Trudeau plans MORE Internet censorship during the next election (and the CBC loves the idea)
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In today's podcast, I take you through such a predictable and lamentable statement by Trudeau's democracy minister, Karina Gould. She says we have to crack down harder on the internet, and the CBC and CTV agree. But I show you that it is based on a fabrication.
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Hello, my rebels. In today's podcast, I take you through such a predictable and such a lamentable
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statement by Trudeau's democracy minister, Karina Gould. She says we have to crack down
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harder on the internet. And the CBC and CTV totally agree. But I take you through a story
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in each of those TV companies, and I show you that it is based on a fabrication. I think you're
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Tonight, Justin Trudeau plans to censor the internet even more deeply next election,
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even though all the evidence shows it's more honest than he is. October 29th,
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this is the Ezra LeVant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I
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know? There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say
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to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Well, the Canadian election is over, and it was a bit of a dud. But all sorts of insane things that
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the media party and the liberal party told us would happen just didn't happen. Remember this disgraced
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crank, the former Privy Council clerk, Michael Wernick? He was up to his eyeballs in the corruption
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of the SNC-Lavalin matter, and he resigned under an ethical cloud. One of his last acts in office
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was to testify before Parliament's Justice Committee, and apropos of nothing, he just went
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nuts, suggesting that the internet was whipping up assassination attempts or something just 100%
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I worry about the rising tide of incitements to violence, when people use terms like treason and
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traitor in open discourse. Those are the words that lead to assassination. I'm worried that somebody's
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going to be shot in this country this year during the political campaign.
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What a weirdo. That didn't happen. I think that was a pre-hoax. The whole point was obvious. The liberals
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were in deep trouble, and they knew they could get the media party to switch topics by claiming
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that someone bad, probably a gun-owning right-winger, was trying to assassinate Dear Justin. So everybody,
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please stop talking about Jody Wilson-Raybould while we talk about this hoax.
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It's a trick they tried at the end of the campaign, too, when they were really sagging.
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Trudeau entered a packed rally, 90 minutes late, surrounded by these SWAT team-style police,
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and he was wearing a bulletproof vest. And in a break with all tradition and with any
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operational security considerations, Trudeau's spin doctors made sure to tell every reporter
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that there was a real risk to Trudeau's life, everybody. So he's a brave hero for coming out
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into the rally anyways. Now, Trudeau sent his wife and his kids home because apparently it was such
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a threat. Did that ring true to you, or was it just another Wernick move? Why would you send only
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your own wife and kids home if there was a terrorist threat to the whole room? Why wouldn't you send the
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400 mere citizens in the room home, too? Why would you wait 90 minutes while you assess the risk of the
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attack of a bomb threat and put on a bulletproof vest and do all that, but not take those 90 minutes just to
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empty the room, empty the room, search the room, and then allow people back in, say, through a metal
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detector? There wasn't even a guard at the door, but boy, he had a bulletproof vest on. Why would you
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do all of that security theater inside the room, but not even have like an usher or like a minimum wage
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high school kid at the door looking in backpack? Doesn't add up. Just a few days later, having Trudeau
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out, shaking hands in public, unguarded, here just with the crowds and right after the election,
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the subway in Montreal? Why would you do that when the so-called terrorists haven't been arrested yet?
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Is the threat suddenly gone? Yeah, it was fake. It was fake, fake, fake. We know Trudeau's a fake.
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He's a dramatic actor. This is dramatic acting in the middle of an election for sympathy. You don't
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proceed with a rally with 400 people in the room if there's a real terrorist threat. You don't send
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your own wife and kids home but let 400 people proceed without so much as a search. It was a lie.
