Rebel News Podcast - A side of Trump you'll never see on the CBC

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I show you five excerpts from the Republican Convention that's nominating Donald Trump.

00:00:07.620 It's really the party's last chance to put on an official show for the country before the campaign heats up full tilt after Labor Day.

00:00:17.060 The Democrats had theirs a few days ago.

00:00:19.360 I'm going to show you five clips from the Republican Convention, each of which tells a bit of a story about Trump's party.

00:00:25.280 And obviously, you know where I'm going with this. Did you see any of this on the mainstream media?

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00:01:03.960 All right, here's the podcast.

00:01:05.320 Tonight, a side of Donald Trump and the Republican Party that you'll never see on the CBC.

00:01:26.400 It's August 26th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:29.760 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:35.620 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:39.680 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:45.520 You know, it's good to watch the mainstream media just to see what the official narrative is.

00:01:55.960 But if that's all you saw, well, that wouldn't be enough.

00:01:59.580 You would need to see the other side of the story.

00:02:02.700 That's our motto here at Rebel News.

00:02:04.860 And with Donald Trump, he's providing so much content directly to the people,

00:02:10.600 it's a way for people to get around the middleman of the media.

00:02:14.400 It was one of the ways that Trump won in 2016.

00:02:18.160 He had huge stadium-sized rallies where people could listen to Trump for one, two, three hours at a time directly.

00:02:26.520 They would hear more from the candidate, hear him make jokes, hear him talk about serious issues.

00:02:32.160 In that day, then they would likely hear through the media over the course of a whole campaign.

00:02:37.460 And, of course, it would leave a deep mark on them.

00:02:40.120 Besides stadium rallies, of course, Trump relied on the Internet.

00:02:43.740 Not only using it masterfully in his own campaign, but there was a whole army of YouTubers and Twitterers 1.00

00:02:50.700 who became sort of a volunteer army for Trump.

00:02:54.480 That's why after the 2016 election, social media companies cracked down on conservative sites,

00:02:59.940 including ours, throttling us and cutting back our advertising,

00:03:03.680 because they knew we magnified Trump's message.

00:03:07.060 Well, Trump is generally cut away from by, for example, CNN whenever he's giving a speech.

00:03:12.360 They don't want to let people have access to him directly.

00:03:16.120 But for the past few days, the Republican National Convention,

00:03:20.040 where they formally nominate Trump to be the Republican candidate for the presidential election,

00:03:26.220 they've been having their convention, just like the Democrats did with Joe Biden a few days earlier.

00:03:32.680 Early audience ratings show that the Republican show, because it is a show in this era of pandemic social distancing,

00:03:41.740 it's largely made for TV.

00:03:43.900 Well, the Republican show has, according to one measurement I read,

00:03:47.320 six times the viewership of the Democrats, indicating more energy and more interest in the Republicans than the Democrats.

00:03:55.640 But more important than just the quantity is the quality.

00:04:00.220 The chance to hear Trump and his team describe themselves in their own words,

00:04:05.200 rather than simply reacting to the questions that CNN and the New York Times think are important.

00:04:10.580 I want to show you five short videos from the Republican convention,

00:04:17.320 that if you're online and actively searching for the other side of the story, you may have seen these.

00:04:22.840 But if you're one of millions of Canadians who relies on the media party, on the CBC,

00:04:27.740 on the, God forbid, Toronto Star to tell you what's going on, you'll never have seen these.

00:04:33.380 None of these are by Donald Trump or his family, all of whom spoke at the convention.

00:04:38.760 These are all by different elements in the Trump campaign.

00:04:43.120 I want to play them for you, not all the way through, that would be too long,

00:04:46.860 but I want to give you a real taste of these different messages,

00:04:50.380 so completely different to the media narrative out there.

00:04:54.540 I watched these and other videos, and it gave me great encouragement

00:04:58.280 that Trump is talking about things and the campaign is focusing on things

00:05:02.440 that will make a real difference,

00:05:04.900 and that the crazy Antifa, Black Lives Matter,

00:05:08.820 nightly riots in Democrat-controlled cities,

00:05:12.760 well, that's probably a losing campaign narrative.

00:05:16.580 In fact, I see CNN starting to panic that people don't like the nightly riots

00:05:21.440 and the daily threats not to open school up after the pandemic.

00:05:25.040 Without further ado, let me show you excerpts from five videos

00:05:28.540 from the Republican convention that I think are of interest.

00:05:30.780 The first, well, you probably met this couple the same way I did,

00:05:35.780 seeing them panicky outside their lovely home in St. Louis,

00:05:39.440 with their own firearms defending their house against a mob there to burn it down.

00:05:46.240 Take a listen to Mark and Patricia McCloskey.

00:05:49.180 Good evening, America.

00:05:50.280 We are Mark and Patty McCloskey.

00:05:52.400 We're speaking to you tonight from St. Louis, Missouri,

00:05:55.300 where just weeks ago you may have seen us defending our home

00:05:58.900 as a mob of protesters descended on our neighborhood.

00:06:02.820 America is such a great country that not only do you have the right to own a gun

00:06:06.640 and use it to defend yourself, but thousands of Americans

00:06:10.480 will offer you free advice on how to use it.

