It's April Fool's Day, but then again, given the ongoing march of the radical transgender movement, isn't it really not every day April Fools Day? It's Friday, April 1st, and this is the Ezra Levent's show.
00:07:30.060At impact, a small hole was punctured in the tank. According to our experts, the pressure of the
00:07:39.780collision and the crushing of the gas tank forced gasoline to spew from the gas cap. The fuel then
00:07:45.780erupted into flames when ignited by the impacting car's headlight. Wow, that was quite dramatic,
00:07:52.920quite frightening, wasn't it? Actually, no. You see, try as they might, NBC News could not get those GM
00:08:02.260pickup trucks to blow up when enduring a side impact. So NBC decided to tinker with the experiment to get
00:08:11.880those much sought-after kaboom visuals, which is to say they secretly affixed incendiary devices
00:08:20.740on those gas tanks. I swear to God, folks, those journalists had their henchmen put little tiny bombs on those gas
00:08:30.340tanks to make those trucks blow up real good. Indeed, I would say that this kind of smear tactic that NBC used to
00:08:39.260demonize GM some 30 years ago might indeed be the great granddaddy of what we now refer to as fake news in the
00:08:48.320here and now. And they might have gotten away with it if not for a whistleblower who spilled the beans
00:08:54.600to GM. Now, the company would subsequently file a defamation lawsuit. Check out the mea culpa
00:09:02.840apology that aired courtesy of co-authors Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips as part of that out-of-court
00:09:11.700settlement in 1993. NBC's contractor did put incendiary devices under the trucks to ensure
00:09:20.600that there would be a fire if gasoline were released from the truck's gas tank. We said the
00:09:25.760crash, quote, forced gasoline to spew from the fuel cap, end quote. GM says since the gas cap was the
00:09:32.520wrong cap for the GM filler tube and because the gas tank was overfilled, the cap came off when the
00:09:38.660impact occurred. We agree with GM that we should have told our viewers about these devices. The
00:09:45.280Dateline reporter, however, said, quote, at impact, a small hole was punctured in the tank, unquote. GM has
00:09:52.700now x-rayed that tank and found no hole. We acknowledge the placing of the incendiary devices under the
00:09:59.100truck was a bad idea from start to finish. Absolutely amazing. But that's the thing. Three decades ago,
00:10:08.020folks, when NBC was caught red-handed falsifying the news, an apology was made and some head honchos in the
00:10:15.800NBC News Department were rightfully terminated. But today, NBC seems to be taking the stance that fake news
00:10:24.860is good news if such fakery is being used to advance the cause of fake females. Pardon my French, but how effed up
00:10:36.100is that? Meanwhile, on our continent's cookie campuses, a cheater such as Leah Thomas is not
00:10:44.260to be vilified, but rather celebrated. And if you don't do so, then obviously you are a transphobe.
00:10:52.740Capisce? Indeed, recently, a Purdue University professor of women's gender and sexuality studies,
00:11:00.320Cheryl Cookie, no, that's her real surname, folks, I swear, compared Leah Thomas to trailblazing
00:11:07.820baseball star Jackie Robinson, the first major league baseball player to break the odious color
00:11:14.900barrier, stated Cookie, quote, Thomas, as the first transgender athlete to win a Division I NCAA
00:11:23.480championship, deserves to be placed among the other firsts. She should be embraced in the history of
00:11:31.580progress that sports represent and recognized as the trailblazer that she is, end quote. Can you imagine?
00:11:41.900Oh, by the way, which media outlet did Professor Cookie write her opinion piece for?
