Juno News - The legacy media desperately wants the trucker convoy to be Canada’s January 6th

00:00:00.000 The legacy media want nothing more than the trucker convoy to become

00:00:03.480 Canada's January 6th. It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:13.100 Everyone, thank you so much for joining the podcast and so we have seen something so predictable

00:00:17.340 in the media this week. We have been hit over the head with this. The media are going into

00:00:21.740 overtime, they're going into overdrive, trying to misrepresent this Freedom Convoy, doing everything

00:00:27.060 they can to, you guessed it, painted as racist, sexist, angry and extremist even though we can

00:00:34.360 see with our own eyes that it's not. We can see the Freedom Convoy putting out their positive messages,

00:00:39.220 their inspiring messages, watching those Canadians line the freeways despite all the elements. It is

00:00:44.200 freezing, it is full of snow, it is icy, it is windy. No one wants to be on the side of a freeway but

00:00:49.920 instead we see families, we see people come out, people from all walks of life waving the beautiful

00:00:55.940 maple leaf flag. I mean there's nothing better than seeing that and seeing those truckers go by. It is

00:01:00.380 so inspiring, so uplifting, so positive, so counter to the message that the legacy media is trying to

00:01:06.520 portray and we're going to go through some of those examples and joining me is True North producer and

00:01:11.420 journalist Harrison Faulkner. Harrison, thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks for having me

00:01:15.760 Candice and after watching this convoy roll through Canada and grow and unify the country and reading

00:01:22.280 some of these horrible, horrible takes by the legacy media. I've been looking forward to the show

00:01:26.460 all week so let's get into it. Yeah, absolutely and again it's just such a contrast because anyone

00:01:31.980 paying attention knows that this convoy is positive. It's really just filled with happiness and hope

00:01:38.420 about the future of our country and again to juxtapose that with some of these that we're going to go

00:01:43.180 through is just laughable. So here we go, global news. This one we saw coming from the first moment I

00:01:48.400 heard about the freedom convoy. We saw this with United We Will Harrison where you know anytime you

00:01:53.640 have sort of working-class people you look the the honest thing that happens is people go online

00:01:58.800 and sometimes they write stupid things. They blow off steam, they write negative things and what the

00:02:02.460 media does is they'll try to find like one example of that and then paint the entire movement in a

00:02:06.600 negative light and so we see this here this global news story. Far-right groups hope that the

00:02:11.140 trucker protests will become Canada's January 6th. So according to the very professional journalists

00:02:17.400 over at Global News, Canadian far-right and white nationalist groups see the so-called freedom

00:02:22.960 convoy as an opportunity with some hoping the protests will become Canada's version of last

00:02:27.660 year's January 6th. Just my quick take here Harrison is that January 6th was a disaster for everyone. I

00:02:32.720 don't think that there's a single person who thinks that it was good okay. The very very small fringe

00:02:37.320 number of lunatics who you know promoted it and had some weird idea that they were somehow going to stop

00:02:42.760 Joe Biden from becoming president. Those people were delusional and they failed right. They

00:02:47.040 failed at anything that they tried. They didn't stop anything. Instead they became sort of a laughing

00:02:52.040 stock of the country and a punching bag that the media and the Democrats and the left could use to

00:02:57.120 try to paint the entire conservative movement as French. So it was a failure for the few French 0.99

00:03:01.680 people who did it. It was a major failure for conservatives because it was embarrassing and it was

00:03:06.980 just stupid and for the media and the country I mean it gives them this opportunity but I can't imagine

00:03:12.380 anyone in the world saying wow January 6th how inspiring. Let's try to do that in Canada and then and then and then

00:03:18.380 the examples that they use in this piece are so far flung. It's like they don't really name any okay I'll just say

00:03:24.380 first off I don't know that that there's a big movement in Canada of the far right and the white nationalists. I don't

00:03:29.380 know any I don't I've never met any. I think maybe there's a couple guys online but I don't know them and if they exist,

00:03:35.380 if they exist obviously nobody nobody likes that nobody supports it nobody wants anything to do with

00:03:40.380 that especially on the conservative right side of the political spectrum. They don't really exist but the media

00:03:45.380 love to fixate on them and pretend that they're this big deal. So so right off the top it says

00:03:49.380 Canadian far-right and white nationalist groups plural as if there's just like this whole like

00:03:54.380 like in like ecosystem of far-right white nationalist groups and then and then of course the story

00:04:00.380 fails to name any of these groups they just have a bunch of anonymous quotes online of just people

00:04:04.380 again kind of like sitting behind their computer writing stupid things anonymously because they're not tied to anything.

