Meidas has POWERFUL ANSWER to CBS…BYE BYE!!! MeidasTouch Network Apr 24 By Ben Meiselas Revenge is a dish best served cold… CBS, let’s face it, your betrayal is unforgivable. The fact you compromised the independence of 60 Minutes and forced legendary Executive Producer Bill Owens to resign pissed me off. Do you have any sense of the moment?! Seriously, you are so damn greedy and want regulatory approval of the $8 billion merger between CBS parent company Paramount and Skydance that you’re willing to sell out our democracy? I hate to be crass, but you are pathetic. Donald Trump is weaker than ever right now. His approval is plummeting. The recent Pew Research poll has Trump’s approval at 40 percent and his support among 18-29 year olds and Latinos in the 20 percent range. Even the Fox poll released yesterday has his approval at 44 percent, which is their lowest ranking by far of a president in modern history in the first 100 days. Now is the time to fight harder and not capitulate, CBS! Don’t you realize that Trump is an extortionist? The moment you give him an inch, he takes a foot, then an arm, and then your life. You think he’ll stop at you settling some bogus lawsuit with him? The moment he senses your weakness, he’s going to come back to the well and demand more from you until you look like some idiotic channel like Mike Lindell TV. How many times do I have to tell you?! You don’t obey in advance, and you don’t obey ever. What does $8 billion mean if you lose your freedom and democracy—and eventually that $8 billion—to an authoritarian who takes and takes and takes? CBS gave us all the middle finger, and we responded. As I said at the outset of this post, revenge is a dish best served cold. I’m reminded of the ritzy event in Sun Valley, Idaho a few months back where Paramount head Shari Redstone and Warner Bros. head David Zaslav pranced around like giddy school kids reenacting a youth they never had, bragging about the “deregulatory environment” that would drench them in money under a Trump presidency. Nope. Now you’re drenched in your own vomit of greed, and independent media like us needs to stop you sickos from continuing to project that venomous slop on the rest of us. Revenge is a dish best served cold. So it’s fitting that as these oligarchs and agents of oligarchy like Redstone and Zaslav mock us all, laugh in our faces, and try to sell us out, we respond with force. And that we did! After our post yesterday forcefully calling out CBS, we got some incredible news. First, we found out from the top podcast data company Podscribe that The MeidasTouch Podcast came in first again in the charts for the third straight month in a row with 107.3 million downloads. This is more than Joe Rogan, Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, and Charlie Kirk combined. Second—and what’s more—we learned we get over 8 million more YouTube views per day than CBS News. It’s a wipeout, CBS! You gave us the middle finger. You cared so much about your $8 billion, and now you’ve been trounced by us with 8 million more views a day! What CBS and Skydance can’t fathom is that the MeidasTouch Network crushes them—and we’ve grown thanks to our subscribers on this Substack. They care so much about their $8 billion merger and their news assets that they’ve exposed themselves as gigantic orange-turd-enabling assholes. Excuse my language—I don’t like cursing—but I found that one funny and so true. You’re supposed to be reporting on news. So report on it, damnit, or get out of the way! Why don’t you sell Meidas 60 Minutes at this point since you apparently don’t care about the news? By the way, we told Bill Owens in our post yesterday that he should join Meidas. We’ll see. I’m sure I sound like a broken record sometimes when I ask you to subscribe to the MeidasTouch Substack if you aren’t yet a subscriber. It’s not to be annoying—I hope you don’t find it that way. We’re competing against companies like CBS and Skydance that are doing $8 billion mergers, and we’re beating them thanks to our growth in subscribers on this Substack. I know we have great content here that breaks stories and leads the news cycle. Heck, we even got a shoutout last night from Rachel Maddow for Meidas doing the first interview with former President Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. So not only do you get great content on this Substack as a subscriber, but you also help the MeidasTouch Network grow and beat the likes of CBS. You helped us win the Webby for Top Podcast of the Year. So if you can subscribe—or want to gift a subscription to someone you know—we’d love for you to do that now. Thanks for supporting the MeidasTouch Network, which is also the fastest-growing Substack in the world. Alright, I have to record a video now. Thanks, MeidasMighty. Onward! Meidas+ is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.