The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox IMPLOSION CONTINUES as Trump NOSEDIVES Fast

Episode Date: October 9, 2024

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free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. One way to tell how badly things are going for Donald Trump is to check in with the folks at Fox News and see how crazy they are being. Obviously, there's always a base level of crazy at Fox. We all know that. But on occasion, they turn it up to like 11. And I'm just going to say they turn it up like infinity. Okay. Last night was like that. And we see this just desperation, this disinformation continue to spread through Fox. And I want to break it all down for you because we can't ignore the craziness as to what is going on there. You know, a lot of people ask me, Brett, how is this so close? How is this election so close with everything we know? The fact is everybody doesn't know everything that we know because

some people are tuned in to channels like Fox, which are just spreading lies every single day. This is the most sophisticated, well-funded propaganda operation we have ever seen in history. So it's important here on the Midas Touch Network that we cover it and we share exactly what they are doing. My name is Brett Mycelis here with the Midas Touch Network. Remember to hit subscribe. We're on our way to 3.5 million subscribers. And guess what? We actually get more views here on YouTube than Fox does. And that's thanks to you. So continue to subscribe and continue to share these videos so that we can beat them in the messaging war. Okay, let's get right into it. Laura Ingraham last night was ramping up her attacks of

DEI, DEI. She was saying everything with FEMA is just DEI. That's the code word they use to try to blame anything that goes wrong on people who are not straight and white and male. It's just the facts. It's what they do over at Fox. So last night, Laura Ingram was saying that FEMA is staffed with woke radicals. DEI actually threatens the safety and security of our people. Watch this. The government neglect and incompetence that we've witnessed over the past few weeks is a foreshadowing of things to come if Kamala gets to sit in the Oval Office. FEMA's stacked with woke radicals, but at the end of the day, they take orders from the president. And we'll all know that Kamala will solidify equity as the core mission in every government agency.

But DEI is not just a loony left wing idea. We mock it happens on college campuses. It actually threatens the safety and security of our people. And things will only get worse until it's rooted out in every societal institution and certainly in every governmental institution. Ingram continued along this line of thought here, lying that resources were diverted from FEMA's actual mission due to DEI insanity. But of course, she asked it in a question

because she's just asking questions there at Fox. Watch this. So our question tonight, how many resources were diverted from FEMA's actual mission to this DEI insanity? You know, maybe Laura should check in with her own organization because we here at the Midas Touch Network looked at Fox's business website for their hiring. And look, life at Fox, they have a diversity and inclusion program. Oh, hypocrisy much? Yeah, I think so. But that doesn't stop Laura because she continued to go on and on and on about this. Laura Ingram was saying that FEMA is facing a severe staffing shortage,

but at least those few workers will be diverse. It's just really despicable stuff. Watch this. And now, as Hurricane Milton approaches Florida, FEMA is facing a severe staffing shortage, we understand, as fewer than 10% of the agency's disaster workers are available to respond to the hurricane. What does that even mean? But at least those few workers will be diverse. They always blame problems that they create on people who are not straight and white and male. Like the reason for any shortages or any shortages of funds in the future is because Republicans refuse to fund these organizations, then they complain about it, and then Fox ramps up their propaganda. You have to understand where it's actually coming

from. And then what does Fox do? What do Republicans do? I'm talking about these MAGA Republicans here. They blame it on black and brown Americans or gay people or transgender people, you name it. It's absolutely despicable. And Laura Ingraham continued to attack FEMA, who are doing a fantastic job, by the way. We had a chance to speak to FEMA, and these are like the hardest working people on the planet who are rising to the occasion. And even all the Republican governmental officials are acknowledging that they are doing an excellent job. But Ingram went and she went to smear the head of FEMA, saying that her focus is not on helping people in general in the country, but only those who fit neatly into her left wing narrative. Watch this.

