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00:00:00.000 Everyone who disagrees with me is a pro-Putin shill and probably a KGB agent. 0.61

00:00:05.000 It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:12.000 Hi everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in. It's Friday. It's our favorite episode of the week

00:00:16.060 where we go through the legacy media and we point out all of the fake news and there's so much to

00:00:20.980 get to on this show. We definitely want to cover a lot of the propaganda, the propaganda from both

00:00:25.580 sides, from the pro-Russian side and the pro-Ukrainian side, just running wild, running

00:00:30.020 rampant on social media. So many legacy media journalists in Canada are falling for what is

00:00:35.540 so blatantly, obviously, propaganda. Joining me to help break it all down and make sense of it all

00:00:40.360 is Harrison Faulkner. Harrison is a producer here at The Candice Malcolm Show and he is a journalist

00:00:44.520 at True North. Harrison, thank you so much for joining us. Happy to be here, Candice.

00:00:49.020 Okay, so this is a big story and I know I covered it in quite some depth yesterday on my show.

00:00:53.900 Christia Freeland posts a picture on her own social media account with a Bandera movement scarf. That

00:00:59.540 Bandera movement represents the Nazi movement in Ukraine. Bandera was a Nazi in Ukraine during the

00:01:05.960 Second World War. He had his hand in the Holocaust. He had a hand in murdering upwards of 100,000 people, 0.95

00:01:12.140 Poles and Jews during the Holocaust, during the Second World War. Christia Freeland just sort of

00:01:17.000 recklessly, in my opinion, is posing with this symbol. Not only posing with it, but she took a picture

00:01:23.120 with it and then she posted it on her own social media and then when she realized what it was,

00:01:27.860 she took it down, which is a tacit acknowledgement that she should not have been posting that picture

00:01:32.100 in the first place. True North was the first one to cover it. I didn't think anyone in legacy media

00:01:36.420 would follow suit. I was wrong. But rather than covering it, the National Post did cover it.

00:01:42.760 iPolitics did cover it. iPolitics' piece, by the way, was much more fair, much more neutral,

00:01:47.320 much less pro-Freeland than the National Post piece, which is a little bit surprising.

00:01:52.460 National Post is supposed to be the conservative news outlet in Canada. It's certainly not anymore.

00:01:58.160 But the National Post piece featured four people who all defended Christia Freeland and who criticized

00:02:04.720 True North. So the minister is the one posing with this banner. And yet the people who are at fault,

00:02:11.140 Harrison, are True North for promoting it. We're the ones supposedly pushing Russian disinformation.

00:02:16.720 What did you think of this story? Well, I mean, I think it's, as you said,

00:02:20.380 it's disappointing that the National Post is carrying water for the minister when they were,

00:02:26.260 they were quite fair and reasonable when the government was leveling the attacks against the

00:02:31.580 truckers who were being basically blamed by the government as standing with people who wave

00:02:36.200 swastikas. That's what Trudeau famously said to Melissa Lansman. And so it's, it's, it's clearly a

00:02:42.720 shift in the way this is being covered. But Candace, after you published your article,

00:02:47.780 it got picked up on social media. It became, it became, you know, a serious talking point because

00:02:52.300 Freeland has been in the news quite a bit over the past couple of weeks. And the Post-Millennial

00:02:57.540 re-did an article about it. And as you said, the iPolitics wrote a very fair article about what was

00:03:02.600 going on. But I want to read some of the social media response to this story and your,

00:03:08.180 your reporting on this. So Jack Posobiec, who many of you probably know, he has a huge following on

00:03:12.880 Twitter, over one and a half million followers. He wrote, hi, Krista Freeland. Why did you delete

00:03:18.820 this tweet of you holding a red and black banner? Which is a great question. As you said, the deleting

00:03:22.860 of that, of that photo is, is, as you said, this is an endorsement of a mistake that she shouldn't have

00:03:28.220 been seen with this flag. And then, and then he writes again, is this true, Krista Freeland? How many

00:03:35.640 Nazi relatives do you have? Please respond in response to someone calling out her grandfather,

00:03:41.620 Michael Chomiak, who was a, was involved in the, as a publisher of a Nazi newspaper in Poland.

00:03:50.000 And so Maxime Bernier, who also got in on this, he wrote, will MPs vote unanimously to denounce the

00:03:56.960 vile display of neo-Nazi symbols at that demonstration, as they did when an agitator showed up with a Nazi 0.98

00:04:02.080 flag at the Freedom Convoy, or are they just a bunch of hypocrites? And I have to say, that is a, 0.99

00:04:06.740 that is a fair reading of this situation. MPs came out and flatly condemned the Nazi flag at the Freedom

00:04:15.280 Convoy protest. It's been very, very quiet about this, this incident, not to compare the two

00:04:21.480 necessarily, but the fact is the silence is deafening on this issue. There should be, should

00:04:27.640 be reasonable response from this. And Max Blumenthal, a, an American journalist, I think is a,

00:04:32.780 is usually considered to be a left-wing journalist. He wrote that only days ago,

00:04:36.860 Krista Freeland was den, was denigrating Canadian truckers as Nazis and imposing emergency law to

00:04:41.800 crush their protest movement. But when Russian forces entered her family's native Ukraine,

00:04:45.800 she reached for the flag of the Nazi allied UPA. Um, she's since deleted this image. So I think

00:04:51.260 there is fair conversation to be had here. The hypocrisy from Freeland is quite obvious. And I think

00:04:57.020 that it's clearly catching the ire of a lot of people who are paying close attention.