00:11:47.620You guessed it. NBC News. What does NBC stand for these days, by the way? Nothing but crap. Now,
00:11:59.240at this point, folks, I'm going to run a video we aired five years ago. Back then, it was meant to be
00:12:05.780satire, parody, a goof vis-a-vis radical transgenderism. Little did we know we were actually being
00:12:14.780clairvoyant. Check it out. Earlier this year, the National Basketball Association stripped Charlotte
00:12:22.460of the NBA All-Star Game. The reason for this, folks, was the NBA was upset with North Carolina's
00:12:29.420so-called bathroom bill. You know, the bill that requires people of the appropriate gender to use
00:12:35.600the appropriate bathroom. Well, if the NBA is all about trans-friendly rights, let's put that to the
00:12:43.320test. I'm here at the Air Canada Centre where the Toronto Raptors are having tryouts for cheerleaders
00:12:49.420and my persona is Lady Menzoid. I'm going to see if I can crack the team. And I know what you're
00:12:55.580thinking, uh, it was a long winter, okay?
00:13:25.580What a workout. Well, on the one hand, folks, kudos to the Toronto Raptors for letting me, the
00:13:32.580lovable Lady Menzoid, have a tryout for the Toronto Raptors. I'm going to see if I can crack the team.
00:13:35.680What a workout. Well, on the one hand, folks, kudos to the Toronto Raptors for letting me, the lovable
00:13:40.580Lady Menzoid, have a tryout with the real woman. But you know something, since I didn't get a gig with the
00:13:47.580squad, I can't think of what a missed opportunity there was here for the Raptors and the NBA. I mean,
00:13:54.580after all, I could have been the first trainer of the Toronto Raptors for letting me, the lovable Lady Menzoid,
00:13:59.580I mean, just think about it. It would be like when Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier with the
00:14:18.580Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945. For that lack of diversity and that non-inclusion, I'm afraid the NBA and the
00:14:26.580Toronto Raptors, when it comes to trans acceptance, gets two thumbs down and one other appendage.
00:14:36.580Well, there you have it. And I truly thought the most outrageous thing that I could come up with back
00:14:42.580then was comparing transgender cheats to the late, great Jackie Robinson. Indeed, when the segment first
00:14:49.580aired back in 2017, our haters called us out for being transphobic. Well, sorry to disappoint you guys
00:14:58.580and gals and others. The joke's on you. We were simply ahead of the curve, just ask Professor Cookie.
00:15:06.580But you would think the gong show, that is the Leah Thomas story, would make sports federations rewrite the
00:15:14.580rules to prevent future gender bender fiascos from occurring. But no, they are doubling down.
00:15:22.580Consider this announcement from the Brainiacs who run the Commonwealth Games. You see, an unnamed athlete
00:15:30.580who previously competed in male events will now be in contention for selection in a female cycling
00:15:39.580cycling category. Here's what the Commonwealth Games Federation told the Telegraph newspaper,
00:15:45.580quote, the CGF will work on close partnership with the relevant international federations to establish
00:15:53.580qualification and eligibility criteria for athlete participation at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
00:16:03.580The new policy will be keeping with principles established in the IOC framework on fairness,
00:16:11.580inclusion and non-discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex variations, end quote.
00:16:20.580Can you believe that, folks? These social justice weirdos have the absolute chutzpah to use words such as
00:16:29.580fairness and inclusion and non-discrimination in order to justify their policy of being unfair and
00:16:39.580non-inclusive and highly discriminatory when it comes to the rules and regulations pertaining to
00:16:47.580transgender athletes who will now be competing against biological female athletes. The only silver lining here is
00:16:55.580this. How many people do you think give a rodent's rectum about the Commonwealth Games? Answer?
00:17:07.580Yeah, way to go, Commonwealth Games. You just made yourselves even less relevant than the Pam Scam Games.
00:17:15.580But at the end of the day, sports, even elite and professional grade sports, they're just about fun and games, aren't they?
00:17:23.580They are the toy department of life. But here's what's not funny when it comes to the radical transgender agenda.
00:17:31.580How about male convicts pretending to be female so that they can do their time in a woman's penitentiary?
00:17:39.580That's the policy right now in Canada, folks. And one means slice and dice or genitalia, nor take hormone shots, etc.
