Rebel News Podcast - September 30, 2020


One media outlet is more hated by the government than Rebel News.


Episode Stats

Length

35 minutes

Words per Minute

154.45595

Word Count

5,449

Sentence Count

394

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

There's a media company in Canada that might be even more censored than us, and might fight back even harder than we do. It's a French-language radio station in Quebec City, and they've been getting in trouble with the government for 20 years.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I tell you something that you might not know about. There's a media
00:00:04.920 company in Canada that might be even more censored than us and might fight back even harder than we
00:00:11.520 do. I like to think we're both of those things, but let me introduce you to Schwa FM, a radio
00:00:17.640 station in Quebec City, and tell you the latest attack on their editorial independence by the
00:00:24.320 government. I think it's going to blow you away. By the way, I want to invite you to become a
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00:00:37.220 and sign up right there. Okay, here's today's podcast.
00:00:45.720 You're listening to Rebel News Podcast.
00:00:48.000 Tonight, there is one media outlet more hated by the government than Rebel News. And maybe
00:01:02.280 they're more courageous too. It's September 29th and you're watching the Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:07.320 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:12.880 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:16.940 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
00:01:21.820 right to do so.
00:01:27.680 I've often said that Rebel News is the most censored news network in Canada. It's partly because of me
00:01:33.520 personally. I've been the target of government censorship for more than a dozen years.
00:01:38.060 Ever since the Alberta Human Rights Commission prosecuted me for publishing the Danish cartoons
00:01:42.740 of Mohammed. I really didn't mean to make my life about freedom of speech. I had other plans.
00:01:48.460 But sometimes things happen to you. The government investigated me for publishing some cartoons.
00:01:53.520 That's what happened to me. And I just didn't go quietly.
00:01:57.380 We published those cartoons for the intention and purpose of exercising our inalienable rights
00:02:07.920 as free-born Albertans to publish whatever the hell we want, no matter what the hell you think.
00:02:14.060 So that's what I've been doing ever since, really. But it's happening a lot more frequently these days.
00:02:19.080 Not just to me, but to our reporters. Justin Trudeau banned our reporters from the leaders' debates
00:02:24.360 in the last election. We won that fight in court.
00:02:27.940 Rachel Notley sued us for a billboard we put up in Alberta.
00:02:31.060 And bizarrely, the new provincial government continues to fight us in court
00:02:34.840 even though Notley was thrown out.
00:02:37.620 Trudeau has weaponized the police, turning the RCMP into his errand boys,
00:02:42.820 seen here escorting Kian Bexty away from a press scrum
00:02:46.640 just because he's conservative.
00:02:48.020 Here are a couple of 30-year RCMP veterans interrogating me for an hour
00:02:55.040 about my best-selling book, The Libranos.
00:02:58.220 And not to be outdone, the disgraced mayor of Brampton, Ontario
00:03:01.940 actually had David Menzies put in the back of a police car
00:03:06.020 because David caught that mayor sneaking into a hockey arena
00:03:09.940 that he had closed to the city's children. What a creep.
00:03:12.500 So you see why I call us Canada's most banned media company.
00:03:17.880 And it's not just the Liberals and NDP.
00:03:20.000 Even the federal Conservatives, under the erratic leadership
00:03:23.220 and poor judgment of Andrew Scheer, got in on the game,
00:03:26.960 literally arresting our reporters too.
00:03:29.440 It's true that we're censored all the time.
00:03:32.940 And Trudeau hates us personally because he can't control us.
00:03:37.780 Mr. Speaker, when it comes to civil discourse,
00:03:40.420 when it comes to the kinds of back-and-forth that happens in this House,
00:03:43.640 it's a real shame to see the Conservatives using lines
00:03:46.720 straight out of Rebel magazine and Rebel webcast.
00:03:50.560 The Rebel should not be writing commentary and questions
00:03:54.340 for the members opposite.
00:03:55.760 They should know to disassociate themselves from that kind of politics
00:03:59.560 and those kinds of personal attacks.
00:04:02.140 But I think honesty compels me to tell you
00:04:05.560 that I think there's actually a media company in Canada
00:04:08.880 that may be more censored than us
00:04:12.240 and may be more hated than us by Trudeau
00:04:15.960 and just as beloved as us by the people.
00:04:19.700 Now, the reason you might not know about it
00:04:21.940 is because it's a French-language radio station
00:04:24.920 in Quebec City called Chois FM or Radio X.
00:04:28.780 They've been getting in trouble for 20 years.
00:04:32.700 Sort of like me, I guess.
00:04:34.500 Look at this CRTC ruling from back in 2004,
00:04:38.700 officially shutting down the radio station
00:04:41.560 like we were in the Soviet Union or something.
00:04:44.640 Why?
00:04:45.080 Let me quote.
00:04:47.460 These findings were based, notably,
00:04:50.240 on the commission's analysis of 47 complaints
00:04:53.620 it had received since Chois FM was acquired
00:04:56.200 by GeneX in February 1997.
00:04:59.800 These complaints concerned the broadcast of abusive comment,
00:05:03.380 offensive on-air contests,
00:05:05.620 personal attacks and harassment
00:05:06.900 on a daily program aired by Chois FM
00:05:09.380 during peak morning hours.
00:05:12.960 So you've got half a million listeners,
00:05:14.380 but over the course of seven years,
00:05:18.500 47 little snitches didn't like it,
00:05:22.220 but instead of ignoring it,
00:05:24.080 switching the channel,
00:05:25.160 or, I don't know,
00:05:25.900 calling into the talk shows
00:05:27.080 to argue with the host online,
00:05:28.600 which is half the fun.
00:05:29.900 I don't know.
00:05:30.820 Setting up your own radio station?
00:05:32.920 47 losers over seven years
00:05:36.240 went to the government,
00:05:38.200 the CRTC regulator,
00:05:39.640 and asked them to ban
00:05:40.980 the biggest radio station in Quebec City,
00:05:43.480 and the government said,
00:05:44.640 oh, sure, we'll shut it down.
