Fox News Attacks MeidasTouch

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2:12Ben Meiselas:engine.com flex to get started state regime media which calls itself fox news launched an attack on the Midas Touch Network this week on various segments on state regime media. They would attack the Midas Touch Network as such. They would say, you know, these new Democratic candidates who have been winning their primaries, talking about affordability and free health care and stopping these data centers from popping up everywhere and actually fighting for the people and workers, they're just going to be on the Midas Touch Network and they're not actually going to be able to implement their policies.

2:50Ben Meiselas:They'll just appear with Ben. That's what they were saying. Well, I hope they continue to show up on the Midas Touch Network. We champion fighters for the people, fighters for the workers, fighters for universal health care. Fighters is who we champion here at the Midas Touch Network. But I believe they, just like Mayor Momdani of New York City, are going to make massive beneficial change. Look what Momdani was able to do already, getting the rent stabilization board to freeze rent hikes for a two-year period already. Let me show you what state regime media did during this last segment where they brought in a guest and they were doing this all week who was like, yeah, you know, these candidates, the AOCs and all the people like her, they're just going to show up on the Midas Touch Network.

3:40Ben Meiselas:Here, watch for yourself. Play this clip. So you can't dismiss the Tea Party as though it was not influential. and then tell me these 10. Well, there were 60 of them, not 10. These 10, all the energy. And by the way, this is just a start. We're not even counting the Graham Plattners of the world and the others, the James Tallaricos. We have a long way to go. We have a long way to go. But look, here's the thing. When AOC came to office, she learned, the squad learned the hard way. Congress is about numbers. It's about math. And Nancy Pelosi had to say, little girl, you don't have the numbers. We do.

4:13They will be marginalized. You will see them on MSNBC and Midas touch. And that's about it because they won't be doing deals. They won't be involved in legislating. I think the only number they care about is the number.

4:22Ben Meiselas:And then they showed this clip of AOC where she's like, let's talk about what voters in general are looking for. And this was part of their attack on us as though what AOC said is a conscious, it's like controversial. Here, play this clip right here. Voters in general are looking for a change and they're seeing that progress is not happening in the ways that meets the challenges that they're facing. And so you're going to see, I think, people voting for new leadership. There was so much fear around that when I was elected, and none of it bore out to be true. And then Jesse Waters, you know, said, it's not socialism, guys, it's communism.

5:08Ben Meiselas:And all of these people out there and the type of people who go on the Midas Touch Network, you know, they were alluding to. They're coming after you. They're coming after you. So we need to crush them. They want to hurt us. So we need to crush them. Watch what Jesse Waters says. Let's play this clip. Power, you're coming for us. You're coming for our money. You're coming for our people. You're coming for our way of life. It's not socialism, guys. This is communism. You can't reason with these guys, you have to crush them. And we will, because we're not going to let our greatest city get destroyed.

5:43We're not going to let our civilization get destroyed. These people are going to steal from us. These people want to hurt us.

5:55Ben Meiselas:I want to show you more of what state regime media is saying, but this is what the MAGA Republicans are going with. This is the talking points that they've got from Trump and MAGA Mike Johnson. Trump gave a whole speech where he was like, we're facing the biggest threat. It's these communists that you see in New York City. It's these communists who want rent stabilized, and they want free healthcare, and they want to end the genocide in Gaza. These are the biggest threats to us. That was Trump's speech right there. Let me just show you. This is what Maga Mike said. He goes, do you read what these people are actually saying?

6:32Ben Meiselas:Listen to what Maga Mike says is the biggest threats facing the United States. And I'm going to go back and show you that these are part of the talking points of state regime media. Here, play this clip. This is their platform. Listen, this is actually quotes from their platform that they published, I think, about a day or two ago. You can find this on the internet. Okay, here's just a sample of what they're about. They put this on paper. They're saying the quiet things out loud. Abolish the electoral college, replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy. Expand the House of Representatives.

7:01Implement proportional representation and rank choice voting in all elections. Establish public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries to ensure democratic control and accountability to the people. Abolish ICE and grant amnesty for all. End sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran. Free Palestine. Quote, for a free Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, end all military and economic aid to Israel, prosecute U.S. and Israeli leaders responsible for the genocide in Gaza, abolish the carceral state. Quote, redirect police and prison funding to public services as steps towards abolishing the carceral forces of the capitalist state.

7:52Y 'all, it goes on and on

7:54Ben Meiselas:Right, so then you have Jesse Waters saying, you know who the big problem is? It's these young, college-educated white women. They're the big problem. Play this clip. So who put Mondani and these commies in power? 40 % of the city is foreign-born. 70 % non-white. A majority of the city is on some sort of government welfare. But young, college-educated white women are a big part of the base. they can't get jobs with their useless degrees so they can't afford rent and they're not getting married so they're kind of stuck and they're angry at america at capitalism and at their party the democratic party kind of screwed them pressured them to take out six-figure loans to get dumb degrees raise the cost of living here with reckless spending and open borders and then the media told them to act like men.

8:47Men don't like that. Take it from me. So they're single alone and they're definitely not voting Republican. So they're voting commie. They want to blow up the system.

