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‘Give My Regards To Your Puppet Master’: Elon Musk Fires Back At WaPo Story And Owner Jeff Bezos

Hank Berrien
‘Give My Regards To Your Puppet Master’: Elon Musk Fires Back At WaPo Story And Owner Jeff Bezos
Musk: Win McNamee/Getty Images Bezos: Elif Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Asked for comment by The Washington Post on a profile that quoted various critics slamming him for being stretched too thin, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and Space X, fired back at the Post and ostensibly its owner Jeff Bezos, snapping, “Give my regards to your puppet master.”

The Post’s article starts by noting Musk’s exhausting schedule of commuting from his home in southern California, the Tesla plant in northern California, a new factory in Austin, Texas, and SpaceX’s launch facility on Texas’ Gulf Coast. Then the Post quotes unnamed “critics” who assert that Musk’s focus on Space X and other ventures has permitted the quality of Tesla to “fall victim.”

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