00:05:46.920 Yeah.
00:05:47.680 So when word got out
00:05:48.860 that the government was going to shut down the station,
00:05:52.080 the city was outraged.
00:05:53.600 Look at this.
00:05:54.360 The commission received 9,468 interventions
00:06:01.040 concerning Chois FM's license for renewal application.
00:06:04.840 9,417 were in favor of the application,
00:06:08.800 38 were opposed,
00:06:10.260 and 13 were comments.
00:06:12.420 What's that, like 99% in support of the station?
00:06:15.020 Anyways, the CRTC goes on for 37 pages
00:06:18.040 debating, analyzing what the radio host said
00:06:21.620 over seven years,
00:06:22.620 and concluded by saying that,
00:06:25.760 yeah, they're going to shut down the radio station,
00:06:28.380 China style, Soviet style, Iran style.
00:06:32.360 You know what?
00:06:33.800 Eight days after that ruling,
00:06:36.260 50,000 citizens
00:06:39.460 marched through the streets of Quebec City,
00:06:41.880 the largest protest in that town since the 1960s.
00:06:46.260 They also had a massive protest on Parliament Hill, too.
00:06:50.060 Not quite as large.
00:06:51.560 That's a four and a half hour drive away from Quebec City,
00:06:54.280 but nearly 10,000 people showed up
00:06:57.320 to defend a radio station.
00:06:59.100 Imagine 50,000 people marching in Quebec City.
00:07:02.100 So, of course, the cowards at the CRTC backed down.
00:07:06.820 And far from killing Chois FM,
00:07:08.660 it propelled them to new heights.
00:07:09.960 And, in fact, one of the radio hosts, Andre Arthur,
00:07:12.940 he was propelled into Parliament.
00:07:15.560 He was literally elected as a local MP
00:07:17.520 over the whole censorship scandal.
00:07:19.700 He declared his candidacy just three weeks before the vote.
00:07:23.520 He spent less than $1,000 campaigning,
00:07:25.840 and he crushed all the other parties.
00:07:27.760 That's how outraged people in Quebec City were
00:07:29.980 about Ottawa's censorship.
00:07:32.200 So, do you see what I mean about Chois FM?
00:07:34.540 They're sort of like us,
00:07:35.800 always fighting for freedom,
00:07:37.460 always tweaking the powers that be.
00:07:39.180 They mock Justin Trudeau.
00:07:40.760 Trudeau hates them because he can't control them.
00:07:43.300 I mean, of course, the CRTC could always try to shut them down again,
00:07:46.340 but how did that work out last time?
00:07:49.140 Chois FM fights hard.
00:07:50.320 They're beloved by their people.
00:07:51.920 But because it's all in French,
00:07:54.160 because the rest of the media hate them,
00:07:56.460 we don't hear about them in the rest of Canada,
00:07:58.400 here in English Canada.
00:07:59.180 Which brings me to today's story.
00:08:02.340 Look at this.
00:08:04.640 La ville de Québec cesse toute publicité à Radio X.
00:08:09.140 X.
00:08:09.580 How's my French?
00:08:10.500 Terrible, right?
00:08:11.200 Sorry.
00:08:11.980 That means, in English,
00:08:12.980 the city of Quebec ceases all advertising on Radio X.
00:08:16.860 That's Chois FM.
00:08:17.980 Now, the story's in French, of course.
00:08:20.000 In the left-wing, La Presse.
00:08:21.620 I'm not going to punish you
00:08:23.260 by trying to read any more French at you.
00:08:25.060 Sorry.
00:08:25.600 So, I'm going to put it through the Google Translate machine,
00:08:28.200 and I'm going to read the translation.
00:08:29.580 So, forgive the choppy language.
00:08:31.460 That's just Google.
00:08:32.860 So, here's what this La Presse article says on Anglais.
00:08:38.260 The city of Quebec is putting an end
00:08:40.740 to its advertising purchases on Chois Radio X,
00:08:44.560 considering that the station, quote,
00:08:46.660 constitutes a danger to public health.
00:08:50.100 Just stop here for a moment.
00:08:51.640 So, ideas, debating, different points of view,
00:08:55.500 that's now a danger to public health.
00:08:57.880 That's a new one.
00:08:58.560 They tried to take Chois FM off the radio
00:09:00.840 because they were rude, you know, 15 years ago.
00:09:03.840 Quebecers laughed at that.
00:09:05.120 So, now they're trying.
00:09:06.280 They're a danger to your health,
00:09:07.820 like you can get sick from listening to them or something.
00:09:10.680 You know, that's what they said in the Soviet Union, too.
00:09:12.760 If you disagreed with the state, you were mentally ill.
00:09:16.520 You had to go to an insane asylum
00:09:18.180 because only crazy people wouldn't love Stalin.
00:09:21.560 I'll read some more.
00:09:23.040 By their choice to promote opposition to health measures,
00:09:26.660 the owners of this radio station are endangering the health
00:09:29.340 and potentially the lives of the citizens of Quebec and elsewhere.
00:09:33.220 Reads a press release from the city, Monday morning.
00:09:37.820 Under the guise of the idea of freedom of opinion,
00:09:41.140 this organization promotes ideas opposing health measures,
00:09:44.000 adds the city.
00:09:45.820 Hang on.
00:09:46.460 So, opposing government measures is now dangerous?
00:09:51.960 Don't we actually believe in opposing the government and a democracy?
00:09:55.540 In fact, don't we take the biggest complainer in the whole place,
00:09:58.660 give him a full-time job,
00:10:00.220 give him a big office and a staff,
00:10:01.780 and call him, what's the leader again?
00:10:03.460 What's the word again?
00:10:04.360 The leader of the opposition.
00:10:07.020 Don't we actually believe in opposing so much we have a permanent job?
00:10:10.400 Isn't that part of the checks and balances to power?
00:10:12.780 And isn't that the role of the media, too, to report the news?
00:10:15.300 Yes.