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And maybe it worked. Trudeau eked out a minority, and so far as we know, there wasn't any noteworthy
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interference in the election at all. I mean, of course, there was interference from big spending
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dark money groups, whether it was the journalist union called Unifor or from foreign-backed environmental
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groups. So yeah, there was actually interference, but nothing online of any substance, no violence,
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of course. I mean, look, online, there was the usual interference, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
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censoring conservatives as they always do, but no attempt to hack our election, whatever that would
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mean. We don't even use electronic voting booths. We mark an X on paper. I'm not sure what hacking an
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election in Canada would even look like. And neither does Trudeau or his chief election censor,
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Karina Gould, the minister in charge, by the way. She's the one who set up all these censorship panels
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before the election, including one that Michael Wernick was supposed to chair. Oh, and by the way,
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this had the total support of Andrew Scheer. But there was nothing. No alarm bells rang. But you
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know who wants censorship of the internet even more than Michael Wernick or Justin Trudeau or Karina
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Gould or Andrew Scheer? The CBC state broadcaster, because when they think of meddling, what they
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really mean is someone saying something that's off-narrative, something the CBC would disagree
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with. Here, let me take you through this incredible story a bit. The headline on this CBC story is
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More needs to be done, Gould says after some online election meddling detected. Oh, wow. So there was
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meddling. Okay. Well, obviously Gould needs to do what she's doing, plus more than. The government
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broadcaster even said so, right? Let me quote some more. There were attempts to spread misinformation
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or disinformation. Officials confirm. Well, if the officials confirm him, then it must be true.
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The government has to step up its fight against online disinformation in the wake of the federal
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election, says Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould. Going forward, there is still a
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sense that more needs to be done to address the spread of disinformation on social media platforms,
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Gould said in a statement to CBC News. There's still a sense that more needs to be done? What does that
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mean? She feels it in her bones or something? Well, you heard the officials said there were
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problems. So what did those officials say? Who were the officials? Do we have censorship officials
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now? Well, here, let me read from the state broadcaster. Yes, there have been some activities
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observed, none of which met the threshold as identified by the panel. Instead, Stefan Schenck,
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manager of media relations for the Privy Council office, therefore no public communication.
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Okay, let me quote the other comment by the same official. This is all of it. I'm not leaving
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anything out that he said in this news report, and there were no other officials quoted.
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The panel, that's the panel Michael Wernick was supposed to be on, made some observations,
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but did not observe a level of activity that would warrant a public announcement or meet the
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threshold that would then take the next step to make a public announcement on whether Canada's ability
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to have a free and fair election was compromised. So there was nothing of note, nothing substantial,
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nothing significant enough to even mention. The Geiger counter just didn't ping. But you saw the CBC
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headline. The liberals say more needs to be done. And what did the government journalists at the CBC
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write again? There were attempts to spread misinformation or disinformation officials confirmed.
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Well, I just read you every single word quoted from the only official quote in the story.
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Did they in fact confirm what the CBC said they confirmed? They did not.
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They confirmed the opposite. The CBC are lying to you again.
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So the CBC looked around and found some foreign corporation in the UK who said,
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well, they saw some tweets about something. Let me read you this pitiful attempt by the CBC to justify
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the panic. Between 19 and 21 October 2019, out of 272,964 election 43 in Canadian Poly hashtag mentions,
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4,433 were made by 1,669 low credibility Twitter accounts. Astro screens report found. That's this
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foreign company. That's what you got. One or 2% of tweets were made by low credibility accounts. What's
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what's that? What's a low credibility account? I think Catherine McKenna's Twitter account
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is a low credibility account because she says she lied. But you know, I actually gave them some real
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advice. I said that if you actually say it louder, we've learned in the House of Commons, if you repeat
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it, if you say it louder, if that is your talking point, people will totally believe it.
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Hey kids, friendly advice. Don't drink and tweet. Okay. Okay. So some foreign company in the UK
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tells the CBC that they studied a quarter million tweets and they found that one or 2% of tweets
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had low credibility. So the tweets in the election were like 98% credible. Let me know when the CBC
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is that accurate. Okay. I mean, there were a lot of tweets with this clip in them. The allegations
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in the Globe story this morning are false. Neither the current nor the previous attorney general
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was ever directed by me or by anyone in my office to take a decision in this matter.
