Is singer Bryan Adams racist for swearing at China？ The CBC thinks so
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Is Brian Adams' anger at the Chinese wet markets racist, as the CBC says, or are they just running another errand for the Chinese Communist Party? I'll show you the proof. Before I do, let me invite you to become a Rebel News Plus subscriber. It's 8 bucks a month, get the video version of the show, and you help us stay strong.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I talk about Brian Adams and his anger at the Chinese wet markets.
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Is that really racist, as the CBC says, or are they just running another errand for the Chinese
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Communist Party? I'll show you the proof. Before I do, let me invite you to become a Rebel News
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Plus subscriber. It's eight bucks a month. Get the video version of the show and you help us
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stay strong. So just go to rebelnews.com and sign up there. Okay, here's the podcast.
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Tonight is Brian Adams racist for swearing at China. The CBC thinks so. It's May 12th,
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and this is the Ezra LeVant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon
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consumer? I know. There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing
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I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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You know Brian Adams, right? The great Canadian, easy-listening rock star whose 80s hits like
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Run to You and Summer of 69 made him a CanCon staple. He's led an interesting life. He's become
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an accomplished photographer, too. He lives in London, mainly. He's 60 years old now, but
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he looks great. I think he would pass for 40, and he still does concerts. And obviously, like everyone
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else, he has had his concerts canceled because of the pandemic. So he took to Instagram to rant a bit.
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He played his guitar and sang a song, but he typed out these words right next to it.
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Cuts like a knife. A song by me. Tonight was supposed to be the beginning of a tenancy of gigs
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at the Royal Albert Hall, but thanks to some effing bat-eating, wet-market-animal-selling,
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virus-making, greedy bastards, the whole world is now on hold. Not to mention the thousands that have
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suffered or died from this virus. My message to them, other than thanks an effing lot, is go vegan.
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To all the people missing out on our shows, I wish I could be there more than you know.
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It's been great hanging out in isolation with my children and family, but I miss my other family,
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my band, my crew, and my fans. Take care of yourselves, and I hope we can get the show on
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the road again soon. I'll be performing a snippet from each album we were supposed to perform
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for the next few days. Love, song from isolation, COVID-19, band, wet markets, self-isolation,
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Brian Adams, cuts like a knife, go vegan. So just to point out the obvious, he doesn't say anything
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about race. He doesn't even say the word China. And he mentions the victims of the virus,
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which obviously includes Chinese victims. And probably, in fact, if we ever do find out the
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statistical truth that the Chinese Communist Party is covering up, it will likely be that China had
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the most victims from the virus in the world. When Brian Adams said greedy bastards, I don't know who
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exactly he meant, but I know what he meant by bat eating. He meant some of the more gross and
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dangerous cuisines in China. And by wet markets, he meant the same places where wild animals, both
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alive and dead, are sold for food in China. A dozen years ago, I walked through a wet market
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in Shanghai, and the air was so thick with animal dust and dander and the smells of a thousand
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things, I couldn't walk through it fast enough. I almost choked. Maybe that's me being a privileged
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prissy. I hold my nose when I go to a chicken farm or a pig farm or a cattle feedlot in Canada. They
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don't smell like daisies, but you generally don't have the entire chain of food production, including
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eating it right under the same roof, in the same room. We use the phrase from farm to fork. You're
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not sitting there in the cow pens, pig pens, eating. I think that's what he was ranting about,
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because he's been a vegan, which is a hardcore form of vegetarianism. No milk or cheese even.
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He's been that for decades. If you were a vegan, you would go berserk in China. There are a lot of
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foods that I imagine people learned to eat from sheer starvation. It's the largest, hungriest
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country in the world. Probably always has been the largest going back centuries. If it's between a
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famine and eating anything with calories in it, you eat. I think of traditional Jewish foods that I
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learned to love as a kid, and looking at them objectively, they're just European poor people food
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making do with things that are actually sort of awful. There's a Jewish kind of haggis. You know what
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haggis is? Well, there's a Jewish version called kishka. You don't eat that if you have other
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choices. But if you don't have other choices, you eat what you can, and you say, hmm, this is great.
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Maybe that's what happened. But China could probably lay off eating bats now. That country doesn't face
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starvation anymore, thank capitalism. So is Brian Adams being racist? Of course not. Is he mad at China?
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Of course he is. And you should be too. Is Brian Adams mad at the Chinese race? Of course not.
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He's mad at the Chinese government, the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese virus, and the bat
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eating theory that the Chinese government itself has promoted. So I suppose in that one way, he's
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critical of an aspect of one expression of Chinese culture, these wet markets. But I know a lot of
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Chinese people, mainly here in Canada, but around the world too. And I'm pretty sure that not a single
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one of them ever ate a bat. Brian Adams is not smearing them. He's shouting at the sky because of what
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happened, as are all of us, including many Chinese people both here and there. Well, you know we're
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returning to a sense of pre-pandemic normalcy when the CBC state broadcaster decides that his Instagram
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post is worthy of a racial witch hunt. It's gross. It's not real journalism. It's outrage porn. It's
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activism. It's part of the CBC's agenda to excuse the Chinese Communist Party and to paint critics of
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the virus as racist. But in a way, it's good to see that things are returning to normal. I drove to work
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today and for the first time in nearly two months, it was a traffic jam in Toronto. A traffic jam as
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in people are done with the pandemic panic. Anyways, cue the outrage police. They're back too.
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They weren't really working these past two months, but they've certainly been paid these past two
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months. The CBC, how is that possibly an essential service when literally 99% of Canadians don't watch
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CBC news? Seriously, how in the age of a million YouTube channels, hundreds of cable channels,
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Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, Disney+, Crave, whatever, there's a new streaming service every week, Quibi?
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How does the CBC still manage to liberate $1.5 billion a year from taxpayers for content no one wants,
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no one would pay for on their own? Well, obviously, by serving Justin Trudeau's interests, by stoking outrage
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at anyone who dares to challenge Trudeau's liberal narrative. That's worth $1.5 billion a year to Trudeau.
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Well, you bet it is. So here's their stab at Brian Adams. Brian Adams's Instagram post draws rebukes
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from Chinese-Canadian organization social media users. Warning, the story contains offensive
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language. Oh, did Brian Adams swear? Did he use a racist word? He didn't swear at Chinese people. He
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didn't use a racist word, but the CBC wants to hype this up a bit. Look at that construction of the
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headline. Some social media users are mad. I got a bit of a secret for you, and maybe you already
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know it. Some social media users are always mad at something because you've got, I don't know,
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2 billion people around the world on Facebook alone, and everyone has a comment on something. So
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that's not really the definition of news, but it's a trick that weak journalists use when they want to
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gin up a story and don't really have a lot to go on other than their own opinions. They want to turn
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it into news, just like when the CBC went after the Epoch Times newspaper. They literally quoted
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one woman, a liberal woman in BC, who simply said she thought the Epoch Times was racist or something,
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even though she is white and the Epoch Times is an ethnically Chinese newspaper. That random person
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from BC was not an expert or an authoritative source on China, racism or anything. She was just
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literally one out of 37 and a half million Canadians who said something. The CBC then turned into
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Canadians upset. That was their headline. Yeah, a more accurate headline would have been Canadian
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upset. It's the same fake news here. A prominent Chinese Canadian activist said she is shocked,
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disappointed, and angry about an Instagram post on Canadian singer Bryden Adams' official account
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that she and others say is racist. Oh, so this time it's a prominent woman, not just some random
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person like in their Epoch Times smear. I wonder who that prominent person is. I can hardly wait to find
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out. I like following prominent people. The post contains a snippet of Adams singing his hit song,
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Cuts Like a Knife. An accompanying description expresses his frustration that COVID-19 related
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restrictions have led to the postponing of three shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England.
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Okay, I'm waiting for the racist part still. Tonight was supposed to be the beginning of a
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tendency of gigs at Royal Albert Hall, but thanks to some effing bat-eating wet market animal-selling
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virus-making greeting bastards, the whole world is now on hold, the post read.
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Again, my message to them, other than thanks and effing lot, is go vegan. Okay, so I guess
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that's the offensive language part is pro-vegan swear. So where's this prominent person I was
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promised? Oh, here. Amy Go, the president. Wow, that's pretty, that's very senior. The president of
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the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice called the post racist and believes it
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could stoke hate to the Chinese Canadians. Quote, people look up to public figures. He is seen as an
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idol by many, Go said. It justifies his racist hatred against Chinese. This is so irresponsible,
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just so, so, so, so racist. You know it's very racist because she said so four times.
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As the coronavirus pandemic has spread, many have raised concerns about growing anti-Asian and anti-Chinese
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racism in Canada with reports of anti-Asian hate crimes on the rise in Vancouver, including physical and
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verbal attacks. Okay, Amy Go, I guess, is the prominent person we were promised. I had never
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heard of her. Have you? I know plenty of prominent Chinese Canadians. There are plenty of Chinese
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Canadians in high stations in life in Canada, in business, in politics of every party. Amy Go,
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Amy Go. Doesn't ring a bell. How about that group, the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social
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Justice? Have you ever heard of them before? They're prominent. The CBC just said so, so it's
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got to be true. Now, I found their website. It looks like the organization was just invented a few
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months ago. They announced they were formed, and then they only had a couple of small notices until
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this year. They're literally a new creation. They had a student panel at a law school, co-sponsored
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with someone else. That's all they pretty much did in 2019 at the very end, until the Chinese
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virus came to Canada in January, when they started piping up, calling everyone racist who complained
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about the pandemic. Seriously, I went through their entire website. There wasn't a substantive
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thing they did until just three days after the first virus patient came from China to Canada. In
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February, they submitted a paper to a parliamentary committee calling Canadians racist. And then their
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big thing, before the virus shut down the whole world, was they took to the streets of Toronto
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dressed in a virus-style hazmat suit, handing out hand sanitizer, saying to stop the spread of
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racism. And they set up a website promoting that stunt. I'd be scared if someone came up to me in the
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streets in a hazmat suit. Very creepy, very Chinese state propaganda-ish. So not so much concerned
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about the virus, but pretty concerned about fighting racism. Okay, it's weird. They sound
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like Chinese state propaganda, though. In fact, they have a video clip on their website of China's
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man in the WHO calling everyone racist. Remember this?
