Rebel News Podcast - September 19, 2020


Another Media Party member moves to the Liberal Party. But that really isn’t moving much.


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

Words per Minute

158.01048

Word Count

5,245

Sentence Count

430

Misogynist Sentences

31

Hate Speech Sentences

22


Summary

Marcy Ian is a community leader, broadcaster, advocate, and mom. She s been a champion for a better and more inclusive Canada for over 30 years, and we re excited to welcome her as our new Liberal candidate for Toronto Centre.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I talk about Marcy Ian, the CTV reporter who's now becoming a
00:00:05.120 Liberal candidate. That's really not much of a job change, though, at all, is it, come
00:00:09.120 to think of it? I take you through some of the interesting quirks and the more boring
00:00:13.560 quirks of Marcy Ian's candidacy. That's next. But first, let me invite you to become a premium
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00:00:53.020 Tonight, another member of the media party makes the move to the Liberal Party. But
00:00:57.600 that really isn't moving much, is it? It's September 18th, and this is the Ezra
00:01:01.420 LeVant Show.
00:01:04.240 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:07.900 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:11.960 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
00:01:16.860 right to do so.
00:01:17.840 I saw this on Twitter.
00:01:24.580 A community leader, broadcaster, advocate, and mom. For over 30 years, Marcy Ian has been
00:01:31.760 a champion for a better and more inclusive Canada, and we're excited to welcome her as
00:01:36.660 our new Liberal candidate for Toronto Centre.
00:01:38.880 You know, she's not really those things. For years, she was a news reader on CTV Newsnet.
00:01:47.100 Not really a reporter. For years, she just read the teleprompter words that were written
00:01:51.640 for her by producers. I know this because I was lucky enough to be on her show, I don't
00:01:56.460 know, a dozen times. As a pundit, we're talking 20 years ago now. Hey, no problem. It's an honest
00:02:01.860 living. And she was very nice to me. I have no beef with her.
00:02:05.060 Then she joined CTV's gossip show, a low-budget Canadian knockoff of The View called The Social.
00:02:14.280 Couldn't be more transparent a copy. It's just what it sounds like. Catty women disparaging
00:02:20.100 each other. You might recall that whole place descending into a catfight with them accusing
00:02:26.080 each other of not being woke enough. They all condemned Jessica Mulroney, Meghan Markle's
00:02:31.300 friend of not being pro-black enough. And they cancelled her one day. Here's Marcy Ian joining
00:02:38.420 in that cancel culture mob. Jessica Mulroney's white privilege caused Sasha Exeter pain and has
00:02:45.940 wide-ranging ripple effects. And then she quotes someone named Lainey Gossip. Now, I think that's
00:02:53.080 weird that Marcy Ian would stand by some gossip named Lainey Louie, that's her name, and stab in the
00:03:00.060 back her friend Jessica Mulroney. Because here's the kind of anti-black misogynist crud
00:03:06.300 that Lainey Louie publishes. Like, this is really rough anti-black stuff here. I'm just going to read
00:03:14.460 the words. Sorry, I didn't write them, but I'll read them to you. Ghetto tits, ghetto weave, ghetto belt,
00:03:20.300 ghetto color combination. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have even read her language, but that's the CTV star
00:03:27.320 saying this. I'm showing you what she said. So Marcy Ian is totally cool with that anti-black
00:03:35.400 misogynistic racism, I guess. But look, don't overthink this. Marcy Ian probably doesn't like
00:03:42.520 that talk. She's just doing what the woke mob says, whatever her bosses at CTV said. She's fine
00:03:50.100 with anti-black racism from her TV co-host because CTV told her to be fine with that. Here she is
00:03:57.020 posing deadly serious with Black Lives Matter gear. I get it. She's black. She wants to represent. I'm
00:04:03.260 fine with that. I don't believe Marcy Ian actually knows anything about the Black Lives Matter
00:04:07.680 organization itself. It's anti-Semitism. They hate Jews. It's Marxism. They really do promote
00:04:14.860 communism. It's just another brand for her to support, though, if it's okay with her white bosses
00:04:20.220 at CTV. All of this is perfect training for running as a candidate for Justin Trudeau. Now that I think
00:04:26.700 about it, I mean, imagine running for Trudeau and the Liberal Party in 2020. I mean, in 2015, I get it.
