“I wish I were kidding”： Trudeau’s Liberals blame Trump for anti-Semitism in Canada
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Trudeau's Liberals blame Donald Trump for anti-Semitism in Canada, says a Liberal MP. Does that mean that Donald Trump, who was born in 1946, is responsible for the 1939 decision by Canada s Liberal Party to turn away a ship of Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler?
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Tonight, Trudeau's liberals blame Donald Trump for anti-Semitism in Canada.
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It's November 8th and you're watching 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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You come here once a year with a sign and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my
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The news peg is this outrageous story in the state broadcaster.
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Trump and other politicians empower anti-Semitism in Canada, says Liberal MP.
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And you can see under that it says comments come as Trudeau prepares to apologize in-house
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for 1939 decision to turn away Jewish refugees.
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Now, does that mean that Donald Trump, who was born in 1946, is responsible for the 1939 decision
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by Canada's Liberal Party to turn away a ship of Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler?
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That seems to be even a stretch for even the CBC.
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Let me read one more line and I'll come back to this story in a moment.
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A Liberal MP, says U.S. President Donald Trump and other politicians who use intemperate language
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when referring to instances of racial discrimination or hate speech, are empowering anti-Semitism
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When people start saying that there were good people in a neo-Nazi rally at Charlottesville,
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when people start tolerating speech that attacked groups or communities anywhere in the world,
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it obviously empowers people here in Canada who hate to come forward and speak publicly
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of things that they would never have before said in public, Anthony Housefather told CBC News.
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In case you're wondering, Donald Trump is to blame for the rise of hate in Justin Trudeau's
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I bet Donald Trump was also even responsible for the fact that, you know, this guy, the
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old neo-Nazi named Ernst Zundel, I think he's dead now.
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You know, he ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party a few decades ago, and the Liberals
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I think that was a Trump plan also, that Trump and his racist time machine.
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Now, I think that the statement by this Liberal MP reflects the bigoted thinking of many people
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in the establishment in the United States and here in Canada, too.
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It certainly is the established view of the Liberal Party and of Justin Trudeau himself.
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And I think maybe this guy, Anthony Housefather, I think maybe he truly believes it in his bones.
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He's not just saying it as a partisan insult, an attack against his political enemy, which
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is how most accusations of racism are merely used.
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But let me read just one more line from this state broadcaster story.
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Housefather made the comments as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepared to deliver an apology
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in the House of Commons today for the Canadian government's 1939 decision to turn away a ship
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carrying 907 German Jews seeking refuge from the Nazi regime.
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The Quebec MP said it's his hope and expectation that Trudeau's apology will not only address
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the historical actions of the Canadian government, but confront contemporary anti-Semitism as well.
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I find it hard to accept that from a Trudeau liberal.
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Uh, and I find it hard to accept that he's genuinely concerned about Hitlerism mere weeks after
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Justin Trudeau ponied up $50 million of Canadian taxpayers' money to give to Hamas-controlled
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Canada gives $50 million to UN-Palestinian refugee agency that U.S. called FLAWD.
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Well, the schools are run by the Hamas terrorist organization, and as we showed you the other
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week in our interview with UN Watch, um, you see this post here?
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This is just one example of teachers and administrators in these schools literally posting their praise
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I'm not really interested in Justin Trudeau making another tearful apology about something
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that happened almost 100 years ago while he funds anti-Semitism and Hitlerism today.
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It's fake, this perpetual apology tour that he's on.
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Last week, he was apologizing for something done to an Indian band in British Columbia
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Trudeau is really, really good at apologizing for what other people in other eras did, isn't
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He just happened to bring along his staff photographer to capture that.
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You can see this picture is really about him being apologetic.
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I don't see any of the Indians there because they're not really the story.
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Hey, but by the way, he's not really so good at apologizing for his own conduct, is he?
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And in a way, that's really the only apology that really matters.
