Veterans Affairs' latest scandal another examples of Liberals' disdain for our military
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Summary
A few days ago, the 74th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, or VE Day, as it is known, was marked. This was one of the most important moments of the 20th century in which the Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Germany. Canadians played a huge role in World War II, just like World War I. We punched above our weight, and when one looks at the number of casualties incurred compared to the population of the nation at the time, the death toll is even more staggering. Is that really the best way to honour Canadians who paid the ultimate sacrifice?
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Tonight, Trudeau's Veterans Affairs celebrates VE Day with Nazis.
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Is that really the best way to honour Canadians who paid the ultimate sacrifice?
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It's May 13th, I'm David Menzies and this is the Ezra Levent Show.
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A few days ago, the 74th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, or VE Day as it is known, was marked.
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This was one of the most important moments of the 20th century in which the Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Germany.
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Canadians played a huge role in World War II, just like World War I.
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We punched above our weight, so to speak, when one looks at the number of casualties incurred compared to the population of the nation at the time.
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So, yes, VE Day is a pretty big deal, as is the commemoration of VE Day,
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even if most of the men who fought in that war have either passed away or are in their 90s right now.
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So it is that Veterans Affairs Canada produced a video commemorating Canada's role in VE Day.
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May the 8th marks the 74th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe during the Second World War.
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More than a million Canadian men and women served in this bitter conflict.
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Of those, over 45,000 gave their lives in the defense of peace and freedom.
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Today, we take time to reflect on the courage shown by the members of our armed forces more than seven decades ago, lest we forget.
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Take a moment to remember, connect with Canadian veterans, participate in local commemorative events,
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share why remembrance is important to you on social media.
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See, the thing is, folks, sharing this video with any Canadian veteran would be akin to spitting in their face
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because most of the footage you just saw didn't feature Canadian troops or even other Allied soldiers.
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Rather, that footage captured German troops on the march.
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Yeah, that little Nazi eagle insignia on their uniforms, that was kind of the dead giveaway.
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Incredibly, Veterans Affairs Canada produced a short tribute film honoring our Canadian soldiers
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Thankfully, the video has now been removed from the Veterans Affairs website,
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even though this idiotic infamy shall live on forever thanks to the internet.
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But the question arises, how in blue hell did this horrific error, assuming it was an error, that is,
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This video wasn't produced by some amateur AV club.
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This was from the Ministry of Veterans Affairs.
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It was narrated by the minister himself, Lawrence McCauley.
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And like any federal government ministry, Veterans Affairs has an entire battalion of communications people.
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Everything coming out of the ministry gets vetted and fact-checked and approved and signed off on.
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And yet this garbage somehow received the green light?
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And even the minister of Veteran Affairs didn't even notice?
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Or did McCauley even bother to take 30 seconds of his precious time to watch the video prior to narrating it?
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After all, McCauley has so much on his plate these days, doesn't he?
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What with denying injured veterans their compensation?
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I mean, McCauley barely has time to tuck into his ham sandwich as he diligently helps the Trudeau liberals balance the budget by, well,
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by telling injured vets to take a long walk off a short pier.
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Fawcett lost her leg and her young child in a horrific accident.
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But she was denied disability compensation by the same idiots who portrayed Nazis as Canadian soldiers.
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You should have known better when you made your heartfelt plea for compensation.
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I think the check would already be in the mail by now.
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Yet, as a side note to the Fawcett affair in the Department of She Who Laughs Last Laughs Longest,
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there may indeed be a happy ending to this sordid story.
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That's because Fawcett has been nominated as the Conservative candidate in the Toronto riding of Scarborough Southwest for the upcoming federal election.
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A soldier who has been fighting the Canadian forces and veterans affairs for 15 years now
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might become this nation's next veterans affairs or defense minister.
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Now, I'm no fortune teller when it comes to predictions, folks.
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But if I were Bill Blair, the minister of nothingness and Toronto's ex-social justice warrior police chief,
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I'd be subscribing to the tagline for the film The Fly right now.
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But let's put aside Macaulay's incompetence and lack of compassion when it comes to veterans affairs
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because I wonder where his communications staffers were when it came to selecting clips of Nazis on the march
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and somehow thinking those were Canadian soldiers.
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Maybe their shocking ignorance speaks to a greater problem,
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which is to say the young'uns simply can't tell you who the good guys were
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and who the bad guys were during that thingy that happened overseas way back when.
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Of the 13 provinces and territories, only four make Canadian history mandatory in high school.
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So when it comes to the tagline, lest we forget,
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well, how can one forget when they never had the knowledge passed on to them in the first place?