00:10:16.040 But to be skeptical of governments,
00:10:17.900 especially in the time of crisis,
00:10:19.140 to challenge them,
00:10:20.200 especially when parliaments are prorogued or canceled
00:10:22.860 and courts are shut down and everyone's acting like sheep,
00:10:25.740 isn't that exactly the time
00:10:27.200 when a different point of view is most valuable?
00:10:29.860 And really,
00:10:30.820 if you're worried about people contradicting official advice
00:10:33.580 because that's dangerous to public health,
00:10:36.000 what do you say about Canada's health authorities
00:10:37.860 who first said it was a bad idea to stop flights from China
00:10:40.960 and then said it was a good idea to stop flights from China,
00:10:44.620 who first said that masks don't work
00:10:46.860 and now say that masks do work?
00:10:49.760 I mean, we're supposed to take such clowns at face value.
00:10:52.860 We're not allowed to laugh and mock Teresa Tam
00:10:55.240 when she tells us to have sex with masks on.
00:10:58.580 We're not allowed to oppose a little tyrant like this.
00:11:01.700 I think the public has to know
00:11:03.260 this is one of the worst-case scenarios
00:11:05.800 in terms of an infectious disease outbreak
00:11:08.160 in that their cooperation is sought.
00:11:11.460 If there are people who are non-compliant,
00:11:13.640 there are definitely laws and public health powers
00:11:18.640 that can quarantine people in mandatory settings.
00:11:23.980 It's potential you could track people,
00:11:25.960 put bracelets on their arms,
00:11:28.940 have police and other setups
00:11:30.900 to ensure quarantine is undertaken.
00:11:33.920 Yeah, I'm with Chois FM on this one.
00:11:35.840 Let me read some more.
00:11:36.440 Two columns published in quick succession
00:11:39.700 in the Journal de Québec last week
00:11:42.080 accused the station of sustaining conspiracy
00:11:45.080 and anti-mask discourse.
00:11:48.900 The hosts defended themselves on the air from doing so,
00:11:51.300 assuring that they had their right to be critical
00:11:53.140 of the government's management of the pandemic.
00:11:55.820 Okay, great.
00:11:56.320 That's called a debate, you know.
00:11:57.560 You can be pro-mask and you can be anti-mask.
00:12:00.760 Say, what is the Centers for Disease Control?
00:12:03.000 You know, the non-partisan U.S. health agency, the CDC?
00:12:07.560 What do they say about masks?
00:12:09.360 They're the largest and most respected
00:12:11.180 public health agency in the world.
00:12:13.920 What do they say about masks?
00:12:17.140 Well, here's their big study on masks.
00:12:19.480 You can see it was published in May
00:12:20.800 at the height of the pandemic.
00:12:22.640 They checked and checked and checked.
00:12:24.140 They reviewed 14 scientific studies.
00:12:28.580 Evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials
00:12:32.180 of these measures did not support a substantial effect
00:12:36.400 on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.
00:12:40.360 Oh, they didn't?
00:12:43.000 I'll do another show on this report.
00:12:45.180 It's so important.
00:12:45.820 But let me just give you some details.
00:12:47.600 I'm just going to read a paragraph from it, okay?
00:12:49.100 This is from the CDC.
00:12:50.740 One study evaluated the use of masks
00:12:53.700 among pilgrims from Australia
00:12:55.800 during the Hajj pilgrimage
00:12:58.320 and reported no major difference
00:13:00.340 in the risk for laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infection
00:13:04.060 in the control or mask group.
00:13:07.480 Two studies in the university settings
00:13:09.460 assessed the effectiveness of face masks
00:13:11.780 for primary protection
00:13:13.460 by monitoring the incidence of laboratory-confirmed influenza
00:13:16.680 among student hall residents for five months.
00:13:20.060 The overall reduction in ILI or laboratory-confirmed influenza
00:13:24.600 cases in the face mask group
00:13:26.940 was not significant in either studies.
00:13:30.580 Study designs in the seven household studies
00:13:33.300 were slightly different.
00:13:34.820 One study provided face masks
00:13:36.420 and P2 respirators for household contacts only.
00:13:39.460 Another study evaluated face mask use
00:13:41.440 as a source control for infected persons only.
00:13:43.980 And the remaining studies provided masks
00:13:45.620 for the infected persons as well as their close contacts.
00:13:47.660 None of the household studies
00:13:49.940 reported a significant reduction
00:13:52.320 in secondary laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections
00:13:56.180 in the face mask group.
00:13:57.700 I'm sorry, I'm going to stop there.
00:13:59.460 It goes on and on and on.
00:14:01.640 14 studies they reviewed.
00:14:04.300 None of them show masks work.
00:14:06.140 So yeah, what's that censorship phrase
00:14:08.040 from the city of Quebec again?
00:14:09.820 Anti-mask discourse.
00:14:11.940 Better shut down the centers for disease control.
00:14:14.580 The politicians won't like their anti-mask discourse.
00:14:17.440 Let me read someone from the La Presse.
00:14:21.780 The city of Quebec considers that Radio X is dangerous,
00:14:26.760 especially in a context where the Capitol
00:14:28.560 is heading towards the red zone, red zone.
00:14:31.480 Oh, the red zone.
00:14:33.040 That sounds like a schlocky horror movie,
00:14:35.700 maybe a zombie apocalypse.
00:14:37.340 You're in the red zone.
00:14:38.520 It's almost like the politician is trying to be as dramatic
00:14:41.620 and self-important as they can be
00:14:43.280 and to scare citizens as much as they can.
00:14:45.560 I wonder what the mental health effects
00:14:47.560 of this panic attack are.
00:14:49.720 Forget the virus.
00:14:50.760 What about the paranoia?
00:14:52.040 I'll read some more.
00:14:53.280 The city of Quebec can absolutely not endorse,
00:14:56.580 through its advertising and financial participation,
00:14:59.060 the behavior of the owners of Schwab.
00:15:01.260 This behavior is likely to increase
00:15:02.860 the current level of contamination,
00:15:05.820 which has a major impact on public health
00:15:07.840 and on the local economy,
00:15:09.440 explains the press release.
00:15:10.780 Oh, is that what ads from the government means?
00:15:16.060 That you're endorsing the editorial content of a show?
00:15:20.480 I thought advertising money was spent to advertise things.
00:15:24.300 You're buying eyeballs, really.
00:15:26.100 You're trying to sell cars,
00:15:27.820 or you're trying to sell a cellular phone or something.
00:15:30.980 You're not officially endorsing whatever someone just said
00:15:34.100 on TV or radio or in a newspaper next to the ad.
00:15:37.320 Except that's exactly what the government of Quebec
00:15:40.860 just said it was doing, the city of Quebec City.
00:15:43.700 That when they give money,
00:15:45.600 they're endorsing and supporting a point of view.
00:15:47.860 They're admitting what we've accused governments of doing,
00:15:51.280 of using their money to effectively bribe news media.
00:15:54.960 They're just coming right out and saying it.
00:15:56.340 They use tax dollars to reward media who are compliant,
00:16:00.440 and they take tax dollars away to punish media
00:16:03.320 who aren't compliant.
00:16:04.800 Justin Trudeau does the same thing,
00:16:06.700 with $600 million a year for the newspapers
00:16:08.900 and $1.5 billion a year for the CBC.
00:16:11.700 He's just not quite as stupid
00:16:13.360 as these local Quebec City politicians are.
00:16:15.840 He doesn't say the quiet part out loud.
00:16:18.420 I'll read some more from La Presse.
00:16:20.980 Quebec City was not in a position on Monday
00:16:23.120 to say how much money had spent on advertising
00:16:26.080 on this station in recent years,
00:16:27.920 but she has at least two advertising campaigns
00:16:30.320 on Radio X at the moment,
00:16:31.780 which focus on road safety.
00:16:34.800 And the Structuring Public Transport next work.
00:16:38.280 Their broadcast cost the city $9,000,
00:16:40.660 said a spokesperson.
00:16:43.080 Oh, so they're going to actually cancel road safety ads.
00:16:47.520 They're seriously not going to run those ads?
00:16:51.200 Those sound like real public health ads, actually.
00:16:55.220 Although, come on, whoever listened to a radio ad
00:16:57.400 and said, gee, that ad just made me decide
00:17:00.000 to drive more safely.
00:17:00.960 But someone must think that ad works.
00:17:03.080 But they're literally cancelling
00:17:05.140 real public health ads about safety
00:17:07.700 to punish someone who disagrees with them
00:17:11.600 about masks, about public health theater.
00:17:15.460 But get this.
00:17:16.300 This takes the cake.
00:17:18.280 Politicians boycott Radio X, Schwa FM.
00:17:21.120 Same reason they boycott us.
00:17:24.120 Because they can't control us.
00:17:27.080 But they made a special radio ad
00:17:29.100 attacking Schwa FM listeners.
00:17:32.380 I haven't heard it, but it sounds like
00:17:34.240 they just called Schwa FM listeners stupid.
00:17:36.880 You know, yahoos, as Doug Ford would say.
00:17:39.900 Covidiots, whatever.
00:17:40.840 And so they made this special ad.
00:17:44.280 The Quebec City made a special ad
00:17:46.960 that they wanted Schwa FM to play for their listeners
00:17:50.480 that insulted their listeners.
00:17:53.440 And so Schwa FM just refused to air the ad.
00:17:55.460 Here, let me read from the press.
00:17:58.260 Last week, the station declined to broadcast
00:18:00.180 a government advertisement
00:18:01.680 tailored to Radio X listeners.
00:18:05.220 The anti-conspiracy message was delivered
00:18:07.360 by two former station hosts.
00:18:08.940 The management of Radio X judged
00:18:11.460 the government advertisement,
00:18:13.760 painted a cartoonish portrait of its listeners,
00:18:16.640 and established a link between the station
00:18:18.120 and the conspiracy.
00:18:20.120 Host Dominic Moray defended this decision
00:18:21.960 Monday morning.
00:18:22.660 Quote, we invited Arruda.
00:18:24.540 That's no.
00:18:25.260 We invited Legault.
00:18:26.220 That's no, said Moray.
00:18:28.080 Just to explain, Legault is the premier in Quebec.
00:18:30.760 Arruda is the public health official.
00:18:32.820 So Dominic Moray, a host of Schwa FM,
00:18:35.980 said he invited them to come and talk,
00:18:37.520 but they refuse to go on the show
00:18:39.160 to talk about these things.
00:18:41.820 But they'll try and run an ad
00:18:43.640 to insult the station and its listeners.
00:18:45.800 Let me read some more.
00:18:47.660 They say that we are biased,
00:18:49.160 but we invite for free.
00:18:50.420 And that's no.
00:18:51.900 And you're going to take our tax money
00:18:53.240 to advertise that we are biased
00:18:54.640 while you refuse interviews?
00:18:57.040 He said in the microphone of his morning show.
00:18:59.040 What do you think of Schwa FM, Radio X?
00:19:02.720 I've been on the station a few times over the years.
00:19:05.360 Their host interviews me in English
00:19:06.640 and then he translated it into French.
00:19:08.260 It's a bit choppy,
00:19:09.260 but you can tell they have a lot of fun
00:19:10.900 and they love to take on sacred cows.
00:19:13.940 They really are like rebels.
00:19:15.700 They use pirate imagery, not rebel imagery.
00:19:19.580 They're being punished now
00:19:20.720 for daring to criticize the government,
00:19:22.820 just like we are.
00:19:23.600 Hey, can you do me a favor?
00:19:28.000 Can you let me know if you see anyone
00:19:29.580 in English Canada?
00:19:30.740 You know, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression,
00:19:33.600 Canadian Association of Journalists,
00:19:35.840 Pan-Canada, Reporters Without Borders,
00:19:38.860 the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
00:19:41.140 If you see any of them or any politician
00:19:43.240 or really any journalist,
00:19:45.420 can you let me know if a single person
00:19:48.640 in the whole country
00:19:51.420 stands up for their freedom of the press
00:19:54.060 and their freedom to dissent
00:19:56.720 and to criticize the government?
00:20:00.800 Anyone?
00:20:02.720 Anyone?
00:20:04.920 Stay with us for more.
00:20:17.560 Great.
00:20:18.400 Tell me a little bit about what your message is.
00:20:20.120 Uh, no thanks.
00:20:21.920 Don't want to talk to Rebel.
00:20:23.460 F*** off and go away.
00:20:24.600 Don't touch me.
00:20:25.220 F*** off and go away with that f***ing bullshit.
00:20:27.220 Get the f*** out of here.
00:20:28.780 I just want to know what you think
00:20:30.160 about how hypocritical you appear
00:20:31.940 with these plastic tarps.
00:20:34.280 Wow.
00:20:35.260 They're made out of plastic?
00:20:36.680 I had no idea.
00:20:38.840 Oh my God.
00:20:40.060 Oh my God.
00:20:40.600 They're made out of plastic.
00:20:41.620 I didn't know that.
00:20:43.500 F*** off and go away.
00:20:44.760 Are you actually not aware
00:20:45.620 or are you just joking around, I guess?
00:20:48.080 Do I look stupid?
00:20:48.820 No, I think...
00:20:49.420 Well, you kind of do
00:20:50.200 because you're protesting the oil sands.
00:20:51.700 You're protesting...
00:20:52.860 Well, actually, I'm not too sure
00:20:53.820 what you're protesting.
00:20:55.400 Obviously...
00:20:56.000 We're protesting s*** like you.
00:20:57.620 Obviously, you're not a fan of plastic.
00:20:59.900 You threatened women at a camp last year.
00:21:01.880 What?
00:21:02.380 You threatened women at a camp last year.
00:21:03.880 No, I didn't.
00:21:04.500 No, I didn't.
00:21:04.980 You're absolutely crazy.
00:21:05.880 You're a group.
00:21:06.960 You're a group.
00:21:07.880 Yeah, I didn't do that at all.
00:21:09.660 Get the hell out of here!
00:21:11.020 You're a group.
00:21:12.800 You're a group.
00:21:14.020 You're a group.
00:21:14.900 You're a group.
00:21:18.260 F*** off!
00:21:20.780 John is his name.
00:21:24.240 That's our own Kian Bexty
00:21:25.980 talking to a group of protesters,
00:21:28.660 including a grown-up
00:21:30.420 who should know better,
00:21:32.720 who, when asked why he was using
00:21:35.220 a plastic tarp
00:21:36.900 made from petrochemicals,
00:21:39.300 after a torrent of profanity,
00:21:43.080 hit Kian,
00:21:44.900 causing his microphone to break
00:21:46.500 and smash on the pavement.
00:21:49.600 What a strange, violent,
00:21:51.760 and cowardly reaction.
00:21:53.920 We didn't know who he was,
00:21:56.000 but there was a moment
00:21:56.920 that he didn't have his mask on.
00:22:00.080 We published his face to the internet,
00:22:02.200 offered a $500 reward,
00:22:04.360 and, in fact,
00:22:05.900 John O'Brien was identified,
00:22:09.840 and today our lawyers
00:22:11.100 fired off a letter
00:22:13.320 to the Ottawa police
00:22:14.780 asking them to investigate.
00:22:17.320 Joining us now via Skype
00:22:18.360 from Calgary
00:22:19.020 is Kian Bexty.
00:22:20.860 Kian, great to see you.
00:22:23.000 Hey, great to be here.
00:22:25.500 It happens too often
00:22:26.940 that our people are attacked.
00:22:29.380 You, Sheila, David Menzies,
00:22:32.500 it happens too often,
00:22:34.720 and I don't think that
00:22:36.080 it's anything we're doing wrong.
00:22:38.080 Your questions may have annoyed
00:22:39.940 John O'Brien,
00:22:41.660 but that's not an excuse
00:22:43.800 for him to immediately snap
00:22:45.340 and become violent.
00:22:46.360 He was on Parliament Hill
00:22:49.480 for a public protest
00:22:51.260 designed to communicate
00:22:52.140 a message.
00:22:53.200 You were simply asking him
00:22:54.160 questions about it.
00:22:55.780 Why do you think the left
00:22:57.560 now has,
00:22:59.580 as one of their chief tactics,
00:23:02.420 physically attacking
00:23:03.500 conservative-leaning reporters?
00:23:05.000 Because, I mean,
00:23:08.540 they have nowhere else to go.
00:23:09.860 John O'Brien is the typical
00:23:11.460 case of these radicals
00:23:12.640 who have been,
00:23:14.020 these extremists
00:23:15.100 who have been radicalized
00:23:16.500 by the likes of
00:23:17.700 Catherine McKenna.
00:23:19.180 Catherine McKenna,
00:23:20.160 and I was saying this
00:23:20.980 in my story
00:23:21.440 that I published earlier today,
00:23:22.720 Ezra,
00:23:23.040 is that in her rhetoric
00:23:25.820 she acts like
00:23:26.800 the world will end,
00:23:29.280 and people who are opposed
00:23:30.540 to this sort of
00:23:31.880 radical brand
00:23:33.480 of climate justice
00:23:34.480 are deniers
00:23:36.060 akin to Holocaust deniers.
00:23:37.980 They are evil,
00:23:39.160 they are vile people,
00:23:40.140 and they deserve
00:23:40.620 what's coming to them.
00:23:42.020 And then John O'Brien,
00:23:42.960 well, he takes that message
00:23:43.860 and takes it to the streets.
00:23:45.800 So I think we're probably
00:23:47.380 going to be seeing
00:23:48.160 more of this.
00:23:49.440 You know,
00:23:50.040 this isn't the first time
00:23:51.380 that people have been
00:23:52.420 hopped up
00:23:53.180 on an ideological propaganda
00:23:56.080 we saw during the Cold War.
00:24:00.080 I think what's new
00:24:01.660 is that these propagandists,
00:24:03.480 these ideological extremists
00:24:05.140 who have been radicalized,
00:24:07.740 I think what's new
00:24:08.640 is that they see violence
00:24:10.620 as a default setting.
