Media Matters Fellow Matthew Gertz Exposes Propaganda for Trump

The MeidasTouch Podcast

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox losing it on live tv as Trump crashes the United States and Meiselas interviews Media Matters Senior Fellow Matthew Gertz who describes the tactics of Fox and other media to normalize Trump’s failures. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	Yeah, Fox is absolutely losing control as we've got one of the worst jobs reports in recent history.
0:37.1	The August report came in, only 22,000 jobs were created.
0:41.0	The June report was revised down negative 13,000 or 14,000 jobs. And I would expect these other months to get revised down as well.
0:51.3	So what does Fox do? They bring on Kevin Hassett, Trump's chief economic advisor.
0:56.5	And you'll never guess this. What he tries to do is blame the Bureau of Labor Statistics
1:02.6	that they were the one who did it. The statisticians did it everybody. Come on, here, play this clip.
1:08.7	Go ahead and get your hot take. It's not the number you wanted.
1:11.7	It was not the number that was expected.
1:14.0	How come?
1:15.3	Right.
1:15.6	Well, one of the things we know is that they've been really at BLS struggling with bad response rates.
1:22.0	And Goldman Sachs put out a study yesterday that said that they've been messing up the August
1:27.1	seasonal so much that over the
1:28.3	last 10 to 15 years, they've tended to have to revise up the number by around almost 70,000
1:34.3	jobs when they get the new final surveys.
1:38.3	So is their fault?
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