John Bolton - Fight Back Against the Media, the Government, The Propaganda - CLICK

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 504 a.m. Monday, April the 27th. I hope you're having a

00:00:08.620 great start to your Monday. Hope you had a good weekend as well with the big blue mug of coffee,

00:00:12.500 which I tipped to you today. It seems a lot of you liked my video yesterday describing liberals

00:00:19.080 and their supporters as the Borg from Star Trek or The Collective. Thanks a lot for watching it.

00:00:25.200 More than 40,000 of you have. I'll put a card at the end so you can watch it if you haven't

00:00:30.520 already. So today, this is an important message. I hope you'll watch until the end.

00:00:35.780 This isn't a rant about anything that the Liberals are doing in Ottawa or about the people

00:00:41.520 who support the Liberals or any policy right now, but this is an important video. In this video,

00:00:46.460 I'm going to talk to you about something you already know, okay? But get past that. I'm just

00:00:51.340 going to get to that briefly in just a moment. I'm going to show you how a narrative is being

00:00:55.520 spun about information that you trust. I'm going to show you how a narrative is being spun about

00:01:00.900 something that amounts to nothing and how an actual thing is ignored. And I'm going to tell

00:01:06.660 you how you can fight back because it's important. And as we move through this year of 2026,

00:01:12.600 it's going to be more important than ever. So I came across this article from Juno News,

00:01:18.780 and this is just from yesterday and this is a great article link in the description

00:01:22.840 and thank you to juno news i don't give attribution to enough on this channel i need to do it more

00:01:28.240 but juno news is doing great work here as our other independent media and that's what this

00:01:34.720 video is about as other independent media are doing in this country journalism was meant to

00:01:40.440 challenge power now it just echoes it the legacy media have traded the pursuit of truth

00:01:45.440 for partisan activism. And just a little bit of the story, Canada's media is not failing because

00:01:51.700 people stopped reading it. It is failing because people stopped trusting it. For decades, the media

00:01:57.080 was one of the central pillars of a free and democratic society. Its role was straightforward

00:02:03.080 to hold power to account, present competing viewpoints, and give citizens the information

00:02:08.960 they needed to make informed decisions. There used to be a saying you'd hear quite a bit when

00:02:13.740 it came to the media, and it was this. Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

00:02:20.000 Finley, Peter Dunn, American Humorist. This was often said about print media, but this is really

00:02:24.920 the job of media. Now, recently I was at an event for Jason Levine. It was called Bearing Witness,

00:02:31.500 and he had me speaking about my experience. I used to be in news media, and Bearing Witness

00:02:36.560 means I'm somebody who observes what's going on, and I am conveying it to people like you. And this

00:02:42.600 is what i had to say at jason's event in red deer a couple of weeks ago and a few years ago i left

00:02:48.620 radio but it definitely is not the same business that i worked in i noticed a shift about 10 years

00:02:54.780 ago it was around 2018 2019 when the liberal government started funding the news media

00:03:01.600 now the news directors and management of the places i work for over the years

00:03:06.540 would be disgusted with this.

00:03:10.680 They would consider it a threat to editorial independence,

00:03:14.780 an erosion of public trust, a risk of political favoritism.

00:03:19.420 They would be disgusted that citizens would be forced

00:03:22.020 to support news organizations that they may not agree with

00:03:26.600 through their tax dollars and other things as well.

00:03:30.000 These people and their beliefs, like me, are now gone. 0.69

00:03:33.740 the news media line up like pigs at a trough for their government handouts george bernard shaw said

00:03:41.320 the politician that robs peter to pay paul will always have a friend in paul and that's what it's

00:03:48.120 like with the news media these days going back to the juno news story they basically say the same

00:03:52.960 thing when media organizations depend on government programs to survive incentives change stories that

00:03:58.700 challenge power become riskier. Editorial decisions become more cautious. Coverage begins

00:04:03.720 to align, sometimes subtly and sometimes overtly, with the prevailing narrative. Link in the

00:04:08.960 description. And you already knew about this. This is confirmation bias. And I'm going to address

00:04:14.700 that in just a moment. So these are things you already know. Now, the next thing is, how is the

00:04:20.240 narrative being spun about information that you trust? Well, you start to see stories like this.

