EZRA LEVANT | A Global News journalist cries on camera — are they crocodile tears?
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Summary
A Global News journalist cries on camera, but are they crocodile tears? On today's show, host Ezra Levenkamp dissects a video from Global News reporter Rachel Gilmore in which she claims to have been threatened with death.
Transcript
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Hello, my friends. I'm so very proud of the monologue today. I think it's important. There's
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a little bit of investigative journalism on my part. You wouldn't think so because I'm actually
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just dissecting a video produced by another journalist, Rachel Gilmore of Global News.
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But I paused it and freeze-framed it, and I read things on the page before they whisked by, and
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I found some incredible things. I think Rachel Gilmore is a liar when she says people are
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threatening to kill her. I mean, it's a shocking thing to lie about, but my God, I think I've got
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the proof. You're going to want to see this one, and when I say see this one, I want you to be able
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to visually see it because I freeze-frame on her video to actually read the documents she's referring
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to. She did not redact them, and you'll learn a lot by freezing her video. I want you to see it.
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Tonight, a global news journalist cries on camera, but are they crocodile tears? It's December 7th,
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and this is the Ezra LeVant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
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Here's a tweet from Rachel Gilmore of Global News. She says,
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I'm done. Free press is under attack. We won't be silenced, but we need you to stand up for us.
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Holy moly. Wow. And take a look at this. Hundreds of journalists retweeted it. They came to her aid,
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a damsel in distress. Here's the Canadian Association of Journalists. They say,
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online harassment is a scourge on our democracy, and it needs to stop. We stand with Rachel Gilmore.
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Hmm. And so many more female journalists and journalists of color who are all too frequently
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subjected to this vile abuse. And they have a link. And then here's Penn Canada, one of my favorite
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groups. I'm a member of them. They say Penn Canada stands with Rachel Gilmore and her colleagues in
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Canadian media and journalism who are suffering relentless targeted attacks, threats of violence,
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online harassment, intimidation, and abuse for doing their jobs and being women and or
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IBPOC, press freedom. Okay. Now, studies show that men are actually attacked more online,
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just like they are in real life. And I'm using the word attack in a nonviolent way. You can't
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actually suffer violence on Twitter. I suppose you could have a threat, but men are attacked more
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than women are. But still, what attacks does she mean? Because I don't like people being attacked.
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Do they mean something like what happens to our rebel news journalists on a regular basis? Here are a
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few attacks on journalists that come to my mind. Many of the attacks are actually at the hands of the
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We've been through this so many times with you guys.
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That continue to spread misinformation and disinformation...
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Your group of individuals need to take accountability...
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Polarization that we're seeing in this country.
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It's disappointing to see the Conservatives engage in peddling...
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The likes of CBC and the other members of the media party...
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Because you guys are shutting down the bridge...
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No I'm just coming to check in on our facility...
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Now this is an administrative penalty notice...
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To maintain a distance at least 2 meters from another person...
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Did Rachel Gilmore get attacked like any of those people?
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And I have been receiving death threats for months now...
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Have been on the receiving end of these for months...
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We've been told that our photos were plastered to the wall of a garage...
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And they were deciding which one of us they wanted to kill...
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And I don't feel safe leaving my house anymore...
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There is racist, misogynistic, disgusting, and threatening language in all of them...
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So it sounds like she's received some very mean tweets and emails...
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And she described some of the messages, didn't she?
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She talked about photos plastered to the wall...
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I am very susceptible to a young person crying...
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And I read one of those messages that she showed...
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Better watch your back when you're in public...
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Which suggests that there are more than one investigator...
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But she had literally been shot seconds earlier...
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She doesn't even like leaving her house anymore...
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Because I did a show about Rachel Gilmore in part...
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She was on a panel with some of the most important people in the media...
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These were the most powerful women in Ottawa media...
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Was no one less than the liberal public safety minister...
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Maybe that's a little something to think about...
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When she was just yucking it up and laughing...
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Now you can see the person who wrote that mean threat to her...
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But she's making it sound like that just happened to her...
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And that neither the police nor Twitter has done anything about it...
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She certainly heckles others in the public square...
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While saying someone is trying to silence her voice...
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What she wasn't strategically blocking with her head...
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What that death threat threatened to kill was all about?
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Typically played by drunk young people being risque...
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And you have to say which one you would marry...
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There really was a wall of photos in the garage...
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And it looks like they might be talking about...
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Could you have a show about Pierre Paglia please...
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I went to conservative.ca to see what his platform is...
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Is it because PP is planning on being flexible?
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Max Bernier has it all laid out on his website...
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I think that he believes in the climate warming scam...
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He also did not say that he was going to decrease immigration...
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What I mean is all that woke crap starts in schools...
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All the way from kindergarten to universities...
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Then it will be getting only worse and worse...
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And then it spreads everywhere like a cancer...
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I do not understand why the conservative leaders...
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I should tell you I did reach out to Pierre Polyev...
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And I don't think that he is in league with the green things...
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I don't think he's really made cultural issues his strong suit...
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I don't think I've heard him comment on Trudeau's new half a million immigrants a year quota...
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The last two conservative party leaders were afraid of anything to do with the immigration file...
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They basically said whatever Trudeau says is fine by us...
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If you want to raise wages and decrease the cost of housing...
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Immigration is the most effective dial to manipulate...
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I was disappointed not to see Louis Brackwell's name on the list of candidates...
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So info on his departure may have been noted on one of those sites...
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He once had an Ask Ezra anything special one Christmas season...
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As no one seemed curious about the rebel commander...
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Many are probably curious about the lives of your reporters...
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But you wisely protect them personally as well as privately...
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You were engaging in a humorous rant recently by teasing Williams...
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But another unknown reporter who was wearing purple...
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Tracking down this mysterious reporter for his reviews...
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Most rebels doubtless feel guilty about casting their vote...
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Louis Brackpool did leave us on friendly terms...
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Some have gone on to non-journalistic things...
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You know, I'd like to think that most of our alumni are on good terms with us...
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My favorite work by Louis was when he was at the Davos World Economic Forum meeting...
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It is true that William Diaz-Berthiome is of the tender age of 18...
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He actually joined us when he was 17, unbeknownst to me...
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We are bringing back that Ask the Rebels Anything Christmas special...
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So it's funny you say that we're going to announce that in a day or so...
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We've got a special website we're going to put up for that...
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And I will answer pretty much most questions, even personal questions.
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There are a few private things I probably wouldn't answer.
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And if you want to ask me some personal questions, feel free.
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But if you pay attention in the next week or so...
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We will have the Ask Ezra Anything website up and running.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters...