Rebel News Podcast - August 27, 2020


A side of Trump you'll never see on the CBC


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

154.00961

Word Count

7,924

Sentence Count

515

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

The Republican National Convention is in full swing in Cleveland, and Donald Trump is here to nominate himself as the next president of the United States. Today, I'm going to show you five clips from the Republican convention, each of which tells a story about Trump's party.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I show you five excerpts from the Republican Convention that's nominating Donald Trump.
00:00:07.620 It's really the party's last chance to put on an official show for the country before the campaign heats up full tilt after Labor Day.
00:00:17.060 The Democrats had theirs a few days ago.
00:00:19.360 I'm going to show you five clips from the Republican Convention, each of which tells a bit of a story about Trump's party.
00:00:25.280 And obviously, you know where I'm going with this. Did you see any of this on the mainstream media?
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00:01:03.960 All right, here's the podcast.
00:01:05.320 Tonight, a side of Donald Trump and the Republican Party that you'll never see on the CBC.
00:01:26.400 It's August 26th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:29.760 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:35.620 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:39.680 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:45.520 You know, it's good to watch the mainstream media just to see what the official narrative is.
00:01:55.960 But if that's all you saw, well, that wouldn't be enough.
00:01:59.580 You would need to see the other side of the story.
00:02:02.700 That's our motto here at Rebel News.
00:02:04.860 And with Donald Trump, he's providing so much content directly to the people,
00:02:10.600 it's a way for people to get around the middleman of the media.
00:02:14.400 It was one of the ways that Trump won in 2016.
00:02:18.160 He had huge stadium-sized rallies where people could listen to Trump for one, two, three hours at a time directly.
00:02:26.520 They would hear more from the candidate, hear him make jokes, hear him talk about serious issues.
00:02:32.160 In that day, then they would likely hear through the media over the course of a whole campaign.
00:02:37.460 And, of course, it would leave a deep mark on them.
00:02:40.120 Besides stadium rallies, of course, Trump relied on the Internet.
00:02:43.740 Not only using it masterfully in his own campaign, but there was a whole army of YouTubers and Twitterers
00:02:50.700 who became sort of a volunteer army for Trump.
00:02:54.480 That's why after the 2016 election, social media companies cracked down on conservative sites,
00:02:59.940 including ours, throttling us and cutting back our advertising,
00:03:03.680 because they knew we magnified Trump's message.
00:03:07.060 Well, Trump is generally cut away from by, for example, CNN whenever he's giving a speech.
00:03:12.360 They don't want to let people have access to him directly.
00:03:16.120 But for the past few days, the Republican National Convention,
00:03:20.040 where they formally nominate Trump to be the Republican candidate for the presidential election,
00:03:26.220 they've been having their convention, just like the Democrats did with Joe Biden a few days earlier.
00:03:32.680 Early audience ratings show that the Republican show, because it is a show in this era of pandemic social distancing,
00:03:41.740 it's largely made for TV.
00:03:43.900 Well, the Republican show has, according to one measurement I read,
00:03:47.320 six times the viewership of the Democrats, indicating more energy and more interest in the Republicans than the Democrats.
00:03:55.640 But more important than just the quantity is the quality.
00:04:00.220 The chance to hear Trump and his team describe themselves in their own words,
00:04:05.200 rather than simply reacting to the questions that CNN and the New York Times think are important.
00:04:10.580 I want to show you five short videos from the Republican convention,
00:04:17.320 that if you're online and actively searching for the other side of the story, you may have seen these.
00:04:22.840 But if you're one of millions of Canadians who relies on the media party, on the CBC,
00:04:27.740 on the, God forbid, Toronto Star to tell you what's going on, you'll never have seen these.
00:04:33.380 None of these are by Donald Trump or his family, all of whom spoke at the convention.
00:04:38.760 These are all by different elements in the Trump campaign.
00:04:43.120 I want to play them for you, not all the way through, that would be too long,
00:04:46.860 but I want to give you a real taste of these different messages,
00:04:50.380 so completely different to the media narrative out there.
00:04:54.540 I watched these and other videos, and it gave me great encouragement
00:04:58.280 that Trump is talking about things and the campaign is focusing on things
00:05:02.440 that will make a real difference,
00:05:04.900 and that the crazy Antifa, Black Lives Matter,
00:05:08.820 nightly riots in Democrat-controlled cities,
00:05:12.760 well, that's probably a losing campaign narrative.
00:05:16.580 In fact, I see CNN starting to panic that people don't like the nightly riots
00:05:21.440 and the daily threats not to open school up after the pandemic.
00:05:25.040 Without further ado, let me show you excerpts from five videos
00:05:28.540 from the Republican convention that I think are of interest.
00:05:30.780 The first, well, you probably met this couple the same way I did,
00:05:35.780 seeing them panicky outside their lovely home in St. Louis,
00:05:39.440 with their own firearms defending their house against a mob there to burn it down.
00:05:46.240 Take a listen to Mark and Patricia McCloskey.
00:05:49.180 Good evening, America.
00:05:50.280 We are Mark and Patty McCloskey.
00:05:52.400 We're speaking to you tonight from St. Louis, Missouri,
00:05:55.300 where just weeks ago you may have seen us defending our home
00:05:58.900 as a mob of protesters descended on our neighborhood.
00:06:02.820 America is such a great country that not only do you have the right to own a gun
00:06:06.640 and use it to defend yourself, but thousands of Americans
00:06:10.480 will offer you free advice on how to use it.
00:06:13.420 At least that's what we experienced.
00:06:15.700 What you saw happen to us could just as easily happen to any of you
00:06:19.560 who are watching from quiet neighborhoods around our country.
00:06:22.740 And that's what we want to speak to you about tonight.
00:06:26.600 That's exactly right.
00:06:28.380 Whether it's the defunding of police, ending cash bail so criminals can be released
00:06:33.660 back out on the streets the same day to riot again
00:06:37.260 or encouraging anarchy and chaos on our streets.
00:06:41.440 It seems as if the Democrats no longer view the government's job
00:06:45.440 as protecting honest citizens from criminals,
00:06:49.060 but rather protecting criminals from honest citizens.
00:06:52.440 Not a single person in the out-of-control mob you saw at our house
00:06:57.020 was charged with a crime.
00:06:59.660 But you know who was?
00:07:01.400 We were.
00:07:02.180 They've actually charged us with felonies for daring to defend our home.
00:07:08.660 On top of that, consider this.
00:07:11.300 The Marxist liberal activist leading the mob to our neighborhood
00:07:15.280 stood outside our home with a bullhorn screaming,
00:07:19.320 you can't stop the revolution.
00:07:21.640 Just weeks later, that same Marxist activist won the Democrat nomination
00:07:27.060 to hold a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
00:07:30.380 In the city of St. Louis, that's the same as winning the general election.
00:07:35.220 That Marxist revolutionary is now going to be the congresswoman from the first district of Missouri.
00:07:41.760 These radicals are not content with marching in the streets.
00:07:46.720 They want to walk the halls of Congress.
00:07:49.140 They want to take over.
00:07:50.520 They want power.
00:07:51.960 This is Joe Biden's party.
00:07:54.040 These are the people who will be in charge of your future and the future of your children.
00:07:58.020 They're not satisfied with spreading the chaos and violence into our communities.
00:08:04.120 They want to abolish the suburbs altogether by ending single-family home zoning.
00:08:10.360 This forestry zoning would bring crime, lawlessness, and low-quality apartments
00:08:14.620 into now-thriving suburban neighborhoods.
00:08:17.520 President Trump smartly ended this government overreach.
00:08:20.980 But Joe Biden wants to bring it back.
00:08:23.900 These are the policies that are coming to a neighborhood near you.
00:08:26.980 So make no mistake, no matter where you live, your family will not be safe in the radical
00:08:33.920 Democrats' America.
00:08:35.840 Even inviting this couple to come and present, well, that's a very important statement in
00:08:41.980 itself, isn't it?
00:08:43.380 That Trump is not going to leave people like this behind, not going to abandon them.
00:08:48.400 And in fact, they were the morally superior ones, not the local DA who actually charged them.
00:08:54.540 And it's a very good point.
