the truth.
David Milliken served up a more irrelevant defense of Musk in a March 11 post:
CNN was in pretty typical form Monday – absorbed with Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and still quite comfortable making up and promoting unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about him on the spot. On Inside Politics, Dana Bash interviewed former CFPB director Rohit Chopra, ostensibly on Musk’s plan to cut the agency, and Chopra conjectured wildly about Musk abusing his position for his own illicit profit, to which Bash happily played along.
Bash neglected to mention that Chopra had, in addition to his former post at the Consumer Financial Protection Board, held a long series of positions in the Democratic Party, and was far from a neutral source.
Milliken went on to huff that the segment “concluded with a groundless outright accusation that Musk was purging the government of those who might interfere with his schemes.” But that claim is far from groundless: Senate Democrats found that DOGE cuts targeted regulators as Musk’s companies, which will allow those companies to evade as much as $2 billion in penalties.
Bonilla imagined network threats to Musk in his own March 11 post:
From watching the White House wrapup that aired on ABC World News Tonight, reasonable individuals can arrive at the conclusion that ABC is attempting to incite violence or some other adverse action against Tesla/SpaceX founder Elon Musk. An inflammatory intro from anchor David Muir led to an even more inflammatory report from former Chief Biden White House apple polisher Mary Bruce.
[…]After spending years foisting electric cars upon the American public and gleefully promoting related mandates as enacted by the Biden administration, the media are now referring to them as “luxury cars.” What a difference an Elon derangement makes.
Bonilla failed to mention that among the people foisting electric cars on the American public has been … Musk. Nevertheless, he concluded by raging:
At a time when there are already destructive protests at Tesla dealerships and outright vandalism of Teslas on the road, the reporting on display is nothing short of reckless, politically slanted, and stands as a clear incitement of violence against Musk. Never have the underlying reasons for America’s massive distrust of media been so clearly crystalized in a single news story.
Bill D’Agostino spent a March 12 post lamenting that the non-right-wing media used to like Musk:
Some of us are old enough to remember when journalists praised Musk as a “real-life Iron Man,” “a visionary,” and even “the Jesus Christ of our era.” Back then, every SpaceX rocket launch drew more media adulation than a Barack Obama speech, with journalists describing the company’s breakthroughs as “glorious,” “stunning,” and once, even “a miracle.”
We’re old enough to remember when the MRC used to hate Musk for cozying up to China — but that was before he committed what D’Agostino called the “cardinal sins” of buying Twitter and voting for Trump.