Jason Kenney wants to strengthen campus free speech — and a newspaper comes out against it
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In 1938, the Edmonton Journal won a special Pulitzer Prize for standing up for free speech against the government of the day, which was bringing in their own fake news law. Now, the crazy thing is, it s 2019, and the Journal has switched sides.
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Hello, my Rebels. I got a story for you about free speech. I know that's no surprise.
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But today, the enemy of free speech is a columnist for the Edmonton Journal.
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Now, you might think that's no surprise. Well, the Edmonton Journal, back in 1938,
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won a special Pulitzer Prize for standing up for free speech,
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actually against the government of the day, which was bringing in their own fake news law.
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Now, the crazy thing is, it's 2019, and the Edmonton Journal has switched sides.
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All right, without further ado, here's today's podcast.
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Tonight, Jason Kenney says he wants to strengthen freedom of speech on universities,
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and he won't believe who comes out guns blazing against that.
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It's May 6th, and this is 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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The only thing I have to say to the government of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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I used to live in Edmonton, and from time to time,
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I visited the luxurious offices of the Edmonton Journal right downtown.
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What a holdover from an era when newspapers actually used to make money,
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and when they were the center of a city in so many ways,
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and right there in the lobby of the Edmonton Journal, before you got on the elevator,
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was the honorary Pulitzer Prize won by that newspaper way back in 1938.
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In fact, they have the editorial written on the walls.
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It was for the Edmonton Journal's resistance to a series of laws introduced by a socialist premier named Bill Eberhardt.
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He hated the media, and with good reason, they hated him,
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Really? I mean, the Social Credit Party was started from scratch in 1934,
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and in its very first election in 1935, it got more than 50% of the vote.
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It won 56 out of 63 seats a year after they started the party.
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But this guy, who just won everything in his field of vision,
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couldn't stand his critics, and for some reason he cared about his critics.
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And so he passed a series of laws, including one of them that would require,
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it would mandate, it would force newspapers to run editorial content written by Eberhardt's government
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as in what Eberhardt considered to be fake news back in the 30s.
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I mean, look, he could always write a letter to the editor or submit other points of view,
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but this was different. This would be to command newspapers to run government propaganda.
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The Edmonton Journal, which back then had some self-respect, refused to do this and railed against this,
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and the laws were soon struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada.
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By the way, that was all done before the Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
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which, as you know, wasn't enacted until the 1980s.
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And it was done even before Diefenbaker's Bill of Rights, from the 60s.
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So there's a point there that our free speech heritage, free press heritage,
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goes back earlier and deeper than modern liberals might think or know.
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Anyways, it was a great moment for press freedom, 1938,
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and I think, like the early days of the Nobel Peace Prize,
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that Pulitzer Prize actually meant something back then,
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more than a political approval by a group of liberal journalists in New York,
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which is all it means today. As you may know, Bill Eberhardt died in 1943,
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and Ernest Manning, Preston's dad, took over and normalized the party,
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kicked out the more extremist elements, and won for 25 more years as premier.
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I guess a point there is that even without the Press Act,
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Eberhardt won re-election with a majority government, which just goes to show you.
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Now, I tell you all this, and the Edmonton Journal's commendable historic record,
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and that little quirk about government regulation of fake news in the 30s,
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But look at this. Look at this headline. Look at this byline. Look at this.
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The Edmonton Journal is talking about free speech again,
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but this time they're on the side of censorship.
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Or at least it's an attempt to strengthen, it's an against an attempt to strengthen free speech.
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UCP prepares to roll out Ford-flavored post-secondary changes in Alberta by Emma Graney.
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So, of course, UCP is the new United Conservative Party, government in Alberta.
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But right away, they're denormalizing free speech, aren't they?
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They're saying it's something that only Doug Ford is all about,
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which is weird because, first of all, that's to Doug Ford's credit.
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But second of all, how many people who pick up the Edmonton Journal in that city,
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and granted, that's not a very large number anymore,
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oh, they're talking about Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario?
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How many Edmontonians would assume free speech is something that only outsiders care about and not them?
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And that headline is obviously written by an activist,
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someone who has a version of Trump derangement syndrome.
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Goes without saying, if they hate Doug Ford, if they have Doug Ford derangement syndrome in Alberta.
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No real Albertan would have that point of view unless they were an activist,
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which is pretty much what's left in the media party these days.
