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Credits and four eligible accordions out of Santos for well qualified customers bought on campus taxes, fees and $35 device connection charge credits ended balance due if you pay off earlier cancel contact US Finance Agreement 256 gigabytes $830 required visit t mobile.com state regime media, which calls itself Fox News is collapsing on air as the Midas Touch network has surface clips from Fox from state regime media which included Pete Hegseth the day after the strikes on the fishing boat where the order was given to kill the survivors, where Hegseth admits that he was watching the whole thing and he was the person overseeing the operation. Let me show you what Hegseth said before doing that. A reminder, make sure you subscribe right now to this YouTube channel if you like our fact based reporting and how the Midas Touch network comes with receipts. Here's what Hegset said. Play this clip.
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So the President is sending a message to other cartels, right?
MAGA Republican Congress Member
A very clear one.
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I can tell you that was definitely not artificial intelligence. I watched it live.
MAGA Republican Congress Member
We knew exactly who was in that boat. We knew exactly what they were doing and we knew exactly who they represented. And that was Trende Aragua, a narco terrorist organization designated by the United States trying to poison our country with with illicit drugs.
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So while Hegseth and Trump are now trying to throw The Admiral and Seal Team 6 and others at the Department of Department of Defense and United States Military under the bus, we've got you on tape, Heg Sith. So what was Fox doing now to try to cover up all of this? Like how are they trying to distract? Well, they start talking about how Melania Trump is saving Christmas. I kid you not. They're like she says merry Christmas again. Here, play this clip.
Fox News Reporter/Commentator
I'm so glad you brought up, you brought up spiritual because my points are sort of disparate, but they're connected under the umbrella that I see, you know, we are under spiritual warfare. And I see to your point about just following the Portland block with then seeing this, seeing the first lady of the United States supporting our troops, saying Merry Christmas and being constantly a prism of love and light, which is what Jesus Christ is, which is what Judeo Christianity is, which is what this country is. And now we have a first lady that fearlessly and undeniably stands for those values. She is beautiful inside and out and everything she does and touches reflects that I love.
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By the way, don't we have clips of Melania saying that she effing hates Christmas and she effing Hates the check. I effing hate it. I hate the ornaments. I hate this. Words to that effect. Here's what she said. Here, play this clip.
Melania Trump (clip)
They say I'm complicit. I'm the same like him. I support him. I don't say enough. I don't do enough. No where I am. I put the. I'm working like a. I know Christmas stuff that you know, who gives a. About Christmas stuff and decoration. But I need to do it right. Yeah.
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But 100. You have no choice.
Melania Trump (clip)
And okay. And then I do it and I say that I'm working on Christmas planning for the Christmas. And they said, oh, what about the children that they were separated. Give me break where they were saying anything when Obama did that. I know I cannot go. I, I was trying to get the kid reunited with the mom. I didn't have a chance. Needs to go through the process and through the law.
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But here's my thing. Hear what you just said.
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But instead of that, if, if you just your messaging you, you were so loved.
Melania Trump (clip)
I will not do the same story. We put it out. They would not do the story. I'm telling you would not believe it. They would not do the story because. No, they are not. They would not do the story because they, they, they are against us because they are liberal media. Yeah, if I go to Fox, they will do the story. I don't want to go to Fox.
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And then you have Transportation, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. His wife is a Fox host and she's like, look, feminism, secularism, this is communism. And they're taking over. You see what they're doing here to try to distract and deflect. Here, play this clip.
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Christmas. And I think it's really up to us to reclaim our culture. We can sit and complain about it, but when we give in to those atheist groups that keep suing, we should come right back. This is our culture. I'm not going to let you know, pro Palestinian or whatever they're putting forward. These are all fronts for, you know, whenever you see any of these groups, just think feminism, secularism. Just think communism. This is what they're really about. It's always been about communism, making the state the center, removing the power of religion and family from our, from our culture. And it's up to us to make sure that our culture remains what it is, which is a Western Christian culture with the beautiful history that we have in this country and that we have to defend these things every single day, especially with our children. So without your nativity scenes, don't Give in. Absolutely.
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And then you have people like this MAGA Republican Congress member John Rose, he shows up and he's like, but the economy's booming, we're doing great and next year it's going to get even better. Here, play this clip.
MAGA Republican Congress Member
Costs, the cost of living are coming down. This Thanksgiving was less expensive than last Thanksgiving. So we just have to have the patience to see these policies through to fruition. We're starting to see that happen when we get to January 1st and we see many of the one big beautiful law, tax cuts, start to come into play in a more real way for Americans. I think they're going to start to see the real hit in their pocketbook and we see wages up in a dramatic way for the first time in a generation. And, and since the last time when Trump was in office. So I think the answers on the way that.
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So state regime media's reporters who were in the press briefing yesterday, they were just trying to like figure out how are they even going to deal with this. So you'll watch one of the Fox hosts right here saying you claim that the admiral ordering the strikes on the survivors is lawful. Like what law are you referring to here? Play this clip, Jack.
