The CBC is an enemy of the people. These three stories prove it.
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In this episode, Ezra exposes a pattern of Liberal and NDP Party propaganda by the Canadian state broadcaster, the CBC. He shows a pattern that runs through three stories the CBC ran over the past 24 hours, and why it's important.
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Folks, today's podcast is about three CBC stories that are unrelated, but if you look at the three
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together, you see a pattern. A pattern of Liberal Party or NDP Party propaganda. It's not real
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journalism. Such weird spin. One of them on immigration, one of them on global warming,
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and one of them a seven-reporter attack on Jason Kinney. I've never seen seven reporters
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cover a story before in Canada View. I should tell you that the Globe and Mail story that
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busted Justin Trudeau and Jody Wilson-Raybould. That was written by three reporters. What do you
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think the CBC put seven reporters on? Well, listen, and you're about to hear. Hey, can you do me a
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for the whole year. Without further to do, here's my assessment of the state of the art
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Canada's state broadcaster. Tonight, three stories by the CBC state broadcaster prove
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that it is indeed an enemy of the people. I'll show you. It's March 27th, and this is
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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 about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
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I want to show you three crazy stories that the CBC ran in the course of the past 24 hours
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or so. They show a pattern, and I want to tell you what that pattern means and why it's
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important. But first, you do realize that the CBC's news division is larger than every other media
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company in Canada combined, right? How do you think that near monopoly distorts our understanding
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of the world, especially political issues that Justin Trudeau, the CBC's boss, has a stake in?
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I acknowledge that there are other media companies in Canada, too. On television, there's CTV
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and Global. There is some private radio left in Canada, too, and though they're all dying,
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there are some newspapers and maybe two news magazines left in the country. But the TV
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and the radio stations are all heavily regulated by the government, the CRTC. And the media companies
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who own TV and radio stations often are in the cell phone and cable business, which are even
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more highly regulated. So, for example, Global TV. It's owned by the same company that owns Freedom
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Mobile, the Canadian cell phone company, and Shaw, the cable company. CTV is owned by Bell,
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the cable and cell phone company. So they're all highly regulated, not just on the TV and radio part
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of the business, but the other parts of their business. And now, of course, all the newspapers
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in the country are going to be bailed out by Trudeau. So they will be subject to scrutiny. And that's just
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on the ownership and high-level corporate level. On the individual reporter level, as you know,
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there have been thousands of layoffs in the media in the past 10 years, as Facebook and Google devour
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all the advertising money and the legacy media die. So those papers are either going to go out of
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business or maybe, if they're lucky, find some billionaire patron to treat them as some sort
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of a play thing, like Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who owns the New York Times, does.
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Or Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com billionaire who owns the Washington Post. But for the average reporter
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in Canada, being laid off or having their newspaper just close altogether is a very real prospect.
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And the reason I mention that in the same breath as these other things is that journalists are
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always operating with one eye on the CBC as their backup plan. So although the CBC state broadcaster
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is already bigger than all other news media combined, its influence is even bigger than that
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because journalists at the Toronto Star and the National Post and the Calgary Herald and every
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tiny little paper is all, they're all thinking, if I get laid off next week, I'll have to apply
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it to the CBC because it'll never go out of business because of its annual $1.5 billion bailout from
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Trudeau. So I'd better be careful not to color outside the lines editorially.
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I'll make sure I support Omar Cotter like the CBC does, that I oppose Donald Trump like the CBC does,
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that I support the carbon tax and the theory of man-made global warming like the CBC does,
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and I'll never get too tough on left-wing heroes, whether it's Elizabeth May or Justin Trudeau or
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Rachel Notley or even foreign left-wing heroes like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or George Soros.
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So even while they're still working at a private media company, journalists are already polishing
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their resumes for the CBC or even to go to work directly for some left-wing government spin
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doctor. More than a dozen reporters in Alberta, including some who covered the 2015 Alberta
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provincial election, went to work for Rachel Notley after she won. They probably got a huge raise,
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tons of benefits and a shorter workday out of it, and don't think they weren't pulling their punches
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during the campaign to make sure they'd get those rewards afterwards. So that's all a lengthy
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preamble to my story today. Just by chance, I came across three stories in the past day or so,
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and they all just sort of clicked as a pattern. The first one I came across in a tweet from Ahmed
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Hassan, the Somali migrant who has himself now become Canada's immigration minister.
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immigration expected to keep Alberta's workforce strong
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for decades. And then he adds, why immigration matters.
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And is immigration what's going to keep it strong in the future?
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the unemployment situation in Alberta a reason for immigration?
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Those are really weird questions for anything that knows anything, anyone who knows anything
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about Alberta. Let's take a look at the story. This is a story he linked to in the tweet.
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As Canada ages, immigration expected to keep Alberta's workforce strong for decades.
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Now you know, as Ahmed Hassan apparently doesn't,
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that Alberta has the highest unemployment rate west of the Atlantic, right?
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It's got a higher unemployment rate than Quebec, right?
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You know that Calgary is the city in Canada with the highest unemployment rate in the entire
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country. You know that, right? Ahmed Hassan doesn't.
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And it's, they're not unemployed because they lack skills training,
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or they need to learn how to code, or whatever the buzzwords are from know-nothings like Justin
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Truro. In fact, as you may know, and I know this because I'm from there, and it's something
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Calgarians boast about, Calgary, city with the highest unemployment in Canada,
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has the highest level of post-secondary education in the land. These are unemployed
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skilled trades, unemployed college and university grads. They're not unemployed because they're
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useless. They're unemployed because the government is useless. The government, federally, provincially,
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has blocked the most valuable industry in Canada, the oil and gas industry, by cancelling and vetoing
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pipelines to take out the oil and gas to market. Let me read a bit from the stupid story.
