Juno News - August 26, 2022


Pierre Poilievre exposes Global News


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In this week's episode of Fake News Friday, host Rupa Subramania and host Harrison Falkner discuss the latest smear tactics and smear tactics used by the fake and biased legacy media against Canadian politician Justin Trudeau.

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00:00:00.000 happy friday canada welcome to fake news friday the only show on the internet keeping canada's
00:00:16.100 failing fake and biased legacy media in check and my goodness do they need a checking it's
00:00:20.600 it's been a historically bad week i think for canada's legacy media my name is harrison
00:00:24.780 falkner filling in for andrew lawton once again who usually fills in for candace malcolm and
00:00:29.200 taking the seat that i usually occupy on the show is the very talented rupa subramania the host of
00:00:34.200 the rupa subramania podcast now rupa this may be one of the worst weeks i think for canada's legacy
00:00:39.500 media i mean i don't know how much worse it can get they they've they've embarrassed themselves
00:00:43.540 and frankly exposed themselves i think a little bit yeah no i think so i mean we've we've lots to
00:00:49.480 cover and um yeah i don't even know where where where to begin uh just when you think that you
00:00:55.560 know it's it's bad it just gets worse and uh so uh yeah uh they've not conducted themselves
00:01:01.540 well here uh they once again made themselves the center of the story uh and as we discussed last
00:01:07.820 week journalists are not supposed to be the story so um you know it's it's just very unfortunate but
00:01:13.460 unfortunately this is this is how it's been uh for a while and that's where that's why we call it as
00:01:19.820 as we see it yeah well let's start with this let's start with this whole pierre polyev jeremy mckenzie
00:01:26.340 diagonal debacle let's call it the diagonal debacle because global news have have just completely
00:01:32.200 embarrassed themselves i think here and i think a good number of canadians who were already quite
00:01:37.080 skeptical of what they were getting from the legacy media after seeing what happened now i think are
00:01:41.060 just saying to themselves wow i mean we're this is this is these are new lows so let's just summarize
00:01:46.280 what happened for those that maybe aren't aware of what's what went on so at an event on sunday
00:01:52.480 pierre polyev i might have been sunday might have been monday i'm not sure but pierre polyev was doing
00:01:56.700 a meet and greet as he usually does one of his rallies in nova scotia i believe it was and at these
00:02:02.200 rallies polyev like any other politician in this country meets and greets the supporters he sets up a
00:02:08.160 there's a long line of people who want to shake his hand have a quick word take a picture and keep that
00:02:12.880 as a little uh a little political memorabilia of a of a well-known political candidate so sure enough
00:02:17.460 this guy jeremy mckenzie who is a an online streamer someone who is i think known for being quite
00:02:23.700 controversial quite on the edge um the the legacy media view this guy as some very dangerous extreme
00:02:29.080 right boogeyman well he went to the polyev rally took a photo with pierre polyev shaking his hand
00:02:35.700 posted it to his telegram page and all of a sudden here comes global news journalist rachel
00:02:41.260 gilmore who takes this and says well because this guy jeremy mckenzie who doesn't need doesn't need
00:02:48.320 defending uh but but this guy jeremy mckenzie because he took a photo with polyev pierre polyev
00:02:54.020 must be some racist far-right boogeyman he he's attracting these these far-right individuals and
00:03:00.340 because of that we must we must force pierre polyev to denounce these people and basically validate
00:03:06.940 the claims legacy media are making about him that he's what uh you know uh rupa he's he's he's
00:03:12.400 attracting these far-right dangerous dangerous figures it's it's completely bizarre and and they
00:03:18.420 completely fell for this yeah no but uh harrison we've seen this movie before i mean this is classic
00:03:24.200 guilt by association uh which uh is applied to uh politicians on the right uh and never on the left
00:03:32.300 uh so you know we know that trudeau has appeared with all kinds of extremists out there um many of
00:03:38.920 his mps have appeared uh in community groups associated with um for example the calistan independence