The barriers. How about the barriers to getting food and electricity and internet service in a hurricane? But that's her agenda. It's not helping all Americans. It's making sure the real focus is on those who fit into, neatly fit into her left wing narrative. We need to- It's just always projection from these people. Like we already know there's so much reporting and we even knew at the time how Donald Trump would selectively decide to help people based on if they were going to vote for him. And we know that people like Laura Ingraham and the rest of the people at Fox, maybe save for like Jessica Tarloff and Neil Cavuto, their only goal is to help people who are like them. They don't care at all about the rest of the country. In fact, they put these

people's lives at risk day in and day out. You go to Jesse Water's show, who's their low-rent Tucker Carlson, I guess, at this point. He fills that time slot. And things were just getting absolutely weird on that show. When Tim Wall says these people are weird, I got to assume this is part of what he's talking about. Water says that he's getting a lot of texts from women about Stephen Miller and that our audience believes

that he's some sort of sexual matador. And they had a conversation with Stephen Miller about manliness, watch this. We just have to address the elephant in the room. We're getting a lot of texts from women about Miller and his appearances and his appearance. Our audience at Primetime believes you're some sort of sexual matador.

What do you have to say for yourself? Well, let me give advice to any young man that's out there. The, uh, I'm married now, I have children, but I wasn't married that long ago. I was single, I was in the market. If you're a young man, it's very important in election season, who's looking to impress ladies, to be the alpha, to be attractive. The best thing you can do is to wear your Trump support on your sleeve. Show that you are a real man. Show that you are not a beta, right? Be a proud and loud Trump supporter and your dating life will be fantastic. I cannot wait to see the text tonight.

I just want to apologize if you already ate your breakfast this morning and you feel it coming back up. I apologize. But before I fully apologize, before you forgive me, I got to show this one picture of Stephen Miller when he had a spray on hair when he did an interview, just for no particular reason. But we could look at this photo and we can move on quickly. Okay, that's enough. That's enough. That's enough. Let's move on to Alina Haba, who was also on Fox. Alina Haba started spreading lies and disinformation saying that there were babies floating in the water and criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris

for campaigning right now, even though she has been very in tune with the efforts on the ground and has been a key player in these recovery efforts. Here's what Alina Haba had to say. Western North Carolina got hit really hard. And like you said, these are real people with real issues. They don't need a $750 handout for a press headline. They need help. They need water. There are still people missing. There are babies floating in the

water. And we're on podcasts. That's what the Harris team is doing. So I think what Cedric's doing is completely irresponsible. Where did you see that report of a baby floating in the water? We have absolutely heard there are children floating. There's missing bodies, dead bodies. We know that. There are dead people up to 250. 32. Yeah, 32. Thank you.

So this is the problem. It's not misinformation. It's fact. And to talk about Katrina. And you notice even Fox had to step in there to correct Alina Haba. That was even too far for Fox to go. And what I believe Alina Haba is referencing is this fake photo. We could put it up now. It's a fake artificial intelligence image created by

people on the internet and spread by MAGA and spread by people like Donald Trump in order to spread lies about what is going on. It's just a firehose of daily lies every single day in order to try to convince people to vote for Trump. This picture is fake. It's fake and spreading stuff like this is absolutely vile and it does nothing to help the situation and makes things more dangerous. And the fact that in a best case scenario, Alina Haba fell for the AI and in a worst case scenario, she knows she is spreading these lies. Shame on her. Shame on Alina Haba. Alina Haba fell for the AI, and in a worst case scenario, she knows she is spreading these lies. Shame on her. Shame on Alina Haba. Alina Haba then tried to trash an article in the Washington Post that suggested that Trump should be using Nikki Haley on the campaign trail.