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There have been plenty of warnings about the looming impacts of Canada's aging labor force,
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but a new report suggests the working population in Alberta will remain relatively young and become
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increasingly diverse in the coming decades. What? Aging workforce? Again, I happen to know,
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because I'm from there, Alberta has the youngest workforce in Canada. And diverse, I mean, maybe,
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but what's that got to do with anything other than some leftist fetish? Blocking the pipelines doesn't
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just put white people or aboriginal people or visible minorities out of work. It puts everyone
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out of work. What a weird story. Perfect CBC. No wonder Ahmed Hassan tweeted it. I'll read some more.
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This gets really weird. Alberta's two largest cities already enjoy the highest labor force
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participation rate among major population centers across the country. According to the Statistics Canada
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report released late last week, the rate is defined as the percentage of people late 15 and over
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who are working or looking for work. Alberta's rate was around 72% in 2017. That's projected to dip
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slightly to 71% by 2036. The national rate, meanwhile, is expected to fall as low as 62% by then.
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This is largely the result of population aging as the large cohort of baby boomers
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enters their retirement years, Statistics Canada said in a release. So just take a moment and just
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for a second. So that means 72 or 71% of adults in Alberta are either working or trying to find work.
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That's almost 10% more than the rest of the country where people just don't work as much. They think
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they retire, they go on unemployment, they choose to become homemakers, whatever. They're just not
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working. My point is, even though unemployment is the highest in Calgary, that hasn't made Calgarians
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giving up, give up trying to find work. All they need is for Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau and
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BC's premier to get out of the way and let the pipelines be built. There are about 200,000
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Albertans just ready to go. Skills, willingness, still looking, still optimistic, everything.
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It's just sad that you've got this great labor pool, so well trained, and no jobs because of stupid
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politicians. Alberta has massive unemployment because of Justin Trudeau's cabinet, including
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Ahmed Hassan. Alberta has skilled oil patch workers. New immigrants from, I don't know,
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Somalia or Syria or Afghanistan or Pakistan, these are some of Trudeau's favorite countries
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when you measure by recent immigration, they don't actually have oil sands skills. Sorry.
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They don't do a lot of fracking over there in Pakistan. So they're not really going to fill
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those high-skilled jobs if they ever come back. Probably 200,000 or so people who were last laid
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off by those oil and gas companies are going to be the first to be rehired again. And I'm not going
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to read the rest of this story to you. It's just so weird. It's such a forced story. It's such a work
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of fiction. It makes no sense at all. In fact, hey Albertans, things are going so great over there
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jobs-wise, we'll bring huge immigration with less skills to keep it going. It just doesn't make any
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sense. But Ahmed Hassan used it as a proof point that we need more immigration to Alberta. Story number
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two. A tweet by Catherine McKenna, another cabinet minister. Doctors and medical professionals
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understand fighting climate change benefits our environment, our economy, and our health,
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while climate change is the greatest health threat of the century, climate action is the
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greatest health opportunity. I'm sorry. I feel dumber just reading that to you. I apologize.
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And of course that tweet links to another CBC story. Do you think it's a bit odd that CBC's main use
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is to publish opinions of liberal cabinet ministers, especially bizarre claims that even other liberal
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media like CTV or Global just probably wouldn't even say with a straight face. Is climate change
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really the greatest health threat of the century? You should say millennium.
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Catherine McKenna is a social justice warrior who deliberately talks like a Kardashian.
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So I'm not sure I'm going to trust her on anything science-y. I don't much trust the United Nations either
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or their department called the World Health Organization, but I probably trust the World Health Organization
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on health things a little more than I trust McKenna. Here's what they have to say on that question.
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In about 30 seconds, I found this page, the top 10 causes of death. And you can see this was from last
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spring and published in the last 12 months. Let me read a bit. Now, I'm going to get a little science-y here,
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but I'm guessing you're probably going to welcome that to flush the stupid out of your system after I just
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read that McKenna tweet to you. Again, I apologize for that. So let me read a little bit from the World Health
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Organization. Of the 56.9 million deaths worldwide in 2016, more than half, 54%, were due to the top 10
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causes. I practice pronouncing that word. I can't really say it. Ischemic heart disease. I can't say
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that word. And stroke are the world's biggest killers, accounting for a combined 15.2 million deaths
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in 2016. These diseases have remained the leading cause of death globally in the last 15 years.
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, claimed 3 million lives in 2016, while lung cancer,
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along with trachea and bronchus cancers, caused 1.7 million deaths. Diabetes killed 1.6 million
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people in 2016, up from less than 1 million in 2000. I think that means we're eating more sugar and fat.
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Deaths due to dementia is more than doubled between 2000 and 2016, making it the fifth leading cause of
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global deaths in 2016 compared to 14th in 2000. I think that's because people are living longer,
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poor people are living longer. Anyway, so heart attacks are number one. Strokes, lung disease,
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diabetes, dementia. You can see the whole chart if you're curious. Road injuries are on there. You see
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that near the bottom in green. And even diarrhea. I know that sounds sort of gross, but in poor parts
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of the world, absolutely. Lots of footnotes and proof on the World Health Organization website.