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That was from February. That's Justin Trudeau lying, saying that the Global
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Mail's report in February about how he fired Jody Wilson-Raybould for blocking his attempted
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interference in the criminal trial was false. He said it was false. In fact, the story was not false.
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It was accurate. Justin Trudeau was a liar. Tweets with that video in them were lies.
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So does Trudeau count as high credibility or low credibility in the minds of a UK company? You know,
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the answer is up to you and me, actually. It's up to all of us. That's what a campaign is about,
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really. That's what an election is about. Stripped of its niceties, each party's campaign is really
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calling the other guy a liar, or at least wrong. But Trudeau and Karina Gould and some weirdo in the UK
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thinks they get to decide what's credible or not. Let me quote one more expert for you. His name is Kevin
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Chan. He's the head of Facebook censorship in Canada, who also just happens by the strangest
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of coincidences to be a former Liberal Party staffer who worked in the office of the Liberal
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Leader. What are the odds? And here's what he says. Kevin Chan, head of public policy at Facebook Canada,
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said he was cautiously optimistic that the steps it took to prevent its platform from being used to
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interfere in the election worked. He said Facebook did see some signs of attempts at voter suppression,
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such as posts suggesting supporters of different parties were supposed to vote on different days.
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For us, it's very hard to know if they were joking, or it was a satire, or was it something
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nefarious, Chan said. We do have a voter suppression policy in our community standards, so we were
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proactively looking for these things and removing them when we did find them, Chan said. Facebook didn't
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see signs of foreign election interference. Oh. See, the CBC headline said the government needs to do
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more. And the sub-headline said officials confirmed there was interference. But in fact, the Canadian
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government official confirmed no such thing. And the foreign weirdos in the UK said election
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chatter on Twitter was like 98 or 99 percent authentic. And what does inauthentic even mean? The
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liberal who runs Facebook said they didn't detect any problems. They're optimistic. But
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Trudeau knows he wants to censor his enemies. And that's everyone on the internet. And the CBC knows
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what the boss wants. I mean, look, the CBC is even suing one of Trudeau's enemies right now. The CBC is
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suing the Conservative Party. Right in the middle of the election campaign, the CBC-controlled
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Parliamentary Press Gallery conspired with Trudeau's Debates Convention to keep us and True North out of
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the leadership debate scrum. They don't want other voices. We know all this. It's not just the CBC.
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It's all the legacy media. Here's a bizarre story published by CTV. So this is a tweet from a lobby
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group called Hill and Knowlton, a lobbyist over there. What's behind Wexit? That's Western separatism.
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Conservative bots. That's like robots. A lot of them. To start with, Blaine Mackey and I cracked the
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rise of the hashtag. Okay, so who's talking there? Who was I reading? Well, that's a lobbyist with Hill
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and Knowlton. That's where the H&K Canada is. It's a major international lobby group that's in there for
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hire. They're mercenaries that literally work for anyone anywhere around the world. They have a major
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Russian office. I'm just pointing that out. And for some reason, CTV published a whole news story
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based on what this international lobby group claimed, that the Western Canadian separatist
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movement was just fake, started by some robots, some fake disinformation. Now, this isn't what I
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showed you. There was not actually the first version they published. They deleted the first version
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without an editor's note or a correction or a clarification, because the first version they
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published, based on the lies of Hill and Knowlton, claimed that a whole bunch of very specific people
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on Twitter were fake, were robots. Bots, as they said, were liars. The implication, of course, being that
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Western separatism is fake and no one should believe it. And CTV just ran with that. Uh-oh.
