Rebel News Plus is a new subscription service from Rebel that gives you access to all of our newest videos and shows, plus a new weekly show hosted by Ezra LeVant. Today's show is all about a heated debate about whether TV doctors should be exempt from public scrutiny when it comes to privacy questions.
00:00:00.500Hello, my Rebels. Today I tell you about a very strange Twitter flame war I was in yesterday.
00:00:06.180I dared to suggest a TV doctor who's always calling for harsher lockdowns.
00:00:11.240I dared to suggest that Citizen Journal's film him breaking the lockdown and send me the video.
00:00:17.960Oh my gosh, did that unleash a waterfall of rage, if there's such a waterfall.
00:00:25.120Well, I'll take you through it, show you the tweets in question, and compare it to other bounties for video of bad behavior that we have issued probably a dozen over the last year.
00:00:35.020I'll remind you of some of the highlights, including when we sent a drone over John Tory's house in Florida.
00:01:06.480Tonight, should journalists check if TV doctors actually follow their own strict lockdown advice, or should they be exempt from public scrutiny?
00:01:30.020It's December 22nd, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:32.720Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:38.820There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:42.880The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:52.980Here at Rebel News, we do journalism in the public interest.
00:01:56.420What I mean by that is that there is a democratic reason behind the stories that we cover.
00:02:20.920That's sort of instinctive, I think, for most viewers, I think.
00:02:25.020Most people are private people, including most doctors.
00:02:28.620By that, I mean they have a doctor-patient relationship, and it's really none of anyone's business.
00:02:34.220Certainly not any politician's business.
00:02:36.220But unfortunately, that private sphere has been punctured, invaded, and sometimes even destroyed by politicians and bureaucrats over the past two years.
00:02:47.560Things that just weren't anyone's business now suddenly are.
00:02:51.400I remember the saying that pro-choice people had about abortion back in the day.
00:02:56.040It's between a woman, her doctor, and God.
00:07:32.120Some were, but many were businessmen in suits and many were doctors.
00:07:37.080Now, I am not comparing Nazi doctors to COVID doctors.
00:07:41.440I'm comparing the use of their medical degree to make more palatable things that would otherwise engender our doubts or skepticism.
00:07:50.660In part because politics becomes disguised as science when a doctor says it.
00:07:56.100Because in part because politics is disguised as magic, as a deeper mystical knowledge about how things really work that you as a mere mortal don't know.
00:08:06.960So if a doctor says something odd or extreme, even, you must doubt yourself instead of doubting the doctor, because science says so.
00:08:19.160I mean, Fauci would have fit right in.
00:08:24.200To doubt him is to doubt science himself.
00:08:26.900So if you are trying to, you know, get at me as a public health official and a scientist, you're really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you're attacking science.
00:08:38.220That's why doctors have a code of ethics.
00:08:43.100That's why that code of ethics had to be shelved for them to be turned against their patients during the pandemic, turned against each other.
00:08:49.980That's why doctors are being bullied by the political doctors.
00:08:53.220The colleges of physicians and surgeons are punishing doctors who issue medical exemptions, even for excellent reasons.
00:10:14.660And really, I'm not sure if he even does a lot of medicine.
00:10:17.380There are dozens and dozens and dozens of media appearances there.
00:10:21.900I don't really know how you can actually have a full-time job and also be such a media hound.
00:10:27.320I notice a lot of what he does is spending his time calling people racist or the system racist, racist, racist, racist, which is sort of his shtick, which is weird, I think.
00:11:21.140The Omicron variant is so mild, it's like a cold.
00:11:25.560So I just tweeted in passing what I tweeted, all these blowhards, my skepticism that they even follow their own rules, that they practice what they preach.
00:12:06.700If you're the kind of man who would cheat on your wife and break your oath to her, you're probably not going to have a big problem breaking some dumb rule about social distancing or wearing a mask or whatever, right?
00:12:19.160I mean, if you would cheat on your wife, you're probably not too worried about following mask rules.
00:12:25.400I don't need to show you all the cases.