00:08:55.960 If you think these riots only happen downtown, well, they start downtown, but this couple
00:09:01.720 lived in the burbs.
00:09:03.320 They'll come for you one day.
00:09:05.600 Well, let me switch gears completely now.
00:09:09.000 Donald Trump, before he became the Republican candidate in 2015-16 is when he was nominated,
00:09:15.900 he was extremely popular with the celebrity circuit, the TV circuit, with other rich and famous
00:09:23.980 people.
00:09:24.400 He was the owner of the, I think it was the Miss America pageant.
00:09:28.040 He had a famous TV show, The Apprentice.
00:09:30.920 And of course, living in New York, he met people of all different backgrounds.
00:09:35.040 And being in the entertainment field, he knew probably a disproportionate number of African
00:09:41.580 Americans.
00:09:42.160 And he became real friends with people of every background.
00:09:45.580 I mean, when you're in New York, you meet a lot of minorities.
00:09:48.420 He became true friends with them.
00:09:50.480 And in fact, Donald Trump and his name, well, they were referenced in dozens of rap songs
00:09:57.100 because Trump was held to be an icon of make it big, make it flashy in the black entertainment
00:10:03.840 circles until he came out as a Republican.
00:10:06.480 Well, not everyone dropped him because Hillary Clinton said so, because Joe Biden said, you
00:10:12.800 ain't black if you're for Trump.
00:10:14.660 Here's Herschel Walker, a football great, talking about his personal friendship with Trump,
00:10:20.800 Trump's elbows-up style, and the odd reference to something the Democrats never talk about,
00:10:26.720 Christianity.
00:10:28.900 Take a listen.
00:10:30.180 I'm not an actor, a singer, or a politician.
00:10:34.260 I'm Herschel Walker.
00:10:36.020 Most of you know me as a football player, but I'm also a father, a man of faith, and a
00:10:41.860 very good judge of character.
00:10:43.800 I've known Donald Trump for 37 years, and I don't mean just casual ranting to him from
00:10:49.200 time to time.
00:10:50.380 I'm talking about a deep personal friendship.
00:10:52.680 I watched him as the owner of a professional football team.
00:10:57.380 Right after he bought the team, he set out to learn.
00:11:00.800 He learned about the history of the team, the players, the coaches, every detail.
00:11:06.420 Then he used what he learned to make the team better.
00:11:09.580 I watched him in the boardroom.
00:11:11.660 He can be in the middle of a big meeting, but if one of the kids was on the phone, he
00:11:16.140 dropped everything to take the call.
00:11:18.340 He taught me that the family should be your top priority.
00:11:20.780 I watched him treat janitors, security guards, and waiters the same way he would treat a
00:11:26.500 VIP.
00:11:27.700 He made them feel special because he knew they were.
00:11:31.200 He understands that they are the people who make this country run.
00:11:34.740 They clean, they cook, they build, they drive, they deliver.
00:11:39.700 He told me, Herschel, make an effort to get to know people.
00:11:44.020 Remember their names.
00:11:45.460 That stuck with me.
00:11:46.600 One time, I planned to take his kids to Disney World with my family.
00:11:51.920 At the last minute, Donald said he would like to join us.
00:11:55.140 So there he was, in a business suit, on the, it's a small world ride.
00:12:00.420 That was something to see.
00:12:02.280 It just shows you what a caring, loving father he is.
00:12:05.600 It hurt my soul to hear the terrible names that people call Donald.
00:12:08.940 The worst one is racist.
00:12:12.040 I take it as a personal insult that people would think I've had a 37-year friendship with a racist.
00:12:17.940 People who think that don't know what they're talking about.
00:12:21.280 Growing up in the deep south, I've seen racism up close.
00:12:25.060 I know what it is.
00:12:26.400 And it isn't Donald Trump.
00:12:28.720 Just because someone loves and respects the flag, our national anthem, and our country,
00:12:33.840 doesn't mean they don't care about social justice.
00:12:35.920 I care about all those things.
00:12:38.720 So does Donald Trump.
00:12:40.680 He shows how much he cares about social justice and the black community through his actions.
00:12:45.420 And his actions speaks louder than stickers or slogans on a jersey.
00:12:49.680 He keeps right on fighting to improve the lives of black Americans and all Americans.
00:12:54.720 He works night and day.
00:12:56.400 He never stops.
00:12:57.840 He leaves nothing on the field.
00:13:00.180 Some people don't like his style.
00:13:01.980 The way he knocks down obstacles that get in the way of his goals.
00:13:04.780 People on the opposing team don't like when I ran over them either.
00:13:08.760 But that's how you get the job done.
00:13:10.980 I pray every night that God gives him more time.
00:13:14.200 Give him four more years.
00:13:16.140 He has accomplished so much almost all by himself on a constant attack.
00:13:20.700 But there's still more work to be done.
00:13:23.240 If you love America and want to make it better,
00:13:26.380 Donald Trump is your president.
00:13:28.240 He's my president.
00:13:29.640 And I'm blessed to call him friend.
00:13:31.220 It's true there aren't a lot of black senators in the United States on either party.
00:13:38.020 But there are some.
00:13:39.520 And they're not all Democrats.
00:13:41.940 That's something that particularly irks the Democrats.
00:13:44.900 Because they've traditionally counted on 80 to 90 percent support from African Americans.
00:13:50.860 That number reached well over 90 percent when Barack Obama was the candidate.
00:13:55.140 But it looks like it's sagging, first under Hillary Clinton and then under Joe Biden.
00:14:01.100 What if a blexit really happens?
00:14:04.140 That's the phrase that Candace Owens and others give it to blacks simply choosing not to stay Democrat.
00:14:11.920 For a variety of reasons.
00:14:13.560 Maybe they're conservative.
00:14:15.080 Maybe they think we're taken for granted by the Democrats.
00:14:18.020 Or maybe they just ask, what have you done for us lately?
00:14:20.820 Some black voters even remember that it was the Democrats who were the party of slavery.
00:14:27.340 And the great emancipator, Abraham Lincoln, well, he was a Republican.
00:14:32.360 There were no slave owners in the Republican Party.
00:14:35.560 It was the party of abolition.
00:14:38.460 The party of the KKK, that's the Democrats.
00:14:41.880 Well, here's Tim Scott, the junior United States senator for South Carolina, explaining why he's black and he's voting for Trump.
00:14:53.040 Good evening.
00:14:54.460 I'm Senator Tim Scott from the great state of South Carolina.
00:14:57.480 To all of you tuning in and participating in the political process, God bless you.
00:15:03.040 This isn't how I picture tonight.
00:15:04.620 But our country is experiencing something none of us envisioned.
00:15:08.860 From a global pandemic to the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, 2020 has tested our nation in ways we haven't seen for decades.
00:15:18.300 But regardless of the challenges presented to us, every four years, Americans come together to vote.
00:15:25.580 To share stories of what makes our nation strong and the lessons we have learned that can strengthen it for further generations.
00:15:32.860 After starting my small business and spending some time in local government, I decided to run for Congress in 2010.
00:15:40.860 The district is based in Charleston, South Carolina, where the Civil War started, against a son of our legendary senator, Strom Thurmond.
00:15:50.340 You may be asking yourself, how does a poor black kid from a single-parent household run and win in a race crowded with Republicans against a Thurmond?
00:16:01.680 One, because of the evolution of the Southern heart.
00:16:06.740 In an overwhelmingly white district, the voters judged me not on the color of my skin, but on the content of my character.
00:16:17.740 We live in a world that only wants you to believe in the bad news, racially, economically, and culturally polarizing news.
00:16:26.580 The truth is, our nation's arc always bends back towards fairness.
00:16:33.820 We are not fully where we want to be, but I thank God Almighty, we are not where we used to be.
00:16:40.860 We are always striving to be better.
00:16:44.820 When we stumble, and we will, we pick ourselves back up and try again.
00:16:50.280 So, I'm going to ask you, the American people, not to simply look at what the candidates say, but to look back at what they've done.
00:17:02.260 This election is about your future, and it is critical to paint a full picture of the records of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
00:17:12.160 Joe Biden said if a black man didn't vote for him, he wasn't truly black.
00:17:17.120 Joe Biden said black people are a monolithic community.
00:17:21.480 It was Joe Biden who said poor kids can be just as smart as white kids.
00:17:29.000 And while his words are one thing, his actions take it to a whole new level.
00:17:36.500 In 1994, Biden led the charge on a crime bill that put millions of black Americans behind bars.
00:17:42.880 President Trump's criminal justice reform law fixed many of the disparities Biden created and made our system more fair and just for all Americans.
00:17:54.260 Joe Biden also failed our nation's historically black colleges and universities,
00:17:59.740 heaping blame on them as they fought to ensure our young folks had access to higher education.
00:18:06.080 Once again, to clean up Joe Biden's mess, President Trump signed into law historically high funding for HBCUs,
00:18:15.680 as well as a bill to give them permanent funding for the first time ever.
00:18:24.580 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want a cultural revolution, a fundamentally different America.
00:18:31.940 If we let them, they will turn our country into a socialist utopia.
00:18:37.840 And history has taught us that path only leads to pain and misery, especially for hardworking people hoping to rise.
00:18:48.220 Instead, we must focus on the promise of the American journey.
00:18:53.780 I know that journey well.
00:18:56.220 My grandfather's 99th birthday would have been tomorrow.
00:19:00.400 Growing up, he had to cross the street if a white person was coming.
00:19:06.600 He suffered the indignity of being forced out of school as a third grader to pick cotton.
00:19:13.780 And he never learned to read or write.
00:19:17.360 Yet he lived long enough to see his grandson become the first African-American to be elected to both the United States House
00:19:26.960 and the United States Senate in the history of this country.
00:19:30.520 Our family went from cotton to Congress in one lifetime.
00:19:37.840 And that's why I believe the next American century can be better than the last.
00:19:44.100 There are millions of families just like mine all across this nation full of potential seeking to live the American dream.
00:19:53.360 And I'm here tonight to tell you that supporting the Republican ticket gives you the best chance of making that dream a reality.
00:20:03.680 God bless you.
00:20:05.340 And Father, please continue blessing the United States of America.
00:20:11.540 This next one, you know what, I don't regard myself as overly sentimental.
00:20:17.860 Maybe I am.
00:20:18.560 Actually, maybe I'm very sentimental.
00:20:19.740 I don't know.
00:20:19.960 You tell me.
00:20:21.400 But politicians, I don't usually buy into their sentimentality.
00:20:25.920 I find it fake.
00:20:27.520 I find it theatrical.
00:20:29.120 But this next speaker, he's clearly not a politician.
00:20:33.340 And I have to say, although I'd never heard of him or seen him before, when he choked up, I choked up a little bit.
00:20:42.640 I didn't mean to.
00:20:44.340 I'm not American.
00:20:45.540 I'm not Floridian.
00:20:46.480 I'm not Cuban.
00:20:47.320 But his story was so passionate and the man was speaking from the heart, I couldn't help myself.
00:20:54.320 I choked up a little bit, too.
00:20:58.040 Will you listen to Maximo Alvarez telling his story of freedom?
00:21:03.680 Hello.
00:21:04.440 My name is Maximo Alvarez.
00:21:06.740 I live in Miami, Florida, not far from the state of Florida, which isn't just a 90-mile, wide blue strip on a map for me.
00:21:16.660 It divides freedom from fear.
00:21:19.600 It divides the past from the present, from the future.
00:21:24.320 I know all about the past.
00:21:27.780 I'll never forget my own.
00:21:30.900 My family has fled totalitarianism and communism more than once.
00:21:39.560 First my dad from Spain, then from Cuba.
00:21:43.980 But my family is done running away.
00:21:45.940 By the grace of God, I live the American dream, the greatest blessing I ever had.
00:21:53.300 My dad, who only had a sixth grade education, told me,
00:21:59.680 don't lose this place.
00:22:02.340 You will never be as well against me.
00:22:03.860 I'm speaking to you today because my family is done abandoning what we rightfully earned.
00:22:12.480 There is no place to hide.
00:22:15.460 I'm speaking to you today because President Trump may not always be politically correct.
00:22:21.080 He's, in fact, a successful businessman, nor your average career politician.
00:22:26.840 Our president is just another family man, a friend, and most important, our elected commander-in-chief who puts America first.
00:22:39.780 I heard the promises of Fidel Castro, and I can never forget all those who grew up around me, who look like me, who suffered and starved and died because they believed those empty promises.
00:22:58.400 They swallowed the communist poison pill.
00:23:01.180 If you have a chance, go to the Freedom Tower in Miami.
00:23:07.620 Stop and listen.
00:23:09.980 You can still hear the sounds of those broken promises.
00:23:15.240 It is the sound of waves in the ocean carrying families clinging to pieces of wood.
00:23:22.020 Families with children who can't swim, but willing to risk everything to reach this blessed land.
00:23:28.940 It is the sound of tears hitting the paper of an application to become an American citizen.
00:23:38.300 Most heard and liked the promises, but soon after, they experienced the reality.
00:23:46.220 Look at them.
00:23:48.440 Listen to them.
00:23:50.840 Learn the truth.
00:23:53.180 Those four promises spread the wealth.
00:23:57.000 Free education, free health care.
00:24:01.180 Defund the police.
00:24:03.700 Trust the socialist state more than your family and your community.
00:24:09.000 They don't sound radical to my ears.
00:24:14.160 They sound familiar.
00:24:17.840 And Fidel Castro was asked if he was a communist.
00:24:20.020 He said he was a Roman Catholic.
00:24:25.080 He knew he had to hide the truth.
00:24:29.260 But the country I was born in is gone, totally destroyed.
00:24:33.500 When I watched the news in Seattle, Chicago, Portland, and other cities.
00:24:40.200 When I see the history being rewritten.
00:24:43.360 When I hear the promises.
00:24:47.440 I hear echoes of the former life I never wanted to hear again.
00:24:54.340 When I see shadows, I thought I had out of them.
00:25:00.320 I may be a Cuban born, but I am 100% American.
00:25:05.620 This is the greatest country in the world.
00:25:08.680 And I said this before.
00:25:15.500 If I gave away everything that I have today.
00:25:20.940 It would not equal 1% of what I was given.
00:25:25.500 When I came to this great country of ours.
00:25:30.240 The gift of freedom.
00:25:31.640 Right now, it is up to us to decide our fate.
00:25:38.420 And to choose.
00:25:41.160 Freedom over oppression.
00:25:44.940 President Trump.
00:25:47.440 He's fighting the forces of anarchy and communism.
00:25:51.540 And I know he will continue to do just that.
00:25:55.520 And what about his opponent.
00:25:58.400 And the rest of the T.C. swamp.
00:26:00.000 I have no doubt.
00:26:03.240 They will hand the country over to those dangerous forces.
00:26:07.940 You and I will decide.
00:26:12.500 And here's what I've decided.
00:26:15.040 My decision is very easy.
00:26:17.920 I choose President Trump.
00:26:21.560 Because I choose America.
00:26:24.380 I choose freedom.
00:26:27.660 I still hear my dad.
00:26:30.000 There is no other place to go.
00:26:38.080 Thank you.
00:26:39.100 And may the good Lord bless America.
00:26:42.560 I'm sorry I found that touching.
00:26:44.240 I just did.
00:26:45.580 And I hope that Hispanic Americans.
00:26:48.460 Listen to that message of freedom.
00:26:50.140 And not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's message.
00:26:53.680 Of socialism and communism.
00:26:55.180 Well, there was one more speaker.
00:26:58.000 And again, it's a dramatic choice to make him a speaker, isn't it?
00:27:02.280 His name is Nick Sandman.
00:27:04.260 And he's just a teenager.
00:27:06.680 He was the teen who was on a school trip to Washington, D.C.
00:27:10.140 Normally a highlight of one's high school career.
00:27:14.000 And he was waiting for the buses to take them all home.
00:27:16.700 They were waiting at the Lincoln Memorial.
00:27:18.960 And there was a group of radical activists there.
00:27:22.400 Radical black activists.
00:27:24.000 Radical aboriginal activists.
00:27:25.920 And one came right up to his face and banged the drum inches from his nose.
00:27:31.900 He froze, not wanting to provoke the man.
00:27:35.140 Kept his hands behind his back.
00:27:37.100 And just did his best to smile.
00:27:39.060 Well, he became the enemy to the media.
00:27:43.180 That smile was called a smirk.
00:27:45.740 And because he had a Make America Great Again hat on,
00:27:49.340 well, he became a proxy, a piñata,
00:27:52.020 for every media pundit and activist to smash,
00:27:56.900 saying that he was the one who engaged in some racist taunt.
00:28:01.120 Well, don't take it from me.
00:28:02.560 Listen to Nick Sandman himself talk about cancel culture
00:28:06.120 and, worse, the media that perpetrates it.
00:28:09.240 Good evening, everyone.
00:28:10.900 My name is Nick Sandman.
00:28:12.620 And I'm the teenager who was defamed by the media
00:28:15.020 after an encounter with a group of protesters
00:28:17.740 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial last year.
00:28:21.220 Before I begin, I'd like to thank President Trump
00:28:23.820 for the opportunity to share some of my story
00:28:26.480 and why it matters so much to this November's election.
00:28:30.180 In 2019, I attended the March for Life in Washington, D.C.,
00:28:34.320 where I demonstrated in defense of the unborn.
00:28:37.560 Later that day, I bought a Make America Great Again hat
00:28:40.940 because our president, Donald Trump,
00:28:44.080 has distinguished himself as one of the most pro-life presidents
00:28:47.520 in the history of our country,
00:28:49.440 and I wanted to express my support for him, too.
00:28:53.120 Looking back now, how could I possibly imagine
00:28:56.340 that the simple act of putting on that red hat
00:28:59.820 would unleash hate from the left
00:29:02.000 and make myself the target of network
00:29:04.540 and cable news networks nationwide?
00:29:07.660 Being from Kentucky, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln,
00:29:11.940 my classmates and I visited the Lincoln Memorial.
00:29:15.500 I found myself face-to-face with Nathan Phillips
00:29:18.420 and other professional protesters
00:29:20.580 looking to turn me into the latest poster child
00:29:24.140 showing why Trump is bad.
00:29:26.620 While the media portrayed me as an aggressor
00:29:29.060 with a relentless smirk on my face,
00:29:32.220 in reality, the video confirms
00:29:34.140 I was standing with my hands behind my back
00:29:36.420 and an awkward smile on my face that hid two thoughts.
00:29:40.500 One, don't do anything that might further agitate
00:29:43.900 the man banging a drum in my face.
00:29:46.660 And two, I was trying to follow a family friend's advice,
00:29:50.740 never to do anything to embarrass your family,
00:29:53.880 your school, or your community.
00:29:56.060 Before I knew what was happening, it was over.
00:30:00.440 One of Mr. Phillips' fellow agitators yelled out,
00:30:03.500 We got him.
00:30:04.820 It's all right here on video.
00:30:06.920 And we won, Grandpa.
00:30:08.940 What I thought was a strange encounter
00:30:11.100 quickly developed into a major news story
00:30:14.000 complete with video footage.
00:30:16.580 My life changed forever in that one moment.
00:30:19.380 The full war machine of the mainstream media
00:30:21.740 revved up into attack mode.
00:30:23.540 They did so without researching the full video
00:30:26.480 of the incident,
00:30:27.560 without ever investigating Mr. Phillips' motives,
00:30:31.460 or without ever asking me for my side of the story.
00:30:35.460 And do you know why?
00:30:37.500 Because the truth was not important.
00:30:40.840 Advancing their anti-Christian,
00:30:42.820 anti-conservative,
00:30:44.560 anti-Donald Trump narrative was all that mattered.
00:30:46.920 And if advancing their narrative ruined the reputation
00:30:50.360 and future of a teenager from Covington, Kentucky,
00:30:53.700 well, so be it.
00:30:55.300 That would teach him not to wear a mega hat.
00:30:57.620 Well, I don't know if you know this,
00:30:59.120 but Nick Sandman sued a number of media companies.
00:31:02.260 Some have already settled with him.
00:31:04.640 The terms of the settlement are confidential,
00:31:06.900 but there were massive lawsuits.
00:31:09.100 And given the bad faith with which the media acted,
00:31:11.960 it wouldn't surprise me if Nick Sandman,
00:31:14.540 well, his college is probably paid for.
00:31:18.160 Well, that's a review of the Republican convention.
00:31:22.000 Let me ask you,
00:31:23.220 did you see any of those,
00:31:25.860 even five or ten seconds of those clips,
00:31:29.020 on the CBC or in the Globe and Mail
00:31:31.180 or the Toronto Star?
00:31:32.900 No?
00:31:34.140 Yeah.
00:31:34.900 I didn't think so.
00:31:36.600 Imagine what else they're not showing you.
00:31:39.400 Stay with us for more.
00:31:40.360 My friends, our business here at Rebel News,
00:31:54.820 well, you can see it right in the name,
00:31:56.180 it's to tell you the news,
00:31:58.240 to share with you our opinions on the news,
00:32:00.180 and sometimes to make a difference in the world.
00:32:02.440 We call that activism.
00:32:04.140 But our main job of doing journalism
00:32:07.020 is often impeded these days
00:32:09.440 by obstacles.
00:32:11.300 Sometimes rioters and Antifa types,
00:32:14.320 we have to hire security guards
00:32:15.940 to get around them.
00:32:17.480 Sometimes, though,
00:32:18.860 the censorship comes not through a fist,
00:32:21.720 but through the inappropriate
00:32:23.740 and illegal conduct
00:32:25.420 of some sort of government official.
00:32:28.360 You might recall
00:32:28.980 that a year ago,
00:32:30.340 we had to go to court
00:32:31.340 and get an emergency injunction
00:32:33.180 to command that Justin Trudeau's
00:32:35.880 hand-picked Elections Debates Commission
00:32:38.060 allowed two rebel reporters in.
00:32:40.420 We're currently suing that commission
00:32:42.420 as well as Justin Trudeau's
00:32:44.000 Privy Council office
00:32:45.080 for keeping us out
00:32:46.100 of his daily scrums in Ottawa.
00:32:49.060 Well, we've had similar battles,
00:32:51.400 believe it or not,
00:32:52.100 in the province of Alberta.
00:32:54.800 You might recall that several years ago,
00:32:57.320 Rachel Notley,
00:32:58.500 the socialist premier at the time,
00:32:59.900 literally sent an armed sheriff
00:33:01.940 to block our chief reporter,
00:33:04.300 Sheila Gunn-Reed,
00:33:04.960 from attending
00:33:05.620 the People's Legislature.
00:33:07.720 They backed down
00:33:08.700 after national ridicule,
00:33:10.020 but just about a month ago or so,
00:33:12.860 we applied to join
00:33:14.640 the Alberta Legislature Press Gallery.
00:33:17.500 Just a formality,
00:33:18.420 we didn't want to really join the club.
00:33:20.880 We just needed the club's power
00:33:22.600 to give us a security pass
00:33:24.680 for some bizarre reason.
00:33:26.400 The sergeant-at-arms
00:33:27.360 and the speaker of the legislature
00:33:28.460 had delegated that security pass
00:33:30.700 to our competitors,
00:33:32.440 our rivals in this teeny-tiny club,
00:33:34.560 and they rejected us.
00:33:36.660 Well, we went nuclear.
00:33:39.220 We had a big media campaign.
00:33:41.700 We fired off legal demand letters,
00:33:43.860 and we started a campaign
00:33:45.680 called Cancel the Post,
00:33:48.040 telling our viewers that,
00:33:49.360 well, the National Post
00:33:50.760 isn't the paper you thought it once was.
00:33:52.800 Now, it's in the censorship business.
00:33:55.320 I say that because the president
00:33:57.040 of the Press Gallery at the time,
00:33:58.860 Tyler Dawson,
00:33:59.920 was a reporter for the National Post.
00:34:01.700 He was the one
00:34:02.480 who told us we were banned.
00:34:05.220 Well, we've been working behind the scenes
00:34:07.160 since we filed that lawsuit demand,
00:34:09.000 and a few things have happened.
00:34:10.840 The National Post realizes
00:34:12.160 it made a terrible error,
00:34:13.820 commanded all of its reporters
00:34:15.140 to quit that legislative press gallery.
00:34:17.780 And look at this.
00:34:20.860 Look who joins us now
00:34:22.160 from the steps outside
00:34:24.200 the Alberta legislature
00:34:25.340 on this gorgeous August afternoon.
00:34:28.300 My friends,
00:34:29.340 the aforementioned Sheila Gunn-Reed
00:34:30.720 and Kian Bexte,
00:34:31.600 how are you two doing today?
00:34:34.600 We're great.
00:34:35.720 The city is a little more free
00:34:37.340 because we are officially allowed
00:34:39.520 back in that building behind us.
00:34:41.660 We had a meeting
00:34:42.540 with the sergeant-at-arms today
00:34:44.560 who said that he would grant us
00:34:46.840 some form of media access,
00:34:49.200 the same access to work
00:34:50.760 inside the building
00:34:52.160 as the other journalists
00:34:53.880 who do work here,
00:34:55.200 despite Post Media's
00:34:56.780 attempts to censor us.
00:34:58.560 Yeah, it'll be separate
00:34:59.840 from the press gallery,
00:35:01.080 but equal.
00:35:02.860 Separate, but equal.
00:35:03.980 I've heard that before.
00:35:05.340 In this case,
00:35:06.360 the bigots are with
00:35:07.680 the old press gallery.
00:35:08.720 I call them bigoted
00:35:09.360 because without explanation,
00:35:11.680 without any due process,
00:35:12.880 they simply banned the two of you
00:35:15.520 for what I presume
00:35:16.620 is a difference of opinion.
00:35:18.600 They're CBC, CTV, post-media types,
00:35:21.580 and we don't do that.
00:35:23.400 We don't take government money
00:35:25.140 like the aforementioned do.
00:35:27.120 So they were,
00:35:28.380 I'm not even going to say mean.
00:35:29.420 I don't care if they're mean to us.
00:35:31.000 They literally banned you guys
00:35:33.540 from the right to do your job.
00:35:35.620 Tell me a little bit.
00:35:36.320 I don't want you to give away confidences,
00:35:38.480 and it sounds like you had
00:35:39.480 a very exciting meeting
00:35:40.720 with the sergeant-at-arms.
00:35:41.760 Is there anything from that meeting
00:35:43.660 you feel you can share
00:35:44.720 with our viewers
00:35:45.440 that won't compromise
00:35:47.180 your relationship
00:35:48.700 with the speaker
00:35:49.940 and the sergeant-at-arms?
00:35:51.820 What I can tell you
00:35:53.140 is that they have assured us
00:35:55.240 that they see the independence
00:35:57.980 of the media in Alberta
00:36:00.140 as of the utmost importance,
00:36:03.080 and they are going to do
00:36:03.980 what they can to protect it
00:36:06.360 and to foster it,
00:36:07.620 and that's why they've allowed us
00:36:09.580 to work in the legislature
00:36:10.760 without joining the official
00:36:13.860 censorious press gallery,
00:36:16.200 because Kian and I really were
00:36:17.820 banned in what I would say
00:36:19.800 was a secret witch trial
00:36:21.400 one afternoon.
00:36:22.620 We didn't even know
00:36:23.680 that they were voting
00:36:24.400 on our membership
00:36:25.140 until they declined our membership
00:36:27.440 for really no reason.
00:36:29.840 Then our competitors
00:36:30.980 just didn't want us there
00:36:32.540 because they want to protect
00:36:34.260 their exclusive access
00:36:36.160 to the politicians
00:36:37.500 in the building behind us.
00:36:39.620 Yeah, that's what's crazy,
00:36:40.800 the idea that journalists
00:36:42.680 who are our rivals,
00:36:44.460 our competitors,
00:36:45.900 would have the power to say,
00:36:47.080 yeah, you guys are not
00:36:48.000 even allowed to walk
00:36:49.300 into the legislature
00:36:51.080 to talk to Jason Kenney,
00:36:53.900 Rachel Notley,
00:36:54.720 whatever.
00:36:54.920 The idea that our competitors
00:36:56.340 could stop us from working
00:36:58.300 is so weird.
00:37:00.180 It's like some medieval guild
00:37:02.260 or some strange cartel,
00:37:04.180 and that's basically
00:37:04.940 what our lawsuit threat
00:37:06.000 to Postmedia was,
00:37:07.240 because when they bought up
00:37:08.400 all the papers in Canada,
00:37:09.720 they made a bunch
00:37:10.480 of legal promises
00:37:11.460 to the competition bureau
00:37:13.100 that they would not
00:37:13.800 behave like this,
00:37:15.100 they would not engage
00:37:16.140 in anti-competitive conduct.
00:37:18.020 So it sounds to me,
00:37:19.140 now you correct me
00:37:19.800 if I'm wrong here,
00:37:20.480 I wasn't at the meeting
00:37:21.440 with you,
00:37:22.380 it sounds to me like
00:37:23.560 the Speaker of the Legislature
00:37:25.780 through his delegate,
00:37:28.200 the Sergeant at Arms,
00:37:29.320 has basically said,
00:37:31.080 all right,
00:37:31.520 we're not disbanding
00:37:32.980 the press gallery,
00:37:34.340 we're giving you
00:37:35.300 the same rights
00:37:36.400 that you would have
00:37:37.860 if you were in there,
00:37:38.860 so we're just
00:37:39.400 directly accrediting you.
00:37:42.580 Is that right?
00:37:43.060 So they're not banning
00:37:44.540 or shutting down
00:37:45.380 the old press gallery,
00:37:46.300 they're just saying
00:37:46.820 that's one way in,
00:37:48.740 but you can talk
00:37:49.480 to us directly
00:37:50.400 and we'll get you
00:37:51.600 the security passes
00:37:53.120 and what,
00:37:53.680 do you have access
00:37:54.240 to office space
00:37:55.760 or other things there,
00:37:56.780 Wi-Fi,
00:37:57.500 stuff like that?
00:37:58.180 Yeah,
00:38:00.220 they're working
00:38:00.800 at getting a certain
00:38:01.600 office space,
00:38:03.000 what they're doing here
00:38:04.040 is they're subverting
00:38:05.160 the press gallery,
00:38:05.980 they're kneecapping it
00:38:06.740 basically and stopping
00:38:08.800 their official monopoly
00:38:10.040 on the space,
00:38:11.060 which they've had
00:38:11.740 for decades.
00:38:13.040 Now,
00:38:13.920 the rules for accrediting
00:38:15.220 journalists are
00:38:15.880 completely different,
00:38:16.840 you don't have to be
00:38:17.500 a member of the press gallery,
00:38:18.820 we are going directly
00:38:19.660 to the source,
00:38:20.340 the people who are
00:38:21.160 tenants of this building,
00:38:22.820 tenants of the Minister
00:38:23.600 of Infrastructure,
00:38:24.520 which is the Speaker
00:38:25.160 of the House,
00:38:26.200 has given us
00:38:27.280 through the Sergeant
00:38:28.360 at Arms,
00:38:28.800 this big convoluted web,
00:38:30.720 has given us
00:38:31.520 these press passes
00:38:32.340 that we walk in
00:38:33.120 and we do
00:38:34.840 what we need to do
00:38:35.760 to cover the story
00:38:36.700 of the day.
00:38:37.220 There are certain places
00:38:37.900 where we're allowed
00:38:38.840 to be,
00:38:39.300 certain places
00:38:39.760 where we're not allowed
00:38:40.460 to be,
00:38:40.800 certain rules
00:38:41.240 we have to follow,
00:38:42.100 but it's the same rules
00:38:43.020 that everyone else
00:38:43.920 has to follow
00:38:44.980 and that's all we want.
00:38:46.800 So basically,
00:38:47.700 they've taken away
00:38:48.600 the monopoly
00:38:49.320 that was granted
00:38:50.820 to this little club
00:38:51.820 because they were
00:38:52.480 abusing it,
00:38:53.160 they were being
00:38:53.620 like a mean girl's
00:38:55.320 clique in high school.
00:38:56.660 Oh, you're not cool
00:38:57.780 so you can't join.
00:38:58.600 They were basically
00:38:59.320 acting like it was
00:39:00.960 their power,
00:39:01.960 like the legislature
00:39:02.760 was their property
00:39:04.800 as opposed to
00:39:05.360 the property
00:39:05.800 of the people.
00:39:07.700 Well, yeah,
00:39:08.120 and there's a great
00:39:08.740 irony in this
00:39:09.640 because post-media,
00:39:12.240 because their
00:39:13.380 on-the-ground reporter
00:39:14.600 Tyler Dawson,
00:39:15.900 who's the head
00:39:16.420 of the press gallery
00:39:17.300 here in Alberta,
00:39:19.420 held the secret
00:39:20.380 witch trial for us,
00:39:22.400 post-media,
00:39:23.160 then in response
00:39:24.860 to that,
00:39:25.380 withdrew all
00:39:26.420 of their reporters
00:39:27.220 from the press gallery
00:39:28.300 and post-media
00:39:29.420 controls,
00:39:30.080 I would suggest,
00:39:30.900 probably 75%
00:39:31.940 of the media
00:39:32.640 in Alberta.
00:39:35.080 But now,
00:39:36.020 because post-media
00:39:38.400 is no longer
00:39:39.120 a member
00:39:39.540 of the press gallery
00:39:40.460 either,
00:39:41.340 guess who they get
00:39:42.180 to sit with
00:39:42.860 in the legislature?
00:39:44.460 Guess who they get
00:39:45.180 to share office space
00:39:46.320 with?
00:39:46.800 They tried to keep
00:39:47.780 Kean and I out
00:39:48.580 and now they're
00:39:49.200 probably going to have
00:39:50.240 to share office space
00:39:51.420 with us.
00:39:51.820 So there's
00:39:52.940 great irony in that
00:39:53.920 and I'm really
00:39:54.340 enjoying that.
00:39:55.300 I can't wait
00:39:55.760 to share a desk
00:39:56.380 with Tyler Dawson.
00:39:57.520 I've heard that
00:39:58.340 Tyler Dawson
00:39:59.140 and the other
00:39:59.760 post-media reporters
00:40:00.660 were specifically
00:40:01.400 ordered by their
00:40:02.840 corporate head office
00:40:03.840 to shut up
00:40:04.820 about being censors.
00:40:06.080 They just couldn't
00:40:06.700 help themselves
00:40:07.420 when they were
00:40:08.240 on their own,
00:40:09.180 but they so
00:40:09.760 embarrassed the company
00:40:11.000 and exposed their
00:40:11.860 company to
00:40:12.500 Competition Act
00:40:14.160 litigation
00:40:14.700 that they've
00:40:15.560 not only been told
00:40:16.420 to quit
00:40:17.040 that little
00:40:18.060 mean girls club,
00:40:19.360 but they've
00:40:20.040 been told
00:40:20.460 not to utter
00:40:21.220 a peep
00:40:21.900 about it
00:40:22.420 in public.
00:40:22.980 I wonder
00:40:23.340 if they'll
00:40:24.020 be able
00:40:24.280 to behave
00:40:24.780 themselves
00:40:25.140 when they
00:40:25.580 see you
00:40:26.100 in those
00:40:27.060 offices there.
00:40:28.080 Listen,
00:40:28.280 I'm so proud
00:40:28.860 of you guys
00:40:29.500 being accredited
00:40:31.000 by the legislature
00:40:32.660 directly.
00:40:33.240 Do you guys
00:40:33.600 have like a
00:40:34.080 pass or a
00:40:35.260 card?
00:40:35.800 Did you get
00:40:36.360 anything that
00:40:37.500 you could sort
00:40:38.140 of hold up?
00:40:38.580 I know that
00:40:38.940 we're all members
00:40:39.460 of the Independent
00:40:40.020 Press Gallery,
00:40:41.360 the second largest
00:40:42.420 press gallery in
00:40:43.180 Canada,
00:40:43.980 the one that
00:40:44.380 Candace Malcolm
00:40:44.920 set up,
00:40:45.340 but did you get
00:40:45.860 anything like
00:40:47.340 a card or
00:40:48.200 a pass today?
00:40:50.940 Yeah,
00:40:51.160 we'll send
00:40:51.680 the producer
00:40:52.280 a photo that
00:40:53.040 you can put
00:40:53.420 up on the
00:40:53.900 screen right
00:40:54.440 here.
00:40:55.620 This is the
00:40:56.780 press pass
00:40:57.260 that was given
00:40:57.660 to us by
00:40:58.200 the Sergeant
00:40:58.700 at Arms
00:40:59.260 and the
00:41:00.800 security staff,
00:41:01.520 the sheriffs
00:41:01.900 that are in
00:41:02.200 the area.
00:41:02.660 They recognize
00:41:03.100 this badge
00:41:03.660 and it gives
00:41:04.440 us the power
00:41:05.080 to come in
00:41:05.580 and out of
00:41:05.940 the building
00:41:06.340 as we need
00:41:07.140 and specifically
00:41:08.920 and most
00:41:09.700 importantly,
00:41:10.420 to stand
00:41:11.000 in the hallway
00:41:11.620 outside of
00:41:12.480 the Premier's
00:41:13.040 office and
00:41:13.560 in the rotunda
00:41:14.320 where press
00:41:15.160 conferences
00:41:15.600 happen and
00:41:16.380 where members
00:41:17.040 of Cabinet
00:41:17.940 pass in
00:41:19.220 and out
00:41:19.580 of as they
00:41:20.240 go into
00:41:20.760 the actual
00:41:22.180 House,
00:41:23.260 the legislature
00:41:23.960 will vote
00:41:24.680 on things,
00:41:25.140 will do
00:41:25.320 what they
00:41:25.600 call inns,
00:41:26.860 which is a
00:41:27.340 much more
00:41:27.700 polite version
00:41:28.400 of what I
00:41:28.900 do when I
00:41:29.580 chase Anne
00:41:30.800 McGrath
00:41:31.200 down a
00:41:31.600 suburban
00:41:31.940 street.
00:41:32.720 They'll be
00:41:33.240 in a very
00:41:33.600 specific spot,
00:41:34.640 it'll be
00:41:34.920 very cordial
00:41:35.900 and I'm
00:41:36.540 really excited
00:41:36.980 for that.
00:41:37.560 It's going
00:41:37.800 to be sort
00:41:38.160 of like
00:41:38.400 turning over
00:41:38.880 a new leaf
00:41:39.480 because those
00:41:40.340 tactics of
00:41:40.900 finding people
00:41:41.560 where they're
00:41:42.320 not expecting
00:41:42.960 you,
00:41:43.400 jumping out
00:41:43.880 behind a
00:41:44.220 potted plant,
00:41:44.860 as Sheila
00:41:45.200 said earlier
00:41:45.720 today,
00:41:46.600 we do that
00:41:47.360 because we
00:41:47.740 have to,
00:41:48.180 because we're
00:41:48.580 relegated to
00:41:49.140 the sidelines
00:41:49.780 and we can't
00:41:51.480 get this kind
00:41:52.080 of access.
00:41:52.900 We'll be in
00:41:53.400 very specific
00:41:53.980 spots where
00:41:54.580 they'll know
00:41:55.040 we're going
00:41:55.380 to be there
00:41:55.800 but we're
00:41:56.080 still going
00:41:56.360 to ask
00:41:56.600 those same
00:41:56.960 questions that
00:41:58.140 nobody else
00:41:58.680 is asking,
00:41:59.200 that the
00:41:59.400 mainstream
00:41:59.640 media certainly
00:42:00.200 is.
00:42:00.460 And let me
00:42:02.280 just finish
00:42:02.780 by saying
00:42:03.260 we will
00:42:03.960 continue to
00:42:04.800 be on
00:42:05.780 our best
00:42:06.400 behavior when
00:42:07.360 we're at
00:42:07.740 these things
00:42:08.180 because despite
00:42:09.240 what the
00:42:09.680 mainstream media
00:42:10.440 and our
00:42:10.820 competitors
00:42:11.320 would have
00:42:11.900 you believe,
00:42:12.900 Keane and I
00:42:13.340 always act
00:42:13.920 very professionally
00:42:15.740 when we're at
00:42:16.720 press conferences,
00:42:17.940 when we're at
00:42:18.380 debates,
00:42:19.200 when we are
00:42:19.900 reporting,
00:42:20.960 we act
00:42:21.500 professionally
00:42:22.080 because we
00:42:22.780 are professionals,
00:42:23.580 we're doing a
00:42:24.180 professional job,
00:42:25.400 and we're holding
00:42:25.860 our politicians to
00:42:26.720 account on behalf
00:42:27.440 of the people.
00:42:28.000 So our style,
00:42:29.980 while we might
00:42:30.480 not have to
00:42:30.940 chase politicians,
00:42:32.300 we are still
00:42:32.880 going to continue
00:42:33.860 to be the
00:42:34.360 professionals we've
00:42:35.280 always been.
00:42:36.720 As for one thing
00:42:37.840 I'd be remiss if I
00:42:38.620 didn't mention,
00:42:40.080 the battle to
00:42:41.580 get in here was
00:42:42.460 huge, long,
00:42:43.820 it was months
00:42:44.400 long actually,
00:42:45.180 and it all
00:42:45.540 started when we
00:42:46.460 were trying to
00:42:47.020 get into the
00:42:47.540 press gallery in
00:42:48.420 the first place,
00:42:49.480 they ignored us
00:42:50.320 for months,
00:42:51.120 and then Tyler
00:42:51.580 Dawson, when he
00:42:52.160 replaced Catherine
00:42:53.020 Grakowski,
00:42:53.920 said no,
00:42:54.380 you're not coming
00:42:54.840 in, and that's
00:42:55.380 when the legal
00:42:55.940 sort of fight
00:42:56.620 really initiated
00:42:57.720 we were running
00:42:58.600 our campaign at
00:42:59.520 LetUsReport.com,
00:43:01.320 where folks were
00:43:02.160 so generous to
00:43:02.980 help us out,
00:43:03.720 but I mean,
00:43:05.080 you've seen the
00:43:05.580 legal bills as
00:43:06.160 much as I have,
00:43:07.220 and they're
00:43:07.620 thousands of
00:43:08.240 dollars, we
00:43:09.400 still need to
00:43:09.920 pay those off,
00:43:10.900 we're in this
00:43:11.660 building now,
00:43:12.160 and we'll be able
00:43:12.680 to continue
00:43:13.220 reporting here for
00:43:14.080 as long as
00:43:15.160 they let us,
00:43:15.800 I expect that
00:43:16.960 to be in
00:43:17.360 perpetuity,
00:43:19.380 but that bill
00:43:20.980 is still lingering,
00:43:21.920 and we need
00:43:22.220 folks' help at
00:43:23.420 LetUsReport.com
00:43:24.500 to sort of
00:43:25.320 finalize that bill
00:43:26.160 with the lawyers.
00:43:27.040 Yeah, I'm
00:43:28.360 glad you
00:43:28.680 mentioned that
00:43:29.140 because we
00:43:29.660 have had to
00:43:30.300 lawyer up not
00:43:30.980 just to take
00:43:32.020 on the press
00:43:32.520 gallery, but
00:43:33.120 take on post
00:43:34.180 media, and
00:43:35.360 it's expensive.
00:43:37.620 That's the role
00:43:38.420 that's fallen to
00:43:39.160 us because you
00:43:39.960 don't see the
00:43:41.000 Canadian Association
00:43:41.860 of Journalists
00:43:42.740 doing it, in
00:43:43.660 fact, they put
00:43:44.220 out a bizarre
00:43:45.240 memo saying
00:43:46.040 they like
00:43:46.600 censorship, the
00:43:48.780 Canadian
00:43:49.360 Journalists for
00:43:50.040 Free Expression
00:43:51.120 completely silent,
00:43:53.000 we did it for
00:43:54.660 us, but I
00:43:55.700 understand there
00:43:56.380 may be some
00:43:56.900 other media in
00:43:57.920 Alberta who
00:43:58.940 were kept out
00:43:59.620 by the mean
00:44:00.160 girls, I'm
00:44:00.640 calling the
00:44:00.920 mean girls as
00:44:01.820 a metaphor,
00:44:02.540 the girls and
00:44:03.200 guys, it's like
00:44:03.760 a mean clique
00:44:04.400 in high school,
00:44:05.760 we weren't the
00:44:06.420 only ones they
00:44:07.040 kept out, I
00:44:07.580 understand they
00:44:09.540 kept out an
00:44:10.520 ethnic media
00:44:11.260 group called
00:44:12.540 Times of Asia,
00:44:14.340 if I'm not
00:44:14.700 mistaken, I
00:44:15.660 understand they
00:44:16.120 kept out a
00:44:16.680 Catholic media
00:44:18.540 company, so
00:44:19.240 these little
00:44:19.780 bigots in the
00:44:21.080 press gallery had
00:44:21.920 this tiny little
00:44:22.740 club, and they
00:44:23.740 were basically
00:44:24.300 mean to
00:44:25.180 everyone who
00:44:26.280 didn't look and
00:44:27.140 sound exactly
00:44:27.980 like them, and
00:44:29.300 Times of Asia and
00:44:30.420 this Catholic news
00:44:31.360 organization didn't
00:44:32.700 have the money or
00:44:33.620 the lawyers or the
00:44:34.420 horsepower to fight
00:44:35.160 back, we fought
00:44:36.540 back for ourselves,
00:44:38.100 but in doing so we
00:44:39.200 widened the scope
00:44:41.080 of freedom for
00:44:41.860 everyone, including
00:44:42.960 I hope, those two
00:44:44.720 aforementioned
00:44:45.460 groups that were
00:44:46.460 censored, I don't
00:44:47.120 know those two
00:44:47.800 groups, Times of
00:44:49.780 Asia or the
00:44:50.800 Catholic group, but
00:44:52.100 if we help pave
00:44:53.460 the way for
00:44:53.980 them to have
00:44:54.580 free access to
00:44:55.380 the legislature, I
00:44:56.620 say that's a
00:44:57.520 good job done.
00:45:00.620 Yeah, I think
00:45:01.360 it's a public
00:45:01.760 service, we set a
00:45:02.560 precedent here that
00:45:04.100 journalism isn't to
00:45:05.300 be kept by elites
00:45:07.280 in the media, it's
00:45:08.340 something that's
00:45:08.960 accessible to
00:45:09.640 anyone who has an
00:45:11.080 audience and has a
00:45:12.060 story.
00:45:13.640 Sheila made a
00:45:14.420 point, I just want
00:45:14.980 to emphasize that we
00:45:15.940 are professional, we
00:45:17.520 are not disruptive, we
00:45:19.080 are not negative, I
00:45:20.780 mean, we're not
00:45:21.480 abusive, we're not
00:45:23.460 insulting, we don't
00:45:25.200 shout or interrupt, we
00:45:27.020 don't do anything, we're
00:45:28.160 not a security threat, we
00:45:29.240 don't do anything that
00:45:29.980 would legitimately keep
00:45:31.960 us out.
00:45:32.380 The one thing we have
00:45:33.500 always done and we
00:45:34.280 will always do is that
00:45:36.200 we ask accountability
00:45:38.220 style questions, unlike
00:45:40.480 the other parties, and
00:45:42.100 it's for that reason
00:45:43.120 they kept us out.
00:45:43.900 I note in closing that
00:45:45.720 the Parliamentary Press
00:45:46.680 Gallery in Ottawa, which
00:45:47.720 keeps us out to this
00:45:48.640 day, well their day
00:45:49.880 will come too, they
00:45:51.340 accredit Xinhua and
00:45:52.940 the People's Daily, which
00:45:54.680 are both owned by the
00:45:56.160 government of China, the
00:45:56.960 propaganda arm, so they
00:45:58.060 don't mind that, they
00:45:59.720 don't mind the gonzo
00:46:01.240 journalism of Vice, the
00:46:03.200 hyper-partisan journalism
00:46:04.580 of the Huffington Post,
00:46:05.840 they don't mind the lobby
00:46:07.900 group funding for groups
00:46:09.380 like National Observer,
00:46:10.840 it's not even a real news
00:46:11.700 organization, they're
00:46:12.840 literally paid cash from
00:46:14.000 the Tides Foundation to
00:46:15.680 print on demand.
00:46:17.060 So they don't actually
00:46:19.680 oppose us for any of
00:46:21.360 their stated reasons.
00:46:22.900 The only reason they
00:46:24.020 ever kept our people out
00:46:25.840 is that we are not
00:46:27.460 leftist like them.
00:46:28.440 Last word to you, Sheila,
00:46:29.740 I want to let you know
00:46:30.680 how proud I am of the
00:46:31.680 two of you for reaching
00:46:33.300 this milestone, and it's
00:46:34.620 just so lovely out there
00:46:36.680 in Eminent today, I really
00:46:38.280 wish I were out there
00:46:39.120 with you, but I know you
00:46:41.560 there on behalf of me,
00:46:42.840 our whole team, and all
00:46:44.360 are many thousands of
00:46:46.020 viewers, your victory is
00:46:48.240 our victory, and I'm
00:46:49.700 very pleased to see it.
00:46:51.720 Yeah, both Kian and I
00:46:52.900 are going to do our
00:46:53.560 best to make sure that
00:46:54.660 everybody who supported
00:46:56.180 our right to work here
00:46:57.760 through their donations
00:46:58.880 to letusreport.com will
00:47:01.640 be getting their money's
00:47:02.660 worth, because we are
00:47:03.820 going to be in this
00:47:04.720 building asking
00:47:05.500 accountability questions
00:47:06.820 of the government.
00:47:08.560 We're going to make sure
00:47:09.320 that Jason Kenney's
00:47:10.300 government stays
00:47:11.800 conservative.
00:47:12.440 And I want to share a
00:47:13.760 little anecdote with you
00:47:14.940 because it was a perfect
00:47:16.920 dovetail to our fight to
00:47:19.060 get access to the
00:47:19.860 legislature here.
00:47:21.100 Remember in 2016 when
00:47:23.240 that sheriff threw me out
00:47:25.300 at the behest of Rachel
00:47:26.440 Notley, that armed
00:47:27.720 sheriff?
00:47:28.360 Yeah.
00:47:29.620 Well, guess who was the
00:47:30.760 sheriff who greeted me at
00:47:32.740 security today and had to
00:47:34.560 let me in?
00:47:35.220 Come on.
00:47:36.360 Come on.
00:47:36.820 It was the same guy?
00:47:40.880 Yes.
00:47:41.320 Come on.
00:47:43.640 It was him.
00:47:46.080 And he had to
00:47:47.040 beat me with a smile.
00:47:49.720 That is poetic.
00:47:51.700 That is poetic.
00:47:53.660 The warden, the jailer,
00:47:57.300 the cop, the bouncer is
00:48:00.660 now rolling out the red
00:48:01.880 carpet for you.
00:48:02.800 Well, as Martin Luther King
00:48:04.580 said, the arc of history
00:48:06.120 bends towards justice.
00:48:07.480 Sometimes it does so
00:48:09.300 slowly, but over time
00:48:11.360 things work out.
00:48:13.120 I'm so pleased for you
00:48:14.240 too and for us all.
00:48:15.280 Congratulations, you guys.
00:48:16.920 And let me know if you
00:48:18.440 get any hassle from those
00:48:19.840 mean girls.
00:48:20.440 Now that their club has
00:48:21.900 lost the only thing of
00:48:23.060 value it ever had, the
00:48:24.800 veto over its competitors.
00:48:26.620 I don't know why anyone
00:48:28.000 would stick around with
00:48:29.320 those losers if you could
00:48:30.380 just get access to the
00:48:31.500 building directly from the
00:48:33.020 speaker or the sergeant
00:48:34.160 in arms.
00:48:34.440 So you let me know if
00:48:35.680 they try any tricks on
00:48:36.960 you.
00:48:37.600 You let me know if like
00:48:38.820 some petty high school
00:48:40.100 rivalries, they do
00:48:41.700 anything to impede you
00:48:43.300 because as God is my
00:48:45.160 witness, we will not let
00:48:47.240 this backslide and we
00:48:48.920 will not submit ever again
00:48:50.820 to their bullying.
00:48:52.820 Congrats, you guys.
00:48:53.940 I'll let you go and do
00:48:54.860 your good work.
00:48:56.320 Thanks, boss.
00:48:57.300 Thanks.
00:48:57.920 All right.
00:48:58.260 There you have it.
00:48:58.780 Kian Bexty from Calgary
00:49:00.860 up in Edmonton today,
00:49:02.540 along with Sheila Gunn-Reed,
00:49:03.820 our chief reporter.
00:49:05.180 And the big news is that
00:49:06.880 we have been granted
00:49:07.840 accreditation, press
00:49:09.660 credentials, security
00:49:10.920 access on equal terms
00:49:13.540 to the losers in the
00:49:14.620 left-wing government
00:49:15.780 press gallery.
00:49:17.020 Sheila and Kian are
00:49:18.540 accredited reporters at
00:49:20.800 the Alberta Legislature.
00:49:22.300 And I thank you, our
00:49:23.060 viewers, who helped us
00:49:24.580 fight the fight, including
00:49:26.080 hiring lawyers at
00:49:27.600 LetUsReport.com.
00:49:30.300 Stay with us.
00:49:31.080 More ahead.
00:49:33.820 Hey, welcome back on my
00:49:43.960 monologue last night.
00:49:45.480 Marion writes, what would
00:49:46.360 you expect from Justin's
00:49:47.480 employees?
00:49:48.340 I bet he'd add more
00:49:49.260 millions of debt, giving
00:49:50.300 them bonuses.
00:49:51.360 Well, you're talking about
00:49:52.220 the CBC.
00:49:53.420 And, of course, they are
00:49:54.380 Justin Trudeau's employees.
00:49:56.120 They are paid by the
00:49:57.160 government.
00:49:57.860 They specifically lobby for
00:49:59.460 more money, and Trudeau
00:50:00.740 gives them more money.
00:50:02.160 You don't think there's a
00:50:03.040 quid pro quo?
00:50:04.140 If you don't think there's
00:50:05.180 a quid pro quo, you
00:50:06.180 haven't been following
00:50:07.100 Justin Trudeau and
00:50:08.760 everyone from the Aga
00:50:09.840 Khan to the WE
00:50:11.080 charities.
00:50:12.620 Jake writes, the state
00:50:14.100 broadcaster must be
00:50:15.180 defunded.
00:50:16.320 Well, why just defund
00:50:17.720 them?
00:50:17.900 Why not sell them to help
00:50:19.500 pay off the national
00:50:20.280 debt, a large portion of
00:50:21.780 which they incurred?
00:50:23.780 Pierre writes, what do
00:50:24.620 you expect?
00:50:25.120 Mr. O'Toole promised to
00:50:26.320 partly defund the CBC,
00:50:28.100 our Canadian liberal
00:50:28.860 Pravda.
00:50:29.740 They'll fight him tooth and
00:50:30.780 nail.
00:50:31.060 Yes, they will, and they
00:50:33.500 already are.
00:50:35.380 I think they would fight
00:50:36.260 him even if he didn't
00:50:37.280 promise to defund them.
00:50:38.880 Stephen Harper didn't
00:50:39.980 defund them.
00:50:41.020 He didn't privatize them.
00:50:42.720 And the CBC certainly
00:50:43.660 stuck the knife in him,
00:50:45.060 especially in 2015.
00:50:47.100 I have to tell you, I'm a
00:50:48.000 bit of a skeptic that Aaron
00:50:49.360 O'Toole really will defund
00:50:50.940 the CBC if he's ever
00:50:52.320 elected.
00:50:53.120 Remember, Aaron O'Toole was
00:50:54.520 in government and had the
00:50:56.120 chance.
00:50:56.960 He never talked this way
00:50:58.120 when he was in office,
00:50:59.160 did he?
00:50:59.420 Oh well, we can always
00:51:01.360 hope.
00:51:02.380 Until next time, on behalf
00:51:03.760 of all of us here at
00:51:04.700 Rebel World Headquarters to
00:51:05.820 you at home, good night
00:51:06.960 and keep fighting for
00:51:08.460 freedom.
00:51:08.740 On.
00:51:16.780 On.
00:51:21.240 On.
00:51:22.960 On.
00:51:23.140 On.
00:51:23.820 On.
00:51:24.360 On.
00:51:25.200 On.
00:51:25.560 On.
00:51:25.760 On.
00:51:26.180 On.
00:51:26.600 On.
00:51:27.000 On.