The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox News LOSES CONTROL over October Surprise

Episode Date: October 24, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox News losing it over Donald Trump’s statements that are surfacing. Lomi: Visit https://Lomi.com/MEIDAS and use code MEIDAS at checkout to save $50! Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join the MeidasTouch Patreon: https://Patreon.com/meidastouch Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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say that's actually a good thing. The Fox talking point is Hitler had good generals. So yeah, of course Donald Trump would say that. That's what Fox is going with. Here, watch this. But the bottom line is, if you read H. say that. That's what Fox is going with. Here, watch this. But the bottom line is, if you read H.R. McMaster's book, who is critical of President Trump in some of it and not in others,

he talks about how Madison Kelly didn't like the president. And they didn't think he deserved the job, or they didn't think he was worthy of the job. And they went out of his way to make sure a lot of the things they asked him to do that they didn't like never got done. McMaster would be frustrated because he couldn't get their attention. And he would say, it's not your job to rein in the president. It's your job to do what the president wants. And then you factor in the fact that he runs his own company coming from the business world, the first one we've ever had. It's not even a public company. And then he obviously

has frustration. And I could absolutely see him going out. You know what? It would be great to have German generals that actually do what we asked them to do, knowing that's maybe not fully being cognizant of the third rail of German generals who are Nazis and whatever. But he was frustrated with the slowdown of commands that weren't implemented. It wasn't just a slowdown. It was insubordination. And there is a culture within Washington, not just when it comes to the generals, who, by the way, should be fired after what happened in Afghanistan, is of insubordination. This is that the bureaucrats run the government.

The founders did not design this country to be that way. Unelected people don't get to run the country, even if you have four stars behind your name. And I think they were very frustrated that you had this outside guy that says, listen, I'm in charge now. So while Fox is pushing that type of propaganda, then they have Jesse Waters, who's kind of does the clownish routine and just tries to like mock everything and be like, look, I'm a dude. So this is a hoax alert. So he does hoax alert and says that what the retired four-star general and Donald Trump's former chief of staff said is false. It's a hoax and didn't actually happen. So Fox then goes with that messaging.

So in the morning, it is, yeah, German generals are great. In the evening, it's a hoax. It's a hoax with stupid hoax music to try to just show the contempt they really have for their audience. Play this. So it means it's time for... New hoax alert. New hoax alert.

The left's biggest hoax chef, Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic, has cooked up a doozy. Says Trump admired Hitler. There's no recordings of this and everyone says it's baloney, but the V... And then throughout the day,

it's just lie after lie. Fox has on a guest who says that Vice President Kamala Harris did not get the United Auto Worker endorsement. Play the clip. That says that we can speak to when it comes to this race. That's just not accurate.

We've had a factory boom. We have, I mean, the Foxconn plant that everyone talked about in Wisconsin. Why is it that Kamala Harris didn't get the UAW endorsement, Robert? What about the union endorsement that didn't come through for Kamala Harris? Why isn't she getting that endorsement? They've been endorsing Democrats for years after years. She did get the United Auto Worker endorsement. You can see right there, the UAW strongly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. Here is an interesting one as well, because the Wall Street Journal had to actually do an economic analysis of Trump's 3,000 or 5,000 percent tariffs, which is a tax on Americans, not a tax on China. So they said this would be a disaster for the economy.

Yes, bringing the American economy back to the 1800s or 1798 would be a disaster. I don't need the Wall Street Journal to tell us that. But then Fox has on a guest who attacks the Wall Street Journal and says, who reads the Wall Street Journal, which is owned by the owner of Fox, Rupert Murdoch. Here, play the clip. When they both gave a plan on manufacturing, the Wall Street Journal hammered President Trump's plan, hammered it.

They called it like a deer in headlights. And they actually said Vice President Kamala's plan was friendlier to business. Well, Katie, you know- That's your Wall Street Journal. I'll let you spend time. I understand that's the wall street journal i just see what regular folks seem to be thinking and feeling and saying across the country and i'm not sure they care too much you know what the wall street journal's opinion is

but you know we're going to see that on election day katie so then they go into just the misogynistic stuff they have mega republican representative and Andy Ogles on the program. And he goes, you know, for me, it's Vice President Kamala Harris's laugh. Her laugh makes my skin crawl. Her laugh makes your skin crawl. You've got serious problems, dude, if her laugh makes your skin crawl. Here, play the clip. Has she articulated that? Well, I know she's from a middle-class family, but that's about all I know. And I know she has a laugh that makes my skin crawl. But that being said, there is no substance to her, which is why she deflects anytime she's asked a tough question. Look, you're known for asking tough questions. You'll ask me tough questions and other members of

Congress tough questions. She can't come on the show and answer your questions because she has nothing to say that means anything at all. She's going to laugh and talk about being from a middle class family, which is absurd. Then time to call in Ron DeSantis. And Ron DeSantis says that if one of the propositions passed to allow the legalization of marijuana in Florida, Florida is going to smell like New York. Here, play the clip. A case that your team is making is that this would not limit it in public places so is florida going to start smelling like new york god forbid if this passes that will that will happen yes and here's the thing this amendment how did this how this get here this one big weed company has spent 100 million dollars and they wrote the amendment to benefit them not to benefit the people of florida

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Here, play this clip. One policy contrast getting the spotlight tonight is how each candidate's plans would impact Social Security, which is set to be insolvent in nine years without any changes. The Nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says Trump's plans would accelerate that timeline to six years. By the way, it took until 2 PM for Fox to mention John Kelly's interview with The New York Times, warning that Donald Trump will be a dictator, and only because Vice President Kamala Harris delivered remarks on it.