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I could spend all day apologizing for what you did and you did and you did.
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Now, I accept that anti-Semitism is on the increase in Western civilization.
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I think that is sometimes exaggerated by ambulance chasers, professional grievance groups like
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In the United States, the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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The Anti-Defamation League, which used to be a pro-Israel, pro-Jewish organization, now
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But despite those leftist hucksters and the hoaxers, I actually do believe anti-Semitism
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It's from a different source, a different text.
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And for some reason, Anthony Howe's father doesn't mention that.
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Maybe he's fine with that or maybe he's just scared to talk about it.
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And on the right, that is Louis Farrakhan, the leader of a black analog of the KKK called
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Now, for some reason, this photo, I don't know what the reason possibly could have been.
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It was not released until after Obama's second term was over.
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I think he just needed Jewish donor money too much to show his true colors until after
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Now, here's Louis Farrakhan, Muslim extremist, Democrat favorite.
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But those who have been our deceivers, they can't stand me.
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In fact, to the members of the Jewish community that don't like me, thank you very much for
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putting my name all over the planet because of your fear of what we represent, I can go
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anywhere in the world, and they've heard of Farrakhan.
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Don't you know, my teacher, Elijah Muhammad, taught me one day, he said there once was a
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And everybody came along, they picked up a stone and threw it at the donkey.
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They threw so many stones till the ditch got filled up and the donkey walked out.
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So my teacher said, brother, remember, every knock is a boost.
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So when they talk about Farrakhan, call me a hater.
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This was just a few months ago at Aretha Franklin's funeral.
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And they were happy to sit with him and pose for this photo.
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I can assure you that in most newspapers, they cropped out Bill Clinton.
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That's basically your black David Duke right there.
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Jews are fleeing France because of kidnapping and torture and murder and terrorism.
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Jews are fleeing France at a rate not seen since 1940.
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The same Muslim anti-Semitism is in the UK, too.
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Here, let's talk about America because Anthony Housefather, the MP from Montreal, is apparently
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They recently did a story with this unusual headline.
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It sounds like saying, is it safe to be gay in San Francisco?
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The answer is actually, Jews are getting attacked an awful lot in New York, but not by people
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I bet you Anthony Housefather reads it in Montreal because he's that kind of guy.
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Mark Molinari, commanding officer of the police department's hate crimes task force, told me.
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So not one anti-Semitic attack in all of New York was by a right-winger or some white supremacist
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You saw that thousand-person crowd in Detroit there.
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Sorry, it's Muslims or other radicalized black activists often or new immigrants.
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It's not your traditional right-wing domestic folks.
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I don't know if you remember Al Sharpton himself.
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He historically whipped up a riot against Jews in a neighborhood called Crown Heights.
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But it's tough to talk about black anti-Semitism.
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And that anti-Semitism has been within Trudeau's own Liberal Party these days.
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Trudeau's Muslim liaison, an MP and a junior cabinet minister, Omar al-Jabra, used to run
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That is a group that actively called for the legalization of Hamas and Hezbollah.
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I wonder why Anthony House's father didn't mention that.
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You know, Trudeau unveiled a memorial for the Holocaust in Ottawa, which is great, I think.
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But how do you manage to do that without having the word Jews or anti-Semitism anywhere in
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How do you memorialize the Holocaust without saying the word Jew?
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It's like having a museum about American slavery without saying the word black.
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You know, right at the top of a web page, you have that little URL, it's called, for
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As in Jeremy Corbyn, the truly anti-Semitic labor leader in the United Kingdom.
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Look at Jeremy Corbyn literally standing next to Hezbollah, a terrorist flag.
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You can make out the machine gun on the flag there.
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Oh, he also laid a wreath for Hamas terrorists, too.
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So this story, as outrageous as it is on the CBC, it was originally titled in a way to blame
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But some CBC political hygienists said, no, no, no, we're taking a run at Trump here.