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I think they're probably pretty accurate. I don't think there's a lot of angles in lying about how
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many people die from this or that disease. But Catherine McKenna just told you they're all going
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to die because of global warming. It's the number one cause of death or something. And her proof,
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of course, is a CBC propaganda. So let's read a bit about CBC propaganda,
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but not too much lest we get stupid again. Fighting climate change, just part of being a doctor,
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says Yellowknife physician in Saskatoon. Let me read underneath. It says doctor calls climate change
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a public health crisis that needs urgent treatment. Yeah, no. Fighting climate change isn't part of
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being a doctor, you quack. That's called politics. But look at that horrible picture just short there
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again. This was the picture on the website. Just in case you need to see how bad carbon dioxide and
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greenhouse gases are in Canada. Look at that picture. But wait, hang on. That's not even Canada, is it?
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And that white and gray stuff in the sky, that's not carbon dioxide. Let me read the caption there.
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Okay. Steam rises from the Neuerath and Niederhausen coal-fired power plants in Burgheim, Germany,
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Europe's largest carbon dioxide source. Oh, so that's a picture from Germany, not Canada. But the CBC uses that
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in their propaganda piece about Canada. And that's not even carbon dioxide in the sky. Of course not.
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Carbon dioxide is invisible. That's not even smoke, though, or smog. That's steam. And by the way,
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other than steam, that picture actually looks sort of beautiful, doesn't it? The environment,
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lush green fields, happy little lambs. And at a clear blue sky, once you look past the steam,
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which obviously dissipates, which is what steam does. So it's a propaganda fail on about three
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levels using that photograph. But let me read a bit more about this doctor who has made a diagnosis.
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The planet has a fever. Mother Earth is in digestion, people. Mother Nature has a tummy ache.
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I'm a doctor. That's not medicine, folks. That's quackery. Published by the CBC in the service of their
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master, the liberal government. No wonder Catherine McKenna quoted it. Let me read a little bit from the story.
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Dr. Courtney Howard, an emergency room physician in Yellowknife, spends half her time fighting climate change,
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which she says is a public health crisis. Oh, really?
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So in the emergency rooms in Yellowknife, is that what's coming in the door? Doctor,
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stat, we have a patient here who has come down with a sickness. Another one, what? Well,
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global warming-itis, doctor. It's the new plague. Yeah, let me read some more. As the planet warms,
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our risks of becoming sick increase, Howard said, due to things like Lyme disease spreading north and
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droughts, displacing hundreds of thousands of people. Really? It's a fact. So warmth kills more people
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than cold does? I dispute that the Earth is warming in any measurable way. Satellite measurements show
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that the barely perceptible warming of the last century or so went on an 18-year hiatus. It just
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stopped, according to the UN itself. But put that aside. If warm climates truly are worse than cold
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climates, why are there only 20,000 people who live in Yellowknife? But the top 10 cities in the
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world, measured by population, are in warm climates. Even in the tropics, massive cities with literally
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tens of millions of people. In fact, all the big cities are near the equator. Why is life so barren in
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the Arctic? There's no trees up there. Once you get past the tree line, well, I've been up to Tuktayukduk and
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up to Inovic. There's no trees. Because the permafrost, the ground is frozen solid forever. So no roots can
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go down. Food has to be shipped in. There's very little life in the north. Whereas life explodes, it
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teems in the tropics. The sheer variety of plants and animals and, of course, people. Only a kook, an
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extremely political emergency room doctor pretending to be a climate scientist would say that cold is better
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for life than warmth. It won't surprise you to learn that 20 times more people die each year from cold
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than from heat. Less political parts of the CBC even acknowledges much. Look at this. Look at this story. All the
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death from cold snaps, especially of homeless people. But let me read to you from this genius.
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There's wildfires in the west. The drought here and the severe cold this winter. Tornadoes in Ottawa.
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Heat-related deaths in Quebec. Howard told Laisha Grabinski on CBC's Saskatoon Morning.
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I feel like climate change is landing with Canadians in a new way in their bodies. It's not just a CO2
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chemical on a graph anymore. Hey guys, is that sciency? Is that doctor talk there? Hey guys,
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climate change is landing in a new way in your body. Show me on the doll where the climate change touched
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you. How much junk science quackery can one doctor spout before it's, you know, a malpractice issue?
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That's so embarrassing. No CBC reporter even put their byline on it. It's written anonymously. No one
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wanted to sign this crap. I wonder if it was even written by the CBC or someone in Catherine McKenna's
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office and just sent to the CBC and they were told to publish it. It's a state broadcaster after all.
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But let me show you my favorite CBC moment of all. I told you I have three stories.
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The third is this story about Jason Kenney and every poll in the province says that Kenney is
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about to absolutely crush Rachel Notley and the NDP in next month's election in Alberta. Just a wipeout.
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I think I predicted the other day that out of 87 electoral districts, 87 MLAs, the NDP will hold
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20. I think that might even be optimistic. It's going to be a blowout. Now I have my quarrels with
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Jason Kenney. I think he's too politically correct these days. I think he submits to the mean kids in
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the media party too much. I think he throws overboard his candidates at the first whiff of controversy.
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He lets the CBC make decisions for him. I think he's too dainty about all that. And he's bad-mouthed
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unemployed oil workers time and again telling them they protest too impolitely. I think his
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shenanigans of secretly working with other fake candidates in his party's leadership race, I think
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that looks dodgy and it looks undemocratic and just weird given how big a lead he has. Why is he even
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doing it? But that said, all of those caveats and quarrels aside, he's going to fix a big problem
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on April 16th, election day in Alberta. He's going to weed the garden pretty big time. He's going to
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end the Alberta government's war on oil and gas. And maybe he'll help end the BC government's war
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on oil again. And maybe he'll help end the Canadian government's war on oil and gas. It will be good
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news despite his flaws. But look at this. This is the last of the three CBC stories I'm mentioning.
