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Elon Musk According to a study conducted by the Center for Media Research, Sen. DN.J. Cory Booker made similar gestures this year.
Musk is famously accused Nazi greetings Celebrate the President in January Donald TrumpThe Tesla tycoon put his hand on his heart and quickly expanded it to the inauguration of One Arena, the capital of Washington, D.C., with the move of a alarming liberal expert. Booker made a similar gesture Saturday when he gave a speech to the California Democratic Convention by placing his right hand in front of his chest and then lifted it up to the crowd.
When Musk made the motion, he told the crowd that he wanted to thank Trump supporters “from my heart to your heart”, but many quickly accused Musk of paying homage to the Nazi era. Booker did so, and many conservatives came to social media to remind them that Musk’s critics frowned when they held this up, but their views were essentially ignored by the media.
Elon Musk and Sen. Cory Booker, DN.J., made similar gestures that were very different from the media. (Fox News)
According to his gesture, CNN, MSNBC and PBS spent 16 seconds on Musk misery within the week after his gesture. Media Research Center. During the inauguration, President Donald Trump made uninterrupted news through a series of execution orders, where these media found time to cover Musk.
According to MRC, CNN, MSNBC and PBS, and broadcast networks completely ignore Booker’s similar gestures.
MRC said that ABC, NBC and CBS do not cover any gesture.
Bill D’Agostino, senior research analyst at NewsBusters who conducted the MRC study, noted that Pundits continued to report on Elon’s “tribute” long after the first week.
“Musk’s tribute was made 55 times in total on CNN/MSNBC and PBS, but only 22 happened in the first week after the incident,” D’Agostino told Fox News Digital Digital.
Elon Musk and Cory Booker have made similar tributes, but media responses are very different
A week after the event, CNN, MSNBC and PBS spent 16 minutes and 17 seconds on Elon Musk’s gestures.
D’Agostino added: “In MSNBC’s ‘Velshi’ on February 23, the longest single discussion took place more than a month after the actual event, which was in a larger section, focusing only on whether Musk was actually a crypto-Nazi question,” D’Agostino added. “Musk is rarely treated with the benefit of doubt.”
D’Agostino found that most of the coverage of CNN and MSNBC featured commentators or journalists, calling it a “Nazi tribute” or “Hitler tribute.”
“The vast majority of people are eager to describe it, but also to contact Musk later on to the AFD party in Germany,” Dakostino said.
“They are still talking about it,” he added. Congress candidate Kat Abughazaleh Musk’s gesture was even mentioned on CNN this week.
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Elon Musk arrived on March 4, 2025 at the Joint Meeting of the House of Representatives’ Assembly at the U.S. Congress Building in Washington, DC for a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Booker’s team tried to downplay similar gestures.
A Booker spokesman told Forbes: “Obviously, Booker waved to the crowd. Anyone who claims his waves is the same as Elon Musk’s.
Booker’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
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Tim Young, a media researcher at Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital that he believes the ordeal is another of many cases of media bias against Republicans, because Musk is still associated with Trump when the incident happened.
Musk and Trump The public quarrel was chaotic this week, but whether that would improve Musk’s position in the anti-Trump media remains to be seen.
