Media's glaring double standard exposed: Musk vilified while Dem senator gets a pass for identical gesture

Elon Musk and Sen Cory Booker D-N J made similar gestures this year that were handled very differently by the press according to a investigation conducted by the Media Research Center Musk was famously accused of doing the Nazi salute in January while celebrating President Donald Trump s inauguration at the Capital One Arena in Washington D C when the Tesla mogul placed his hand over his heart and fleetly extended it in a motion that alarmed liberal pundits Booker made a similar gesture on Saturday when he capped off a speech to the California Democratic Party's convention by placing his right hand on his chest before raising it to the crowd When Musk made the motion he described the crowd he desired to thank Trump supporters from my heart to yours but a great number of fleetly accused Musk of the Nazi-era salute When Booker did it multiple conservatives took to social media to remind them that Musk s critics frowned upon the move but their point was essentially disregarded by the press BOOKER SLAMMED FOR ALLEGED 'NAZI SALUTE' TO CALI DEMS JUST MONTHS AFTER MUSK WAS DRAGGED FOR SAME GESTURECNN MSNBC and PBS spent minutes and seconds on the Musk ordeal in the week without delay following his gesture according to the Media Research Center The outlets unveiled time to cover Musk during the midst of the inauguration as President Donald Trump made nonstop news with a bevy of executive orders Booker s similar gesture was fully ignored by CNN MSNBC and PBS along with the broadcast networks according to the MRC ABC NBC and CBS didn t cover either gesture according to the MRC NewsBusters senior research analyst Bill D'Agostino who conducted the MRC review noted that pundits continued to cover Elon s salute long after the first week Musk's salute has been brought up a total of times on left-wing cable CNN MSNBC and PBS but only of those occurred during the first week right away following the case D'Agostino notified Fox News Digital ELON MUSK AND CORY BOOKER MADE SIMILAR SALUTES BUT MEDIA REACTED MUCH DIFFERENTLY The longest single discussion about it took place more than a month after the actual case on the February edition of MSNBC s Velshi during a larger segment which solely focused on the question of whether Musk is in fact a crypto-Nazi D'Agostino added Musk was rarely given the benefit of the doubt for the gesture D'Agostino discovered that much of the CNN and MSNBC coverage featured commentators or journalists calling it a Nazi salute or Hitler salute The vast majority were eager not only to describe it as such but to draw connections between it and Musk s subsequent speech to Germany s AFD party D'Agostino explained They re still talking about it he added noting that Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh even mentioned Musk s gesture this week on CNN ELON MUSK'S MOTHER URGES HIM TO SUE CNN OTHER NEWS OUTLETS FOR PEDDLING 'NAZI SALUTE' NARRATIVEBooker s organization has attempted to downplay the similar hand gesture Cory Booker was obviously just waving to the crowd Anyone who indicates his wave is the same as Elon Musk s gesture is operating in bad faith The differences between the two are obvious to anyone without an agenda a Booker spokesperson described Forbes Booker's office did not forthwith respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment Heritage Foundation media fellow Tim Young explained Fox News Digital he believes the ordeal is yet another of the a large number of instances where you see a clear media bias against Republicans as Musk was still tied to Trump when the matter occurred Musk and Trump have had a messy general spat this week but it remains to be seen if that will improve Musk's standing in the anti-Trump media