Elon Musk may well have fallen harder from the corporate media’s graces than any public figure in recent memory. While today’s journalists jeer and laugh at every SpaceX flub, and deride the tech billionaire as a Nazi, that wasn’t the case as recently as a few years ago.
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.”
But alas, then Elon Musk committed not one, but two cardinal sins: purchasing Twitter and voting for Donald Trump. It’s said that traitors are judged more harshly than enemies, and for these two acts of defiance, Musk was most certainly considered a traitor to the left.
With all the negative headlines circulating about everyone’s favorite (or least favorite) African American tech mogul, we thought it’d be nice to take a little journey back to a simpler time — a time when Elon Musk was just a “staggeringly intelligent” car salesman who wanted to save the Earth from AI and climate change.
To that end, here is some of the most effusive praise journalists would like us all to forget they ever uttered about the eccentric DOGE mastermind:
