A 16-year-old climate crusader, Greta thunberg, drops anchor in New York, but what s the real story behind this supposedly feel-good story? Kian Bexty was in the Big Apple to greet Greta and her handlers, and he'll give us his take. Ezra Levent will share his thoughts on why the billboard company capitulated to media pressure by removing anti-migration billboards. And finally, we get your letters.
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00:01:00.400Pint-sized climate crusader Greta Thunberg recently dropped anchor in New York, but what's the real story behind this supposedly feel-good story?
00:01:11.340Kian Bexty was in the Big Apple to greet Greta and her handlers, and he'll give us his take.
00:01:18.320Well, if you blinked, you missed them.
00:01:21.080I speak of those billboard ads criticizing mass migration, yet the question arises,
00:01:27.200why did the billboard company, Patterson, capitulate to media party pressure by way of removing those billboards?
00:03:48.840Would you agree with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle that it's unethical to have children in this day and age when the climate crisis is so pressing?
00:03:55.700I think we need to focus on Greta's message today.
00:03:57.980I mean, Greta's here delivering this message.
00:09:51.380And back to what I was saying earlier in regards to the people around her, she wasn't able to speak to journalists in any sort of comprehensive way.
00:10:04.960And it's not just from the United Nations.
00:10:08.040Greenpeace appointed themselves, the self-appointed themselves, as far as I understand it, the thugs to watch over Greta.
00:10:16.320There were perhaps a dozen Greenpeaceers who set up barricades and acted like, I don't know if I can say this, they acted like King Shit of Turt Island, really.
00:10:27.600They were yelling at reporters, they were pushing people out of the space that they defined on their own was Greta's space, and they were going to be there to defend Greta.
00:10:37.400It is amazing that Greenpeace people, not service workers with the city of New York, would be erecting barricades and directing people how they could use public property.
00:10:52.820But that Greenpeace feels emboldened and entitled to do that.
00:10:56.820And, you know, again, it just, I think, speaks to the hypocrisy of the environmental movement that these virtue signalers can, you know, espouse this, don't do as I do, but do as I say.
00:11:12.120But thank you at least for getting down to the dock and welcoming this pint-sized climate crusader.
00:15:02.960Patterson approved the billboard, and their first reaction when asked to censor it was to stand by it.
00:15:08.520It was only after the social media mob, whipped up by the media party, especially the CBC, that Patterson broke down, ripped up their contract, and took down the billboards.
00:16:11.460But you wouldn't know it from the absolute silence of everyone in the establishment.
00:16:16.080And the thing, too, Ezra, is that there are numerous third-party influencers in any election.
00:16:22.500Yet it's just when there is someone giving a right-of-centre viewpoint that the media party goes into this frenzy and starts demanding not a debate on the ideas, on the intellectual wherewithal of the proposal going forward,
00:16:42.500but simply that, no, you cannot say that and you must be shut down and they're acquiesced to.
00:16:49.720I mean, I thought journalists, Ezra, were all about free speech and debate and whatnot.
00:16:55.700No, you're about five years out of date on that, maybe ten years out of date on that.
00:17:00.960In fact, now the journalists are all about deplatforming people who fall outside the official narrative.
00:17:06.800They're about hounding people's employers and saying, do you know what so-and-so said on Twitter?
00:17:11.200And there's one more conflict of interest to the many I've just listed, and that is that the journalists themselves have their own third-party campaign groups, Unifor, one of the unions representing journalists, the Canadian Media Guild.
00:17:25.140So the reporters you see on TV and you read in the newspapers take from their own pockets union dues, and they pay those towards an anti-conservative campaign.
00:17:35.040So they themselves are a third-party group that's anti-conservative.
00:17:39.280So why would they say a hard word about any anti-conservatives?
00:17:43.440Why would they say a gentle word about any conservatives?
00:17:48.980And, Ezra, what strikes me about this story, too, and you alluded to it in your monologue, is the fact that what these billboards were saying aren't that outrageous.
00:17:59.020That if you look at the statistics when Canadians are polled on this issue, the majority are indeed against this kind of mass migration.
00:18:08.480So, I mean, it's almost as though the tail is wagging the dog here when it comes to this media outrage and left-of-center people demanding that this debate be shut down when most normal Canadians are simpatical with this idea.
00:18:25.300Well, that happens in so many key issues, whether it's Omer Cotter or the theory of man-made global warming and the carbon tax, or in this case, mass immigration.
00:18:37.920The establishment, the elites, are all on one side and the people are all on the other.
00:18:42.620And so it's severely normal to believe that immigration numbers are too high.
00:18:46.120In fact, only 4% to 6% of Canadians want immigration increased.
00:18:52.380But that is the view of all the major parties.
00:18:55.060In fact, one of the great disappointments between me and Andrew Scheer, the reason he stopped talking to me, is in our last conversation, I interviewed him on The Rebel.
00:19:03.140I asked him about the numbers of immigrants and values tests for the kind of immigrants.
00:19:11.040He gave me the identical answer, Trudeau would.
00:19:14.120And so the official narrative from all the establishment parties, the Liberals, the Conservatives, the NDP, the Greens, are identical on immigration.
00:19:24.080And that's, again, the same position of all the major media, especially the CBC, but the Globe and the Star and all the others.
00:19:32.340And so this third-party ad in support of Maxime Bernier was the only counter-narrative out there.
