Fox News Scrambles as Trump's War Strategy Backfires

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2:04Ben Meiselas:State regime media, which calls itself Fox News, is collapsing on live TV as Donald Trump continues to blow up what is left of his term. As Donald Trump continues to escalate his catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran, Fox is flailing. Basically five months ago, Fox said that Donald Trump was about to make the biggest deal, the best deal. It was so amazing. They've lied. They've lied. They've lied. Donald Trump has now further escalated this war. Gas prices are going up. America is on the brink of full on catastrophe. That's how most Americans feel right now anyway. So what are they talking about on state regime media Fox?

2:49Ben Meiselas:Well, they said last night the biggest story in the country right now, massive medical fraud. That's what everybody should be paying attention to. Massive medical fraud. Here, play this clip.

3:04Hello, everybody. I'm Joey Jones, along with Tommy Laird, Riley Gaines, and Joe Concha. And welcome to The Big Weekend Show. The big story tonight is massive medical fraud. Independent journalist Nick Shirley is teaming up with Medicare Administrator Dr. Oz to continue his crusade against fraud.

3:22Ben Meiselas:Then they bring on Riley Gaines and she says, you know what the other big story that Americans need to be talking about? Have you considered that one reason we care about Caitlin Clark is because of her safety and it not and it's not because she's white? Yeah, that's what we care about. What are you talking about? And Caitlin Clark doesn't want to be brought in to these culture war issues that you're trying to do on Fox before the midterm? What are you even talking about? There's real issues that American people want to hear about and learn about. Not this crap where you just try to divide people.

3:59Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip. Have they considered that the one reason that we care about Caitlin Clark and her safety isn't because she's white, isn't because she's straight, but it's because she's good at basketball. Yeah. Because she's a generational talent who has revolutionized, not just the sport of women's basketball, but women's sports as a whole, what she's done. Have they considered that? No, I don't think so. And then somehow Riley Gaines turns this Caitlin Clark story into a way to attack Kamala Harris. Yeah, let's attack Kamala Harris. Let's ignore what Donald Trump is doing in Iran right now.

4:36Ben Meiselas:Let's ignore the disastrous economy. Let's ignore that Donald Trump has lied about all of his promises and that Donald Trump has used the White House in fraud and quid pro quo to enrich himself to the tune of billions of dollars. And let's talk about Caitlin Clark and Kamala Harris something. Here, play this clip. And I hadn't yet seen that video of Kamala Harris speaking to those players, but was there any outrage like there was when Kash Patel was in the men's locker room after the Olympic team won a gold medal at the Olympics? No, I don't think so. So here's what I'll say. Then they bring on Franklin Graham, who says, the only way God will receive you is that you must accept his son, Jesus Christ.

5:27Ben Meiselas:So then they get all like religious on you. Odd. Here, play this clip. It comes for all of us and we need to be prepared. No, there's no person that's going to escape death and it's coming. The Bible says it's appointed unto man once to die and then the judgment. We're going to have to stand before God and the only way God will receive us is if we come to him accepting his son, Jesus Christ, and following him and making him the Lord of our life and surrender our lives to him. That's the only way we're going to make it to heaven, presence of God. And Lindsey Graham was a great American. And I know that he had a strong faith.

6:06And I just will miss him. And I enjoyed working with him the few times I worked with him on some issues. And he was just a great American. And America has lost a statesman. And he's going be hard to replace.

6:21Ben Meiselas:Then they bring on MAGA Republican Senator Mike Lee. And Mike Lee says, if you really want to honor Lindsey Graham, you got to pass Donald Trump's voter suppression bill. That's the main way that you can say to Lindsey Graham, thank you, Lindsey. By the way, who the hell's saying thank you, Lindsey? Lindsey Graham, the warmonger. Lindsey Graham, the Donald Trump bootlicker sycophant Lindsey Graham, who once pretended that he cared about John McCain and Biden and then turned on them and turned on our democracy. And now you're tying that to the voter suppression act. What are you talking about here?