00:06:13.420 At least that's what we experienced.

00:06:15.700 What you saw happen to us could just as easily happen to any of you

00:06:19.560 who are watching from quiet neighborhoods around our country.

00:06:22.740 And that's what we want to speak to you about tonight.

00:06:26.600 That's exactly right.

00:06:28.380 Whether it's the defunding of police, ending cash bail so criminals can be released

00:06:33.660 back out on the streets the same day to riot again

00:06:37.260 or encouraging anarchy and chaos on our streets.

00:06:41.440 It seems as if the Democrats no longer view the government's job

00:06:45.440 as protecting honest citizens from criminals,

00:06:49.060 but rather protecting criminals from honest citizens.

00:06:52.440 Not a single person in the out-of-control mob you saw at our house

00:06:57.020 was charged with a crime.

00:06:59.660 But you know who was?

00:07:01.400 We were.

00:07:02.180 They've actually charged us with felonies for daring to defend our home.

00:07:08.660 On top of that, consider this.

00:07:11.300 The Marxist liberal activist leading the mob to our neighborhood

00:07:15.280 stood outside our home with a bullhorn screaming,

00:07:19.320 you can't stop the revolution.

00:07:21.640 Just weeks later, that same Marxist activist won the Democrat nomination

00:07:27.060 to hold a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

00:07:30.380 In the city of St. Louis, that's the same as winning the general election.

00:07:35.220 That Marxist revolutionary is now going to be the congresswoman from the first district of Missouri. 1.00

00:07:41.760 These radicals are not content with marching in the streets.

00:07:46.720 They want to walk the halls of Congress.

00:07:49.140 They want to take over.

00:07:50.520 They want power.

00:07:51.960 This is Joe Biden's party.

00:07:54.040 These are the people who will be in charge of your future and the future of your children.

00:07:58.020 They're not satisfied with spreading the chaos and violence into our communities.

00:08:04.120 They want to abolish the suburbs altogether by ending single-family home zoning.

00:08:10.360 This forestry zoning would bring crime, lawlessness, and low-quality apartments

00:08:14.620 into now-thriving suburban neighborhoods.

00:08:17.520 President Trump smartly ended this government overreach.

00:08:20.980 But Joe Biden wants to bring it back.

00:08:23.900 These are the policies that are coming to a neighborhood near you.

00:08:26.980 So make no mistake, no matter where you live, your family will not be safe in the radical

00:08:33.920 Democrats' America.

00:08:35.840 Even inviting this couple to come and present, well, that's a very important statement in

00:08:41.980 itself, isn't it?

00:08:43.380 That Trump is not going to leave people like this behind, not going to abandon them.

00:08:48.400 And in fact, they were the morally superior ones, not the local DA who actually charged them.

00:08:54.540 And it's a very good point.

00:08:55.960 If you think these riots only happen downtown, well, they start downtown, but this couple

00:09:01.720 lived in the burbs.

00:09:03.320 They'll come for you one day.

00:09:05.600 Well, let me switch gears completely now.

00:09:09.000 Donald Trump, before he became the Republican candidate in 2015-16 is when he was nominated,

00:09:15.900 he was extremely popular with the celebrity circuit, the TV circuit, with other rich and famous

00:09:23.980 people.

00:09:24.400 He was the owner of the, I think it was the Miss America pageant.

00:09:28.040 He had a famous TV show, The Apprentice.

00:09:30.920 And of course, living in New York, he met people of all different backgrounds.

00:09:35.040 And being in the entertainment field, he knew probably a disproportionate number of African

00:09:41.580 Americans.

00:09:42.160 And he became real friends with people of every background.

00:09:45.580 I mean, when you're in New York, you meet a lot of minorities.

00:09:48.420 He became true friends with them.

00:09:50.480 And in fact, Donald Trump and his name, well, they were referenced in dozens of rap songs

00:09:57.100 because Trump was held to be an icon of make it big, make it flashy in the black entertainment

00:10:03.840 circles until he came out as a Republican.

00:10:06.480 Well, not everyone dropped him because Hillary Clinton said so, because Joe Biden said, you

00:10:12.800 ain't black if you're for Trump.

00:10:14.660 Here's Herschel Walker, a football great, talking about his personal friendship with Trump,

00:10:20.800 Trump's elbows-up style, and the odd reference to something the Democrats never talk about,

00:10:26.720 Christianity.

00:10:28.900 Take a listen.

00:10:30.180 I'm not an actor, a singer, or a politician.

00:10:34.260 I'm Herschel Walker.

00:10:36.020 Most of you know me as a football player, but I'm also a father, a man of faith, and a

00:10:41.860 very good judge of character.

00:10:43.800 I've known Donald Trump for 37 years, and I don't mean just casual ranting to him from

00:10:49.200 time to time.

00:10:50.380 I'm talking about a deep personal friendship.

00:10:52.680 I watched him as the owner of a professional football team.

00:10:57.380 Right after he bought the team, he set out to learn.

00:11:00.800 He learned about the history of the team, the players, the coaches, every detail.

00:11:06.420 Then he used what he learned to make the team better.

00:11:09.580 I watched him in the boardroom.

00:11:11.660 He can be in the middle of a big meeting, but if one of the kids was on the phone, he

00:11:16.140 dropped everything to take the call.