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Left with fines, charges and shame, Calgary Political Insider alleges voter fraud in UCP
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leadership campaign. Let me read the first few lines. Alberta's election commissioner has ruled
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that Hardiel Mann made irregular political contributions and the Calgary Political Operative
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alleges the existence of a plan to commit voter fraud in order to secure the election of Jason Kenney
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as United Conservative Party leader, a controversy that's erupting in the midst of a provincial election.
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So this is about the fake candidate who was running just to attack
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Kenney's leadership rival, Brian Jean, and then he defected to support Kenney. Like I say,
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it looks dodgy, but it's been in the news for weeks. I think it's gross, and I think a lot of
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conservatives do too. But I don't think there is a single true conservative in all of Alberta who will
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now say, well, Jason Kenney was tricky in internal party politics, so I think I'm going to stick with
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the NDP destroyers and their carbon tax and their war on pipelines. Yeah, no, not one. Now if a law is
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broken, let there be a charge and a trial. But the province is so desperate to get rid of Notley. It's like
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Donald Trump once quipped. He could shoot someone in midtown Manhattan and his supporters would still vote for him.
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Not because they like shooting, but because they know the stakes are so high, and the alternative
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is so bad, and they need Trump to defeat the Democrat media complex. Same with Kenney.
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Stupid background, backroom games, sure, but not stupid enough to let the NDP have one more second
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of power. That is not my point today. We've already done a whole show on that subject. Let me tell you
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my point today. Scroll down the entire story here. Look at how long this story is. Keep scrolling,
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keep scrolling, keep scrolling, keep scrolling. This is what, is this like a book? This is a book,
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a huge story. Keep going, keep going. Now look at this part, way at the bottom.
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I'm going to read what you see on the screen there. This team from CBC Calgary has been
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investigating allegations of wrongdoing in the UCP leadership campaign. Tips and correspondence
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can be sent in confidence to Drew Anderson at cbc.ca, Carolyn Dunn at cbc.ca, Alison Dempster,
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Brian Labby, Audrey Neveu, with files from Charles Rusnell and Janie Russell.
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So, let me count that up. One, two, three. I think that was seven reporters.
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Seven reporters! I'll say it's seven! I think that's more reporters than the whole rebel has in the
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whole world. The CBC has put seven reporters on this story. Do you think the CBC has ever put
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seven reporters on an NDP scandal? Not even a party scandal, a government scandal! No, we know that
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they have not done that. In fact, the CBC has not uncovered a single scandal in four years of Rachel
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Notley's NDP government, not because there have been no scandals. Our Sheila Gunn-Reed breaks a story
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about a scandal every week about NDP, a major scandal she breaks once a month. It's why Sheila's books
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about Rachel Notley are number one bestsellers. It's the only place to get the real news. Do you think the
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CBC has seven reporters even looking into the SNC-Lavalin scandal of Justin Trudeau? Of course not. He pays their
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paychecks. Funny how the CBC hasn't broken a single story about this whole SNC-Lavalin matter. It's all being done
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primarily by the Globe and Mail. And of course, has there been seven reporters looking into, oh, get out of the
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party politics for a minute, into the hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign lobby groups pouring into
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Canada to attack the oil sands? Are you kidding? Of course not. Those three stories in the course of 24 hours.
00:25:50.420
There's one telling Albertans that the way to save them from massive unemployment is to bring in hundreds of
00:25:57.300
thousands of unqualified immigrants or something. I didn't quite get the point. The next was proof that global warming
00:26:05.300
is a sickness. And part of that proof is how cold this winter was. A doctor said it, so it's true. And now there's seven
00:26:15.200
reporters. The largest number I have actually ever seen on one story in Canadian history. I have never seen a story by any media
00:26:24.800
outlet in my 47 years. Maybe I've been watching the news for 30 years. Never in my life have I seen seven stories in seven
00:26:32.720
reporters on one story. Have you? No, you haven't. Trying anything, everything to derail the conservatives from retaking Alberta in the
00:26:41.260
election next month. That's the state broadcaster. You just can't believe a single word they say. They hate you. They lie
00:26:50.860
to you. They attack you. And then they send you the bill. Stay with us for more.
00:27:11.260
For Mr. President, I rise today to consider the Green New Deal with the seriousness it deserves.
00:27:24.780
This is, of course, a picture of former President Ronald Reagan naturally firing a machine gun while
00:27:31.720
riding on the back of a dinosaur. You'll notice a couple of important features here. First of all,
00:27:36.740
the rocket launcher strapped to President Reagan's back. And then the stirring, unmistakable patriotism
00:27:44.980
of the velociraptor holding up a tattered American flag, a symbol of all it means to be an American.
00:27:53.940
Now, critics might quibble with this depiction of the climactic battle of the Cold War,
00:28:00.180
because while awesome, in real life there was no climactic battle. There was no battle with or without
00:28:09.940
velociraptors. The Cold War, as we all know, was won without firing a shot. But that quibble actually
00:28:18.900
serves our purposes here today, Mr. President, because this image has as much to do with overcoming
00:28:25.140
communism in the 20th century as the Green New Deal has to do with overcoming climate change in the 21st.