00:04:27.160 Network of YouTube channels pushing U.S. annexation and Alberta secession narrative report fines.

00:04:34.000 And this has spread like wildfire.

00:04:36.420 You read the story, a network of inauthentic YouTube channels posing as Albertan voices

00:04:40.780 is spreading misleading content about separation and U.S. annexation,

00:04:44.980 reaching tens of millions of viewers, according to a new report.

00:04:48.120 It's not until you actually get down here that they say this is AI, and much of it is.

00:04:53.000 And you probably know about this story because of Derek from Unacceptable Fringe.

00:04:56.920 he got lumped into this story as AI. I can assure you I have met Derek. I have spoken to him. I

00:05:03.660 shook his hand a number of times. He is not AI, but this is how they're going to try to discredit

00:05:08.420 people like me as being an inauthentic voice for Alberta independence. I can assure you

00:05:14.220 I am a real person as well because the stories start to change. They start to morph. It's like

00:05:19.520 what you used to call Chinese telephone. You go to a party and somebody would whisper in somebody's

00:05:24.060 ear. And then everybody would whisper it to everybody else. And by the time you got to the

00:05:28.240 end, the story had completely changed. Because if you read this from the TIE, this is how they

00:05:32.920 spin the story. The dishonest online campaign to support Alberta separatism. A research group

00:05:39.140 raises red flags about foreign interference in the province's independence referendum. You can 1.00

00:05:43.540 see how the story is all already morphed into this. It doesn't really talk about the AI in the

00:05:49.080 headline. A lot of people just scan the headline. So it's trying to discredit people who actually

00:05:53.440 speak truthfully about what is going on here. It won't be very long before I'm being accused of

00:05:57.960 being on the payroll of Donald Trump. I fully expect that. And I can assure you that is not

00:06:02.540 happening. It's not happening and it never will. And nobody in the independence movement in Alberta

00:06:06.900 is on the payroll of Donald Trump. But you're already hearing that from people like Jason

00:06:10.880 Kenney and Thomas Lukasik, who heads up the fake Forever Canadian campaign. So that's what's going

00:06:16.460 on here. You see this story here as well. This from the CBC. Alberta separatist leader unconcerned

00:06:23.020 about influence of YouTube's slopaganda videos.

00:06:26.460 Mitch Sylvester said he's never heard of them,

00:06:28.700 neither have I, okay?

00:06:30.780 So what we've heard now are the first two things.

00:06:33.020 I talked about something you already knew.

00:06:35.560 You know what's happening.

00:06:36.800 And then you can see the next part of this

00:06:38.940 is how a narrative is spun about information that you trust.

00:06:43.800 It's manipulation.

00:06:44.900 Watch the video I did just a couple of days ago.

00:06:46.920 We're now gonna move on to the next step.

00:06:50.160 And the next step is this.

00:06:53.020 they show you how the narrative is spun about something that amounts to absolutely nothing

00:06:57.320 while ignoring the big thing. And we get to a story like this one right here. Read this.

00:07:03.560 So, treaties in Alberta are not optional agreements. First Nations gather at City Hall

00:07:08.360 rally against separatists. This story should have been ignored by CTV News completely.

00:07:14.340 Why? Well, I used to do media in a small town of slightly over 50,000 people, and the program

00:07:23.240 director I worked with said, we show up when 500 people are there, or we don't go, because it's not

00:07:28.580 worth our time, and it's not an event. It's not a news story until it hits 500. This amounted to

00:07:35.400 several dozen Calgarians braved the cold Saturday to join in the treaties are forever rally at City

00:07:42.820 hall. Several dozen in a city of more than, what, 1.3 million people? And look what they said here.