00:12:27.040We have done probably 100 stories on Jason Kenney and his Sky Palace party.
00:12:31.980Rod Phillips, the Ontario cabinet minister who went down to a luxury island in the Caribbean and pretended to be stuck back up here in snowy Canada with the proles.
00:12:44.180In fact, I did a search of my own Twitter feed.
00:12:47.400And, you know, for nearly two years, we've tried to catch politicians in action.
00:12:51.520We've even set up a special web page, FireTory.com, to fire the mayor of Toronto for cheating on his lockdown.
00:12:58.720We sent a drone crew to capture all the partying at John Tory's luxury home in Palm Beach, Florida, though he claims it wasn't him at the party.
00:13:07.300I mean, do you think the vice president of the CBC is staying in snowy Canada during the winter?
00:13:12.940No, they want you to, but they're all down in Florida where there's no mask rule.
00:13:43.600I said, attention, Peterborough, $5,000 cash bounty paid to anyone who sends me video of public health tyrant Dr. Thomas Piggott violating his own absurd, abusive, unscientific rules.
00:13:53.720Contact me in confidence at tips at rebelnews.com.
00:13:55.840So after Nahid Dasani told everyone to cancel their plans, I rather casually did what I've done a dozen times before.
00:14:46.280They're probably illegal or unconstitutional and good for them if they break the rules.
00:14:53.420And frankly, if there's a private person, including a private doctor, who has his own views on this one way or another, I don't really care.
00:15:02.340Like I said, that's private or it should be and it used to be.
00:15:05.940But this is a TV doctor, a fear-monger, someone who has made a career out of the pandemic.
00:15:21.240He's a public person and public people need to be publicly accountable.
00:15:25.260Well, holy moly, did that cause a firestorm from the entire lockdown class.
00:15:34.240And it was amazing to see them harmonize online.
00:15:38.020I mean, one of the first guys out, liberal party guy, here's a liberal party lockdownist, another public health guy who was a liberal candidate provincially.
00:15:46.660He was enraged that I would check to see if lockdownists like him follow their own rules.
00:15:53.060So I put a bounty on him, too, for breaking the rules.
00:15:57.380I mean, it is a bit conspicuous for all these fancy pants to be so outraged that someone would dare to check and see if they're walking the walk.
00:16:35.120I think they didn't really know what they were talking about.
00:16:39.220They were probably taking instruction from someone.
00:16:41.960I'm not sure what Manitoba has to say about a doctor in Ottawa and a pundit in Toronto.
00:16:48.060And you can see they were spun that that it was as if some private doctor was being abused as opposed to a TV doctor being held to account.
00:16:57.460It's not abuse to ask someone if they're following the rules and to film them breaking the rules in public.
00:17:04.360If they're a lockdownist, that's a public interest matter.
00:17:07.420If they're a public person and asking them to prove that it's not abuse, that's that's democracy.
00:17:12.000And by the way, here's a tweet of Nahid Dasani, the TV doctor, calling for the arrest of Chris Skye because Chris Skye walked into a mall without a mask.
00:17:26.220I think Chris Skye has a mask exemption.
00:17:30.900But in any rate, you've got a TV doctor watching a private citizen, Chris Skye, who's actually in the public, going in somewhere with a mask.
00:17:41.280And Nahid Dasani is calling for him to be arrested.
00:19:15.180It was quite interesting to see the merger of the public health deep state and the political deep state yesterday.
00:19:21.920It was fascinating to see the rulers versus the ruled.
00:19:26.580One thing the public health deep state, the political deep state has, they both want to be censored.
00:19:32.320They both asked Twitter to take down my account.
00:19:34.380The theme throughout was how dare you ask or inquire, let alone check, that the rulers are following the rules, that the TV doctors walk and walk.
00:19:50.200But he's not a private person in his TV pundit life.
00:19:53.700It's just a bit rich for the people who demand that you tell your own intimate details.
00:19:59.520As a private person, when you go to the gym or go to the restaurant or go to the barber or get on a plane or train, it's just a bit precious for them to suddenly care about privacy for political pundits.