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It's so painful to see the level of stigma we're observing. Of course, we're human beings. We're not
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angels. We make mistakes. But at the same time, we can make rational decisions too. And we can have the
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right attitude and behavior. The stigma is more dangerous than the virus itself.
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Okay, so who funded this whole thing that was created out of nowhere? I couldn't tell. There was
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no About Us section on their homemade website. But if you scroll right down to the bottom, you find a link
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to the brand new organization I mentioned before. And you see something called Hive. I'd heard of
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that. That's a professional ad agency. Pretty fancy, pretty pricey. So you have an online group that was
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just created a few months ago, really didn't do anything of note until the virus came. And then they
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go from zero to launching a full-blown ad agency-constructed propaganda campaign, not public
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health information about the virus, but a political campaign to demonize Canadians as racist by nature.
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It's produced by a costly ad agency. We have no info on either the campaign website or the organization's
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website about who their funding comes from, who runs it, including whether they take foreign funding,
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including whether they take funding from the Chinese embassy or from the China-run World Health
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Organization. Isn't that odd? Now, the CBC didn't mention that, did they? They didn't mention any of
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that. They called them, what did they say again? A prominent Chinese-Canadian activist. Really?
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Prominent. You know, you can find my email address and phone number on the internet with a quick Google.
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I got about 10 email addresses. They all really do come here. I got staff helping read through. You can
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contact me in about five minutes if you tried, and I'm not that prominent. So I tried to contact this
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very prominent person, very famous, very credible, definitely not just some random person, and
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definitely, for sure, absolutely not just a paid propagandist for a Chinese political organ. Never,
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never, no, no. So, so, so. She absolutely came up with the money for this fancy ad agency by herself.
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It's Bryan Adams who needs investigating for being against eating bats, the racist.
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Is the CBC being used as a tool by a foreign government again, meddling in Canadian politics,
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spreading disinformation? They sure seem to be in their recent smear against the Epoch Times.
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And one of the journalists in this Bryan Adams story, Katie Nicholson, was in on that Epoch Times
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smear too. But can I ask a question? Has there actually been a wave of anti-Chinese racism in Canada?
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I don't mean anti-China, the country. I mean anti-Chinese, the ethnicity, the race. Well,
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the CBC cites a few examples over the course of the last 90 days in our huge country of 37.5 million
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people. They say, as the coronavirus pandemic has spread, many have raised concerns about growing
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anti-Asian and anti-Chinese racism in Canada, with reports of anti-Asian hate crimes on the rise in
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Vancouver, including physical and verbal attacks. And that's what the Toronto Star says too,
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so you know it's true. They wrote about the creation of this prominent PR group. They actually
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wrote about Amy Goh. Look at this. They said, Chinese organization launches stop the spread of
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racism campaign amid coronavirus outbreak. Okay, so this story was from March 3rd. Amid a marked uptick
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in harassment complaints from the Chinese community, a national organization launched a campaign Tuesday
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to combat a different kind of sickness, coronavirus-inspired xenophobia. You still hear
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comments from people on the street saying, oh, I'm fine because I stayed away from Chinatown,
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Amy Goh, interim president of Chinese-Canadian National Council for Social Justice, said in an
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interview, hmm, very prominent woman. I heard all about her in the CBC. Everyone's talking about Amy Goh.
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I just can't find her phone number or email anywhere because she doesn't, I guess she's only prominent
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to the people who will write a story along her narrative. She says anti-Asian bigotry is a huge
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thing. Now, I hope that's not true. Is it true? I read the whole Toronto Star story. Here's what they
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say. Complaints have been heard across the greater Toronto area. On February 2, a woman entered a flower
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shop in the upper beaches and went on a racist tirade after asking the owner whether he had traveled
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to Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak. On Feb 19, Toronto police charged a man after he
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allegedly harassed and assaulted a woman wearing a medical mask on a TCC bus in downtown Toronto.