6:58Ben Meiselas:Play this clip. This is something that Senator Lindsey Graham spent a lot of time with. Like me, he had a lot of enthusiasm for this bill, which I introduced in the Senate about two and a half years ago. I believe, Maria, that there are multiple paths ahead by which we could pass this. Maybe that involves attaching it to another must pass vehicle. Maybe it involves bringing up one on the floor and debating it until it passes, something that I've long advocated. Maybe it involves picking out pieces of it that could be implemented through creative uses of budget reconciliation. I'm not terribly partial to any of these three.

7:34Ben Meiselas:I personally prefer the second. I think that would give us our best chance, But I will take any opportunity to debate this, any opportunity to cause it to become law because the American people deserve it. The American people want it. Voters overwhelmingly support it to the tune of about 80 percent. That's Democrats and Republicans alike. One of the best ways we could honor Lindsey Graham's legacy would be to take this up and pass it this month. Well, can you give us a little color? So then they bring on Sean Hannity in order to brainwash their audience on Fox and Hannity's like, critics would often say that Lindsey Graham loved war and that he wanted war.

8:11Ben Meiselas:But no, he believed that war was how you get peace. That's the truth about Lindsey Graham. Here, play this clip. And, but, you know, the one narrative that I think that was always false about Lindsey and his critics would often throw at him is that, that he was, he wanted war. It was just the opposite. I would say in the conversations that we would have that would go deep into the night, especially about, you know, these hotspots like Ukraine. And again, he just he just got back from Ukraine. He'd been to Ukraine. And then as state regime media was talking about Lindsey Graham, they then had to break into their coverage and be like, actually, now, even though we didn't want to talk about the war, yeah, the war starting again.

9:03Ben Meiselas:So I guess we'll have to mention it for a second. Here, play this clip. Since his 40s. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah. Well, more to be uncovered on that. But in the meantime, we have a Fox News alert. CENTCOM says that U.S. forces have begun launching more strikes against Iran just moments ago. The strikes are meant to stop Iran's attacks on commercial shipping vessels. All right, Joey, going back to you on that, you know, talking about Lindsey Graham and, of course, his stance on the war with Iran or the endeavor in Iran, I guess we will call it. And then now to this, to more strikes. We probably knew this was coming, but what's your reaction to, I guess, the building intensity here?

9:40Yeah, I think I'm probably sounding more like Lindsey Graham every day, so call that what you want.

9:43Ben Meiselas:And then a state regime media talks about that. Then they bring on Mike Walls, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. And Maria Bartiroma is like, all right, Mike, I got a question for you. So Strait of Hormuz, is it open or is it closed? And he's like, oh, it's open. And Pete Hegseth and our warfighters, they've really done an incredible job. All the ships are leaving the Strait of Hormuz. Everything is going amazing right now. They literally create a fan fiction, a cosplay fake reality that doesn't exist. We know the Strait of Hormuz is closed. We can see the marine traffic data. We know that there's a war taking place right now.

10:29Ben Meiselas:That's escalating rapidly, rapidly, which is almost as bad right now as it was when it first started. Infrastructure is being targeted, A ground invasion may be imminent. So two ships, two tankers were hit yesterday. No ships are leaving the straight-in for moves. But CENTCOM, which has now basically become another Donald Trump propaganda arm, this guy, Mike Walls, the ambassador to the UN, it's like, everything's going amazing. This is how we want it. Our warfighters, all the ships are going through. They're not. Total lie. Hear a play of this clip. The president Trump has hit back. He's hit back proportionally.

11:09But at the end of the day, Iran is going to pay the price. Yeah. And the president is threatening consequences. Should the Strait of Hormuz not be open? There seems to be a struggle over the Strait of Hormuz becoming the number one flashpoint here. Is it open or not? Oh, it's open, as Central Command has said. And most of the targets that we've hit the last several nights have been directly aimed at Iran's radars, sensors, drones, and missile batteries right there on the strait to eliminate and degrade their ability to attack the global economy. So we're going to take that leverage off the table.

11:51Our great military and Pete Hegseth continue to do that. But at the same time, let's not forget, we have more talks going on in Lebanon. We're taking that off the table, too, for the first time, perhaps ever. The Israeli government, the Lebanese government are working together to eliminate and disarm Iran's proxy, Hezbollah. We've completely flipped the script there. We're taking the leverage off the table in terms of the Straits of Hormuz. The negotiations are continuing on the nuclear program. And oh, Oh, by the way, Maria, oil prices are the same as they were pre-war.

