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.
************
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.
The Meidas Touch is the fastest growing political news and opinion channel on the internet.
If one has only a few listeners, adding only a few more can lead to being the "fastest-growing." Joe Rogan gets about 11 million listeners per podcast, which excludes the viewership of the YouTube clips (he had 16.4 million YouTube subscribers as of last year). Podcast listenership overall was around 42 million in 2023 (the last year I found numbers for), so Rogan gets 1/4th of all podcast listenership. A huge bump in listeners in raw numbers for Rogan would amount to a small percentage (another million would be a 9.1% increase.
So he owns a breed of dog that's the first choice of every lesbian couple on the planet? I'm sure this will endear him to those male voters that are now eluding the Democrats.
The rarefied air is a cause for ozone and radiation progression and Blue and polluted skies is a first-order forcing of climate change.
The only difference between this guy and Rachel Maddow is Maddow has a better haircut. The latest avatar of the herd of independent minds.
I would really, really love to find a left-ish commentator who would speak about sober and honest economics and policy effectiveness*, rather than constant ad hominem and socialist/collectivist nanny-state "l don't care where it goes or who gets it, but let's spend lots more of other people's money."
* eg., is a policy or program actually achieving the goals that we said it would..., and what "real life" measurements define that?
Anyone here know someone who can forthrightly argue the effective costs v. actual benefits of lefty positions?
Verbosity with a hint of preretense is the missing link. Rarefied Air, indeed.
A huge bump in listeners in raw numbers for Rogan would amount to a small percentage (another million would be a 9.1% increase.
Yeah, but the left wants you to Google those numbers for Meidas, so they can use the Google search statistics to show a greater interest in the show. Example
What bollocks. This tool isn't even in the same space as the long form free flowing politically neutral wide ranging random topic Joe Rogan podcast. More like loser soundbyte generating partisan political pundits Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly preaching to the choir.
Shorter I-nag - It's just the stuff for mentally ill Trump-haters and other various Soviet-Democratic lapper-uppers.
its the very selective audience, like mueller she wrote, which they should dub, memory patient she wrote,
Rogan does not waste his time bashing people. He talks to people... and allows conversations to flow.
That is why hyper-controlled Kamala was not allowed on.
The left's idea of a good time = Trump hate. Shallow losers, that they are....
When I say "not allowed on" - That was not Rogan. Rogan wanted to talk to her. She had an open invitation. Kamala was not allowed ON - by the people hyper-controlling her.
he did have gabbard on six times and then he voted for bernie in the primary,
Inga - Did the Russians hack the 2016 election?
yes or no.
"The left supposedly wants a Joe Rogan of its own..."
They're hung up on the idea that, if they find the right person who can say the right words, they'll get normal people to agree that their bullshit ideas are brilliant.
if you want to be ignorant, like those that bought the clapper-brennan frame, by all means go with meidas,
the corrupted intelligence, which the likes of colbert and maddow fed like hyperactive sea lions,
Just another of X's chew toys. Hilariously inept bunch.
I just sampled a bunch of MeidasTouch videos. I didn't see anything that reminded me of Rush Limbaugh. Every one of MeidasTouch's videos seemed like nothing but "OMG TRUMPF IS TEH STOOPID!" I expect his audience is almost exclusively people with full-on TDS who just want to be reassured that they are not alone. Limbaugh was entertaining enough that even liberals would tune into his show.
The idea that Meiselas "workshops" clickbait titles like "Trump has DISASTER THURSDAY as WALLS CLOSE IN" is embarrassing.
its like some of the worst media podcast which cope on Marvel or DC product,
The left want what they always want.... a captive hive-mind audience addicted to hating-on any and all Republicans. Loyal to the cause of hate-addiction.
Somehow - they assume this hate-structure will net more people. Nope.
The only people who will tune-in are the same tired mentally ill already addicted to not-stop Trump-hate.
At least Rush Limbaugh had some liberals in his audience.
npr in it's death rattle, is pushing their ouroboros,
Biff - # ding!
"non-stop" typing in a small box with a crappy keyboard.
they promoted every hoax under the sun, too many to count,
like montoya dosing himself with idocaine, only in small doses,
"What pranks did he play? Refresh our recollections."