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Police wouldn't say whether the incident was race-related. In late January, the owner of Wuhan
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Noodle in Markham said the restaurant had lost two-thirds of its customers after being flooded with
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racist comments on social media and prank phone calls following a viral post on the popular
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Instagram page 6buzzTV. All right, asking someone if they went to Wuhan, I guess that could be asked
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in a racist way in the flower shop case. But I think it is a question. Tens of thousands of people
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did fly from Wuhan to Canada. Maybe the question in the flower shop was asked rudely. But those are
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actually official questions that border police ask anyone flying in to Canada. It's to check for the
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virus. That's where it came from. Wuhan Noodle that lost two-thirds of its customers back then.
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David Menzies went to Wuhan Noodle in February. I'm not sure if it's racist to stay away from Wuhan
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Noodle. I'm guessing most of their customers were Chinese ethnically, and they just didn't want to go
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out to restaurants anymore. Canada's now shut down all of our restaurants pretty much. So can other
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restaurants cite racism? Or is it only the one named after the virus's epicenter that
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can cry racism? And the second example there, they cite that above the TTC bus, but they admit the
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police didn't say it was racist. But I guess the star needed more than two weak examples to show a
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trend. And that's it. Look, I'm glad there's no racist wave in Canada. I'm really glad. Stop trying
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so hard to make one. Folks, do you think Canada's racist? Do you think that anyone, and I mean 99.999%
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of people think this virus is somehow a racial or ethnic thing, as opposed to simply having come
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from China? I mean, China's toughest critics are ethnically Chinese people. They're not racist.
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They just hate the Communist Party of China. Being against the Soviet Union wasn't anti-Russian
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bigotry. It was being anti-communist. The first victims of the Soviet Union were its own citizens.
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Same with Communist China today. This is a fake story in the CBC. Of course it is.
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Maybe there's a tiny tidbit that Brian Adams is mad at having his venue canceled and mad at people who
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eat bats because he's a vegan and he finds that gross. That's a small entertainment story. But the
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CBC turned this into a huge story, a political story, and they quoted the one and only prominent
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Amy Goa's proof. I love that. Prominent critic. No one's ever heard of her. She's got a pop-up fake
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astroturf group, political group that was inactive until just a couple months ago, but seems to have
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scads of money to hire pro-ad agencies. Is the CBC pulling another trick here? I try to find Amy Goa.
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There's no contact info for her. Maybe I should put a call into the Chinese consulate. I wonder if they
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know how to get a hold of the prominent Amy Goa. I wonder if they're the ones who served up this story
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to the CBC. It certainly serves the interests of Communist China, just like the CBC smear in the Epoch
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Times did. Oh well. Brian Adams made another Instagram post in the wake of the kerfuffle. I'll
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read it to you. Into the Fire, title track from the same album. Apologies to any and all that took
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offense to my posting yesterday. No excuse, I just wanted to have a rant about the horrible animal
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cruelty in these wet markets being the possible source of the virus and promoting veganism.
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I have love for all people and my thoughts are with everyone dealing with this pandemic around
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the world. Here's the appropriately titled song that would have been performed tonight at the
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Royal Albert Hall. And he's still saying ban wet markets and go vegan. Yeah, I'm not sure if he
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even needed to do that apology. I don't even think it was a real apology. It was the same answer if you
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were offended. I don't think anyone thought for a moment that Brian Adams is a racist because he's mad
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about the virus. I don't think the CBC thinks he's racist. And I don't think the CCP, the Communist
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Party of China, thinks he's racist. I don't even think Amy Goh thinks he's racist. I think they all
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just want to promote a narrative. The CBC, the CCB, and Amy Goh. The Canadians are racist. And that to
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be mad about the virus is racist. And to hold the Chinese Communist dictatorship to account is racist.
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That's the only way this fake news story makes sense. Which is probably why, true though,
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CBC state broadcaster is at the center of it. Stay with us for more.
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Seriously, you guys have a park. You live in the middle of a park. You don't need to
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not essentially travel to Brooklyn. Come on, you won't even open roads for people of all backgrounds.
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I'm not going to give it a break. This is selfish behavior. This is so terribly selfish.
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You call yourself a progressive, but you chauffeur yourself to Brooklyn.
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You force people to drive you. Thank you. Well, that's New York's Mayor Bill de Blasio being
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heckled by a citizen for breaking his own rules about traveling and social distancing. Of course,
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de Blasio set up a snitch line to be used on the little people. He didn't think it would be used on
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himself. He's got a bit of a double standard that way. He loves to go to the gym, likes to go out for
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a coffee, but he has a particular hatred for, I don't know, a particular ethnic community.
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My message to the Jewish community and all communities is this simple. The time for warnings
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has passed. I've instructed the New York Police Department to proceed immediately to summons
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or even arrest those who gather in large groups. This is about stopping this disease and saving lives,
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period. That's pretty weird to group all one million New York Jews together. He's tired and furious with
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the Jewish community, and he's going to send the police after them. That's not a good look, Bill.