00:03:45.780 movement uh or tamil tigers and and none of these people were called extremists i don't ever recall
00:03:52.800 anyone uh calling justin trudeau an extremist or um who supports these organizations or these elements
00:04:01.560 uh but this is a classic smear tactic that comes from the left uh you attack someone uh not for
00:04:08.680 their ideas not for their policies but you want to cast aspersions on their character so it's clearly
00:04:14.620 motivated there's an agenda here for sure uh but you know what i would like about pierce uh about
00:04:20.820 pierce responses and he's done this before it's very clever and witty you know he could have responded
00:04:25.960 to it by uh getting angry and defensive but he responds it responds with wit and humor and thereby
00:04:33.940 revealing how ridiculous the whole thing is for example i think he said um he says you know likewise 0.52
00:04:40.820 i can't be responsible for justin trudeau's many racist outbursts just because i've met him or shaken
00:04:45.800 his hands um i think that's that's a great way of dealing with it uh and uh you know mckinsey himself
00:04:53.240 i believe uh has said that he was deliberately doing this to provoke the legacy media and of course they
00:04:59.880 they fell um for it they responded um just like they uh fell for his diagonal meme which is a fake
00:05:08.600 country but they um tried to concoct this conspiracy that it is a far-right movement um uh here to um
00:05:18.120 overthrow the canadian government there are a bunch of extremists there are a bunch of terrorists
00:05:21.480 i mean it's a joke it's a joke the meme it's a it's a fake it's it's it's a made-up country uh with
00:05:28.200 the with with the goat i think as its head i or you know i don't quite know all the specifics but it's
00:05:35.880 it's kind of funny but but it just shows you how easy it is to rile up um the legacy media and uh
00:05:43.240 essentially get them to reveal where they're coming from their biases and their agenda no exactly and if
00:05:48.280 the legacy media didn't have double standards or but we would know that they'd have no standards at
00:05:52.120 all because of course if a legitimate journalist who's writing this story well first of all any
00:05:58.280 politician who shakes hands with someone at an event designed for a meet and greet that's not a story no
00:06:03.320 matter who they are it's not a story but if you're going to go to those those such low depths you might
00:06:09.000 as well just provide a little bit of context not once in this global news reporter story did they did
00:06:14.760 did she mention the fact that as you mentioned trudeau has met with such you know acclaimed people
00:06:19.720 as convicted pedophile ben levin or neo-nazi andre perubi or a pet or pedophile terry lowe so again 0.54
00:06:27.400 and that's just to name a few there's there's actually four others worth mentioning but again 0.75
00:06:30.760 it's just ridiculous i did some digging into this and it wasn't just of course global news that fell
00:06:36.280 for this trap of course jerry mckenzie as you said may put a video out there detailing how it was all
00:06:41.560 just to set up it was just to expose a legacy media for being completely in the tank for trudeau
00:06:46.280 but i did some research about this diagonal group as you said it's a meme it's a total joke you're
00:06:51.000 trying to form some breakaway state a diagonal country from alaska to florida and from my research
00:06:56.040 and and so in between these dangerous reports about how all these these diagonal guys are so dangerous
00:07:02.200 they have to put in their actual specifics about what this group is and one of them is the fact that
00:07:07.480 their vice president of diagonal is a goat figurine who has who does coke i mean so it's it's a total
00:07:15.560 it's a total joke obviously and and it wasn't just global news that fell for this it was jean
00:07:20.360 chariot who also in his best what patrick brown impersonation tried to basically say that pauliev
00:07:27.000 hasn't announced this jeremy mckenzie figure and if he doesn't denounce this guy he must be what
00:07:31.880 supporting the the the views of of of the far right it's it's ridiculous and the whole goal here
00:07:38.520 and conservatives should be wise to this and i think the more and more this goes on they'll start
00:07:42.120 to see it what these what these legacy media journalists and the left want is for conservatives