00:17:49.580No, all a male criminal must do is simply say that he identifies as a she and presto, your cellmates are suddenly females
00:18:01.580rather than males. I know what could possibly go wrong, right?
00:18:07.580In fact, we covered a transphobic protest regarding this issue in Kitchener, Ontario last year. Check it out.
00:18:15.580When I first got here, I was told right away by some of the women to watch out for a certain prisoner.
00:18:21.580And I said, wait, we have men here? And they're like, yeah, we do. But you're not allowed to call them men and you have to use she, her pronouns.
00:18:31.580Are you telling me, Heather, I can just deviously say, hey, I'm a woman all of a sudden and I'm here?
00:19:46.580In the name of radical transgenderism, big business and big academia and big media are all on board when it comes to violating the rights of 100% biological women.
00:20:01.580You know, that community that makes up about 4 billion people on this planet.
00:20:08.580What we need right now are brave politicians to go against this insane grain.
00:20:14.580We need laws enacted to protect real women, be it those females competing in sports or those who are doing time in prison.
00:20:23.580There are indeed moves afoot in a handful of US states in this regard.
00:20:29.580I'd like to see such common sense take hold in our great dominion as well.
00:20:36.580To put it another way, let's make April Fool's Day great again.
00:20:40.580Which is to say, let's put an end to trans-sanity.
00:20:45.580Let's confine April Fool's Day to the first day of April as opposed to pretending that April Fool's Day is a 24-7, 365 day a year occurrence.
00:20:59.580Well, folks, the debate regarding climate change will continue to rage on for the years and decades ahead.
00:21:18.580But consider the curious case of my guest, Alex Epstein.
00:21:23.580Alex has written a few books on fossil fuels in 2014.
00:21:29.580He penned the moral case for fossil fuels and he has an upcoming book called Fossil Future.
00:22:02.580That's funny to call it south of the border.
00:22:04.580I was like, wait, I'm not from Mexico, but of course.
00:22:07.580I'm doing great considering I woke up on Monday hearing that one of the most powerful newspapers in the world was going to falsely portray me as racist to destroy my career in my book.
00:22:18.580You know, Alex, I see this as an ad hominem attack.
00:22:23.580I have come across nothing in my research that suggests that you are remotely racist.
00:22:30.580Why is the Washington Post going down this road instead of challenging you on your facts in terms of why you love fossil fuels or even wearing the T-shirt right now, I see.
00:22:42.580Why are they doing a personal attack and smearing you?
00:22:47.580Let me just make sure everyone is familiar with the facts.
00:22:50.580So my publicist sent them a copy of this book, Fossil Future.
00:23:10.580And so the piece was just a hit piece beyond compare.
00:23:14.580So what they did is they looked through all of everything I've ever written to find the most controversial thing in their eyes, which they decided was some stuff I wrote when I was 18 or 19, which was incredibly individualist and explicitly non-racist.
00:23:38.580And then they use that to say because he's racist, then he doesn't really care about things like poor people in Africa getting fossil fuels.
00:23:47.580And therefore, we don't have to listen to his argument.
00:23:50.580So they were discrediting me through this totally false racism allegation that was based on this total distortion of 23 year old documents.
00:23:58.580So, of course, I know this is a hit piece.
00:24:00.580So when they're asking me for a comment, they are asking me to participate in my own destruction.
00:24:58.580The only thing that they've done in response is, get this, they have condemned me for online bullying of the journalist who tried to destroy my life.
00:25:09.580So me defending myself preemptively, they say, you shouldn't have done that.
00:25:13.580You should have just let the hit piece to destroy your life have run.
00:25:18.580And not just the Washington Post managing editor said this.
00:25:22.580Something called Penn just said that some journalism organization and a dozen other journalists who are like friends of the journalist who did this hit piece on me.
00:25:35.580I made a one hour complete expose with proof and primary source documents.
00:25:41.580So journalism in the mainstream journalism, as far as I'm concerned, is dead.