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No. Except that they weren't. I mean, here's one Aboriginal woman, very real, who clapped back at CTV
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and Hill and Knowlton and pointed out that CTV didn't even ask her if she was real before claiming
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she was a robot. Yeah, no, she's real. Real people are unhappy in Western Canada. But CTV and this lobby
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group, Hill and Knowlton, they were the fake ones, not the bots. They were the ones lying. And then they
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quietly edited the story to remove all the details of their accusations. But no explanation, no
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correction, no apology, and no answer for why is the media party simply taking stories from foreign
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lobby firms and running them as news? Why this UK firm in the CBC story? Why this Hill and Knowlton
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Russian firm here? That's, that's corrupt. Why are you running lobbyists as if that's news?
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Maybe that's even the foreign meddling we've been looking for. Yeah. I'm not worried about some
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guy on Facebook who says that Trudeau had an affair with a teenager at West Point Grey Academy
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when he was a teacher there. I haven't seen real proof of that rumor, by the way,
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other than some circumstantial evidence. I didn't report on that rumor because I'm not going to put
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my reputation staked on rumors. If some guy on Twitter or Facebook wants to, that's his business.
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And it's each of our own business to decide who to believe and who not to believe and who to
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challenge and who to accept. Like I say, some random guy on Facebook could be lying, could be
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telling the truth, but we know the liberals lie. But you know, I actually gave them some real advice.
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I said that if you actually say it louder, we've learned in the House of Commons, if you repeat it,
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if you say it louder, if that is your talking point, people will totally believe it.
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Look, I'm much less worried about some guy getting something wrong on Facebook
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than I am worried about Trudeau and Gould and even Andrew Scheer telling me that I can't make
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up my own mind about things for myself and that they will be the censors of Canada. Stay with us for more.
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This night, the United States brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice.
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He was the founder and leader of ISIS, the most ruthless and violent terror organization anywhere in the world.
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The United States has been searching for Baghdadi for many years.
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Capturing or killing Baghdadi has been the top national security priority of my administration.
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U.S. Special Operations Forces executed a dangerous and daring nighttime raid in northwestern Syria and
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I saw that announcement live on Sunday morning.
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I thought, oh, I'll just watch for a few minutes.
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Of course, you would expect a man who hosted the widely viewed apprenticeship,
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And the details were communicated by the president in his signature manner.
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He talked about the dogs chasing down al-Baghdadi.
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And he really emphasized the cowardice with which Baghdadi met his final moments,
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fleeing down a dead-ended tunnel with three of his children and I think two of his wives and blowing himself up.
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Trump really emphasized the humiliating end of Baghdadi.
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And that didn't impress the liberal media who thought it was too mean.
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A way to demystify and take away the mystique and the psychic power that Baghdadi held.
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It's just like when they captured Saddam Hussein in a little spider hole in Iraq and they manhandled him and
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plucked at his beard to make him look as lowly as possible to bring down the mega man to a nothing.
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And joining me now, one of the few media to celebrate the downfall of this tyrant
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and to talk about the mainstream media's reaction to it is our friend Joel Pollack,
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It seems impossible, but the leading media in America and Canada, too,
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I know that sounds crazy, but we'll have some examples from the Washington Post and
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I'm not saying the media were cheering for him, but they were mad that Trump was triumphant.
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I think they were less pro-Baghdadi than anti-Trump and they understand what this could
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Recall that Barack Obama essentially cemented his re-election with the successful raid that
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He passed the Commander-in-Chief test and that was a big concern about Obama, who had no military
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experience, no national security experience, and a deep history in the anti-war movement.
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So people thought, is this going to be a problem for him when he has to fight terrorism?
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And Obama proved a lot of that criticism wrong with the decision, and it was a bold one,
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Now, Trump actually, interestingly, after the raid was announced, congratulated Obama personally.
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This was at a time when he was pursuing Obama for his birth certificate and all kinds of other
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But Trump issued a statement personally congratulating Barack Obama and calling on Americans to put
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politics aside for a moment while the country savored the victory.
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What you're seeing now is Democrats and the media are refusing to give Trump credit.
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You saw the Democrats congratulate the military and so forth, but they didn't congratulate Donald
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Many of them now say that this success happened in spite of him.