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That's not a good look, Bill. Well, I know one New Yorker who won't stand for this, who won't stand
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for her civil liberties being pushed away by some hardcore left-wing mayor. You probably know who I'm
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talking about. It's our old friend Pamela Geller, and she actually filed a lawsuit against Bill de
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Blasio, and she joins us now. Pamela, great to see you. It's wonderful to be back, Ezra. Thank you for
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having me. Well, it's our pleasure. Now, you don't just act as a commentator on the news. You get involved
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and do stuff. You're an activist, too, and I have in front of me your lawsuit filed recently where you
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were the plaintiff. You're suing Bill de Blasio individually and in his capacity as mayor, and you're suing
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Dermot Shea, the police commission. Now, why don't you tell us a little bit about the lawsuit and what you
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hope to achieve? Well, the lawsuit challenges Mayor de Blasio, his recent edict that the First Amendment no
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longer applies in New York City, that you can no longer peacefully assemble. You can no longer peacefully
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protest. Imagine that. And this past weekend, by the way, peaceful protesters were arrested,
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and too many left-wing progressive politicians like Mayor de Blasio see this current panic as an
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opportunity to impose draconian restrictions on our fundamental rights and liberties. His latest effort
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is the most egregious that we have seen, the suspension of the ability to protest, the banning of protesting.
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It's unfathomable that a government official, his thirst for power would go this far, and he needs to be stopped,
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Well, I always heard, because I watch CNN and read the New York Times, that the man who was going to take away
00:24:43.560
our civil liberties, the Nazi-like man in 2020, was Donald Trump. And yet I've seen no efforts by him to censor the
00:24:53.940
press to stop protest, to crack down on anyone. And I have to ask, Pamela, if these same rules being
00:25:00.760
enforced by Bill de Blasio, a hard left-wing Democrat, were imposed by any Republican, let alone Trump,
00:25:09.540
I have to think that New York would be the center of the resistance. It's where all the woke journalists
00:25:14.820
are, it's where Vox and the New York Times and every wannabe media star, it's the media headquarters of the country,
00:25:24.600
the liberal headquarters of the country, it voted, I don't know, 90% Democrat.
00:25:30.160
Why are all these civil libertarians fine when it's a Democrat who's putting handcuffs on them?
00:25:37.760
Because it's rights for me, but not for they. This is the left. The media is engaging in fear,
00:25:46.480
pornography, and panic incitement. I was actually heartened today when I thought of the German,
00:25:53.500
the number one newspaper in Europe, Bill, had said the lockdowns must end. We're seeing the opposite
00:26:00.260
here. We get fear-mongering extraordinaire. No one is discussing the fact that, for example,
00:26:07.700
the median age of the corona death is 82. No one's discussing the fact that it is not a danger
00:26:16.460
for children. No one is discussing the fact that half of the deaths were in nursing homes,
00:26:23.040
or the fact that our governor, New York City Governor Cuomo, sent corona-stricken seniors to
00:26:31.500
nursing homes. Can you imagine if instead of sending corona-stricken seniors to nursing homes,
00:26:37.560
thereby infecting how many elderly people and sentencing them to death? Because as you know,
00:26:44.380
the most vulnerable are the elderly with comorbidities. Imagine if he put everybody on that cocktail of
00:26:51.540
hydrochloroquine, Zithromax, and zinc. I think the number in New York would have been half.
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Now, here again, there has been no criticism in the media of Governor Cuomo. None. No criticism,
00:27:04.240
really, of de Blasio. It's incredible. The subways were filthy. They were disgusting. You couldn't take
00:27:11.220
them. The essential workers, of course, because let me tell you something about the rich people in New
00:27:16.240
York City. They're gone. They went to their second homes. We have to see these Instagram pictures of
00:27:22.800
them laying by the pool, the horror of laying by the pool and being served lemonade. It is distressing
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to me. I am a New Yorker, born and bred my whole life. I love this city, and I don't recognize it.
00:27:35.720
It is the most servile. If you look at the country, there are protests and there are demonstrations
00:27:42.380
in support of freedom, you know, protesting these shutdowns because they are draconian and they're
00:27:48.840
wrong and they're imposing on our unalienable rights. And in New York, there has been nothing.
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Nothing. You know, when it's nice out, they go to the park and then they go home to their lockdown.
00:28:04.980
And at seven o'clock, it's like Oshkosh, Bogosh, Wisconsin here. People open their windows and they
00:28:11.340
bang pots. I'm not, I mean, I wince when I hear it. It really makes my skin crawl, but that's their
00:28:17.140
action. At seven o'clock, woo, woo, woo, woo. I don't know. What are they woo-wooing? I don't know
00:28:21.880
what they're wooing, but everybody is hiding. And I think it's, I think it's grotesque. Older people,
00:28:30.060
especially people with comorbidities should be, should shelter in place for their own safety,
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but their entire generation of millennials and Gen Xers to be sacrificing their future because they
00:28:43.440
are. Everyone thinks you're going to what? It's all going to be okay when a vaccine comes? There's
00:28:48.860
going to be nothing left. These jobs won't be there. And so sometimes you need to be the person
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to go out into the street and scream. And that's what this lawsuit is. The idea that he has banned
00:29:00.840
protests. You have to understand that in Michigan, those protests played a role. In Whitmer, Governor
00:29:08.980
Whitmer, who also had imposed draconian measures, she was forced to pull them back because of the
00:29:15.200
protests. And here in New York, you can't do it. Well, let me ask you about the domino effect or
00:29:23.040
people looking at other states and saying, hey, how come they get to open up and we don't? Because I
00:29:29.580
know that you have 50 states in the union and a lot of these decisions are made at the state level.