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Here, I'm going to read some from this story because I want you to,
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I want to let you know how far the Edmonton Journal,
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and indeed all Canadian media have fallen since 1938
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when they actually fought back against the charge of fake news,
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The UCP government will require Alberta post-secondary institutions
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to adopt controversial free speech policies based on U.S. principles
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that allow speakers, no matter how unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive,
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Is that what our Supreme Court of Canada said in the case of the Press Act
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Is it true that free speech isn't even Canadian,
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Have you ever, you know, read the chart of rights?
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It's in the very first section of our Bill of Rights,
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neither of which is necessary to know that we have freedom of the press up here,
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Aberhart's fake news censorship law was struck down 81 years ago
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before we had those modern iterations of the Bill of Rights or Charter Rights.
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We have had free speech going back centuries in our country.
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One of the greatest free speech cases and free press cases goes back to the 1830s
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when a journalist and activist named Joseph Howe
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named and shamed corrupt city aldermen in Halifax.
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He was embarrassing aldermen because he showed their corruption.
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The judge ordered the jury to convict Joseph Howe.
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He was his own lawyer, which is generally a bad idea,
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that he was acquitted despite the judge instructing a guilty verdict.
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Joseph Howe went on to become the first premier of that province.
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And let me quote, if I may, from Howe on free speech.
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He particularly talked about America versus Canada.
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And remember, Canada wasn't even officially a country yet.
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And this was just not even a century after America was born.
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Here, I'm quoting from the Nova Scotia government's official transcript
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of Joseph Howe's speech defending himself on March 2nd, 1835.
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that really established freedom of the press in Canada,
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And Joseph Howe specifically challenged the jury and the judge
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that free speech was as much for loyal British subjects
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as it was for American rebels, as he called them.
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Let me quote, and then I'll go back to the losers
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at the Edmonton Journal who should study a bit of Canadian history
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before deciding that freedom of speech is a foreign concept,
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But give me what a British subject has a right to claim,
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administered by those principles of the English law
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that our forefathers fixed and have bequeathed.
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look across the border to the sons of the loyalists
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and reproach them that their press is not free.
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He was saying, don't let those Americans laugh at us
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Sons of loyalists are allowed to have a free press.
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Well, I'll read some more from this goofy story.
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hailed by Advanced Education Minister Dimitrios Nikolaidis
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They were developed by the University of Chicago in 2014
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to demonstrate a commitment to free speech on U.S. college campuses.
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They don't allow universities to distinguish between groups or individuals
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would ensure Alberta post-secondary institutions
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are competitive with those in the United States.
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in such a way that everyone wants to copy them.
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that is shocking footage of hundreds close to 700 rockets fired from gaza deliberately into
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civilian neighborhoods in israel just in some cases hundreds of feet away some cases a dozen
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miles away killing various civilians which is their purpose many people think that hamas
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is of course acting as a shock troop a surrogate for iran israel has deployed its iron dome anti-rocket
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system but i think the strategic attempt here was to overwhelm that by sending hundreds and
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hundreds of rockets low-tech rockets that might actually only cost a few hundred dollars to make
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the iron dome system costing a hundred thousand dollars to stop them but it couldn't be clearer
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who the bad guys are so clear that even canada issued a an unusually one-sided tweet normally
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they condemn the israeli victims as much as they condemn the palestinian terrorists but in this
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case they put on a tweet only criticizing the terrorists baby steps of course donald trump
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showed the way let me show you his very dramatic tweet he said once again israel faces a barrage of
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deadly rockets by terrorist groups hamas and islamic jihad we support israel 100 in its defense
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of its citizens and trump goes on to say to the gazan people these terrorist acts against israel will
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bring you nothing but more misery end the violence and work towards peace it can happen so that is
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donald trump who the left portrays bizarrely as anti-semitic or even a nazi of sorts even though
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of course his daughter and son-in-law are not just jewish but they're religious jews so here's my
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question what about the 20 or so democrats seeking the nomination for that party's 2020 presidential
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primary as of when i checked about an hour ago not one of them had even uttered a word
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against these rockets why not well joining us now via skype from the los angeles area is our friend