00:07:47.320 to denounce and distance condemn denounce and distance themselves from people who again aren't
00:07:52.920 necessarily the model citizens but when have you seen justin trudeau openly denounce the extreme left
00:08:01.160 or antifa he never does it and no one expects him to well you don't even have to go to jeremy
00:08:06.440 mckinsey look what they did to the freedom protests and look look what look what they did to uh you
00:08:12.360 know those people and james talk yeah james stopped like i've met james stopped to call him a white 0.93
00:08:18.600 supremacist is so incredibly ridiculous i i don't even know where to begin here i i marched with the man you
00:08:26.200 know for for a day to get an interview i was i spent about six hours with him and i did a podcast 0.98
00:08:32.760 with him and he's a perfectly reasonable person he believes in this you know in his cause and
00:08:38.760 there's nothing racist or white supremacist about him i mean unless you know white supremacists are now
00:08:45.560 becoming a more inclusive group i mean i'm not aware of this development but uh it's it's it's insane how
00:08:51.480 they try to tar everybody um you know with this brush um and we saw that with the freedom protests
00:08:57.640 uh just pretty much you know they were just using these talking points from justin trudeau himself
00:09:04.760 when he recall when he characterized the unvaccinated as a bunch of racists and
00:09:09.560 misogynists and should we tolerate them as he infamously asked and uh that's essentially what
00:09:15.320 they're doing they're um you know they're essentially behaving like stenographers for
00:09:20.200 the government and it's uh it's unfortunate but yeah but there you have it yeah so you i mean you've
00:09:25.640 got you've got the the whole series of photographs that justin trudeau has taken these aren't just with
00:09:30.520 any individuals i mean one of them you know is the former speaker i think of the ukrainian parliament who
00:09:35.400 is andre peruby i mean these are real legitimate people who are truly uh i i would say in to use the
00:09:42.520 less language problematic um but again you don't even have to go that far you can go back earlier
00:09:47.080 this week when the canadian heritage department gave money 130 grand to a violent semite where
00:09:53.800 obviously we saw we saw ahmed hassan denounce and condemn rightly so but you don't have you don't
00:09:59.160 have a whole procession of liberal mps openly coming out and saying we denounce this we denounce
00:10:04.440 this man we we distance ourselves because they don't actually have to because the standards aren't
00:10:09.560 actually the same and and it's also worth mentioning too the the way that this has all
00:10:15.240 been set up they they've created these also they've created these these blanket terms like
00:10:19.720 ideologically motivated violent extremism for example imve that's not that's like a new thing
00:10:25.880 and if you think about that ideologically motivated that's basically politics and and and and violent
00:10:31.320 extremism that can be anything as we've seen from the left so i mean we this was a standard operating
00:10:35.720 procedure from the legacy media and there was another article that came up from the same
00:10:40.600 journalist at global because global wasn't done there this week of course after embarrassing
00:10:45.000 themselves on what the monday they decided the next day to double down and and go even deeper
00:10:50.200 they wrote an article the headline is laughable here the headline is how podcasts have become
00:10:54.840 misinformation machines and what can be done about it so this article is unbelievable they basically just
00:11:01.720 take any conservative uh right wing media operation if it's i mean they they take the biggest names
00:11:08.520 we're talking uh jordan peterson ben shapiro alex jones they're saying anyone who is not basically
00:11:15.960 in the legacy media anything that's not printed by a legacy media outlet or anything that's not produced
00:11:21.160 by uh some sort of uh legacy media outlet rupa is disinformation and right wing and they even they
00:11:27.720 even try and lump in shows that aren't even podcasts as podcasts it's ridiculous yeah it's very poor
00:11:34.280 research look obviously there's misinformation out there there's disinformation no one denies that
00:11:40.120 uh but here's the thing there's a lot of fake information and from the legacy media itself
00:11:46.200 the legacy media itself is a big proponent of uh fake news stories and uh uh propagates this right uh not
00:11:54.600 proponent but uh propagates these stories uh so it's rather disingenuous to say that it's just
00:11:59.800 podcasts spreading misinformation um and keep in mind that legacy media uh still reaches a large number
00:12:06.760 of people who are not into uh podcasts and you know and other uh sort of you know how you and i would
00:12:14.760 get the news there are a lot of people who still look to the cbc and the c and ctv and legacy media for
00:12:21.480 for news so again um the the fact of the matter is that the fake news the legacy media uh maybe that
00:12:31.000 was a freudian slip but uh but but the legacy media itself propagates fake news and they've been called
00:12:37.560 out plenty of times um and uh and again you know i refer to the freedom convoy protests uh where the
00:12:43.880 legacy media was all but parroting the trudeau government's uh own misinformation uh where they tarred
00:12:50.040 all the protesters with the with the same brush that they were racist and misogynist and we know
00:12:54.600 that's not true um and it and and guess who um uh you know guess who who who who were the people who
00:13:02.200 who was pointing this out it was the independent media uh which was there on the ground um uh and uh
00:13:08.360 and i think people like uh you and i were were there at the protests and we i think we presented
00:13:13.880 a much more accurate picture of what was actually happening there um and you know i think i think
00:13:19.160 what's happening here harrison is that podcasts and independent media are increasingly providing a
00:13:25.160 much needed corrective to i believe a very hegemonic agenda driven narrative uh by legacy media uh and
00:13:32.760 at least here in canada we know it's usually in favor of the liberals well no exactly and and you know
00:13:38.200 the thing is is is i think canadians should understand and i think canadians do understand
00:13:43.640 that when you read something from the legacy media these legacy media outlets they're obviously going
00:13:48.360 to be left-wing that's just sort of the nature of of big media but when you put out an article when
00:13:53.720 the global news puts out an article that is so clearly slanted against the against the right i mean
00:13:59.320 they're trying to they're trying to basically say that uh jordan peterson and ben shapiro and podcasters
00:14:06.120 like that are putting out misinformation they don't once talk about any sort of antifa or far
00:14:11.080 left podcast and we know they're out there they should at least make these make these articles
00:14:15.880 known that it's it's an opinion or it's or it's some sort of analysis like even the cbc to their
00:14:21.320 credit and i can't believe i'm going to say this rupa to the the cbc's credit they will label their
00:14:25.720 articles either op-ed or analysis and you know that it's really not news but this apparently is being
00:14:31.480 presented as news and you people should go through this article because
00:14:35.400 the more you read it the more it obviously becomes a justification to to introduce censorship in the
00:14:41.320 media to guarantee that canadians can't access information that is not filtered by legacy media
00:14:46.600 sources so there's there's an important there's an important paragraph that i want to that i want to
00:14:51.880 read here and it's a quote from somebody in this article i think it's justin ling actually which just
00:14:56.760 makes it even worse if anyone knows canadian legacy media but this is what he says in the article
00:15:02.040 one of the main draws of podcasting is the low barrier to entry all you need is a microphone and
00:15:06.600 some basic editing software the result your message can go right to the listeners ears with
00:15:11.160 no gatekeepers i mean what's wrong with that rupa what's wrong with people instead of people just
00:15:17.000 putting out news and and letting letting audiences decide how they want to receive it it has to go
00:15:22.920 through gatekeepers i mean it's ridiculous and then here's another line too he says it feels like
00:15:28.440 somebody leaning over the counter of the bar or coming to your cubicle in the office or sitting
00:15:32.280 across your kitchen table and explaining something to you it doesn't feel produced it doesn't feel
00:15:36.040 put on it doesn't feel like there are any filters between what the host is saying and what you're
00:15:39.640 hearing so again i ask the question what's wrong with someone just telling it to you straight just