Fox News Reporter/Commentator
Thank you, Caroline. Following from Gabe's question, you said that the follow up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors? The strike conducted on September 2nd was conducted in self defense to protect Americans in vital United States interests. The strike was conducted in international waters and in accordance with the law of armed conflict.
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Asked another question, the Fox reporter, and she's like, so you know, you have all of these Republicans out there defending the strikes on narco terrorists, but then purported narco terrorists and now you're pardoning a convicted drug trafficker who was one of the ringleaders of the biggest narco terrorist ring, the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez. So don't you think this hurts Republicans here? Play this clip conflict.
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And then on this pardon for the Honduran president, does it at all undercut the administration's messaging while you have these congressional Republicans defending the strikes on the narco terrorists and then a pardon for a convicted drug trafficker, does that make it more difficult for your members to defend your administration's policy? I don't think so, Jackie. I think that President Trump has has been quite clear in his defense of the United States homeland to stop these illegal narcotics from coming to our borders, whether that's by land or by sea. And he's also made it quite clear that he wants to correct the wrongs of the weaponized Justice Department under the previous administration. And Weija, I'll call on you because I think we're wearing matching blazers today.
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And again, just a reminder, make sure you hit subscribe to this YouTube channel right now. We're trying to hit 6 million subscribers. You may think you're subscribed but you may not be subscribed. So just double check. Take a look at what MAGA Republican Senator Schmidt says on Fox as well. And he goes, what? The language that we hear from these Democratic Congress members and senators who are talking about how you shouldn't follow unlawful orders, this isn't democracy. He goes, this is the language of a color revolution. The Democrats are launching a revolution against us. Here, play this clip.
MAGA Republican Senator Schmidt
One of the crazy things that happened over the weekend, the Democrats elected Democrats, not some online troll. Elected Democrats have been saying, okay to disobey orders. That's the first step. But what we saw happen this weekend through some of those same elected officials was to say basically to military men and women, look out, you might get prosecuted. This is not the language of we'll beat them in the next election or we'll win the argument. This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders. And you put that on top of the firebombing of Tesla dealerships, the riots you see in the streets, the prosecution of a police political opponent. The Democrats have completely lost the plot here. And the American people, I think, see that. But it's a very dangerous road to go down here to say you should be disobeying orders because we don't like Trump.
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Yeah.
Fox News Reporter/Commentator
Well, when you.
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And then more of Senator Schmidt on Fox right here saying the Democrats suffer from suicidal empathy and empathy is bad, it's suicide. Here, play this clip.
Fox News Reporter/Commentator
So first of all, talk to me about the Democrat pushback on this asylum pause, this potential pause.
MAGA Republican Senator Schmidt
Yeah, I mean, this is what suicidal empathy really looks like. This is not an abstraction. This is a case. Now, two cases where this open borders policy, no vetting under the auspices of humanitarian parole, which is what Joe Biden did to let tens of thousands of Afghanis in here without any vetting. Right.
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Then earlier in the day, state regime media, which calls itself Fox, brought on MAGA Republican Congress member Carlos Jimenez and he was just like, look, look, what are we supposed to do here? I'm not sure why I'm doing that accent. It's not even close to what he sounds like. But why, why do we as Magaru, why should we be doing any oversight? Look, Hegseth said he had nothing to do with it. Donald Trump said he had nothing to do with it. Let's just believe them, right? What's our job in Congress is quite literally oversight. Here, play this clip right here.
Fox News Reporter/Commentator
Congressman, there are now growing calls for an oversight hearing and investigation. Your thoughts on this.
MAGA Republican Congress Member
Look, it just seems all strange to me that you get the Democrats coming out with a video saying, you know, do not follow illegal orders. And then all of a sudden you get this. Apparently these are anonymous kind of whistleblowers. They're saying that something happened here. So, you know, I smell a rat here. I'm pretty sure that the Secretary of Defense had nothing to do with something like that. And it's just a way of, you know, distracting from what really happened in D.C. last week, where you had the murder of one National Guardsman and then the wounding of another by, you know, an Afghan refugee. And so. And I think it's just a distraction. So. So I'm with the President on this one. I don't believe the reports. I don't believe that Pete Hicks has said that. But going back to what it's all about, this is a strike on a. We're striking terrorists that are bringing poison into the United States. This poison has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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And then you have MAGA Republican Congress member Scott Fitzgerald on state regime media, which calls itself Fox, and he's like, look, look. When it comes to invading Venezuela, when you're in for a penny, you're in for a pound. Don't ask questions. Just invade the place and bring the oil to American oil companies. Please. Here, play this clip.
Fox News Reporter/Commentator
The legality of all of this that has been questioned about the President and the administration's military operations off the coast of Venezuela.
MAGA Republican Congress Member
Yeah, if you're in for a penny, you're in for a pound on this, and we're in for a pound. The buildup is real. Members of Congress have been watching this. I know that there's some that have been briefed fully on where we're at in relation to not just Venezuela, but kind of the back and forth with the naval fleet being as highly concentrated as it is right now out of Caracas. Listen, Maduro is classified, you know, one of those individuals that I think President Trump could run circles around when it comes to negotiating. So I'm very hopeful that. That he's in a position now, that the President's in a position to force the hand and that we see Maduro step down soon. I think that has been the goal since day one, and I hope. I hope it happens this week.