00:04:34.640 Trudeau was fresh, new, untainted. This was before the groping fiasco.
00:04:40.400 I've been reflecting very carefully on what I remember from that incident almost 20 years
00:04:47.560 ago. And again, I am, I feel, I am confident that I did not act inappropriately. But part
00:04:59.300 of this awakening that we're having as a society, a long-awaited realization, is that it's not
00:05:08.700 just one side of the story that matters. That the same interactions could be experienced very
00:05:16.640 differently from one person to the next. This was before the blackface fiasco. This was before he
00:05:24.640 came out full forked tongue liar on indigenous matters. Thank you very much. Thank you for being
00:05:31.080 here tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Thank you very much for your donation
00:05:42.300 tonight. I really appreciate the donation to the Liberal Party of Canada. This was before he sacked
00:05:49.520 a whole binder full of women of color, including Jody Wilson-Raybould and a black woman from Toronto
00:05:55.540 named Celina Cesar Chavan. Run for Trudeau in 2015? I get it. Very exciting. But in 2020?
00:06:04.460 Yeah. You really do have low standards to do that, which is a good fit for the Liberal Party in Toronto
00:06:11.180 Centre. Remember, that's the writing where Bill Morneau, the crooked law-breaking finance minister,
00:06:17.720 resigned in disgrace, not just from Cabinet, not just from the Liberal Party, but he literally quit his job
00:06:23.740 as an MP, abandoning Parliament, abandoning his constituents less than a year after running in
00:06:30.080 an election. What a disgraceful man. You know, there's a great line in Macbeth about a traitor who
00:06:35.160 was captured, but before his execution, he confessed his sins, he asked for the king's pardon, and he
00:06:42.700 repented, as in he really cleaned up the mess of his life right before he died. And here's how
00:06:49.260 Shakespeare put it. I love this line. That very frankly, he confessed his treasons, implored your
00:06:54.640 highness's pardon, and set forth a deep repentance. Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.
00:07:03.580 I think that's a beautiful line. Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it. That means he
00:07:09.600 didn't do anything well in life other than how he died. Lived a sordid life, but a clean entry into the
00:07:16.960 hereafter. Making amends on your deathbed, dying with a peaceful conscience, that's the way to go.
00:07:23.120 So the opposite of how corrupt Bill Morneau left his political career. He disgraced himself in office,
00:07:29.060 time and again, convicted again and again by the Ethics Commissioner of Corruption, broke the
00:07:34.040 conflict of interest. He's a lawbreaker. Just the worst liar on Parliament Hill. And when he was finally
00:07:39.680 caught in his last lie about the weed charity, instead of ending with grace or dignity or honesty or
00:07:46.180 clarity, he just lied his way out the door, the back door, the alley out by the dumpster. So weird.
00:07:54.220 I mean, sure, he married a billionaire heiress from the McCain family, so he's laughing all the way to
00:07:59.620 the bank, his villa in France or whatever. But his reputation is in tatters. What a total loser Bill
00:08:07.340 Morneau is. And Marcy Ian's going to run there, which is a surprise because there's a whole bunch
00:08:12.600 of actual community activists, liberals connected to Toronto Centre who wanted to run. Not just people
00:08:19.480 who read teleprompters and have middle-aged gossip girls sessions on daytime TV. I love how they call
00:08:26.300 Marcy Ian a community advocate. That's pretty creative. But seriously, real community leaders
00:08:31.100 were running for the Liberal Party nomination. They were actively selling memberships,
00:08:35.100 working on building a team. You know, too bad, so sad you're not handpicked by Trudeau. So
00:08:41.380 you can't really count on, you know, Trudeau because he didn't pick you. He's not 100% sure
00:08:48.180 he can count on you to do exactly what he wants when the chips are down. So you're out. I mean,
00:08:52.960 it's a bright young man, visible minority, hardworking guy. Sorry, get out. Here's another guy. This guy,
00:08:58.680 I think, is a bank economist. Smart guy. But is he truly obedient to his bosses like Marcy Ian is?