00:11:18.340 He taught me that the family should be your top priority.

00:11:20.780 I watched him treat janitors, security guards, and waiters the same way he would treat a

00:11:26.500 VIP.

00:11:27.700 He made them feel special because he knew they were.

00:11:31.200 He understands that they are the people who make this country run.

00:11:34.740 They clean, they cook, they build, they drive, they deliver.

00:11:39.700 He told me, Herschel, make an effort to get to know people.

00:11:44.020 Remember their names.

00:11:45.460 That stuck with me.

00:11:46.600 One time, I planned to take his kids to Disney World with my family.

00:11:51.920 At the last minute, Donald said he would like to join us.

00:11:55.140 So there he was, in a business suit, on the, it's a small world ride.

00:12:00.420 That was something to see.

00:12:02.280 It just shows you what a caring, loving father he is.

00:12:05.600 It hurt my soul to hear the terrible names that people call Donald.

00:12:08.940 The worst one is racist.

00:12:12.040 I take it as a personal insult that people would think I've had a 37-year friendship with a racist.

00:12:17.940 People who think that don't know what they're talking about.

00:12:21.280 Growing up in the deep south, I've seen racism up close.

00:12:25.060 I know what it is.

00:12:26.400 And it isn't Donald Trump.

00:12:28.720 Just because someone loves and respects the flag, our national anthem, and our country,

00:12:33.840 doesn't mean they don't care about social justice.

00:12:35.920 I care about all those things.

00:12:38.720 So does Donald Trump.

00:12:40.680 He shows how much he cares about social justice and the black community through his actions.

00:12:45.420 And his actions speaks louder than stickers or slogans on a jersey.

00:12:49.680 He keeps right on fighting to improve the lives of black Americans and all Americans.

00:12:54.720 He works night and day.

00:12:56.400 He never stops.

00:12:57.840 He leaves nothing on the field.

00:13:00.180 Some people don't like his style.

00:13:01.980 The way he knocks down obstacles that get in the way of his goals.

00:13:04.780 People on the opposing team don't like when I ran over them either.

00:13:08.760 But that's how you get the job done.

00:13:10.980 I pray every night that God gives him more time.

00:13:14.200 Give him four more years.

00:13:16.140 He has accomplished so much almost all by himself on a constant attack.

00:13:20.700 But there's still more work to be done.

00:13:23.240 If you love America and want to make it better,

00:13:26.380 Donald Trump is your president.

00:13:28.240 He's my president.

00:13:29.640 And I'm blessed to call him friend.

00:13:31.220 It's true there aren't a lot of black senators in the United States on either party.

00:13:38.020 But there are some.

00:13:39.520 And they're not all Democrats.

00:13:41.940 That's something that particularly irks the Democrats.

00:13:44.900 Because they've traditionally counted on 80 to 90 percent support from African Americans.

00:13:50.860 That number reached well over 90 percent when Barack Obama was the candidate.

00:13:55.140 But it looks like it's sagging, first under Hillary Clinton and then under Joe Biden.

00:14:01.100 What if a blexit really happens?

00:14:04.140 That's the phrase that Candace Owens and others give it to blacks simply choosing not to stay Democrat.

00:14:11.920 For a variety of reasons.

00:14:13.560 Maybe they're conservative.

00:14:15.080 Maybe they think we're taken for granted by the Democrats.

00:14:18.020 Or maybe they just ask, what have you done for us lately?

00:14:20.820 Some black voters even remember that it was the Democrats who were the party of slavery.

00:14:27.340 And the great emancipator, Abraham Lincoln, well, he was a Republican.

00:14:32.360 There were no slave owners in the Republican Party.

00:14:35.560 It was the party of abolition. 0.77

00:14:38.460 The party of the KKK, that's the Democrats. 0.98

00:14:41.880 Well, here's Tim Scott, the junior United States senator for South Carolina, explaining why he's black and he's voting for Trump.

00:14:53.040 Good evening.

00:14:54.460 I'm Senator Tim Scott from the great state of South Carolina.

00:14:57.480 To all of you tuning in and participating in the political process, God bless you.

00:15:03.040 This isn't how I picture tonight.

00:15:04.620 But our country is experiencing something none of us envisioned.

00:15:08.860 From a global pandemic to the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, 2020 has tested our nation in ways we haven't seen for decades.

00:15:18.300 But regardless of the challenges presented to us, every four years, Americans come together to vote.

00:15:25.580 To share stories of what makes our nation strong and the lessons we have learned that can strengthen it for further generations.

00:15:32.860 After starting my small business and spending some time in local government, I decided to run for Congress in 2010.

00:15:40.860 The district is based in Charleston, South Carolina, where the Civil War started, against a son of our legendary senator, Strom Thurmond.

00:15:50.340 You may be asking yourself, how does a poor black kid from a single-parent household run and win in a race crowded with Republicans against a Thurmond?

00:16:01.680 One, because of the evolution of the Southern heart.

00:16:06.740 In an overwhelmingly white district, the voters judged me not on the color of my skin, but on the content of my character.

00:16:17.740 We live in a world that only wants you to believe in the bad news, racially, economically, and culturally polarizing news.