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Then again, what do I know about the progressives running the education system in Canada these days?
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Oh, sure, little Johnny and Janie can't spell cat if you were to spot them the C and the T
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and they can't provide an answer for what's 2 plus 2 without reaching for a calculator.
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And hey, they have no idea who the Allied Forces were
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or what they were doing in Europe and Japan decades ago.
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But ask them to correctly identify the 84 genders, or is it 118 now?
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Well, they have that propaganda, or I mean information drilled into their heads
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as they try to self-determine if they're boys or girls or gender-fluid, asexual spirit unicorns.
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But to be fair, it's not just the millennials who have flunked Canadian history.
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Our older and supposedly enlightened liberal leaders aren't so savvy on this file either.
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Remember when doddering John McCallum, who was recently fired as ambassador to China for screwing up that file?
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Remember when he stunned millions of Canadians back in 2002?
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That's when he stated that he had never heard of the country's bloodiest military debacle, the Battle of Dieppe.
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And to think that McCallum was serving as Canada's Minister of Defence at the time?
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But McCallum wasn't done yet with his display of ignorance in the armed forces,
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for this Dumkoff would later write a damage control letter to the editor to the National Post
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Vici, of course, was the capital of collaborationist France during the Nazi years.
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McCallum meant to say, or let's hope he meant to say, Vimy,
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as in Vimy Ridge, the site of Canada's epic First World War victory.
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I mean, Vici, Vimy, they both begin with a V and end with a Y, just like vulgarity.
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So really, what's the difference, eh? No big deal.
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I'm sure by now you've noticed a disturbing trend here.
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Namely, liberals then and now don't seem to give a rodent's rectum about those Canadians
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who are expected to make the ultimate sacrifice when called upon to do so.
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No, not Junior, although Justin is indeed a chip off the old blockhead.
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I speak of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, or Trudeau the First, as some liberals refer to him.
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Back in 1939, Pierre was old enough and capable enough to enlist in the army.
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You say, well, here's what David Frum pointed out in a National Post column a while back.
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Quote, Pierre Trudeau opted not to serve in World War II, although of age and in good health.
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He traveled to Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union to participate in regime-sponsored propaganda activities.
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He wrote in praise of Mao's murderous regime in China.
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Trudeau lavishly admired Fidel Castro, Julius Nerere, and other third world dictators.
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The Soviet dissident Andrei Amalryk scathingly recalled Trudeau's 1971 prime ministerial visit.
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Trudeau visited the Siberian capital of Norilsk and lamented that Canada had never succeeded in building so large a city so far north,
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unaware or unconcerned that Norilsk had been built by slave labor.
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Meanwhile, when Trudeau was residing in Montreal during the Second World War,
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not only did he not serve his country, but he mocked it.
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According to biographers Max Nemny and Monique Nemny,
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authors of Young Trudeau, 1919 to 1944, Son of Quebec, Father of Canada,
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young Pierre and his friend Roger Roland played a prank in 1942 that involved dressing up in European military uniforms
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Allegedly, those European military uniforms were actually German uniforms from the First World War,
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Boys will be boys, after all, even though Canadian boys and some of our soldiers in World War II were not that far removed from boyhood,
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died on European battlefields, trying and succeeding to preserve our freedom in Canada,
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the type of freedom that would allow a future prime minister to make fun of Canada's involvement in the Second World War
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by taking on the persona of a dark Mr. Dress-Up.
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Oh, speaking of Mr. Dress-Up, that brings me to the son of Fidel, or I mean, son of Pierre,
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little Bollywood star wannabe Justin Trudeau himself.
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Justin's handling of Veterans Affairs has been, what's the word?
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Perhaps his lowest point on this file was that infamous statement he uttered at that town hall meeting last year in Edmonton
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when he took a question from frustrated veteran Brock Belaschuk.
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I was prepared to be injured in the line of duty when I joined the military.
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What I wasn't prepared for, Mr. Prime Minister, is Canada turning its back on me.
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So which veteran was it that you were talking about?
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Thank you for having the courage to stand here, and thank you for listening to my answer.
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First of all, why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court?
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Because they're asking for more than we are able to give right now.
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You merely put your life on the line serving Canada.
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What you should have done is embrace radical Islam, kill a Canadian ally, and voila!
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You'd be receiving a check for $10.5 million courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer.
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Oh, sure, the Trudeau liberals didn't really want to make such a payout to the odious Omar Khadr,
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But as the spin cycle goes to fight this jihadi jackass in court,
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would have cost the taxpayer exponentially more in legal fees.
