PBS News Hour reporter William Brangham dumped a truckload of slime over space entrepreneur and Trump advisor Elon Musk’s head in a 10-minute news piece/hit piece that aired Thursday evening. PBS cannot stand that Musk’s DOGE squad will eventually come around to their studios and offices.
Reporter William Brangham’s history of Musk told a dark tale.
In Brangham’s telling, the answer is a tragedy. After a couple of clips from Musk biographers, Brangham outlined Musk’s achievements, like electric cars and going to Mars, before a clip of Musk describing himself as “half Republican, half Democrat….sort of socially liberal and fiscally conservative.”
But then Musk’s politics “began a rightward turn” during the pandemic in California, where he was forced to lock down his Tesla electric car plants, and things went dark and reckless.
Brangham added some personal smears to the…