00:05:01.580 Well, to me, it's just reckless. And, and here's the thing that, that bothers me the most,

00:05:06.020 Harrison, about this is that Krista Freeland was the one being reckless. She was being callous. 0.94

00:05:10.380 She was cozying up with a very sketchy group in Ukraine. We're in this weird scenario in our,

00:05:14.780 in our civil discourse where you can't really say anything bad about the Ukrainians,

00:05:18.340 or you get criticized of being a Putin shill, part of the KGB. That was one of the lines from,

00:05:23.940 uh, Tristan Hopper, the national post piece that, um, true north was basically sharing unwittingly

00:05:28.560 sharing KGB propaganda. And what I've seen is like, you know, Krista Freeland is the most powerful

00:05:33.960 woman in Canadian politics. She is an incredibly bright person. She understands the nuances and

00:05:39.900 the politics of Ukraine, Russia, probably better than anybody in the Trudeau government, including

00:05:44.440 the civil service and the diplomats who have spent time over there. She spent a lot of her career,

00:05:48.220 a lot of her life between Moscow and Kiev. She understands this stuff really, really, really

00:05:52.900 well. And yet she's not the one being held to account. True North is being held to account

00:05:56.920 and other people for sharing this image. It's, it's, it's so tiresome. And also just the line

00:06:02.400 of attack, right? It's like in a normal world, in a normal scenario, if you disagree with a

00:06:06.680 journalistic outlet, if you disagree with something that a pundit is saying, or a journalist is saying,

00:06:11.120 you, you criticize them by saying, uh, this is unfair. This is biased. This is slanted. Uh, you're,

00:06:17.420 you're, you're pushing, uh, you know, a conservative or a liberal worldview. Uh, suddenly over the last

00:06:22.280 two weeks, anytime you do anything that might shed some negative light on Ukraine, or in this case,

00:06:27.680 on Krista Freeland, they instantly go to, uh, you're a propagandist. You're sharing Russian

00:06:32.520 propagandists. You're part of the KGB. You're a pro-Russian show, which are things that we have 0.75

00:06:36.960 been accused of here at True North over the last few days. It's so patently tiresome. It's

00:06:41.100 so divisive. It's so untrue, Harrison. And again, we're just letting the fog of war and the chaos

00:06:46.820 and the propaganda kind of spill into our country. It's really unfortunate. Uh, we covered this on the

00:06:52.160 show earlier this week. You did a great job, um, helping me dig through some of the propaganda.

00:06:57.080 And look, you know, we, we can share propaganda and say that this is propaganda without picking

00:07:02.700 a side. And when it comes to what's going on in Russia, I think that it's almost unanimous that

00:07:07.380 people are condemning Putin. We here at True North condemn Putin. I condemn Putin. I think that he is

00:07:12.200 a tyrant. I think that he is a bully. Uh, he is acting in a way that is completely counter to 1.00

00:07:17.920 international norms and human rights. If he's abuse, he's, he's abusing human rights. He's, he's,

00:07:22.300 he's probably committing war crimes, killing civilians, killing children is absolutely 0.80

00:07:26.320 reprehensible. We can do it full stop. Okay. With that said, there's also a lot of troubling elements

00:07:33.260 within Ukraine, within the Ukrainian government. And there's a lot of propaganda being pushed on

00:07:37.420 social media. We went through on the show on Tuesday where we talked about, uh, some of this

00:07:42.560 propaganda. Uh, I want to go through it in a little more depth because I didn't go through them all

00:07:46.560 in depth, but I will just say that, uh, you know, a lot of these images were being shared here in

00:07:51.760 Canada by blue check elites, by legacy media journalists, by bureaucrats, by, uh, pundits and,

00:07:58.280 and public policy experts at think tanks. And they were making the rounds and, and no one was really

00:08:02.560 calling it out, which is what it was propaganda. There was this one, um, image that I saw getting

00:08:06.820 shared hundreds of thousands of times. They were being promoted by bots, but they were getting

00:08:10.500 retweeted in the mainstream Harrison. We saw these soldiers that were supposedly saying goodbye to their

00:08:16.700 wives and girlfriends, but it all looked, I mentioned at the time, like it looks like it's on a Hollywood

00:08:21.080 set. It looks so fake. And yet people were sharing this as if it was real. You did some digging and what

00:08:25.920 did you find about this, uh, these images? Yeah. So as you said, that video of the, of the Ukrainian

00:08:31.620 soldiers hugging their girlfriends, saying goodbye, uh, it looked like it was from a Hollywood set in

