Candace is back with another bombshell regarding the New York Times and Justin Baldoni's lawsuit against them. This time, it's about metadata and how it ties into the Baldoni/Ryan Reynolds smear campaign. Candace explains why she thinks there may be evidence against the NY Times.
00:01:03.040So let's get started and welcome back to Candace.
00:01:04.960I got to tell you guys right at the top here, I don't understand the people who follow politics and are sometimes like, Candace, don't cover so much culture.
00:01:26.440And then you get these left-leaning TikTokers.
00:01:28.400I see you guys, I'm following all of you, who are begging me to only cover culture.
00:01:33.060Oh, we like you so much when you don't cover politics.
00:01:49.760That means that I might be defending Justin Baldoni or Donald Trump from the hashtag Me Too movement.
00:01:56.140It is very important to complementalize how you feel about somebody personally from how you are receiving information about a case that they're involved in.
00:02:04.500Politically, I know for a fact that the mainstream media will lie and they will smear on behalf of their powerful friends.
00:02:11.700And it is looking like, ladies and gentlemen, it looks like Justin Baldoni may have a very strong case against the New York Times.
00:02:18.800You're not going to believe this, okay?
00:02:34.860Think of data in general as digital footprints, okay?
00:02:37.700So like you can't like run from the scene of an online crime, but people can just trace your metadata and see where this started, okay?
00:02:46.160So in Justin Baldoni's lawsuit, he accuses Ryan Reynolds of colluding, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, of colluding with the New York Times.
00:02:55.080And I think explicitly it says for months that they were plotting with the New York Times for months to smear him.
00:03:01.080And there may be some important evidence regarding that accusation because you have to remember that Blake Lively filed her civil rights complaint.
00:03:11.620She filed the civil rights complaint in Los Angeles on December 20th.
00:03:16.520And then within 24 hours, the New York Times had the scoop.
00:03:20.520They published the complaint in its entirety.
00:03:23.140And it definitely looked suspicious, okay?
00:03:25.900But before December 20th, before December 21st, when the New York Times then reported on it, absolutely no one in the media thought Justin Baldoni was behind a smear campaign against her.
00:03:37.400This was like a very shocking filing that came before Christmas.
00:03:40.560We're all like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going on?
00:03:41.700And suddenly she's accusing him of sexual harassment.
00:03:45.480And she's saying that he then orchestrated, along with his PR people, this huge campaign against her, essentially saying that everything was inorganic.
00:04:19.340Yesterday, yesterday I got an email from someone, another anonymous person, and they say, hey, Candace, you should check out the metadata from the New York Times big publication about Justin Baldoni because they didn't think about this.
00:04:34.580But if you go into that article and you click the images in the article about Justin Baldoni's smear campaign, it shows you that they began creating the images and pulling the images for that article on December 16th.
00:04:56.960If you right click your mouse on the lead image, that is a original artwork from the New York Times, an artist who I'm going to tell you about, Najiba Al-Gadban is her name.
00:05:08.080She doesn't even work at the New York Times, but I guess she apparently is still doing some work for them.
00:05:34.540You can pull another image from this because they were saving these files and did not think about their digital footprints.
00:05:41.960You can see they even named this file, multimedia file, that was named on 12-18.
00:05:48.140That is two days before Blake Lively filed her complaint, and they named it Smear Baldoni.
00:05:57.100Now, that is, to me, the biggest clue right there, the title of it, because I was playing devil's advocate.
00:06:01.320I'm like, okay, well, maybe they saved this image, and they happened to, you know, they were already working on a piece about Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni on 12-18.
00:06:10.720And they really just got so lucky that as they were working on this piece, she filed a complaint two days later.
00:06:15.920Obviously, that's pretty unbelievable as it is, but I was like, I got to play devil's advocate before I jump into a conspiracy.
00:06:22.240But no, no, no, no, no, you named it Smear Baldoni.
00:06:26.280Do you guys remember what the article was actually entitled that they actually released on 12-21?
00:06:30.460One, I'm showing you, we can bury anyone inside a Hollywood smear machine.
00:06:35.840So you can see that image, which is original artwork, so that's not something that they pulled from the web.
00:06:39.800It's something that they asked someone to make for them, and it's pieces.
00:06:42.900All of these little pieces were pulled in, including the alleged emails and messages.
00:06:48.040Those are the little triangles that you have there that are from the PR campaign.
