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Jesse Watters
Despite a flu, a slew of recent accomplishments, groundbreaking diplomacy, the legacy state run media mob still managed to find their new obsession. An offer from the government of Qatar for a Boeing 747 jumbo jet to serve as Air Force One.
Ben Miceli
Do you get more utterly pathetic than that? I don't know. But each and every day, the depths of depravity that Fox goes through to to justify Donald Trump's criminality seems to know no bounds. Going from Sean Hannity to one of the other propagandists on Fox, Jesse Waters here Jesse Waters devotes a segment to talking about the bacteria infested waters that Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. Was swimming in and photographed in something that would be a clear and present danger to your health that can cause life threatening injuries. Swimming with bacteria swimmin in bacteria infested waters. It could be potentially lethal. And this is what our Health and Human Services Secretary is doing. Here's how Jesse Waters characterizes it. Play this clip.
Jesse Watters
Jesse, would you fill, would you swim in a sewage filled creek? That creek looks clean. It doesn't look like it's filled with sewage. And I have seen people, it's pretty brown actually swim miles and miles in a speedo in the Hudson river, which like you can't even see through this. You can see right through.
Ben Miceli
I think it's fine for these clowns. Fascist clowns. No offense to real clowns. This is all one big joke to them. They just try to make this all one big humorous segment when people's lives are on the line. Here's another portion of that segment. Let's play it.
Jesse Watters
Terry RFK Jr. Is testing his immunity this weekend by jumping into a sewage filled Creek in Washington D.C. deemed unsafe due to its high levels of bacteria. But rfk, who's allegedly already survived a brain worm, clearly isn't worried. Katie I think he also took his grandkids in with him. Hey, it's good for your immune system. I myself have swam in the Potomac. I think I didn't get potomia. It's probably just as bad as this creek. And I have a friend named Corey and he ate a raw clam once from the bowels of the Potomac. He survived. So I think it's okay.
Ben Miceli
That's all right.
Jesse Watters
You gotta live a little. Enjoy. Get outside. It can't be worse than the tap water. Come on.
Ben Miceli
So then part of that segment as well, you have Jesse Waters and one of the other hosts, Greg Gutfeld. They're talking about how Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's kind of biggest claim to fame on his resume is that he was once on the reality TV show called the Real World. And then he was on the reality show called called the Real World Road Rules Challenge. And they think it's hilarious that this is the guy responsible for air traffic controllers and air safety when he has no qualifications to do it. So they make this like a comedic skit where they just think it's all so funny that our air traffic and our air safety is now in the hands of this guy. Watch for yourself. Play this clip.
Jesse Watters
Sean Duffy, obviously a Veteran of Real World San Francisco. How does the experience from being on Real World San Francisco translated to this job? San Francisco, you say? Yes. Well, he's following up for Mayor Pete.
Ben Miceli
I don't know, Greg. I fly out of Newark.
Jesse Watters
It's my home airport, and I'm going to the west coast next week. And the Qataris have offered to give me a plane. Fox is not going to have anything. They're not going to give me a hard time about that. I don't think so. It's a gift. It's a gift. It'll go to the Waters foundation after I'm finished with it.
Ben Miceli
And that's how they try to utterly destroy just serious discourse by making a total mockery of very serious things. We know what a disaster air traffic safety is right now. And Sean Duffy's been going on TV each and every day trying to blame what he calls the Biden Buttigieg administration. It's all their fault. Even though none of these issues were happening under Biden Buttigieg, he goes, this has been an issue for 10 years. And then when Sean Duffy was asked, well, Donald Trump was the president ten years ago also, so why didn't you fix it then? Oh, Biden Buttigieg's fault as well. Yes, the first Trump administration not fixing things is because of Biden Buttigieg. Or maybe it's just y' all are so incompetent and the fact that your main qualifications are real world road rules challenge, maybe that's one of the issues. So then Jesse Waters brings on Kristi Noem, dog killer, Homeland Security Secretary cosplayer. She goes out and dresses in the different outfits. She goes in front of Seekot the concentration camp in El Salvador, posing with her $100,000 Rolex with her thumbs up. Basically, by the way, a violation of the Geneva Convention to parade yourself out there in front of prisoners like that. But here she now is saying that the Democratic members of Congress attacked the private security guards in New Jersey.