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Joe Biden gave a detailed interview today to the Washington Post saying that Trump will never
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have another success like that again because his foreign policy is basically confused.
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And they're just desperate to spin this as somehow something bad for Trump.
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They understand that Trump doing this, killing the leader of ISIS, who terrified Americans with
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his graphic executions, beheadings, and all kinds of tortures.
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This man who haunted the American consciousness for so many years is dead and was killed essentially
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But the media are making sure that Americans do not think about this as a success for Donald
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Trump, even though he did make the not just a decision to do this, but he kept it under wraps.
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This is a president who we were told would give away national security secrets.
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In fact, we were told that he had done so because he had to declassify things about
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We were told this guy's Twitter account was a national security threat.
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Donald Trump, the most media accessible, social media addicted president we've ever had,
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And that also makes him look like, as with Obama, he's passed the commander in chief test.
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You could argue he had already done so, but this also boosts Trump's decision to withdraw
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U.S. troops from Syria because what he's shown is he can go after the ISIS leadership and take
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out their command structure without having to commit thousands and thousands of American soldiers
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And basically a huge national security and foreign policy win for Trump.
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That's why the media and the Democrats are so angry about it.
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Yeah. You know, what also made them angry is that Trump did not give them advance notice and that
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many of them found out when Trump told the world. And it's so obvious to me, even as a foreigner up
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here in Canada, Joel, that if he would have told people like Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff,
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they would have leaked it either themselves publicly or given it to their friends in the
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Washington Post. It's so obvious that keeping it secret from the Democrats was an important
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national security decision, too. And that infuriated them.
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Well, giving something to Adam Schiff is giving it to the Washington Post.
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Giving something to Nancy Pelosi is giving it to the New York Times. They have a direct pipeline
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to these newspapers. They've shown they cannot be trusted, especially Adam Schiff, who calls the
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impeachment inquiry a grand jury investigation and then proceeds to leak details of testimony that
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no one else is allowed to see. Of course, a grand jury is supposed to be secret. If this really is
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a grand jury investigation, he's in legal trouble. It's not. But that's what he's been telling everyone.
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And meanwhile, he's leaking selective documents to make Trump look as bad as possible. He is
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a leaker in chief. And Trump is right not to share information like that with him, even if he does
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hold the position of House Intelligence Committee chair. By the way, Republicans weren't briefed either.
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I think the president was right to keep this as close to his chest as possible and let politicians
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know when it was time for everyone to know. There's nothing they needed to know about this
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that would have enhanced the operation in any way. What would they have done to help him? I mean,
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what would be the purpose of informing them? There's no purpose. They just don't like that
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their egos are a bit bruised. Nancy Pelosi seems to think she is the president. She's argued for months
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that she has co-equal status to the president. She was just in Jordan to discuss the Syria situation.
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Of course, last time she went to Syria, it was to play footsie with Bashar al-Assad, who was then about
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to slaughter hundreds of thousands of people. She thought that was a good idea to show that we could be
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diplomatic with Assad. And he was a reformer, Hillary Clinton told it. So that's Pelosi's track
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record on diplomacy in Syria. So anyway, they're upset. I think it's good that they're upset.
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People like it when they're upset. And I think this is still a big win for Trump. And you're going to
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start to see Americans rally around him. I think this is a very important turning point with regard to 2020.
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Yeah. I remember Obama had an unofficial reelection slogan, Bin Laden is dead and Detroit is alive.
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And that was a powerful thing to say. Let me show you the first headlines that the Washington Post
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and Bloomberg put up. This is the Post. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at
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helm of Islamic State, dies of 48. Not the word terrorist or murderer. And he personally
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conducted the most violent crime. He personally raped an American woman. Like personally. He didn't,
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it's not even that he delegated it. He himself was a monster and a war criminal. And the Washington Post
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emphasizes he's a modest man and a scholar. And he helmed the Islamic State. That, you cannot read
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that without knowing that the Washington Post is not on America's side. Or if they are, it's grudging.