00:04:10.380 So we have no evidence in this piece. It's just really just a huge drive-by smear to try to intimidate people

00:04:16.380 to stay away from the freedom convoy to not think this is a righteous movement and basically just to scare

00:04:23.380 people away from it. What's your what's your thoughts Harrison?

00:04:25.380 Well, I mean we as you said Candice we could see this coming from miles away that the legacy media were going to roll out these

00:04:31.380 articles and try and paint this protest this great peaceful unifying protest as something that it isn't.

00:04:37.380 You know at the beginning of the article one thing that jumped out to me was that the writers described the protest

00:04:43.380 as hundreds of truckers. Now I think the the journalists at global news should look at some of the footage

00:04:49.380 and break out the abacus and go back to counting because I think they'd quickly realize this is not hundreds this is thousands

00:04:55.380 and it's going to be it's going to be huge it keeps growing and on Saturday they're going to realize that

00:05:01.380 their number was quite well off now.

00:05:03.380 Well, we'll just just just to jump in on that Harrison. I read that that the convoy was 70 kilometers

00:05:09.380 at one point that it that it potentially set a Guinness Book of World Record, right?

00:05:13.380 So we're talking about thousands, if not tens of thousands, if not, you know, 50,000 trucks.

00:05:20.380 And and of course, it's such a good point that you make the media try to just say a couple hundred not

00:05:25.380 not a big deal. Yeah, like it's just some sort of small group of a group of rogue truckers on their

00:05:30.380 way to Ottawa for for a weekend. I don't I don't think so. And you know, as you said, Candice, this article

00:05:36.380 quotes anonymous and unattributed statements from supporters of the convoy labeling them only as users

00:05:42.380 and supporters on social media, never giving us a name, never giving us an actual quote or a source

00:05:48.380 or a hyperlink. They're just unattributed statements. And here's another thing that I really just I really

00:05:54.380 can't fathom about this article. They they only quote the organizers of the rally, the organizers who

00:06:01.380 distance themselves, of course, from the most radical statements made about this ones that are apparently

00:06:07.380 unattributed and unsourced. They only quote the organizers 14 paragraphs into the story, knowing

00:06:13.380 full well the majority of readers will never get that far into the article. And all they will come

00:06:18.380 away from thinking of all they will come away from the article is is thinking that this this protest is

00:06:23.380 some sort of January 6th, Ottawa edition. Now, if this isn't carrying water for the liberal

00:06:27.380 government, I don't know what is Candice. Well, that's that's what they do best, Harrison. And I just want to

00:06:33.380 look, I think it's really stupid to go online and write things like no one should ever go online

00:06:38.380 anonymously and incite violence or say anything about violence that's wrong. And we have a problem in our

00:06:43.380 country with the discourse right now. There's a lot of anger out there. I've seen it compounding over the

00:06:48.380 course of the pandemic, where people are getting angrier and angrier. I mentioned this before, but I

00:06:53.380 deleted all of my social media apps off my phone over Christmas, some of them I brought back because I'm

00:06:58.380 in the swing of things. But I personally don't even like social media anymore because it's just such a

00:07:02.380 negative, hostile space. And you kind of don't really gain as much as you used to. I used to think

00:07:07.380 it was fun to go on there. The problem with really nasty rhetoric, though, is not exclusively a problem

00:07:13.380 of the right. In fact, you could see it just the same on both sides. And so there's a great piece over

00:07:18.380 at TNC, our colleague, Cosmin Xerja, who went into the they created this anti this anti trucker convoy

00:07:27.380 hashtag called the flu trucks clan, I guess, play on the KKK. I told you, I thought it was amusing 1.00

00:07:34.380 because they call it the flu. And usually people on the left get mad if you equate COVID to the flu. But

00:07:39.380 I digress. So anyway, Cosmin went through this hashtag found how many bots were pushing out things,

00:07:45.380 how many retweets there were. But he also noted the really despicable language that Canadians are 1.00

00:07:51.380 using against each other. And so, you know, there was there was threats of violence from the left

00:07:56.380 coming towards the truckers. There were words like vernon, plague, rats, dirty, white trash. You know, 1.00

00:08:03.380 these are the kind of dehumanizing, abhorrent statements that we weren't against when we saw them

00:08:08.380 in history, when we saw them in used by totalitarian governments of the 20th century. And so we see them here

00:08:14.380 on the left. And yet, funny, funny, Harrison, how the media pays no attention to the fringe left,

00:08:19.380 they pay no attention to the angry, violent rhetoric online coming from the left. Instead,

00:08:25.380 they focus all of their attention on one or two crazy comments that they found online and try to use it

00:08:30.380 to attribute and discredit an entire movement. I don't think it's working. I think it's failing.