Jesse Watters
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Ben Miceli
Newark, and it's actually the Democratic members who were assaulted, they're to blame. She says they were the ones who assaulted the private security. This is the dystopian move that all of these Trumpers do. Whatever actually took place, in this case, the private security assaulting Democratic Congress members, they just said, nope, Democratic Congress members and the Newark mayor, they assaulted the private security guards. And now the Department of Justice is going to go over, going to go after them. Here, play this clip.
Jesse Watters
I tell you what, Jesse, what happened last Friday was we had members of Congress assaulting law enforcement officers. They were cooperating with criminals to create criminal acts, and then they're saying that they were providing oversight. This wasn't oversight. This was committing felonies. This was going out and attacking people who stand up for the rule of law.
Ben Miceli
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Jesse Watters
ICE officers get up every single day and they love their jobs because they finally get to do their jobs with President Trump in the White House. And the fact that a member of Congress punched them, hit them, body slammed them, and then claimed that they were the victims, it's astounding to me that someone would even vote for someone and put them in a place of leadership when they perpetuate something as hypocritical and as criminal as what these individuals did. So I hope that the rest of the members of the House of Representatives will hold them accountable. They shouldn't be allowed to, to be on the committees that they're on. In fact, one of them is supposed to be conducting oversight over ice, and instead she's assaulting them. And they don't deserve to be in the House. They should be censured by it. I just, it's, it's. What's happening in this country and what agendas the Democrats are embracing is absurd and it's not American. And I'm hoping that the American people recognize it and hold them accountable for what they're doing, for criminal acts against people in this country.
Ben Miceli
And now they've been bringing out this other propagandist, Trisha McLaughlin, who's the, the Department of Homeland Security Public Affairs Assistant Secretary. They have her in Fox all of the time. And now she's pushing this line that it was the Democratic members of Congress at this Delaney hall, at this detention center, this migrant detention center, that they were the ones who ended up attacking the security guards. And maybe the Department of Justice is gonna have to prosecute the Democrats. Now play this clip.
Jesse Watters
She's not fighting for American victims. And I'd like to lay out the facts. The fact that it was these three members of Congress, Congress who trespassed, broke the law, and stormed that ICE detention facility, they put law enforcement at risk, they put our detainees at risk, and they put our staff at risk. Had they asked for a tour, we would have happily facilitated one for them, but there was absolutely no notice. And the fact that they put hands, they body slammed, body rammed, push, shove, whatever you want to call it, it was assault on our ICE agents and it's unacceptable.
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Jesse Watters
They had a plane, not a new plane at all, but they had a plan plane. And you know these planes, the plane that you're on right now is almost 40 years old. And when you land and you see Saudi Arabia and you see UAE and you see Qatar and you see all this, and they have these brand new Boeing 747s mostly, and you see ours next to it, this is like a totally different plane. It's much smaller. It's much less impressive, as impressive as it is. And you know, with the United States of America, I believe that we should have the most impressive place. So anyway, so they said to me, we would like to, in effect, we would like to make a gift. You've done so many things and we'd like to make a gift to the Defense, Defense Department, which is where it's going. And they said, well, that's nice. Now, some people say, oh, you shouldn't accept gifts for the country. My attitude is, why wouldn't I accept the gift we're giving to everybody else? Why wouldn't I accept again? Because it's going to be a couple of years, I think, before the Boeings are finished. And they'll be wonderful when they're finished, but that's a long time.
Ben Miceli
Next, Donald Trump then lies and says that he has personally studied the healthcare industry and he's figured it all out. And he goes, the Democrats are the ones who have raised the price. The Republicans, we've always been trying to lower costs. Literally as we speak, the Republicans are trying to get rid of Medicaid. They're trying to eliminate billion that goes to Medicaid. The MAGA Republicans are the ones who have consistently voted against lowering prescription drug prices. Any effort to lower health care costs, the MAGA Republicans have been against. But this is again, this is their strategy. The same way earlier you see the MAGA Republicans attacking Democrats and saying Democrats are the ones who went after the private security guards when it was the opposite. You're seeing them do that again right here and saying the Democrats were the ones who want to increase your health care costs, literally, as the Republicans are getting rid of your Medicaid right now. Play this clip.
Jesse Watters
And now after studying the industry, it's a very complex industry, but I figured it out and I said it's not going to happen. But the Democrats fought very hard to keep the prices of drugs very, very high. They really are to blame for this because they should have done something about it. And when the Republicans went with requests, they said we're not going to oppose.