00:06:51.440So they were already working on this explosive piece, because otherwise, why on earth did they name it Smear in their files?
00:07:00.580We have one more image to show you of how you can look at this yourself.
00:07:04.260You can literally do this yourself just by right-clicking and creating a new tab.
00:07:09.320This is how the New York Times was saving these images.
00:07:13.340And I think we have one more that actually you can just see how they titled it.
00:07:16.840You see Smear Baldoni, Super Jumbo, this is their JPEG image.
00:07:23.220The New York Times is going to be in a lot of trouble.
00:07:26.540They're going to have, let's put it this way, a lot of explaining to do.
00:07:29.920A lot of, what, how did you create this file and these images for this article on the 16th regarding something that Blake Lively had not filed in court?
00:07:43.380What piece were you working on regarding Justin Baldoni smearing?
00:07:48.140No one had accused him of that on the 16th or the 18th.
00:07:52.540No filing had been made by Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, or Blake Lively rather, at that time.
00:08:01.600Well, well, if you're in the New York Times, you're going to say, I don't have to divulge that to you because there's this thing called the First Amendment.
00:08:05.900And I'm going to say that we are taking journalistic privilege.
00:08:10.760Do you know who's not going to get journalistic privilege?
00:08:12.320The graphic designer who made that topper, because that person is not a journalist, okay?
00:08:17.800The entire purpose of having journalistic privilege where you can say, I'm not going to answer the question, is to protect a source.
00:08:25.320The idea is the media is supposed to be the fourth estate.
00:08:28.360They're supposed to be with us, protecting us against power, power, like the A-list power of these couples who can make a phone call to the New York Times and take someone down so they can steal their movie, allegedly, right?
00:08:39.960So that's why, that's the entire idea behind being able to claim journalistic privilege.
00:08:46.300But in this case, they're not going to ask for a source.
00:08:48.880They're not going to ask a graphic designer on the stand, because that's the first thing I would do.
00:08:52.700If you're watching Brian Friedman, you've got to get this graphic designer on the stand.
00:09:05.620Blake Lively, the victim, had not yet filed yet in California.
00:09:10.440So graphic designer, I don't care about who your source is.
00:09:12.880I just want to know when you did your job.
00:09:15.320When did you make this artistic image?
00:09:17.120And can you explain why the URL data points to the fact that this was saved under this title on the 16th and on the 18th?
00:09:27.040That's a problem, my friends, and I cannot believe it, and I am telling you, this case to me, I have not seen a case so open and shut in my life.
00:09:35.740And the more that I read and the more details that I get into, because I've been working on my timeline, I'm just shocked at how many lies were told, okay?
00:09:43.800Now, here's another thing that I missed yesterday.
00:09:46.720Okay, we've got to review this rooftop scene.
00:09:51.260I have only watched the rooftop scene of this entire movie, and I wasn't, you know, compelled to watch it any further.
00:09:57.900But Blake Lively, it appears to me, completely lied about that critical scene in which she involved Taylor Swift and Ryan Reynolds, her dragon.
00:10:07.400She's Khaleesi, because she really wanted her vision to be included in this, okay?
00:10:12.600So let me bring you, let me bring up my timeline here that I've created, a psychopath, okay, of 2023.
00:10:18.400This is the part of the timeline here.
00:10:20.380And I want you to look at April, April 5th, 2023.
00:10:24.540Blake Lively texts, well, that's actually about the intimacy coordinator, actually go down to April 11th.
00:10:32.980Around this date, and I couldn't pinpoint, it could have been the 10th, the 11th, or the 12th,
00:10:36.880Blake Lively submits to Justin Baldoni a rewrite of that iconic rooftop scene of the film.
00:10:43.740And essentially, he says to her, like, hey, this is amazing, and I love that you're so passionate about this, but, you know, we're not going to use all of this.
00:10:53.640Some of this is good, we're not going to use the rest.
00:10:54.880So she then invites him, in this time frame, to her penthouse, where he gets ambushed by Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Swift,
00:11:04.400peer pressuring him by telling him how much they just love and adore Blake's rewrite.
00:11:08.540You remember this part of the story, right?
00:11:24.400There was no reason, you know, to include them.
00:11:27.500And she kind of meets him with silence and then writes this long message to him, an incredibly long message that I'm not going to read in its entirety here,
00:11:35.740about how his response didn't make her feel good, right?