00:16:26.580 The truth is, our nation's arc always bends back towards fairness.

00:16:33.820 We are not fully where we want to be, but I thank God Almighty, we are not where we used to be.

00:16:40.860 We are always striving to be better.

00:16:44.820 When we stumble, and we will, we pick ourselves back up and try again.

00:16:50.280 So, I'm going to ask you, the American people, not to simply look at what the candidates say, but to look back at what they've done.

00:17:02.260 This election is about your future, and it is critical to paint a full picture of the records of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

00:17:12.160 Joe Biden said if a black man didn't vote for him, he wasn't truly black.

00:17:17.120 Joe Biden said black people are a monolithic community.

00:17:21.480 It was Joe Biden who said poor kids can be just as smart as white kids.

00:17:29.000 And while his words are one thing, his actions take it to a whole new level.

00:17:36.500 In 1994, Biden led the charge on a crime bill that put millions of black Americans behind bars.

00:17:42.880 President Trump's criminal justice reform law fixed many of the disparities Biden created and made our system more fair and just for all Americans.

00:17:54.260 Joe Biden also failed our nation's historically black colleges and universities,

00:17:59.740 heaping blame on them as they fought to ensure our young folks had access to higher education.

00:18:06.080 Once again, to clean up Joe Biden's mess, President Trump signed into law historically high funding for HBCUs,

00:18:15.680 as well as a bill to give them permanent funding for the first time ever.

00:18:24.580 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want a cultural revolution, a fundamentally different America.

00:18:31.940 If we let them, they will turn our country into a socialist utopia.

00:18:37.840 And history has taught us that path only leads to pain and misery, especially for hardworking people hoping to rise.

00:18:48.220 Instead, we must focus on the promise of the American journey.

00:18:53.780 I know that journey well.

00:18:56.220 My grandfather's 99th birthday would have been tomorrow.

00:19:00.400 Growing up, he had to cross the street if a white person was coming.

00:19:06.600 He suffered the indignity of being forced out of school as a third grader to pick cotton. 1.00

00:19:13.780 And he never learned to read or write.

00:19:17.360 Yet he lived long enough to see his grandson become the first African-American to be elected to both the United States House

00:19:26.960 and the United States Senate in the history of this country.

00:19:30.520 Our family went from cotton to Congress in one lifetime.

00:19:37.840 And that's why I believe the next American century can be better than the last.

00:19:44.100 There are millions of families just like mine all across this nation full of potential seeking to live the American dream.

00:19:53.360 And I'm here tonight to tell you that supporting the Republican ticket gives you the best chance of making that dream a reality.

00:20:03.680 God bless you.

00:20:05.340 And Father, please continue blessing the United States of America.

00:20:11.540 This next one, you know what, I don't regard myself as overly sentimental.

00:20:17.860 Maybe I am.

00:20:18.560 Actually, maybe I'm very sentimental.

00:20:19.740 I don't know.

00:20:19.960 You tell me.

00:20:21.400 But politicians, I don't usually buy into their sentimentality.

00:20:25.920 I find it fake.

00:20:27.520 I find it theatrical.

00:20:29.120 But this next speaker, he's clearly not a politician.

00:20:33.340 And I have to say, although I'd never heard of him or seen him before, when he choked up, I choked up a little bit.

00:20:42.640 I didn't mean to.

00:20:44.340 I'm not American.

00:20:45.540 I'm not Floridian.

00:20:46.480 I'm not Cuban.

00:20:47.320 But his story was so passionate and the man was speaking from the heart, I couldn't help myself.

00:20:54.320 I choked up a little bit, too.

00:20:58.040 Will you listen to Maximo Alvarez telling his story of freedom?

00:21:03.680 Hello.

00:21:04.440 My name is Maximo Alvarez.

00:21:06.740 I live in Miami, Florida, not far from the state of Florida, which isn't just a 90-mile, wide blue strip on a map for me.

00:21:16.660 It divides freedom from fear.

00:21:19.600 It divides the past from the present, from the future.

00:21:24.320 I know all about the past.

00:21:27.780 I'll never forget my own.

00:21:30.900 My family has fled totalitarianism and communism more than once.

00:21:39.560 First my dad from Spain, then from Cuba.

00:21:43.980 But my family is done running away.

00:21:45.940 By the grace of God, I live the American dream, the greatest blessing I ever had.

00:21:53.300 My dad, who only had a sixth grade education, told me,

00:21:59.680 don't lose this place.

00:22:02.340 You will never be as well against me.

00:22:03.860 I'm speaking to you today because my family is done abandoning what we rightfully earned.

00:22:12.480 There is no place to hide.

00:22:15.460 I'm speaking to you today because President Trump may not always be politically correct.

00:22:21.080 He's, in fact, a successful businessman, nor your average career politician.

00:22:26.840 Our president is just another family man, a friend, and most important, our elected commander-in-chief who puts America first.

00:22:39.780 I heard the promises of Fidel Castro, and I can never forget all those who grew up around me, who look like me, who suffered and starved and died because they believed those empty promises.

00:22:58.400 They swallowed the communist poison pill.

00:23:01.180 If you have a chance, go to the Freedom Tower in Miami.

00:23:07.620 Stop and listen.

00:23:09.980 You can still hear the sounds of those broken promises.