Ben Miceli
And then Donald Trump goes on and then starts talking about what he calls fat shots. And he says he's got a fat friend and that his fat friend gets fat shots. And that's some reason that has to do with an executive order he signed that doesn't have the force of law. That's just a scam that he says he's going to be able to lower health care costs by up to 50 to 90%. Goes 50 to 90%. I've lowered health care costs. I did it by an executive order because of my fat friend and his fat shots. Donald Trump says play this clip.
Jesse Watters
A friend of mine who's slightly overweight, to put it mildly, went to a drugstore in London and he was able to get one of the fat shots. I call it the fat shots of jabs that you lose weight. A lot of people laugh at that. Some people get offended by. I don't get offended by him. I'm just glad I didn't use his name. He's actually a very rich guy. He's a very successful. He's glad you didn't use his name. He's very happy. He knows exactly who I was talking. Talking about. He called, he said that was interesting. He said he was very concerned that I might use his name. It might slip. No, he doesn't have to worry. But he went to London and he bought this Ozempic will go be one of those, I guess. Yeah. I'm not sure which one, but he bought, he bought one of them, maybe Ozempic. And he bought it and he called me, he said, hey, I. Strange thing happened. I just bought a joke. Same company, same plan, same everything. Everything was the same. In one case, I paid in New York $1300 and in London, I'm paying $88. He said, what's going on now? He knew nothing. He's a very smart guy. He's a very rich guy. His big problem is he's seriously overweight. But I don't think the drug worked okay, to be honest with you, but makes him feel good anyway.
Ben Miceli
I pointed this out before and let me point it out again. This is just one of Donald Trump's scams. This way, he says, I'm lowering health care costs, which he's not, while the MAGA Republicans, in their tax budget, which Trump calls a big beautiful bill, is literally taking away, ripping away from you health care. I think the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office believes there's going to be, what, tens of millions of Americans who will lose health care as a result of this policy. Lose health care. But Donald Trump signs a fake executive order and says 90% healthcare costs, and then he feeds that to his base. And this has real world impacts. I mean, let me show you what's going out there in America. I mean, this was an event that Charlie Kirk had just hosted. And in this event you'll see that, you know, with all of the crazy stuff that Fox is pushing out, these MAGA people, these really believe this stuff. Like they believe that children are using litter boxes in schools. And Charlie Kirk just sits up and oh, yeah, that's what's going on. They like, they like, they're, they act like kittens and they pee on themselves and we have to stop it. That's what the Democrats are doing. That has not happened anywhere ever. They make this stuff up. They spread these deranged conspiracies while they Pickpocket their own supporters. And while they destroy their own supporters life, they have them thinking that this stuff is real. But this stuff actually permeates. And these people believe this. Here, play this clip.
Jesse Watters
My question is more curiosity. You raise the point of furries. Furries and having litter boxes in schools. So my question is how far does this mental illness really go? Have teenagers, because I work at a high school, a Christian high school, and I well aware of the psyche of a teenager. Have teenagers actually pulled down their pants, squatted over a litter box and pooped?
Ben Miceli
Yes. Really? Yes. And teachers support it.
Jesse Watters
And then they use their hand to cover it up.
Ben Miceli
They have like the tools, like if it was a cat.
Jesse Watters
Oh. And then I was like, do they lick their hands afterwards like a kitty cat?
Ben Miceli
I mean, I'm not sure.
Jesse Watters
How bad is it?
Ben Miceli
It's bad.
Jesse Watters
Oh, that's. I'm sorry. I'm surprised too. I'm surprised.
Ben Miceli
No, you shouldn't be surprised. And again, you're shocked. And I'm going to be very honest.
Jesse Watters
And it's appalling.
Ben Miceli
It means that you have to consume non mainstream media because this is very well known, right Sage. For those of us if you guys.
Jesse Watters
Do not know this is happening, I.
Ben Miceli
Encourage you to reevaluate where you get your news from. There you have it. I wanted to show you that clip at the end so you see how this ecosystem actually results in people thinking that this stuff. And you'd be like, what the hell? They believe that it. Those people vote. Those people vote. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. New Midas Merch drop. Check out the latest pro democracy sticker packs. T shirts, hats, sweatshirts and more all at store Midas touch.
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The MeidasTouch Podcast Summary: "Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions"
Podcast Information:
Overview: In this episode, the Meiselas brothers delve into the recent controversial moments on Fox News, particularly focusing on the network's coverage of former President Donald Trump. They analyze Fox News personalities' attempts to defend Trump amidst allegations of misconduct and scrutinize the broader implications for American democracy and media integrity.
