WaPo Hit Piece Paints Elon Musk As ‘Uniquely Dangerous’

The Washington Post has long been the mouthpiece of the Democratic National Committee, strutting its phony, self-righteous objectivity around like an exceptionally ugly drag queen. There is no hiding its bias, as there no hiding the dude down deep under the wig, makeup, and stilettos.  

Leftist slant is what you come to expect from a publication that has been staffed and led by graduates of the Aaron Sorkin School of Journalism. 

But the Post has trended in a much uglier direction in recent years, trading in its claim as defender of the First Amendment for a spot on the cheerleading squad of the speech-silencing movement. Reporters Sarah Ellison, Amy Gardner, and Clara Ence Morse captained the latest pep rally with a hit piece headlined “Elon Musk’s misleading election claims reach millions and alarm election officials.”

‘Uniquely Dangerous’ 

Beyond the story’s clear and abundant disdain for anything remotely resembling election integrity is the current of the piece: that Musk and his takeover of Twitter — now X — are not only dangerous to elections officials but a threat to democracy. The talking point, for those who have not been following along this long election season, is pulled directly from the Democrat Party playbook.  

“Experts say Musk is uniquely dangerous as a purveyor of misinformation because his digital following stretches well beyond the political realm and into the technology and investment sectors, where his business achievements have earned him credibility,” the piece feverishly indicts, as the Post so often does, employing “experts” to send the requisite message. Of course, we don’t know who most of the “more than two dozen election officials and experts” interviewed are, because they have spoken to the newspaper’s reporters anonymously to “protect themselves and their organizations in a polarized election season.” 

My hunch is these are the same kind of “experts” who have long helped the leftist news outlet that interfered in the rigged 2020 election with their esteemed corporate media pals by silencing the Hunter Biden laptop story.  Not until nearly two years later did the Post join the New York Times in admitting that the damning emails from the junior Biden’s laptop about the senior Biden’s political corruption enterprise were real. 

But Musk, according to the Post, is the purveyor of “false and misleading election posts” that “add to the deluge of inaccurate information plaguing voting officials across the country.”

Give us a break. 

‘He Reinstated Accounts’

Had Musk owned the social media platform in 2020, the laptop story may not have been smothered by Twitter, at the direction of the truly dangerous deep state, and things might have been a lot different. It’s very possible Americans wouldn’t have been stuck with the economic and national security disasters they have faced under dementia-ridden President Joe Biden and his cackling lieutenant, Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Still, the print contract killers of this Washington Post hit job lament that Musk swept into Twitter and made “deep cuts in staff responsible for maintaining standards on the site.” Standards? The standard was to suppress conservative speech — and, in many cases, facts that were uncomfortable to Donald Trump-hating politicians and deep staters. Musk “courted major conservative figures,” the article moans. God forbid! Musk brought in opposing voices to the leftist line promoted at Twitter. That sounds like the horrifying return of free expression. 

“He reinstated accounts previously banned for violating the platform’s rules, including Donald Trump’s, and promised to usher in a less restrictive era,” the reporters write. Musk, you monster! How could you allow the leader of one of America’s two major political parties to freely speak on the social network that you purchased for a hefty price. 

What the Post is really ticked off about is this: the guy once loved by the left for his electric vehicles and who once supported Democrats for president isn’t doing so right now. In fact, “after the assassination attempt on Trump in July,” which the left and its press have memory-holed as an inconvenient truth of this election, Musk had the audacity to post “a photo of the Republican presidential candidate, face bloodied, with his fist in the air, and endorsed him for 2024 and welcomed him back to X with a live-streamed conversation between the two.”

And then there’s the bridge too far for the Post: Trump’s pledge to put Musk at the head of a government efficiency commission. 

Election Integrity Deniers

All that free speech and courting of “major conservative figures” makes Musk an “election denier,” to the folks at the Post. What the coexist crowd simply cannot tolerate is the fact that the multibillionaire is using his powerful bullhorn to call out election integrity deniers. 

The article accuses Musk of repeatedly claiming “without evidence that Democrats are ‘importing’ undocumented people to vote in the coming election.” Well, let’s take a quick look at what has transpired over the past three and a half years under Dem control of the White House and the U.S. Senate. The Biden administration has allowed an absolute invasion of illegal immigrants, an estimated 10 million pouring over the U.S. border. The same administration has operated a secret campaign — by executive fiat — to deploy federal agencies to register left-leaning voters.

State elections officials have reported thousands of noncitizens on their voter rolls. Foreign nationals are receiving voter registration forms across the country, particularly in critical swing states. 

But Musk is spreading “disinformation,” say the Post and the same people operating the targeted voter drives. They love to use that word, “disinformation.” And “cheap fakes.” The same news accomplice media outlets wagging their fingers at Musk are the same “news” organizations that kept selling us the White House line that videos of a cognitively slipping Joe Biden were nothing but “cheap fakes,” Republican-spun “disinformation.” 

As my Federalist colleague Margot Cleveland pointed out this week on Musk’s social media platform, “Even [Democratic] party leaders are admitting now they want illegals to be able to vote.” 

They said as much with their actions when the vast majority of House Democrats voted against the SAVE Act, a bill requiring documented proof of citizenship in federal elections, and Biden threatened to veto it. 

Democracy Dies in Silence

The Post’s hit piece is more of the same, attacking election integrity advocates like Cleta Mitchell and her Election Integrity Network, as well as Michigan Fair Elections. Mitchell and the organizations have warned about and exposed problems with voter rolls, mail-in ballots, and a throng of leftist “voter rights” activists that have fought against election integrity laws. 

They hate Musk and anyone who questions the company line that voter fraud doesn’t exist and that the 2020 election was “the most secure in American history.” The Post paints them as threats to democracy, as Democrats go about the business of crushing representative democracy through lawfare campaigns, politically weaponizing law enforcement and courts, and obliterating competition from within the party power structure. 

Musk and X are dangerous to them and their water carriers in corporate media. As the Post story notes, elections officials are getting some pesky questions about “false” information they’re seeing on X. That’s disruptive to the status quo, a threat to the cabal in power. The First Amendment, they believe, is no excuse for ideas they’ve ruled “disinformation.”  

Democracy Dies in Darkness indeed. 

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.