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Then you had Caroline Levitt say, and this is why mainstream legacy media and those without a spine say that Trump's deportations have not gone far enough.
Fox News Reporter/Commentator
Huh?
Host/Lead Narrator
What are you talking about? Talking about? Here, play this clip.
Fox News Reporter/Commentator
And so that's why when the mainstream legacy media and those without a spine in our country say that President Trump's mass deportations have not gone far enough. Far enough. President Trump says no, they haven't gone far enough because we must deport every illegal alien who Joe Biden allowed into this country. And not only do these people serve as a national security threat, they are also draining the resources of American taxpayers. Look no further than the great state of Minnesota that has been run into the ground by Democrat leadership, Governor Walz, who is completely incompetent. The Somali migration invasion of Minneapolis.
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Oh, and then you have MAGA Republican Congress member Greg Murphy saying the following about Maduro on state regime media. Let's play it.
MAGA Republican Congress Member
If you look at Venezuela, it was the gem of South America not 15 years ago and now it's turned into an absolute debacle. That's the definition of socialism. I wish our some of our Democratic colleagues would understand that. And you look, there is precedent for America going in and removing dictators. We did it in 1990 with Manuel Ortega in Panama. This fellow had a bounty on his head during the first Trump administration. The Biden administration increased the bounty and now Trump, Trump too has increased the bounty again. This man is no good for the Western hemisphere and needs to be removed.
Fox News Reporter/Commentator
Well, we do have Certainly, I guess 25% of naval ships are there now.
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The MeidasTouch Podcast — December 3, 2025
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
This episode centers on the unraveling narrative at Fox News (referred to mockingly by the hosts as "state regime media") as it struggles to defend Donald Trump and key allies amid a military scandal involving strikes on a fishing boat, claims of oversight failure, contradictions over mass deportations and foreign policy, and increasingly desperate distraction tactics. The Meiselas brothers dissect Fox News’ responses, weave in pointed clips, and highlight moments of both absurdity and concern, while keeping a sharp focus on threats to democracy and media accountability.
“I can tell you that was definitely not artificial intelligence. I watched it live.”
— Pete Hegseth, [03:42]
“She is beautiful inside and out and everything she does and touches reflects that. I love.”
— Fox News Reporter, [04:40]
“Who gives a f--- about Christmas stuff and decoration? But I need to do it, right?”
— Melania Trump (recorded), [05:34]
“Whenever you see any of these groups, just think feminism, secularism. Just think communism.”
— Fox Host, [07:16]
“Costs… are coming down. This Thanksgiving was less expensive than last Thanksgiving… wages up in a dramatic way.”
— Rep. John Rose, [08:24]
“You said that the follow up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors?”
— Fox Reporter, [09:12]
“Don’t you think this hurts Republicans here?”
— Fox Reporter, [12:06]
“This is the language of a color revolution where you’re calling on military men and women to disobey orders.”
— Sen. Schmidt, [13:33]
“This is what suicidal empathy really looks like.”
— Sen. Schmidt, [14:33]
“What’s our job in Congress? It’s quite literally oversight.” — (hosts, mocking tone) [15:07] “So I’m with the President on this one. I don’t believe the reports.”
— Rep. Carlos Gimenez, [15:43]
“If you’re in for a penny, you’re in for a pound on this, and we’re in for a pound.”
— Rep. Fitzgerald, [17:13]
“You look, there is precedent for America going in and removing dictators.”
— Rep. Murphy, [19:20]
“We must deport every illegal alien who Joe Biden allowed into this country…”
— Caroline Levitt, [18:38]
On Fox’s rapid-fire shifting of narratives:
"So what was Fox doing now to try to cover up all of this? ...Well, they start talking about how Melania Trump is saving Christmas. I kid you not."
— Host, [04:03]
On hypocrisy and media manipulation:
“By the way, don’t we have clips of Melania saying that she f---ing hates Christmas and she f---ing hates the check. I f---ing hate it. I hate the ornaments. I hate this. Words to that effect.”
— Host, [05:12]
On MAGA Republican messaging:
“This is not the language of… we’ll win the argument. This is the language of a color revolution…”
— Sen. Schmidt, [13:33]
The episode is fast-paced, sharp, and irreverent, with a sense of exasperation at Fox’s propaganda tactics coupled with a dark humor about the absurdity and dangers of the moment. The hosts oscillate between direct fact-checking, playing damning audio, and applying relentless sarcasm—always rooting their argument in unapologetic support for democracy and press accountability.
The brothers make clear: as Fox News’ on-air narrative collapses under the weight of self-contradiction and extremist rhetoric, it only exposes, rather than covers for, the radical reality of Trumpism and its media allies.
For listeners seeking clarity on the current state of conservative media spin and its intersection with headline politics, this episode delivers both searing critique and the receipts to back it up.