Juno News - December 31, 2022


Poilievre Derangement Syndrome ran wild in 2022

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Polyev derangement syndrome
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Pierre Poilievre Justin Trudeau Andrew Jeremy McKenzie Jordan Peterson Rachel Gilmore David Akin Harrison Trump Baird
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Pierre-Olivier Polyev Derangement Syndrome is a term coined by the media to describe the phenomenon of fake news in Canada. It's a term that has been used to describe a whole bunch of things, but the best way to describe it is to say it's a malapropism. In this episode, we take a deep dive into the list of the top 10 worst fake news stories of the past year.

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00:00:00.000 And this brings us to the top three.
00:00:03.200 Now, these are some of the heavy hitters.
00:00:04.820 And remember, I go back to the beginning.
00:00:06.440 This was a list that was compiled by you, True North insiders,
00:00:09.900 who had the chance to vote and get your favorite fake news stories of 2022 up to the top.
00:00:15.740 And we are now in the final three.
00:00:18.160 And we've got some heavier content here.
00:00:19.980 But number three is a bit interesting because this is more of a general category.
00:00:24.480 Because if we were to break down every individual story in this category,
00:00:28.280 I think it would probably be the entire list here,
00:00:30.860 as evidenced by the fact that it did make it to the top three.
00:00:34.300 But what do we have in third place, Harrison?
00:00:36.280 We have Polyev derangement syndrome.
00:00:39.180 And of course, it had to be on this list.
00:00:41.280 I mean, what a great year of journalists just completely melting down,
00:00:46.520 embracing their own little CNN, MSNBC reaction to Trump
00:00:50.500 for their own opportunity to kind of turn that into their own reaction to Polyev.
00:00:56.180 So they broke out the Polyev derangement syndrome.
00:00:59.480 And I mean, again, like I said, we could have a whole top 10 list of best examples of this.
00:01:03.660 But why don't we just go through the list?
00:01:05.240 I mean, we had op-eds and columns in the Globe and Mail
00:01:08.280 talking about the dangerous rage, Andrew, from Polyev's leadership campaign,
00:01:13.220 the dangerous rage Polyev is channeling.
00:01:16.200 Or as another Globe and Mail op-ed wrote, the corrosive campaign.
00:01:21.080 I mean, truly breaking out the, going in with all the synonyms
00:01:25.260 for how you can try and write, you know, bad, right?
00:01:28.160 They're trying to take Orange Man bad and turn it into Pierre Polyev.
00:01:31.880 They did their absolute best.
00:01:33.580 So we had dangerous rage.
00:01:34.940 We had corrosive campaign, two Globe and Mail op-ed headlines, embarrassing stuff.
00:01:39.120 But then also we had what I thought was the best example of Polyev derangement syndrome
00:01:42.860 was when Global News, Rachel Gilmore was a journalist,
00:01:46.760 when they took the picture, the handshake between Jeremy McKenzie and Pierre Polyev,
00:01:53.460 and they took it as some sort of grand endorsement of the far right,
00:01:57.340 the radical far right, because someone in the Diagalon, the meme country, by the way,
00:02:02.720 took a picture with Pierre Polyev, who unknowingly took the picture with him.
00:02:07.220 And then that was basically the news cycle for a whole week.
00:02:10.200 So there was that, there was the handshake.
00:02:12.680 There was also the meltdown of the Anglo-Saxon language, Andrew.
00:02:15.400 I mean, where do you start?
00:02:16.300 It's just a whole, a whole collection of, of, of fake news examples
00:02:21.420 that really deserve their entire show unto themselves.
00:02:25.540 Yeah.
00:02:26.100 And when, when Pierre Polyev used the term Anglo-Saxon words,
00:02:29.300 what he was talking about was that we need to use,
00:02:31.980 politicians and governments need to use simple,
00:02:34.520 clear language in legislation and in general,
00:02:37.580 so the Canadians know what's being discussed.
00:02:39.340 So the fact that that was taken,
00:02:41.280 plucked out of like a 90 minute interview with Jordan Peterson
00:02:44.240 and held up as something offensive is absurd.
00:02:46.920 I think my favorite is the MGTOW controversy, 0.91
00:02:53.060 which was like this hidden meta tag that was in YouTube videos
00:02:57.240 that apparently were, got there and no one knows.
00:03:00.780 And this was a dog whistle to the far right or to the incels or whatever.
00:03:04.720 And the hilarious thing was Global did a report about this.
00:03:07.400 And in the hashtags, they included the hashtag MGTOW,
00:03:12.000 which was the exact hashtag that they were taking aim at Pierre Polyev for.
00:03:16.220 And again, it's, it's really this perspective of,
00:03:19.820 if you are looking for something, you will find it.
00:03:23.180 And the media already decided this guy's far right.
00:03:25.860 So every step he took, especially early on,
00:03:28.600 they had to filter through that.
00:03:29.980 But I think the best one might be this one from Pierre Polyev's first media briefing
00:03:36.160 as leader of the Conservatives.
00:03:38.320 Justin Trudeau is out of touch and Canadians are out of money.
00:04:08.320 The cost of government is driving up the cost of living.
00:04:13.160 A half a trillion dollars of inflationary deficits
00:04:16.960 have bid up the cost of the goods we buy
00:04:20.600 and the interest that Canadians pay.
00:04:24.320 The cost for workers and businesses to produce the goods that we buy.
00:04:29.720 On top of that, Trudeau proposes yet more spending
00:04:33.040 to bid up costs even further.
00:04:35.060 The more things, the more he spends, the more things cost.
00:04:40.520 It is just inflation.
00:04:42.740 Their homes and to buy a home in the very first place.
00:04:46.600 I'll put my hand down.
00:04:47.200 The reason that, look.
00:04:49.840 That's the question.
00:04:50.500 Is that the report?
00:04:51.340 So, I mean, we have, we have basically a liberal heckler
00:04:56.580 who snuck in here today.
00:04:57.860 I'm a liberal heckler.
00:04:59.060 I work for Global News.
00:05:01.520 I'm the chief political correspondent for that organization.
00:05:03.520 Are you going to let me make my statement?
00:05:04.620 You may remember me from the guy who actually reported first
00:05:06.960 on the Prime Minister breaking the law.
00:05:08.920 Are you going to let me make my statement?
00:05:09.380 We'd just like to ask a question.
00:05:11.080 Say, yes, I'll go take a question.
00:05:11.480 I've never, I've actually never seen you heckling the Prime Minister.
00:05:15.020 I've done it before.
00:05:15.200 Ask Minister Baird back in the day.
00:05:16.700 I've never seen you heckling the Prime Minister.
00:05:17.240 Look, bottom line is this.
00:05:18.320 I'm going to take some questions at the end of this statement.
00:05:20.240 Yes, I'm taking, I'll be taking two questions at the very end.
00:05:22.580 Thank you very much.
00:05:23.240 Thank you very much.
00:05:24.000 The, uh, so I'm going to start my statement again.
00:05:26.600 Yeah, he wasn't going to take questions.
00:05:28.480 Then he said he would take some questions.
00:05:29.920 And then one journalist, David Akin, decided to use his question
00:05:32.940 to demand more questions.
00:05:34.820 And as a result, just proved exactly why
00:05:38.220 Pierre Polyev might not have had the most friendly relationship
00:05:42.060 with journalists.