00:19:42.660And, of course, Bernier himself had to be kept out of the leadership debates.
00:19:46.660You simply cannot allow someone to contradict the official narrative that, of course, we all agree that mass immigration is great and diversity is our strength or whatever the saying is.
00:19:58.600If you have a single person saying, yeah, no, I don't believe that, the emperor has no clothes, before you know it, people might start thinking for themselves.
00:20:05.520So they have to silence this alternative narrative in the debates and even in Billboard.
00:20:11.020Yeah, I remember that interview you did with Mr. Scheer, and I think you might have asked him five or six times, maybe seven, the same question.
00:20:18.120And you just, it was like nailing jello on the wall.
00:20:20.820But, you know, Ezra, I mean, I find this deeply disturbing, being a lover of free speech, as are you.
00:20:26.740The fact that we're seeing this deplatforming, that's the carrot part of the, you know, the politically correct mob trying to silence voices.
00:20:39.300But also with Justin Trudeau rolling out that $600 million media bailout, that's kind of like the stick part of the equation.
00:20:46.800So it's almost as though what the Trudeau liberals are saying, and they're not getting much resistance, is, listen, we can do this the easy way, i.e. you get a paycheck, or we do it the hard way.
00:20:58.540Where do you see this ultimately going?
00:21:02.040Oh, yeah, I mean, I've always, for a while I've been saying that soon there will be only two kinds of media in Canada.
00:21:09.920The official government-controlled, government-regulated, government-funded media, and media that is banned.
00:21:17.880So either official media or banned media, no independent media, because the independent media will either be bought off or proscribed by law.
00:21:26.900And it wouldn't surprise me if Patterson Outdoor, the billboard company, got a phone call from Gerald Butts or Katie Telfer or someone like that and was told, look, this is just a tiny ad contract you have with a third-party election group.
00:21:45.260We're the largest advertiser in Canada.
00:21:46.940And if you know what's good for you, you'll take this ad down right now and say goodbye to $5,000 in that ad money, and you'll keep $50 million from our ad money.
00:21:56.800It would not surprise me one bit if that happened, because a similar thing happened to us when we tried to put up a pro-oil billboard in Montreal, and Denny Coderre, the liberal there, threatened the billboard company there.
00:22:09.860So liberals have a habit of threatening billboard companies.
00:22:13.180They either threatened them not to buy ads on them, or even they say it would be a shame if you lost your license to have a signage in the city.
00:22:21.440Better be careful so the Lopranos do what they have to do.
00:22:25.000You know, Ezra, it wouldn't surprise me either.
00:22:27.180This is downright frustrating and depressing and aggravating.
00:22:33.580I'm afraid we have to wrap it here, but a great monologue as usual, my friend, and stay safe in your travels.
00:23:11.240Well, none other than Jonathan, a.k.a. Jessica Yaniv, brings me here.
00:23:16.700We all know that this is a fake woman.
00:23:20.460We all know that this is a fake victim.
00:23:23.640But he is also apparently a fake disabled person as well.
00:23:29.840Viewers of this space have noticed footage in which Jonathan Yaniv is breaking into a trot that resembles tryouts for the 100-meter dash.
00:23:42.420Meanwhile, when he is using a cane, it's less for mobility issues and it's more for, well, cracking me over the head and shoulder with it, to be quite frank.
00:23:54.060So the question is this, why is this person being accommodated by the British Columbian taxpayers?
00:24:04.460You know, my favorite Yiddish word is chutzpah.
00:24:07.060It essentially means sheer, unadulterated gull.
00:24:10.460And if there ever was a poster boy for chutzpah, it is most surely that odious flim-flam man, Jonathan slash Jessica Yaniv.
00:24:25.040And par for the course, it turns out that he pretends to be a disabled person too.
00:24:29.380He clearly does not need a mobility scooter, but I guess if that's what it takes to score subsidized rides about town, then Mr. Yaniv has no problem pretending to be handicapped.
00:24:42.420Like I said, chutzpah to the power of infinity.
00:24:46.700In any event, here's what you had to say about the shameless Jonathan Yaniv and his ongoing quest to game the system.
00:24:55.020Mina Alquist writes, as an actual disabled person fighting to get a mobility pass right now, I'm appalled.
00:25:04.980I'm bedridden most of the time and in a wheelchair.
00:25:08.240And this is a person who has a pass and uses a mobility scooter, one I can only dream about and must have my husband to push me along in my wheelchair.
00:25:19.320Ugh, so angry right now and I'm not even Canadian.
00:25:23.120Well, Mina, first of all, I'm very sorry to hear about your plight, but this is what makes this particular Yaniv scam all the more appalling.
00:25:32.240When mobility services are used to accommodate somebody faking to be disabled, a real disabled person is, of course, being denied that service.
00:26:26.520This creepy individual needs to be exposed.
00:26:30.580Unfortunately, it requires giving this creature attention.
00:26:34.280Well, E., I would say the various scams being carried out by Yaniv have been adroitly exposed by us here at The Rebel and some other media organizations, too.
00:26:44.840I also think he actually does get off on the attention that he garners, even though most of it is very, very negative coverage.
00:26:57.460Why, for example, is the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal still investigating his ludicrous complaints about discrimination as opposed to tossing the entire Yaniv file into the trash can where it surely belongs?