Juno News - November 24, 2023


Media goes into overdrive to attack Poilievre


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Candice Malan talks about Pierre Polyven's response to a media report of what was feared to be a terror attack, and why he should not be allowed to run for Prime Minister of Canada. She also explains why she thinks the media smear of Polyven should disqualify him from the race.

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00:00:00.000 Legacy media journalists lose their mind over Pierre Polyev properly quoting a media report
00:00:10.780 of what was feared to be a terror-related attack. Polyev said it was terror-related
00:00:16.000 because that is what the media in both Canada and the U.S. were reporting on Wednesday afternoon
00:00:21.280 when Polyev made his comment. Well, now Trudeau's legacy media are piling on Mr. Polyev
00:00:27.300 and even saying that him defending himself against the media smear should disqualify him
00:00:33.060 for running for prime minister. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm,
00:00:36.760 and this is a very special live edition of The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:39.660 Hi, everyone. Welcome to the broadcast. We are live on both YouTube and Rumble. So if you're
00:00:59.260 watching, please give us a like and leave a comment. Let us know what you think of Pierre
00:01:04.100 poly of defending himself and whether you think that he can win with a strategy with a tactic
00:01:09.280 of taking on the media like he is doing this week okay so the reason we decided to come live today
00:01:15.840 i'm back i used to do the fake news friday every single friday on the candace malcolm show
00:01:20.220 i was off for a very long time on maternity leave my family welcomed our third baby in the summer
00:01:26.380 and i've been at home with the family with the kids so i haven't been doing the show but i am
00:01:30.980 back, doing it once a week, haven't picked up Fake News Friday yet, but given sort of the whole
00:01:35.940 brouhaha over what was happening this week with the first, the wild explosion that we saw in
00:01:41.800 Niagara at the border crossing, followed by Pierre Polyev and Trudeau's back and forth in the House
00:01:47.120 of Commons. And now this story that's really just taken on a life of its own, it's so silly,
00:01:51.500 it's so pedantic, and it really exemplifies some of the major problems that we have in Canadian
00:01:57.280 media so that's the sort of the idea the purpose behind fake news friday it is delving into some
00:02:03.760 of the major sort of structural issues with the legacy media we have a media in canada
00:02:09.360 that as you know is funded by the trudeau government where one political party has poured
00:02:13.520 hundreds of millions of dollars into legacy media newspapers we know that they pour billions of
00:02:18.320 dollars into the state broadcaster and because of that they get really favorable coverage they get
00:02:23.360 they get glowing coverage in a way that the other parties just don't it's not fair and i think it's
00:02:28.480 important that we put a microscope onto it explain what is going on so that canadians can really
00:02:34.720 understand how their media is not free how we don't have a free press in canada and how they
00:02:39.360 really are bought and sold okay so first let's walk through what actually happened on wednesday so
00:02:45.760 wednesday at about 11 30 in the morning i'm sure you've probably seen this many many times by now
00:02:51.200 but all of a sudden there was a large explosion at the border crossing at what looked like u.s
00:02:55.600 customs and we didn't really know what happened people were saying it was an explosion it was a
00:03:00.480 bomb we saw footage just people's cell phones pouring online uh you know explosion looked like
00:03:06.640 a fire i think we had it looked like so guys looking at his office i've never seen anything
00:03:11.920 like this the car just exploded yeah you can see the the person narrating that video said
00:03:19.840 the car just exploded right so so now we know that this was some kind of a bizarre traffic incident
00:03:25.840 where perhaps the individual who's driving his foot got stuck on the pedal or the pedal was
00:03:30.480 sticking and he drove at a very very high speed into it but if you notice that video the individual
00:03:35.760 who was taking it said it exploded a car exploded so he didn't say a car crashed into this car
00:03:41.280 exploded so we're operating under an assumption that there was some kind of a bomb look in the