00:08:37.360 a movie set because it actually was. So it was from a 2017 Ukrainian movie. Um, and people were

00:08:43.820 kind of quick to pick up on that. The, the chatter on social media kind of got around to that, but not

00:08:48.460 before, uh, the video had been shared around and seen hundreds of thousands of times really painting a,

00:08:54.820 an image of courageous soldiers going to fight for their country, um, and saying goodbye to

00:09:01.500 their wives and girlfriends, that imagery, um, kind of that imagery sticks with people and it's

00:09:06.520 powerful and people know that. And so, um, we were able to figure out through our kind of quick

00:09:11.420 little digging that this was straight from a movie. Um, and our footage of it and our, all the footage

00:09:16.960 has this sort of Ukrainian music behind it. Um, and that kind of lens that, that makes it look

00:09:22.540 also like it was from a movie. So it quickly turned out that that was fake, but like you said,

00:09:27.180 it's not before it had been seen hundreds of thousands of times and, and it had really left

00:09:31.660 an impact on, uh, on the audiences on social media. And, and that's just like those photographs,

00:09:37.180 Harrison, that we're making the rounds of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky wearing a military

00:09:43.020 garb and everyone was saying, look at this brave president. He is not sitting in some back office

00:09:46.960 somewhere. He's on the front lines fighting. Uh, well, it turned out as reported in, in the mainstream

00:09:51.820 media in Europe and routers and other networks, um, that those pictures were staged. They were taken

00:09:56.380 several months ago. Uh, they were not in fact of Zelensky fighting on the, on the front lines.

00:10:00.540 Uh, but again, that didn't stop loss and loss of journalists from promoting it. There was another

00:10:04.620 one. This one was viewed over 10 million times, Harrison. I had so many people sending this to

00:10:08.940 me. People were just horrified, uh, for what they were calling a Russian tank driving over a car. Well,

00:10:14.940 thanks to France 24, who really did a deep dive in investigative journalism, uh, geotagging the kind

00:10:21.020 of reporting that you expect from top tier, uh, journalists, um, to, to, to, to expose looking,

00:10:26.700 looking at the make and the model of this tank to expose it. No, in fact, this was not a Russian 0.95

00:10:30.860 tank. It was actually a Ukrainian tank. So everyone sharing this saying, look at how horrific the,

00:10:35.820 uh, look at the just horrific disregard for human life of these reckless Russians in Kyiv at a time 1.00

00:10:41.740 where the Russians weren't even in Kyiv at that point. They were carrying out an air campaign,

00:10:46.620 a bombing campaign. Um, but, but, but nonetheless, this was not a Russian tank. This was a

00:10:52.540 Ukrainian tank driving over a car. Um, and USA Today also did that fact check. Uh, another story

00:10:58.060 making rounds. You're, you're the one that brought this one to my attention. Harrison was the one,

00:11:02.060 I guess one of the news days. Um, this was a big story that there were these martyrs

00:11:06.300 over on snake Island, um, who, who apparently died, um, fighting against Putin. Uh, well, it turned

00:11:12.620 out that wasn't true. So why don't you walk us through that story?

00:11:15.260 Yeah. So there was this great story, uh, that had emerged about a day or so after the first,

00:11:20.540 after the invasion of Ukraine, uh, of Ukrainian soldiers, basically fighting to the death and

00:11:26.700 defending their, this Island, uh, called snake Island. Uh, and the footage that was first published

00:11:32.700 was an aerial shot of the Island. And then it was audio being overlaid of a conversation, uh,

00:11:38.860 happening between a Russian warship, telling them that you need to surrender, or we will, 0.82

00:11:43.740 we will basically open fire on this Island and then Ukrainian soldiers and basically responding.

00:11:48.700 And there was this famous line that was pushed by, uh, pushed and said by, uh, this Ukrainian 0.97

00:11:54.060 soldier, which said Russian warship, go F yourself. Um, and that was sort of the last, uh, the last

00:12:01.020 communication in this audio piece. And the story went that they were essentially, they were all killed

00:12:06.620 defending this Island. The president, uh, president Zelensky wrote that these people, these soldiers had died

00:12:11.660 defending their, defending their country. Uh, and this sort of this, this rallying cry,

00:12:16.780 Russian warship, go F yourself. That had become basically the rallying cry of a lot of people

00:12:20.780 on social media. And you can't deny that it's great. It's great propaganda, right?