00:15:45.720 giving you a conversation to inform you they want it to go through their sources only because they
00:15:51.000 can feel their their monopoly on information slipping through their hands and there's nothing that
00:15:55.480 terrifies them more that's precisely it you've you've uh you know you've identified the problem
00:16:00.520 there and that is it uh look it's democratization of discourse which is a great thing that's what
00:16:06.200 that's what we want and that's what technology has enabled us to do uh that's what podcasting um
00:16:12.040 has enabled us to do uh and you know everybody has a voice what is wrong with that uh and and if you
00:16:18.520 you know you're you're free to disagree with those views and opinions but you know to obviously this
00:16:25.320 you know they feel that their control over this narrative that they've been pushing for a very
00:16:29.880 long time is slowly starting to slip away it's it's already happening i think in in a big way uh
00:16:36.600 in certain areas and they're being challenged constantly every day uh by viewers and listeners
00:16:42.360 um uh you know saying you know this your your reporting of this is completely biased it's incorrect and
00:16:48.200 they're you you no longer have to write a letter to an editor um you know which which used to be the
00:16:54.200 case when i was growing up and it would take a week for them to publish it and you you didn't
00:16:58.840 even know if the journalist even received that letter so yeah but now it's instantaneous you know 0.99
00:17:04.440 you can just tweet to this person you can just tell them directly look i think you suck your reporting 0.99
00:17:08.760 sucks and and that and they they have a hard time dealing with it and uh and and then of course 0.99
00:17:14.360 they they you know they're they they face fierce competition from independent media um you know and i
00:17:21.400 was i was just looking at podcasts um by chartable a ranking of podcasts in canada um and um and and
00:17:28.760 and i i noticed that several of our podcasts on true north are actually up there in in the top 50 uh
00:17:35.000 ranked in you know in in the top 50 yeah mine happens to be number 21 so um i'm rather pleased with
00:17:43.000 that certainly yeah but i noticed that most of those podcasts are actually from the independent media
00:17:50.040 space uh i think i saw one cbc podcast up there but most of it are just people like you and i
00:17:57.880 yeah podcasting and i think that's that's where you know they feel really threatened and that would 0.93
00:18:03.800 explain why they come out with these stupid bogus articles um uh you know which are poorly researched 0.96
00:18:10.760 poorly written and uh and you know and and you know because they they they want to 0.99
00:18:16.280 keep this monopoly going as much as possible yeah absolutely and i think when journalists
00:18:22.040 are on the side of of restricting access to the news and and trying to you know keep canadians from
00:18:27.720 being able to access other voices i think that's when they're on the wrong side of this debate and
00:18:31.480 i think canadians are going to see that now rupa the the legacy media journalists speaking of these
00:18:36.200 great legacy media journalists they they still haven't gotten over your reporting which has exposed the
00:18:41.640 trudeau government it's like it's like it almost hurts them more than the trudeau government i don't
00:18:45.960 understand why but they can't stop attacking you what's going on here uh well it's uh you know back
00:18:55.160 back in the old days harrison and that was not too long ago um i you know when a journalist
00:19:00.200 broke a story right other journalists would dive into the story and try to get more stories out of it
00:19:07.000 right uh but what's happening here is that they're actually trying to demonize the journalist
00:19:12.040 and defending the government it's it's messed up so you know just imagine when bob woodward and
00:19:18.280 carl bernstein broke the watergate story uh and legacy media in canada would have attacked them 0.97
00:19:24.200 and tried to defend nixon um it's it's it's really about that ridiculous and so incredibly shameful 0.83
00:19:30.600 uh you know there are several things that are shameful here they're attacking me and they're 1.00
00:19:34.600 also so incredibly stupid and naive that they take everything that government officials are saying 0.97
00:19:39.160 at face value um they do this kind of thing in north korea and other tin pot dictatorships 1.00