12:27Ben Meiselas:And then, of course, Fox really says, you know, let's show you how Lindsey Graham was not a warmonger. Let's bring in Benjamin Netanyahu. And let's have Benjamin Netanyahu tell us about how a great Lindsey Graham is. And Netanyahu's like, yes, he's not a warmonger. I'd ask him for weapons and he would say, Bibi, can we give you more weapons? More weapons. Like, okay, okay. Well, you have Netanyahu, a genocidal maniac talking about Lindsey Graham, who's a warmonger, horrific, but here, play this clip. With Trump, sort of a 10-year MOU, Memorandum of Understanding, where America gives Israel much valued support.

13:12Now, when I did this, when I negotiated this, I said, OK, this is what we need. We don't need any more. He said, yes, you do. I said, Lindsay, we don't need any more. And he would tell me, no, I'm going to go over your head to the Senate because I think you need more on missile defense or whatever. OK. And I think once or twice he got his way.

13:37Ben Meiselas:More from Netanyahu goes, and Lindsey Graham, he's a patriot. He's a true patriot. Here play this clip. Appreciate you joining us. Yes. Prime Minister, thank you for joining us. And actually, if I could just one last quick 10 second question, if you had one word to remember your friend Lindsey Graham, what would it be? Patriot. Big, big American patriot. All right. Well, now let's - Thank you. Thank you very much. Let's bring in Alex Hogan. And then state regime media thought it would be a good idea to show Lindsey Graham clips during Brett Kavanaugh, during Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing.

14:17Ben Meiselas:Remember when the Trump, the first Trump regime deep six, like a lot of the evidence and information and investigation file into Brett Kavanaugh and accusations against Brett Kavanaugh. And then they like attack the victim and they attack the survivors. and then Lindsey Graham went on this lunatic tirade. Fox is like, that's Lindsey Graham at his best. Here, let's play this clip. If you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come to us. What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020. You've said that, not me. You've got nothing to apologize for.

15:00When you see Sotomayor and Kagan tell him that Lindsay said all because I voted for them. I would never do to them what you've done to this guy. This is the most unethical sham since I've been in politics. And if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy.

15:23Ben Meiselas:You know, Sean. And then finally, they bring in MAGA Republican Senator Jim Banks, who's like, look, gas prices are coming down. Right now, they're cheaper than before the war started. Right now, they're cheaper than Biden. They just lie about everything. It's not cheaper. It was cheaper when Biden left office. Biden had to deal with the crap that Donald Trump handed him after the first term. And then Biden brought down inflation, brought down prices. Now inflation is much higher than it was under former President Biden. Gas prices are higher. Gas prices are going up. This war is escalating. It's worse than ever right now.

16:03Ben Meiselas:What are these people talking? What reality is this? What reality? It's just some weird Trump mar-a-lago. I mean, maybe for these MAGA people, because they're all oligarchs and they're all so rich and so whatever, but like, is that how Americans are feeling? Here, play this clip. Where Senator and all this is politics, Right. Is the midterms as the result of this conflict spiraling. The average price of a gallon of gas today is three dollars, 88 cents nationwide. That is a lot better than five dollars, six dollars. But it is still a high enough number that it could cost your party the midterms.

16:40Well, look, President Trump has brought gas prices down. Democrats for four years under Joe Biden fought to permanently increase the cost of a gallon of gas. And President Trump did took immediate actions at the beginning of the second term to bring down gas prices. They have ticked up in the last week. But we know as soon as Iran can come to the table and understand that they have no other choice but to do what it takes to assign an agreement with the United States of America, that they will never have a nuclear weapon, that they can't control the strait, that they can no longer funnel money to terrorist proxy groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, that they can no longer get away with that then gas prices will will come back down to where we

17:22Ben Meiselas:want them to be but well anyway there you have it folks let me know what you think hit subscribe let's get to 7 million subscribers thanks for watching everybody love this video support independent media and unlock exclusive content ad-free videos and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our youtube channel today you can also gift memberships to others let's keep growing together.