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Yeah. And the woman he writes was Kayla Muller, who is and was an outstanding American who
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worked in Syria with humanitarian aid organizations. And she was killed under Baghdadi's orders. She,
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I think, was one of the victims of a bombing raid, but she wouldn't have been there had Baghdadi not
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executed that Jordanian pilot in brutal fashion, burning him alive and filming it and so forth.
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Kayla Muller was her name. She was forced into slavery by the leader of the so-called Islamic State. And
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by the way, also journalists were murdered by this thug. And yet the people who tell us democracy dies in
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darkness didn't really seem to have much sympathy for a journalist and a murdered humanitarian aid worker
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who were Americans. They had this approach to Baghdadi as if he were some sort of
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fanciful object of interest you could hold at arm's length. Oh yes, you know, respected scholar and all
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that. One thing that is interesting about Baghdadi is that he was raised in a middle-class family.
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And back around the time of 9-11, there were all these debates about why Islamic terrorism exists.
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And on the left, people said it's because of poverty. No, it's not. Many of the people who
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lead these terror organizations are from middle-class upbringings, and this is how they decide to make
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their way in the world. So he came from a family of some means, and he came radicalized at university,
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of course, in a society where very few people go to university. He joined the Muslim Brotherhood and so on and
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so forth. So yeah, it's amazing how our media have reacted. They look very, very bad. And especially
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when you look at the Washington Post motto, democracy dies in darkness. That ran above the
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obituary, at least in the online version. And you just say to yourself, do these people even understand
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basic values they purport to defend? I don't think they do. Yeah. You know, the phrase austere scholar,
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that's such an unusual combination of words that it cannot be a coincidence that one of Canada's
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so-called terrorism experts, he's on the CBC all the time. Here he is on Global News, using that exact
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language. Take a look at this clip from Canada's Global News.
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Kind of austere religious leader. He has a way to show supporters that he was this kind of austere
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religious leader. He has a way... Yeah, I mean, I'm sorry, that's just not a coincidence that Canada's terrorism
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expert is parroting the Washington Post. Let me show you one more example. I don't want our viewers
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to think that it was just the Washington Post. Here's Bloomberg. Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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transformed himself from a little-known teacher of Quranic recitation into the self-proclaimed ruler
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of an entity that covered swaths of Syria and Iraq. Wow! He was almost the same kind of entrepreneur
00:30:26.980
as Trump in his own way. You know, the funny thing on both of these, not only is that they don't
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mention terrorism, murder, rape, but they're suddenly giving him credit as a religious scholar, whereas
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the media party line for five years now has been, no, no, no, no, this isn't the true religion.
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This isn't really Islam. But both the Post and Bloomberg say, no, he's a religious scholar,
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Quranic expert. Now they're only saying that now. It's so embarrassing and so noticeable.
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And I should point out, you mentioned that the media didn't give Trump himself credit. Neither
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did Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, put out a belated tweet. Again, not using the word
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terrorism and not giving credit to Trump. I think this is just a reminder that on terrorism and military
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issues, the establishment is so, so, so far off from ordinary Americans and Canadians. And I hope
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you're right that this is a defining moment for the 2020 election. Last word to you, Joel.
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Well, it's unfortunate that people see things this way. I think it shows the degree to which
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many Americans have been misled by media to see absolutely everything in their lives in a partisan
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or through a partisan lens. When Obama came on TV to declare that Osama bin Laden had been killed,
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I lit up a cigar, literally, on the deck of my building. And it didn't matter who got the credit.
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I mean, this was a victory for civilization. And the same is true of the death of the ISIS leader. And
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that's really how we should have absorbed the news. But if not for the dog, I mean, the dog has become
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sort of a unifying figure. The dog that confronted the ISIS leader was sent there, maybe with a camera,
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who knows, but basically sent to track him down while he was running away in a tunnel and so forth.