8:58Ben Meiselas:And then you have one of Fox hosts, Campanio, who says, you know, one of the big problems, there's no law against adopting a child strictly for sex trafficking. Why is that? She's also an attorney. What are you talking about? There's many laws that would prohibit that. What are they even saying on state regime media? Here, play this clip right here. Seeing, for example, a law against adopting a foster child. There's no law against adopting a child strictly for sexual trafficking. Why is that? Why is there no law against that? And then very creepily, state regime media talks about fertilization in young girls or something.

9:39Ben Meiselas:here. Play this clip about what they said. Huh? What's even going on? Here, play this clip. Absolutely. We still have 3.6 million births a year, but the problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15 to 19, the fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70 % over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not to have babies, to wait till they're in a more stable life situation till they're more financially secure. Maybe they haven't found the right partner to you. Then more from Jesse Waters right here saying, yeah, it's the liberal women. They get college degrees, they move into Manhattan and they can't get a job.

10:22Ben Meiselas:So then they can't afford rent. That's the problem. Here play this clip. And the rest is stolen. Now it's not just foreigners voting commie. These liberal women, you know, they get the college degrees in like sociology. They move into Manhattan and they can't get a job. Shocking. So they can't afford rent. So a bunch of single women with no jobs and degrees have to shack up in the same apartment in the Bronx. And they've been taught in school America's evil. So they get angry and they vote communists to get revenge. They call these women downwardly mobile and they're going to take the whole city down with them.

11:03But we're not going to let them do it.

11:05Ben Meiselas:And then you have Greg Gutfeld say, Trump is literally Uncle Sam, though. He's our savior. I mean, isn't this state regime media some of the weirdest crap you've ever, and dangerous and like racist and hateful? Here, play this clip. People are not. I kind of almost agree with you in the sense that I don't think Trump can help himself being Uncle Sam. He literally is Uncle Sam and he can't help it because he loves his country. Paul, we've talked about this. Then you have Jesse Waters saying, New York's been dipping its toes into communism. Think about it. You've got half the city on Medicaid, 20 % of the cities on food stamps.

11:43Ben Meiselas:One out of every three renters lives in a rent stabilized department, as Zaid Jelani says. Okay, this stuff also not communism, unless every boomer is a communist because they all get social security and Medicare. And no, they aren't just getting what they paid into. Those programs are redistribution of wealth also. Here, play this clip. New York's actually been dipping its toes into communism for a while. Nearly half the city's on Medicaid. 20 % of the city on food stamps. One out of every three renters lives in a rent-stabilized apartment like the rent hasn't gone up in 30 years five percent of new york city lives in the projects new york city has a bigger budget than the whole state of florida and we're still in debt no wonder everything's free and the rest is stolen and then jesse waters says and the democrats they're the ones destroying destroying the reflecting pool here play this clip dakota i don't know why anybody can't get down with this so while that's going on there the Democrats are ripping up the reflecting pool.

12:54Now, a couple days ago, a lot of people at this table pooh-poohed the idea that you guys would vandalize the pool. But now we have hard evidence reported by the New York Times and the Park Police, because I've looked at all the reports. There was a guy with a pitchfork there the other day. They caught him at midnight doing something dirty. Another guy, 171 foot razor slashes at the bottom. Someone even got caught pulling up while he videotaped himself ripping up the bottom. That was the canoeist. So, Jessica, I don't know if you can just leave the pool alone. We'll take care of the fare. And I believe the five is going.

13:31Ben Meiselas:And more just hateful rhetoric from Jesse Waters here. You know, I guess attacking people who he says shows up on the Midas Touch network. New York City, half of the city is on Medicaid. They're on food stamps. Here, play this clip. Okay, you don't freeze rent. Now no one can afford to keep these places going. And I just found out New York City, half of the city is on Medicaid. Wow. 20 % of the city is on food stamps. 5 % of the city lives in the projects. 70 % of the city's not white. 40 % of the city wasn't even born in America. We are going down a dangerous road already. And he goes on and attacks the Haitian community right here.

14:18Ben Meiselas:I'll show you what he says. Let's play this, Glenn. And these Haitians, come on. This is an island that is poor, it's uneducated, it is riddled with violence and disease. Not only that, a lot of them believe in voodoo. A lot of them practice polygamy. They don't speak English. They don't assimilate very well. And so, God bless them. I mean, they got to get their country together, but they're not the right type of people now. And that's what was going on on state regime media, right? Well, it's an honor to have those incredible Democratic candidates who are now going to be future members of Congress show up here on the Midas Touch Network.

15:02Ben Meiselas:And the reality for me is, you know, I'm not a label person. I'm a fight for the people person. Okay. I'm a listen to what the people say person. I'm a listen to what people are saying. And they're psychologically tortured right now, living paycheck to paycheck if they're lucky enough to get a paycheck. They are tortured by this Trump regime, by ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo, by having their healthcare ripped away. They can't afford gas. They can't afford groceries. They can't afford rent. They certainly can't afford to buy a home right now. Struggling. The struggle is real out there right now.

15:37Ben Meiselas:I don't think they're going to buy, you know, this is all the divisive stuff trying to just get people divided. I don't think people are going to fall for it. I hope they don't fall for it. I hope they don't fall for it. It shouldn't be a label thing. It's the state regime media. They're for their oligarch class. They're just trying to screw us all. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching. Let's try to get to 7 million subscribers.

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