{"id":2402411,"date":"2025-02-13T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-musk-transparency-edition\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T15:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:35:24","slug":"how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-musk-transparency-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-musk-transparency-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Media Are Lying Right Now: Musk &#8216;Transparency&#8217; Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-the-media-are-lying-right-now-musk-transparency-edition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2402411&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">article discusses criticisms directed<\/a> \u200dat Elon Musk regarding transparency in his efforts to reform government spending \u2062through an initiative known as\u200d DOGE.\u200d It argues that accusations of Musk&#8217;s lack\u2064 of transparency \u200care \u200bunfounded and emphasizes the importance of\u2064 his project, which aims to cut excess\u200c government personnel and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-tells-trump-hed-serve-on-a-commission-to-address-nations-government-spending-crisis\/\" title=\"Musk Tells Trump He&#039;d Serve on a Commission to Address Nation&#039;s ... Crisis\">identify wasteful spending<\/a>. The piece\u2064 mentions Musk&#8217;s \u200dactive interaction of his actions via social media, where DOGE posts\u200d updates about notable cost savings attributed to the elimination of various contracts. The author notes that\u2062 Musk&#8217;s transparency has been questioned by some media outlets, \u200dwhich have implied he\u2063 might be withholding details. However, the\u200b article suggests that\u200b such concerns are less about true transparency and more \u2064about\u200c obstructing musk&#8217;s initiatives. It concludes that \u2062rather than \u2064genuinely seeking transparency, critics are primarily focused on hindering his government&#8217;s spending cuts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The next time some infantile reporter in Washington accuses Elon Musk of a &ldquo;lack of transparency,&rdquo; he should be required to say precisely what he would like to see from Elon and then be swiftly told to take a hike.<\/p>\n<p>Other than overpaid government workers with obscene retirement benefits, nobody in America has felt even a slight breeze as a result of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/07\/if-elons-doge-is-to-successfully-cut-government-waste-there-can-be-no-but-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anything Musk is doing<\/a>, which so far is related to eliminating excess government personnel and identifying unnecessary spending in the federal budget. As luck would have it, the outside agency he&rsquo;s leading, known as DOGE, is publishing a lot of its activity on social media. <\/p>\n<p>The X account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DOGE?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@DOGE<\/a> has frequently posted screenshots of government contracts that it says have been eliminated to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Some have been identified as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DOGE\/status\/1889857378520363493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DEI initiatives<\/a>, some as Green New Deal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DOGE\/status\/1889838663833645309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">boondoggles<\/a>,&nbsp;and yet still more as other&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DOGE\/status\/1889113011282907434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trifling matters<\/a>&nbsp;that would never receive a dollar in funding if not for our endlessly corrupt system that wastes taxpayer money hand over fist.<\/p>\n<p>That would be enough, but it was highly appreciated that Musk on Tuesday spoke and answered questions from reporters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A5RPfe5coe8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for 30 minutes<\/a> in the Oval Office as to what exactly he was doing on behalf of President Trump. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What I really would say is it&rsquo;s not optional for us to reduce the federal expenses, it&rsquo;s essential,&rdquo; Musk said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s essential for America to remain solvent as a country, and it&rsquo;s essential for America to have the resources necessary to provide things to its citizens and not simply be servicing vast amounts of debt.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>A reporter at the event asked Musk to identify &ldquo;the checks and balances that are in place to ensure that there is accountability and transparency&rdquo; with his process, to which Musk replied, &ldquo;In fact, we post our actions to the DOGE handle on X and to the DOGE website. So all of our actions are maximally transparent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And yet still, reporters and cable news talkers suggested Musk might be hiding something. An ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/elon-musk-faces-1st-questions-doges-transparency-joins\/story?id=118705771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> said &ldquo;it&rsquo;s unclear to whom he is accountable, other than Trump.&rdquo; (Admittedly, it&rsquo;s a radical concept that someone working under the executive branch of government would be ultimately accountable to the president, an idea that several anti-constitutionalist judges have <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/11\/how-the-media-learned-to-start-worrying-and-fear-the-constitutional-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rejected in recent days<\/a>.) CNN&rsquo;s Anderson Cooper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/02\/11\/politics\/video\/kth-elon-musk-donald-trump-maximal-transparency-ac360-digvid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> there was &ldquo;little evidence &hellip; to back it up&rdquo; that Musk was being &ldquo;maximally transparent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&rsquo;m claiming to blow the lid off a scandal here, but these nerds are disingenuous. It&rsquo;s not a mystery as to what happens when government spending is cut. People lose their government jobs and contractors see their own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-rand-paul-whips-the-props-out-to-go-over-costly-research-into-cocaine-and-risky-sex-habits-of-quail\/\" title=\"Sen. Rand Paul Whips The Props Out To Go Over Costly Research Into \u2018Cocaine And Risky Sex Habits Of Quail\u2019\">government-funded projects<\/a> come to an end. For the curious at heart as to what projects and jobs are affected, check the DOGE feed on X. Being able to peer over Musk&rsquo;s shoulder at what exactly he&rsquo;s doing at any given moment isn&rsquo;t going to bring new light on that process, as upsetting as the whole thing may be for a news media that places all of its faith in the government bureaucracy to do good things.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say, &ldquo;transparency&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t really what they care about. They care about slowing Musk&rsquo;s efforts down, clogging it up in hopes that they can pinpoint something to controversialize and thereby build public pressure that ends DOGE altogether. It&rsquo;s not going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Even the most legitimate concern, to the extent that it&rsquo;s sincere, over Musk receiving billions in government contracts for his own companies, is relatively frivolous. SpaceX and Tesla operations have been on the government payroll for years. and at least as far as SpaceX goes, the results <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/spacex-launch-boeing-nasa-stuck-astronauts-e179d0dc6c77d224278fd0430148ff8b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speak for themselves<\/a>. It&rsquo;s basically NASA but with working rockets. With regard to Tesla, Musk got everything <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/748694\/tesla-nevi-biden-charging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and more<\/a> from the last administration&rsquo;s electric vehicle initiatives and that was without a friend in the White House. I&rsquo;m supposed to be alarmed about it <em>now<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Ignore the nagging about &ldquo;transparency.&rdquo; They don&rsquo;t want to see what Musk is doing. They want to stop him.<\/p>\n<hr><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters should specify their transparency concerns about Musk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2402412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Elon-Musk.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7380,32192,5157,4188,12404],"class_list":["post-2402411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-misinformation","tag-elon-musk","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-transparency"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Elon-Musk.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402415,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402411\/revisions\/2402415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2402412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}