00:09:06.480 Same in another Toronto area riding that's having a by-election. Gary Gladstone was replaced by some
00:09:13.760 handpicked Trudeau psychophant in another Toronto area riding. So Trudeau just appointed Marcy Ian.
00:09:21.140 Just, you know, get all this democracy out of the way. I guess Trudeau knows that she wouldn't be
00:09:27.040 able to win a nomination without him giving her that affirmative action gift. He likes doing that.
00:09:32.700 He likes being the noble white man, picking up the white man's burden, as Rudyard Kipling would say,
00:09:37.700 and giving gifts to women, especially women of color. And he won't let them forget it. He mentions
00:09:44.040 that to them all the time. He rubs it in. That's what Selina Cesar Chavannes says. He loves to
00:09:48.380 close hug these women too, chest to chest, hip to hip hugs, the sort of thing that Harvey Weinstein
00:09:53.380 was known for. He loves to touch women on their behinds, especially in public moments. It's how
00:09:59.620 he shows his dominance. He makes them endure his casual groping. It's conditioning them to accept him
00:10:06.100 and whatever he says. He experiences it a little differently, of course. So yeah, imagine signing up
00:10:12.060 for being part of that team. Now, 2020, after SNC-Lavalin, after every powerful woman of color
00:10:21.100 was fired from Jody Wilson-Raybould to Selina Cesar Chavannes, after the corruption scandals,
00:10:27.160 and Marcy Ian wants to be part of that, it's pretty easy to see what her qualifications are.
00:10:32.900 She's a woman of color who will be obedient to her white master and do whatever the hell
00:10:37.500 Justin Trudeau tells her to do. So less Jody Wilson-Raybould and more Catherine McKenna.
00:10:44.140 I already made, let me just say, I'm just reading Trudeau's tweet here. This is from a couple years
00:10:49.760 back when he was asked about local democracy. He said, I already made that commitment. Open
00:10:55.860 nominations in all 338 ridings. Members will choose their candidates. It's just another broken promise.
00:11:02.040 If it were Stephen Harper breaking a promise like that, handpicking a sock puppet in defines of local
00:11:07.200 members. It would be a five alarm party and then a fire in the media party. But here, don't be silly.
00:11:12.540 The media don't hold Trudeau to account. He holds the media to account. He pays media companies bailout
00:11:20.120 money. If they don't obey him, he stops paying them. And of course, they side with their own, Marcy Ian,
00:11:26.180 a reporter. Every journalist out there thinks they too will be an MP or preferably a senator one day.
00:11:33.000 Seamus O'Regan, who was widely known as the stupidest reporter at CTV, he was appointed to
00:11:38.420 cabinet. Don't think that doesn't keep a hundred other stupid reporters hoping, quietly dreaming of
00:11:43.860 being plucked from the crowd by Justin Trudeau to have a fairytale life of privacy perks.
00:11:49.180 You know, Marcy Ian isn't really left-wing or right-wing. She's not even really a Black Lives Matter
00:11:53.840 activist. She's just obedient. She's good at reading a script put in the teleprompter. It's
00:11:59.020 her specialty. She just goes with whatever she's told. Listen, it's a job. Whatever CTV told her to
00:12:06.240 do, now whatever Justin Trudeau tells her to do. I think she'll win because it's Toronto Centre. It's
00:12:13.040 like the Wild Rose riding in Alberta. It'll vote conservative if you ran a fence post as the
00:12:18.480 candidate. I have a few questions, though. Like, how long is Marcy Ian being discussing
00:12:23.860 running for the Liberals with the Liberals while doing her TV shows? Probably for days, probably
00:12:29.940 for weeks. Bill Morneau resigned in disgrace a month ago now. How many shows has Marcy Ian done
00:12:35.280 on CTV while knowing she was going to be a Liberal candidate? Was she tailoring her comments to support
00:12:41.460 the Liberals? That's a silly question. She was tailoring her comments to support the Liberals even
00:12:46.560 before. She started her secret negotiations to become a candidate. You know, whenever this happens,
00:12:52.040 and it happens a lot, that a journalist leaves the CBC or CTV or Global or whatever to join the
00:12:57.840 Liberals, I always make the same joke. I say, how much back pay are you getting? As in, you've been
00:13:03.960 a Liberal shill for so long at your media company, really. You were already doing the partisan job.