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If you must leave in something about Corbyn, put those details way down at the bottom of
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But you can see the history of that piece, can't you?
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Donald Trump, whose daughter converted to Judaism and married a Jewish man and has Jewish kids.
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Trump, who moved the American embassy to Jerusalem.
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Trump, the most pro-Israel president in history, with the possible exception of President Truman,
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And by the way, the anti-Semite who shot up that Pittsburgh synagogue a couple of weeks
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ago, he was a Trump hater, just like Anthony Howe's father is a Trump hater, except the
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murderer in Pittsburgh thought Trump was too pro-Jewish.
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But both Howe's father and the murderer agree that Trump is evil.
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You know, I think sometimes city people think country people are more bigoted.
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Fancy people think the common people are bigoted.
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But don't you think that's a form of bigotry in itself?
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I put it to you that country people and severely normal people know more about city people or
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fancy people than the reverse, because all the media, so much of the culture is generated
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in the big cities, the big cosmopolitan liberal cities.
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We all have to know about Lena Dunham and Beyonce and Saturday Night Live.
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Every right winger, whether you're in a city or in a small town, you know about the liberals
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because we all have to watch their movies and their TV and their comedy.
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So we all had to watch this awful, awful joke that the fancy people laughed at.
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You may be surprised to hear he's a congressional candidate from Texas and not a hitman in
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By the way, the fellow with the patch, he's a former Marine who lost his eye to the Taliban.
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That Marine, by the way, won his election to Congress on Tuesday.
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But the grossest thing, you don't even know it watching it, that comedian himself, you're
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not going to believe this, he lost his dad on 9-11.
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But he's so full of hate for the guy who actually joined the military, actually fought against
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So that foolish, giggling comedian mocked the man's sacrifice.
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He went to fight the terrorists while that buffoon giggled at him.
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So yeah, like I say, we all know way too much about liberals.
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Can you give me one more minute for a detour on this?
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Look, there's a great quiz I think I've shown you before.
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It's by Professor Charles Murray, who wrote a book called Coming Apart.
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And if you go through the questions, there's 25 of them.
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The book really talks about how high-income, high-achievement people in our meritocracy,
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They live together, they work together, they get married together.
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So they're sort of self-selecting themselves away from the normies, from the normal people.
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But Professor Murray's point is that while they claim to be open-minded, they're not really,
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they don't know anyone who's not like them because they're all living in Manhattan or Hollywood
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or whatever, they may claim that they support working-class people, but they've never been
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They claim to be multicultural, but they actually don't, for example, have a single friend who
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Lots of interesting little questions in the quiz.
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During the last month, have you voluntarily hung out with people who were smoking cigarettes?
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For the elites, the answer isn't just no, it's no, said with disgust.
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I mean, cigars are sort of cool for fancy people, and pipes are totally hip, but cigarettes,
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In the last five years, have you ever gone fishing?
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I'm not going to go through the whole quiz, but I recommend you do.
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It just forces fancy people to realize that they really don't know a lot about how the other
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Now, it was written about America and the economic and class divisions there, but I think it's
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The wealthy liberal coastal elites who push left, that's the blue counties on this map,
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and those Neanderthal flyover country Republicans of the heartland, that's the red counties.
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That really is the narrative of the media, isn't it?
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It's not quite as bad in Canada, but it is here, too, and in some ways, it's worse.
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In the U.S., New York and Hollywood dominate the culture, but there's Dallas and Miami and
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Chicago and Seattle, and there's other places that counterbalance New York.
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Here in Canada, it's pretty much all Toronto, with a tip of the hat to Montreal when it comes
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It's sort of a tyranny from one town, some neighborhoods in that town.
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And my point about all this is so many of our cultural and political and media institutions
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are biased against Western Canada, the regions, the politics of those places, Christians.
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Not just consciously, like the CBC is, but often unconsciously, because the fancy people
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They literally have never been west of Hamilton.