00:12:24.060 Yeah. You can't deny it is a great story. Um, however, a couple of days later it turned out,

00:12:29.340 and I believe it was first published by, uh, the Russian side that these soldiers were captured and

00:12:34.700 taken prisoners of war. And then it was backed up by, uh, the Ukrainian side saying that these,

00:12:39.580 these soldiers were in fact still alive. So after the story had made its way through social media,

00:12:45.340 after it had really boosted the spirits of people watching from around the world and the Ukrainian

00:12:49.980 people fighting, it turned out that they were actually still alive. Um, it's just another example

00:12:54.620 of, uh, of, of a story being spun in a way to really ramp up the emotions. But as you said,

00:12:59.820 this is a great piece of propaganda. It really kind of, it brought that, that martyrdom and that imagery,

00:13:05.260 um, of, of a group of people really fighting to the end for their country. So it's, it's powerful

00:13:09.900 stuff, but just not, not accurate. Not true. And thank, and thank God that they're still alive

00:13:13.980 and hopefully they still are. And they'll be returned safely to their families. You shouldn't

00:13:17.660 wish that they were, they were dead, but, but what, what, what a great example of, of, uh, a frontline,

00:13:22.700 a front page headline story, uh, that turned out not to be true. There's so many though. Another example

00:13:26.380 I found, I saw a lot of people sharing this one on social media of this little girl allegedly chasing

00:13:31.820 after and punching a Russian soldier. Well, one minute of Googling later, uh, we learned that the

00:13:37.900 BBC quickly debunked this one. It says a blurry video claiming to show Ukrainian girl confronting

00:13:43.340 a Russian soldier has generated 12 million views on TikTok and nearly 1 million views on Twitter,

00:13:48.460 but it actually shows a Palestinian girl aged 11 at the time confronting an Israeli soldier

00:13:53.820 after her older brother was arrested in 2012. So again, just verify what you're sharing before you

00:14:00.060 share it because just because something looks good, maybe it's even too good to be true.

00:14:03.740 And, and as soon as I saw, uh, this image of a, uh, what we were told was a little

00:14:08.860 Ukrainian girl chasing after a Russian soldier, I was incredibly skeptical and I'm glad that I was 1.00

00:14:14.060 because it turned out, uh, not to be true. Well, Twitter has since, uh, put a label out of context,

00:14:18.700 uh, every time that someone does share it, I usually oppose Twitter, uh, getting involved with these

00:14:23.020 kinds of things and Facebook's, uh, you know, uh, manipulated media claims. Um, how, however,

00:14:28.380 it's good to see at least that they are trying to do it fair. Uh, let's talk about this last one.

00:14:33.900 Tell us, uh, Harrison about, uh, Samuel Hyde, the, the, the supposed ghost of Ukraine that people

00:14:40.380 were sharing this story. Well, this, this one is probably the best example of propaganda or spin

00:14:47.180 being taken, uh, out of context and, and jokes being, being believed to be true.

00:14:52.460 Memes, uh, a, a, a comedian making memes, uh, turned to what was taken his back by people.

00:14:58.620 Yeah. I mean that, that story, uh, is basically this guy, Sam Hyde is a YouTube personality and

00:15:06.300 his whole shtick apparently is to basically Photoshop himself and his face onto these,

00:15:13.500 these people that are committing actions of, of terror or, or, uh, you know, it's just,

00:15:19.180 it's ongoing meme. Like they, he's made himself, um, you know, a, uh, put himself on the news as

00:15:24.940 being supposedly a school shooter when it was just a meme. Um, he gets himself on TV as,

00:15:30.460 as a person of interest when it's just all planted. Anyway, he jumped on this photoshopped

00:15:35.660 his face of, uh, onto a fighter pilot in a, in a, in a fighter jet and a U S congressman, Adam Kinzinger,

00:15:43.340 um, retweeted this picture and said, the ghost of Kiev has a name, Samuel Hyde. And he's, and he's,

00:15:51.900 and, and he's basically destroying these Russian warships. So this congressman fell for this internet

00:15:57.980 meme and it really, it's so obviously photoshopped. Like if you just look at the picture, it's the

00:16:02.780 worst, it's the worst cropping, uh, possible on it. And, and he falls hook, line and sinker for this,

00:16:08.700 but the ghost of Kiev story actually was one of the biggest pieces of, of propaganda that was

00:16:13.660 circulating during this past week. And the footage supposedly of the ghost of Kiev in the sky,

00:16:20.060 shooting down Russian, uh, a Russian aircraft. Um, the biggest piece of footage was actually taken

00:16:25.740 from a flight simulator was taken from a video game. And you can, if you look at it, hear the audio,

00:16:30.700 you can kind of see that it looks a little weird, but it just goes to show you that video games are,

00:16:36.380 which are now becoming very realistic. And the, the graphics are becoming very powerful.

00:16:40.860 They're, they're now being used and shopped around as actual footage. So like you said,

00:16:45.420 Candice, it's really important to just, I think the best way to approach this is to take your time.

00:16:50.140 Uh, you don't need to be the first person to share a video. Um, you can let it, you can let it have

00:16:55.180 that emotion that it does, and you can let that sink in, but you don't want to be the person who's

00:16:59.500 publishing video game footage as fact. And I just want to say something about all of these pieces of

00:17:04.620 propaganda we've just gone through. These have all been fact checked and rebuked or called out

00:17:11.260 by mainstream outlets. So, you know, like you said, France 24, USA today, BBC, these are mainstream

00:17:17.180 outlets that are calling this stuff out. This is not just, um, this is not just someone, someone on

00:17:22.940 the internet's opinion about these pieces of propaganda. They are being called out by mainstream

00:17:27.580 outlets, but yeah, it's important to just take the, take the time. You don't need to be the first

00:17:31.180 person to share the story. If it turns out to be fake, you definitely don't want to be the first

00:17:35.020 person to do that. Well, and also almost like kind of glorifying, gamify war. Like you're a,

00:17:41.100 you're a Republican congressman. This is Adam Kinzinger, uh, talking about a war, like it's a video

00:17:46.700 game. Like, look at this guy, he owned the Russians, look at him kill people. Like it's like, what, you know, 0.99

00:17:51.660 war is a horrible, horrible thing that, that has become a reality for the poor people of Ukraine.

