The mainstream media promotes a fake news hoax about Andrew Scheer — and refuses to apologize when caught
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The mainstream media spreads a fake news hoax about Andrew Scheer, and they refuse to apologize when caught when they see it. It's a hate crime hoax about a woman holding a sign pretending to be a supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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Hello, my rebels. Today's podcast is about a hoax, a hate crime hoax, a young woman standing
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in downtown Toronto, shrieking at a passerby, shrieking against immigrants and walking up to
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a fellow and spitting on him, all while holding a sign pretending to be for Andrew Scheer. Well,
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it takes about 30 seconds to debunk that and see it's a hoaxer who's actually a pro-immigration,
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hard left-wing activist trying to frame and smear Andrew Scheer. Well, the media went along with
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that. I'll tell you the story. I'll let you listen to it in full. But I got to tell you,
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You're listening to a Rebel Media Podcast. Tonight, the mainstream media promotes a fake
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news hoax about Andrew Scheer, and they refuse to apologize when caught. It's August 13th,
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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 saw this video I'm going to show you in a second. It was published by a Liberal Toronto
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blog called BlogTO, and it came to my attention because my former colleague from the Sun News
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Network, David Akin, tweeted it. David is now the chief political reporter at Global News. So he's
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at one of the highest peaks of the media party. So when he tweets something, it's really the voice of
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the political establishment. So here's the video. Now, I want to warn you, there's a lot of swearing
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here and then some spitting. So you're going to hear the F word a few times. There's another bad word
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that was bleeped out by BlogTO. I don't even know what that word is. But I'm going to play
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it with the F word still on bleep because I think it's important to know what we're talking
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about here. So if you don't want to hear that swearer, please turn down your volume for the
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Hmm. Now what do you think of that? Yeah, I'm going to play it again since it's pretty short.
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And I'm going to talk about different elements of it. So swears again, all right? So turn
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down the volume if you don't like swears. What do you think of this? One more time.
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I can't believe you're real. You're actually real. You're real.
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You know, maybe the only voice, the only honest voice there is the cameraman. I can't believe
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you're real, he says again and again. And that's what I thought immediately too. It's too on the
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nose. I'm sorry, it's just too perfect. If that were a Hollywood script in some movie,
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a producer would say, you know, it's too obvious. There's a little more nuance. I mean, the sign,
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hand-painted, vote Andrew Scheer, but not a real lawn sign, which probably any Conservative
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Party member would have quick access to. Hand-painted and displaying that sign while being extremely
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vulgar and offensive. I'm sorry, it's just too fake. No one who actually wanted to promote Andrew
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Scheer would really do that because no one who really wanted to promote Andrew Scheer would think
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that's how to win hearts and minds, to persuade people. That's how to win votes. No one is that
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nuts. Even if someone were that vile, were not just rude, but I think there was some racism there,
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even though I think it was bleeped out. But no one, even if they really thought those thoughts that
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that woman expressed, no one would think that they would persuade a member of the general public. I
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mean, spitting. So obviously, no one could believe that spitting on someone would be a good ad for a
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political party. Same with the swearing. It's just too much. It immediately reminded me of other hoaxes
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and other fakes, like the hijab hoax girl. Remember her in Toronto, 11-year-old girl who claimed that
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she was attacked by a Chinese man twice, by the way, who allegedly was carrying around scissors,
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by the way, who cut her hijab, by the way, without saying a word, by the way. And no one else saw him,
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by the way. And he was careful enough not to poke her with the scissors, by the way. And she was happy
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to do a national press conference from an elementary school, because apparently that happens all the
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time, 11-year-olds holding national press conferences in elementary schools, right after
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they're attacked and the attacker's still on the loose. And the younger brother comes to the press
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conference, too, and is just laughing and joking around. Yeah, that was fake. Just as fake as when
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that leftist actor, Jussie Smollett, claimed that he was attacked at 3 a.m. by some rednecks who were
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walking around Chicago with a noose and some bleach, apparently, as one does at 3 a.m. in Chicago
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while wearing trump hats. And apparently they watch an obscure black-oriented TV show and know
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an actor who plays an obscure role on that show. And they saw the actor and they attacked him because
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they had a noose and bleach around with them. And they put the noose around Jussie Smollett's neck
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and splashed bleach on him. But Jussie Smollett fought them off and they ran. And the whole time
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he was holding on to his Subway sandwich and never dropped it. That was my favorite detail
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So I thought of both of those things, because this is fake, fake, fakety-fake. It didn't even make sense.
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This is a place of men. What does that mean? Have you ever heard a conservative even say that? A
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conservative woman, no less? I don't get it. Walking up to a man and calling him a savage
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while acting savagely herself and saying, you want to effing fight me? You want to effing... What?
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Who does that? And spitting on someone? Do you know anyone who does that while pretending
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to be a conservative party supporter dressed in a smart dress and a hat with a sign?
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I'm sorry, I'm just not that stupid. Or maybe you need to be extremely smart to figure that all out.
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I don't believe it. It's not real for a second.
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So obviously, I can't believe I have to say it. It is what it looks like.
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That is a leftist's idea of what conservatives think and say and do. A leftist's caricature of the
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right. But a very ill-informed character. A very poor mimicry. Someone who obviously has
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never actually met or spoken with a real conservative and thinks that's how conservatives
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are. That is so weird. But just like that woman in that video obviously hates conservatives and
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obviously did this smear on conservatives to defame them. It's a hoax to blame conservatives. Well,
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the media who reported this video, I think they know so little about conservatives and what
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conservatives really think that they ran with it. They ran with it unskeptically. They said,
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yeah, yeah, you know, that's how conservatives really are. And we always do it. And here's
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finally proof of it. So BlogTO published it as news saying a woman was just caught on camera
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screaming racial slurs outside Toronto City Hall. I mean, I guess that's technically true. That's not
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a lie. But the lie was in the image and not disclosing that it's obviously a fake, a hoax,
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a set up. Pictures absolutely can lie. In fact, they're the most powerful of lies because we
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instantly see something. We instantly come to a judgment about it. You can't unsee that hand
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painted sign for Andrew Scheer, can you? And so it's fused with this story in your mind. As of this
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afternoon, that little video was seen about a half a million times on Twitter alone.
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And like I say, I saw it via David Aiken. Here's what he tweeted. He has since deleted this tweet.
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But here's a snapshot someone took of his tweet before he deleted. He said,
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Scheer's opponents will shrug and say, well, of course, that's unfair, but that's politics. In the
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meantime, Scheer would do well to go out of his way to denounce this kind of hatred and to do that
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quickly. So David Aiken was not only giving great publicity to this hoax and putting zero effort
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into scrutinizing and skeptically, doing no basic fact checks. He was also giving a prescription
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this year. Hey, Andrew Scheer, you'd better react to this or you'll own it, says I. We all assume
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this is who you really are. That's the default. So unless you stop what you're doing, stop talking
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about what you're talking about and tell us for the empteenth time that you're not a racist,
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No one on the left, Ezra, has to denounce the kooks who follow the left, real kooks who really
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support them. But this obvious hoax has to be treated by Andrew Scheer as real, and Scheer
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has to weigh in, thus taking the hoax one step further. Now, not only will a crude hand-painted
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sign saying Andrew Scheer be fused to this tantrum, but Scheer's own face and voice will be.
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Aiken is actually doing the hoaxer's work for her.
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One last quick point before I tell you who this hoaxer really is. If you know anything
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about Andrew Scheer's immigration policy, and I do, you would know that he explicitly
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says he will not reduce immigration from Justin Trudeau's levels. And he explicitly says he
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will not change the countries of origin of immigrants. Ask him. I personally have. It
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was actually the last conversation Andrew Scheer ever agreed to have with me. I pressed him
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on the number of immigrants. He dodged. I pressed him on cultural fit. He dodged. He dodged five
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times. It was a cringeworthy interview, if you remember it. It was the last time he ever spoke
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with me, because he is indistinguishable from Justin Trudeau on immigration, other than his
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promise to fix the broken system, as in, well, he says, to provide more social services for
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foreigners. He won't even commit to closing the Roxham Road, a legal place of entry. And my
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point for telling you all that is this. Anyone who was truly that revved up about immigration
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in Canada, who knew their facts, who was concerned about immigration, would know that Andrew Scheer
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isn't any different from Trudeau. I'm sorry to say it. They probably, you know, someone
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who was that angry about immigration probably would drop out of the political system or be
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supporting the one candidate who wants to reform immigration, Maxime Bernier, or maybe Quebec
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Premier Francois Legault, who's tough on the subject, too. So that little video was fake,
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fake, fake, fake, fake, fake. But to the media, it's real, because it's too perfect to check.
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That video was retweeted and republished uncritically by countless media party journalists who couldn't
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be bothered to even Google the thing. I Googled it. I Googled her. It wasn't even that tough.
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She was arrested and charged with assaulting police officers, which is quite something for
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a hoaxer. So we have her name, Talia Davidson. How hard is it to type Talia Davidson into Google?
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It takes less time to do it than even to say it. Here she is on Facebook, partying at a hard
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left-wing activist newspaper with a union organizer. The newspaper is called Now Magazine. They're so
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nuts. They think Trudeau is right-wing. They hated the late Rob Ford. If you're for Now Magazine,
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you're Antifa left. You're hard left. You're kooky left. And there she is at a Now Magazine party.
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That took me five seconds to find. And she's not anti-immigrant. She loves immigrants. All her
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friends are immigrants. She was involved at a Venezuelan restaurant in the city with other
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immigration activists that specifically preferred to hire immigrants. Now, she's not Muslim. I actually
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think she was born Jewish. But she's a pro-Muslim, pro-hijab activist. She says in this comment
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here, anyone who is against the hijab is an Islamophobe. Apparently, even Muslims who are
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against it. And she says women who wear a bra are just as the same as someone who wears a hijab.
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She actually said that. She's a pro-hijab kook. She would never call a Muslim man a savage.
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She posed for photos at Bike Stock. That's a hippie bicycle gathering. I guess you could be
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a conservative at this pro-cycling, anti-car, anti-oil eco event. I guess you could. I guess
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a vegetarian could say their favorite restaurant is McDonald's. I just wouldn't believe it.
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Unlike the mainstream media who said, no, no, no, this is an Andrew Scheer conservative. According
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to this social media page, though, dug up by Post Millennial, Davidson is an anarcho-syndicalist. If
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you even know what that means, you know it's left-wing. She was a Palestinian activist, an
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immigration booster. So exactly the opposite of who she pretended to be on camera that day at
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downtown Toronto. It's just all right out there on Google. My colleague Kian Bextie points out that
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the video itself was originally uploaded to the internet by this guy, Farhan Rana, the guy who
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said, I don't believe this. He's a Palestinian activist who used to work for Bill Morneau at
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Morneau's company, Morneau Chappelle. That's a pretty coincidental thing, but I actually think
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he's legitimate. I think the hoaxer was Talia Davidson. I think Farhan Rana's reaction,
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I think, was real. I don't think he was in on it. I think he was actually assaulted. That's what
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being spat upon is. If he's in on this hoax, that's a whole other level of misconduct. I
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actually don't think he was, but I'm just guessing. The weirdest thing was, the website
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that put this online, blog T.O., they did a profile on Davidson just last month. Don't they
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recognize their own friend? They just wrote about her last month. That's so weird. Now,
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Talia Davidson was charged with assaulting police, so she's taking hoaxing to a whole new level.
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I just don't understand that part. I acknowledge that it's so weird I can't process it. Even that
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11-year-old hijab liar and Jussie Smollett, they stopped with the hoax, right? They didn't
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actually commit crimes after the hoax by attacking people or whatever. So maybe Talia Davidson has
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just snapped mentally. Maybe she's just having a bout of mental illness. I'm not being mean. I'm just
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saying maybe that's a possibility. Maybe that's me being kind to her, trying to find a less
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odious explanation than a hoax. I think she truly believed that this hoax would denormalize
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conservatives. And you know what? It did. Because even if she's convicted of her assaults,
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the image is still out there. The headlines are still out there. Scheer did indeed feel compelled
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to deny that this person he never knew, who probably never supported him, the party says
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Talia Davidson has never been a member. I believe them. So even if Davidson is proved to be a hoaxer,
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or even if she's mad, well, she succeeded because the fake news media took the story and ran with it
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uncritically. As always, when the narrative is just too perfect for them to ignore. Was this Davidson
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doing this on her own or with her left-wing friends? Or was the Liberal Party war room behind it? Or maybe
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another anti-conservative campaign group like David Akin's journalism union, Unifor, that's campaigning
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as a third-party group? Who was behind it? I note that David Akin took down his original tweet, but with
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no clarification or explanation or correction or anything like that, just pretending it didn't
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happen. That's weird. But it's no odder than how the rest of the media party operate. You remember
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what the CBC did a couple years ago, right when Trump was inaugurated? They actually hired crisis actors
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to pretend to be racists on the streets of Canada and to go up to random Canadians and say racist
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things to them and try to get them to respond in kind. And they tried to link the whole thing back
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to Trump? Now, this wasn't some game show or some reality TV show. This was a show called CBC Marketplace
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that used to expose, I mean, they're supposed to expose hoaxes and scams. This time, they were the
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perpetrators of hoaxes and scams. They literally couldn't find any real racists.
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So they hired people with your tax dollars to pretend to be racist Trump supporters, to smear Trump,
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even though the CBC themselves were the ones saying the racist words.
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I think Talia Davidson should be prosecuted for assault. That's what spitting is. Unless she was in
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collusion with Rana, the cameraman, in which case he, I suppose, would have consented to the assault.
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But if he didn't, she should be charged for spitting on a guy.
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And if there are any other fingerprints on this matter, the Liberal Party war room,
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David Akin's partisan Unifor Union, the CBC marketplace crisis actors, they should be charged
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too. It's only August. The election campaign isn't even in full swing yet. That won't actually happen
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until after Labor Day. But get ready for a tsunami of fake news just like this. And it will come from
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the fanciest of media party reporters. The very same people who say you should trust them and only
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them, not independent media like us. Stay with us for more.
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Welcome back. Well, moments ago, Donald Trump tweeted his concern about the ongoing political
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demonstrations in Hong Kong. Let me read it to you. Our intelligence has informed us that the
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Chinese government is moving troops to the border with Hong Kong. Everyone should be calm and
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safe. This comes after months of mass protests on Hong Kong streets against Chinese plans to have
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an extradition law that could take citizens from free Hong Kong to the mainland China, where the
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courts are not independent. Joining us now via Skype is our favorite China expert. You know him. His name
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is Gordon Cheng. He's the author of The Coming Collapse of China. And we're grateful to have a moment of
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his time on this very busy day. Gordon, nice to see you again. This tweet from Donald Trump
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suggests he is concerned about China possibly having a Tiananmen Square-style reaction to Hong Kong.
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Yes, it's much better than his previous comments were that this was just a matter between China and
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Hong Kong. From the leader of the free world, we need a stout defense of freedom. He's not quite
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there yet, Ezra, but he's moving in the right direction. I saw yesterday images on social media of what
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looked like troop carriers. They're trucks to carry troops. That's what it looked like to me. Also,
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some light armored vehicles massing just across the border from Hong Kong. This was in propaganda
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style videos released by the Chinese government, buses, trucks. Was this designed to show Chinese
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nationals that China is tough? Is it designed to scare Hong Kongese? What's the purpose of these
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propaganda videos released by the Chinese military?
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Yeah, I think it's all of the above. You know, right now, the Chinese government does not want to
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deploy either the People's Army or the People's Russian Army under the streets of Hong Kong. They know
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they do that. They do that. It's a little provocation and that a lot of blood will be spilled, not all of it, Hong Kong.
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There'll be Chinese men and women being brought back and body backs. Because Hong Kong is, you look at it,
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the buildings, the narrow streets, it really is perfect for defense. It's very difficult for an invader.
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You know, right now, Beijing's leaders are in Beidaiha, which is that resort near Beijing. They do this most
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August. And if they go according to what they've done in the past, they'll be finishing about the
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end of this week. That means by the end of this week, there could very well be a decision either to
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deploy or not to deploy. But in the meantime, Beijing is just sort of resorting to intimidation.
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The idea that there would actually be a military confrontation with the
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unarmed protesters in Hong Kong is almost too much to fathom. Hong Kong, which is an economic
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and political and social jewel, a model for success, an amazing place. The idea that it would be
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thrown into a civil war type situation at the hands of the Communist People's Liberation Army is almost
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too much to think about. Surely this is already damaging the thought that Western investors could
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trust Hong Kong as being independent. I'm very nervous about the future of Hong Kong. I don't
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think it's ever looked this bad, certainly since China took over in 1997. I'm scared. Is that the
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point here? I think it's self-destructive though for China though, Gordon.
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Well, it is. You know, Beijing can solve this very quickly by having Carrie Lam, who's the Hong Kong
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chief executive, the top political officer in the territory, by having her permanently withdrawing
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the extradition bill, which is what triggered the protests last April, but also by making concessions
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on universal suffrage of the election of the next chief executive. Beijing doesn't want to do that,
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and I can understand why. This is an extremely dangerous situation. And one thing, Ezra,
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talk about unarmed people in Hong Kong. I would say mostly because there's a lot of dynamite there
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in my gasoline, Molotov cocktails. Even, you know, I would think there might be some Hong Kong
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police. You saw the Chinese. Gordon, we're having a little bit of trouble with the internet connection,
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and I know you've got to run. We're showing on the screen Hong Kong protesters throwing papers
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at police. There were some scuffles. There are some masks on the protesters, I think, to hide their
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identity from facial recognition. I see some of the protesters are using lasers to foil the facial
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recognition technology used by the Chinese government to ID these protesters. This is a
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very high-tech, asymmetrical battle. If you had to predict its outcome, and I know that's a very
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difficult business, do you think that Beijing is going to blink? These Hong Kongese seem more
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resolute in their freedom than almost any other country I've heard of. Two million people have
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massed in the streets such an enormous percentage of the population. Are you betting on the spirit of Hong
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Kong, especially now that Trump is weighing in a little bit? Or do you think China is so resolved
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on this that they'll damn the torpedoes and crush Hong Kong like they did in Tiananmen Square?
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Well, in the next three or four months, I don't see the Chinese deploying the troops or the armed police.
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After that, I think it might be possible, especially if we see contagion, if we see protests in China
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itself, inspired by the Hong Kong demonstrations. So that I think might be the trigger. But right now,
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it's not just these kids. It's a mass of Hong Kong people. Two-thirds, maybe three-quarters of the
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population are very much against China right now. So it is a broad spectrum of Hong Kong society that is
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against China. And I think China understands that. If they introduce the troops to the streets,
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all bets are off. And I think Beijing knows that they could very well come out the loser.
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Wow. You know, last time I was in Hong Kong, a friend said,
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China didn't take over Hong Kong. Hong Kong will take over China. And I didn't quite believe him.
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But he suggested that you use the word contagion. My friend said the virus of freedom. I don't like
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saying virus of freedom, because that implies it's negative. But who knows? Maybe in the end,
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Hong Kong will help free the rest of China. Last word to you, Gordon. I'm so grateful for your time.
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I know you're in such demand today by every network. Give us a closing thought. Leave us with something.
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Yeah. In many times in Chinese history, including the last imperial dynasty, they unravel from the
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outside in. So when you have unrest in the periphery, that can eventually move into the center itself.
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And then that's perhaps what we're seeing right now in Hong Kong. You know, you have the unrest,
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of course, in the northwest where the Uyghurs live. So this could very well be the beginning of the
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end of communism. Might take a long time, Ezra, but this is very well maybe the process and how it
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gets started. Well, that's very nerve wracking, but also exciting. At the same time, our hopes are with
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the Hong Kong people. Gordon Cheng, you're one of the world's experts on this subject.
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We're grateful for your time. I know you have a lot of other interviews to do, so we'll
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say goodbye now. Thank you so much for being with us today.
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Oh, well, thank you so much, Ezra. I really appreciate the opportunity.
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Well, we learn so much from you every time. All right. Good luck, my friend. That's our friend,
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Gordon Cheng. He's the author of The Coming Collapse of China. Stay with us. More ahead on The Rebel.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about the media telling normal Canadians to
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stop flying because of global warming. Paul writes,
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they fly around the world on a whim, live in multiple homes and all the nicest places,
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eat in five-star restaurants and do as they please. The little people must travel less,
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if at all, get rid of that bar fridge and eat bugs. Yeah, that eat bugs part is so gross,
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but really, it's not that far different from Catherine McKenna saying, hey, everybody, eat less
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meat. Who are you to tell people what to eat? I mean, it's a personal decision, but it's also,
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by the way, hardwired in our biology. You can see it even in our teeth. We have canine teeth. We're
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meant to be meat eaters. We don't have teeth like, say, carnivorous animals do. It's so bizarre and
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hubristic to say, hey, people, stop eating what you feel you need to eat, what you want to eat,
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what you culturally want to eat, and eat what we tell you to eat. That's the weirdest social control
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of all. So naturally, Catherine McKenna is all over it. John writes, I won't be limiting my flights,
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my plastic use, or anything else. I get to live my life, despite Trudeau and old yellers' hypocrisy.
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Yeah, exactly right. On my interview with Sheila Gunn-Reed about the shootings in Toronto,
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Robert writes, the liberals are going to get a backdoor gun registry. They will do so by
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successively prohibiting and restricting various classes of firearms, right down to 19th century
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muzzleloaders. Yeah, you know what? I mean, here we are in the fourth year of Trudeau's term,
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and he hasn't introduced that bill to that effect yet, I don't think. They're making some
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regulatory changes. A lot of the things that I was worried Trudeau would do, he hasn't done. I think
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it's just out of laziness. I mean, Trudeau is perhaps the laziest prime minister we've ever had,
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and I don't even think it would be fair to compare Kim Campbell, because she didn't really
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even have time at the job. She'd probably be called. I don't even think she was lazy. She just didn't have
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the chance. So why hasn't he done these things? I don't think it's a strategy. I think it's just
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laziness and incompetence. But I'm worried that if Trudeau does win again in October,
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all the bad ideas he's been talking about, but has been too lazy or incompetent to get going,
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I believe they will get going in that second term. I think it's a very crucial election.
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All right, folks. Well, that's our show for tonight. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all,
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let's see you at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home. Good night. Keep fighting for freedom.