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They don't know a single true Bible-believing Christian.
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They don't have a source of information other than the left-wing Toronto Star and the CBC.
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Republicans are not the party of anti-Semitism.
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Donald Trump is not whipping up anti-Semitism, other than the odd wacko who thinks Trump is
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We're not stupid enough to think that his crocodile tears about something he's apologizing
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for 80 years ago means that Trudeau is suddenly a friend of the Jews today.
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Not the guy who gave $10 million to a terrorist named Omar Khadr.
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And right-wingers are not the threat to the world's Jews today.
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Every radical mosque where Trudeau campaigns is.
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Every failed state that Trudeau dumps our foreign aid money on is.
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I'm concerned about anti-Semitism because I'm a Canadian and because I'm a Jew.
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Donald Trump is not the cause of anti-Semitism.
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Well, that is some homemade cell phone video footage of an effigy being burned in the United
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They have a tradition on Guy Fawkes Day to burn effigies, whether it's of political figures
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In this case, though, it was an effigy of a large apartment building called Grenfell Towers,
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where not too long ago in the United Kingdom, there was a terrible fire and more than 70
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And police, in fact, are considering charges, or perhaps have already laid them, we'll find
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out in a moment, against six people for, I think, the crime of laughing.
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The burning, the laughing, the arts and craftsiness.
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Joining us now to talk about this is someone who knows a thing or two about being arrested
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for telling a joke that maybe isn't to everyone's taste.
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I'm talking about the internet personality by the nickname Count Dankula, who you might
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recall trained his fiance's dog to raise a paw when he said, Heil Hitler, an off-color joke
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for sure, but he did it because he wanted to, you know, pull a prank on his loved one to
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He was prosecuted, convicted, and fined for that bad joke.
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Are you allowed to make bad jokes in the United Kingdom?
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Joining us now via Skype from the Glasgow area is Count Dankula, also known as Mark Meek.
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Did I properly retell the story of, I mean, I don't want to spend too much time on it,
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but you really are the world's expert at being prosecuted by police for telling a joke that
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Not everyone would find the joke funny, but it is a joke.
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At the end of the day, what I did was a joke, and I feel the exact same way about this Grenfell
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business with the gentleman that burned the effigy.
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And if people want to call it a bad taste joke, absolutely.
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The Grenfell incident is still quite fresh in a lot of people's minds, but them receiving
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condemnation for what they did, which they in fact did when the video was doing the rounds
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People were saying it's disgusting, it's horrible, it's abhorrent, and they were really, really
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attacking the act and the people involved, which is fine.
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That is just social consequences over what they did.
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But the fact that the police are now involved in this is something that is extremely frightening,
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because the only thing that they did was cause offence.
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That is the only thing I can imagine being the crime.
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And I think the thing that they may possibly have been arrested over, I don't know if it
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was the act itself, but it may be similar to my case, where, for example, me creating the
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video and starring in my own video, that wasn't the crime.
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It was the posting it online that the police treated as the crime.
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So it might be a case of that's why these men were arrested, because the video was posted.
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And I think the police might be trying to discover, out of the six men who were arrested,
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And I think the fact that all six of them are getting charged means that not one of them
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I can only imagine if you had a loved one who died in that fire, you think it would
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I mean, I suppose an analogy would be if you had the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center,
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if you burned them in effigy on Guy Fawkes Day.
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I can imagine a lot of Americans and a lot of people around the world would say that's
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And in fact, we do see examples of people wearing Osama bin Laden t-shirts, not so much
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And I think we can say that's odious, if that's our view.
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But to prosecute, to arrest and prosecute, you're telling me just before we turn the
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camera on that you have information that these men's houses were searched.
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There was even pictures and stuff like that as well.
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I think it may possibly have been the address that the video was filmed at.
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And the police were seen leaving the address with bin bags full of items.