00:08:35.380 I think Canadians are seeing through it, but still just so pathetic and so transparent to see them put it 1.00

00:08:40.380 out there like this. Yeah. And what more can you say? The prime minister on Wednesday

00:08:45.380 said that these truckers were a small fringe minority and they hold unacceptable views. So

00:08:50.380 the rhetoric coming from the radical left is being is being emphasized by the leader of the country.

00:08:57.380 So until such time as these legacy media journalists call it out, then all we know is that this is a one

00:09:05.380 this is a one way street. Those on the right, those who are a part of a unifying, peaceful protest

00:09:11.380 are going to always be demonized. And as you said, Candace, the rhetoric on both sides is is really

00:09:16.380 concerning, but it needs to be called out just as much as the rhetoric on the left needs to be called

00:09:22.380 out just as much as it's called it on the right.

00:09:24.380 Well, and that's so true. And great MP Pierre Polyev made this point walking into the House of

00:09:30.380 Commons. Of course, one of these journalists is parroting the same thing. Oh, aren't you worried

00:09:33.380 about the extreme rhetoric? And he basically just put put this journalist in their place saying,

00:09:38.380 hey, how come you are never digging up this rhetoric coming from left-wing people and trying

00:09:42.380 to use it to smear the whole side? Oh, right. Because that's not what we do in Canada. You know,

00:09:45.380 don't try to take some fringe comment and apply it to the whole group. Well, good. Good for Pierre for

00:09:50.380 saying that there are so many examples this week, Harrison, of these kind of stories. We just saw

00:09:55.380 them over and over and over again. The media are pumping these out as if they're being paid to do

00:09:59.380 it. Oh, maybe they are. Here's CTV saying so many angry people. Experts say online conversation

00:10:06.380 around trucker convoy veering into dangerous territory. So I don't know how this is a news

00:10:11.380 story. It's basically an op-ed where they found some experts who share their exact same

00:10:16.380 laughing opinions to basically just say the same thing. This is dangerous. They're in dangerous

00:10:19.380 territory. These people are extreme. These people are fringe. And you know, this is why

00:10:24.380 we shouldn't take this movement seriously. What did you think of this piece here, Harrison?

00:10:28.380 Well, CTV has fallen so far. It's kind of sad to watch, really. Since when are journalists

00:10:33.380 from these radical left-wing outlets like anti-racist Canada and anti-hate Canada considered experts

00:10:40.380 at anything? You know, at least sometimes the CBC or Globe and Mail will actually quote a national

00:10:45.380 security expert or a professor. But I guess now we're just going to take the opinion of a writer,

00:10:51.380 a no-name writer at that from anti-racist Canada to give us their opinion on this trucker convoy.

00:10:57.380 You know, this is below scraping the bottom of the barrel. This is activist journalism with malicious

00:11:02.380 intent to demonize and destroy what is a truly unifying movement. So this is just obviously designed

00:11:08.380 to scare people away from the convoy, to make people stay home and avoid criticizing the government.

00:11:14.380 You know, as Western countries and our allies are dropping their COVID restrictions,

00:11:18.380 Canada seems to be ramping up the rhetoric, tightening the restrictions. And obviously the press

00:11:24.380 is just doing the dirty work for them. And it's just, it's disappointing to see. And you'd like to see

00:11:28.380 more from some of these, some of these outlets like CTV, but I guess that's what we should come to expect.

00:11:33.380 Yeah, you're so right. Sometimes people counter like any criticism of the CBC saying,

00:11:38.380 Oh, we, you know, we have one public and one private kind of suggesting that maybe the private sector one

00:11:43.380 is like more reasonable or, you know, more because they have like a money incentive,

00:11:47.380 they're going to deliver something that's more palatable to Canadians. Then you see stuff like this.