00:28:36.500
For Mr. President, Republican Senator Mike Lee, in a speech, a very silly speech, I can't believe how
00:28:42.820
much of it I watched, actually. I think I watched about 10 minutes, eight minutes of it. He proceeded to
00:28:47.860
show Aquaman riding on the back of a seahorse. And he went on. And I must tell you, at first I thought,
00:28:55.940
this is very silly. And perhaps it's even beneath the dignity of the U.S. Senate, perhaps the greatest
00:29:02.660
deliberative chamber in the free world. But I think his point was, debating the Green New Deal proposed
00:29:12.340
by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others, is absurd to begin with. And perhaps his take on the matter
00:29:20.740
was borne out, because it was voted down 57 to 0. Not a single Democrat, even those who had promoted
00:29:31.860
the bill, voted in favor of it. It was very strange. And joining us now via Skype to talk about it is our
00:29:38.180
friend Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com. Great to see you, Mark. I tell you, that was a
00:29:43.860
pretty awesome velociraptor carrying an American flag. And that was just pure patriotism. It was
00:29:49.540
very silly. But I think that was the point, wasn't it? Yes, it was. I mean, he nailed it exactly.
00:29:55.140
Essentially, Ronald Reagan was the importance of fighting communism. And the Green New Deal really
00:29:59.460
does represent the greatest threat we face now, which is the imposition of socialism. But it's actually
00:30:04.580
a hidden socialism, in a way, because they're trying to cloud it behind the urgency of global
00:30:09.460
warming. No time to debate it. We only have 10 years, 11 years. We have to pass this.
00:30:14.340
But Mike Lee also went on to talk about, you know, just stop worrying about global warming,
00:30:19.220
go get married, have kids, and forget about all this. I mean, really, he got to the heart of it so much
00:30:25.940
that AOC, Kasia Cortez came out today and attacked Mike Lee, saying that he was not
00:30:33.540
taking his job seriously in the United States Senate. I submit to you, he took his job deadly
00:30:39.060
serious and gave it all the seriousness that the Green New Deal deserved yesterday in that speech
00:30:44.420
and in that vote. Yeah, I mean, one of the, I mean, he had a bunch of big charts he put up on the easel
00:30:50.980
there. And one of them was talking about cow farts. And it was like, it was, I know that's,
00:30:57.220
and he was talking about banning airplanes. And he said, well, how would that work in Hawaii? And
00:31:02.660
that's when that Aquaman seahorse business came in. And it was very silly. I have to admit,
00:31:09.540
I couldn't stop watching it. It was so silly to see a senator refer to Aquaman and giant seahorses
00:31:16.260
and cow farts. But I think, I think he was showing how nutty this was. Because just a few weeks ago,
00:31:23.620
Mark, all these young guns of the Democratic Party, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
00:31:31.060
and half of the presidential candidates in the Democrats, and most of the media were treating
00:31:38.900
the Green New Deal as if it were a serious proposal. So I think his mockery of it was because
00:31:48.580
no one else had subjected it to any grown-up thinking. And in the end, not a single Democrat
00:31:55.460
was willing to vote for it, even though it was their own bill.
00:32:00.020
Yes. Now that was actually, Mitch McConnell, the GOP leader, we'll start with that,
00:32:04.100
did a very good plan. He basically was like, okay, every Democrat presidential candidate essentially
00:32:08.580
feels compelled as a litmus test to support this. All the Democrats seem to be just crazy. Now,
00:32:14.020
there are a few exceptions. There were actually four Democrats, I believe, that voted against it.
00:32:17.860
One was Senator Manchin of West Virginia. Senator from Alabama voted against it. Senator Angus King
00:32:24.500
voted against it. And one other. And that was, first of all, significant that four Democrats broke.
00:32:30.020
Beyond that, what McConnell was doing was just showing them up. He wanted to get them on record.
00:32:35.540
And the Democrats knew they don't want to be on record for something that's probably the most costly
00:32:40.260
legislation ever proposed in the history of man, in the history of the U.S., let alone that even if
00:32:46.580
you believed all the science claims and all their technological claims, it would make no difference
00:32:51.780
on global warming, even if we actually faced a catastrophe. So the cost-benefit analysis is just
00:32:57.620
failed spectacularly. Democrats weren't willing to put their vote on it. So they decided to come up with
00:33:02.980
this plan to vote present. So you had 43 Democrats voting present in order to avoid just being stuck
00:33:11.620
with a label when they run for office, re-election in the Senate in the next cycle, especially if the
00:33:18.340
public sentiment turns more severely against the Green New Deal, even in the Democratic Party.
00:33:23.220
They wanted to be protected. So that's what they did. It was a day of showmanship on Capitol Hill.
00:33:28.020
Mike Lee knew that. He was having fun. AOC is upset with him today. Mitch McConnell released a video,
00:33:34.660
actually, just a little couple hours ago, mocking the Democrats, talking about the urgency of this,
00:33:40.180
and then all voting present because they don't want to deal with it right now. So it was definitely a big
00:33:45.300
strategic win for the opponents of the Green New Deal yesterday in the United States Senate.
00:33:50.500
Yeah. I mean, I love the sound of that. It's a really smart branding exercise because the New Deal,
00:33:57.060
you know, I would say most millennials, frankly, don't know what that is, but they would vaguely,
00:34:01.780
oh, yeah, that was a great New Deal to really help working people out of the depression. The Green
00:34:08.020
New Deal. Well, that's what we need. I mean, but beyond that headline, it made no sense.