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And most of the items looked like arts and crafts type stuff that they obviously used
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They even went through the guy's trash to actually gather more evidence.
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But the thing that bothers me with that is they're trying to prove that they, in fact,
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Now, I don't know if the building of the effigy and the burning of it itself is being treated
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Then if that is the case, then that is extremely worrying because that's something that they
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Well, and the thing, I mean, so many different parts is the laughing, the crime.
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I mean, if they cried about it or wailed about it and say, we remember you, we think of you,
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our hearts are with you, it would be bizarre to burn it, I suppose.
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Is laughing instead of crying the crime, as you say, is uploading it to the internet,
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which I'm sure they did to their own Facebook pages for their own friends to see.
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The fact that police, I mean, I know there's 23,000 jihadis in the United Kingdom that are
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being tracked, 3,000 of whom are being tracked by security forces 24-7.
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The fact that police are being pulled off of that work to search for arts and crafts and
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glue and cardboard and paper, that's an embarrassment to the United Kingdom.
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Mark, what do you, I mean, you're from the country that gave the world the Magna Carta.
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The rule of law was perfected in the United Kingdom.
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Freedom is a British inheritance that all of us in the colonies have.
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How do you feel about your country sending in SWAT teams to dig through garbage cans looking
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Whenever you used to hear people say, oh, we're living in a police state, we're living in a police state,
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you used to roll your eyes whenever you heard such comments, but now we're getting to the
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place where a lot less people are rolling their eyes, a lot of people are starting to believe
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I mean, this is just complete overzealousness by the police, but I don't blame the police
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themselves directly because they need to do what their higher-ups tell them.
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And from some of the active serving police officers that I've spoken to, they feel that
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their entire, you know, their entire job is now being treated as a joke.
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They want to go out and catch real criminals, but instead they find themselves arresting people
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over hurting people's feelings or over tweets and stuff like that.
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And it's the case of, actually, you know, the London crime, especially in regards to
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It's absolutely skyrocketing, but we've got the police wasting their time on stuff like
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I mean, I would rather, I would much rather the police go and investigate an attempted murder
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with a knife than a group of people having a laugh hurting someone's feelings.
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Like, that's, yeah, that just shows it's a complete, absolute waste of taxpayer money
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You know, I don't know if you saw it, but I've been following the Tommy Robinson case.
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There was, when Donald Trump came to the UK, there were pro and con protests, and maybe
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There was a pro-Donald Trump protest in London.
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It was smaller than the anti-Trump protest, of course.
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And some, and there was this little blimp that made fun of Trump.
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And it was sort of funny, but it was, you know, it was no big deal.
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Someone at the pro-Trump mini-protest had a Peppa Pig balloon.
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And they put, the mayor of London sat at Cannes' face on it, and police decided that that was
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And they literally charged the protesters on horseback.
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It's clearly a response to the baby blimp flown by the anti-Trump protesters the previous day.
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But the police decide that Peppa Pig crosses a line.
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It's just so odd that a Trump blimp is okay, but a Sadek Khan balloon isn't.
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Burning the Grenfell Towers an effigy is not okay.
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But burning, I don't know, Boris Johnson an effigy is.
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It's absurd that any jokes are being prosecuted, but it seems like it's always one side that's
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You'll notice that most of the time these laws are used against people that, you know,
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Most of the time it's people who are, you know, center right or even center that are
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I mean, like, for example, you get people that are like Antifa protests and everything
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sending, you know, death threats threatening to hurt people and stuff like that, and nothing
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I mean, we've even had several incidents all over the UK of Antifa acting violently,
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threatening people, throwing rocks, throwing bottles, all that type of stuff.
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But see, during the Free Tommy protests, when there was a few violent incidents, well, more
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The police grabbed every single person that was violent, and they've never done that with
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And that was the incident that proved to me that the police are operating with a bias.
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Anyone on the right needs to walk on eggshells.