00:23:15.240 It is the sound of waves in the ocean carrying families clinging to pieces of wood.

00:23:22.020 Families with children who can't swim, but willing to risk everything to reach this blessed land.

00:23:28.940 It is the sound of tears hitting the paper of an application to become an American citizen.

00:23:38.300 Most heard and liked the promises, but soon after, they experienced the reality.

00:23:46.220 Look at them.

00:23:48.440 Listen to them.

00:23:50.840 Learn the truth.

00:23:53.180 Those four promises spread the wealth.

00:23:57.000 Free education, free health care.

00:24:01.180 Defund the police.

00:24:03.700 Trust the socialist state more than your family and your community.

00:24:09.000 They don't sound radical to my ears.

00:24:14.160 They sound familiar.

00:24:17.840 And Fidel Castro was asked if he was a communist.

00:24:20.020 He said he was a Roman Catholic.

00:24:25.080 He knew he had to hide the truth.

00:24:29.260 But the country I was born in is gone, totally destroyed.

00:24:33.500 When I watched the news in Seattle, Chicago, Portland, and other cities.

00:24:40.200 When I see the history being rewritten.

00:24:43.360 When I hear the promises.

00:24:47.440 I hear echoes of the former life I never wanted to hear again.

00:24:54.340 When I see shadows, I thought I had out of them.

00:25:00.320 I may be a Cuban born, but I am 100% American.

00:25:05.620 This is the greatest country in the world.

00:25:08.680 And I said this before.

00:25:15.500 If I gave away everything that I have today.

00:25:20.940 It would not equal 1% of what I was given.

00:25:25.500 When I came to this great country of ours.

00:25:30.240 The gift of freedom.

00:25:31.640 Right now, it is up to us to decide our fate.

00:25:38.420 And to choose.

00:25:41.160 Freedom over oppression.

00:25:44.940 President Trump.

00:25:47.440 He's fighting the forces of anarchy and communism.

00:25:51.540 And I know he will continue to do just that.

00:25:55.520 And what about his opponent.

00:25:58.400 And the rest of the T.C. swamp.

00:26:00.000 I have no doubt.

00:26:03.240 They will hand the country over to those dangerous forces.

00:26:07.940 You and I will decide.

00:26:12.500 And here's what I've decided.

00:26:15.040 My decision is very easy.

00:26:17.920 I choose President Trump.

00:26:21.560 Because I choose America.

00:26:24.380 I choose freedom.

00:26:27.660 I still hear my dad.

00:26:30.000 There is no other place to go.

00:26:38.080 Thank you.

00:26:39.100 And may the good Lord bless America.

00:26:42.560 I'm sorry I found that touching.

00:26:44.240 I just did.

00:26:45.580 And I hope that Hispanic Americans.

00:26:48.460 Listen to that message of freedom.

00:26:50.140 And not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's message.

00:26:53.680 Of socialism and communism.

00:26:55.180 Well, there was one more speaker.

00:26:58.000 And again, it's a dramatic choice to make him a speaker, isn't it?

00:27:02.280 His name is Nick Sandman.

00:27:04.260 And he's just a teenager.

00:27:06.680 He was the teen who was on a school trip to Washington, D.C.

00:27:10.140 Normally a highlight of one's high school career.

00:27:14.000 And he was waiting for the buses to take them all home.

00:27:16.700 They were waiting at the Lincoln Memorial.

00:27:18.960 And there was a group of radical activists there.

00:27:22.400 Radical black activists.

00:27:24.000 Radical aboriginal activists. 0.99

00:27:25.920 And one came right up to his face and banged the drum inches from his nose.

00:27:31.900 He froze, not wanting to provoke the man.

00:27:35.140 Kept his hands behind his back.

00:27:37.100 And just did his best to smile.

00:27:39.060 Well, he became the enemy to the media.

00:27:43.180 That smile was called a smirk.

00:27:45.740 And because he had a Make America Great Again hat on,

00:27:49.340 well, he became a proxy, a piñata,

00:27:52.020 for every media pundit and activist to smash,

00:27:56.900 saying that he was the one who engaged in some racist taunt.

00:28:01.120 Well, don't take it from me.

00:28:02.560 Listen to Nick Sandman himself talk about cancel culture

00:28:06.120 and, worse, the media that perpetrates it.

00:28:09.240 Good evening, everyone.

00:28:10.900 My name is Nick Sandman.

00:28:12.620 And I'm the teenager who was defamed by the media

00:28:15.020 after an encounter with a group of protesters

00:28:17.740 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial last year.

00:28:21.220 Before I begin, I'd like to thank President Trump

00:28:23.820 for the opportunity to share some of my story

00:28:26.480 and why it matters so much to this November's election.

00:28:30.180 In 2019, I attended the March for Life in Washington, D.C.,

00:28:34.320 where I demonstrated in defense of the unborn.

00:28:37.560 Later that day, I bought a Make America Great Again hat

00:28:40.940 because our president, Donald Trump,

00:28:44.080 has distinguished himself as one of the most pro-life presidents

00:28:47.520 in the history of our country,

00:28:49.440 and I wanted to express my support for him, too.

