Soon after the House on Friday night voted to advance a massive spending package and avoid a government shutdown (at least until March), CNN’s hosts and anchors targeted Elon Musk as the instigator of the “chaos,” “panic” and “madness” because he “threw a grenade” and “torpedoed” the backroom deal reached earlier in the week.
“It was Elon Musk who first upended this process,” charged fill-in host Sara Sidner on Erin Burnett OutFront soon after 7pm ET. “It was Musk who began the panic and helped blow up a bipartisan agreement that was about to pass,” she insisted later in the same show.
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk threw a grenade into a bipartisan deal to keep the government open,” NewsNight host Abby Phillip argued a few hours later. Both Sidner and Phillip opted to display fake A.I.-generated images, created by Democratic…