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Anyone on the far left gets away with anything that they want to do, as long as it supports
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I think it was Orwell, I'm going from memory, who said, every joke is a little revolution.
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And I, because if you're laughing at something, you're probably laughing at some form of power,
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And on the other side, I mean, I know Solzhenitsyn was sent to the gulag for just making a joke
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And Ayatollah Khomeini said there is no, there are no jokes in Islam.
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There are some authoritarian doctrines that don't allow humor.
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I mean, I used to think of the United Kingdom as a place that was really safe for eccentrics.
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You know, there's sort of the lovable British eccentric and even British comedy was really
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goofy, whether it was Monty Python or whatever.
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Does that even, could you even have a Mr. Bean or a Monty Python anymore?
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See, if the Monty Python crew wanted to make the same jokes that they made now, they would
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They would be completely stripped from the movies.
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Like, for example, one of my all-time favorite movies, Blazing Saddles by Mel Brooks.
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Now, can you, can you imagine if Mel Brooks tried to release such a movie today?
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It would be absolutely annihilated by the media.
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We now live in a world where that type of comedy, it just can't exist anymore because
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And it's a case of even though people like us genuinely enjoy that type of comedy, we are
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not allowed to have it just in case it offends some other people.
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Well, I mean, you're making me remember as a kid watching Monty Python movies like The
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That, I mean, if you had sensitivities about the Christian faith, that would prick you.
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I mean, you could laugh along with it or you could not.
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But the idea that The Life of Brian could be made about The Life of Mohammed, it's unthinkable.
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No studio, no cameraman, no actors, no financiers.
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No one would dare do a movie like The Life of Brian about The Life of Mohammed.
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It's just, I feel like we've lost a little bit.
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Do you think that we're going to see more of this or do you think we're going to reach
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a breaking point where ordinary people say, the hell with it.
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I'm not going to bend the knee to this insane social control.
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But do you think someone more mainstream might just finally say, the hell with it.
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A lot of them, you've obviously seen it, especially with the Trump derangement syndrome among
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We've certainly got the exact same thing here where virtue signaling against the right
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is seen as a sort of way to score social points.
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Even though you see comedians doing it, even though they're technically damaging their own
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If they support such things, then what they're doing is basically removing their ability
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And like you said yourself earlier, things like satire and parody and comedy are very,
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very important because see if you do it against the state or any type of authority or any type
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of power, it almost delegitimizes their power a little bit.
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You know, it makes it seem like you can, you know, the jester was allowed to make jokes about
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But we are going down a path where that is now being stripped away.
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And it all starts with little baby steps, you know, like me, like with Grenfell.
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I mean, even in Saudi Arabia right now, they've just introduced a five-year sentence for satire.
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That's the path that we are heading towards just now.
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Yeah, you know, I said that would be the last word, but you said something so interesting.
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And I take your point, it made the king look human and gentle, but it also served an important
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role for the king because the jester could speak truth that everyone else was too cowardly
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He could say things to the king that the king needed to hear.
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So yes, it served the king's purpose to say, oh, look, you can make fun of me and I'm not
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going to kill you, or at least this one protected person, the jester.
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But the jester could also give the king the kind of feedback that he needed to hear to
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I think it served the king extremely well, like those slaves whispering in the ears of
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I think the jester served an important purpose for the health of the state.
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That's a free speech role that goes back centuries in the United Kingdom.
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Well, we've now arrived to the point where we're putting the jester in handcuffs.
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Listen, Mark, or Count Dankula, as you're known popularly on the web, it's great to talk
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And unfortunately, I get the feeling we're going to have to chat with each other more
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in the months ahead because the war on politically incorrect comedy is certainly not over yet.
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That is Mark Meakin, also known as Count Dankula, who's a fighter for free speech,
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having been a victim of a political prosecution himself.
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On my monologue yesterday about the results of the midterm elections in America, Robert
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Well, Trump was joking a bit about that in his press conference that some of his worst critics
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They thought they would get slaughtered in the blue wave.