00:28:53.120 Looking back now, how could I possibly imagine

00:28:56.340 that the simple act of putting on that red hat

00:28:59.820 would unleash hate from the left

00:29:02.000 and make myself the target of network

00:29:04.540 and cable news networks nationwide?

00:29:07.660 Being from Kentucky, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln,

00:29:11.940 my classmates and I visited the Lincoln Memorial.

00:29:15.500 I found myself face-to-face with Nathan Phillips

00:29:18.420 and other professional protesters

00:29:20.580 looking to turn me into the latest poster child

00:29:24.140 showing why Trump is bad.

00:29:26.620 While the media portrayed me as an aggressor

00:29:29.060 with a relentless smirk on my face,

00:29:32.220 in reality, the video confirms

00:29:34.140 I was standing with my hands behind my back

00:29:36.420 and an awkward smile on my face that hid two thoughts.

00:29:40.500 One, don't do anything that might further agitate

00:29:43.900 the man banging a drum in my face.

00:29:46.660 And two, I was trying to follow a family friend's advice,

00:29:50.740 never to do anything to embarrass your family,

00:29:53.880 your school, or your community.

00:29:56.060 Before I knew what was happening, it was over.

00:30:00.440 One of Mr. Phillips' fellow agitators yelled out,

00:30:03.500 We got him.

00:30:04.820 It's all right here on video.

00:30:06.920 And we won, Grandpa.

00:30:08.940 What I thought was a strange encounter

00:30:11.100 quickly developed into a major news story

00:30:14.000 complete with video footage.

00:30:16.580 My life changed forever in that one moment.

00:30:19.380 The full war machine of the mainstream media

00:30:21.740 revved up into attack mode.

00:30:23.540 They did so without researching the full video

00:30:26.480 of the incident,

00:30:27.560 without ever investigating Mr. Phillips' motives,

00:30:31.460 or without ever asking me for my side of the story.

00:30:35.460 And do you know why?

00:30:37.500 Because the truth was not important.

00:30:40.840 Advancing their anti-Christian, 0.98

00:30:42.820 anti-conservative,

00:30:44.560 anti-Donald Trump narrative was all that mattered.

00:30:46.920 And if advancing their narrative ruined the reputation

00:30:50.360 and future of a teenager from Covington, Kentucky,

00:30:53.700 well, so be it.

00:30:55.300 That would teach him not to wear a mega hat.

00:30:57.620 Well, I don't know if you know this,

00:30:59.120 but Nick Sandman sued a number of media companies.

00:31:02.260 Some have already settled with him.

00:31:04.640 The terms of the settlement are confidential,

00:31:06.900 but there were massive lawsuits.

00:31:09.100 And given the bad faith with which the media acted,

00:31:11.960 it wouldn't surprise me if Nick Sandman,

00:31:14.540 well, his college is probably paid for.

00:31:18.160 Well, that's a review of the Republican convention.

00:31:22.000 Let me ask you,

00:31:23.220 did you see any of those,

00:31:25.860 even five or ten seconds of those clips,

00:31:29.020 on the CBC or in the Globe and Mail

00:31:31.180 or the Toronto Star?

00:31:32.900 No?

00:31:34.140 Yeah.

00:31:34.900 I didn't think so.

00:31:36.600 Imagine what else they're not showing you.

00:31:39.400 Stay with us for more.

00:31:40.360 My friends, our business here at Rebel News,

00:31:54.820 well, you can see it right in the name,

00:31:56.180 it's to tell you the news,

00:31:58.240 to share with you our opinions on the news,

00:32:00.180 and sometimes to make a difference in the world.

00:32:02.440 We call that activism.

00:32:04.140 But our main job of doing journalism

00:32:07.020 is often impeded these days

00:32:09.440 by obstacles.

00:32:11.300 Sometimes rioters and Antifa types,

00:32:14.320 we have to hire security guards

00:32:15.940 to get around them.

00:32:17.480 Sometimes, though,

00:32:18.860 the censorship comes not through a fist,

00:32:21.720 but through the inappropriate

00:32:23.740 and illegal conduct

00:32:25.420 of some sort of government official.

00:32:28.360 You might recall

00:32:28.980 that a year ago,

00:32:30.340 we had to go to court

00:32:31.340 and get an emergency injunction

00:32:33.180 to command that Justin Trudeau's

00:32:35.880 hand-picked Elections Debates Commission

00:32:38.060 allowed two rebel reporters in.

00:32:40.420 We're currently suing that commission

00:32:42.420 as well as Justin Trudeau's

00:32:44.000 Privy Council office

00:32:45.080 for keeping us out

00:32:46.100 of his daily scrums in Ottawa.

00:32:49.060 Well, we've had similar battles,

00:32:51.400 believe it or not,

00:32:52.100 in the province of Alberta.

00:32:54.800 You might recall that several years ago,

00:32:57.320 Rachel Notley,

00:32:58.500 the socialist premier at the time,

00:32:59.900 literally sent an armed sheriff

00:33:01.940 to block our chief reporter,

00:33:04.300 Sheila Gunn-Reed,

00:33:04.960 from attending

00:33:05.620 the People's Legislature.

00:33:07.720 They backed down

00:33:08.700 after national ridicule,

00:33:10.020 but just about a month ago or so,

00:33:12.860 we applied to join

00:33:14.640 the Alberta Legislature Press Gallery.