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joel pollack senior editor at large at breitbart.com joel did i properly sum up what's going on have you
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seen any democratic presidential candidates even say the obvious terrorism is bad
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no not one and it's quite striking because in the past democrats would have at least said
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something about the terrorism they might have also added israel should act with restraint and so forth
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but they didn't say anything at all and it continues to amaze me how given the near or total unanimity of
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opinion on the democratic side how there's not one person who would raise his or her hand and stand
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out from the crowd it seemed they would reap instant dividends from doing so i mean it would be great to
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be the one democrat who defended israel but nobody's done it just like there was not one single democrat
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who attended the opening of the u.s embassy in jerusalem or even the party that israel threw in
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washington dc to celebrate that opening so uh democrats just seem to be in lockstep they're terrified of
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their base on this issue the campus left is very anti-israel that's where all the action is right
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now and democrats just don't want to step out of line that's incredible to me here's a tweet from
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ilhan omar uh and like alexandra ocasio-cortez she's a freshman congresswoman she's from minnesota
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obviously uh a muslim activist here's what she wrote and i think you're right even though she's just
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a freshman and and she's not i wouldn't say she has a lot of allies in congress necessarily
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i think she's setting the tone let me put that back up just for a sec i'll read it um i'll read
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the tweet from ilhan omar she says how many more protesters must be shot rockets must be fired and
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little kids must be killed until the endless cycle of violence ends the status quo of occupation and
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humanitarian crisis in gaza is unsustainable only real justice can bring about security and lasting
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peace um that that stops about half a step short of saying i'm on the side of the terrorists but
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but that is i mean there used to be a foreign policy general agreement between democrats and republicans
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during the cold war at least is that gone is the bipartisan consensus that that islamic terrorism is
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bad is that actually gone joel well the bipartisan consensus has eroded in that democrats won't call
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it islamic terrorism remember that was the big fight that we had when barack obama was president
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and even now they don't really want to acknowledge christians or victims of islamic terrorism
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with the bombings in sri lanka last month on easter there was that curious phrase they used easter
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worshipers there weren't any democrats who actually said christians were attacked so the democrats like
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to frame this entire thing differently it's not that they are uh in favor of terrorism but they
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want to frame it differently with israel and the palestinians things get a little different there you
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do find some democrats who favor palestinian terrorism we have some of them in congress right
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now rashina talib who's a first year representative from michigan said a bunch of things like what you
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just heard from ilan omar and she ended her tweet with hashtag free palestine which as you and i
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know means getting rid of israel ilan omar i'll give her credit before i take it away again i'll
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give her credit for at least acknowledging the rockets are a problem but there isn't a cycle of
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violence there are episodes of violence that are caused by hamas israel never initiates the violence
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this was caused by the terrorist group hamas which runs the gaza strip and takes orders and money
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from iran among other people and she also referred to gaza as occupied gaza has not been occupied by
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anybody except maybe the hamas terrorist group since 2005 israel pulled its soldiers and settlers out
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every last one in 2005 with considerable debate and protest within israel itself over that decision
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but there's nobody left who is israeli in gaza nobody's occupying gaza so she is basically
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presenting a lie and using it as you point out to take the side of the terrorists she's casting it as
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kind of we all want peace but she favors boycotting israel she sides with the world view at least of
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hamas and others and this tweet was again an attempt to justify through immoral equivalence the actions of
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the palestinian terror groups and you see that openly now in congress you know um the jews like
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blacks and gays and hispanics have traditionally voted democrat and um in canada stephen harper's
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pro-israel activism for pro-israel politics for 10 years finally broke that away and i think in the
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last election the jewish community here probably voted about 60 percent uh for conservatives but in the
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united states i'd say the jews for the democrats are still probably 70 80 percent uh in the last
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election you probably know those exit polls better than me um i think i mean jews are only a couple
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percent of the u.s population but they're disproportionate in terms of political activism
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they're greatly disproportionate in terms of donations and of course they live in major cities that are key
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uh whether it's in the media cities of la and new york or in political i mean miami large jewish
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community there that's a really uh that's a state that that is a majority maker or a president maker
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i just don't understand how jews can be fine with the party basically saying yeah we're going to stand by
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as as israel is rocketed and not just jews i'm a jew you're a jew we care about israel perhaps for
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regions of religious or ethnic uh connection but a lot of americans love israel and they're not jews
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they're the christians who have an affection for israel or they're just democrats who believe in
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free countries and democracies i mean the same way i love taiwan i have no ethnic or religious
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connection i just love the little country standing up to the big bully china i can't believe that jews
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would stick around a party that is becoming jeremy corbyn-ified like i i look at the labor party in the uk
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it's explicitly anti-semitic right into the leader's office now i fear that's happening in america
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and i don't see a lot of jews pulling out well that's for two reasons number one this is the
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pre-existing reason which is that israel is very far down the list of priorities for jewish voters on
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the left number one or number two is abortion health care i mean they're basically democrats and
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in fact their religious observance is often defined by their party allegiance if you go into many of
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the more liberal synagogues or temples much of what they do and say in their services is defined
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by its proximity to the democratic party platform so there is almost a canonization of left-wing
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policies that's gone on in jewish communities now more observant jews tend not to be affected by that
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and they are moving in a more conservative direction in terms of voting behavior but there's
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a definite emphasis on the priorities of the democratic party over and above issues like israel
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or even anti-semitism it's not unique to american jews i i spoke when i was in poland to a young woman
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from the labor party in the uk who refused to leave even though she didn't criticize those who did leave
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she refused to leave over corbin's anti-semitism because she said the things she still cares about
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most are the things labor represents and so she wants to vote with labor and hope that they will
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change their leadership i think that's how many jewish democrats feel about it that the things that
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are most important to them are still the things on the democratic party agenda at least for them
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and they will wait until the party turns itself around on israel which is not that urgent to them
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the other thing that's happened is the media have toxicity have toxified donald trump for many jewish
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voters that has unraveled a bit with some of the debunking that has gone on and especially with the
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outstanding performance of rabbi goldstein from the poe synagogue the victim of the shooting
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last saturday i mean he's been absolutely superb in terms of his poise his principal stands about
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a moment of silence in public schools and so forth but he also turned to donald trump at the white house
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late last week and called him a healer and thanked him for his personal intervention in helping the
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community and i think that actually went a long way to see this rabbi with a traditional black hat
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black coat long white beard turning to donald trump and essentially blessing him not just as a great
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president but as a person with empathy for the community i think that went a long way so you're seeing
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that unravel a little bit but there are democratic activists in the jewish community who are
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absolutely determined to make sure that jewish voters go into the voting booth believing that donald trump
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is an anti-semite and they will sell them whatever fiction they have to sell them including charlottesville
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or whatever to to make sure that they think that again another way it's unraveling i mean i just
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wrote a story about this donald trump has a delegation in israel right now they're a delegation of
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ambassadors a very large delegation they are in israel they happen to be there during the rocket
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attacks the reason they're there is they participated in this holocaust commemoration that i was covering
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last week in poland where they march from auschwitz to birkenau it's called the march of the living
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trump sent the first ever official u.s delegation to this event there's never been another u.s delegation
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from the government anyway and it's amazing i mean trump is the first american president to send a
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delegation to participate in this annual commemoration so that's a big deal and little things like that
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over time chip away at the false impression that he's an anti-semite but you have the media and
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activists within the jewish community on the democratic side who are definitely pushing that
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idea will not relent will not stop no matter what the facts actually say so that is probably going to
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keep jewish voter support for the republican candidate in this case donald trump at historic
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levels it'll be about 30 for trump and 70 for whoever he's running against you know it goes up and down
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it could reach 60 40 maybe as bad as 80 20 depending on what's in the news so i don't see donald trump
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winning the jewish vote however if i am a jewish donor on the democratic side right now uh you know they've
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got to be supporting joe biden because when you see what comes down the pipeline in terms of bernie
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sanders and some of the other candidates and what they believe and say about israel beto o'rourke has
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said some crazy things the democratic party that's coming into its own right now the younger democrats
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are so viciously anti-israel to the point of borderline anti-semitism that those jews who still
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are very active in the democratic party are probably uh very concerned about it and if i were
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one of them i'd be telling joe biden he has to win the nomination because he is all that stands
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between the democratic party and a complete capitulation to the far left on israel and he's
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not that great on israel by the way i mean he has a very long record of mistakes and problems but
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he at least is less crazy than the others and i think that's what he's going to try to convince