00:11:39.980And he's trying to tell her, like, I think you're great.
00:11:43.100And I didn't need your A-list or friends.
00:11:44.900And she's saying, listen, like, in the past, I haven't been treated, I'm paraphrasing here, the best by people taking my work seriously.
00:12:36.640They asked what you thought specifically after they checked in so many times.
00:12:41.380I told him that you laughed a bunch and said that it's probably a blend, but that you appreciate my passion so much, which of course didn't feel great to me, right?
00:12:50.240To have my passion praised instead of any specific contribution or even just that you don't like the pages, which was fine also.
00:12:58.760Next, this last part of the message, she's essentially saying to him,
00:13:03.360So I think they wanted you and me to see how they felt about the work because they've been by my side for far too many experiences where I've been overlooked.
00:13:11.540I spoke to you about this when we first met.
00:13:13.720They've watched me hand and handwrite scripts because the directors are too afraid to send the FDX file, yet he scans.
00:13:20.120So she goes on and on about how she's been mistreated.
00:13:22.220And then that's how it culminates into that final message where she says,
00:13:25.000Look, both Ryan and Tay, I'm assuming she said T here, have established themselves as absolute titans, as writers and storytellers outside of their primary gig, just singing or just acting or blank, just directing.
00:13:38.320I'm so lucky to have them as creative barometers.
00:13:41.060And then she ends it with the notorious Khaleesi.
00:13:46.320If you ever get around to watching Game of Thrones, you'll appreciate that I'm Khaleesi and like her.
00:13:50.160I happen to have a few dragons for better or worse, but usually for better because my dragons also protect those I fight for.
00:13:57.100So really, we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine.
00:14:02.160Now, that message was so long that I just I chose to paraphrase it because it would have taken me 10 minutes to read it in its entirety longer, maybe even 15 minutes to read its entirety.
00:14:11.740And so Justin Baldoni opted because men don't men don't write novels via text.
00:14:16.480They just don't to send her a voice, a voice note back.
00:14:21.680I'm telling you that because he has now leaked or someone on his team has leaked this voicemail.
00:14:26.600And we're going to listen to it because it really helps you understand how much he fell over himself to grovel and apologize.
00:14:34.460And essentially, he felt he had no option and moved to include her new rewrite, emphasis on her new rewrite of the scene in order to, I guess, kowtow to these A-listers.
00:15:56.300Aside from the fact that they're two of the most creative people on the planet.
00:15:59.460The three of you guys together, it's unbelievable.
00:16:03.360Talk about energy and just a force, all three of you.
00:16:08.200But I just wanted you to know that I didn't need that because it's really good and it's going to make the movie sing like you said.
00:16:14.720And I'm excited to go through the whole movie with you.
00:16:17.680I am so sorry you have been through what you've been through with these other filmmakers and producers or whoever the people were that you worked with.
00:16:29.020Those f*** heads that I'm just still kind of blown away that this is the industry that we're in and that you've experienced that as a woman.
00:16:38.820And I know I don't need to say it, but that's not at all going to be or will be.
00:16:45.320Hopefully it's not been the experience with me.
00:16:48.280There's nothing more exciting to me that I get to work with Blake Lively and have her, all of her.
00:17:35.120I don't know if you feel the same way listening to it, but it's just a man being fully castrated by a woman who is using toxic feminism to get what she wants, right?
00:17:48.020And so she sends this message and he just grovels.
00:17:51.520And to give him some credit here, like I said, I've gone through his Instagram.
00:17:54.780This is who Justin Baldoni actually is.
00:17:56.880He's not playing a part of being a male feminist.
00:17:59.000Like this is the rare bird in Los Angeles who believes what they say, who's not just virtue signaling.
00:18:04.520He's worked really hard to get to this point where he just listens to women.
00:18:08.040He has not yet perceived that a woman might do something evil.
00:18:12.420He has not yet learned the lesson that nice guys can sometimes finish last, right?
00:18:16.840And when I say finish last, I mean suddenly have an entire movie yanked out of their hands and have a male who's really a beta.
00:18:24.380I'm going to say a beta male is what Ryan Reynolds is, but playing the part of an alpha by mocking him mercilessly on the internet.
00:18:31.180And I'm telling you, I have clawed through everything looking for one petty like from Justin Baldoni.