00:13:09.960 Are they paying you for that, too? But that used to be a joke that I would tell. But given
00:13:13.600 Trudeau's massive media bailouts lately, it's not even a joke anymore, is it? Stay with us for more.
00:13:33.080 Well, there's two paths you can take in journalism. One is the path that Marcy Ian has taken. It's a
00:13:39.620 successful path for those who serve power, who massage and caress power, who never challenge power
00:13:47.840 or speak truth to power. You just keep holding out for that moment when you'll get the phone call from
00:13:53.520 Justin Trudeau. He wants to have you as a candidate, like Marcy Ian, and he'll clear the way. Or in the
00:13:59.940 case of, say, Alberta's Senator Paula Simons, he'll appoint you to the Senate, a forever job,
00:14:06.500 as one wag put it, a taskless thanks. That's one approach. The other is to actually be a
00:14:14.600 journalist. And I'm so proud of the work done by one of our newest rebels. You maybe know who I'm
00:14:20.940 talking about, Drea Humphrey, who's based in the greater Vancouver area and has covered so many
00:14:26.740 interesting stories in that city, including this one. I'm going to show you an excerpt from a larger
00:14:32.780 15-minute video that Drea did about this. I encourage you to watch the full 15-minute video
00:14:39.240 elsewhere on our website. But here's a four or five-minute sample. Take a look at this.
00:14:43.780 What's brought you here today?
00:14:45.540 Love for J.K. Rowling.
00:14:47.620 You're a fan?
00:14:48.820 Absolutely a big fan of how she's standing up for women and children and how she's not backing down.
00:14:55.440 And she gives us all sort of strength to speak up ourselves, which is great.
00:15:00.920 So do you know why this billboard might be offending some people?
00:15:05.280 Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, no, it's ghoulish.
00:15:09.900 And so what do you think about some of the stances J.K. Rowling has been taking lately?
00:15:14.800 Oh, she sucks. Like, it's terrible. As far as I know, she just says pretty despicable things
00:15:22.500 about trans rights. She doesn't believe in trans rights. She seems like a terrible person.
00:15:29.260 What about free speech? Do you think that this is something people should be able to do?
00:15:34.200 Oh, yeah, definitely. I think free speech is something that we should all have.
00:15:38.420 No matter what side of the fence you're on?
00:15:40.980 Absolutely.
00:15:41.420 Are you surprised to see that the sign's been vandalized?
00:15:45.100 Not at all.
00:15:47.020 All right, so you go by Mark, SJW. And why are you here today?
00:15:53.060 To make sure that justice is served and to give an unbiased account of what's actually going on
00:16:00.100 with this genocide, this genocidal statement. I want to make sure these TERFs and TERF allies,
00:16:06.760 they're the ones who get erased for once.
00:16:09.400 Have you personally read any of the things that she's written about it?
00:16:15.120 Yeah, her tweets. That's about it.
00:16:17.580 And which one, what did you find that was transphobic?
00:16:22.900 Oh, man. Well, it's been a couple months.
00:16:26.140 I don't remember. I'm sorry, exactly. I can't quote her.
00:16:32.140 All right, so one of the things that she says is in regards to the transitioning that's happening to children
00:16:38.020 and that sometimes they might be too young to go through medical process that are going to affect them
00:16:42.560 for things like sterility and make them not fertile the rest of their life.
00:16:47.100 Do you think that children are able to make that decision for themselves?
00:16:51.060 Like, I...
00:16:53.020 Listen, children are children.
00:16:59.680 I guess, like, it's...
00:17:02.580 Children's rights have to be respected,
00:17:05.540 but I'm not sure about that. I'm sorry.
00:17:09.840 We're talking about prisons, sports that are being taken over women's sports by male-bodied individuals, right?
