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Fox not happy MSNBC hosts laughing about Musk's latest rocket explosion [1]

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Date: 2025-03-11

The best shot at Musk was from The Beaverton, which had the headline: "Tragedy over Florida: Elon Musk not on exploding rocket."

The best euphemism SpaceX makes after these mishaps is it was a "rapid unscheduled disassembly."

Rachel Maddow did a segment on the explosion on Thursday while doing a tongue in cheek description of all the havoc the explosion did to air traffic. The last rocket explosion in January was still being investigated by the FAA. Musk then fired FAA employees. Then the FAA gives Starlink a contract for their terminals, and suddenly Musk gets the OK to fire up another rocket. Coincidence? But Rachel didn't laugh. Almost. "Rapid unscheduled disassembly is kind of Elon musk's specialty these days, especially in a way that messes with other people through no fault of their own."

Rachel's segment on YouTube.

Out and out laughing was reserved for the hosts of The Weekend, Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele and Symone Sanders-Townsend. Alicia did the intro and Symone started a song rendition, then asked the relevant question, "Why did they let him put this rocket in the air when they were still investigating to explosion?"

Then Michael took over. "My suggestion to Elon --- His response to all of this was 'rockets are hard.' Mr. Musk, if they're so hard, why don't you go back to your day job, work that out, and leave those of us who do government to do government, because you can't do both. And clearly, right now you're failing at both. Your rockets are blowing up and the government is blowing up."

A short video from The Weekend.

"Don't you dare root against SpaceX," Kayleigh McEnany said on Fox on Monday. Fox contributor Joe Concha sputtered that Musk is, "helping to save the planet," and he's being ridiculed by MSNBC because, "he's on team Trump," now.

Concha just had to keep going. "There's a reason that this network has more employees than viewers at this point. There's a reason why NBC is selling off MSNBC because it's not only a money losing operation, it's an embarrassment to call this news network a news network."

On Fox News "Outnumbered," Harris Faulkner said of Steele, "I thought they got rid of him at the RNC because he doesn't do government."

Emily Compagno added, "It is so unacceptable to root for any kind of damage like that. There is no place for that here!" She thought it was all a conspiracy to make Musk, "the boogeyman to drive turnout for Democrats," while completely forgetting midterms are in slmost two years.

Residents near to the launch site had their own take on the rocket explosion. A gator farmer named Mary Jones was dismayed that the falling parts didn't hit Musk. "Harmlessly? Sure, it's harmless if you don't count the pollution and property damage. Anything that leaves Elon unharmed to continue his destruction of the entire Administrative State can't be described as harmless."

Jasmine Crockett on X (she didn't put it up on her Bluesky) had her own take about how Musk might not have things blowing up if he had DEI hires who just happened to be smarter:

"I'm sure Faux News won't report on this but how is it a guy that keeps blowing stuff up, literally and figuratively, is firing people claiming they're failures? We know his failures don't have anything to do with DEI because he doesn't believe in it, but he'd possibly be succeeding right now if he did believe. Ya see, clearly there's a lot of unqualified people running this thing... maybe expand the talent pool or maybe he has them focusing on their five things they've done over the week instead of the task at hand; you know not having stuff blow up present a danger to the rest of the country."

She also wondered the same thing everybody who isn't Fox (Faux) News was wondering. How did he get clearance to launch when the explosion of the Starship in January was still going on?

Sidetracking completely, Trump just put up a one minute video of him and Musk where Elon says, "As a function of the great policies of President Trump and his Administration and as an act of faith in America, Tesla is going to double its output production in United States within the next two years."

Elon's going to have to stack them on top of each other at his showrooms, because nobody's going to be buying them. It'll be amazing if the company lasts by the end of the year.

Musk's rocket ships that ferry astronauts back and forth to the International Space Station are ones that are tried and true tested. What we've got here with the Starship blowing up, is a different story. They're unmanned. It looks like it's going to be a long time before they have astronauts. I sure wouldn't want to be the first one to go up in it. Not until they have at least a series of functional launches.

Until then, we're entitled to have a little fun at Elon Musk's expense, because what he deserves is massive ridicule. Or maybe some rapid unscheduled laughing.

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