Dan's bake sale, in response to Hillary telling people feeling the pinch to hold bake sales.
Auctioning off senator's letter to Limbaugh's boss telling them to fire him.
Concern ribbon made from a folded dollar bill to be worn on the lapel in response to something or other we were supposed to care about.
KOOKS (keep our own kids safe) to warn people of the dangers of soccer.
etc
because you end up crazy like sandwich man, or the jewish museum shooter,
he was very prescient about that, as well as the rampaging suv's he poked fun at the left's sacred cows
It's a daily must watch for the mentally ill addicted to Hating Trump, non-stop.
long time exposure to Maddow led to Alexandria, and probably Butler,
"It's a daily must watch for the mentally ill addicted to Hating Trump, non-stop."
Inga noted as much earlier in the comments.
shes already stark raving, where does one go from there,
the Daily Basilisk is the print version of Meidas,
also Raw Story, talk about a den of scum and villainy,
of course filipowski is our local idiot, and he's so far off the ecliptic plane its almost funny,
Did NPR do such a glowing advertisement for Joe Rogan's podcast when he popularized the long-form discussions?
Meidastouch sounds like a garden variety ten minute, leftist rant. Is it any different than a Colbert monologue or a Maddow segment?
Meiselas says as much. Nothing special there.
He claims he's less divisive than Rogan, yet the MeidasTouch approach is not aimed at bridging political differences. It's unapologetically partisan, pushing a center-left worldview aligned with mainstream Democrats, like an amped-up MSNBC.
the last bit of AID funding goes along way,
Cute little fellows. The dogs too, but a couple are guilty of impersonating "Maltese terriers."
randomizer - re your italics quote:
The Soviet left get to define "divisive" here.
In this case - divisive = not towing the leftist soviet line 100% of the time.
"It's unapologetically partisan, pushing a center-left worldview aligned with mainstream Democrats, like an amped-up MSNBC."
So now, "center-left" means "far left"? Alrighty then, good to know.
well they used to, but they are still stuck in the bubble, like that abandoned japanese soldier on that deserted island
so this is like pod saves america, but with more brawndo,
the dogs are cute, but the owners are rabid,
rhhardin said...
"What pranks did he play? Refresh our recollections."
Dan's bake sale, in response to Hillary telling people feeling the pinch to hold bake sales.
Auctioning off senator's letter to Limbaugh's boss telling them to fire him.
Concern ribbon made from a folded dollar bill to be worn on the lapel in response to something or other we were supposed to care about.
KOOKS (keep our own kids safe) to warn people of the dangers of soccer.
etc
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None of those are "pranks". Dan's Bake Sale was done by....Dan, publicized by Rush .
The others were stunts or attention-getters, no different from what Letterman (before he went crazy) would do on his show.
FAIL
some of these were in response to the wurlitzer media matters, who also is in bad straights, these days,
I am pretty sure that the Trump administration will last longer than he will.
they don't even have any clever angles, but neither to the flying monkeys who throw scat against the wall
Veggie-flation strikes, with a warning for grocery prices ~ Axios
Today's PPI revealed a striking 39% surge in wholesale fresh vegetable prices. It's the largest month-on-month increase ever recorded in the summer (data to 1947), and one of the ten largest ever, regardless of season.
Gosh, I wonder who picks fresh vegetables. Wait until they find out who works in slaughter houses.
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/08/14/scott-jennings-julie-roginsky-what-do-you-even-do-for-a-living-n2417287
Ben Meiselas has a Certification in International Law and Legal Studies from Soochow University in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Soochow University is affiliated with the Province of Jiangsu, and co-funded by the SASTIND, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) is a civilian agency under the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that is tasked with formulating policies, laws, and regulations regarding science, technology, and industry related to national defense.
So Meiselas is the Joe Rogan of Tim Walzes.
I didn't not see the lesuo blackmail angle, I should have guessed,
Meiselas is the Sam Harris of Tim Walzes.
Or the Tim Walz of Sam Harrises.
I have always wondered where Inga gets her (air quotes) information (close air quotes) it's like perfect photographic negative of the actual truth.
“I have always wondered where Inga gets her (air quotes) information (close air quotes) it's like perfect photographic negative of the actual truth.”
