Juno News - April 18, 2023


Elon Musk Destroys the CBC! Trudeau is PISSED


Episode Stats

Length

9 minutes

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165.82698

Word Count

1,536

Sentence Count

107

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Elon Musk just humiliated the CBC
00:00:29.820 into oblivion yesterday and to say the woke public broadcaster had it coming would be an
00:00:35.020 understatement. You see up until yesterday there were a few things that all Canadians could agree
00:00:38.780 on but one pretty safe uncontroversial fact is that the CBC is government funded. The CBC publicly
00:00:45.460 state that every year in their financial report the Liberal Party likes to brag about how much
00:00:49.580 money they spend on the CBC and Justin Trudeau himself he likes to make jokes about giving the
00:00:54.380 CBC more money in return for positive headlines. You sometimes hear about liberal bias in the
00:00:59.800 media these days how they're constantly letting off our government letting our government off
00:01:04.600 the hook for no good reason. Frankly I think that's insulting. It's clear that they let us off the hook
00:01:12.940 for a very good reason because we paid them 600 million dollars. But when Elon Musk slapped a
00:01:19.740 government funded media label on the CBC's Twitter account well all hell broke loose inside the
00:01:24.280 Canadian establishment. Justin Trudeau in typical fashion attacked Pierre Polyev for some reason. The
00:01:29.080 CBC publicly declared their editorial independence before shutting down all of their Twitter accounts
00:01:34.360 and ministers of the crown labeled the opposition leader a threat to Canadian democracy all over a
00:01:41.160 simple Twitter tag. In response to this Twitter has made their government funded media tag more clear
00:01:46.460 under the CBC's page. It now reads 69% government funded media. Honestly does it get any better than
00:01:53.880 that? Drop a like in the video help us out by subscribing to the True North YouTube channel
00:01:57.440 and the comment question for the episode is this. Is there any reason for the CBC to exist
00:02:03.040 in Canada today? Let me know and let's get into it. The CBC has no problem being labeled as government
00:02:09.120 funded on Wikipedia or on YouTube but being labeled government funded being labeled what they are
00:02:14.860 on Twitter. That was a step too far. Just take a look at how the woke propagandists at the CBC
00:02:19.660 responded to being labeled as government funded. Exactly what they are. Our journalism is impartial
00:02:25.560 and independent. To suggest otherwise is untrue. That is why we are pausing our activities on Twitter.
00:02:31.840 Oh yeah the CBC is totally impartial except for when their chief Ottawa correspondent sued the
00:02:37.060 conservatives in the 2019 election when they had to retract untrue stories about the freedom convoy
00:02:41.840 which conveniently helped the government crush the peaceful protest and when they constantly demonize
00:02:46.440 conservatives. Except for that they're totally impartial and totally independent. And doing what
00:02:51.400 the CBC does best, doing what any true impartial and independent media outlet does, they shut down
00:02:56.900 replies. But predictably the CBC is getting crushed on Twitter. The quote tweets are just amazing.
00:03:03.380 Glenn Greenwald responded by saying this. It's just a simple fact that the CBC gets Canadian government
00:03:08.440 funding. If they're embarrassed by it, they should reject it. Google has placed similar labels on BBC,
00:03:14.100 NPR, and CBC on their YouTube channels but they're afraid to complain to Google the way they do for
00:03:18.980 Twitter. Jordan Peterson responded this way. No one with an iota of sense believes this. Pause away,
00:03:24.720 you won't be missed at CBC. Another step forward to your well-deserved self-demolition. And Michael
00:03:30.780 Malice responded this way to Twitter. The enemy of the people is fleeing. Something no Republican has been
00:03:36.420 able to accomplish. God bless you at Elon Musk. All it took to get the entire CBC operation off
00:03:42.240 of Twitter was to place a government-funded media tag underneath the main Twitter account of the
00:03:47.240 CBC. Who knew it was that easy? Now the best meltdown over all of this didn't come from a CBC
00:03:52.280 journalist. It came from the man who signs their checks. It came from the man who benefits the most
00:03:57.260 from their state-funded propaganda. Just watch this. I think it says a lot about the Conservative
00:04:02.800 Party of Canada. That they're choosing to constantly attack independent media organizations.
00:04:09.440 Independent media organizations? Even he doesn't believe that. Journalists who are working hard
00:04:14.680 to keep Canadians informed and support our democracy. CBC Radio Canada serves right across
00:04:23.120 the country. Delivers local news and local content in many regions of the country. It, yes, has been
00:04:30.160 challenged over the past years. But the idea of adding to that challenge is, and laying on, by attacking
00:04:37.840 this Canadian institution, attacking the culture and local content that is so important to so many