00:11:51.380 And it's like what the anti-hate network is a fringe, like website, basically, like no one reads it,

00:11:57.380 no one pays attention to it. They sit in their basements, you know, dreaming up like fever dreams,

00:12:02.380 like fever dreams about the conservatives trying to paint them as extremists.

00:12:06.380 No one even pays attention to them. And yet somehow they're given credibility in this story.

00:12:10.380 Now, this is the worst one that I've seen Harrison because it's just so insulting and so beyond the pale.

00:12:15.380 This is from Parliament Today, which you've probably never heard of. It's basically a newsletter,

00:12:19.380 but it's one of those things that's done by journalists and read by journalists.

00:12:22.380 And it really promotes a sort of insular groupthink that we see in the legacy media.

00:12:27.380 So this is, this is what the report said, potentially a big problem for anyone who's donated.

00:12:32.380 Okay. So this outlet has a quote of the day. The quote of the day comes from a national security expert.

00:12:37.380 You've probably never heard of someone called Jessica Davis, who warns that anyone who has donated to the GoFundMe page,

00:12:43.380 the GoFundMe campaign, I think it's raised almost $5 million at this point.

00:12:47.380 Tens of thousands of people have reached into their pockets. God bless them and given it to these truckers

00:12:52.380 just to make it a little easier for the truckers, allowing them to pay for their fuel, pay for their windshield wiper fluid,

00:12:58.380 pay for them to have some food and a comfortable place to stay along the way.

00:13:02.380 And, and what this so-called national security expert is saying that if you have donated,

00:13:08.380 you should be careful because it could go against the criminal code for funding terrorism.

00:13:14.380 Yes, terrorism. They are equating blue collar workers who are protesting peacefully against government overreach

00:13:21.380 by exercising their God given rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association,

00:13:27.380 and freedom to peacefully protest. And they are saying that they are terrorists.

00:13:32.380 This is, this is so beyond the pale. So absurd. It's like we are living in a bizarro world.

00:13:36.380 This is such a farce. And yet with a straight face here, she says that you may be found guilty under the criminal code

00:13:43.380 as directly or indirectly providing financial services intended for those who are carrying out a terrorist activity

00:13:49.380 or to benefit such a group. What an absolute insult.

00:13:52.380 We've gone so far as a country where we have these college educated elites, these government bureaucrats,

00:13:58.380 sitting at home, working from home in their pajamas, comfortably making a living, not struggling at all,

00:14:03.380 and sitting there calling the frontline workers, the people who are so essential to our supply chain,

00:14:08.380 the people who are delivering, who are putting their own lives at risk, going on icy freeways,

00:14:13.380 going out there in the midst of a pandemic, putting everything at risk to make sure that everybody gets their food,

00:14:19.380 that they would get their supplies to make sure our society runs as it should and our economy keeps moving.

00:14:24.380 And here, these elitist losers are sitting there looking down their nose and calling blue-collar workers terrorists.

00:14:30.380 This is one of the absolute worst things I've ever seen in my entire life watching Canadian politics, Harrison.

00:14:34.380 Yeah, I mean, if you ever needed an example of what sheer panic looks like from the establishment, this is what it is.

00:14:40.380 Vocal support is one thing, but when the grassroots put their money where their mouth is and they get behind something financially,

00:14:47.380 and it's been so successful, I just checked, Candice, that GoFundMe has over $6 million donated.

00:14:53.380 So this is clearly posing a serious threat to the establishment here, and they're trying to pull out all the stops they can to get people to stop donating money.

00:15:02.380 We could spend hours talking about how dangerous this rhetoric is, about how really unbelievable it is for journalists and experts to say these sorts of things,

00:15:12.380 but all you can really do is laugh because the movement is far beyond just one national security expert criticizing it.

00:15:19.380 They can't stop this. People are fully behind it, and they're unified behind it.

00:15:23.380 Now, I would love to know where these experts were when we had protesters blockading our railways and blocking critical infrastructure because of pipeline protests.

00:15:34.380 Did anyone call out the fact that those who funded those protests could be also found guilty under the criminal code for financing domestic terrorism?

00:15:43.380 Like I said before, it's a one-way street for those on the right, and the legacy media is just so focused on doing their best to get Canadians to stop donating.

00:15:53.380 Here's a message to Canadians. Stay the course and see through these blatant attempts to slow you down because everyone here who's a part of this protest is making a difference.