00:17:57.740 Uh, they don't really need a bunch of Canadians and Americans, like treating it like it's some

00:18:02.140 kind of a, you know, a boxing match, cheering it on and sharing stuff that isn't even true. Like,

00:18:07.420 I, I think that we all need to just keep, keep, keep, keep control of ourselves. Like cooler heads

00:18:13.020 prevail and not get caught up in the frenzy of like the march towards war. We should all be incredibly

00:18:18.860 cautious about just how horrific it is and, and not be out here, uh, cheerleading for war. And instead,

00:18:25.340 that's what we see from so many of these people. I want to talk about this next one.

00:18:29.820 Um, a journalist was again, lauded all over social media for standing up to Boris Johnson.

00:18:35.820 Uh, to, to me, when I see this video and, and again, people were sharing it all over,

00:18:39.980 you know, again, legacy media journalists and people saying like, look at this brave woman.

00:18:43.900 Uh, first of all, why is she questioning Boris Johnson? It isn't Boris Johnson's fault

00:18:48.540 that Putin marched and invaded in Ukraine. It isn't Boris Johnson, um, who's making the call,

00:18:54.540 uh, as to whether or not, you know, the U S or NATO gets involved in this crisis, uh, nor would,

00:19:00.780 nor should anybody be cheering, uh, for that outcome. We should all be cheering for deescalation

00:19:05.420 and some kind of, uh, off ramp, some kind of a, uh, ceasefire here. But instead we were told that

00:19:11.020 this passionate journalist is out there making the case to Boris Johnson as to why we should declare a

00:19:16.300 no fly zone over Russia, which, uh, you know, if, if you want to properly comprehend what that would

00:19:21.340 mean, it would mean NATO forces, i.e. American forces shooting down Russian planes who are flying

00:19:27.180 over Ukraine that would turn a Ukrainian civil proxy war into a world war. So, so, so what this

00:19:32.620 woman is actually declaring and calling for is world war three, um, uh, between, uh, Russian forces

00:19:38.620 and American forces, two sides that have nuclear power. So she's calling for a potential escalation

00:19:44.060 into a hot war, into a world war between two nuclear powers. Uh, no, that's not a good idea.

00:19:49.260 No, it's not a good idea. Let's, let's play that clip. So you can see just what people were cheering

00:19:53.180 for. Again, this isn't journalism. This is activism. This is a woman making a political statement using 1.00

00:19:58.140 emotion, using, um, kind of hysteria to try to push and march us all towards a world war.

00:20:04.140 Uh, a woman, uh, from, uh, my team is now in Bila Tserkva and she is there with two kids

00:20:12.780 and, uh, Russian military is over there and she's so much afraid that she will be shut.

00:20:19.500 Harkiv, the city where I was studying was bombarded today fully, the downtown square. So you're talking

00:20:25.740 about the stoicism of Ukrainian people, but Ukrainian women and Ukrainian children are in deep fear because of

00:20:32.380 bombs and missiles, which are going from the sky and Ukrainian people are desperately asking

00:20:38.140 for the best to protect our sky. We are asking for the no-fly zone. We are saying response that

00:20:43.580 it will trigger world war three, but what is the alternative? Mr. Prime Minister to observe

00:20:48.780 how our children are instead of me, instead of, uh, planes are protecting NATO from their missiles and

00:20:55.980 bombs. What's the alternative for the no-fly zone? We have planes here. We have air defense system

00:21:02.220 in Poland, in Romania. NATO has this air defense. At least this air defense could

00:21:07.180 shield the Western Ukraine. So this, these children with women could come to the border. 0.99

00:21:12.620 It's impossible now to cross the border. There are 30 kilometers of lines. Imagine crossing the border

00:21:18.220 with a baby or with two children. I'm so glad that Samantha Power is coming here to the border

00:21:24.780 from the Polish side. Let her come to the border from Ukrainian side and see that. 1.00

00:21:29.900 Britain guaranteed our security under Budapest memorandum. So you're coming to Poland. You're 0.96

00:21:35.260 not coming to Kiev, Prime Minister. You're not coming to Lviv because you are afraid,

00:21:40.860 because NATO is not willing to defend, because NATO is afraid of the World War Three, but it is already

00:21:46.060 started. And these are Ukrainian children who are there taking the hit. You're talking about more sanctions,

00:21:51.980 Prime Minister, but Roman Abramovich is not sanctioned. He's in London. His children are not in the