00:33:17.500 Just a formality,

00:33:18.420 we didn't want to really join the club.

00:33:20.880 We just needed the club's power

00:33:22.600 to give us a security pass

00:33:24.680 for some bizarre reason.

00:33:26.400 The sergeant-at-arms

00:33:27.360 and the speaker of the legislature

00:33:28.460 had delegated that security pass

00:33:30.700 to our competitors,

00:33:32.440 our rivals in this teeny-tiny club,

00:33:34.560 and they rejected us.

00:33:36.660 Well, we went nuclear.

00:33:39.220 We had a big media campaign.

00:33:41.700 We fired off legal demand letters,

00:33:43.860 and we started a campaign

00:33:45.680 called Cancel the Post,

00:33:48.040 telling our viewers that,

00:33:49.360 well, the National Post

00:33:50.760 isn't the paper you thought it once was.

00:33:52.800 Now, it's in the censorship business.

00:33:55.320 I say that because the president

00:33:57.040 of the Press Gallery at the time,

00:33:58.860 Tyler Dawson,

00:33:59.920 was a reporter for the National Post.

00:34:01.700 He was the one

00:34:02.480 who told us we were banned.

00:34:05.220 Well, we've been working behind the scenes

00:34:07.160 since we filed that lawsuit demand,

00:34:09.000 and a few things have happened.

00:34:10.840 The National Post realizes

00:34:12.160 it made a terrible error,

00:34:13.820 commanded all of its reporters

00:34:15.140 to quit that legislative press gallery.

00:34:17.780 And look at this.

00:34:20.860 Look who joins us now

00:34:22.160 from the steps outside

00:34:24.200 the Alberta legislature

00:34:25.340 on this gorgeous August afternoon.

00:34:28.300 My friends,

00:34:29.340 the aforementioned Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:34:30.720 and Kian Bexte,

00:34:31.600 how are you two doing today?

00:34:34.600 We're great.

00:34:35.720 The city is a little more free

00:34:37.340 because we are officially allowed

00:34:39.520 back in that building behind us.

00:34:41.660 We had a meeting

00:34:42.540 with the sergeant-at-arms today

00:34:44.560 who said that he would grant us

00:34:46.840 some form of media access,

00:34:49.200 the same access to work

00:34:50.760 inside the building

00:34:52.160 as the other journalists

00:34:53.880 who do work here,

00:34:55.200 despite Post Media's

00:34:56.780 attempts to censor us.

00:34:58.560 Yeah, it'll be separate

00:34:59.840 from the press gallery,

00:35:01.080 but equal.

00:35:02.860 Separate, but equal.

00:35:03.980 I've heard that before.

00:35:05.340 In this case,

00:35:06.360 the bigots are with

00:35:07.680 the old press gallery.

00:35:08.720 I call them bigoted

00:35:09.360 because without explanation,

00:35:11.680 without any due process,

00:35:12.880 they simply banned the two of you

00:35:15.520 for what I presume

00:35:16.620 is a difference of opinion.

00:35:18.600 They're CBC, CTV, post-media types,

00:35:21.580 and we don't do that.

00:35:23.400 We don't take government money

00:35:25.140 like the aforementioned do.

00:35:27.120 So they were,

00:35:28.380 I'm not even going to say mean.

00:35:29.420 I don't care if they're mean to us.

00:35:31.000 They literally banned you guys

00:35:33.540 from the right to do your job.

00:35:35.620 Tell me a little bit.

00:35:36.320 I don't want you to give away confidences,

00:35:38.480 and it sounds like you had

00:35:39.480 a very exciting meeting

00:35:40.720 with the sergeant-at-arms.

00:35:41.760 Is there anything from that meeting

00:35:43.660 you feel you can share

00:35:44.720 with our viewers

00:35:45.440 that won't compromise

00:35:47.180 your relationship

00:35:48.700 with the speaker

00:35:49.940 and the sergeant-at-arms?

00:35:51.820 What I can tell you

00:35:53.140 is that they have assured us

00:35:55.240 that they see the independence

00:35:57.980 of the media in Alberta

00:36:00.140 as of the utmost importance,

00:36:03.080 and they are going to do

00:36:03.980 what they can to protect it

00:36:06.360 and to foster it,

00:36:07.620 and that's why they've allowed us

00:36:09.580 to work in the legislature

00:36:10.760 without joining the official

00:36:13.860 censorious press gallery,

00:36:16.200 because Kian and I really were

00:36:17.820 banned in what I would say 0.95

00:36:19.800 was a secret witch trial

00:36:21.400 one afternoon.

00:36:22.620 We didn't even know

00:36:23.680 that they were voting

00:36:24.400 on our membership

00:36:25.140 until they declined our membership

00:36:27.440 for really no reason.

00:36:29.840 Then our competitors

00:36:30.980 just didn't want us there

00:36:32.540 because they want to protect

00:36:34.260 their exclusive access

00:36:36.160 to the politicians

00:36:37.500 in the building behind us.

