NewsBusters Podcast: PBS and NPR Lose Their Minds Over Musk and His CPAC Chainsaw

Elon Musk wielded a chainsaw at CPAC, striking a pose next to Argentina’s president Javier Milei. The networks loved to show it, but deprived it of its Argentinian context. They’ve never wanted to tell the story of Javier Milei, or what has happened to Argentina since he was elected and took a metaphorical chainsaw to the bureaucracy there.

The networks really hate Elon Musk for trying to reduce government in any way. Journalists in America are deeply in love with bureaucracy. They’re very defensive when you say Deep State. The Deep state are their friends and their sources, the wise men and women with the Ivy League degrees spreading the money around for the left here and abroad.

"Public" broadcasters are incredibly anti-Musk, since they are dreading the DOGE wagon pulling up to PBS and NPR. On the PBS News Hour, correspondent William Brangham offered a nasty hit piece, with colleagues who are "increasingly concerned about Musk's mental health and drug use," citing Ketamine for depression. 

Brangham implied that his rightward moments are concerning, like "labeling Democrats the party of division and hate. And he shared extremist, hard-right views on X, endorsing the so-called Great Replacement Theory that argues Democrats want open borders to replace white voters."

Ten years ago, the liberal media were doing stories like this “During his visit to the Bay Area, President Barack Obama spent a night on the town Friday, raising money and enjoying dinner in Presidio Heights with Tesla CEO Elon Musk.” That was before Anakin Musk joined the Dark Side.

At NPR, David Folkenflik has a new article out titled “These far-right media figures are getting center stage under Trump.” The star of this piece is Lara Logan, the former 60 Minutes star, who has been sort of banished from Fox and Newsmax. This is what NPR lives to do, to publish fearmongering articles about the escapades of the so-called Far Right. Now could David Folkenflik answer this: What would NPR see as the far-left fringe?

NPR itself has promoted the book In Defense of Looting, touted as "excellent" a book arguing that race riots against police should be called "rebellions," praised the movie How to Blow Up a Pipeline as “hugely timely” as time runs out on "ecological disasters like climate change."

So when people think NPR is that place for civility on the radio, they would be wrong. They can devote their resources to getting behind looting, rioting, and blowing up pipelines.

Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana spoke on the Senate floor with his typical verve: “As far as I’m concerned, this gravy train – this gravy train with biscuit wheels called the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – is the perfect example of a project the American people no longer need and should not fund.” The senator rightly said that "public" stations should be the most objective outlets in the land, since all Americans fund them. Instead, they land firmly on the left on a daily basis. 

Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts.