Antifa terrorists assault journalist in Portland — but the rest of the media is silent
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A domestic terrorist group called Antifa sends a journalist to the hospital with a brain hemorrhage. Why is the media so silent? It s July 2nd, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show: Why should others go to jail when you re a biggest carbon consumer?
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Tonight, a domestic terrorist group called Antifa sends a journalist to the hospital
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It's July 2nd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's
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It's a reporter in Portland, Oregon, named Andy Ngo.
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He has written for various prestigious publications, including for the Wall Street Journal.
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He's also an editor with a new online magazine called Quillette.
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I've had a chance to talk with Andy a few times.
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He's the type of journalist that the left would expect, even demand, that he'd be a
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woke, left-wing, identity politics grievance monger.
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I don't think I'd call him an outright conservative, but I'd call him a skeptic, which is a form of
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And look at him getting beaten to a pulp on the city streets of Portland by thugs, some wearing masks, some not.
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It's not a drug gang or a Hell's Angels gang, though I'm sure they do all manner of petty crimes, too.
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They call themselves Antifa, which is short for anti-fascist, but that's like Orwell calling the Ministry of War the Ministry of Peace.
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I think this is the most Orwellian photo I've ever seen in my whole life.
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That's from an Antifa riot in California a couple years back.
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Those obviously aren't National Guard or police.
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They have a standard issue gang fighting equipment.
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And look, they literally have written in friendly, colorful, what is that, like a kitty cat on one of them?
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While they say no hate on them, that's like shooting someone with a gun that says, ban guns on it or something.
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Antifa isn't just a group of violent thugs who often wear masks.
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They're a political group, a street gang, at the service of Democrats in the United States and liberals and New Democrats and Greens here in Canada.
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They deploy violence in support of a political goal.
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That's absolutely the definition of a terrorist group, by the way.
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They absolutely operate with the support of left-wing politicians, including police chiefs.
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Here they are a couple years back rioting at Berkeley, which was home to the free speech movement in the 60s and 70s.
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The police there were told to stand down, to let Antifa rioters send a message to, if you remember, that was Milo Yiannopoulos and campus Republicans who had a meeting there.
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Berkeley means free speech, but not for the wrong people.
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Here they are at the private residence of Tucker Carlson, the Fox News TV host, at his home.
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They surrounded his home when he wasn't at home, but his wife and kids were at home, and they came right up to the front door and hit it so hard the door cracked.
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I've never heard of the Hell's Angels going to your house and doing that to you, unless maybe you owed them a gambling debt or a drug debt.
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The Hell's Angels, most gangs, they don't have that kind of brazen approach.
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They'd be met with a police SWAT team if they tried that.
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You send 100 gang members, the Bloods, the Crips, the Hell's Angels, whatever, you send them into a campus, it would be the biggest police response in a generation.
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It's what the left does when they lose power legitimately.
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They control geography, and in their own sick way, unfortunately, they fill a need for fraternal friendship in a society where a lot of fathers are just missing or in jail.
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The Hell's Angels, they're about money and power.
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They have a reason d'etre, even if we disagree with it.
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They're one standard deviation more radical than, say, the Women's March in Washington, D.C.
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I don't know if you know that the Women's March was funded with almost a quarter of a billion dollars from George Soros.
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They get money from dark political funders like Soros.
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And on the weekend, they beat a reporter, Andy, no, so badly that he had to go to the hospital for 30 hours with a brain hemorrhage.
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Here he is on TV explaining things, but you can still see that he's not himself.
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I'm suddenly bashed on the back of my head from behind.
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It took me a few seconds to realize that I was actually even hit in my head.
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And when I realized what was happening, it was too late.
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A mob of people, all dressed in black and wearing masks, started beating me with their fists.
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Now, if that were a reporter from CNN or The New York Times who had been beat up by a right-wing group,
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or, God forbid, an alt-right group linked with racism,
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it would be the top story for the whole country for the media party for a weekend.
