I'm reading "Anti-Trump podcast MeidasTouch is rivaling Joe Rogan. Does it have staying power?" (NPR).
Doesn't sound at all like Joe Rogan. Seems more like Rush Limbaugh. The left supposedly wants a Joe Rogan of its own, but I don't think "video riffing on the day's news, mostly Trump-bashing commentary," sent to "his team to edit," is it.
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Well I certainly hope he's a verified supporter of NPR, otherwise he can't hope to get any decent coverage from them. By the way, have you heard that our funding has been cut, putting our cutting-edge journalism that millions depend on, at risk?
"where he does his daily dissections of President Trump's actions and words" Right, more Limbaugh than Rogan, but without the humor, I bet. Inapt comparison shows that progs still don't get Joe R. (nor Limbaugh, for that matter). Persistent prog cluelessness is a righty strength.
Limbaugh was essentially a prankster. That's what kept people listening.
He's new, he's different, he's edgy, and humorous. He'll attack Trump and make you laugh and cry. And bravely stand for liberal values and against the religious right and Elon Musk.
Good to know there's room for an anti-Trump voice.
As an occassional NPR/PBS I was afraid I would be exposed to something different from the other NPR/PBS shows. But thank God, I don't worry about that.
Never heard of the guy until now.
Just watched a sampling of his videos from the last 24 hours.
Boring. Orange Man Bad.
Terriers scurry about. NPR scuttles across.
Ben Meiselas was Colin Pumpernickel's lawyer. His producer, Ron Filipkowski (a former Republican who named his son Ronald Reagan Filipkowski) said: "The Meidas guys, as a team, said: We are going to do this to Trump. We are going to hit every gaffe, every mispronunciation, every slurred word, every mispronounced name, every time he mixes up a name. We're going to clip that and we're going to put it out and we're going to put it in montages. No one else was doing that."
That sounds a lot like what any number of sites did for Biden. It would be surprising if somebody isn't already doing that for Trump. It's bound to appeal to die-hard Trump haters who need a daily fix. For the rest of the population, it would be either boring or endearing. Intentional and unintentional comedy blend together in a Trump performance.
The "Meidas guys" are Meiselas and his two brothers.
Never heard of him, don't need him. You can't go anywhere on the internet or television without someone leaving a comment bashing Trump.
They're so desperate for their own Joe Rogan that they are willing to redefine what Joe Rogan is to pretend they almost have one. The fate of the last left-wing Joe Rogan tells you all you need to know about why they will never have another one.
How many times are these clowns going to try to reinvent Air America before they realize the market is already saturated with leftwing bullshit?
And always has been.
They simply can't be honest about their goals, that's why they can't just do it off the cuff. Might spill the beans. Look at Rachael Maddow getting 36 million a year to purvey lies fed to her by Adam Shiff. Do you think she could really talk unscripted for three hours a day without giving game away?
There was a show called "First Lie Wins" and it's very true. You need to get your lies out there before the truth gets out so that the truth looks like a lie. That's why they pay these guys to lie for hours a day. Joe Rogan can't do that, not for three hours every day, not even if he wanted to.
Wow, one more edgy Terminal TDS sufferer going all podcasty to yell 'Orange Man Bad' for the trained seals to clap about. Nothing new. Or edgy. Or even interesting. But I bet they get a really small, hard core audience that will not sustain them now that USAID money is gone and Soros has to be picky about where the money goes now.
This is where [Meiselas] does his daily dissections of President Trump's actions and words.
Trump acts, the Left reacts. On the issue of DC crime he has maneuvered the left into defending DC crime, thus they are defending the 10% side of a 90-10 issue.
Rush Limbaugh had cats in his house but he never did video broadcasts with animals, and most certainly he was not into tiny dogs.
I was curious about that word ‘rivaling’. What they want to suggest is whatever this is has as large or larger audience than Rogan. What it means is the You Tube audience sometimes surpasses Rogan on YouTube. Clearly trying to not count his Spotify. Five Pinocchios NPR…
Everything THEY touch turns to fecal matter. Fucking jokes.
I’d wager ‘fly is into tiny dogs and he’s into ‘em in more ways than one.
We are going to hit every gaffe, every mispronunciation, every slurred word, every mispronounced name, every time he mixes up a name. We're going to clip that and we're going to put it out and we're going to put it in montages. No one else was doing that.
Basically what every leftist pundit has repeatedly done since Dubbya was in office. Take that, Joe Rogan!
Never heard of him before today.
Clearly I misunderstood what they wanted when they said ‘their own Joe Rogan’…
The Meidas Touch is the fastest growing political news and opinion channel on the internet. Not a Joe Rogan at all, thank goodness. It’s a daily must watch for any non Trumpist.
So the Dude is likely to go the way of the "formerly funded NPR"? Can't say that I will miss him--or ever hear him for that matter.
Rogan got popular because he (a) had interesting guests, (b) Rogan was familiar with their fields/research/whatever, having taken at least a first look at it; (c) Rogan has a real conversation, giving and taking, and usually is not pushing any particular agenda; (d) he covers a broad range of topics and has guests from all over the spectrum (not just political, although he does that as well - I mean more like comics, archaeologists, astronomers, doctors, economists, etc.); and (probably most importantly) he listens and responds, and not always with argument that the guest is wrong - he does a great "wowwwwwww" when he hears something interesting that he was not familiar with.
Most on the left react to things they are not familiar with by attacking the guest/source, non-sequituring to something bad done by the Trump administration (or whatever right-wing boogie-man is current), or simply denying what was said without offering a counterargument or evidence or the like.
The major problem the left has to overcome if they really want a counter to Joe Rogan is that they are boring and predictable. Case in point - Howard Stern was wildly popular back in the day, with the famous line being that the average radio listener tunes in for eighteen minutes per day; Stern fans listen for an hour and twenty minutes per day, because they want to see what he will say next; and Stern haters listen for two and a half hours per day, because they also want to hear what he is going to say next. Stern rode this to 20 million listeners per day in the 1990's. He then got divorced, started dating celebrities and getting invited to Jimmy Kimmel parties, and got woke, culminating with him hiding in his basement broadcast studio since Covid. He became an entirely predictable lefty commenter, toeing the party line on every topic, embracing Biden and then Harris, etc., and his listeners dropped to about 125,000 per day (or 0.6% of what he once had - even worse of a drop off than Colbert!). Why? Probably somewhat because at least some people don't like his lefty viewpoint, but I suspect it is far more because no one needs to listen to hear what he is going to say next.
National Propaganda Radio is not a viable Choice.... uh, choice. The left empathizes with a comical cacophony. Abort, sequester, try again.
Hahahahahaha!
Failing government propaganda org. thinks that failing, niche propaganda podcast is da shitz.
Remember when they said that disgraced hack Lauren Duca was "new face of new media?" Lol!
It’s a daily must watch for any non Trumpist.
Yeah. Because you sure can't find that shit anywhere else, can you?
"...fastest-growing..." Um, yeah. From zero to a couple hundred is really fast growth, and so is 1,000 to 10,000. Moving goalposts.
If he's good at interviewing people he might do well. Otherwise, it is as described: a collection of the days gotcha moments, fascinating only to those who need their two-minute hate.
rhhardin said...
Limbaugh was essentially a prankster. That's what kept people listening.
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Oh really?
What pranks did he play? Refresh our recollections.
Is that why he got the Presidential Prankster of Freedom medal?
SNORT
It’s a daily must watch for any non Trumpist.
Sounds like an echo chamber.
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