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Everybody likes dogs. That's a good thing. Good thing to have a hero that will never have a political
00:32:26.740
opinion. But other than that, you know, people have been, have been, I think, overly partisan and
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reacting to this news. And it's sad. And the media have driven at least half of the American public into
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that particular corner. Yeah. Well, it's disappointing, but it doesn't take away from
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the fact that Baghdadi is dead. And I understand from another tweet from Trump today, the number two
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commander in ISIS was also just killed. It's interesting. He was killed. Also,
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the spokesman was killed. I think what happened was that, unlike the Obama administration, which
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sat on the intelligence in bin Laden's headquarters for a long time, the Trump administration is acting on
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everything they found in the al-Baghdadi headquarters. And they're just mopping up as many people as they
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can before they can find new hiding places, before they can leave Syria, before they can get to some
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other place. I think the U.S. military is going after whoever they can and the command structure
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based on communications and evidence they would have found that hideout. Incredible. Well, Joel,
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great to see you. And thanks for talking about this with us and keeping the great work at Breitbart.
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There you have it. Our friend Joel Pollack, senior editor at large with Breitbart.com. Stay with us.
00:33:44.980
Hey, on my monologue yesterday about a globalist lobby group wanting Canada's population to reach
00:33:50.660
100 million people, Billy writes, since 2010, Japan's population has been stagnant. During that time,
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their standing on the quality of life index has stayed the same in 13th or 14th. Canada's quality
00:34:01.780
of life went from 7th in 2012. And this year, Canada's 17th. Canada's population increased by 10%
00:34:09.300
since 2010. In fact, population increase does not equate to an improved standard of living. The globalists
00:34:15.460
are lying. Yeah, I mean, if you've ever driven a car in Toronto or Vancouver, or even these days,
00:34:25.540
Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, more cars on the road isn't improved quality of life. If you've ever tried
00:34:33.540
to buy a house or rent property in Vancouver, Toronto, you know that more people supply and demand,
00:34:42.180
more people trying to buy up houses. That's not a good thing. You try and get a job and you know,
00:34:46.180
there's a lot of cheap labor driving down wages. That's not a good thing. Yeah, it's not always a
00:34:52.100
good thing when all of a sudden you have thousands or millions of people ahead of the line for
00:34:58.420
hospitals, pensions. It's just not related. If the only thing you care about is gross GDP,
00:35:07.860
I guess, which is why this globalist lobby group is packed full of banks, because I guess there's
00:35:15.780
going to be more mortgages and more things to sell. That ain't quality of life.
00:35:22.580
On my interview with Tanya Granick-Allen, Liz writes,
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I hope Tanya Granick-Allen gets back into politics. She was terribly used by Doug Ford.
00:35:32.900
Yeah, I, you know, I gotta say that's true. I mean, she endorsed him, she supported him,
00:35:37.140
and then he threw her out at the first moment, and I don't think it was a good look.
00:35:40.180
On the topic of Alberta separation, John writes, most Albertans would prefer Quebec left Canada
00:35:47.380
over Alberta leaving. It would save them a bundle. What do you think? You know,
00:35:51.460
that's an interesting way to put it. That's why I don't think Quebec would ever leave,
00:35:58.420
because it gets so much. They just want the pain, the friction, the transaction cost of the negotiation
00:36:05.060
to be so high that the rest of Canada says, fine, stay, keep your millions and billions.
00:36:11.220
Whereas Alberta, Alberta would say, OK, guys, we're going to go now. OK, see you later.
00:36:16.340
And would actually go if they were to go, because there's so much money Alberta ships to the rest of
00:36:23.060
the country, they would immediately be able to eliminate income tax. Just stop and think about that.
00:36:29.140
Just, boom, gone. Could you imagine? A whole province where there's no income tax. How does that work?
00:36:37.780
Well, that works if Alberta doesn't have the proper record anymore. So yeah, Wexit, that's not being
00:36:43.060
promoted by bots, despite what the lobby firms say. Well, folks, that's the show for today. Until
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tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night,