00:03:46.000 world of media the facts come in really fast when there's these kind of incidents everybody knows
00:03:50.000 you have to take it slow you have to verify you have to make sure that things are correct so
00:03:53.120 everyone is sort of operating under extra special care not to jump ahead and make assumptions uh but
00:03:59.360 but journalists and and people watching people following along on social media and surely
00:04:04.320 politicians and officials police you know people who work inside the federal government who focus
00:04:10.960 on things like public safety and terrorism uh are looking into it looking to gather clues
00:04:16.480 um we had that video that showed someone saying there was an explosion uh eventually what we did
00:04:21.600 learn was that like i explained a car was just driving at a speed of 100 miles per hour apparently
00:04:28.400 and just crash into it we do have a bunch of footage of what that looked like
00:04:40.960 so like i said pretty incredible stuff there car just flying through the air eyewitness report
00:05:05.380 saying that the individual was driving at over 100 miles per hour, which, you know, is pretty
00:05:10.640 incredible. If you've ever crossed through the border on a car, you know that it's mostly just
00:05:14.420 a lot of moving very slowly, waiting in long lines, and not a lot of ability to even get going that
00:05:20.800 fast. So it's still sort of hard logistically to wrap your mind around what exactly happened. But
00:05:25.520 that is what happened. And like I said, you know, we were reporting True North, here's our report,
00:05:30.820 which we were continuously updating like many media do, no indication of terrorism in Rainbow
00:05:35.680 Bridge, a car explosion that killed two people. At the time, like I said, there were media reports
00:05:41.040 that said that it was terrorism, but now we've all updated our story to say that there is no
00:05:46.960 indication of terrorism. It looks like it was just some kind of a horrible accident where there was
00:05:50.320 an issue with the brake and the accelerator on the vehicle. That's the assumption in this moment.
00:05:58.140 But to go back to Wednesday afternoon when the news was still breaking, Pierre Polyev and
00:06:03.180 Justin Trudeau got into a little back and forth in the House of Commons. Like I said,
00:06:07.200 the incident had just happened near an hour, two hours before this happened. And so there were
00:06:12.920 really, you can tell by this clip, that they're just operating based on things that they might
00:06:16.700 have seen, things that they might have heard. They haven't had proper briefings yet. And here is what
00:06:20.560 that back and forth looked like in the House of Commons. Mr. Justin Trudeau is addressing this.
00:06:25.240 We're going to listen in.
00:06:25.980 All border crossings all across the country.
00:06:28.080 It's a very serious situation, but we will remain engaged for the entire day.
00:06:33.920 The Honorable Leader of the Opposition.
00:06:36.100 Mr. Speaker, we've just heard media reports of a terrorist attack, an explosion at the Niagara crossing of the Canada-U.S. border.
00:06:46.140 Two people, at least two people are dead.
00:06:48.020 One is injured.
00:06:50.080 It is the principal responsibility of government to protect the people.
00:06:54.820 Can the Prime Minister give us an update on what he knows
00:06:57.380 and what action plan he will immediately implement to bring home security for our people?
00:07:06.180 The Right Honourable Prime Minister.
00:07:08.220 Mr. Speaker, this is obviously a very serious situation in Niagara Falls.
00:07:12.520 There was a vehicle explosion at the Rainbow Bridge crossing.
00:07:15.920 I've been briefed by the NSIA and the Minister of Public Safety.
00:07:19.460 CBSA, RCMP and Transport Canada are all fully engaged in providing the
00:07:24.860 necessary support. There are a lot of questions and we are following up to try
00:07:28.760 and get as many answers as rapidly as possible. We are in close contact with
00:07:33.320 U.S. officials and will continue to work closely with them. We will continue to be
00:07:37.820 engaged. We will provide updates. Updates I can give right now is there are four
00:07:42.140 border crossings that are right now closed. Rainbow Bridge, Whirlpool Bridge,
00:07:46.280 Queenston Bridge, and Peace Bridge. Additional measures are being contemplated and activated
00:07:51.880 at all border crossings across the country. We are taking this extraordinarily seriously.
