Juno News - July 18, 2019


Canadian media needs to get over its Trump fixation


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3 minutes

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622

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50

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Donald Trump's go-back-where-they-come-from tweet about Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has the media in a frenzy over whether or not it's racist or not. Andrew Lutton and Sarah Downey break down the situation.

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00:00:00.000 With an election coming up in just three months, you'd think Canadians could focus on their own country.
00:00:08.000 But that certainly isn't what the Canadian media wants to do.
00:00:12.000 No, that ever-present comparison game that Canadians do with the United States is alive and well, 0.94
00:00:18.000 with basically the media wanting to see who can outwoke the other in the battle of knocking down President Donald Trump.
00:00:26.000 The latest round of this comes in Donald Trump's infamous go-back-where-they-came-from tweet.
00:00:31.000 And the fact is, whatever he meant by it, it was a domestic squabble between he and Democratic Congresswoman.
00:00:39.000 Not really something that impacts Canada at all, let alone the Canadian election.
00:00:45.000 But Donald Trump tweets, the world has to respond.
00:00:48.000 That's the new woke-ification game that we see at stake every single time he tweets.
00:00:53.000 Justin Trudeau asked by the media to condemn Donald Trump's tweet.
00:00:57.000 Conservative leader Andrew Scheer asked to condemn Donald's tweet.
00:01:02.000 And despite Justin Trudeau condemning the tweet, the media response is that he didn't go far enough.
00:01:08.000 He stopped short of calling the tweet racist.
00:01:11.000 Well, Trudeau's condemnation was pretty clear.
00:01:14.000 He went to his greatest hit, saying a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian.
00:01:18.000 Talking about diversity being our strength.
00:01:20.000 Yada, yada, yada.
00:01:21.000 A partridge in a pear tree.
00:01:23.000 Andrew Scheer, similarly, was chided by the media for not going so far as to say the tweet was racist.
00:01:30.000 Here's what Vice said.
00:01:31.000 Vice said that it was basically a half-assed condemnation that wasn't a real condemnation.
00:01:37.000 But more bizarrely says that by Justin Trudeau not condemning tweet about Democratic Congresswomen,
00:01:44.000 Justin Trudeau is not standing up for Canadians of color.
00:01:48.000 Yeah, I don't follow the logic either.
00:01:51.000 But this is the Trump derangement syndrome spillover into Canada.
00:01:55.000 And it's only going to ramp up as the election nears.
00:01:58.000 And by the way, it's not just coming from Canada.
00:02:01.000 The U.S. is fulfilling this as well.
00:02:03.000 Here's a CNN story taking aim at what was apparently a lack of global condemnation.
00:02:09.000 But what makes this story so egregious, and by the way, they do give honorable mention to Justin Trudeau in it,
00:02:14.000 is that they say there should be a global unanimity.
00:02:18.000 And they say that this is something that should happen because the global community has done this in the past.
00:02:24.000 And they cite an example of this, the illegal and reprehensible detention of ethnic minorities by China.
00:02:31.000 So CNN is saying that because the global community has condemned the illegal detention of ethnic minorities,
00:02:39.000 it should also band together to condemn Donald Trump's Twitter usage.
00:02:44.000 Yeah, you know, there was a great comment that I saw on Twitter from someone who said,
00:02:49.000 Republicans and conservatives have been called racist over every single thing imaginable.
00:02:53.000 And this crying wolf makes it impossible for people to stand up,
00:02:57.000 even if there is a legitimate discussion to be had in any situation.
00:03:01.000 So right now, this falls into this same old culture war.
00:03:05.000 Everyone gets outraged at something Trump tweets.
00:03:07.000 Everyone's expected to condemn it.
00:03:09.000 And nothing happens.
00:03:10.000 The world goes on as it always has and as it always will.
00:03:14.000 But Canadians and specifically the Canadian media have to get over this game of making everything a battle against Donald Trump.
00:03:23.000 Yes, he's relevant.
00:03:24.000 Yes, he's significant.
00:03:25.000 Yes, the US is Canada's greatest trading partner.
00:03:28.000 But there's enough material in discussing that trade relationship.
00:03:31.000 We don't need to go into basically being the auditors of his tweets.
00:03:36.000 This is not the role of Canada.
00:03:38.000 It's not the role of the Canadian media.
00:03:40.000 And it certainly isn't something that needs to be front and center during the Canadian election campaign.
00:03:45.000 For True North, I'm Andrew Lutton.