And things got a little weird because the Fox host informed her that while you're trying to trash the Washington Post over here, that article was actually written by one of our contributors here at Fox, a Republican. So maybe you don't want to be as mean about it because it was written by one of us over here. You'll notice that Alina Haba's tone kind of changes slightly when she finds that out. Watch this. Pulling. And one of the questions that is being asked today by Mark Thiessen of the Washington Post has to do with Nikki Haley, who we're going to talk to in a minute. So I wanted to get your thoughts on this. Mark Thiessen writes this.

Trump should deploy her to key battleground states for the next four weeks to convince the reluctant but persuadable 18 percent of the electorate to cast their ballots for him. Failure to do so would be sheer political malpractice. It could be it could very well cost him the presidency. That's Mark Thiessen writing a column for The Washington Post. What's your reaction to that? Is that going to happen? First of all, I'm not going to speak to what his plan is, but WAPO is pretty rich to be giving President Trump advice. Well, that's Mark Thiessen, who's a contributor here at Fox. OK, but yeah, well, all I can tell you is this. We are all for anybody who's trying

to save America. And Nikki H haley if she's on that camp today and she's willing to come out and help save america god bless let's go because we are in a state of crisis we have seen people come out actors actresses that know that it'll hurt their career and support donald trump we are in a state of crisis that she was standing by um and happy to help love that a few weeks ago love that i love you don't know if there's any plan at this point i do not know of any plan at this point. All right. Alina. Do you want a better way to simplify finance operations for your business across expenses,

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Alina Haba then called the $750 that people get in immediate assistance during the storm. She said that she called it a handout and said that people don't need it. Watch this. You said these are real people with real issues. They don't need a $750 handout for a press headline. They need help. They need water. And by the way, that $750 is actually more than it was under Donald Trump. And that's just the very immediate assistance. There is so much more that FEMA does. But obviously, because it's $750 and it's a massive storm, the Republicans and MAGA and Trump, they like to hone in on that number, even though it's the same thing that it was, even though it's more than it was then under Donald Trump. But we here at the Midas Touch Network, we try to go to the source to get the facts. So we had on the FEMA spokesperson,

Jacqueline Rothenberg, and she told us about a variety of programs that FEMA is doing. I want to take this opportunity right now to share that with you because we need to get the truth out there and not all of these lies. Watch this. So the governors in all the affected areas, regardless of political party, have all went on the record and said that they've been provided immediately by the administration, by FEMA, with all of the resources that they need. For those watching, you just listed some programs that could directly impact their lives, small businesses, entrepreneurs, people making claims. These are pocketbook issues for people. So if you can, some people may not even know, you know, the resources that are

available to them and the types of things that they can actually apply for to, you know, potentially deal with lost income and things like that. Can you go through just some of those things that you were just listing? Absolutely. So we recently made changes to our individual assistance program. You can apply for individual assistance by going to our individual assistance program. You can apply for individual assistance by going to a disasterassistance.gov or by applying through the phone number I provided earlier. But what we do is we help people that are even underinsured. Let's say you have a home insurance policy and the damages to your home exceed what the insurance company is going to provide you with. We now offer up to the statutory limit, which is $42,500

for any additional assistance that you might need for your home that wasn't covered by your insurance. We also provide displacement assistance. Let's say that you want to go stay on a friend's couch because that's easier for you because you have pets and you can't take them to a hotel. We will now reimburse you for funding if you're displaced from your home. We also offer serious needs assistance. That's a one-time $750 payment for things like food, medicine, any immediate supplies that you may need. And the program continues. So we're really here to help people, like I said, entrepreneurs, independent business owners. SBA provides small business loans for people that

need to get back on their feet. But really, we really, really want to make sure we're reaching as many people as possible. Let's go back to Fox's bizarre slate of programming. Melania Trump appeared on their show, The Five, apparently taking Jessica Tarloff's seat on this episode. I guess I can understand why Jessica Tarloff did not want to be there. And they asked her hard hitting questions like, does Trump ever sleep? Watch this. Does he ever sleep? He doesn't sleep much.