00:04:43.280 Canadians, really indicates the values and the approach that Mr. Polyev is putting forward.
00:04:49.680 And I think it is telling that in order to attack this institution that is important for many,
00:04:55.920 many Canadians, he runs to American billionaires, the tech giants that they continue to defend in
00:05:03.520 committee and in their approach on our legislation to make tech giants pay their fair share. Conservatives
00:05:10.240 are always there to defend them. So when they're trying to attack a foundational Canadian institution,
00:05:14.000 the fact that he has to run to American billionaires for support to attack Canadians,
00:05:20.400 says a lot about Mr. Polyev and his values.
00:05:22.960 Hold on there. American billionaires? I thought a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian,
00:05:28.160 Justin Trudeau. Last I checked, Elon Musk is a Canadian citizen. Now, to be fair,
00:05:33.360 Justin Trudeau's frustration is understandable. He's singing in the polls, his popularity is plummeting,
00:05:38.240 and he just lost his main propaganda mouthpiece on Twitter. That's gotta hurt.
00:05:42.240 Now, if that wasn't enough for you, the reaction from Justin Trudeau's convicted climate change
00:05:46.640 minister, Stephen Gilbeau, was quite something. Take a look at this. Millions of Canadians rely on
00:05:52.160 CBC Radio Canada. At Pierre Polyev wants to shut down these homegrown information services
00:05:58.240 and sides with US media giants. Polyev is a threat to Canadian democracy, plain and simple.
00:06:05.680 Oh, nothing to see here. Just a minister of the crown labeling the opposition leader a threat to
00:06:09.840 Canadian democracy. Totally normal times. Totally a normal thing to say over a public broadcaster
00:06:16.480 being labeled a public broadcaster. Now, at least for all of us, Gilbeau got brutally
00:06:21.040 ratioed for labeling the opposition leader a threat to democracy. 4,500 replies to only 2,800 likes.
00:06:28.240 Take a look at these responses. What does freezing bank accounts say about JT's values? Yeah,
00:06:33.280 Polyev is a threat to Canadian democracy. Totally. Millions of Canadians would rather keep their money out
00:06:38.240 of filthy, corrupt government hands. Couldn't have put it better myself. No, hundreds of Canadians
00:06:43.680 rely on CBC, and they all live in Toronto, and they're all transgender, two-spirit BIPOCs,
00:06:48.480 and they want to force all Canadians to listen to their stories. Obviously paying attention to the
00:06:52.720 CBC's cringe-worthy response to rage quit on Twitter, out of being labeled what they themselves
00:06:58.240 openly admit, and also seeing Justin Trudeau attack Pierre Polyev, Elon Musk wanted to make sure that
00:07:03.440 his label on Twitter for the CBC was a bit more accurate. Take a look at this. Canadian Broadcasting
00:07:09.200 Corp said they're less than 70% government-funded, so we corrected the label. Now it says 69%
00:07:15.920 government-funded. Elon Musk's labeling of Twitter went from an epic troll to a straight-up Canadian
00:07:21.360 heritage moment. But seriously, when did basic facts become so difficult for the CBC? They don't
00:07:28.560 want people to know that they're just a mouthpiece for the state? If that's the case,
00:07:31.760 they should have told their finance team to not publicly state on their website how much money
00:07:36.640 they receive every year from the government. $1.4 billion in 2021, $1.25 billion in 2022.
00:07:44.160 Now to be fair, it does look as though the CBC are a little bit embarrassed about how much money
00:07:48.320 they receive from all of us, the taxpayer. Take a look at this in-house CBC financials graphic.
00:07:54.000 Notice those little squiggly lines on the y-axis that indicate a billion-dollar jump?
00:07:59.280 It's a little misleading there. Looking at this graph at face value, you might think the CBC receives a
00:08:04.240 small amount of government funding. Now this is what the graph would look like if they weren't
00:08:08.000 trying to mislead you. Bit of a different look there, isn't it? Pretty embarrassing for the CBC.
00:08:13.360 But why do they have to take such issue with being government-funded if it's so obviously funded by
00:08:18.640 all of us? As mentioned in the intro, the Liberal Party of Canada doesn't hide their love for funding
00:08:23.440 the CBC. On their own website, they state it publicly. Canada wouldn't be the same without
00:08:28.320 the CBC. Are you sure about that? That's why Justin Trudeau and the Liberals invested $675
00:08:34.640 million in funding to revitalize the CBC. So it's not just government-funded,
00:08:39.280 it's Justin Trudeau-funded. Straight from the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:08:42.880 So that's it. The 69% CBC. They're no longer on Twitter. Don't worry, I'm sure they'll be back soon
00:08:47.840 enough. When Justin Trudeau calls an election, the CBC will be right there to provide some
00:08:52.880 independent media coverage that definitely won't slander the Conservatives. All right,
00:08:56.560 that's going to do it for us today on the show. Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:08:59.040 My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.