Juno News - August 22, 2022


The Toronto Star goes after Poilievre again


Episode Stats

Length

6 minutes

Words per Minute

178.60608

Word Count

1,166

Sentence Count

66

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.180 Now, switching gears, because as you know, those who watch this program know that we try to end the show on a bit of a lighter note,
00:00:06.160 or we try and find something to laugh about on this show.
00:00:09.000 Well, there's a Toronto Star op-ed written by Michael Corrin, who's a former Toronto, what was it, Sun News Network, the failed Sun News Television Network.
00:00:17.480 He used to work there. The guy used to be a conservative, but he's totally switched his position.
00:00:22.300 And he's now bashing conservatives as much as he can in the media.
00:00:24.920 Well, Michael Corrin wrote an article in the Toronto Star, and the headline is,
00:00:30.060 the headline is, Canadian Christian nationalism, not Christian, it's not Canadian or patriotic either.
00:00:36.520 So you read that headline, you probably think, yeah, you know, probably not a ton of support for Christian nationalism in this country.
00:00:43.040 But then, how did I know, Rupa, that in this article somewhere, they were going to tie Pierre Pauliev into Canadian Christian nationalism?
00:00:50.780 Sure enough, three paragraphs in, there he is. It seems to be the playbook for the legacy media.
00:00:54.920 Oh my goodness, yes, it read like a screed, a rant, and it had all the elements of verbal diarrhea from the left.
00:01:03.540 You know, yeah, you get, you have Trump, you know, you have all of the key keywords, key buzzwords, right?
00:01:10.840 You have Trump, you have the far right, you have nationalism, you have Pierre, Pierre Paulievre.
00:01:17.400 You have the Freedom Convoy, of course, we can't forget those people.
00:01:21.300 So, you know, it just, it just read like, you know, this guy clearly, it read like he had a lot of issues,
00:01:28.160 and he was just kind of, you know, you know, going into this rant to get, get this off his chest.
00:01:35.720 Yes. But, you know, I actually had to read this nonsense, and I blame you for this, Harrison.
00:01:44.360 Sorry.
00:01:45.140 The things I have to do, you know, for True North.
00:01:48.220 But anyway, so, you know, he's making, you know, he has a very specific interpretation of Christianity.
00:01:55.160 He doesn't like Calvinism, that's pretty obvious.
00:01:57.920 And he has this very, you know, he's this elite disdain, you know, that, you know, he says these people at the protest,
00:02:05.700 they had misspelled quotes from the Bible or even misquoted from the Bible.
00:02:10.560 So my question to him is, does that mean that their faith is not genuine?
00:02:14.660 They're not Christians, if they can't spell right?
00:02:19.840 You know, it all sounded very, very elitist.
00:02:22.880 And more to the point about, you know, his criticism of Christian nationalism.
00:02:28.500 See, you can be a Christian, and you can be a nationalist.
00:02:32.660 So you can be a Christian nationalist.
00:02:34.680 You can be a Christian, and you can be a socialist.
00:02:37.900 As a matter of fact, the foundation of the British Labour Party is Christian socialism,
00:02:43.580 and the foundation of many political parties in Europe.
00:02:47.020 So if you can be a Christian and a socialist, why can't you be a Christian and a nationalist?
00:02:52.640 You know, so basically this guy, I mean, in this, you know, long rant, you know, it comes across as though,
00:02:59.800 and it's unfortunate that this is coming from an Anglican priest, or, you know, it doesn't matter that he's Anglican,
00:03:06.720 but the fact that this is, you know...
00:03:08.380 Well, from a priest in general, I think.
00:03:10.260 Yeah, yeah. I mean, he just seems angry.
00:03:12.720 I thought priests were supposed to be kind and compassionate and understanding of the other,
00:03:18.040 but it was quite the opposite.
00:03:20.620 He just sounded very hateful in his op-ed.
00:03:24.000 And to me, to my mind, it sounded like he wanted a situation where basically a small power elite decides
00:03:30.920 what level of religiosity we should have in society, what brand of Christianity we should have,
00:03:38.280 maybe even what brand of culture.
00:03:40.800 It just, for me, you know, it was just, you know, just plain nonsense.
00:03:46.940 Yeah. Well, I mean, there's a, the way that the legacy media do this,
00:03:50.900 they find the scariest words and put them together to try and gin up a lot of, a lot of readership,
00:03:55.840 because, as we know, these guys are struggling to get viewers on their websites anyway.
00:03:59.540 So the more that they can use this sort of language and ride the American wave,
00:04:03.720 I mean, if you're plugged into American news, you'll know, for example,
00:04:06.620 that a lot of people on the American right were having a total laugh at the Atlantic this week
00:04:11.500 when the Atlantic tried to say that rosaries are now becoming a hate symbol, an extreme hate symbol.
00:04:16.980 So, of course, and there's also been some talk about Christian nationalism.
00:04:20.940 There's a congresswoman who proclaimed that she was a proud Christian nationalist.
00:04:25.080 And, of course, that just got the left up in arms.
00:04:27.260 So, but there's this very strange phenomenon happening where legacy media journalists are so,
00:04:33.400 are so focused on trying to tie the front runner in the conservative leadership race
00:04:39.440 to the very worst elements of politics in our culture.
00:04:44.780 And you don't see that from the independent media on the other side.
00:04:48.280 So you won't see that.
00:04:49.260 But it's a very bizarre thing where they're trying to make Pierre Polyev out to be this
00:04:53.400 extremely dangerous, very fringe politician.
00:04:57.480 And it's bizarre to me because they almost treat Pierre Polyev worse than they do Maxime Bernier.
00:05:02.000 And anyone who knows the inside of conservative politics knows that Pierre Polyev is not a nationalist.
00:05:08.220 He definitely doesn't appeal to the Christian nationalist or far-right voting bloc.
00:05:13.680 And his campaign is staffed with insider establishment conservatives.
00:05:16.680 So it's like they're trying to kind of bend reality.
00:05:19.500 And I think this is all desperation and panic, really.
00:05:22.560 To me, it really reeks of panic from them.
00:05:25.060 Absolutely.
00:05:25.860 It's not at all bizarre.
00:05:27.380 I mean, that's what I wanted to say.
00:05:29.220 It's actually all quite predictable, actually.
00:05:31.880 Pierre Polyev would be very much a centrist in American politics.
00:05:35.080 You know, and that's the irony of this whole thing.
00:05:39.320 They're panicking because, you know, you have these polls coming out that show that younger
00:05:44.600 people are turning conservative and possibly turning to Pierre.
00:05:49.680 So I think this is the kind of thing that really upsets them.
00:05:53.020 This is the kind of thing that could, you know, upset, you know, existing narratives, you
00:05:59.280 know, that they've tried so hard to, you know, have in place over the last few years.
00:06:05.300 And it's just it's just the elites, you know, it's just elite opinion facing a direct challenge
00:06:11.320 right now.
00:06:11.880 And and they're trying to counter it by, you know, trying to smear the conservative leadership
00:06:17.380 race and particularly Pierre Polyev, whether you like him or not, that's a different issue.
00:06:21.720 But, you know, I think to tie him in with everything, including Christian nationalism,
00:06:25.840 it's just really, really bizarre.
00:06:27.480 It just is a sign of desperation, as you say.
00:06:29.700 Amen.
00:06:30.480 Amen.