00:34:14.260
And it clearly wasn't thought through. That was voted down. I mean, as you pointed out,
00:34:21.300
not a single Democrat voted for it. Four Democrats voted against it. In other jurisdictions like Canada,
00:34:29.460
our parties to the left are not so disciplined. They would absolutely vote for the Green New Deal,
00:34:36.500
banning cow farts, banning airplanes. Even if they knew they would never have to
00:34:40.900
follow through, they would absolutely go all the way down the virtue signal and say,
00:34:47.380
yeah, I'm for that. I think, therefore, even Canadians who are laughing at this,
00:34:55.220
we have to have a little bit of jealousy that our Liberal and New Democrat parties
00:35:04.660
Yeah, you're saying our Democrats are smarter. Yes. Well, I think a lot of it here
00:35:12.340
is because there are so many swing districts. Out of those 43 Democrats, 30 probably could have
00:35:20.420
comfortably voted virtue signaling and not worried. People like Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein,
00:35:26.580
they're not going to lose their home states. However, there's a lot of swing state Democrats,
00:35:32.900
maybe a dozen or so that don't want to touch this. So in order to protect them,
00:35:37.460
the vast majority of Democrats came up with this plan. But you're right. It was a good plan,
00:35:41.300
because now in the next election cycle and 30 second ads, if you're in a fossil fuel energy place
00:35:47.860
that has fracking or coal, the Republican opponents can't say they supported or voted for
00:35:53.860
the Green New Deal. They can now say credibly, I didn't vote for it if the time comes. So it's just
00:35:59.140
politics as it goes here in DC. But interestingly, as we go forward, the real big news here is we have
00:36:05.940
now a strength in Donald Trump in many different ways beyond just the Mueller report. And Donald
00:36:12.820
Trump's having his big rally in Michigan tonight. This is huge. The media has been deflated. But what
00:36:17.940
it means now is Donald Trump essentially feels invincible. And it's coming at a perfect time,
00:36:23.060
Ezra, because we're looking at a presidential commission on climate change led by Dr. Will
00:36:28.180
Happer of Princeton, the man I wrote in my book about, the man I've been urging this administration
00:36:33.140
to put in charge. It looks like it may happen because Donald Trump now is feeling, you know,
00:36:38.340
the wind is at his back. The Republicans are all excited. This monkey's been lifted, the dark shadow of
00:36:44.500
this report. So the Green New Deal just might collide with this presidential commission on climate.
00:36:49.700
And that could be the biggest economic and climate story of the rest of 2019. That's what
00:36:56.100
I'm hoping for. It's still not official, but I'm hoping this commission comes together.
00:36:59.380
Well, give me one more minute on that. I mean, we started off with the jokey
00:37:03.540
Green New Deal, just because it was fun. But, you know, I'm an advocate for Canada's oil sands and for
00:37:10.740
fracking. That has been stopped by Canadian politics. While we were twiddling our thumbs,
00:37:16.420
the United States has become a net energy exporter. And I understand it's now actually a net crude oil
00:37:22.500
exporter, which I never thought was possible. And if it's not a net oil exporter on a constant basis now,
00:37:32.500
it surely will be in a year or so, according to the EPA and the Energy Information Administration.
00:37:42.740
They both predict that American production will continue to grow.
00:37:48.020
Yes, you're right. But the trend is there, even if it's not permanent for this year.
00:37:52.260
It's amazing. I mean, Donald Trump has unleashed and just stripped away with all these regulatory
00:37:58.900
and just sent a signal to the marketplace that it's OK to start new projects and you're not going
00:38:03.300
to be shut down. That's just that signal alone. Not even just the idea that he was willing to pull out
00:38:08.260
of Paris, the idea that he was willing to start tossing out the clean power plan,
00:38:12.980
so-called clean power plan that President Obama did, the climate plan from EPA.
00:38:16.900
That has unleashed it further. But interestingly enough, here's our problem. And I'm sure Canada
00:38:21.460
has the same thing. Because we've had milquetoast Republicans like George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush,
00:38:27.860
because we've had weak senators and congressmen, the United States has rubber-stamped the U.N. reports.
00:38:34.340
Even the Trump administration allowed a national climate assessment last year. What did that lead
00:38:38.900
to? We had a federal judge last week rule that you couldn't do oil drilling in a pipeline because
00:38:45.380
of the climate concerns based on the U.S. government has accepted. So in a way, I don't know how any
00:38:52.260
judge in America, including the Supreme Court, could allow energy development if the Trump administration
00:38:57.940
is allowing the IPCC and the national climate assessment, which it is based on, written by
00:39:02.740
environmental activists and Obama's climate negotiator, to stand as U.S. government accepted
00:39:08.820
scientific reports. So what President Trump is going to do is appoint a commission,
00:39:14.100
headed by Will Happer and possibly including people like Judith Curry and Richard Lindzen,
00:39:18.420
the climate scientists. And they're going to reexamine the basis for the U.N. and the national
00:39:23.460
climate assessment. And we are going to have, for the first time, an official government report
00:39:28.260
that we can base policy on, that cabinet members can say, well, as the Presidential Commission on
00:39:33.860
Climate reported, and finally have an official document that the government will accept that
00:39:39.860
different than the United Nations report. That will give us judicial hope with all these lawsuits,
00:39:45.300
children's lawsuits, oil drilling lawsuits, pipeline lawsuits, you name it. This is possibly the most
00:39:51.140
single greatest climate legacy that President Trump could do. It hasn't happened yet, and it's not
00:39:55.940
official, but it looks like a good probability it could happen here this year. Well, that's so
00:40:00.740
encouraging, Mark. And I remember two years ago, you and I talking about the appointment of Scott
00:40:06.020
Pruitt to be Trump's first EPA administrator. And we were so tickled pink by that. Now, he did not
00:40:13.380
stay in that position long. He was sort of drummed out of there by the hard left. But it did set a tone,
00:40:18.340
and I was, it was my favorite appointment, frankly. And from what you're, now, give me just 30 more
00:40:23.460
seconds on this Hafner. I'm sorry, I don't recall off the top of my head his biography. Can you tell
00:40:28.900
me why you're so excited about this potential choice of him? Give me, give our viewers a minute
00:40:34.020
on his background. Sure. Professor Will Happer, I actually, when I worked in the United States Senate
00:40:40.260
Environment and Public Works Committee, he was my first choice to come in 2009 to testify to Congress.