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I think it truly is Trump's Republican Party now.
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Thanks to this show, I feel better about the midterm elections.
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Like you pointed out, Ezra, presidents usually lose big in midterms.
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This was sort of a half and half victory where Trump lost some battles while winning others.
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And also, like you said, 2020 is a crucial election.
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I hope and pray the Democrats totally lose it in every possible way.
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For the next two years, there's going to be bad news coming out of this election.
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You're going to see all sorts of ginned up investigations and subpoenas and hearings into Trump and the Trump organization and every conspiracy theory that Michael Avenatti can cook up.
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You throw enough mud at the wall, something's going to stick.
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But, as I said yesterday, that's what Kavanaugh was all about.
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So you're going to have a foil to Donald Trump now.
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And I really don't think she's beloved by independence in America.
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Maxine Waters, some of these far left, the kind of people who hang out with Louis Farrakhan.
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They're going to have the mic a lot more in the next two years.
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And if they stay on their track, if they actually live down to Donald Trump's motto, jobs versus mobs, if they really do consort with mobs, encourage mobs, act like a mob themselves, I think that could backfire on them in 2020.
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It's the most exciting political time in a generation, I think.
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But underneath the entertainment, I actually think he's got ideas.
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Ideas on immigration, ideas on foreign policy, on trade, ideas on the limits of government, ideas on states' rights.
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There's a lot of things he actually, you know, people say Trump is all about style.
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I mean, look at yesterday with his press conference, how that's all the media would talk about themselves, themselves, themselves, and how they relate to Trump.
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But under the bluster, you must admit that from an idea point of view, he's been a very substantive president.
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I suppose they're hanging on to Obama's Iran deal, but not even, I don't know.
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Can you tell me where the Democrats are on trade?
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Can you tell me where they are on, okay, they're against energy and they're for racial identity.
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But I put it to you that Trump actually is an ideas president with a clear foreign policy, a clear domestic policy, clear immigration policy.
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And I think it's going to be a hell of a ride for two years.
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I promise you we'll give you coverage of it that you will not find anywhere else in this country.
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The only journalist in the country who regularly writes about Trump with any sort of fairness other than the rebel is our friend Conrad Black.
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And he's a lonely voice in Canada on that regard, even at his own former paper, a paper he formerly on the National Post.
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On my interview with Joel Pollack, Liza writes,
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His arm came down on that girl as she reached for the mic.
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He had no business touching her in an attempt to block her.
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Yeah, if you if you slow down that video, Jim Acosta of CNN, you know, there was a White House intern reaching for the mic and he pushed it down twice.
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It surely didn't hurt her, but he pushed her away.
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You just don't do that when you're a grown man in someone else's house called the White House, someone else's event.
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And, you know, you don't have to respect Donald Trump as a man, but I think you do have to respect the presidency as an office.
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The reason all those people were gathered in that room, as they do all the time when Trump has a press conference, is not because of Trump himself.
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That's what makes it so unpredictable and entertaining and riveting.
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But they're actually there because of the office itself.
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And that that's why people in that room are wearing suits and ties to show respect for the office itself.
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If there were a journalist in Canada that refused to give the mic back, that kept shouting at the prime minister after he was done, he would be depersoned, unplanned.
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Well, he wouldn't even dream of criticizing Trudeau in the way that Acosta criticized Trump.
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I always like to talk a little bit about Remembrance Day on the day.
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But this year I'll be back on a Monday, the 12th.
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And I think I'm going to talk about Remembrance Day tomorrow.
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My tradition is I read the poem called Tommy Atkins by Rudyard Kipling.
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But there's also a song that makes me sad, which I think is how you should feel on Remembrance Day.
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Not the whole thing because it's a little bit long.
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And so tune in tomorrow for some Remembrance Day talk.
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Until then, on behalf of Wallace here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.