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And adding the fact that Andy, no, is Vietnamese and gay, that's just the perfect storm,
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except for the fact that he's against Antifa and they're against him.
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So other than a few perfunctory news appearances and going on Tucker Carlson's own show, that's about it.
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I didn't see any press releases from the ACLU about protecting journalists and free speech.
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When CNN's prima donna, Jim Acosta, had his privileges taken away for, what, was it, 24 hours at the White House
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because he grabbed a microphone out of an intern's hand.
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Oh, my God, the First Amendment's under attack.
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An actual journalist, though, is actually beat up for journalism-ing.
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And the media party, the press gallery, the prestigious Columbia School of Journalism,
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Reporters Without Borders, Pan International, all the groups on the left are silent.
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Well, mainly because Andy Ngo is one of the few journalists to accurately report on Antifa itself.
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So it's not just that they hate him because he's on the right, or at least on the left.
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Now, he writes for prestigious publications, too, but also online, just on Twitter.
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Just little cell phone videos that he posts, like last year when he showed street riots.
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I think we did a show on this when it happened.
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Not CNN, but, you know, not the CBC up here, of course.
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But boy, did we get a lot of coverage of any right-winger anywhere who chanted,
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And one of the most interesting things about Andy Ngo is that he's recently debunked hate crimes hoaxes.
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And what I mean by that is whenever someone claims to have been attacked for racial or other reasons,
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Andy does something that really should have earned him a Pulitzer Prize.
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I think he meticulously follows up on breathless first reports of hate crimes.
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Transgendered people saying they were hate-crimed.
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Black people, gay people, Jewish people, every minority who cries woeful.
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Well, Andy calmly follows up weeks or months later and says,
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And in a staggering number of cases, it turns out to have been a hoax.
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It was just a regular crime that the media or the victim politicized.
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Or in a terrible number of cases, the whole thing was a setup.
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The whole thing was set up as political theater, just like that actor Jussie Smollett,
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who said that a couple of white guys wearing Trump hats in Chicago accosted him outside a Subway Sandwiches restaurant at like 2 or 3 a.m.
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and had a noose with them and bleach and put the noose around his neck and bleached them.
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So great journalism, and you can see why the left hate him.
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And fair enough, but the street gangs of the left, well, they are ready to censor him in real life if they can't censor him in journalism, right?
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Portland is actually the most perfectly liberal city in America.
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It's actually the whitest big city in America, statistically speaking.
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Nothing against that, but as some sort of weird penance for that, I think.
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Their liberals have turned the whole place into a sanctuary city for any of the left's terrible ideas.
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It's like that crazy song from Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones 50 years ago.
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It's just that one line, just as every cop is a criminal and all the sinner saints as heads as tails just call me Lucifer because I'm in need of some restraint.
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I don't know if you know that song, Sympathy for the Devil.
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So that was the Rolling Stones' take on the upside-down world of the 1960s.
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It was a thought experiment, that song, in insanity and revolution where cops are criminals.
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The cops are treated like criminals, and the criminals are treated like saints.
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And so it is the policy of the city of Portland, expressed by the mayor and by, as given effect by the police chief, that criminals will not be charged.
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The sinners are saints, as Mick Jagger told us.
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Neighboring police forces don't like to help Portland with emergencies.
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Because they know that they will have no political support when it comes to violence.
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Hey, did you ever see that great TV show about Portland called Portlandia?
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It's the closest thing to a conservative comedy show, as you get on TV.
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But Portland is so over the top, they make fun of it because it's just too much in Portland.
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Can I show you a one-minute clip from Portlandia?
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This bike courier guy, I think that's pretty much the mayor today.
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I mean, it's funny, but it's funny because you know it is true.
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Well, the attacking of Annie Noe in broad daylight with police right there, right outside various
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office buildings of the police and the courts is stunning to you and me, but it's normal
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in Portland now, but at least conservative Twitter made enough of a fuss about it over
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The mayor felt compelled to say after the fact that he might have the police look into
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It was an instruction from the mayor's police chief with the approval of the mayor to let
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But I think the worst, the worst, are the journalists on the left who celebrated Annie
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He's an immigrant as they would normally say, but he's off brand, you see.