00:29:35.720
Some are even made at the city level. And there were some places I saw Senator Ted Cruz going to
00:29:40.880
get a haircut at the hair salon where the owner had actually been thrown in jail a couple of days
00:29:48.760
earlier by a judge. That created such a backlash reaction. The Texas Supreme Court freed her. And I
00:29:54.660
think that was sort of a breaking point where Texas said, all right, we've had enough of this.
00:29:58.540
At what point do New Yorkers say, hey, hang on, how come Florida gets to go back and Texas and other
00:30:08.840
parts? Like, will there be a group of New Yorkers, maybe not the wealthiest who think this is one big
00:30:15.680
pajama party, maybe not people who are getting their salary in any event, but the working class who say,
00:30:22.040
I simply have to work. And if they can work in Miami and if they can work in Dallas, I can work in Manhattan.
00:30:31.200
Well, I do predict an exodus out of this city. I honestly do. And if Wall Street, you know, there was a time
00:30:39.480
where New York was the center of manufacturing, textiles, technology. I mean, it was diversified.
00:30:50.780
You know, there were a great many different sectors here. Well, today, the number one employer
00:30:55.220
in New York City is New York City, is the government. And of course, number two is Wall Street.
00:31:01.300
If Wall Street finds that they can WFH work from home and they don't have to come in and they don't
00:31:08.720
have to be in New York, this city is done. It's cooked like the Ramadan goose. It's over.
00:31:15.860
And I think that this is why they're jumping the shark. I think Cuomo, I think he's holding the
00:31:21.620
state hostage, hoping that Donald Trump will bail him out and bail out de Blasio,
00:31:29.440
not from coronavirus, not from the Wuhan virus, but from their years of mismanagement. Remember,
00:31:36.580
Cuomo banned fracking. Cuomo banned drilling. Cuomo banned gas. New York was a sanctuary city.
00:31:44.880
I mean, we're not in trouble because of coronavirus. We're in trouble because of years
00:31:51.000
of Democrat mismanagement. Now, you asked me, won't people get fed up? I think those people
00:31:56.660
are going to vote with their feet. I think those people are going to leave. But there's also the
00:32:02.200
sheeple who are reading the New York Times, who are NBC News. If you look at the headlines every day,
00:32:09.440
Ezra, it's fear, panic. There's an outbreak at the White House. One person
00:32:14.520
in Pence's office had the virus. And so now it's an outbreak at the White House. I mean,
00:32:20.140
it's constantly fear-mongering. They don't talk about the fact that in these tests that they've
00:32:25.240
been doing, they're finding that over 25 percent of the population has had it, has been asymptomatic.
00:32:31.740
The mortality rate is less than the seasonal flu. This is a flu. Look, back in the late 60s,
00:32:38.040
do you remember the Hong Kong flu in the late 60s? I mean, that wiped out 150,000 people.
00:32:43.600
Did anybody stop doing anything? My God, we had Woodstock and moon landing and everything else.
00:32:51.020
I mean, this is just a seizure. It's not about your safety, ladies and gentlemen.
00:32:55.020
This is about a seizure of power. This is about control and that you cannot leave the house.
00:33:01.500
You will get arrested. This idea about now you've got to wear masks. Oh, really? So we didn't need
00:33:07.700
lockdowns. Everybody could have worn masks. If masks worked, why did we need lockdowns? It's just
00:33:14.060
insane. The idea that you're going to keep children home this summer from camp. First of all,
00:33:19.400
they need to be outside. They need to build their immunity systems. That's how children fight
00:33:25.380
sickness. And adults, too. Being in the house for months is not an answer. You have to ask yourself,
00:33:33.260
what is the end game here? The end game is the election. Just so that the end game, there was
00:33:39.320
no way that President Trump was not going to win. I mean, we had an unprecedented economy.
00:33:46.880
Unprecedented unemployment numbers. This is, they feel that this is the left and this is what they
00:33:53.820
do, but they always, always jump the shark. They think that if they can keep this, this, this,
00:34:00.200
this destruction going, I mean, it was an interesting Facebook post by a person who works on in the
00:34:04.900
beltway on Capitol Hill saying that every morning the Democrats, you know, they go into their offices
00:34:09.360
and they're like, ah, the unemployment numbers. Look, look at that. I mean, this is sick. This is misery.