00:07:57.160 And Mr. Speaker, I will have to excuse myself now to go get further updates and work on this
00:08:03.380 very serious situation. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
00:08:09.240 So that was a little bit of a long clip, but I wanted to play the whole thing just so that you
00:08:12.560 could get a idea of how little these politicians really knew of the situation. So you heard Pierre
00:08:18.420 Polly have come out and say media reports of a terrorist attack. And he was saying that because
00:08:23.800 that's, again, what the media reporting, I just want to make this perfectly clear. So the incident
00:08:27.760 seemed to have happened sometime at around 1130. I believe the first reports on social media that
00:08:32.600 we started seeing roll in were maybe around 12, 1215. And the House of Commons question period,
00:08:39.200 which is what the clip that we just saw happens every day it starts at 2 p.m from 2 to 2 15
00:08:44.140 there's member statements and then the actual back and forth of question period starts about
00:08:48.360 quarter after two so this is all eastern standard time so so again we're talking about two hours
00:08:55.260 after this thing had happened and and you can tell you know both both sides didn't have the
00:09:00.800 full picture that that's always the case with these unfolding news events that you don't really
00:09:05.000 know what's happening uh until until the dust settles and the the the fog clears and then you
00:09:09.900 get a better picture which is what we have now it's been it's been two days since this happened
00:09:13.640 but even what uh trudeau said the prime minister said he you know he referred to it as an explosion
00:09:18.600 he said he was going to go get further brief he'd been briefed by all these other people
00:09:22.100 at all these agencies and organizations he's going to go okay folks this is all just pretext
00:09:27.040 this is all just setting up uh for what i think was probably the biggest moment of the week which
00:09:31.960 is Pierre Polyev doing what conservatives and people who support Pierre Polyev, which let's
00:09:37.600 just remind the audience that he has the largest support of any federal leader. His party, if there
00:09:43.460 were an election that were to happen today, they would get a sweeping majority in the House of
00:09:48.240 Commons. So Pierre Polyev doing what he does best, I think, which is he is presented a question from
00:09:54.320 a reporter that he doesn't deem fair. And so rather than doing what conservatives have been
00:09:59.460 doing for generations, what conservatives have been doing for decades, what conservatives have
00:10:03.200 been doing for years, which is just sort of shrug and accept the fact that the media doesn't like
00:10:08.100 them, it isn't fair to them. Pierre Polioff takes a very different approach. Pierre Polioff has
00:10:12.160 decided that when he is met with a media narrative, you can tell when a narrative is being presented,
00:10:18.020 when it is being pushed, it's all already sort of preconceived. It goes along almost exactly with
00:10:23.460 what the liberal government is saying, what liberal politicians are attacking conservatives
00:10:27.960 for. You can sense it. Pierre Polyev has a very good sense for when this is happening and he just
00:10:33.480 has no time for it. He has no time for it. He stops a reporter in their tracks, makes them explain,
00:10:39.220 makes them say their sources, makes them explain exactly what they're talking about to not allow
00:10:43.780 them to get away with the whole sort of pretense that they're putting into it behind the whole
00:10:48.900 sort of loaded question, preconceived narrative that the media is pushing. So I'll show you this
00:10:54.960 clip back and forth between Pierre Polyev and a Canadian press reporter, just a little bit more
00:11:00.160 background. Canadian press is a wire service. They write news stories and those news stories appear
00:11:05.280 across the Canadian media landscape. So everywhere from the Globe and Mail, Post Media, CTV,
00:11:13.420 any number of websites will have a subscription to CP and they will share and report their stories.
00:11:20.860 So CP is probably one of the most widespread, most influential media organizations in the country.
00:11:26.240 Many people don't know it because it's not a front-facing publication.
00:11:30.180 You can't go and buy the Canadian press, but media companies buy subscriptions and their reports appear throughout the legacy media.
00:11:36.640 So here is this back and forth between Pierre Polyev and a Canadian press reporter.
00:11:41.060 do you think it was responsible for you to call yesterday's explosion by the customs by the
00:11:48.140 checkpoint at the rainbow bridge terrorism when no u.s. or canadian officials said that was the
00:11:53.880 authorities said that was the case and when the new york governor also said there was no evidence
00:11:58.400 to suggest terrorism activity actually you're wrong you're a cp okay so cp by the way cp just
00:12:04.340 for everyone's knowledge did have to make three corrections for falsehoods that they put into a
00:12:10.240 single article. I think that might be unprecedented. I'm actually thinking about checking with the
00:12:15.280 Guinness Book of World Records to see if there's ever been a news agency that has had to issue
00:12:19.920 three corrections for patent falsehoods that they admit they had been made in one single article,
00:12:26.140 and now you've made yet another falsehood in your question. Where you are wrong is that CTV
00:12:32.620 reported that the government of Canada was presuming that the incident was terrorist.