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When it comes to the radical Islam file, suddenly the tax and spend Trudeau liberals
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miraculously re-examine themselves as fiscal conservatives.
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Still, you have to wonder if not so little Omar is good for a $10.5 million lotto max payout,
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then what sort of compensation awaits Vice Admiral Mark Norman?
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After all, Mr. Norman is a decorated patriot whose only crime was doing the right thing
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and exposing liberal meddling regarding a naval contract.
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For having the temerity to do so, he was made a scapegoat,
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thrown under the sub, had his reputation destroyed,
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and incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills.
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Or, wait a minute now, maybe it is precisely because Norman is a decorated patriot
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and that makes him the ideal candidate for being unjustly accused.
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Such is Justin Trudeau's contempt for those who serve or have served.
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that VE Day video featuring Ratsies as Canadian soldiers.
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At least in the aftermath, Minister Macaulay apologized.
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Here is the Right Honourable Macaulay eating crow,
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looking like a ventriloquist dummy, albeit one that embodies half the enthusiasm.
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Well, of course, what happened with the video was totally unacceptable.
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And I can assure you that the people involved and myself are truly sorry for what happened.
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But it's awfully important that it does not take away from what our troops did 74 years ago this week.
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Yeah, Minister, it kind of does take away from what our troops did in Europe 74 years ago.
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And more so, numerous acts of slights by various liberal governments over the past several decades
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take away from what our troops did in Europe 75 years ago.
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But for liberals, they seem to subscribe to the General Douglas MacArthur observation
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that old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
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these surviving soldiers can't fade away quickly enough.
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After all, these giants who literally put their lives on the line to serve our great dominion,
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Last month, Rolling Stone magazine ripped Mark Morano as a quack
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and slammed Fox News for having the utter temerity to book such a quack as a guest.
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And even worse, Fox News actually allowed Morano to weigh in on a United Nations
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Because naturally, the non-elected, unaccountable bureaucrats at the UN,
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well, they simply know better than all of us uninformed schlubs residing out in the hinterland, right?
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Well, to make a defense regarding that Rolling Stone smear job
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Mr. Mark Morano, the founder of ClimateDepot.com.
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Just fulfilling Newsweek's, Rolling Stone's vision of me in Newsweek's.
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Well, smoking like the true mallard you are, I suppose.
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But, you know, the first thing I must ask you this, Mark,
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And if they are, whatever happened to the good old days
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when these cats used to write stories about rock and roll?
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They used to be against the government-mandated consensus on the Vietnam War,
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And now they couldn't be more establishment if they tried.
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They are lockstep with the big media, big academia,
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You know, they once were part of that counterculture,
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and now it's like they've drunk the Kool-Aid from the progressive elites,
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But what exactly has their knickers in a knot regarding what you said on Fox News, Mark?
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What I said on Fox News, by the way, was 100% accurate.
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I said the United Nations has hyped up a report on species.
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They've come up with finding the alleged problem,
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juicing it up and twerking it up in Al Gore's own words.
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That's what Al Gore said about the UN report, climate report.
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And they're putting themselves in charge of the solution.
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The solution requires a complete transformation of our economy and society
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that they were a self-interested lobbying organization.
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both Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and the Media Matters for America.
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They are going bonkers because they want another layer besides climate.
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they want to immediately have the species scare ready to go.
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And they're trying to say that the climate change issue
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is causing the species to go extinct, which is absurd.
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And by the way, the million species the UN mentioned is total nonsense.
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I think there's only a few thousand that can actually identify as being threatened.
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So they just extrapolate out to a million, come out and say,
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And therefore, we need a radical transformation of society.
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when I hear words like a radical transformation of society,
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that means I should be clutching my wallet in my back pocket
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because I think big government is going to be taking out some do re mi
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in order to pay for this radical transformation of society.
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They are now, this is modeled after the climate scare.
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they've already had several big international meetings in Japan,
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Harrison Ford, Hollywood has been showing up for these.
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We're going to have treaties on climate, treaties on species.
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All of them aim not only at the radical transformation,
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to your land use, to your diets, to your appliances,
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They think it's been the most destructive thing
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By the way, Mark, you've mentioned two celebrity names
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It was supposed to be, I guess, on death row by this time.
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he has a thing for flying his own airplanes, doesn't he?
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he admitted in an interview with the UK Guardian
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that he sometimes flies up the coast of California
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That's the man who wants to manage everyone else's life
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So he decided he'll live in one of his many mansions
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all that cattle flatulence is killing us as well.
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as the same way you treat smokers in restaurants.