00:20:12.400But again, just like the lockdowns themselves, they never really plan to subject themselves to the rules.
00:20:19.740I mean, Justin Trudeau, he flies on government jets and he eats wherever he wants and he goes wherever he wants.
00:20:27.380I'd be surprised if he even has a vaccine passport.
00:22:10.700Well, I follow the ups and downs of the U.S. military.
00:22:13.560And I got to tell you, for the last year or so, it's definitely been on the downswing, internal purges of anyone who's considered to be a MAGA-style Republican, forced vaccinations, which will get rid of many other conservatives or independent thinkers,
00:22:31.040And all sorts of woke and critical race theory and trans theory being taught instead of how to win a war.
00:22:39.460I saw the other day that there are new maternity wear for U.S. service women, even Navy ships, I think, with the exception of submarines or COAD.
00:22:50.520I'm not sure if that moves gender equality forward.
00:22:54.760That's certainly the explanation for it.
00:22:57.040But I don't know if it improves the fighting ability of the U.S. Navy when there's so many pregnancies on board that they actually have to develop an official maternity line for sailors to get preggers.
00:23:10.520In the meantime, while America gazes at its naval, China is on its, what, third or is it the fourth aircraft carrier that's being built?
00:23:19.520They have stealth technology fighters, most likely stolen from U.S. designs, but it doesn't matter how they got them.
00:25:23.740But, yeah, I mean, Taiwan is in a bad spot right now, and it doesn't seem to have the support that it really needs from America, because Biden is incredibly weak.
00:25:34.180China would not be this adventurous under Trump.
00:25:37.120They certainly scaled back their ambitions when Trump was in charge.
00:25:40.860And now, with Biden in charge, do they feel as if they can walk all over him?
00:25:51.180This is a quote, Taiwan is a long-lost son who will eventually return home, and the island nation, quote, should not be used as a pawn to serve others' agenda.
00:26:04.040They have explicitly, and by they I mean official propaganda outlets like Global Times, one of their English language propaganda outlets.
00:26:13.400There's videos coming out, again, from approved sources showing the invasion of Taiwan, threatening the invasion of Taiwan.
00:26:20.240President Xi himself might not have said it, but all the communist fronts are saying it.
00:26:25.500I'm worried they might try it, and they're up against Joe Biden, who showed his stamina in Afghanistan, didn't he?
00:26:59.740I don't think they can really count on New Zealand, because New Zealand is so intrinsically tied to China's economy right now.
00:27:06.220I mean, China owns most of its hospitals, for instance, so I don't think they'll want to bite the hand that feeds them.
00:27:12.180And I don't think Taiwan can expect to see any help from Southeast Asia either.
00:27:16.180You know, I don't want to be a warmonger.
00:27:19.340I think that America and the world are sort of reeling from a 20-year adventure in Afghanistan.
00:27:25.140And in that sense, I think withdrawing was right, although the catastrophic way that Biden withdrew, I think, is really the difference of opinion between him and others.
00:27:34.780If Taiwan falls, I mean, really, imagine you're in South Korea.
00:29:04.400But I think that it will happen if nothing counters it.
00:29:08.940And I think, and let me ask you this last question.
00:29:12.720Obviously, the lack of preparedness of the American military is an issue.
00:29:17.240But I think at the end of the day, American military is still mightier.
00:29:20.120But public mindset, when you've got Nike and the NBA and Disney and half of America trying to, corporate America, trying to woo China, boy, Facebook would love to get in there.
00:29:34.520Mark Zuckerberg actually asked Xi Jinping to name his own baby daughter.
00:29:38.440When you've got half of Silicon Valley begging to get into China, you're not going to have an honest discussion of the threat because everyone's looking to make a buck.
00:29:46.300I think that is the real strategic risk.
00:29:48.500Not that their aircraft carriers can beat America's aircraft carriers, but that America just simply won't fight because all the media elites are trying to make a buck.