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This is an officially verified journalist who says,
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I think this will calm everyone down if I clarify, Andy Noe was cruising for a bruising,
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Doesn't make it right, but a slice of that GoFundMe scratch might make me sing another
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Well, there was a GoFundMe to raise funds for his medical care and for security next time.
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I don't know why Andy's employer, Quillette, didn't give him security in advance, but maybe
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they don't have as much experience being attacked as our journalists do.
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We've had our people roughed up all over the place.
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We've had this in Toronto hitting Lawrence Southern.
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We spend tens of thousands of dollars on security every year and tens of thousands suing those
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There's a Terry Guillaume from the Prime Minister's office.
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These people attack our reporters all the time.
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Remember, liberal journalists, here's another one, liberal journalists were glad that Andy
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It's like journalists who were glad that Tommy Robinson was put in prison.
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They might not like to see how the eggs are cracked, but they like the omelet, don't
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And like in the U.S., they generally act with impunity.
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Do you remember five years ago, there was a massive riot by Muslim extremists on the
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street in Calgary against a Jewish family right outside City Hall, right outside City
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The mayor, Nahid Nenshi, didn't say a public word about it.
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It's an American story, the story of Andy Noe, but it's our story in Canada, too.
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It's a story about the thugs on the left who try to achieve through violence what they
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It's so weird that our mainstream media, which pretends to be against hate and against
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violence and against censorship, well, they really don't give a damn when it's someone
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on the left attacking someone on the right, do they?
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And joining us now live via Skype from Portland, Oregon, is our friend Kian Bexte.
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Kian, you literally just landed at the airport.
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I know you just arrived, but you've been talking to Andy Noe and you've been studying the case.
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What do you hope to achieve in the next day or two?
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I want to clarify if there was, in fact, an order sent from the mayor's office to the Portland
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police to figure out if there was, in fact, an order demanding that they stay out of any skirmishes
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between Antifa and any right wing journalists or journalists at all.
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I want to know if Ted Wheeler, the mayor, feels accountable for what feels responsible for what
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There was a lynching of a gay Vietnamese man in Portland, Oregon last week, and if it was
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a left wing journalist, the entire USA would be up in arms about what happened.
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But for some reason, it only seems to be the conservatives on Twitter who are upset, which
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So I want to know if the mayor feels responsible about this.
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And lastly, and most importantly, I want to know if he condemns Antifa.
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I don't expect him to say they're domestic terrorists.
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A condemnation is enough for me, but I'm going to see if I can get that out of him here.
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I know you've got to run because I don't want to slow you down here.
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Um, I understand that other reporters in Oregon look down at Andy Ngo, even though he's published
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I mentioned earlier the Wall Street Journal, what I think is the most prestigious American
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But I saw, for example, the Oregonian and other papers.
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They're either factually misrepresenting what happened.
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They say Andy claimed he was attacked when clearly the video footage shows he was.
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And they're saying he was cruising for a bruising, said one journalist.
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That's like telling a rape victim she was wearing too attractive, a skirt or something.
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Do you think that you'll be able to press any other Portland journalists on why they're
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fine having one of their colleagues be lynched just because of his politics?
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I suppose that's less important than going after the mayor or the police, but it still sticks
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I think they're not usually faced with this scenario that it's either a white, a white
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right wing journalist gets assaulted and then they can just absolutely pile on top of them.
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But now it's, there's a bit of an intersectional issue that they have, right?
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The right wing journalist, uh, who, who didn't go there to provoke or anything like that.
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I've seen him do it, uh, of course, Andy, he's most well known, I think for exposing hate
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crime hoaxes, uh, especially against the LGBT community, which he himself is a part of.
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So the fact that he's Vietnamese, he's gay, uh, and he's a right wing journalist makes,
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you know, everyone at CNN, MSNBC, they're all, uh, confused at how to, how to deal with this.