Ben Miceli initiates the discussion by criticizing Fox News for their unwavering defense of Donald Trump, especially regarding the acquisition of a $400 million gold-plated jet from Qatar. He highlights the network's desperate measures to justify what he perceives as blatant corruption.
Jesse Watters echoes this sentiment by playing a clip where Sean Hannity attempts to normalize Trump’s acceptance of the Qatari jet, dismissing criticism as overblown.
Analysis: The brothers argue that Fox News' defense blurs ethical lines and undermines democratic principles, portraying Trump’s actions as commendable despite potential legal violations.
The conversation shifts to Fox News’ portrayal of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., specifically criticizing his activities in contaminated waters.
Ben Miceli denounces this portrayal as a trivialization of public health concerns, emphasizing the irresponsibility of such jokes.
Analysis: The brothers criticize Fox News for turning serious public health issues into fodder for mockery, thereby distracting from legitimate concerns and undermining leadership figures.
Ben Miceli criticizes Fox News hosts, particularly Greg Gutfeld, for mocking Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, questioning his qualifications based on his reality TV background.
Ben Miceli responds by highlighting the absurdity of appointing individuals with questionable qualifications to critical governmental positions, suggesting it contributes to broader inefficiencies.
Analysis: The podcast underscores the concern that media ridicule of public officials based on irrelevant backgrounds detracts from meaningful discourse on their actual performance and policies.
A significant portion of the episode targets Fox News’ coverage of the assault by Democratic Congress members on ICE officers.
Ben Miceli counters by highlighting the distortion of facts, asserting that it was the private security guards who assaulted the Congress members, a narrative pushed by Fox News to shift blame.
Analysis: The brothers argue that Fox News manipulates narratives to vilify Democrats, thus deepening partisan divides and obscuring the truth of incidents.
The discussion moves to Donald Trump's statements on healthcare, where he claims to have significantly lowered costs through executive orders, a point the brothers critically examine.
Ben Miceli refutes these claims by pointing out that Republican policies may actually result in millions losing healthcare coverage, highlighting the discrepancy between Trump’s statements and potential policy outcomes.
Analysis: The podcast critiques Trump’s healthcare narrative as misleading, suggesting that his initiatives may not deliver the promised benefits and could harm vulnerable populations.
Ben Miceli expresses concern over the proliferation of unfounded conspiracies among Trump supporters, fueled by Fox News narratives.
Timestamp [17:28]: Jesse Watters brings up absurd conspiracy theories, questioning the reality of children using litter boxes in schools.
Timestamp [18:03]: Ben responds seriously, “Yes. Really? Yes. And teachers support it.”
Analysis: The brothers highlight the dangerous impact of misinformation, which fosters irrational beliefs and undermines societal trust in institutions and education.
Ben wraps up the discussion by urging listeners to critically evaluate their news sources and recognize the manipulative tactics used by certain media outlets to distort reality and influence public opinion.
Final Thoughts: The MeidasTouch brothers emphasize the importance of media literacy and accountability, advocating for informed consumption of news to uphold democratic values and societal well-being.
Notable Quotes:
Ben Miceli [02:03]: “Do you get more utterly pathetic than that? I don't know. But each and every day, the depths of depravity that Fox goes through to to justify Donald Trump's criminality seems to know no bounds.”
Jesse Watters [11:46]: “Why would I turn down the gift? They offered me a gift, of course I'm going to accept it.”
Ben Miceli [08:01]: “It's absurd and it's not American. And I'm hoping that the American people recognize it and hold them accountable for what they're doing, for criminal acts against people in this country.”
Jesse Watters [13:50]: “The Republicans are trying to get rid of Medicaid. They’re trying to eliminate billion that goes to Medicaid.”
Key Takeaways:
Media Critique: Fox News is portrayed as increasingly desperate and unethical in defending Donald Trump, often at the expense of factual integrity.
Political Accountability: The podcast underscores the need for holding public officials accountable, regardless of partisan affiliations.
Misinformation Danger: The spread of conspiracy theories and misinformation is a significant threat to societal cohesion and trust in institutions.
Consumer Responsibility: Listeners are encouraged to critically assess their news sources and seek out reliable information to make informed decisions.
Conclusion: In "Fox News Loses It on Air Over Trump Shock Admissions," The MeidasTouch Podcast delivers a scathing analysis of Fox News' handling of sensitive political issues, highlighting the detrimental effects of biased media coverage on democracy and public discourse. The Meiselas brothers advocate for greater media accountability and informed news consumption to safeguard democratic values and societal well-being.