00:34:15.160
No one's talking about the despair. No one's talking about the suicide rate. No one's about
00:34:19.580
the depression, the clinical depression, the mental illness. I mean, there's no hope. There's
00:34:24.280
no future. And there's no date. There's no end date. This started out in New York City as two weeks
00:34:31.760
because the healthcare system is going to be overwhelmed. And we can't have that. And we
00:34:37.020
can't have people piling up at the hospital. We've got to flatten the curve. We've got to flatten the
00:34:40.260
curve. What happened to that argument? We have, we, by the way, we flattened the curve here
00:34:44.220
over a month ago. Yeah. What happened? Now it's, now it's about what? Now we got, you know,
00:34:50.140
what did he say? What did Cuomo say? We got the beast on the run. That's what, you know,
00:34:54.780
now it's every day they get up there and they have their shiny shoes. Their shoes are shined. He's got
00:34:59.840
a nice, close shave. He's getting all of these offers from women, Cuomo. And, and he said, yes,
00:35:05.860
ladies, I'm single. I mean, you can't make this up. Yeah. And meanwhile, everybody's out of work.
00:35:12.220
Yeah. And so it's really scary to me. It really is. And honestly, I hope that in the courtroom,
00:35:17.840
it's not a question of, well, you know, it's a national security issue or it's a safety issue.
00:35:23.060
I, I feel that the city has to prove that, Ezra. If you look at the mortality rates,
00:35:28.640
the hospitals are empty. The hospitals are empty and they can't pay their bills. And by the way,
00:35:34.820
you can't, if you're sick, you can't even have a visitor in the hospital.
00:35:37.900
If a woman is going to give birth and she's in the hot, she, her husband can't come and see her.
00:35:44.120
It's terrible. And no one's talking about it because the media is so in the tank. They are,
00:35:49.620
they are, they are 100% behind this, this panic. And that's what it is. It's panic. It's fear
00:35:57.900
mongering. People need to look at the data. People need to look at the science and they're not. And this
00:36:05.380
is why I think you see, you see on the Twitter land, you see in a Facebook, you see on Instagram,
00:36:11.160
you know, keep the lockdown, keep the lockdown, keep the lockdown. They just, it's been drummed
00:36:15.960
into their head that there's some kind of, you know, deadly plague around the corner. Now I do
00:36:21.440
not fault president Trump in the beginning. I do not fault president Trump at the beginning because
00:36:27.920
you see, it's a weird flu and it could have gone sideways and we didn't know. Well, you know what?
00:36:34.820
We're over two months wiser now. We have a ton of data and we know, and we have to get back to work.
00:36:40.200
Look at Georgia, Ezra. Georgia lifted the lockdown April 24th. And you know what? It's,
00:36:47.060
they're at their lowest COVID hospitalizations yet. Do you, have you seen that anywhere in the
00:36:52.440
American media? No. It's incredible that the difference in media coverage, Andrew Cuomo,
00:36:58.440
the lion's share of the deaths in the country, he's treated as a hero by the media. States like
00:37:04.780
Georgia, Florida, or one of my favorites, South Dakota, which never really went into a lockdown
00:37:11.120
in the first place, were demonized by the media, but they've had a sliver of a fraction
00:37:16.260
of the cases of New York. Well, let me ask you one last thing. You and I have been talking mainly
00:37:21.540
about the lockdown itself, the house arrest itself and how it doesn't make sense. But let's get back
00:37:27.800
to your lawsuit for a moment, because if I'm not mistaken, you're not particularly suing to end
00:37:34.180
the lockdown, but to end the ban on protest. Am I right on that? It's a, it's a, it's a suit to end
00:37:40.480
the prohibition of citizens gathering to protest the government. Absolutely. I mean, it is elemental
00:37:47.260
and Mayor de Blasio's latest effort. And this is not the first time, remember, my ads, my political
00:37:54.300
ads that I used to run were banned under Mayor de Blasio. I mean, that was the first time, think of
00:38:01.780
it, Ezra, the first time in 100 years, in the 100 year history of the New York City transit system,
00:38:09.360
that political advertising, issue advertising were banned. So he is a first, he's an enemy of the
00:38:14.520
First Amendment. This is not new, but this is his latest effort to suspend the First Amendment
00:38:19.900
in the city of New York. It is the most egregious one that we have seen. And it's unfathomable that
00:38:27.540
his thirst for power, you know, would go this far. Well, it's incredible. I'm very excited that you're
00:38:34.860
taking action. I mean, of course, we enjoy your commentary, but actually filing a lawsuit is very
00:38:39.860
important. What's the next step in this? Does the government have to file a reply within a deadline?
