Juno News - November 12, 2019


The Candice Malcolm Show： Don Cherry was fired by Sportsnet


Episode Stats

Length

10 minutes

Words per Minute

186.2166

Word Count

1,986

Sentence Count

162

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

Don Cherry has been fired from Hockey Night in Canada after his rant about people not wearing a poppy during his post-game broadcast on Saturday night. Don Cherry is no longer the head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs and has been replaced by Trevor Lindell.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Candice Malcom here. We are live. This is a special edition of the Candice Malcom show and I had to come on live. I have to talk about this crazy story that has just broken. According to Joe Wormington over at the Toronto Sun, Don Cherry has been fired.
00:00:23.680 And Don Cherry is finished, I guess, after what happened during the broadcast Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday night. And I'm sure you've seen it. Don Cherry went on one of his sort of typical standard rants that he goes on. And this time the source of what he was talking about were people not wearing a poppy.
00:00:46.040 So Don Cherry sort of goes off about people who aren't wearing the poppy. And, you know, Ron McLean is sitting there nodding along. He's making a lot of sense. Don Cherry just going off the way he does.
00:01:00.500 And suddenly, suddenly the left catches on. Social media goes crazy. And we see what we've seen so many times in Canada and the U.S. across the Western world, which is just a sort of absolute hysteria, like a moral panic from the left.
00:01:16.680 So it's all about who can virtue signal the loudest, who can jump up on a soapbox and condemn Don Cherry the loudest.
00:01:24.200 And unfortunately, this has led Sportsnet, who runs the show, apparently, to say enough is enough. Don Cherry is gone.
00:01:34.660 Here it is. Sportsnet confirms Don Cherry is immediately stepping down. He's immediately stepping down.
00:01:41.580 Why? Why? Well, basically, because a whole bunch of people on social media, people with bad intentions, people looking at this situation in bad faith, decided to talk about immigrants.
00:01:54.940 Now, maybe he was. Maybe he was specifically talking about immigrants and that irked him.
00:02:00.680 And so he said, look, it's Remembrance Day. When you come to Canada, you've got to wear the poppy.
00:02:05.280 Okay, this is Don Cherry in a nutshell. He's no nonsense. He's not politically correct.
00:02:09.800 I listened to the speech. I listened to the segment over and over again because it really didn't dawn on me at first that he was actually talking about immigrants.
00:02:18.800 I had one of the writers at True North write up a transcript of what he says. I'm going to read it because, again, he's literally talking about people in downtown Toronto who are not wearing a poppy.
00:02:28.080 So he says, he says, I live in Mississauga. I was talking to a veteran. I said, I'm not going to run the poppy thing anymore because what's the sense?
00:02:35.960 I live in Mississauga. Nobody wears them. Very few people wear poppies.
00:02:40.140 Downtown Toronto, forget it. Downtown Toronto, no one wears a poppy.
00:02:44.040 And I'm not going to waste my time. He says, wait a minute. How about running it for the people who buy them?
00:02:50.240 Now, you go to the small cities. You people love. They come here. Whatever. Whatever it is.
00:02:57.860 They love our way of life. You love our milk and honey.
00:03:00.160 At least you can pay a couple bucks for a poppy or something like that.
00:03:04.600 OK, fine. Maybe he's talking about immigrants. Maybe he's talking about people who are in downtown Toronto.
00:03:09.420 Like when I first read it, I honestly thought, you know, he's talking about downtown Toronto.
00:03:13.820 He's talking about people who don't show their appreciation for the veterans. It's Remembrance Day.
00:03:18.360 OK. And let me just say, you know, I've been watching Don Cherry since I was a little kid.
00:03:23.200 I was never a huge, huge Don Cherry fan, mostly because I'm a Vancouver Canuck fan.
00:03:27.540 And I always thought he was super biased towards the Toronto Maple Leafs.
00:03:30.280 I didn't like the Maple Leafs growing up.
00:03:32.040 Regardless, Don Cherry is an institution in Canada. He is a cherished icon.
00:03:36.700 He's a national hero. And he says it like it is.
00:03:39.180 And you get what you see with him. That's exactly what you expect.