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people and that's what they want to convince him to emphasize you know i mean i agree with you that
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the same way that for many liberals israel is not their number one issue and i certainly wouldn't
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call myself a single issue voter i care about so many things but if if and you don't even that's why
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i said you don't even have to be jewish you don't even have to be christian you just i mean how can you
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stay silent with terrorist attacks like that i suppose it's the same way so many of those democrats
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stayed silent about the sri lanka massacre of christians on easter sunday but that's got to
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be a shock to the party the historical home of jews and um and perhaps there is a validity to a
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hardcore left winger saying that's my not my only issue but when the party has gone so insane like
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that it it boggles my mind that that uh that there's no reaction let me ask you about tulsi gabbard
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because she's a former uh air force uh vet who has some interesting foreign policy views she's
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she's fought against terrorism i thought maybe she would come out against this what are your thoughts
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on her well she's the anti-war candidate right now and you know it helps to have a military background
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if you're going to be the anti-war candidate gives you more credibility and she's basically saying that
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our entire foreign policy strategy is wrong not just this administration but the previous one as
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well so she is opposed to the moves that trump is taking in venezuela and the moves he's taking
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toward iran and so forth so she's trying to move us away from any kind of assertive posture on the
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world stage there was an element of that in obama's foreign policy but even he got entangled in syria and
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libya and libya and elsewhere so i think she is basically standing for the pacifist position if you
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if you would um you know there's one other thing i wanted to point out about all of this um which is
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that the democratic party um in terms of its orientation toward um israel and the peace process
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is really reaching a point of no return that is to say the things they're saying and doing now are
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going to have a serious effect on the relations between the two countries we've just learned that
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israel supplied the united states with key intelligence on iran and threats by iran to
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american interests or american allies i'm sure israel would continue to work with pentagon and cia and
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things like that but democrats are doing and saying things right now that would rupture the relationship
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with israel in a profound way when beto o'rourke for example says that benjamin netanyahu is a
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racist i mean netanyahu if he doesn't call early elections will be prime minister unless he's indicted
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you know convicted or whatever but he'll be prime minister when beto o'rourke takes office if he wins
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the election how are you going to deal with someone you call the racist so it's a little concerning
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yeah well i find it very sad because i i just think that the only reason not to condemn a terrorist
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attack against israel is if you've got some deeper animus towards israel and we know that one of those
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animosities is anti-semitism i do not want to say that 20 out of 20 of the democratic candidates are
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anti-semitic i don't believe they are but i think they're all indulging it or humoring it
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or staying silent in the face of it because i think that ilan omers and the rashida tlaibs and
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a lot of the campus activists in the democratic party truly are anti-semitic and like jeremy
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corbyn they can do the math there's one other thing happening here sorry i i meant to mention this
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earlier uh they didn't tweet about the situation in israel and gaza but um more than half a dozen of
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the candidates tweeted a happy ramadan uh to muslim americans which is fine there's nothing wrong
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with wishing them that but it does tell you what they're thinking uh i mean the two voting blocks
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are roughly similar in size probably the jewish voting block is still slightly larger but it just
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tells you that democrats are thinking about making a conscious pitch to muslim voters and basically
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ignoring jews as a voting category assuming uh in a sense that they're going to get that support no
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matter what yeah well in canada i mean it was only 30 years ago that the total muslim population
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of our country was i think under 100 000 and jews were about 300 000 today the jewish population in
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canada is about 350 000 and the muslim population is 1.3 million so in a very short period of time
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mainly through immigration the muslim community is now quadruple that of the jewish community or at least
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triple and not all of them are citizens yet but they all will be in a few years justin trudeau did
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the math and he said well i can't beat stephen harper on being pro israel so why not do a little
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judo move let him go pro israel i'll go pro muslim brotherhood and there's four times as many fish in
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that pond to catch i think that's the math jeremy corbin sees i think that's the math these 20 democrats
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the last word to you joel well i think it's going to be interesting to watch but i do think this is
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the first time that there's a really clear case that donald trump who supported israel 100 in this
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rocket attack uh donald trump is is the pro-israel candidate and that democrats have yet to produce
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any candidate who will say even the perfunctory things democrats used to say for generations
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in support of israel and the jewish community it's it's amazing but we're finally at that point yeah
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well it's very depressing and i say that as a jew but i say that as a canadian as a dem as a small
