Elon Musk

Krugman Couldn’t Smell ‘Corruption’ If It Died In Front of Him
The same deranged, former columnist for The New York Times who spent years praising President Joe Biden as the best thing since sliced bread is now trying to sound the alarm on so-called “corruption” within the Trump administration.

Trump v. Musk Circus: Manna from Headline Heaven for the Liberals
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.

Don Lemon and Kathy Griffin Go Full Election Denier
In June 2023, recently fired CNN host Don Lemon claimed, “I don’t believe in platforming liars and bigots, insurrectionists and election deniers, and putting them on the same footing as people who are telling the truth.” If Lemon really believes that, he should deplatform…

NewsBusters Podcast: Media GLEE Breaks Out Over Trump-Musk Feud
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." This week pundits compared Elon's DOGE efforts to the mass murders of Stalin and Mao, including The View. Nick Fondacaro explains the craziness.

CNN This Morning Guests Compete for Worst Take on Trump and Musk Feud
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.

GOP Rep. Calls Out CNN for Hyping Trump/Musk Feud Over Real Problems
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.

Study: Media Ignored Booker’s Goofy ‘Nazi’ Salute, but Hammered Elon’s
Back in January, when Elon Musk made an strange hand gesture which resembled a Nazi or Roman salute while celebrating President Trump’s inauguration, the corporate media were eager to conclude that Musk’s on-stage awkwardness must categorically make him a Nazi. Yet last week, when Democratic Senator Cory Booker made an identical motion at the end of a speech in California, none of those same…

Don’t Drink and Write! NYT’s Goldberg Wails Musk’s Legacy Is ‘DEATH’
One of the most unhinged columnists at The New York Times penned such a deranged rant against X owner Elon Musk that it begs the question of whether she was drunk before she turned it in.

NBC Only Legacy Newscast to Report on KJP Book and Party Switch
The legacy media generally love to report on perceived palace intrigue and betrayal, unless the intrigue happens within a Democrat White House. Then, it’s all quiet on the Leftern Front. NBC’s reporting on the new book by former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is the exception.

ABC News: Musk Killed 300,000 Kids, Knows How Trump Stole Election
You would think that an ABC News program like The View would have some sort of journalistic standard they needed to meet, but that clearly wasn’t the case during Wednesday’s episode. In their opening segment flinging crud at Elon Musk, co-host Sunny Hostin claimed he had killed nearly 300,000 children and co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar hinted that he knew how President Trump…

CBS Takes Credit for Musk’s Expected Departure From Government
Somehow, CBS had come to the conclusion that they deserved credit for the end of Elon Musk’s time with DOGE. On CBS News Sunday Morning, the complete interview between David Pogue and Elon Musk was finally aired; having generated much media attention from a clip CBS circulated days prior, in which Musk expressed his criticism of President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, and supposedly led…

Brooks Invokes Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin To Mark Musk's Departure From DOGE
New York Times columnist David Brooks did the not-so-clever trick of insisting he wasn’t saying what he was indeed saying on Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour as he reflected back on Elon Musk’s time at DOGE by comparing him to Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, and Joseph Stalin.

Hayes Claims Musk is ‘Leaving in Disgrace,’ The Facts Say Otherwise
MSNBC’s host of All In, Chris Hayes, got the facts wrong on Thursday as he criticized Elon Musk, who was preparing to make his way out of office. As a special government employee, Musk was granted only 130 days to lead DOGE in rooting out waste and corruption within the government. In that time, Musk has cut an estimated $175 billion in unnecessary spending across the board. However,…

Nets Find New Respect For Musk's Deficit Concerns As GOP Pushes BBB
According to a NewsBusters study, ABC, CBS, and NBC’s coverage of Elon Musk’s budget-cutting efforts at DOGE was 97 percent negative, but on Wednesday, their respective morning shows of Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, and Today found a strange new respect for Musk’s concerns about the deficit as they used him to undermine the Big Beautiful Bill recently passed by…