00:12:36.960 so yeah that was and that's what i said in my remarks you're right it was a media report
00:12:42.880 but it's citing media reports and not which is what i said in the house i said there are media
00:12:48.240 reports and you think that's a responsible thing to go on to make that kind of a statement at the
00:12:54.240 time without speaking what kind of statement i didn't i said there were media reports that's
00:13:03.520 distinction we're making okay no there's no distinction what i said and i was right
00:13:10.320 was that there were media reports of a terror-related event by your admission
00:13:18.480 there were media reports of a terror-related event and that media report according to ctv
00:13:25.120 unless you're questioning their integrity now came from security officials in the trudeau government
00:13:31.120 So do you think the CTV was irresponsible in putting out that tweet?
00:13:38.960 Do you think it was a responsible comment to make it in the House of Commons?
00:13:41.620 Sorry, I'm asking. I've already answered that.
00:13:44.420 Do you think CTV was irresponsible to put that tweet out?
00:13:48.020 That's none of my business. That's not for me to comment?
00:13:52.200 Well, you just did comment.
00:13:57.000 Okay.
00:13:57.360 So, you know, I just hope you're not going to print something that you have to apologize for again.
00:14:02.540 So I think this kind of thing is satisfying for conservatives on many different levels.
00:14:06.920 Again, like I said, conservatives have always been pushed around by the media.
00:14:09.460 They're always presented with these twisted, warped interpretations of the facts, always with the gotcha questions.
00:14:15.340 And Pierre Polyev is really talented at simply turning that around onto the journalist.
00:14:19.340 So one of the interesting parts about that exchange that I'll just note is that the journalist there is saying that asking Pierre Poly of whether he thought it was responsible to refer to it as a terror-related attack based on a media report.
00:14:33.700 So is it responsible for a politician to quote a media report in the House of Commons?
00:14:39.400 Well, presumably that journalist would say that CTV is a trusted legacy media source, that they are reliable, that they are nonpartisan and that they are trustworthy.
00:14:49.480 Therefore, according to the logic of the journalists, of course, it would be responsible of Pierre Polyev to quote the legacy media.
00:14:56.960 But then in this instance, she's saying it's the exact opposite. How dare you quote a legacy media report saying it's terror related that, you know, you're drumming up fear or you're raising the public temperature or whatever the sort of underlying accusation is there.
00:15:13.000 Poliev had none of it shut it down put the put the questions right to the reporter and she simply
00:15:18.340 doesn't have answers because the whole point was it was a setup it was a gotcha question she was
00:15:23.560 just trying to embarrass Poliev and he didn't fall for it and instead he did again what I think so
00:15:29.760 many I won't even just say conservative voters I think just so many everyday people so many
00:15:35.040 Canadians who are tired of elite elites telling them what to think elites telling them what to
00:15:40.140 say. I mean, we just lived through several years of COVID lockdowns where the media were basically
00:15:45.320 just, you know, taking the government's word and using it to ram down our throats. They weren't
00:15:49.920 asking questions. They weren't holding officials to account. They were just the mouthpieces for
00:15:55.760 these politicians, these elites. And I think, again, it's satisfying for so many people to see
00:16:00.320 a politician just not accept the premise, just say, no, you can't come to me with this absurd
00:16:06.320 line of questioning it's not true it's not based on evidence or facts and in fact where I got my
00:16:12.640 facts from is you guys I was just quoting you guys and I think it's all very amusing and so
00:16:18.980 I did want to just get into a little bit of the details because there's still just so much sort
00:16:23.940 of back and forth and accusations over this because it didn't just end there of course that
00:16:28.780 was sort of just really the beginning of it because after this clip came out and after it
00:16:32.840 went viral, what we saw is the legacy media just lose their collective minds. I'll just come out
00:16:39.540 straight and say it. I mean, the way that the legacy media were behaving on X yesterday, on the
00:16:44.740 platform formerly known as Twitter, was just so evident of the way that they behave, that they
00:16:49.920 see a conservative doing something that they believe is outside the norm of Canadian politics.
00:16:55.040 It goes against their sort of sensibilities as a journalist, that the role is so protected and so
00:17:00.660 safeguarded and it's, you know, it's so unbecoming to question a journalist or to turn it around and
00:17:06.920 ask them questions or, you know, not to accept their premise. And so what we saw was really
00:17:12.080 what I would describe as a weep fest on social media. So I'm going to go through a few of my
00:17:16.940 favorite ones. You had Bruce Arthur from the Toronto Star. Andrew Scheer, former leader of the
00:17:22.700 party, shared the video. Norm Spector, who's a former chief of staff to a conservative prime
00:17:28.780 Minister Brian Mulroney posted it. And then you had Terry Glavin, who is a reporter, excellent
00:17:34.660 reporter for the National Post. And he's not even a conservative. I believe Terry Glavin is a
00:17:39.020 socialist. But anyway, Bruce Arthur shared the whole thing. And he writes, just another grotesque
00:17:45.020 day for the conservative party. He continues here in a thread. He writes, so Pierre Polyev in a
00:17:53.200 truly scummy moment blamed a CTV report for his assessment of the Rainbow Bridge as a terrorist
00:17:58.960 attack in the House of Commons yesterday. The first CTV report didn't seem to have landed before
00:18:03.320 Polly spoke, but the Fox News report had. I'll just continue with this thread that he had here.
00:18:11.140 He writes, where are we here? Either way, the CTV story said the government was operating under the
00:18:16.920 assumption that the explosion was terror-related, which was an operational necessity. It's very 0.64
00:18:20.960 difficult from saying flat out. It's very, sorry, it's very different from saying flat out that this
00:18:26.280 was terrorism. Pierre cited media reports. Looks like he cited Fox. I should say the whole, a whole
00:18:32.860 host of far-right influencers and pretend media were also flat out stating this was clearly
00:18:38.160 terrorism. Just going to attach this to the thread and do something else now. And then he has this
00:18:44.740 whole thing, well, this theory that the CTV report came out at 2.39 p.m. Eastern time, but they're
00:18:50.960 Pierre Polyev spoke at 2.26. So I think this is like a gotcha moment. Bruce Arthur here is trying
00:18:57.240 to say, or maybe he is saying that Polyev is lying, that Polyev was, when he said media reports,
00:19:03.500 he was just talking about independent media outlets like True North or maybe The Rebel,
00:19:08.580 and that it was Fox News. You can take that, you could take that down now. Yeah. So just saying
00:19:15.720 that, you know, it wasn't real media. It wasn't the mainstream media, the trusted media like CTV
00:19:20.020 who were reporting it. It was like awful, terrible Fox News and awful, terrible independent media who
00:19:26.940 he calls far right and pretend media, which is kind of amusing. And then he has it all sorted
00:19:32.560 out exactly. He says that CTV report came out at exactly 2.39 and Pierre Polyev spoke at 2.26. So
00:19:39.880 interesting, just the evolution of what the media were saying. So at first it was that the CTV story
00:19:47.320 hadn't come out yet therefore he was quoting fox news and that is like a sin in and of itself i'll
00:19:53.080 continue on with the legacy media is sort of losing their losing their minds you had andrew coin who
00:19:59.480 i believe these days writes for the globe and mail he writes i don't know who he thinks he's
00:20:04.200 impressing with this campus tory childishness but they're probably already voting for him
00:20:10.200 likewise uh tavisa southey also from the global mail she sometimes writes for mclean's as well
00:20:15.240 She says, the entire incident ought to disqualify the man as prime minister.
00:20:20.160 And as a cautionary tale, Pierre Polyev is what happens when you mistake your mentions
00:20:24.360 for your constituency.
00:20:26.560 I don't quite think that she gets this right.
00:20:28.960 I don't think that Pierre Polyev is like going for a social media clout on this.
00:20:34.100 You can take that one down, Sean.
00:20:35.900 I don't think that Pierre Polyev is really going for a clout on this one.
00:20:40.640 I don't think that he was like sharing that video in order to get likes on Twitter.
00:20:43.860 I think that he really does understand his constituency. He understands that the everyday
00:20:48.860 man, the working man in Canada appreciates having somebody call out BS when they see it.
00:20:54.800 And actually, if you look at polling, any polling done in the last, I don't know, six months,
00:20:59.960 eight months, year, you'll see that Pierre Polyev certainly does know who his audience is and his
00:21:05.800 constituency. John Iveson, National Post, he writes, he could lose this thing yet if he keeps
00:21:12.060 behaving like this um again the legacy media operate on this assumption that they are very
00:21:17.260 respected that they are very uh you can take that down shot um that they are very respected that they
00:21:25.180 uh know exactly uh you know everything that they say is is trusted and revered and the mere fact
00:21:31.100 that a journalist would push back is just outrageous uh my colleague and friend rupa
00:21:35.500 supermania who writes for the pre-press and she has a show with us here at turner she pushes 0.50
00:21:39.660 back against John Iverson, mentioning a whole bunch of leaders who, she says, would beg to
00:21:44.900 disagree. You could add a couple more, probably Donald Trump to that list as well. The mainstream
00:21:51.080 is no longer dictated by a few elite opinion makers, but a large number of people who have
00:21:56.080 their, this is a quote from Rupa, by the way, the mainstream is no longer dictated by a few elite
00:22:01.240 opinion makers, but a large number of people who have their views on what's going on. Dismiss such
00:22:07.300 opinion at your own peril. The reality is that a lot of people love Pierre Polyev's energy that
00:22:11.880 is completely missed by our elites. I think that's pretty much hits the nail right on the head,
00:22:17.400 Rupa. Moving on, we have another journalist in Canada. This individual's name's Les Perrault.
00:22:23.100 He's with Policy Options. He's the editor-in-chief over there. And he writes, it's a really good
00:22:28.240 thing that I'm not in the press conference business anymore because he awes of me saying,
00:22:31.740 Mr. Poliev, would you please grow up would be extremely high. Les Perot went on with a thread
00:22:39.240 where he said, I have the privilege of josting with dozens of prime ministers, premiers and
00:22:43.860 opposition leaders from all parties over 25 years. I don't remember one of them acting like this,
00:22:48.720 and certainly not on repeated occasions. Chantal Hebert from the Toronto Star writes,
00:22:54.120 ditto, ditto, simply that. It's interesting because, you know, that's probably true. I don't
00:22:59.660 think that politicians in Canada have treated the media with this sort of open disdain or
00:23:06.620 disrespect that you see from Pierre Polyev. But that's probably because the media has changed
00:23:11.360 drastically over the past 25 years. I mean, over the past five years, since Justin Trudeau started
00:23:15.660 bailing out the legacy media newspapers, since he started giving hundreds of millions more dollars
00:23:21.460 to the CBC. It's become, you know, instead of a media press that is culturally left-wing and
00:23:28.140 probably all vote liberal or NDP, but when they show up to work, they at least try to be
00:23:32.140 professional. That's completely changed. It's completely changed now. And we have a media that
00:23:37.300 is bought and paid for by the Trudeau liberals who get their funding from the government. They know
00:23:41.740 where their bread is butter. They know where their checks are coming from. And you can just see the
00:23:45.760 difference in coverage. You can see the change that's happened over the last several years.
00:23:49.380 And then add on top of that, the sort of elites know best mindset, the sort of changing of
00:23:55.300 journalism. Remember, journalism used to be more of a blue collar profession where you had reporters
00:24:00.300 working really, really hard, running around, trying to keep up with politicians, constantly
00:24:04.400 trying to hold them to account and pressing them and being sort of adversarial. And now,
00:24:13.200 you know, the journalism profession is much more white collar, college educated, people who spent
00:24:18.360 lots and lots of time in universities getting indoctrinated with left wing ideas. And culturally,
00:24:23.780 they're all liberal still. So I think journalism has gotten so much worse over the past 25 years
00:24:29.600 and then add on top of that the fact that there's funding. So, you know, the fact that these
00:24:33.520 journalists are lamenting Pierre Polyev is not his fault. He's reacting to it. He's not the one
00:24:37.880 that created these situations. Okay, next we have Luke LeBron from Press Progress. He writes,
00:24:44.840 Pierre Polyev stood in the House of Commons Wednesday afternoon and labeled this a terrorist
00:24:48.300 attack. An FBI investigation has officially ruled out terrorism and now describes it as
00:24:53.140 a traffic incident. Well, yes, that's correct. And we learned that fact like 24 hours later.
00:24:59.100 But, you know, the time that Pierre Polyev stood up in the House of Commons was two hours after
00:25:04.560 the attack. He was basing it on preliminary information, and that was based on media reports.
00:25:10.000 So good on there, Luke. Too bad you missed the whole timeline. All right, we'll go through a
00:25:15.620 few more of these. We've got Rachel Gilmore, who is a freelancer, I guess. She writes this,
00:25:21.880 how do you push back on the spot when Polyev outright lies to your face when it's impossible
00:25:27.360 to prove the lie without pulling out your phone and scoring timestamps? If one more person tries
00:25:35.040 to say the reporter should better prepare themselves for an outright lie, I'm going to
00:25:39.540 scream. Okay, well, I think that the criticism isn't that the reporter should have somehow
00:25:47.320 been able to, you know, shoot back against Pierre Polyev and say, no, you're actually wrong. Your
00:25:53.320 comment came 20 minutes before the CDV report came out. I think that the criticism of the CDV
00:25:59.600 reporter, or sorry, of the CB reporter was that she was asking really, really loaded questions
00:26:03.980 and trying to catch Pierre Polyev in a gotcha moment that just didn't really work out. You know,
00:26:10.220 she's talking about the timestamps and the time zones. We've got another tweet on that theme.
00:26:14.200 again, our friend Bruce Arthur from the Toronto Star. He says he's talking to Nick Cavallis who
00:26:20.220 had posted the CTV report in question saying that it came out at 1.50 before the House of
00:26:26.980 Commons question period had started. And you can see very clearly in the tweet that it said
00:26:30.960 terror-related. Bruce Arthur goes, ah ha ha, even Nick is falling for the lazy screenshots that
00:26:36.700 presume nobody understands the concept of time zones. Nick Cavallis, of course, is a conservative
00:26:42.340 operative and an insider in the conservative party movement. So I'm not exactly sure whether
00:26:48.300 that screenshot was on the Eastern time or the Mountain time, but basically the whole explanation
00:26:55.200 from the left and from the legacy media was that the conservatives were lying because the CTV report
00:27:03.500 that Pierre Polyev says that he was basing his comments on didn't come out until afterwards.
00:27:08.440 Well, the only problem is that you can go. You could go right now onto CTV and you can see that report. You can see their first report. This is the updated version of it. It says two people dead in Rainbow Bridge explosion. Like I said, just like the True North story, right? You put the story out as soon as you have enough information and then you update it throughout the day to make sure that the facts are up to date with the latest from police and from law enforcement at the time.
00:27:34.520 So you can see that the original story, it came out and it is timestamped right there. You can see it on the top left. It came out on November 22nd, which was Wednesday, at 1.09 p.m. Eastern Time. Not Mountain Time, not Pacific Time, but Eastern Time. So it says it right there. And then you can see written in that report, it says the part that I have circled in red there.
00:27:56.240 sources did tell CTV News earlier in the day that the conservative government that sorry that
00:28:02.040 Canadian government officials were initially operating under the assumption that this was
00:28:06.940 terror related okay so I mean you can't say that that was based on a different time zone you can't
00:28:13.000 use that whole time stamp time zone thing we know that their story came out at 109 p.m eastern
00:28:19.000 because you can still see it and you know that it said that at the time when the report first came
00:28:24.360 out, you know, citing government officials, they did indeed say that it was terror related. So this
00:28:30.420 vindicates Pierre Polyev. This shows that what he was saying was true. And I tweeted so much. I put
00:28:36.540 out exactly the facts. Pierre Polyev rose in the House of Commons on Wednesday and said there were
00:28:41.800 media reports for terror attack. House of Commons starts at 2. Pierre Polyev's remarks happened
00:28:46.780 around 2.25 p.m. CTV News, citing Canadian government officials, did indeed report the
00:28:52.580 Rainbow Bridge explosion was being treated as terror related. Here's a CTV time slot 109. So
00:28:58.740 can someone please explain to me how it is Pierre Polyev who is lying that you know they were pushing
00:29:04.620 this whole thing around that it was time zones or people are confusing a mountain time zone push
00:29:09.800 notification or tweet saying that that was incorrect. And you know it continues. Bruce
00:29:16.460 Arthur is still as we speak out there tweeting he's saying of course Candace is now pretending
00:29:21.480 not to know how the media works, ignoring what CTV contemporaneous reality say about when it was
00:29:27.800 published. So Bruce Arthur is talking about the fact that CTV put out a report today, basically
00:29:34.640 calling Pierre Polyev a liar. They're jumping on this sort of bandwagon and saying that they put
00:29:39.620 out their report 15 minutes before Pierre Polyev rose and stood in the House of Commons. Now, look,
00:29:45.560 I don't know why they put out that report. I don't know why they decided to sort of jump into the
00:29:50.300 fray of pushing back against a conservative politician. It sort of seems like that would
00:29:56.420 be the liberal's job and partisan liberals. But CTV is pushing in. Look, you can't deny the fact
00:30:02.520 that their story says that it came out at 1.09 when I used various web engines to search back
00:30:08.720 to see what the original news story would have looked like at 1.09. It appears to me that it does
00:30:13.660 say terror-related at that time. So it sort of becomes like their word against like screenshots
00:30:19.860 on the internet versus Pierre Poliev. Again, I don't know why it is the media's role, why they
00:30:26.000 believe it is their job to defend Justin Trudeau, to try to push back against a conservative,
00:30:33.180 conservatives defending themselves against a legacy media attack. It really is quite something.
00:30:38.440 A final Bruce Arthur tweet right here. He says, lots of people struggling with the updated part
00:30:43.240 of this page. This is a final version of a rolling story updated at 7.54, but CTV flat out told people
00:30:49.840 that they reported it later, no screenshots, but the dumb times and screenshots are still
00:30:56.540 being circulated. No, this isn't about time zones. This isn't about, you know, trying to
00:31:02.120 understand what the CTV, why the CTV put out that version. Like you can look online and see that it
00:31:08.560 came out at that point. But it's just interesting just to see the evolving change in the narrative,
00:31:14.520 right? At first it was Pierre Polyev is lying. Then it is Pierre Polyev is trying to drum up
00:31:19.240 fear about an attack, about supposed terrorism that may be happening. Next, it is that Pierre
00:31:26.500 Polyev is quoting Fox News and how could he quote Fox News or independent media? Then it's no,
00:31:31.520 these idiots have the timestamps wrong or that they're looking at the wrong time zone. And now
00:31:36.560 it's like people are struggling with the idea that news stories are updated. Well, the story
00:31:40.880 itself said that the original report did say that it was terror. It said that was coming from
00:31:45.700 Canadian officials. This is all very silly. It's all very sort of pedantic and, you know, 1.00
00:31:53.200 arguing over tiny little things like really the legacy media spending an entire day
00:31:57.860 arguing over whether a CTV story came up before 2 p.m. or slightly after 2 p.m. Why does it matter?
00:32:04.660 The reality is that CTV did report on Wednesday that this was terror. Canadian government officials
00:32:09.940 told the media that they were suspecting it as terror, that they believed it to be a terror
00:32:14.440 incident. Anybody with eyes who was watching the situation, watching the facts involved in the
00:32:18.660 ground, there was a lot of reason to believe that it could have been. Thankfully, it turned out not
00:32:24.080 to be. Thankfully, it turned out not to be someone trying to carry out an evil attack against our
00:32:28.900 country or against Americans. Sadly, it was some kind of an accident that claimed the lives of
00:32:35.100 two people, a married couple in their 50s. But you can really just see the sort of pettiness,
00:32:42.520 the immaturity, the obsession that the media have over trying to discredit a conservative
00:32:48.080 leader, over trying to embarrass a conservative leader, over trying to create a narrative around
00:32:53.020 him that just happens to coincide with what the liberals are saying. And you can see them all
00:32:58.500 coming out to bat for their friends, for their hero, Justin Trudeau. So I don't think we should
00:33:05.300 waste any more time on this silly story trying to explain it the best I could. I think it is
00:33:10.340 quite silly. But look, folks, I think it's really important that we spend time looking at what the
00:33:16.560 media is doing, watching them with a microscope, watching the way they operate, the way they
00:33:20.740 behave. And frankly, I think that it's a little bit of a breath of fresh air to see a politician
00:33:25.440 like Pierre Polyev push back, fight back, say no to their narrative, call them out on their
00:33:30.820 nonsense, call them out on their BS when they're trying to twist the truth or trying to argue over
00:33:35.860 tiny little details that nobody cares about. No, look, we thought it was terrorism. It wasn't.
00:33:41.100 Let's all move on. I'll leave it at that. Have a wonderful weekend, everybody. Thank you so much
00:33:45.580 for tuning in. This has been a live edition of Fake News Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm,
00:33:49.340 and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.