00:21:57.580 bombardments. His children are there in London. Putin's children are in Netherlands, in Germany,

00:22:06.220 in mansions. Where are all these mansions seized? I don't see that. I see that my family members,

00:22:13.580 that my team members are saying that we are crying. We don't care what to rob. This is what is happening,

00:22:20.460 Prime Minister. So Harrison, you did a little bit of digging

00:22:25.100 into this quote unquote journalist that everyone was telling us was so brave. So tell us a little

00:22:30.220 bit more about this so-called journalist. Well, so this so-called journalist, Daria Kaleniuk,

00:22:36.540 is in fact not a journalist at all. She is an activist, and all you have to do to verify that

00:22:41.500 is to go look at her Twitter bio. She is actually the executive director of the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption

00:22:48.220 Action Center. So she's not a journalist, and admittedly she is not a journalist. It took very,

00:22:55.260 it was very quick. Once this clip went viral, a lot of people were skeptical of this,

00:23:00.620 and it appeared as though some of them had recognized this woman's face as well.

00:23:04.220 Because this woman, Daria Kaleniuk, even going as far as though she's not a journalist, she's actually a

00:23:11.020 World Economic Forum global young leader, just like Justin Trudeau, just like Chrystia Freeland,

00:23:17.260 and other cabinet ministers in this country. So she's a part of the World Economic Forum,

00:23:22.700 she's a global young leader, not a journalist. It's very important to clarify that. On top of that,

00:23:28.540 Kaleniuk also appeared as a Joe Biden supporter in an ABC News story, and she appeared in a pro-Biden

00:23:36.540 campaign ad. And we have the clips to show that. Why don't we take a look quickly at her cameo in 1.00

00:23:42.220 this Biden ad? Donald Trump was caught red-handed, and I'm going to give you the facts.

00:23:56.460 He was being protested in the streets. We will not allow him, actually, to maintain the Soviet 0.99

00:24:02.620 system of prosecution which intimidates people. All right, so as you can see, Candace, this woman

00:24:08.700 is an activist, and her demand to Boris Johnson was basically to escalate this conflict to another

00:24:17.820 level and to, like you said, push these countries into a full-scale war. It's very dangerous and very

00:24:26.220 unfortunate, but ABC News, Reuters, and CNN all labeled this woman as a Ukrainian journalist.

00:24:34.540 So what else can be said other than that? It's just crazy.

00:24:38.940 Well, they're all beating the drums of war, and again, we should just be very skeptical of all

00:24:43.900 these kind of things. Even when I first saw that video, Harrison, I thought to myself, that's not how

00:24:47.660 a journalist, you know, aside from we do have a couple of activist journalists like that here in

00:24:51.820 Canada that parade around like journalists. They're members of the parliamentary press gallery, but

00:24:55.980 they don't ask questions. They try to interrogate. They try to steal the spotlight. They act like

00:25:00.380 political activists, and most people can see through that. Most people don't take them seriously,

00:25:04.780 but here we have a woman, again, crying for war, and she's held up as some kind of hero. It is totally

00:25:11.740 wrong. Well, let's shift gears a little bit here, Harrison, because I would like to talk about a couple of

00:25:15.660 Canadian stories that get honorary mention here on Fake News Friday. The first one comes from the CBC,

00:25:21.500 which now publishes opinion pieces. I don't understand why the state broadcaster who has,

00:25:26.060 you know, if anything, if you're being completely generous of the CBC, it's that their role is to

00:25:31.020 inform Canadians of the news and to, you know, help counteract the news space that's dominated

00:25:38.140 by American news. However, they've gone into opinion pieces, which is sort of just weird to have like

00:25:43.580 almost like a state-sponsored opinion. And of course, the opinions are always far left and deranged and

00:25:48.700 sort of like anti-conservative, anti-West, anti-Canada, you name it, woke derangement.

00:25:55.820 Here we had the CBC publishing an opinion article by a nurse in Saskatchewan who claims that she can

00:26:01.740 no longer work in the province of Saskatchewan because it is led by a government that is anti-science.

00:26:07.740 There's just too much freedom in Saskatchewan for this nurse to handle. Why don't you tell us a little 1.00

00:26:12.700 bit about this piece, Harrison? Yeah. So this is one of those CBC first-person stories that

00:26:17.340 basically tell the story of a far left Canadian who's trying to basically push a specific narrative.

00:26:24.380 But I, so I want to read some of this because really it's, it becomes really clear at the very

00:26:28.300 top that this is just about taking shots at Premier Mo and taking shots at Saskatchewan for being too,

00:26:34.620 too pro-freedom. So this is what, this is what the article reads.

00:26:37.420 Throughout the Delta wave, it became clear to me the Saskatchewan government wasn't respecting

00:26:42.700 the work my colleagues and I had done throughout the pandemic. At every turn, they seemed to be

00:26:48.060 downplaying the severity of the problem, despite rising hospitalizations. Experts were begging to

00:26:53.020 be heard and were ignored. Therapies and treatments were being canceled and delayed. Premier Scott Mo's

00:26:57.900 letter to support the trucker rallies in late January was insulting to me. I've never heard him rave

00:27:03.020 about healthcare workers like that. He also made the false claim that vaccination doesn't reduce

00:27:07.340 transmission and pledged to remove proof of vaccine requirements. Uh, like every base,

00:27:12.220 but basically like every province, except for BC. So I, I guess this nurse is, is, is kind of,

00:27:17.660 uh, basically, you know, whittling down her, her potential locations to move to down to BC,

00:27:22.620 because Quebec, Ontario, uh, Alberta, all of these provinces that had imposed vaccine systems,

00:27:28.860 proof of vaccine systems, they're all dropping them. So I'm not exactly sure where she's going with

00:27:32.620 this, but it's obvious that it was just a, a political narrative, uh, trying to be pushed by the

00:27:37.180 broadcaster. And then just to quickly wrap up, she writes, we feel spurned by a government whose

00:27:42.540 vision of healthcare seems bent, seems bent on capturing the style of failures we've seen in

00:27:47.420 America, the same America in which the president, uh, proclaimed the end of the virus and are

00:27:52.860 dropping vaccine, uh, dropping mask mandates and vaccine mandates. So I'm not really sure what she

00:27:57.900 wants. Does she want to be in a state of COVID all the time? Is that, is that what this nurse really 1.00

00:28:02.860 wants? It doesn't seem that would be the best situation for a nurse, but nonetheless, uh,

00:28:07.580 she finishes off by saying the future undoubtedly holds many crises for Saskatchewan. I firmly,

00:28:13.580 I firmly believe that facing them with the government that is anti-science will drive away

00:28:17.820 the professionals needed to solve them. So there we go. Anti-science Candace, um, peddling that same

00:28:23.180 line. But as we know, science seems to be changing on either side of the border. There's a different

00:28:27.980 science in America. There's a different science in Great Britain, uh, than there is here. So

00:28:32.700 a little, a little not surprising to be honest from the CBC. Well, it's like, you know, this woman 1.00

00:28:38.140 couldn't hold back, uh, and her inner tyrant is letting out, right? It's like the world is finally

00:28:42.220 moving away from COVID. We're moving away from the draconian rules that are known. They're not based

00:28:45.900 on science. Like just accusing the side of being other, uh, anti-science because you don't agree with

00:28:49.900 their public policy is really reckless, really, really dimwitted and not a good way to analyze public 0.64

00:28:55.660 policy. Uh, but she, she, she's just so firmly attached to the idea of lockdowns and, and, and 1.00

00:29:02.300 limitations, um, that she's, that she's lashing out and now leaving Saskatchewan, uh, because she 1.00

00:29:07.820 doesn't like the premier. Uh, well, well, good luck, good luck with that because you're going to learn

00:29:11.500 if you go to Ontario or Quebec, uh, also led by more conservative governments. Uh, they, everyone's

00:29:16.860 dropping this COVID regime. We're going to learn to live with this thing. Uh, whether you like it or not,

00:29:20.540 if you just can't deal with it, uh, then yeah, I guess it's probably better that you're not working

00:29:24.540 in healthcare in the province of Saskatchewan anymore. There's one, one other piece in the

00:29:28.300 CBC, Harrison, that I want to talk about because this might be my favorite piece that I have ever

00:29:33.100 seen on the CBC. And that's saying something because, um, there have been some truly ridiculous

00:29:38.060 and absurd ones, uh, recently, but the piece that they published last weekend, uh, the trucks have

00:29:43.260 left Ottawa, but the phantom honking lingers for many downtown. According to the CBC, they've created a

00:29:49.500 new, uh, word for a lexicon, phantom honking everybody. That is just when you can't get the truck

00:29:54.460 workers out of your head. They're living rent-free in your head. You can't get them to leave. Uh,

00:29:58.540 so let me just read a little bit from this piece. Literally there was trucks right underneath me,

00:30:04.460 said Kevin, literally, I, I, this is a pet peeve when people use the word literally when they mean

00:30:08.540 figuratively, because I don't think this Kevin guy was literally sitting on top of a truck. Um,

00:30:12.860 but here he says nonetheless, that the trucks were literally right underneath me. Um, but who said,

00:30:18.860 Kevin, who did not want to provide his name to the CBC, uh, out of fear of reprisal. So,

00:30:23.820 so we're supposed to already right off the bat, um, feel sorry for Kevin, not just because he has

00:30:28.460 these truckers living in his head rent-free, um, but also somehow that his life would be in danger

00:30:33.980 if the truckers knew his last name, uh, which, which is pretty silly. Uh, he goes on to say, 0.71

00:30:39.740 uh, it, it's one thing for me, but I've got animals, I've got three cats and two dogs. So yeah,

00:30:44.060 it was torture. Look, I, I, I'm not trying to downplay, uh, how tough it probably would have been

00:30:48.940 with all those truckers and all that noise. And yes, especially with animals, it probably

00:30:52.780 was pretty tough. Uh, equating it with torture though. I mean, this is the kind of thing that,

00:30:57.260 that, that the CBC uses as hyperbole, uh, ramping things up, making it seem like these truckers were,

00:31:02.860 um, insurrectionists, that they were terrorists, that this was all, um, insurrection or sorry,

00:31:07.580 that this was all what, um, treason, uh, that they were going to try to overthrow the government.