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d democrat i say that as an ally of the democracies and i see that as someone who is concerned about
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not just the hard jihad of terrorism but the soft jihad of islamification which has now touched the
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democrat party joel it's great to have you thanks for spending so much time with us thank you good to
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be with you all right there's joel pollack the senior editor at large of breitbart.com what do you
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think of that i'm jewish so i have certain ideas that resonate with me that may not to gentile
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viewers but i have to think i would feel the same way i think if it were a taiwan if it were a south
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korea if it were some other small democracy next to bullies and if these insane rocket attacks how
00:41:20.260
could you not stand with the democracy you tell me send me an email to ezra at the rebel.media if you
00:41:39.700
on my monologue friday about world press freedom day a revelation writes every day is press freedom
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day when you have to one have one day a year to point it out it's because it isn't free anymore
00:41:51.860
hey that is a very good point that is a very good point um yeah every day is press freedom day
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you know i'm gonna borrow your line thank you keith writes tomorrow we may well be arrested for saying
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anything that marxists do not like freedom of speech will soon be a thing of the past we are already
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controlled by the double speak and censorship in our daily lives you are so right you are so right and
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the fact that our devices we don't just look at our devices our devices look at us and they never
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forget i mean my god you know i bought one of those little alexa um echoes plugged it in to test it out
00:42:29.860
oh my god i got that thing on the house so fast who would have something in your own home that listens
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to you all the time and don't tell me it doesn't listen because it has to wake up when you say um hey
00:42:40.820
alexa so it's got to be listening to hear the words hey alexa imagine having a audio listening
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device in your home all the time and as we showed you the other day super crazy amazon has a 600
00:42:53.540
million dollar contract with the cia i'm not a conspiracy theorist but if the cia said yeah
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we'll put a little listening device in your home and you will pay us for it would you go along with it
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and i know you're thinking answer you're sounding like alex jones wind force no i'm just talking about
00:43:09.140
the panopticon of how we used to watch tv but now tv watches us and it's not just it's it's not
00:43:16.580
just all about sports and weather and cooking it's about politics now too and it's about
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de-platforming people who don't share their views i think these are dangerous days
00:43:26.420
dan writes alan buccari is always interesting and sometimes bloody scary yeah i really like him
00:43:34.340
and i i like everything about him i've had the chance to meet him a couple times i think he's
00:43:38.660
great really smart and someone said to me ezra he reminds me of a bond villain just that perfect
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accent and the look and i thought oh my god you're right except for he's on our side scott writes i get
00:43:52.260
a little hot under the collar about the bad stuff or excited about the good news too but i noticed
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particularly this week a number of times where you swore or used improper language and you give examples
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when these things happen i won't forward links to um friends or colleagues i find i am reluctant to
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watch the show when there are little ears around just in case something pops out and to be honest if
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this pattern continues i may stop watching as much myself even when by myself scott that's a good point
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i i think i have a big enough vocabulary that i can say things without cussing can i tell you a quick
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story and i don't think i'm telling tales out of school you know who has the biggest vocabulary
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in the world i haven't met everybody but of the people i know you're probably thinking conrad black
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he's pretty good rex murphy i used to be chiming with him i regret that i've fallen out of touch with
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him once i went over his place and he this was before the internet was really really big he had a seat
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like a cd or dvd version of the extended full oxford english dictionary you know how big that is
00:45:04.340
like the full meal the if if it was in books it would be this wide because it shows you the etymology
00:45:11.460
the history of every word he had this at his home did you know he was the editor of a dictionary
00:45:19.220
himself the dictionary of newfoundland which has amazing words and where they come from rex murphy
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edited a dictionary tell me that guy don't love his words the oxford scholar of course road scholar
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and you're going to think this is super nerdy we we i know this i i'm embarrassed to say because
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you're going to see how nerdy i was rex and i played a game where we tried to stump the other guy
00:45:44.980
with an obscure word do you know what it means um i don't think i stumped him i think i still
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remember i tried to get him on infandus i think he knew that anyways besides telling you a rex murphy
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story here's my point rex murphy perhaps has the largest vocabulary of any person in the english language
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certainly in the top point oh one percent but he swears i'm not trying to embarrass him not trying
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to tell tell us how to school why would a man who probably has 80 000 90 100 000 words in his
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fingertips and i think the average person only has like 30 000 why would he swear it puzzled me
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because you swear sometimes not because you can't articulate it but because you want an
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exclamation point you want to show how passionate you are and probably because you're a newfoundlander
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and that's my story about swearing sometimes you swear because you want to make a point by smashing
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things a bit that you couldn't even if you had the most amazing description i think that's why i
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swore a little bit last week so i'm not going to guarantee it'll never happen again but i take
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your word your caution about not doing it too commonly and it also gave me a chance to tell you
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my rex murphy challenged the other guy with a big word story and on that note if anyone's still watching
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i bid you adieu until next time on behalf of all of us here rebel world headquarters to you at home