00:38:47.240
How do these things normally go? They try and probably get it dismissed, thrown out of court
00:38:51.940
early, I'm imagining. How does it work? Yes, exactly. They'll always, you know, they'll go for
00:38:57.360
standing. You know, does she have standing? Being that I have had, I've engaged with the city of New York
00:39:03.860
on this very issue, the First Amendment, how many times? And one, how many times? I cannot begin to
00:39:10.760
tell you that if anyone has standing, I have standing. So that's not going to, they will not
00:39:18.240
impede my progress with the suit. They will have to answer it. And I can assure you that when we win,
00:39:24.120
and we will, we will have a freedom of speech. We'll have a First Amendment march. I mean, you have to
00:39:32.200
wake people up because, let's be frank, Ezra, the media is, you know, disinforming, misinforming. People
00:39:42.560
are not taught to think critically. They don't even know, they don't even understand what's being
00:39:50.580
taken from them. You know, think of it, centuries of blood and toil for these intellectual rights
00:39:57.140
that, frankly, were seized without due process. That's a different problem. They were seized without
00:40:04.860
process. So what's the process of getting them back? They were just taken. There was no, you know,
00:40:11.460
declaration of any sort or, you know, I understand this invisible enemy. I understand that. But it's
00:40:17.300
proven to be handleable. We can handle Corona. But to take away the First Amendment, our Bill of
00:40:23.520
Rights, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, this is, this is just, it's a coup. It's unbelievable.
00:40:31.620
Well, you're a great American, Pamela. It's a pleasure to talk with you. We wish you good luck
00:40:35.740
to our viewers. I recommend TheGellerReport.com. Stay strong, my friend. You're fighting, as you say,
00:40:42.860
as a one-woman army, and I think you're going to win. Take care.
00:40:49.700
Our pleasure. There you have it, Pamela Geller. You can find a copy of her lawsuit at TheGellerReport.com.
00:41:06.460
Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about a peaceful protester being arrested in front of
00:41:10.700
Alberta's legislature. Ken writes, hopefully, if we ever get out of this lockdown, some of these so-called
00:41:15.540
police officers who are breaking the law will be held accountable. Yeah, I wouldn't bet on it. I
00:41:21.220
wouldn't bet on it unless there's some sort of a lawsuit. On my interview with Dr. Leslie Lewis about
00:41:26.520
her campaign to be the leader of the Conservative Party, Colin writes, I love it when someone listens
00:41:30.620
to the question without interrupting. A very refined, highly educated lady, you can ditch McKay anytime you
00:41:36.540
like. I like Dr. Lewis. I'm glad she's come on the show twice. And I'm glad she said a kind word
00:41:42.380
about freedom of speech and Rebel News. We have put out invitations to both Peter McKay and Aaron
00:41:48.380
O'Toole. And they're welcome to come on. And look, I'll ask them frank questions, honest questions.
00:41:55.360
I don't think they'll be surprise questions. I'll ask them a bit about the campaign. I'll ask them
00:42:00.300
probably about the pandemic in China. I might ask them about free speech. You know, common themes that
00:42:08.140
we care about at Rebel News, but I think Conservative members care about. I don't think I would engage in
00:42:12.380
any gotcha questions. That's not that interesting. I think I would try and talk about substantive
00:42:18.180
things. And I would be grateful that they came on the show. I don't know. I think they should come on
00:42:22.060
because we're a vast swath of the Conservative Party's base. And I mean, let's just get right down
00:42:28.700
to it. If you can't handle a 10-minute interview from Rebel News and Ezra Levant, maybe you're not
00:42:36.380
ready for Justin Trudeau's liberal war room and the CBC. I mean, it's going to get tough out there
00:42:43.640
for whoever wins. You're going to be up against the entire media party, all the other political
00:42:49.540
parties. You've got to be tough. It's a tough job. Peter writes,
00:42:55.660
My goodness, why haven't I heard of this woman before? Very intelligent, very impressive.
00:42:59.420
I've not been too thrilled with my choices with the Conservative Party leadership. Dr. Lewis gives
00:43:03.220
me hope. Well, she's a very nice lady, and I enjoyed my two meetings with her. And I think she's
00:43:12.420
doing well in fundraising. If I had to predict, I would predict that the eventual winner is going to
00:43:19.700
be O'Toole or McKay. But my personal view is that I hope that Dr. Lewis stays involved in the party
00:43:26.480
and at the very least runs as an MP, even if she doesn't make the Conservative Party leadership.
00:43:33.140
I'll be candid. To go from not even an elected backbencher to party leader is probably too big
00:43:39.180
of a jump for someone's first tryout anyways. Maybe if she'd be, I mean, I wish her all the best,
00:43:44.640
and maybe she can win the leadership. But even if she doesn't, I hope she runs as an MP, gets a little
00:43:49.800
bit more seasoning, a little bit more experience, and perhaps is elevated to a cabinet position one
00:43:55.620
day. And maybe she will in time be prime minister. Like you, I like her. Well, that's my report for
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today. That's our letters and our show. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World
00:44:06.840
TechWorks and you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.