00:24:14.480 In the past,
00:24:15.340 they would nag you
00:24:16.540 or haggle you
00:24:18.180 or debate you.
00:24:19.760 I just don't think
00:24:21.140 violence was the first
00:24:23.600 on their list of to-do
00:24:25.580 when encountering a critic.
00:24:29.020 I think that's new.
00:24:30.620 I don't think it's new
00:24:31.580 that you've got a wacko,
00:24:34.300 you know,
00:24:34.760 hardcore ideologue
00:24:36.020 hanging out on Parliament Hill
00:24:37.600 talking to anyone
00:24:38.800 who'll listen.
00:24:39.300 I think that's as old as time.
00:24:41.080 I think what's new
00:24:42.240 is the violence.
00:24:43.840 Yeah, I mean,
00:24:47.240 you've been around
00:24:48.580 longer than me.
00:24:49.680 I certainly,
00:24:50.660 I feel like I was born
00:24:52.140 into this,
00:24:52.980 having just graduated
00:24:54.700 university
00:24:55.200 and starting at Rebel News.
00:24:56.400 It seems like
00:24:56.940 violence was always
00:24:58.520 the default to me.
00:25:00.580 But like I said,
00:25:01.820 I haven't been
00:25:02.400 playing the game
00:25:03.740 for as long.
00:25:04.500 Since I started
00:25:05.500 at Rebel News
00:25:06.100 when I was at Ottawa,
00:25:06.940 my first interaction
00:25:10.380 with these violent extremists
00:25:11.700 was with Antipa
00:25:12.500 when they took my camera
00:25:14.400 and threw it on the ground
00:25:15.680 after punching me
00:25:16.660 when I was covering
00:25:18.220 the United We Roll convoy
00:25:19.580 in Ottawa.
00:25:21.120 It seems like
00:25:22.440 it's second nature
00:25:23.100 to these people
00:25:23.760 and I'll take your word
00:25:24.540 for it
00:25:24.860 that it's not something
00:25:26.220 that has been going on
00:25:27.520 for a long time.
00:25:28.920 I mean,
00:25:29.380 there's been violent eras
00:25:30.900 before.
00:25:31.480 I was just reading
00:25:32.080 an essay
00:25:33.080 in the magazine
00:25:33.720 First Things
00:25:34.560 about how violence
00:25:36.440 was commonplace.
00:25:38.360 There were literally
00:25:38.880 thousands of assassinations,
00:25:41.800 bomb attacks,
00:25:42.420 stabbings in Russia
00:25:44.200 during the revolution
00:25:46.380 by all parties
00:25:48.160 and it became normalized
00:25:49.440 and accepted
00:25:50.840 and the intelligentsia
00:25:52.620 thought that violence
00:25:54.220 was the noblest ideal.
00:25:56.780 I think one of the differences
00:25:58.100 is that,
00:25:59.940 I mean,
00:26:00.100 I can't help but notice
00:26:01.280 that when Justin Trudeau himself
00:26:04.080 and Catherine McKenna herself
00:26:06.040 object to Rebel News reporters
00:26:08.000 and you in particular,
00:26:10.000 they,
00:26:10.680 I mean,
00:26:10.960 you talked about
00:26:11.860 the rhetoric they use,
00:26:13.900 but Trudeau
00:26:14.660 has turned
00:26:17.260 the neutral
00:26:18.060 non-partisan police
00:26:19.540 into his
00:26:20.840 nightclub style
00:26:21.840 bouncers
00:26:22.500 and I recall
00:26:23.540 when you went
00:26:24.300 to Rideau Cottage
00:26:25.800 to ask him questions
00:26:27.760 in the morning scrum,
00:26:29.640 he had the RCMP
00:26:30.920 and he forcibly
00:26:31.960 frog-marts you
00:26:33.400 off the property.
00:26:34.960 Frankly,
00:26:35.660 it probably counts
00:26:37.000 as a legal assault
00:26:39.000 on you.
00:26:40.460 I think maybe,
00:26:41.480 you know,
00:26:41.760 there's a saying
00:26:42.220 that fish rots
00:26:42.940 from the head down.
00:26:44.140 If people see
00:26:44.880 Justin Trudeau
00:26:46.020 using police
00:26:47.640 to physically
00:26:48.380 shut up
00:26:49.040 critics,
00:26:50.300 even Andrew Scheer,
00:26:52.640 the low-energy,
00:26:54.340 poor-judgment
00:26:55.020 interim leader
00:26:55.940 of the Conservative Party
00:26:57.200 who's thankfully
00:26:57.840 relegated to a footnote
00:26:59.740 in history,
00:27:00.320 even he
00:27:00.960 called police
00:27:02.940 to handcuff
00:27:04.100 David Menzies.
00:27:05.660 So I guess
00:27:06.160 when the political
00:27:07.740 bosses resort
00:27:08.840 to physicality,
00:27:10.800 why shouldn't
00:27:11.560 some loser
00:27:12.100 named John O'Brien
00:27:13.240 on the street
00:27:14.320 punch a microphone?
00:27:15.380 I mean,
00:27:15.540 why not?
00:27:15.900 Everyone else
00:27:16.320 is doing it.
00:27:18.060 Yeah,
00:27:18.340 you're right
00:27:19.180 and I think
00:27:19.720 it's worth noting
00:27:20.340 that it wasn't,
00:27:22.240 when I was
00:27:22.620 at Justin Trudeau's
00:27:23.380 residence
00:27:23.740 at that press conference,
00:27:25.240 it was Justin Trudeau's
00:27:26.580 media boss,
00:27:27.880 Terry Guion,
00:27:28.620 who directed
00:27:29.760 the RCMP
00:27:30.600 to do what they did.
00:27:31.840 This is standard
00:27:32.980 practice for them,
00:27:34.280 for liberals,
00:27:34.960 for leftists,
00:27:36.080 against journalists
00:27:37.580 who share
00:27:38.620 the other side
00:27:39.180 of the story.
00:27:39.940 This is their
00:27:40.980 marching orders.
00:27:42.440 You're right about that.