00:17:17.260 We're talking about women getting pregnant in prison now
00:17:20.320 from male-bodied individuals who call themselves women who are fully still bepenised, right?
00:17:27.020 Because all you need to do now is have a feeling in your head,
00:17:31.000 a thought in your head that says,
00:17:32.180 Oh, I'm a woman, and now you are.
00:17:33.780 Well, pretend to have a thought in your head.
00:17:34.680 You don't have to prove you have a thought in your head.
00:17:35.780 You could just be a rapist and pretend to have that thought in your head,
00:17:38.480 and you're good to go, and you can call me a bigot for saying anything about it, you know?
00:17:42.580 There's now no women's shelter in Vancouver,
00:17:45.420 except the funded women's shelter in Vancouver,
00:17:47.860 where you can go and not be certain that you will not be rooming with a man.
00:17:52.980 Very interesting.
00:17:54.100 I encourage you to watch the full 15-minute video of that
00:17:57.480 that you can find elsewhere on our website.
00:17:59.780 Joining us now via Skype is the reporter who did that great report,
00:18:04.120 our friend Drea Humphrey, who joins us now.
00:18:06.280 Drea, great to see you, and congratulations on so many videos
00:18:10.680 that you're just hitting the ball out of the ballpark.
00:18:13.260 Thank you for this.
00:18:15.040 Thanks for having me.
00:18:16.660 Oh, it's a pleasure.
00:18:17.540 Now, tell me a little bit more about this.
00:18:19.500 That billboard couldn't be more neutral.
00:18:21.780 I love J.K. Rowling.
00:18:24.100 She's one of the most popular authors in the world.
00:18:26.520 I'm not big into the Harry Potter series myself,
00:18:29.040 but she truly is loved,
00:18:30.880 and that apparently is cause for vandalism and tearing down billboards.
00:18:36.980 That seems crazy to me.
00:18:39.140 It does, and, you know, she's done a lot of, like, humanitarian stuff, too.
00:18:44.060 She donated a lot of the money that she has given.
00:18:48.400 And some people say she's taken herself out of billionaire status to do so.
00:18:52.600 So, yeah, I totally agree.
00:18:55.340 She's definitely lovable.
00:18:57.880 And for it to be pitted as a hate, a sign of hate,
00:19:02.380 simply because out of love she's expressing concerns for women and children,
00:19:07.380 it's just mind-boggling.
00:19:09.120 But at the same time, it aligns with 2020 quite nicely.
00:19:13.040 Yeah, I've always thought of her as left-wing.
00:19:16.000 I mean, when she weighs into politics, it's always on the left.
00:19:19.740 She's for open borders.
00:19:21.620 She's, I mean, just checklist all the way down.
00:19:24.580 But on the one, I think there's one subject that is more de-platformed
00:19:30.060 and more canceled than anything else.
00:19:32.640 I have some experience being de-platformed when you talk about radical Islam.
00:19:37.480 You've got to be very careful because if you get too politically incorrect there,
00:19:40.800 they'll shut you down.
00:19:41.480 But that is nothing compared with the transgender issue.
00:19:46.980 And that one lady you interviewed, which was quite remarkable,
00:19:50.460 who said that J.K. Rowling has been vicious and hateful towards trans people,
00:19:56.040 I haven't seen it.
00:19:57.240 All she says is that you're not actually a woman.
00:20:01.320 You can call yourself a transgender woman, but that is not the same as a biological woman.
00:20:06.660 That's as far as she went.
00:20:08.840 And for that, she's considered a hater.
00:20:10.800 And that woman on the street seemed to believe that.
00:20:13.820 Absolutely.
00:20:14.820 And she wasn't able to quite articulate why she believed that.
00:20:19.400 I think the word she used was ghoulish, which is quite an interesting way.
00:20:23.980 But I guess it fits in with Harry Potter quite nicely.
00:20:26.320 But it just goes to show a lot of people are jumping behind this sort of social justice warrior movement
00:20:33.960 and have no clue why they're doing or saying what they're saying.
00:20:38.920 And it's frightening because out here I'm seeing a lot of very young people,
00:20:43.920 young adults getting involved in that.
00:20:46.160 And what happened to critical thinking?
00:20:48.460 What happened to being a pre-thinker?
00:20:50.560 And being a leader, not a follower?
00:20:52.760 So all of these things.
00:20:55.480 And one of the things J.K. Rowling does is she refers to it as new trans, the new trans in J.K.
00:21:04.760 So I find that interesting.
00:21:06.400 She's kind of putting the word new in front to emphasize that there is a shift on that.
00:21:11.200 So I think she has been in the past more to the left.
00:21:15.120 But the left is pushing people away that, you know, are logical and caring and don't want to generalize everybody.
00:21:25.480 Yeah, there's this phrase.
00:21:26.600 I hadn't heard of it until about a year or two ago.
00:21:29.560 Turf.
00:21:30.520 It's an insult.
00:21:31.420 Trans exclusionary radical feminist.
00:21:34.140 And I can't even believe such a strange word is in mass circulation now.
00:21:40.320 That's basically what trans extremists call any women who believe that women are women
00:21:47.640 and that women only should be allowed in a changing room.
00:21:51.360 Women only should be allowed on a girls' sports team.
00:21:55.080 And I mean, I guess maybe they would be called radical feminists at one point in time,
00:22:00.580 but it doesn't seem that radical to me that only girls should be allowed to go into a girls' change room.
00:22:05.800 And if you're going to allow transgender women or men transitioning to women to be on girls' sports teams,
00:22:13.220 don't expect any girls to be left because men are just genetically, biologically, muscularly, you know,
00:22:19.740 every single physical aspect of a man is stronger than men.
00:22:23.340 That's why we have different leagues.
00:22:25.100 Just like in boxing, we have different weight classes and you wouldn't have a super heavyweight fighting a bantamweight
00:22:31.700 because that's not even sport.
00:22:33.700 You wouldn't have biological men competing against women in wrestling, let's say.
00:22:38.320 But you're called a TERF, a trans exclusionary radical feminist,
00:22:42.940 if you think women should have private spaces.
00:22:46.040 Exactly.
00:22:46.820 I hadn't actually heard of that until recently as well, the term TERF.
00:22:51.100 But I can remember in high school, sometimes we would play dodgeball with the boys and I hated it.
00:22:57.700 I hated it.
00:22:58.840 They always got the ball faster and, you know, they just wind up and just huck.
00:23:03.580 And I'm like, this isn't fair at all.
00:23:05.760 So I know that's kind of a lame example, but I mean, these are logical things to point out.
00:23:12.820 It's nothing to do with hate.
00:23:14.560 It's nothing to do with bullying or anything like that.
00:23:17.140 It's just to do with what's fair.
00:23:19.580 And there's a lot of talk about third spaces when you talk about the bathroom.
00:23:23.260 I mean, I don't know if you saw when I went to the homeless shelter out in Victoria here,
00:23:29.780 they had said recently a man let his daughter into the public park there,
00:23:35.080 which is kind of being taken over by an encampment.
00:23:38.180 And there was a man in a dress shaving his testicles in the girl's washroom.
00:23:43.740 So it's like that third space, it's not about hate.
00:23:48.260 It's not transphobia.
00:23:49.500 It's just about common sense.
00:23:51.880 You know, women and children, we need that space to feel safe when we're going and doing private things in a bathroom.
00:24:01.460 Yeah, let me play a quick clip of that.
00:24:03.560 I thought that was a shocking clip.
00:24:05.820 Vancouver is on the front lines of this issue.
00:24:09.320 Here's a quick clip from that interview.
00:24:11.700 I've heard tales of people going into the bathroom at Beacon Hill Park
00:24:16.520 and finding a person cooking with a crock pot and having a machete.
00:24:22.640 Oh, dear.
00:24:23.720 Just yesterday.
00:24:24.960 Oh, no.
00:24:25.660 Yesterday I saw a tweet and I was gobsmacked.
00:24:28.820 This father had brought his daughter to the washroom, checked out the washroom before he went in
00:24:35.460 and saw this guy in a dress shaving his testicles.
00:24:41.460 Wow.
00:24:42.940 Yeah.
00:24:43.480 I think Vancouver is really out there on that issue, but it really is everywhere.
00:24:49.960 The case of J.K. Rowling, and we saw the billboard at the beginning of the segment,
00:24:57.200 she is, in my mind, she's so huge.
00:25:01.160 She's a billionaire, the most popular author, huge box office success.
00:25:05.760 She's made so many stars who started their work with her movies.
00:25:08.880 And I thought, well, there's no way they'll be able to wobble her.
00:25:12.960 She's just too big.
00:25:13.840 She's like a mountain.
00:25:15.560 But I'm starting to see it.
00:25:17.560 Her agency, people are in protest.
00:25:21.600 The no-name actors she turned into millionaires, they're criticizing her now.
00:25:27.920 I think that there's literally no one out there that when the trans agenda comes for you,
00:25:34.480 that you'll be big enough to survive it.
00:25:36.000 I'm shocked that J.K. Rowling, down-the-line liberal, billionaire,
00:25:41.160 can be so diminished by this attack that they're tearing down her billboard.
00:25:47.580 How is this going to end?
00:25:49.580 That's a good question.
00:25:50.900 I mean, if the more people don't start speaking out, it's not going to end very well.
00:25:57.320 There's going to be a lot of silencing of free speech, and I think a lot of people can get hurt.
00:26:02.520 If you can't bring across valid concerns like children taking medical transitioning hormones
00:26:10.640 so soon that affect their ability to have children when they're adults,
00:26:15.280 if we can't even discuss that without being called transphobic, what's going to happen to the future?
00:26:22.260 Yeah.
00:26:22.640 I find it incredible.
00:26:24.000 Well, listen, Dre, we're so pleased with the work you're doing.
00:26:26.240 I just want to end with a couple of minutes from your coverage of the anti-lockdown march in Vancouver.
00:26:32.960 I was so impressed by the march.
00:26:35.520 I sometimes think of Vancouver as the left coast, and indeed it is in some ways,
00:26:41.640 but there is enough of a freedom contingent to have what I think is the largest pro-freedom march in English Canada.
00:26:48.720 Here, let's play a couple minutes of that video.
00:26:50.660 You post a video on the Facebook or any other media, they take it down, they blacklist it right away.
00:26:57.560 It's the opposition.
00:26:58.640 So if you cannot see both of the sides, what does that mean?
00:27:02.380 You have no rights.
00:27:03.820 That's exactly what the communist regime did.
00:27:06.080 You could not speak, you could not say anything, otherwise they would lock you down.
00:27:11.640 And that's what's happening here.
00:27:13.160 Very sad, Dre, very sad.
00:27:15.000 The march is on the way now.
00:27:30.520 We are currently walking up Hornby Street in Vancouver.
00:27:33.960 For those of you who might not know, BC has recently put some new COVID restrictions on.
00:27:40.800 Some of them can fine you up to $2,000 for having a gathering with not enough sanitizer handy.
00:27:50.180 Additionally, we've already begun some of the lockdown.
00:27:55.560 So places like bars as well as banquet halls are already closed.
00:28:01.860 And things like playing music or the TV too loud in public over and above a typical conversation volume is also banned in Vancouver.
00:28:14.800 So what's in store for BC Vancouver as the fall continues, as we start to see the cold and flu season?
00:28:25.500 Again, you can find the full video of Drea's coverage of that on YouTube and actually on David Menzies' show, Rebel Roundup.
00:28:33.520 There'll be a larger discussion too.
00:28:34.800 Just give me a minute on that.
00:28:36.940 Were you surprised by how many people in Vancouver came out against the lockdown mania?
00:28:42.880 Well, I wasn't surprised because I had been following the organizers and what they were saying to them.
00:28:48.540 So I had already been excited about that before I went.
00:28:52.500 However, what was actually surprising is, I'm not sure if you're aware, we have a really bad smoke issue.
00:28:59.000 If you look behind me, from the fires across the border in the U.S., we've had really, really poor air quality.
00:29:08.140 I mean, instead of the blue skies, we should be having smoke.
00:29:11.960 So that day was supposed to be horrible for air quality.
00:29:15.660 And some people were saying, sorry, I can't come.
00:29:18.080 You know, I was going to bring my kids.
00:29:19.360 So before I was a little worried, oh, you know, maybe people aren't going to show up, but they still did considering.
00:29:25.360 So that part, I was a little surprised and really proud because I too was like, oh, how come we're not showing up?
00:29:34.040 So it was really good to see.
00:29:35.560 And I heard they're working on another bigger one.
00:29:39.600 Well, listen, thank you for your coverage in Vancouver, Canada's third largest city, such an important city.
00:29:46.000 And in many ways, a bellwether.
00:29:47.460 What happens in Vancouver today often happens to the rest of the country tomorrow.
00:29:52.620 Drea, Humphrey, keep up the great work.
00:29:55.100 Thank you, Ezra.
00:29:55.960 All right.
00:29:56.320 Thank you, my friend.
00:29:57.080 Stay with us, Moran.
00:29:57.860 On my monologue last night, Jer writes,
00:30:12.220 I imagine that if you scrutinized emails from any government officials worldwide, you would find much of the same kind of cover-up talk.
00:30:18.840 The million-dollar question is, why hurt citizens and lie to them?
00:30:21.940 There is something seriously wrong here.
00:30:24.200 Well, that's the crazy thing.
00:30:25.780 Every government is doing everything like a school of fish or a flock of birds.
00:30:30.040 They all brought in the lockdown within days of each other.
00:30:33.000 They all brought in the mask bylaws within days of each other.
00:30:35.600 They're all locked out.
00:30:36.460 It's like they're moving and saying, well, what's he doing?
00:30:38.720 What's he doing?
00:30:39.380 I'd better do the exact same thing as that government and that government, so that way I won't be politically in danger.
00:30:45.800 I think that's the reason why opposition parties in Canada have been pretty silent about any excesses or any failures by the governing parties in this country.
00:30:55.340 Has there been any opposition in this country to the lockdowns, to the mask bylaws, to the extremism?
00:31:02.860 Even as deaths and hospitalizations have fallen to near zero, lockdowns are coming in a new wave again.
00:31:08.600 The second wave isn't a wave of illnesses or hospitalizations.
00:31:12.000 It's a wave of more government lockdowns.
00:31:13.600 Where's the opposition?
00:31:15.460 And if you think that's bad, look overseas.
00:31:18.020 Our friend Avi Eminey in Melbourne, Australia.
00:31:20.520 It's insane over there.
00:31:21.460 Paul writes, this scandemic is unraveling as the clowns push it are doubling down.
00:31:27.540 They can't keep people in fear forever.
00:31:29.660 And when the economic fallout fully hits, they will be running for cover.
00:31:33.620 I don't know about that.
00:31:36.100 Fear is so powerful.
00:31:38.880 I think there are people who are so afraid they'll do almost anything.
00:31:42.380 I think people will say, well, of course the economy is bad.
00:31:44.900 But it's not the politicians.
00:31:46.160 It's the virus that did it.
00:31:48.100 Well, the virus was the excuse, but it's the politicians who are killing the jobs.
00:31:52.440 And if you think our government is done yet, look at the second lockdown coming in the UK
00:31:56.240 and look at police violence in Australia.
00:32:00.060 On my interview with Brian Day, Bruce writes, tonight's show proves that it's a two-tiered system.
00:32:05.440 Money talks and ethics walks.
00:32:07.040 I couldn't even believe what Dr. Day said.
00:32:09.440 That not only judges, but actually the Attorney General of British Columbia, people from that office who are suing him to shut him down.
00:32:20.760 Well, they want to use him for themselves.
00:32:23.100 That's the government.
00:32:23.920 And if you know that that's what politicians are like, and you know they have one standard for you, the little people,
00:32:29.880 and another standard for them, the ruling class, you know they're breaking every single pandemic rule, too, don't you?
00:32:36.300 Well, that's our show for today.
00:32:37.460 On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night.
00:32:40.580 And keep fighting for free.
00:32:41.660 We'll be right back.