Legacy media manipulation might be dying, but it's still a powerful force with a keen ability to put out bad info and fake news, and you can see it doing so in spades in regard to Elon Musk. 

As I wrote just the other day, they're attacking Musk relentlessly, even more so than they are Donald Trump, because Musk is in charge of a government organization tasked with auditing various federal departments. I find their attacks against him very telling, as he's just the auditor. It's his job to go in, find waste, redundancies, or corruption, and like a hunting dog, point and bark so the real hunter, Trump, can come in and pull the trigger. 

(READ: Musk Panic Among the Democrats Is Proof They Don't Know What to Do About Him)

That doesn't mean the media isn't trying to do something about it. It's doing what it does best, public manipulation. 

I found this response to something Musk posted interesting. Musk said that "90 precent of America loves DOGE," to which an X user responded with "polling shows that only 38 percent to 40 percent of Americans have a favorable view" of Musk's organization. 

Polling shows that only 38% to 49% of Americans have a favorable view of DOGE. https://t.co/yNnI8bEeq6

— i/o (@eyeslasho) February 13, 2025

As it turns out, approval numbers are in the eye of the beholder. How it's framed depends on the poll you look at. Rasmussen has 55 percent of likely U.S. voters approving of Musk heading up DOGE, including 38 percent showing strong approval for it. 

Head over to the Hart Research for Groundwork Collaborative and Public Citizen, and you've got 54 percent unfavorability and 40 percent "very unfavorable." 

Which poll is true? 

It doesn't matter. 

What matters is that we elected Trump with one of the promises from him being that Musk would come in with DOGE and audit the government, which he's doing and doing very transparently, I might add. We voted for this. 

But the media's response seem to be that we've bitten off more than America could chew, and Musk is being given far more power than anyone anticipated. 

Over at WIRED, an article titled "DOGE's Race to the Bottom" has the drophead stating "Elon Musk’s takeover of US government agencies has happened at remarkable speeds." 

AP carried the lie from blue state attorney's that Musk has "virtually unchecked power." 

TIME made it sound like Musk is going into various government agencies and firing people left and right, by reporting, "Mass layoffs have begun at multiple government agencies as DOGE has been tasked by Trump to drastically shrink the federal workforce." 

The Tennessean throws any subtlety out the window with its push poll asking, "Does Elon Musk wield too much power in the Trump administration?" According to its results, 80 percent of people say yes, they claim. The respondents were 300 of its own readers. 

This is all made to make Musk sound like he has absolute authority within the federal government, second only to Trump. This is not the case. As I said earlier in this article, Musk is simply an auditor, and DOGE is his auditing team. He has no real power to cut anything. His job is to simply uncover the rot, and Trump takes it from there. 

The goal here is to make it sound like Trump's administration has its hands off the wheel and unelected people are just slamming the pedal to the metal and driving in an out-of-control manner, to the detriment of our country. They're even spending an inordinate amount of time trying to make Musk sound like an irresponsible, immature goofball who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near government. 

Watch this miserable CNN guest try to paint Musk as a childish man who is ingrained in "video game culture." 

Kara Swisher on Elon Musk:

"He loves Dank Memes. He loves to make jokes and then laugh at his own jokes. A 53 years old man does not do this." pic.twitter.com/9bm5StqHlV

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) February 13, 2025

Lady, I'm already sold on Musk, you don't have to keep trying to get me to buy him. 

But the strategy here is plain as day. Musk is an irresponsible, immature man who has been given too much power. They throw in scary words and phrases like "unconstitutional" to drive the idea home that Musk is out of control and operating well outside legality, bringing up things like the "appointment clause," which says all appointees by the president have to be confirmed by the Senate. 

However, this only applies to appointees with enforcement power, of which Musk and DOGE have none. Again, Musk and DOGE are just the auditors. They're an advisory body with no executive powers. It's likely that the 14 attorneys general from the blue states know this, but the point isn't actually challenging the legality of what Musk is doing, it's normalizing the lie that he's acting outside constitutional bounds. 

If they can make you scared of Musk, then it will not just complicate his job, it will reflect badly on Trump's administration and cause his own popularity to decline. If people believe the government is being handled irresponsibly, it will make it easier for Democrats to weasel their way back into power come the midterms. 

But Musk is doing exactly what we asked him to do. Trump is doing exactly what we voted for. 

The left knows this, so the strategy seems to be, "Yes, but you didn't vote for all this illegal chaos and out-of-control power by unelected people! Panic at this disco!"

As usual, there's not really much to panic about. What Musk is doing is superb, and we're watching as the government that abused our trust and wasted billions of our tax dollars is being trimmed down and corrected. We're literally watching the swamp drain in real-time, and it's all to the benefit of we the people. America's future is becoming much brighter because we're now getting a government that will behave with better efficiency and do it in a far less costly manner. 

The question that should be asked isn't about Musk; it's why do the left and the Democrat Party not want us to look into all this corruption and waste? 

They want to distract you with panic to stop you from seeing the big picture, but we're not buying it. 

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