00:27:43.100 They take it
00:27:43.580 from the leader,
00:27:45.140 Catherine McKenna,
00:27:45.840 Justin Trudeau,
00:27:46.580 and his henchmen,
00:27:48.200 and they're just
00:27:48.940 following the leader.
00:27:51.600 Yeah.
00:27:52.580 You know,
00:27:53.420 it's remarkable.
00:27:54.120 there's a gag,
00:27:57.060 a practical joke,
00:27:58.020 a prank,
00:27:58.720 a meme.
00:27:59.720 It's very profane.
00:28:01.960 It started as an ironic joke
00:28:03.740 and it caught on
00:28:05.180 where people,
00:28:06.820 usually men,
00:28:08.700 see a live reporter,
00:28:10.700 usually a woman,
00:28:12.060 and they walk by
00:28:13.120 and they shout
00:28:13.880 into the microphone,
00:28:15.600 F-U-C-K,
00:28:17.940 her,
00:28:18.360 right in the,
00:28:19.160 and I'm not going to
00:28:19.800 spell out the second word,
00:28:21.840 and they holler that
00:28:23.240 in the microphone
00:28:23.740 and they dash away
00:28:24.760 and it's a profane prank.
00:28:27.600 I've seen it done
00:28:28.340 by women as well.
00:28:30.240 I've seen it done
00:28:30.720 by women to men,
00:28:32.040 but it's usually a man
00:28:33.520 passing by quickly,
00:28:35.540 shouting this string
00:28:36.480 of profanities
00:28:37.240 to get onto a live broadcast,
00:28:40.540 often at a sporting event.
00:28:42.080 This happens in Canada
00:28:43.920 once every few months
00:28:45.960 and whenever it does,
00:28:48.400 the reporter becomes
00:28:49.880 national news.
00:28:50.880 Are you okay?
00:28:52.240 Do you need a grief counselor?
00:28:54.360 The police more often
00:28:55.640 than not get involved.
00:28:57.180 Track down the offender.
00:28:58.540 And what's the offense?
00:28:59.720 Swearing?
00:29:00.320 That's not actually
00:29:01.380 in the criminal code.
00:29:02.800 I remember in Ontario
00:29:03.760 that one of the people
00:29:05.500 who did it
00:29:06.140 was working
00:29:07.440 for the power company.
00:29:08.440 He lost his job.
00:29:09.520 He later got it back.
00:29:10.740 So swearing
00:29:11.960 in passing
00:29:13.620 at a reporter
00:29:15.240 just to get in their live feed,
00:29:16.660 that is a five-alarm fire.
00:29:19.500 Let's have a national
00:29:20.520 day of mourning.
00:29:22.460 Get the police involved.
00:29:24.200 It's terrible.
00:29:26.180 But an actual reporter
00:29:27.380 on Parliament Hill
00:29:29.600 gets the microphone
00:29:31.040 smashed out of his hands
00:29:32.400 by a left-wing activist.
00:29:36.180 Complete silence
00:29:37.140 from the media.
00:29:38.360 Same thing whenever
00:29:39.100 any of our reporters
00:29:39.980 get hit.
00:29:40.600 Complete silence
00:29:41.600 from the media.
00:29:42.480 Sometimes the media says,
00:29:43.600 oh, it didn't even happen.
00:29:44.960 Or you were asking for it.
00:29:46.880 So I think
00:29:47.840 that's part of the problem too.
00:29:49.420 Not just that
00:29:50.020 the Justin Trudeaus
00:29:51.000 and the Andrew Shears
00:29:52.220 and the Catherine McKennans
00:29:53.180 of the world
00:29:53.660 have fomented this.
00:29:55.640 But the rest of the media
00:29:56.920 says,
00:29:57.280 oh, no, no, that's fine.
00:29:58.660 You can physically
00:29:59.520 assault conservative journalists.
00:30:01.320 Just don't dare.
00:30:02.660 You know,
00:30:02.900 oh, my virgin ears.
00:30:03.840 I've never heard a swear before.
00:30:05.480 So police officer
00:30:06.360 arrest that guy
00:30:06.980 for swearing.
00:30:07.760 But Kian had a microphone
00:30:08.740 smashed out of his hands.
00:30:09.820 Who cares?
00:30:10.220 No, it is worth noting
00:30:12.460 that Justin Trudeau's
00:30:13.340 parliamentary security
00:30:14.460 watched the whole thing happen.
00:30:17.600 There was three of them
00:30:18.880 that were standing
00:30:19.760 by the south doors
00:30:22.000 of the West Block
00:30:23.660 just a little bit above us.
00:30:26.260 And they did nothing.
00:30:27.380 They watched the whole thing happen.
00:30:28.700 Even the dude who came
00:30:29.780 from his car from the road
00:30:31.480 shouted at the officers
00:30:32.920 and asked them
00:30:33.500 why they were doing nothing.
00:30:35.460 And I think that
00:30:36.380 that goes to show
00:30:37.280 this is a coordinated effort
00:30:41.920 with the people in power,
00:30:43.360 Justin Trudeau
00:30:44.100 and his thugs,
00:30:47.140 whether they're the RCMP
00:30:48.300 or the parliamentary security.
00:30:49.760 They will do his bidding
00:30:50.520 and arrest the people
00:30:51.720 they want to arrest
00:30:52.540 and ignore the people
00:30:53.500 who need help
00:30:54.100 that Justin Trudeau
00:30:55.160 wants them to ignore.
00:30:56.180 Yeah.
00:30:56.660 Well,
00:30:57.340 if they have a political approach
00:30:59.540 to the small stuff,
00:31:01.100 like a microphone
00:31:01.840 being slapped on your hand,
00:31:03.200 you can imagine
00:31:04.200 they have a political approach
00:31:05.320 to the big stuff,
00:31:07.220 like Justin Trudeau
00:31:08.340 interfering in the corruption trial
00:31:11.000 of SNC-Lavalin,
00:31:13.080 the various ethics breaches
00:31:15.560 and all sorts of other
00:31:17.320 criminal allegations.
00:31:19.500 We charity.
00:31:21.380 If the RCMP will become political
00:31:23.400 about the trivia,
00:31:25.100 you can imagine
00:31:25.740 how political they are
00:31:26.920 about the graver matters.
00:31:28.480 All right, Kean,
00:31:28.920 we'll let you go there.
00:31:29.620 I'm glad we found John O'Brien.
00:31:31.620 Let's see if the Ottawa Palouse
00:31:33.100 do anything.
00:31:33.720 I wonder if there's some
00:31:34.700 honest cops there
00:31:35.540 who put partisanship aside.
00:31:38.240 Thanks for joining us today.
00:31:40.180 No problem.
00:31:40.780 All right,
00:31:41.020 there you have it.
00:31:41.540 Kean Bexte.
00:31:43.360 He's been assaulted several times,
00:31:45.160 included by Jonathan Yaniv,
00:31:47.540 who we are pursuing in court.
00:31:49.760 Stay with us.
00:31:50.620 More ahead.
00:31:50.980 On my monologue last night,
00:32:04.040 David writes,
00:32:05.040 we already know the liberals
00:32:06.120 hate Alberta oil.
00:32:08.300 You know,
00:32:08.760 they love Alberta oil
00:32:10.180 in so much as
00:32:11.320 the money it gives them
00:32:12.920 and in so much
00:32:13.820 it gives them a punching bag.
00:32:16.080 But oil,
00:32:16.860 they're all for the Saudi oil
00:32:18.000 and it looks like
00:32:19.180 they're all for subsidizing oil
00:32:20.440 off the Atlantic coast.
00:32:22.660 Grace writes,
00:32:24.140 as regards to gender analysis,
00:32:25.620 the women and families
00:32:26.360 who would benefit
00:32:26.940 from a real employment opportunity
00:32:28.420 would far outweigh
00:32:29.600 any perceived negative impacts.
00:32:31.780 Think of how often
00:32:32.400 we have heard of women
00:32:33.160 who have had to do
00:32:33.720 whatever they could
00:32:34.260 to feed their children
00:32:35.000 because their men
00:32:36.040 were unable to find real work.
00:32:37.420 Well,
00:32:38.860 I don't know if you remember
00:32:39.580 when Catherine McKenna
00:32:40.740 brought in that insane
00:32:41.760 gender-based analysis
00:32:43.720 for pipelines.
00:32:44.840 Don Martin,
00:32:45.460 who's a real liberal
00:32:46.220 of CTV,
00:32:47.360 he couldn't,
00:32:48.180 he just couldn't even believe it
00:32:49.280 so he asked McKenna
00:32:50.180 what she meant.
00:32:51.280 She meant,
00:32:52.300 she literally said on air
00:32:53.760 that having groups of men
00:32:56.160 come in to build a pipeline
00:32:57.460 or a railway
00:32:58.380 or anything like that,
00:33:00.260 she implied that
00:33:01.260 that would cause rapes
00:33:02.820 to go up in the community
00:33:04.860 and they would literally
00:33:06.540 weigh that
00:33:07.780 against building
00:33:08.940 the pipeline
00:33:10.580 or she would,
00:33:11.240 she in advance
00:33:12.460 accused working men
00:33:14.300 of being rapists
00:33:15.260 just cause.
00:33:17.720 That's kooky Catherine McKenna.
00:33:19.900 Hey,
00:33:20.120 I don't think I ever showed you this
00:33:21.200 but I saw this
00:33:22.720 on the Post Millennial
00:33:23.520 the other day.
00:33:24.620 They dug up an old video
00:33:26.000 of Catherine McKenna
00:33:28.160 eating dog meat
00:33:31.780 and going to a cock fight
00:33:34.820 that's when birds
00:33:36.240 kill each other.
00:33:38.060 You take a quick look
00:33:38.820 at this dog meat video.
00:33:40.500 I found out
00:33:41.280 one of the most popular dishes
00:33:42.900 in Flores was dog.
00:33:44.980 Guess what we had for lunch?
00:33:58.000 That's from the Post Millennial.
00:33:59.760 Take a quick look
00:34:00.700 at this video.
00:34:02.620 You know what a cock fight is?
00:34:03.580 They put razors on birds
00:34:05.580 and make them kill each other.
00:34:07.140 Take a look at this.
00:34:07.960 Like this,
00:34:08.500 you won't see the cock fighting.
00:34:10.040 Ah, it's a secret code.
00:34:12.160 Ah.
00:34:13.280 Before we entered the fight,
00:34:14.680 BMO explained
00:34:15.340 that everyone who watched
00:34:16.260 had to donate
00:34:16.820 5,000 Indonesian rupiah
00:34:18.580 or 3 US dollars
00:34:19.880 as a bribe to the police.
00:34:22.000 Apparently the police
00:34:22.680 would show up
00:34:23.280 and threaten arrest
00:34:24.080 if they didn't receive
00:34:24.800 any money.
00:34:25.220 The dirt makeshift arena
00:34:39.960 was filled with
00:34:40.720 strained expressions
00:34:41.540 of anxiety.
00:34:42.880 These men were
00:34:43.520 definitely serious gamblers.
00:34:47.600 You're going to choose
00:34:48.480 the winning one?
00:34:49.220 Yeah.
00:34:49.460 And you're going to test
00:34:53.160 for it's like
00:34:53.880 the strongest bird?
00:34:55.520 Yeah, yeah.
00:34:55.960 And look more muscle,
00:34:58.700 you know?
00:34:59.260 Yeah, I think that is
00:35:00.700 one messed up woman.
00:35:02.460 And I'm not sure
00:35:03.180 if I'm going to take
00:35:03.740 morality lessons from her
00:35:05.080 about whether or not
00:35:06.460 a pipeline is a good idea
00:35:07.920 ethically.
00:35:08.900 What a kook.
00:35:10.240 That's our show for today.
00:35:11.340 Until tomorrow,
00:35:12.100 on behalf of all of us
00:35:12.960 here at Rebel World Headquarters,
00:35:14.600 good night.
00:35:14.920 and keep fighting for free.