00:19:44.600 you know to stay alive right because if you speak speak out against um dear leader uh that's it that's
00:19:52.360 game over for you uh but it's incredible that uh you know some journalists here are behaving like
00:19:57.480 we're in north korea um you know rather than having a healthy skeptic healthy skepticism um you know
00:20:06.040 towards uh official narratives uh from the government uh fact-checking they're fact-checking me they should
00:20:14.200 really be looking at these court documents and digging deeper there's a lot of stuff in there that
00:20:19.560 i couldn't get into there's so many stories here uh but uh no but they're busy fact-checking me and
00:20:26.200 uh you know again uh attempting um a character assassination by saying that i'm affiliated with
00:20:33.320 far-right outfits what what on earth does it have to do with the story and the story speaks for itself
00:20:39.000 um you know but instead you know they're they're you know they should be fact-checking the government
00:20:43.080 and they should be looking for evidence to support the government claims and not just take them at face
00:20:47.640 value it's a shameful dereliction of duty by some of these individuals in the legacy media no absolutely
00:20:54.520 and you know the legacy media are going after journalists and they're going after small
00:20:58.520 podcasters like jeremy mckenzie who has 12 000 subscribers instead of going after the government
00:21:03.400 instead of actually going after people who are in authority the whole point of journalism is to hold
00:21:08.040 power to account but we we is the common thing i say on this show and it's that this is just par for
00:21:14.120 the course there's nothing changing in the legacy media i would love it if there was a a carl bernstein
00:21:20.440 like type journalist that just emerged through one of these outlets because it would do good for canada
00:21:24.840 i want to see these outlets do good for canada but right now all they're doing is just the opposite
00:21:30.200 quickly i i want i want to touch on this ridiculous cbc article where they're basically saying that uh the
00:21:36.200 dutch protests uh that we see in in the netherlands the farmer protests in the netherlands that really
00:21:40.600 took off around the world these were fueled by conspiracy theories in canada so there was a cbc headline
00:21:46.440 that came out today uh it came up yesterday excuse me that said canada's convoy movement waved the
00:21:51.800 dutch flag then conspiracy theories swirled about fertilizer and bugs very bizarre article they're
00:21:58.120 basically trying to say rupa i i think here and correct me if i'm wrong the the statement here is
00:22:03.480 the because a lot of people who are involved in the freedom convoy sympathized with what was going
00:22:08.360 on in the netherlands which i think a lot of people rightly consider to be a sort of a uh the next
00:22:13.480 evolution of of protests that we saw start in ottawa because canadians who are sympathetic to the
00:22:18.680 ottawa protest and the dutch protest they're also conspiracy theorists or they're pushing conspiracy
00:22:24.600 theorists maybe it's just because they take issue with a real policy and the government is trying to
00:22:28.840 back them up i don't know what's going on here yeah this was a really bizarre story it was desperately
00:22:35.000 trying to um bring in misinformation and disinformation into this uh into the uh into some canadian support
00:22:45.960 for the farmers protest uh in the netherlands um it was a really bizarre story it was long and it was
00:22:52.200 just uh you know it made no sense to me uh but you know i was i was intrigued by a tweet that uh that the
00:22:58.600 cbc sent out uh to promote the story um and uh you know the language was very problematic uh um i don't
00:23:05.960 have the tweet with me but basically i felt this was a case study in propaganda that if you oppose
00:23:12.920 government policies they framed an opposition to government policies as uh as as uh as being uh anti-government
00:23:21.640 ideology um which is very problematic so just because you criticize the government um essentially
00:23:29.480 that means you're a far-right conspiracy theorist and uh you you're anti-government and it's anti-government
00:23:35.560 ideology uh it this is incredibly problematic and imagine for example if the legacy media in the u.s
00:23:43.480 during the civil rights movement for example and this was the example i sent out on my twitter feed
