'We're Fighting for You!' Podcaster Ben Meiselas on Taking on the Maga Media - and Winning the Ratings Battle

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Steve Rose, The Guardian:
'We're fighting for you!' Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media - and winning the ratings battle -- His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings - and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan's. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

Posted by retort at 02:22 PM | 18 COMMENTS | permalink

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This kid is doing really well, too, fighting the good fight; he had Jeffries on the other day.

https://www.youtube.com/@adammockler/videos

Also, the Daily Beast podcast with Michael Wolff Inside Trump's Head

www.youtube.com

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-11 02:52 PM

Dem/left leaning 'major/Legacy' media: ABC, NBC, CBS + MSNBC, CNN

Trump Media: FoxNews, NewsMax, OANN

NOTE: The 'Trump Media has a very small fraction of the total viewership than all those of the dem media, so not sure what the lefty is 'worried' about.

ABC, NBC, CBS, & CNN are center-right media.

MSNBC is at best center-left.

We do not have ANY actual leftist mainstream media in this country.

---- off you senile Nazi bitch.

A champion...yes.
A national media champion, yes, with a qualifier...the internet is not national network media, and more and more of that national media is bought by the rich to suppress the voice of the poor. CBS, The Washington Post, other major newspapers...they are lost to the forces of corporate cutthroat capitalism which is a great friend of the Trump gang.

"We do not have ANY actual leftist mainstream media in this country."

How could there be? The left isn't mainstream.

I used to really like him... sorta. Then he seemed too self-indulgent with all the click-baiting tactics rehashing the same video... the same long-winded interpretations... lord have mercy... mountains out of mole hills.

I called him out for his part in getting Trumpanzee elected the first time with all his Hillary-hating diatribes because of Bernie butt hurts... and lack of support for her candidacy right up until just before the election... He owned it that his behavior probably did play a part.

Cenk and Ana from TYT just double down on whichever way the wind blows for this that or the other... feels too gossipy...

ABC, NBC, CBS, & CNN are center-right media.

MSNBC is at best center-left.

We do not have ANY actual leftist mainstream media in this country.

#3 | Posted by DarkVader

LOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL..

I didnt think there was anyone in this nation who really believe this fantasy!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

ABC, NBC, CBS and especially CNN are the most leftist media we have out there. They are no where NEAR right on anything. Without Fox, the right would no one to report their side of the news.

Posted by boaz at 2025-10-12 05:35 PM | Reply

You lie like a rug Boaz. Full stop.

Fox is blatant unapologetic rightwing propaganda that melts peoples' critical thinking skills. It tells stupid people what they want to hear. Rupert Murdoch is responsible for the downfall of modern civilization

Poor Boaz. Foxnews, OAN, Newsmax, Breitbart, the entirety of Radio, and most podcasts are all far right wing, and CNN et al cater to those listeners, but it's not good enough for him.

Republicans own the MSM and the messaging. And still suck.

... His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings - and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan's. ...

That's significant.

@#8 ... ABC, NBC, CBS and especially CNN are the most leftist media we have out there. They are no where NEAR right on anything. ...

OK, let's go with that for the nonce, in alphabetical order ...

ABC News -- Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate ABC News as Left-Center biased based on story selection and word choices that moderately favor the left and High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a reasonable fact check record. ...

CBS News -- Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate CBS News as Left-Center biased based on story selection that moderately favors the left and is High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record. ...

NBC News " Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate NBC News Left-Center biased based on story selection and word choices that moderately favor the left and High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a reasonable fact check record. ...

For grins, please allow me to add some others ...

Fox News (foxnews.com) -- Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate Fox News right-biased based on editorial positions that align with the right and Questionable due to the promotion of state propaganda, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, the use of poor sources, and numerous false claims and failed fact checks. While straight news reporting from beat reporters is generally fact-based and accurate, it is typically overshadowed by propagandistic opinions, which earns them a Low factual rating. ...

One America News Network (OAN) " Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate One America News Questionable based on far-right bias, lack of sourcing, promotion of conspiracy theories, and propaganda, as well as numerous failed fact checks. OAN is not a credible news source. ...

And for grins, here's a site I like to visit and read, and often cite here on this most august site ...

Newsweek " Bias and Credibility
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/newsweek/

... Overall, we rate Newsweek Right-Center Biased based on editorial positions that slightly favor the right. We also rate them as Mostly Factual in reported rather than high due to having to make corrections on false information after publication. ...

I like the "corrections" aspect of NewsWeek.

OK, I'll stop there ...

Bo@ss is a ------- retarded MAGAT clown.

Sometimes I wonder about Pres Trump's end goals ...

Missing Persons - Destination Unknown (1982)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
Life is so strange when you don't know
How can you tell where you're going to?
You can't be sure of any situation
Something could change, and then you won't know

[Verse 2]
You ask yourself
"Where do we go from here?
It seems so all too near
Just as far beyond as I can see
I still don't know what this all means to me"

[Verse 3]
So you tell yourself
"I have nowhere to go
I don't know what to do
And I don't even know the time of day
I guess it doesn't matter anyway"

[Chorus]
Life is so strange
Destination unknown
When you don't know
Your destination
And something could change
It's unknown
And then you won't know
Destination unknown
...

@#15 ... Sometimes I wonder about Pres Trump's end goals ...

Then I realize ...

His end goal seems to be the destruction of Democracy in the Country, in favor of unfettered adulation of a self-proclaimed almighty leader.

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping (1997)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
In the UK, a tubthumper is a politician. The US equivalent of tubthumping is "stumping" (campaigning). ...

[Chorus: Chumbawamba]
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
...