00:16:02.380 This story has made it across around the world, and it's really, as I say, it's unified the country together on a very positive note.

00:16:11.380 And I just think, as you said, this is just disgusting and it's totally, totally dangerous.

00:16:16.380 Well, and you're so right about the gaslighting element, Harrison, because we have, they're basically preemptively spinning for violence.

00:16:24.380 They're trying to say, this will probably be violent, this is going to be violent, and something that's completely peaceful, completely justified, completely harmonious, and like you say, unifying the country.

00:16:35.380 They're trying to paint that as something nefarious.

00:16:37.380 Meanwhile, what have we seen over the last two years?

00:16:40.380 We've seen looting and rioting at Black Lives Matter protests.

00:16:43.380 And what do the media say?

00:16:44.380 They say, no, this is peaceful, this is nothing to see here.

00:16:47.380 These fiery protests are mostly peaceful, right?

00:16:49.380 We saw the Cancel Canada Day movement, where they were violently destroying public property, including the property that belongs to all of us, like Queen Victoria statues, Queen Elizabeth statues, John A. McDonald statues.

00:17:02.380 They're destroying our country's infrastructure and the democratic symbols that we have.

00:17:06.380 Nothing to see here, hardly any coverage.

00:17:09.380 Instead, we have people like Gerald Butts saying that it's justified.

00:17:12.380 It is justified to burn down churches and sacred places of worship.

00:17:15.380 So we see legitimate violence on the left, Harrison, and the media hand wave and say nothing to see here, say it's legitimate, and say it's fine.

00:17:22.380 And then on the counter, we have peaceful people doing something amazing, and the media is doing the exact opposite.

00:17:28.380 This is gaslighting to the extreme.

00:17:30.380 And I think that the good news about all of this, and maybe we can end this show on a bit of a good news note, Harrison, is that Canadians are seeing through this.

00:17:36.380 The legacy media is not having the impact that they want.

00:17:39.380 They're not successfully scaring people away from this movement.

00:17:42.380 The movement is growing.

00:17:43.380 People can see for themselves.

00:17:44.380 They can see on social media.

00:17:45.380 They don't need to go through the intermediaries in the legacy media.

00:17:48.380 The legacy media has lost its power.

00:17:50.380 Justin Trudeau has lost his power because he can sit there and say that these people are unjustified, but it's not true.

00:17:56.380 We all know that.

00:17:57.380 We all know that the vaccine mandates are unjustified because vaccines do not stop the spread of COVID, and that was the original point.

00:18:03.380 We all know that's true at this point.

00:18:05.380 So Justin Trudeau has lost his credibility.

00:18:07.380 The legacy media have lost their credibility.

00:18:09.380 They are irrelevant at this point.

00:18:11.380 And instead, we see these truckers, these hardworking men and women who, again, sacrifice themselves and do so much for our country.

00:18:20.380 They are the moral leaders of our country right now.

00:18:22.380 They're the people who everyone is uniting behind, raising, like you said, over $6 million.

00:18:27.380 It's so incredible.

00:18:28.380 And it's just so great to see.

00:18:29.380 And that is why TrueNorth is going to continue to do wall-to-wall coverage all weekend.

00:18:33.380 Don't miss it, folks.

00:18:34.380 Tune in.

00:18:35.380 TNC.News.

00:18:36.380 Follow us on social media.

00:18:37.380 We will be here every step of the way.

00:18:38.380 And we're just so happy, so proud to see Canadians finally doing what we should have done two years ago.

00:18:43.380 It's so inspiring to see.

00:18:45.380 And I couldn't be happier.

00:18:46.380 So Harrison, thank you so much for joining the show and helping us make sense to this crazy, crazy world.

00:18:51.380 Of course.

00:18:52.380 And to the truckers, keep on rolling.

00:18:54.380 And to Canadians showing their support, make sure you show your support peacefully and bring out the crowds.

00:19:01.380 Because as you said, Candice, this is really a great news story and a great thing for us to see.

00:19:06.380 Absolutely.

00:19:07.380 All right.

00:19:08.380 Thank you so much.

00:19:09.380 This is Harrison Faulkner.

00:19:10.380 It's Fake News Friday.

00:19:11.380 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

Juno News - January 28, 2022

The legacy media desperately wants the trucker convoy to be Canada’s January 6th

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