00:25:46.580And unless the Washington Post at this point needs to fire their executive editor, unless they clean house, they are worthless as a journalistic institution.
00:25:54.580Yeah, you won't get an argument from me there, Alex.
00:25:57.580But can you give me a tangible example or two or three, whatever it may be, on why it is this journalist is vilifying you as a racist?
00:26:08.580What did she dig up in her research that is saying, aha, he said this or he wrote that.
00:26:19.580And I documented this very clearly and anyone can see it on Twitter.
00:26:21.580But the first and main category was to say that because I praised Western culture as superior, I am therefore a racist.
00:26:29.580And they put it as he praised Western white culture as superior.
00:26:34.580But I said very explicitly, I had an article in the main Duke University newspaper called Judging Cultures is Not Racist.
00:26:42.580And I made very clear that race and culture, skin color and culture, are totally different things because culture is about ideas and skin color has nothing to do with ideas.
00:26:53.580So the fact that most of the people involved in creating the best parts of Western culture had light skin is totally meaningless to me.
00:27:01.580And yet they're portraying me as racist.
00:27:04.580The other thing when there are only two things.
00:27:08.580I've made the document available online.
00:27:09.580The other thing is that I said certain critical things about Martin Luther King Jr.
00:27:14.580from an individualist and pro-freedom perspective.
00:27:17.580Specifically, I was critical of him for affiliating with the global communist movement.
00:27:22.580And I was critical of him for supporting certain welfare programs and certain race preference programs that I argued proved to be very destructive to the black individuals they were supposed to benefit.
00:27:37.580And again, I have a public track record from the time I was a teenager of being a public, complete opponent of racism.
00:27:46.580So the Washington Post and this other organization called Documented that they're in cahoots with, it is a total act of journalistic fraud.
00:27:55.580And the motivation is obviously to destroy me.
00:27:57.580Why do you respond to a new book by trying to dig up things from 23 years ago and distort them?
00:29:51.580The reason they're going here is the same reason they're totally distorting the facts.
00:29:55.580And it's because they want to destroy me without engaging my arguments, because they have no answer to my arguments.
00:30:00.580And they're afraid that Fossil Future is going to be a wild success.
00:30:04.580And because I preempted them, that's going to even help it be a success.
00:30:07.580But if I had to let them destroy me like all the so-called journalists are advocating, I would be sitting here right now defending my life against the idea that I'm racist instead of them defending their lives against a hit piece on me, which is the just thing.
00:30:21.580They should be on the defensive, not me.
00:30:23.580You know, it reminds me, Alex, of that great Margaret Thatcher quote when she was Prime Minister of Great Britain, when she was asked by a journalist, when people start making remarks about how you look or how much you weigh, you know, do these ad hominem attacks, how do you feel?
00:30:41.580He says, I feel quite happy because it means I've won the argument.
00:30:44.580They don't they don't have anything to attack my policies, my ideas, my thoughts.
00:30:50.580So they have to resort to ad hominem attacks. I think that might be the case with you.
00:30:54.580But tell me, Alex, I'm not a defamation lawyer, but this sounds to me that The Washington Post is dancing with defamation here.
00:31:02.580They've, you know, misconstrued what you've said. They've lied about some of the things you've said.
00:31:08.580Are you thinking of lawyering up in case this smear article does come to be that is if it indeed gets published?
00:31:17.580I am exploring all just options. I'll just say that.
00:31:21.580OK, fair enough. And again, you know what the perverse irony is, is that I think with your books, you make a profound case for fossil fuels.
00:31:33.580We're pro fossil fuels here. That's for sure. I think the perverse irony is that even if you were racist, let's let's look at, say, Albert Einstein.
00:31:45.580If Albert Einstein was a racist, it still wouldn't detract from the idea that he's also a genius.
00:31:51.580Now, neither you nor Einstein are racist, of course, but that's how flawed I think the post argument is that because you are allegedly a racist, therefore everything in your book is rubbish.