00:40:46.420
He has over 200 peer-reviewed papers. And he's one of the world's topmost experts on the physical
00:40:53.460
effect of the greenhouse effect. 200 peer-reviewed papers. And he testified,
00:40:58.100
and he's continued to know that we are in a CO2 famine right now, that carbon dioxide is at the
00:41:04.340
lowest levels, historically speaking, that we need more of it, that there is no climate crisis.
00:41:09.460
And he has got the credentials. He's got the backbone. And he's got the backing now of President
00:41:15.940
Donald Trump. If he gets in charge of this commission, they're going to re-examine the
00:41:20.500
whole physical basis of carbon dioxide being the control knob for the climate. And then this
00:41:26.980
commission, it could take six months or more, will release their reports. The United States
00:41:30.900
government could then have an official document to counter accepting all these UN reports and
00:41:36.740
national climate assessments. And we could actually, it could have so many mirror effects
00:41:41.380
when you have someone like Will Happer in charge of, you know, who's a, the one of the most strident
00:41:47.060
climate skeptics out there, it could have an effect from everything from NASA's nonsensical website,
00:41:53.060
citing the 97%, NOAA's website, EPA website, all of these claims, the boilerplate claims that we all see
00:42:00.180
over and over could actually be affected. And it would give the cabinet cover. Even Scott Pruitt went on
00:42:05.300
TV, he had to defend science. Not the best role for a cabinet member, but now every cabinet member
00:42:11.380
can say, well, as the Presidential Commission on Climate, it is the most important thing that
00:42:16.020
Donald Trump could do to his climate legacy. Isn't that amazing? Will Happer, I'll certainly
00:42:19.700
keep my eyes peeled. And it does not surprise me that you were the one to bring us this news,
00:42:25.380
because this is not news that the mainstream media would want. I just want to leave you with one
00:42:29.860
little fact about Canada. Mark, of course, your main focus is the United States and you and you go to
00:42:35.860
all the UN global warming conferences where our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed has gone now three times.
00:42:41.940
I want to let you know that while Donald Trump has signaled to American oil and gas and mining
00:42:47.380
that it's drill baby drill, in Canada we have before our parliament right now a bill called C-69
00:42:54.740
that would actually add so many more regulations to any industrial projects including oil sands,
00:43:01.140
pipelines, whatever. One of them, I'm not even kidding Mark, and this is me just telling you
00:43:05.140
something for your American friends, there would now be a gender analysis attached to any pipeline,
00:43:13.140
any large industrial project. I know you probably think I'm kidding, that is working its way through
00:43:18.420
our parliament right now, gender analysis. I hate to tell you that because that's just great news for
00:43:23.700
Americans. You'll get all the jobs and investment while we do gender analysis. Imagine if you're
00:43:29.060
an investor, you have to choose between Donald Trump's America or Justin Trudeau's Canada. Imagine
00:43:33.780
where you're going to put your bucks. Last word to you, my friend. Well, actually, I mean, it's funny
00:43:37.780
you should say that. My headline on Climate Depot right now, Ezra, is white people are blamed for the big
00:43:44.340
cyclone that hit Africa in, I believe it was Mozambique and a couple other countries. And the black
00:43:52.180
separatists, basically the group that's supporting the land grabs in South Africa,
00:43:56.340
is claiming that, quote, the white man's science supports the fact that these storms are hitting
00:44:01.700
Africa. So white people are creating global warming, which is impacting Africa. And it also goes back,
00:44:07.780
I actually have flashbacks to an article. I went to the UN summit in 2005 in Montreal, Canada,
00:44:12.980
and I interviewed a lady about climate gender justice. And the gist of it is,
00:44:17.540
men create global warming and women suffer the most. So this has been around for decades.
00:44:22.900
And now it's very sad and disheartening to hear that Canada's implementing this wacky,
00:44:27.860
insane kind of rhetoric that's been around for decades is now becoming law. And of course,
00:44:32.820
you have African countries now basically blaming the white man for creating global warming and then
00:44:38.500
making their storms worse, which, by the way, there's no science. Actually, the tropical cyclone
00:44:42.980
activity is on a downward trend. So they have no science to support that. But it has turned racial.
00:44:48.980
It has turned gender. I don't expect this to stop. That's the whole point of the Green New Deal. It's
00:44:54.020
to divide Americans, everything rich, poor, and everything down from our diets. You know,
00:45:01.300
you're a meat eater. You're going to be, we have the UN climate chief actually saying they're retired now,
00:45:06.100
Christina Figueres, meat eaters should be treated in restaurants the same way smokers are treated,
00:45:11.140
given their own section in the back and pushed out of the way because it's the one to be frowned
00:45:16.180
upon. So now you have all this. I mean, it's just it's identity politics and it's infiltrating it.
00:45:21.700
And that should be opposed. Hopefully there's some way Canadians can oppose what you're describing.
00:45:25.620
But once that takes root, you know, this is it's an ugly situation. Yeah. Well, I tell you,
00:45:32.340
I like getting the good news from you about the United States. And I'm commiserating with you a little
00:45:37.780
bit about the bad news we have up here. Maybe we'll change it in due course. But for now,
00:45:42.580
it's I'm I'm sorry to report. It's all bad news north of the border. Mark, keep up the fight down
00:45:47.940
there. I'm so encouraged by what you've told us about about this prospective presidential commission.
00:45:55.060
And maybe you can keep us updated as if it comes to fruit and as it goes along.
00:46:00.740
The media has gone nuts. They are attacking Professor Will Happer. They were attacking any of this,
00:46:05.620
any of the scientists who would be on it. There are op eds, New York Times. Everyone's
00:46:09.620
the media is beside themselves. This will be the first official major challenge to the United
00:46:14.900
Nations, an official government body that's ever occurred since the United Nations climate
00:46:19.060
panel started. So this is huge news. Well, thank you for sharing it with us,
00:46:22.660
our viewers, because I know it hasn't made the news here in Canada. And I'm going to keep my eye
00:46:27.060
peeled for Will Happer going forward. Thank you, my friend. Thank you. All right. There you have it.
00:46:32.260
Mark Morano from ClimateDepot.com. I believe he is literally the most plugged in observer,
00:46:40.660
critic and lay expert in global warming politics and science. And we're delighted to have him as a
00:46:48.420
regular guest on our show. And as you know, at these global warming conferences, Sheila Gunn-Reed always
00:46:54.340
connects with him on the ground and he becomes our sort of resident expert on the scene. So there's some
00:47:00.900
important news for you today about this prospective presidential commission. Stay with us. More ahead
00:47:18.740
Welcome back on my monologue yesterday about the New Zealand government's decision to ban
00:47:22.740
the manifesto of the terrorists responsible for the mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch.
00:47:26.900
David Heath writes, Well done, New Zealand. I want to read it now. Before banning it,
00:47:32.500
I couldn't be bothered with it. Well, that's the thing about banning. It's sort of reverse
00:47:36.980
psychology. You want to see what someone tells you you can't see. Isn't that the truth? Andy
00:47:42.980
Niemers writes, New Zealand has been the soft home of semi-commie indulgences for generations now,
00:47:48.660
and to blow their little bubble of being a western democratic state is being put to the test. Hello?
00:47:52.900
Well, look, I just thought it was really weird how... I give them credit. They call the guy the chief
00:48:00.340
censor. That's more honest than here in Canada where we call it the chief of the Human Rights
00:48:06.020
Commission. But you can't read it unless you answer their questions about who you are and pay them $102.
00:48:12.820
That is a picture, a snapshot of the future of the internet if social justice warriors get their way.
00:48:19.220
On my interview with Pardes Saleh about lawyer Michael Avenatti facing charges for alleged embezzlement
00:48:26.100
and extortion, Janet Masiello writes, He was on CNN and MSNBC 108 times in just a few months.
00:48:33.380
They were pushing him as the next democratic presidential candidate. Is anyone surprised?
00:48:38.500
Yeah, they will throw anything at Donald Trump and have for more than two years.
00:48:45.540
I think it's amazing. I have to say, I was surprised that Robert Mueller, with his team of
00:48:53.060
Democrats, there was no Republicans on his team. You went through the stats. He had 19 lawyers,
00:48:58.660
40 FBI and forensics and accountant staff. He had 60 people. They were all Democrats.
00:49:05.540
And they vindicated Trump. I am surprised by that. What a great rebuke of the media party,
00:49:11.140
as if you needed another rebuke of them. That's the thing. If you have a team like that,
00:49:16.100
that ran, I don't know, a political party, they would be voted out. If you had a team like that,
00:49:22.420
that ran a company and took the ground, they would probably go bankrupt. And if they did something
00:49:26.500
really wrong, they might be charged with securities fraud. But here you have that team in the media
00:49:32.020
getting it so wrong. And where's the consequences? They're still on TV calling themselves experts.
00:49:40.660
Susanna Simpson commented and said, I can't wait to get my Libranos mug. I'm taking it to work while
00:49:47.060
I wear my rebel media pin on my jacket. Make their heads spin. Susanna, I like your rebel patriotism.
00:49:52.260
And folks, I got to tell you that Libranos poster is gorgeous. It is truly a work of art. And I
00:50:00.340
believe it's a collector's item. And the reason I say that is because 15 years ago, when I was with
00:50:04.980
the Western Standard and we published the Libranos original, people had that on their wall for years.
00:50:11.540
I remember, I'm trying to remember the exact dates, but it was years later that I would still see that
00:50:17.700
poster on walls, people's offices, because it was so gorgeous. And may I encourage you to consider
00:50:24.260
going to thelibranos.com. And I'm only saying it because I think it's gorgeous.
00:50:30.100
You don't have to pay anything for the image. You can download it for free as your
00:50:34.740
computer wallpaper. That's the background of your computer. You could have it there
00:50:38.820
for free. If you want the poster, obviously you got to pay for it. We got to ship it to you and
00:50:41.700
whatnot. Mug, t-shirt. I'm excited by it because it's pretty great. Folks, that's the show for today.
00:50:47.460
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,