I’ve never doubted that Timofey from Russia Vermont gets his “info” from Pravda and Russian State TV.
This is the kind of stuff Democrats demand we swallow:
"The undocumented immigrant at the center of the fight between the NJ governor and Trump had a largely clean driving record..."
Oooh, somebody added some context:
“largely clean” driving record other than drunk driving and killing a mother and her 11 year old daughter
https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1956018174723256433
This is why they can't talk for hours unscripted. This kind of rhetoric, "largely clean driving record" can only work as hit and run, no way could this person deal with follow up questions.
All you have to do Inga, is take any statement that I make here and prove it wrong. I notice that you don't do that very often, if at all. You just resort to name calling. Most of the pushback I get amounts to "It's your patriotic duty to believe the lies our side tells!" like yours right there.
But it's good to know that Democrats are for WWIII among all of the other disastrous outcomes of their policies.
I just hate being lied to. It turns out that the neocons are doing most of the lying this time around.
“Ben Meiselas's educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts degree from George Washington University, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Georgetown University Law Center. He also participated in an international law program at Suzhou University in Shanghai, China, and earned a certification in international transactional law. Additionally, he has been a law lecturer at USC Gould School of Law.”
Google AI
“I just hate being lied to.”
Yet you practically repeat Russian propaganda verbatim here.
I also think that neocons like Lindsay Graham and Mitch McConnell, and Joe Biden have taken our country to the precipice in a moronic attempt to destroy Russia and China for the crimes of being too big. Russia and China both know that if they fold, their backs will be against the wall, and their regimes will collapse, and we will be ruling over the rubble, and yet we push them to the wall. It's stoopid.
"Yet you practically repeat Russian propaganda verbatim here."
Take a statement that I have made and prove it wrong. We have all heard the "Russia, Russia, Russia," stuff from you for years, and it turned out that it was all based on lies, from Adam Shiff, from Hillary Clinton, from Comey, et al. So go ahead, bring some actual evidence.
"Oooh, somebody added some context:"
Which Democrats would prefer to have censored. And would have, before Musk bought twitter.
"Which Democrats would prefer to have censored. And would have, before Musk bought twitter."
A three hour unscripted show gives way too much time for people to ask uncomfortable questions. Much better quick hit little pieces where important context just doesn't make the final cut.
“Take a statement that I have made and prove it wrong.”
WHY EVER would I engage with someone like you who has so obviously internalized Russian propaganda and demonizes Ukraine at every turn? Are you restless, maybe Buwaya or Dr.Weevil should kick you around these comments sections metaphorically again as they usually do in your “debates” with them. They have your number, it’s in Cyrillic.
Inga and her obsession with "RUSSIAN PROPGANDA!"
Awesome.
btw - Inga - did Russia hack the 2016 election?
Yes or no.
and yeah - you could answer JAQ @ 7:42. Waiting.
I watched a number of Meidias Touch videos prior to the 2024 Election. Their analysis that Donald Trump’s support was colllapsing was rather incorrect…
Ironically - The hive-left must feed themselves the equivalent of Russian propaganda - to keep hope alive.
or they just cheat.
@ Inga re:
He also participated in an international law program at Suzhou University in Shanghai, China, and earned a certification in international transactional law.
That's what I said.
Well, this definitely proves that there is no anti-conservative bias at NPR.
so the dude has a nice coating of chi com. good!
That Inag likes this leftist freak - (with chi com sauce) - tells us how radical left he is.
Three Maltese terriers, three Maltese poodles, see how they walk, bark... behind a kinechromatic glass portal. Woof.
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.
I would personally find that amusing. Like Bluto, Trump is on a roll.
I remember when the left announced we need a liberal Rush L. Thus was born Air America. I'm sure it's still on and a monster hit. How could it be otherwise? Sadly I can't seem to find an AA station where I live.... or travel.
He and Tim Miller are my top two most interesting folks on the left side of the media.
My top two on the other side are John Podhoretz and Steve Bannon.
"None of those are "pranks". Dan's Bake Sale was done by....Dan, publicized by Rush ."
Dan called in with a tale of woe and wanted a free subscription to the Limbaugh Letter. Rush said why don't you hold a bake sale like Hillary suggested everybody needing money do. The result was the biggest bake sale in world history.
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