He does, of course. Does he wear pajamas? No. What does he wear when he sleeps, Melania? Well, one of the things. I mean, I'll just note that they don't sleep in the same bedroom. They never like have slept in the same bedroom. And they also live in different states. So I'm not even quite sure that Melania knows the in the same bedroom. They never have slept in the same bedroom. And they also live in different states.

So I'm not even quite sure that Melania knows the answer to those questions. Here is Judge Jeanine. I have no idea how this woman was a judge. She asks Melania Trump, what do you say to women on the fence regarding why Trump should be president? Melania Trump tries to act like the four years of Trump were like the best years ever. Watch this. Can I ask another question? Okay. There are a lot of women who are on the fence.

Not a lot, a few. What would you say to them regarding why Donald Trump should be president? Well, we could see in the four years that he was there, country was in great shape. Country was safe. Country was prosperous. And he will bring that back. Yes. The gaslighting with the Trump presidency has to be one of the craziest things to me because, first off, you can't just memory whole COVID. That was a whole year that was one of the biggest nightmares ever. Just refrigerated trucks, refrigerated morgue trucks, taking bodies out of hospitals, shortage of supplies, not being able to buy toilet paper at the stores. It was complete and total disaster the way Donald Trump handled it by denying it, by lying to us day in and day out.

But even if you do remove that like these Republicans want to, the other three years were a disaster also. We're also heading into a recession in that last year before COVID hit. It was day in and day out of chaos. We all remember waking up every day and wondering what the heck is he going to say? How is he going to embarrass us? What is going to be the headline of the day that drives us absolutely insane and makes us fear for our lives? It was madness every day under the Trump administration, and they try to gaslight us and tell us that it was a good time. It was not at all. Like even Senator Mark Wayne Mullen was on Fox and he was saying, why wouldn't we want to repeat the four years of Trump?

Many reasons. Watch this. And that's all I need to say. I'm fed up. I'm fed up with the direction that our country is going. I'm fed up with the way we're headed. And I think people are saying the same thing. They're like, let's go back to what we had three and a half years ago underneath Trump. We were secure on the border. We were respected around the world and our economy was thriving. Why wouldn't we want to repeat those four years? Yeah, I think there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Americans who are unable to answer that question. But OK, this is the Trump network now, Fox. They're just all in on the Trump family. It's just pure propaganda nonstop. So of course, they need to bring Lara Trump, Eric Trump's

wife, who is now the head of the RNC for some reason, because it's all about nepotism with Donald Trump. And she's talking about how people, they always make up these stories in the Trump family that people are coming over to them with tears in their eyes and they're saying how much I love Donald Trump and she said that she was denying the polls and saying that when she gets on planes people slide her beverage napkins saying that we can't wait to vote for Trump well I guess considering she flies on Donald Trump's plane all the time maybe that sample size is not so reliable but let's watch this no one buys that Kamala Harris has the capability to do that job. And polls like that,

I think, are absolutely ridiculous. I get slipped beverage napkins every time I get on an airplane saying we can't wait to vote for Trump. Go Trump, Trump 2024. Or people just coming up to me these days, Laura, everywhere I go, saying how excited they are to get out and vote, and vote early when you go vote for Donald Trump. Cedric Richmond, a Harris Walls campaign co-chair, appeared on Fox with Martha McCallum, and he went to correct the record on a lot of the lies and disinformation that they were spreading. I'm happy that the Harris Walls campaign sent somebody to correct the lies that they were spouting. Like this, for example, when McCallum asked him, why did it take a week to get on the ground?

And he said, it wasn't a week. What are you talking about? Watch this. Neighbors are helping neighbors and that there's a lot of efforts that are underway, but it still begs the question, why did it take a week for FEMA to get on the ground? And during that time, we did see a lot of campaigning going on. So it raises questions about who is callous in this situation. Well, thank you for having me. Let me just correct something first.