00:31:12.860 Now they're using really, really ramped up terms saying that it was torture that people who lived

00:31:17.340 in order Ottawa were literally, uh, the victims of what war crimes. I mean, uh, this is just so over

00:31:22.540 the top and ridiculous. It goes on to say, uh, the trucks have since been removed with police pushing

00:31:27.820 the majority of protesters outside the downtown core over the family day long weekend. Even still,

00:31:32.300 some downtown residents say they're haunted by the phantom honking, which sounds like blaring

00:31:37.500 horns, but there's no sounds that are actually there. Uh, so again, you know, the CBC has found,

00:31:45.340 uh, a couple people who are living in their own paranoid psychosis, um, and they're turning it into

00:31:50.220 a news story. Uh, another person they've interviewed here named Sean Flynn. He says,

00:31:54.620 when you hear that noise, it's like, oh, are they back? Is there a road convoy coming right back?

00:32:00.140 Um, says the Sean guy who lives three kilometers from downtown, but could still hear the horns

00:32:04.540 inside the home during his protest. And apparently he still hears some inside his own head. You know,

00:32:09.740 last week we heard a story about how people are constantly looking over their shoulder,

00:32:13.260 uh, paranoid that the truckers are going to come back. Uh, now the CBC has found, uh, two people

00:32:17.820 who, who say that the honking is going on in their own heads. I guess three people, because the, uh,

00:32:22.540 author of the CBC piece, uh, must feel it too, to come up with such a ridiculous term here,

00:32:27.660 phantom honking. Uh, what do you think about this piece, Harrison?

00:32:30.860 This is, this really is the greatest article ever written by the CBC. I fully believe that,

00:32:35.980 uh, this is, this is, this is far better than any Babylon Bee headline also. Like I really,

00:32:41.740 I do think that even they would basically say, or they would basically be trying to figure out how

00:32:47.020 they can come up with all these quotes because it's, uh, it's incredible, it's incredible stuff.

00:32:52.460 And it got, it got absolutely mocked and destroyed all over social media, obviously. And I,

00:32:59.820 I just, there really isn't much, much other to say, other than this is just probably the best

00:33:05.580 CBC article ever written. I'm, I'm sure that the, uh, the journalists over there are very proud of,

00:33:10.700 of this, of this work and this journalism. And, you know, one thing I think about though,

00:33:14.700 Candace is like the CBC has a whole level of, of people. I'm sure that there are, you know,

00:33:20.460 writers at the, at the CBC that are very radical, clearly enough, enough to write an article like

00:33:24.540 this. But I genuinely think that, uh, you know, the people at the top of the CBC aren't,

00:33:30.060 aren't totally, uh, totally crazy. They haven't totally lost their minds. So,

00:33:34.460 so this is something that they must've, they must've signed off on. Some editor must've

00:33:38.140 basically said, yeah, you know what, we're going to, we're going to run with this story because it

00:33:41.100 really is in the public interest. The, the, the ghost, the ghost honking, the phantom honking.

00:33:46.940 Um, it's, it's incredible. It's incredible stuff. Um, I, I just want to see this, this level of,

00:33:52.300 of comedy from our set, from our satire news. Uh, if they could get, if they could get to this

00:33:57.020 level, that'd be great. It's so true. So sometimes I think the CBC is kind of just trolling and they

00:34:02.940 put out really stupid headlines like this just to get page clicks because just like everyone else, 0.96

00:34:07.260 you know, I'm sure that they want to hit a certain targets and they want to get the page glimpse. 0.99

00:34:10.860 So they put out pieces like, you know, the, uh, that story that we saw a couple of months ago about

00:34:15.420 words that we should banish from the English language. Um, now they put out phantom honking.

00:34:19.820 I, I, I think it's just all very sophisticated, uh, way for it to trick us into clicking on their 0.98

00:34:25.020 stupid website, giving them more hits so that they can go to the Trudeau government and be like, 0.99

00:34:28.620 look at how influential we have our phantom honking piece got millions of views. Uh, you know, 1.00

00:34:34.060 without acknowledging the fact that everyone reading it, uh, is mocking them and no one takes the CBC

00:34:39.340 seriously anymore. Yeah. They don't get enough. They don't get enough money from the government.

00:34:42.700 So they gotta, they gotta run up their page, click revenues and, uh, and make sure they

00:34:46.860 get as many pages as possible. Awesome. Well, thank you so much, Harrison,

00:34:51.100 for joining us, uh, here on fake news Friday. It's always fun to have you on the show.

00:34:54.140 Yeah, it was great to be on. Thanks for, uh, thanks for inviting me, Candice.

00:34:57.500 All right. It's fake news Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is the Candice Malcolm show.

Juno News - March 04, 2022

Everyone who disagrees with me is a KGB propagandist

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