Christmas may be upon us but politics rests for no one, as we see on CNN State of the Union. Host Dana Bash once again tries to push the tired “King Elon” narrative but CNN commentator Scott Jennings was there to quickly and expeditiously shut it down.
Watch as Jennings scores a two-for-one hit on the media:
CNN STATE OF THE UNION
12/22/24
9:45 AM
DANA BASH: I want to bring in the Elon Musk of it all, because this has been a through line of discussion both by Democrats and Republicans. Democrats are saying he's the real President-Elect. A lot of Republicans are saying “that's not true, but thank goodness he did what he did.” Um, is this going to wear thin with Donald Trump soon?
SCOTT JENNINGS: I don't think so. I mean, look, they appear to be getting along well. Musk was very instrumental in his victory. And I hear Democrats, you know, criticizing the idea that we have unelected people with too much influence over the government. I invite them to pick up The Wall Street Journal from this week and find out that unelected people have been running the government for the last four years. I hear Democrats criticizing, criticizing the influence of billionaires on our politics when you've got this Soros punk running around collecting Democrat politicians like my kids collect Pokémon cards. So I think all the criticism of Musk coming from the left is totally hypocritical, totally over the top, and he is doing something interesting. Bringing some transparency to the federal government. It’s not a terrible thing.
We saw some of the beginnings of the anti-Musk narrative when the initial Cromnibus bill died in a flurry of Musk (and Ramaswamy) posts. Recall that it was CBS’s Norah O’Donnell who initially gave a voice to the left’s stated concerns over the influence of the “unelected” Musk:
NORAH O’DONNELL: As we seem to be witnessing the growing influence of the world's richest man, unelected tech billionaire Elon Musk spent the day repeatedly and publicly calling on Republicans to vote no and called for those who support the plan to be voted out of office.
Those disparate talking points have been distilled into some variant of “King Elon” or “President Musk”, ham-handedly crafted so as to drive a wedge between Musk and President-Elect Donald Trump, which leads us to CNN State of the Union.
Jennings took this “King Elon” softball and proceeded to smash it over the fence. First, by linking that narrative to the non compos mentis Biden presidency as outlined in that Wall Street Journal article that the Regime Media still mostly refuse to acknowledge. If the media are to whine about the influence that unelected advisors are having upon policy, then the current administration is certainly a good place to start.
Jennings then pivots to the “billionaire” portion of the talking point, calling out the hypocrisy of elected Democrats whining about Musk’s influence. As we pointed out not even two weeks after the election:
Of course, this reporting is fundamentally unserious. The media are perfectly fine with billionaires dabbling in politics so long as they dabble in the right politics. No one blinked when Mark Cuban threw on the Rachel Maddow glasses and shilled for Kamala Harris. No one suggested nefarious quid pro quos or conflicts of interest. Cuban was a patriot, you see, exercising his First Amendment right to shill for the Regime.
Likewise, no one gives a rip that Dauphin Prince Alex Soros routinely posts pictures of himself with captured Democrat politicians, in a manner reminiscent of a big game hunter posing with his trophies. Soros isn’t a problem, either.
Only Elon is an issue, because he chose to side with the Bad Orange Man.
Soros playing Catch’em All with elected Democrats only serves to highlight the hypocrisy of a media that have lost their footing and are still reflexively shilling for the left. What Jennings exposes here is the media’s shift, in real time, from Regime to Resistance.