Play the clip. Vice President Kamala Harris weighing in following a series of interviews from former President Trump's longest-serving chief of staff, General John Kelly. In those interviews, Kelly said Trump met the definition of a fascist and wanted generals like the ones who served under Hitler. Just so you can hear what John Kelly said himself, this is what Donald Trump's former chief of staff said. This guy worked for Donald Trump, former four-star general here playing the clip.

He would, he commented more than once that you know that hitler did some good things too and of course if you know history um again i think he's lacking in that but if you know what his you know hitler was all about uh it'd be you'd be pretty hard to make an argument that he did anything good so what would you what would you say when he said to you that hitler did a lot of good things well i tell him that i said you know if you first of all, you should never say that. But if you knew what Hitler was all about from the beginning to the end, everything he did was in support of his racist, fascist life, you know, philosophy, so that nothing he did you could argue was good.

It was certainly not done for the right reason. And, but he would occasionally say that. What would he say when you would lay that out to him? He'd just, you know, that would be the end of the conversation usually. Then Fox has to bring on Hulk Hogan and here's what Hulk Hogan has to say. And again, as Decoding Fox News says, it's almost as if Fox wants to repel women voters on purpose. Here, play the clip. Well, brother, at the end of the day, you know, there's a chain of command, our Lord

and Savior, the wife and the husband and the kids. At the end of the day, the mother is to nourish, but the man is to protect, serve, and provide. So at the end of the day, that's what this is all about, is being a real man, being a real American, and getting this country and making it how, not how it used to be, but how it should be, brother. Here, the pro-democracy voice on Fox, Jessica Tarloff, speaks up. Here, play this clip. They're shattering the rules all around the way this government works. And I think Donald Trump could go, listen, let's get back to normalcy. Let's get back to respecting each other. Normalcy is like how big Arnold Palmer was? Are you kidding me, Sean?

Wait, listen, we're talking about how the- No, no, no. You tell me if Joe Biden had stood up there and said, you know, I saw Arnold Palmer in a shower once, and boy, that guy's got it going on down there. What would you have said? That he wasn't fit to leave. That doesn't affect the way the government works. The way the government functions.

That you have an insane person as the head of the government? And when you say we shatter the norms, maybe the guy who got indicted is the one that shattered the norms. Maybe it's the lawfare that was used to indict him. So, just real quickly. Here, J.D. Vance gets interviewed on Fox about Donald Trump calling Americans the enemies from within. Play the clip. Also, throughout the past week, he keeps coming back.

He's asked about these enemies within comments. And I've read all of it. I've listened to all of it. It's hard for me to know what he really means about it. But that's not my question. My question is, why is it necessary? Well, Bill, first of all, Donald Trump is unfiltered. I think this is one of the reasons why the campaign has gone well,

is because he's not doing a basement campaign strategy. He's not just running on slogans. When people ask him questions, he speaks from the heart. And sometimes that means he's going to talk about issues that the mainstream media isn't focused on. And here's the thing, too, as much as Fox wants to try to hate on Vice President Kamala Harris, look at Maria Bartiromo. I have to talk about the fact that the stock market's up. Play the clip. And going into this week, we've got a market that is strong take a look uh since last year the dow industrials are up 15 year to date in 2024. uh s p is up 23 and the nasdaq is up better than 23 the wall street journal and here again is maria bartiroma with chip roy and by the

way wasn't fox endorsing before that vice president or former vice president Pence should not have certified the results of the election? Now what Fox is saying is, Vice President Kamala Harris may not certify the results of the election. She'll certify the results of the election. But Donald Trump quite literally told Pence, don't certify the results of the election. I mean, literally everything they say is the upside down world there.

Here, play this clip. So I take the phone and put it down. The sad part is I never picked it up. I forgot. They'll say he's cognitively imbalanced. He didn't pick up. These people, are they the worst? I think it's just important to show you just in the past 24 hours what Donald Trump was

doing and what Vice President Kamala Harris was doing. Donald Trump on stage in Georgia saying how cognitively balanced he is. Play this clip. I've got to get your reaction to what one of your colleagues told us in the last hour, and that was Chip Roy. And we discussed the fact that as vice president, Kamala Harris is tasked with certifying the election. But what if she's the opponent of the winner? And what if she objects to the election? Here's Chip Roy in the last hour. Watch this.

The reality is we have Democrats like Jamie Raskin who have already said they have no intention of trying to make sure that we're going to see President Trump. They have no intention of counting the electorate. We have to have an overwhelming victory in the House and the Senate so that we can do the job of taking in the electors, counting the electors for President Trump. We shouldn't have the vice president, Kamala Harris, have some sort of unilateral authority to reject the electors. It's a good point because at the end of the day, isn't it the vice president that has to certify? Yep, yep, which is why I believe that we gotta stand up and take the electors.

That's what we're gonna do. And on the other hand, you had Vice President Kamala Harris doing a CNN town hall, which Donald Trump was too scared to show up in because he's a chicken. And he is afraid of Vice President Kamala Harris. And here's what she was asked.

Play the clip. Donald Trump at the lead. You've quoted General Milley calling Donald Trump a fascist. You yourself have not used that word to describe him. Let me ask you tonight, do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? Yes, I do. Yes, I do. And I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted. Again, look at their careers. These are not people, with the exception, I think, of only Mike Pence. These were not politicians. These are career people who have served in the highest roles in national security,

who have served as generals in our military, who are highly respected, talking about the person who would be commander in chief not to mention what we know and what they've told us about he how he talks about the military well there you have it folks that's the anatomy of how fox does it by the way you got to hear my little baby girl in the background for some of that just part of the show thanks for watching hit subscribe we're on our way to four million subscribers thanks to your support have My little baby girl in the background for some of that, just part of the show. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe.

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