00:23:48.120 uh in my tweet in the 60s the civil rights movement was protesting unjust laws and uh and
00:23:54.200 and imagine if they were called anti-government ideology uh in fact there were people saying
00:23:59.560 that this was anti-government of ideology but guess who these people were these were southern white
00:24:04.120 supremacists right no exactly and that's that's kind of the shift we're seeing right i mean it's when
00:24:10.040 it's when this this this movement goes so far they've completely lost lost touch with reality and they
00:24:15.400 end up they end up sounding insane i mean the cbc sounds absolutely insane here i have the tweet
00:24:20.200 here as the canadian convoy movement embraced farmers protest in the netherlands far-right
00:24:25.000 outlets here took advantage to amplify anti-government ideology so excuse me it wasn't even just about
00:24:30.120 the protesters it was about the far-right outlets so they're attacking the media which are critical
00:24:35.480 of the government and and by proxy basically saying anyone who reads these outlets uh that's you
00:24:41.880 watching the show right now audience you the cbc thinks are are some sort of far-right conspiracy
00:24:47.480 theorist you pay for the cbc remember that this is what you pay for you pay for you pay for an outlet
00:24:53.160 to bash all of us constantly and do the government's bidding it's it's it again like this is the kind
00:24:59.320 of stuff we can laugh at the cbc and they always put out stuff to laugh at but then they do stuff
00:25:03.480 like this which is extremely dangerous and just absolutely ridiculous well we do we do try and end
00:25:08.680 the show on a lighter note and it's tough these days because it's just so ridiculous from the 0.90
00:25:12.280 legacy media they're always kind of gaslighting canadians trying to convince us all that we're
00:25:16.360 we're wild conspiracy theorists but we found something that i thought was was definitely
00:25:20.680 worthy of of mockery rupa the kind of thing that i think just shows you really what i don't even know
00:25:26.280 what to describe this as but wendy's the fast food chain decided that they really wanted to kind
00:25:32.280 of hop on the lisa laflam bandwagon and there's this there's this narrative going around about lisa laflam
00:25:37.720 lisa laflam's firing from ctv that actually it was because she was going gray that that's that's
00:25:43.160 sort of the narrative we're hearing and wendy's taking this literally without actually perhaps
00:25:47.240 thinking about the fact she was making a lot of money for doing a pretty bad job it turns out
00:25:51.960 taking this literally they went out and decided of all days yesterday which is a couple weeks past it
00:25:57.480 to change the wendy's logo on social media to give the wendy's girl gray hair wow wendy's rupa is 1.00
00:26:05.000 really standing in solidarity with lisa laflam there i just can't believe this well yeah i mean
00:26:10.520 it is it's just virtue signaling right um and um it's tokenism does it actually help lisa laflam at
00:26:18.360 the end of the day um you know i i don't know what what what exactly um is the goal behind this sort of
00:26:26.040 thing i often see this as uh tokenism but uh you know and i'm just quickly checking to see some of the
00:26:33.960 comments um and uh several people pointed out the fact that um you know if if if several people were
00:26:41.720 asking wendy's if they've removed their advertising from bell media exactly that's a great point that
00:26:47.800 would actually hold more weight uh you know in terms of making a difference but uh um but you know
00:26:54.920 i mean anybody can change their display picture and uh and virtue signaling and what's cheap uh talk is
00:27:00.680 cheap but um you know are they actually going to do something about this uh and uh and and here the
00:27:07.560 you know what people are asking is have you removed your advertising from bell media and that's a i
00:27:12.360 think that's a fair question um and uh yeah at the end of the day i you know i i certainly don't you
00:27:18.840 know think that this is this kind of thing does nothing at the end of the day it's just it's just it's
00:27:24.520 it's just weird cringe sort of classic classic corporate media attempts at trying to ride a
00:27:31.320 bandwagon and uh it's just very bizarre and i think i mean they have 13 000 likes so people i guess like
00:27:37.720 it but there's some good comments here and there's some good mockery on it too so what a way to wrap
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