00:03:42.060 You don't expect him to be cowering to leftist, political correct sources.
00:03:47.200 So he said it like it was. Not enough people wear a poppy. I completely agree.
00:03:50.920 I'm in Toronto walking down the streets. It's kind of sad that people aren't wearing a poppy.
00:03:55.040 When I think about the sacrifices that people make, when I think about my own ancestors,
00:03:58.800 I have a great-grandfather who was killed.
00:04:01.540 He was actually killed in the First World War by a sniper in Belgium.
00:04:08.080 And part of the story of Flanders Field is after this gruesome battle, the poppies grew in this field.
00:04:14.620 That was actually one of the fields where my great-grandfather was killed.
00:04:18.620 So I have a special connection to that story.
00:04:21.340 But still, all Canadians, regardless of whether or not it was your ancestors that were fighting for Canada
00:04:26.180 and fighting for freedom, this is the one day a year where we stop and we show our support
00:04:30.900 for people who have made sacrifices so that we can have a free society
00:04:34.560 and so that we can live these free lives. And okay, fine, Don Cherry's not the most eloquent speaker.
00:04:39.920 Maybe he was talking about young people who don't pay enough respect to the troops
00:04:45.620 or don't pay enough attention to how we became free in our society.
00:04:49.260 Maybe he was talking about newcomers.
00:04:50.800 Regardless, he made a point that was more people should support the veterans,
00:04:55.360 more people should support the troops.
00:04:56.840 And really, that's innocuous.
00:04:58.060 That's something that all Canadians should rally behind.
00:05:00.820 But instead, we have this outrage culture, this moral panic that happens where the cancel culture bullies
00:05:06.200 essentially say, no, no, no, we've identified someone who thinks differently than we do,
00:05:11.420 who has a different way of thinking and who says something that you can be offended by.
00:05:17.180 And so instead of being kind or taking the good message from what Don Cherry said,
00:05:24.300 they find the most malicious way to take that message.
00:05:27.300 They find the most malicious message from that, which is Don Cherry is a bigot.
00:05:32.480 Don Cherry is racist.
00:05:33.520 He must hate immigrants because let's misconscue what he was saying,
00:05:37.180 misconscue what he was saying to make it seem like he was talking about all immigrants.
00:05:41.240 And that was the reaction.
00:05:42.240 The reaction that we saw online through the mainstream media,
00:05:45.620 through all of these virtue signaling blowhards, as far as I'm concerned,
00:05:49.960 who are just, you know, taking the moment in order to make themselves feel better.
00:05:54.160 They really took what Don Cherry was saying out of context.
00:05:58.180 They took what he was saying out of context to pull the worst possible meaning,
00:06:01.720 which was that he was anti-immigrant and that he was specifically,
00:06:04.600 when he said, you know, you people, why aren't you wearing the poppy,
00:06:07.720 that he was talking about immigrants and not just immigrants, apparently.
00:06:11.500 Some people took it even further that he was talking about people who don't have white skin,
00:06:15.380 that he was just talking to everyone in Canada who doesn't have white skin.
00:06:19.480 And so, you know, you see, you see this, you know, it's the CBC.
00:06:24.040 The notion that Canada's veterans were all white is dangerously wrong
00:06:27.480 and an insult to thousands, says Peter Mansbridge.
00:06:30.680 What do you mean the notion that Canada's veterans were all white?
00:06:34.200 Who said that other than the CBC and other than Peter Mansbridge?
00:06:37.560 Literally, they're just replying to themselves or making up a narrative of what happened
00:06:41.760 and then replying to that instead of looking at, you know, what actually happened and replying to that.
00:06:47.820 So Peter Mansbridge has this op-ed that's supposedly refuting Don Cherry.
00:06:54.760 Look, it's Remembrance Day.
00:06:56.620 Today is the day that we should be focusing on the people who have made the ultimate sacrifice
00:07:00.740 to provide us with a free society.
00:07:03.480 And instead, we see a cherished national icon be removed from his position
00:07:10.200 because of basically a mob, the outrage mob that you see online.
00:07:14.820 It's sad. It's pathetic.
00:07:17.120 And, you know, I think that Don Cherry deserves better by Canadians.
00:07:21.040 I think Canadians deserve better by their own mainstream media
00:07:24.620 and the sort of elitist crew in downtown Toronto who makes the rules
00:07:28.960 and believes that literally we all have to think the same.
00:07:31.320 We all have to have the exact same opinion.
00:07:32.660 We all have to think exactly the same.
00:07:34.960 No one can raise any difference of opinion.
00:07:38.880 It isn't really about what Don Cherry said.
00:07:41.060 It was the reaction.
00:07:42.340 It was just so over the top.
00:07:44.140 And to see, you know, you have a CTV article,
00:07:47.360 what people think about Don Cherry and his comments
00:07:50.420 is scolding immigrants who don't wear poppies.
00:07:54.640 Again, you know, they find the biggest virtue signals on social media
00:08:01.060 to pretend that all Canadians are somehow united against Don Cherry.
00:08:05.400 And somehow that Don Cherry said something wrong.
00:08:08.040 Well, again, I've watched the video over and over again.
00:08:11.120 I will say when Don Cherry speaks, I'm not always 100% sure what he's saying.
00:08:16.140 He's a little bit incoherent.
00:08:17.460 He rambles.
00:08:18.700 And so you kind of have to just, you know, pull what you can from what he's saying.
00:08:24.640 And you have to assume that his heart's in the good place.
00:08:27.060 I do anyway.
00:08:27.840 I've been watching the guy on TV for two decades.
00:08:31.180 And you have to assume that his heart's in the right place.
00:08:34.000 If you don't, like most of the mainstream media apparently
00:08:36.620 and all the people who have demanded that he's been fired,
00:08:38.500 they assume that his heart's in the bad place.
00:08:40.540 Well, that's their bad faith interpretation.
00:08:43.280 And I think Don Cherry is a good guy.
00:08:45.500 And instead of just assuming that what he said was wrong,
00:08:48.500 you should let him explain it for himself.
00:08:50.860 Again, read the transcript of what he said.
00:08:52.500 Go watch it again.
00:08:53.700 It isn't entirely clear what he's talking about.
00:08:56.600 And even if he was talking about immigrants, fine,
00:09:00.320 that might be a little bit politically incorrect,
00:09:02.160 but I think it's still fair comment to say,
00:09:04.280 hey, if you come to Canada one day a year, show your respect, wear a poppy,
00:09:09.700 realize that, you know, we live in an incredibly wonderful free society
00:09:13.060 because of the sacrifices that so many before us have made.
00:09:17.680 That's not an anti-immigrant comment.
00:09:19.900 That's not a racist comment.
00:09:21.260 That's not saying that all veterans are white,
00:09:23.760 as Peter Mansbridge apparently thinks that that's what Don Cherry was saying.
00:09:28.280 And again, if we're going to live in a society together,
00:09:30.700 we shouldn't invent what the other side is saying.
00:09:33.620 We should look at these things in good faith.
00:09:35.700 I'm going to leave it at that.
00:09:36.920 I'm super disappointed in my country today.
00:09:39.300 I think the state of free speech in Canada is at a pretty low point.
00:09:43.340 All the more reason why we need independent journalism.
00:09:46.220 We have a petition over at truenorthtnc.news.
00:09:50.540 Go sign it.
00:09:51.300 I support Don Cherry.
00:09:53.180 We're going to do something for Don Cherry.
00:09:56.140 I feel awful the fact that he's been fired,
00:09:57.840 and especially on Remembrance Day.
00:09:59.660 I think that, you know, we should do something for Don.
00:10:02.760 Maybe we can get him to do an interview.
00:10:04.220 Maybe we can get him on True North.
00:10:05.780 Maybe we can hold some kind of a rally in support of Don Cherry.
00:10:09.960 If you have any ideas, any suggestions,
00:10:12.900 just leave a message, leave a comment.
00:10:14.380 What do you think we should do for Don Cherry
00:10:16.040 to show him that so many Canadians support him
00:10:18.960 and are behind him right now?
00:10:20.280 And, again, we should be focused today on the veterans
00:10:23.880 who sacrificed for freedom,
00:10:25.920 not on this cancel culture, politically correct mob
00:10:29.040 that's going after Don Cherry.
00:10:30.780 All right, guys, leave it at that.
00:10:32.480 Thanks so much for tuning in.
00:10:33.720 Don't forget to share this video,
00:10:35.380 and head on over to tnc.news to sign that petition.
00:10:38.820 Thank you.
00:10:39.840 Thank you.