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They want to, um, they want to expose violence, but they only want to expose violent right wing
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I don't think they have the same motivation to do it.
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Well, in fact, I think they regard Antifa as the enforcement wing, the paramilitary wing
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Well, listen, Ken, I know you've got to run because you have a lot of people to meet and
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Thanks for pulling over to the side of the road and safely talking to us via Skype.
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I'd probably would have tried to do it while driving, but that's why you're going to live
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Uh, thanks for joining us and good luck out there in Portland.
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Ken Bexie on the ground in Portland, chasing down this important story.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about Canada Day.
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Liza writes, America and much of the world looks at Canada and thinks we've gone mad.
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But to be candid, I'm not sure if the rest of the world spends a lot of time looking at
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I know, you know, the Canadian, I don't know, psychological hangup is the world needs more
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That's the de facto motto of chapters books, right?
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But you know that, that clip, I'm not sure if right here, let me play it right here.
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That clip of where Justin Trudeau is sitting next to President Xi of China and they won't
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make eye contact and Trudeau's feeling awkward and he looks over and someone goes to shake
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And, you know, it's, I don't think people even think about Justin Trudeau.
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And the one guy who didn't shake his hand at first, that's Jair Bolsonaro, the president
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And I don't know if you recall, but when he won his huge election, Justin Trudeau was
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so petty in his remark, his press release on the subject, he refused to even say Bolsonaro's
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I won't even mention his name in a press release.
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Um, so Trudeau is obsessed with other countries.
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I don't think Jair Bolsonaro has spent 10 seconds thinking about Trudeau.
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I think he just thought, who's this, who's the waiter or something.
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Uh, Stephen writes, they celebrate the day, but no longer the men, Sir Johnny McDonald and
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Sir Charles Tupper, who had the vision and the guts and the strength to create Canada.
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Yeah, well, they actually tear down Sir John A. McDonald statues, and I'm sure it won't
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On my interview with Barbara Kay, Bruce writes, this bogus education on transgenderism is nothing
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When you are planting false and disturbing facts in a child's mind, and you know, there's
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a phrase in law, in loco parentis, that's Latin for in the place of parents.
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A teacher can discipline your child, can physically move your child, can make decisions for your
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child, because of course they're minor children and the parents aren't there.
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Teachers have this power, it's called in loco parentis.
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And with that power comes enormous responsibility.
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It's a higher level of responsibility than the bank has for your money.
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Imagine the duty that a teacher has, and to take that power and that duty, and to teach
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not just something that's false, but something that is designed to screw up a young mind.
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And in short years to come, we will look back on this manic moment with contempt for those
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On Canada moving to have a hate registry, Lou writes, the Trudeau government will no doubt
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define hate to mean whatever they want it to mean.
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It's all about control and censorship in the direction of political correctness.
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Yeah, you know, I saw a poll the other day, I haven't gone deep on it, I saw the headline,
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I think this is exactly what they're talking about.
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I think no real people in their private conversations talk in a politically correct way.
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That may be how the fancy people act, but even they only act that way when the camera's on.
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When they're at ease with family, with friends, they're just as skeptical and politically
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I think it's that scoldy, self-righteous, lording it over people that is at the heart
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of that hate speech battle, the social harm battle.
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I think that's one of the main reasons why we have contempt for our elites, especially in Canada.
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But I point out that in those Angus Reid polls, some people don't like Justin Trudeau,
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but three times as many people lividly and vividly hate Trudeau as just dislike him.
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Like, normally you would sort of, some people would like him a little, some people would
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dislike him a little, some would love him a lot, some would hate him a lot, it'd be like
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With Trudeau, if you dislike him, you're likely to hate him because you detect that condescending
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BS, and we all know he's a fraud now, especially on the feminism file.
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Anytime he goes on about hate speech, that's just his new shtick.
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The same way he would accuse you of sexism while he's a sexual assaulter of Rose Knight,
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he'll accuse you of hate when he's full of it himself.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,