00:32:06.580And I'm saying, no, that's not the way it works.
00:32:09.580Yeah, although I do argue that it does work in the opposite direction, namely the attacks against me and against fossil fuels in this case are racist.
00:32:18.580And I mean that very directly. So basically, people are saying I'm a racist for saying Western culture is superior.
00:32:24.580White Western culture is superior. If you call it white Western culture, Western culture is defined politically by freedom.
00:32:30.580That means you think freedom is white. That is a racist idea.
00:32:35.580And the other thing is you are advocating policies that deprive the world of fossil fuels.
00:32:41.580Who gets hurt the most from that? People who lack low cost, reliable energy.
00:32:45.580Most of those people have darker skin, so-called people of color.
00:32:49.580So it's a racist idea directly by saying that freedom is white.
00:32:53.580And it's a racist idea indirectly because energy deprivation harms people of color the most.
00:32:59.580So I and this is why, you know, certain allies of mine in Africa have stood up and said, hey, this is a brother to us.
00:33:05.580This guy has stood up for us when everyone else was oppressing us with these anti-fossil fuel policies.
00:33:11.580And I will continue to do that. And I am not going to be one bit deterred by being called racist.
00:33:17.580But I will use the term racist where it is justified. And the attacks on me are racist attacks.
00:33:24.580Yeah, that is a perverse slice of irony as well.
00:33:27.580But, you know, this is the thing, Alex, that really bothers me is that we now live in a day and age of wokeism, of cancel culture, where everything is racist.
00:33:37.580And of course, if everything is racist, nothing is racist.
00:33:40.580And it used to be when you look that, you know, classical liberals, they were all about free speech, freedom of expression.
00:33:51.580They were all about, say, if you say that there's a moral case for fossil fuel, they'll take you on a debate and say, well, here's why it's immoral to use fossil fuels.
00:34:01.580And at the end of the day, you shake hands and go to the pub and have a pint.
00:34:05.580But now it's if you take a contrarian view, especially I think to the left, to what mainstream media are peddling, you are essentially an enemy of the state and you have to be shut down.
00:34:36.580So if you need to respond to ideas with better ideas, and if you think my ideas are so obviously wrong and bad, why don't you give a refutation of them?
00:34:46.580But these guys, these journalists, they can't even give a refutation of my clear argument that I was unfairly attacked and smeared because it's just it's irrefutable.
00:34:55.580So it's a really sad sign of how weak I mean, it's in a sense, a happy sign for me how weak the climate catastrophist fossil fuel eliminating position is.
00:35:07.580And with fossil future, I think I really show it to a new level.
00:35:10.580But you're just seeing the intellectual level of these people that they can't even they're calling baseless a total refutation of this article.
00:35:19.580And also, all of the climate activists who've commented on this, not one has defended me against the racism.
00:35:27.580They've all been gleeful or endorsing it.
00:35:30.580If any climate catastrophist, I guarantee you, was attacked as racist to discredit them on climate and it was totally bogus, I would be the first person to stand up and I would stand up against anyone on my side who did that.
00:35:42.580The fact that nobody on that side has stood up for me shows the low moral character that I've witnessed privately for years.
00:36:01.580Is there anything I might have missed regarding this issue that we haven't discussed, Alex?
00:36:07.580I think we can already learn a lesson from this.
00:36:10.580And I wanted part of the reason I spent time on this was I wanted to create a model for others to follow.
00:36:15.580And that is if you know you are the victim of a hit piece and you are asked for comment.
00:36:21.580Do not comment to the writer that is participating in the injustice.
00:36:25.580What you need to do is you need to preemptively and publicly refute and condemn the hit piece so that the story becomes there is a totally unjust hit piece against you, not the content of the hit piece.
00:36:39.580Now, this is only true if you're innocent.
00:36:41.580So this is not some people who get, quote, canceled.