00:30:02.740But apparently, in 2019, Amazon ran a propaganda campaign with the Chinese government that continues to be ongoing.
00:30:11.260Yes, indeed, they published a book by Xi Jinping.
00:30:15.240And they removed all the reviews because it got one four-star review.
00:30:18.860And they were like, no, you can't have this.
00:30:20.520So they removed the reviews on those books, the ones that they published.
00:30:23.680And they're working hand-in-hand with China.
00:30:25.480So there's Amazon.cn as a Chinese version of the website.
00:30:29.380And they managed to skirt past the typical bans that China imposes on foreign companies.
00:30:36.540Like Apple, for instance, has the same deal with China.
00:30:40.580I mean, it's recently been leaked that they've been working hand-in-hand with the Chinese government to provide training to their retail sector to help them build up their technology sector.
00:30:50.480And this is what Silicon Valley is doing.
00:30:53.840It's working closely with the Chinese government.
00:31:03.420It's not going to be in America in, you know, in 10 years' time.
00:31:06.440So they are just hedging their bets on China.
00:31:09.120And the way things are going with America and, you know, the whole build back better thing being a massive, massive failure, not to mention the fact that if it does pass, it's going to be even worse.
00:31:19.020Because China looks like a pretty good option if you're a multinational corporation.
00:31:24.240I did not know Amazon operated in China.
00:31:26.740I mean, I know that Facebook and Twitter don't.
00:31:29.680What a conflict of interest for Jeff Bezos, who also, of course, has a contract to provide database and servers to the CIA, if I'm not mistaken.
00:33:03.240But if you believe, as this racist ruling says, that math is a white thing and not a black thing,
00:33:08.440shouldn't you want black students to have the ultimate best teacher possible of any race to get the black kids up if that's the problem?
00:33:19.000But to say, no, no, no, no, it's more important that we don't discriminate against bad math teachers and to heck with the results for the kids.
00:33:26.720It shows the upside down nature of education.
00:33:29.820It's really about the teachers' unions.
00:33:33.740Greg M says, the level of mathematics complexity involved in setting up, administrating, marking, and then calculating the racial distribution of the math test is staggering.
00:33:45.020I am quite certain that no math teachers are involved.
00:33:47.980You know, I mean, over the course of school, sometimes kids would come to class who came from another country and their English was pretty weak.
00:33:59.040And every time, and that's tough, especially if you're in grade school and stuff.
00:34:04.420But every time I saw that, you know, those kids did the best in math because math is international, right?
00:34:11.420So the kids who have trouble with English, I'm thinking back to when I was in elementary school.
00:34:17.760And that was sort of their happy place because, you know, wherever they came from, whatever their ethnic or racial or national background, math is math is math.
00:34:26.540And it's sort of culturally independent.
00:34:30.620So the idea that you can call math or any hard science racial is insane.
00:34:39.660Jillian Davis says the one good thing that has come out of COVID is to show us in no uncertain terms just how compliant we all are, the ugly truth about the weakness of our society, how fragile our freedoms really are, and how government, media, and massive corporations have little to rein them in when we allow them to get as unwieldy as they have become.
00:35:01.700Yeah, I mean, I guess it is a good thing to have the truth revealed, sort of like if you have a little rust spot in your car.
00:35:27.180And let me leave you with a video of a day from our friend Lincoln Jay, who went out in the streets to ask, are vaccine mandates effective?
00:35:35.340Here's some folks in the dreary city of Toronto telling you what they think.
00:36:06.320Yeah, like I said, like, I think a lot of these policies need to be re-looked at because what we initially thought it was, you know, it's not that.
00:36:12.540There's no unvaccinated individuals working there.
00:36:19.940And I'll wait until the medical information is valid rather than hearsay and reading Facebook.
00:36:26.840I mean, yeah, they did get left out to dry because from what I heard, like, nurses were being fired if they weren't fully vaccinated, right?
00:36:33.180But then they were unvaccinated when they were providing, like, a really essential service.