It wasn't a week before FEMA got on the ground. Second, I lived through Hurricane Katrina and Rita. And after devastating storms, it takes a moment to reach everybody where they are. And what communities do is they don't wait on government. They start to work. But what this administration has done has already spent hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to victims of the hurricane. And what you do is FEMA sets up a hotline.

People start to apply for immediate cash funds. And then you see the government fund, local government efforts to pick up trash. Then Richmond just got fed up by this constant comparison by McCallum of this storm to Hurricane Katrina in terms of the recovery efforts. Fox is trying to brand this and act like the federal government isn't actually doing a fantastic job and isn't attentive to the needs of the folks in the community. And Richmond, clap back. Watch this. The government fund, local government efforts to pick up trash.

I talked to a family yesterday. Her mother is still missing. And we lost more than 230 people have died in this situation. And I'm just I'm listening to Governor DeSantis talking about the pre-positioning of all of these assets, Blackhawk choppers, all these things that are ready to go. And I'm just how do you respond to that? Why? Why wasn't that the case with Helene? If you give me a chance to answer, I will. There were assets pre-positioned before helene and that happens in every storm in coordination with fema and others and look what we won't do is play tit for tat because this is too serious i watched 1500 people die in hurricane katrina and rita so this may be cute it may be a sound bite for you but this is real life and what we have to do is make sure that's what i'm saying

okay we're gonna we're not gonna interrupt each other so go ahead what we're to do is make sure that's what I'm saying. OK, we're going to we're not going to interrupt each other. So go ahead. Just let you know what we're going to do is we're going to we're going to make sure that people understand that there is aid out there. There's aid for you to apply for. We're going to help with recovery. We're going to help rescue people. You saw the National Guard out there.

You saw the Coast Guard out there rescuing people. That's the federal government coming in to help cities and states and we're going to be there for Florida when this happens and so when you talk about pre-positioning of Electrical line workers all the way from California to Florida That is the federal government others stepping up to help And that's how it happens in these hurricanes. But the misinformation that can be dangerous is when you don't provide people with the information of where to go get resources, how to apply for FEMA aid, how to safely dispose of your debris. All of

those things are critical. And what we should do is make sure we're giving out accurate information. Yeah, well, we've been doing that all week and we have spoken. So when you ask me, why is this election so close? I give you exhibit A, Fox. This is being injected into like half the country every single day, just blatant lies. It's why studies show that people who watch Fox are actually less informed

than people who don't watch any news at all. But I see some optimism here. You know why I feel optimistic? It's because I do think people are seeing through it on the whole. And you're seeing this in a slate of national and state polls over the past seven days or so. Let me pull up these polls right now. We see the Data for Progress poll that has Harris up three, the NPR PBS Marist poll that has Harris up two, the Emerson poll that has Harris up 1.6, the SPNR that has Harris up five, the Ipsos that has Harris up four, the Economist YouGov that has Harris up three, the four-week

flat average at 3.3, and there have even been better polls since then. So Harris is still winning as of now in the polls despite all of this, but we need to be cognizant of the constant lies and disinformation that flood every single day. And also, in a lot of respects, we need to be cognizant of the constant lies and disinformation that flood every single day. And also, in a lot of respects, we got to acknowledge that the polls are heading in the right direction, but ignore them in many ways and say, you know what? We need to act like we are 10 points down always because our democracy is on the line. We can't get complacent. And we see what they are doing over at Fox. We see what Trump is doing, the lies they are spreading,

the lengths they are going to, to try to win this thing. It is despicable. It is anti-American, but we all here are going to stand against it. So I urge you here right now, remember to hit subscribe. We're on our way to 3.5 million subscribers. Like I said, in the beginning, we reach more people than Fox on digital. Let that sink in. And that's because of you subscribing, liking, commenting, sharing. So let's keep it up. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you in a bit. Real quick, Meta just changed their algorithm to suppress political content. Please follow our Instagram at Midas Touch right now as we head towards 400,000 followers so you don't miss a beat.