00:07:49.920 Braved the cold on Saturday. I can assure you it was not that cold on Saturday. Wasn't a nice day,

00:07:56.680 but not that cold. And then you get stories like this. Another one. Door knocking begins for Alberta

00:08:03.760 NDP campaign to keep province in Canada. The For Alberta, For Canada campaign aims to mobilize

00:08:10.720 Albertans, look how many people they got in this shot. This amounts to absolutely nothing. And

00:08:17.800 then there's a story like this. For Alberta for Canada campaign kicks off in spite of frigid

00:08:23.800 snowstorm. Not true. It was not that cold on Saturday when this picture of a few dozen people

00:08:30.420 was taken. But what have they ignored? For the last four months, thousands of people have been

00:08:40.760 sitting on street corners, in parking lots, all across Alberta in some of the worst weather you

00:08:47.180 can imagine, collecting signatures for the independence campaign, and they have been

00:08:51.600 virtually ignored. Not a single story. And I'll tell you, it was pretty frigid and it was pretty

00:08:57.980 cold a lot of those days. That campaign just ended yesterday. This is how they turn something

00:09:03.860 that is nothing into something and ignore the big story. And you're going to see a lot of this,

00:09:09.600 a lot of it. You know what's fascinating? Nahed Nenshi has made the fight against the

00:09:16.800 independence movement political. Mitch Sylvester has told me here he does not want this to be

00:09:21.980 political. He wants to bring everybody in, a big tent. This is the number of people that are

00:09:27.260 following the NDPs for Alberta for Canada campaign right now on X. It even says here,

00:09:33.780 authorized by the Alberta NDP, 359 followers. This was launched more than a week ago.

00:09:43.420 This is a huge failure. So now you know how they turn the little thing into the big thing

00:09:49.840 and ignore the big story. This is where we're going forward. Now, the other thing you need to

00:09:54.740 do is how you can fight back against the narrative and the propaganda and the lies. And I'm only

00:10:00.220 using the independence movement as an example. This happens everywhere with everything. You know

00:10:06.020 it. I know it. When you go to a YouTube video, I'm not just talking about me and I'm not going

00:10:11.680 to start listing off all the great voices who may be considered conservative in Canada because I'll

00:10:16.820 miss somebody. But you, when they ask you to subscribe or you see the button come up, click

00:10:21.940 on subscribe. You probably watch videos where people say, only 7% are actually subscribed to

00:10:28.840 my channel. Subscribe to these channels. Like the videos if you like them and share them if you like

00:10:35.120 them, because this is how the message and the truth gets out. Because as we move forward in 2026,

00:10:42.340 some of these voices may be silenced. And you need to support them now, because there is strength

00:10:50.220 in numbers, and you are part of the fight against the narrative we're being pushed by the media.

00:10:55.820 It's very important that you do this. On a final note, and I had already finished doing this video,

00:11:02.300 but I wanted to make sure I mentioned this at the end, so I'm editing it in. Know what the other

00:11:07.880 side is doing. Don't always look for the confirmation bias. Don't always go for the

00:11:12.440 stories that you agree with. It's easier to fight back against the other side if you know what

00:11:17.500 they're doing. And I'm going to show you one more quote here, and it's a good one. I think I may

00:11:21.320 have shown it here on the channel before. It's from Sun Tzu from The Art of War. If you know the

00:11:27.220 enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself

00:11:33.420 but not the enemy for every victory gained, you will also suffer a defeat. If you neither know

00:11:39.160 the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. Thanks a lot for watching. If you liked

00:11:46.980 this video, give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for notifications,

00:11:51.900 share it if you like it, and I will see you in the next one.

John Bolton - April 27, 2026

Fight Back Against the Media, the Government, The Propaganda - CLICK

Episode Stats

People

Summary

Transcript