00:36:48.220Lincoln Jay with Rebel News here at the Harbourfront in Toronto.
00:37:04.620Now, with vaccine workplace mandates in full effect, meaning that if you are vaccinated in certain sectors, you get to keep your job.
00:37:13.340If you choose not to disclose your vaccination status in certain sectors of work, you lose your job.
00:37:19.280Now, with all that being said, in the city of Toronto, there are currently police stations, fire halls that are dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks among fully vaccinated individuals.
00:37:31.740Anyone who's not disclosed their vaccination status does not enter the facility.
00:38:17.560And I also feel like rapid tests and everyone getting vaccinated in the entire world are very good ways of getting the spread of COVID under control.
00:38:26.800Vaccine mandates are important and everybody should be vaccinated.
00:38:30.880And I have no sense of view for people who protested.
00:38:36.080I honestly just think it's all a load of crap.
00:38:38.280Like, I don't, I, yeah, I just leave it up to God.
00:38:42.600I feel there's no other option and vaccination is a necessity.
00:38:48.460I mean, yeah, it is an individual's choice, but then it has to be enforced.
00:42:26.560Yeah, like I said, I think a lot of these policies need to be re-looked at because what we initially thought it was, you know, it's not that, right?
00:42:33.140So, I mean, the infection seems to be going through the population regardless of what your status is.
00:42:37.880So, the vaccine mandates on, you know, stopping restaurants or telling people they can't work anymore, it doesn't seem to make sense anymore.
00:42:44.840Well, it's definitely a very harsh measurement when it comes to, like, people who are not, or just simply now, they don't want to disclose their vaccine status, they're being terminated.
00:42:55.520That's definitely very, it's a pretty harsh method on, you know, the firemen and police officers.
00:43:41.240But at the same time, you know, there are people, the numbers are rising.
00:43:44.160So, like, you know, who knows, like, if we should be just keep going on like this or just, like, you know, or if we should be mandating, like, stronger vaccination system or whatnot.
00:43:53.420So, if the Omicron variant is going around, vaccinated people are getting it, unvaccinated people are getting it.
00:44:00.920People that were declared heroes throughout the whole pandemic, you know, works, no questions asked, such as police officers, firefighters.
00:44:07.220And some of those same people now are being pushed out of work, pushed out of the sector, left without pay, can't feed their families.
00:44:14.220And at the same time, the vaccinated are still getting and spreading the virus.
00:44:18.920So, do you think that maybe they should be put back on the forest?
00:44:22.020Do you still think they should be left out?
00:44:24.360I mean, yeah, I think, you know, they should be, you know, put, like, you know, they should be going back to the, you know, place definitely.
00:44:30.840Yeah, because, I mean, you know, they work really hard, right?
00:44:34.060I mean, so, yeah, they should be going back just that, you know,
00:44:36.100but at the same time, people got to be cautious, right?
00:44:38.300I think that's a bit harsh, what they've done.
00:44:40.860I think they could come up with something a little bit easier than that, because that's, I mean, everyone can make their own decisions.
00:44:48.060They have their own beliefs, but I don't think you should really lose your job over it, but they should come up with something.
00:45:47.460But if they're, you know, they sacrificed everything in, in the public's eye to be on the front line, you know, when there was no vaccinations going on at all.
00:45:57.260And now, simply because they decide not to disclose their vaccinations, they have families to feed, bills to pay, and they are just being left out to dry while vaccinated people are still spreading the virus.
00:46:08.680Why, why are they refusing to disclose their vaccination status?
00:48:20.720But at the same time, if they didn't get it before, you know, and they're considered heroes and stuff, and, you know, now they let go for some reason, why, right?
00:48:29.420Why would you not want to let go of them?
00:48:31.180But at the same time, they should also get vaccinated either way.
00:48:34.200I don't understand why anyone would not want to disclose that information.
00:48:38.440I don't understand why people think there's some kind of conspiracy over here.
00:48:51.460It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
00:48:54.140I think that governments, however good or bad we may think they are, are trying to do the best they can, and I support that.