00:36:39.620 Yeah, that's what's crazy,

00:36:40.800 the idea that journalists

00:36:42.680 who are our rivals,

00:36:44.460 our competitors,

00:36:45.900 would have the power to say,

00:36:47.080 yeah, you guys are not

00:36:48.000 even allowed to walk

00:36:49.300 into the legislature

00:36:51.080 to talk to Jason Kenney,

00:36:53.900 Rachel Notley,

00:36:54.720 whatever.

00:36:54.920 The idea that our competitors

00:36:56.340 could stop us from working

00:36:58.300 is so weird.

00:37:00.180 It's like some medieval guild

00:37:02.260 or some strange cartel,

00:37:04.180 and that's basically

00:37:04.940 what our lawsuit threat

00:37:06.000 to Postmedia was,

00:37:07.240 because when they bought up

00:37:08.400 all the papers in Canada,

00:37:09.720 they made a bunch

00:37:10.480 of legal promises

00:37:11.460 to the competition bureau

00:37:13.100 that they would not

00:37:13.800 behave like this,

00:37:15.100 they would not engage

00:37:16.140 in anti-competitive conduct.

00:37:18.020 So it sounds to me,

00:37:19.140 now you correct me

00:37:19.800 if I'm wrong here,

00:37:20.480 I wasn't at the meeting

00:37:21.440 with you,

00:37:22.380 it sounds to me like

00:37:23.560 the Speaker of the Legislature

00:37:25.780 through his delegate,

00:37:28.200 the Sergeant at Arms,

00:37:29.320 has basically said,

00:37:31.080 all right,

00:37:31.520 we're not disbanding

00:37:32.980 the press gallery,

00:37:34.340 we're giving you

00:37:35.300 the same rights

00:37:36.400 that you would have

00:37:37.860 if you were in there,

00:37:38.860 so we're just

00:37:39.400 directly accrediting you.

00:37:42.580 Is that right?

00:37:43.060 So they're not banning

00:37:44.540 or shutting down

00:37:45.380 the old press gallery,

00:37:46.300 they're just saying

00:37:46.820 that's one way in,

00:37:48.740 but you can talk

00:37:49.480 to us directly

00:37:50.400 and we'll get you

00:37:51.600 the security passes

00:37:53.120 and what,

00:37:53.680 do you have access

00:37:54.240 to office space

00:37:55.760 or other things there,

00:37:56.780 Wi-Fi,

00:37:57.500 stuff like that?

00:37:58.180 Yeah,

00:38:00.220 they're working

00:38:00.800 at getting a certain

00:38:01.600 office space,

00:38:03.000 what they're doing here

00:38:04.040 is they're subverting

00:38:05.160 the press gallery,

00:38:05.980 they're kneecapping it

00:38:06.740 basically and stopping

00:38:08.800 their official monopoly

00:38:10.040 on the space,

00:38:11.060 which they've had

00:38:11.740 for decades.

00:38:13.040 Now,

00:38:13.920 the rules for accrediting

00:38:15.220 journalists are

00:38:15.880 completely different,

00:38:16.840 you don't have to be

00:38:17.500 a member of the press gallery,

00:38:18.820 we are going directly

00:38:19.660 to the source,

00:38:20.340 the people who are

00:38:21.160 tenants of this building,

00:38:22.820 tenants of the Minister

00:38:23.600 of Infrastructure,

00:38:24.520 which is the Speaker

00:38:25.160 of the House,

00:38:26.200 has given us

00:38:27.280 through the Sergeant

00:38:28.360 at Arms,

00:38:28.800 this big convoluted web,

00:38:30.720 has given us

00:38:31.520 these press passes

00:38:32.340 that we walk in

00:38:33.120 and we do

00:38:34.840 what we need to do

00:38:35.760 to cover the story

00:38:36.700 of the day.

00:38:37.220 There are certain places

00:38:37.900 where we're allowed

00:38:38.840 to be,

00:38:39.300 certain places

00:38:39.760 where we're not allowed

00:38:40.460 to be,

00:38:40.800 certain rules

00:38:41.240 we have to follow,

00:38:42.100 but it's the same rules

00:38:43.020 that everyone else

00:38:43.920 has to follow

00:38:44.980 and that's all we want.

00:38:46.800 So basically,

00:38:47.700 they've taken away

00:38:48.600 the monopoly

00:38:49.320 that was granted

00:38:50.820 to this little club

00:38:51.820 because they were

00:38:52.480 abusing it,

00:38:53.160 they were being

00:38:53.620 like a mean girl's 0.54

00:38:55.320 clique in high school. 0.80

00:38:56.660 Oh, you're not cool

00:38:57.780 so you can't join.

00:38:58.600 They were basically

00:38:59.320 acting like it was

00:39:00.960 their power,

00:39:01.960 like the legislature

00:39:02.760 was their property

00:39:04.800 as opposed to

00:39:05.360 the property

00:39:05.800 of the people.

00:39:07.700 Well, yeah,

00:39:08.120 and there's a great

00:39:08.740 irony in this

00:39:09.640 because post-media,

00:39:12.240 because their

00:39:13.380 on-the-ground reporter

00:39:14.600 Tyler Dawson,

00:39:15.900 who's the head

00:39:16.420 of the press gallery

00:39:17.300 here in Alberta,

00:39:19.420 held the secret

00:39:20.380 witch trial for us,

00:39:22.400 post-media,

00:39:23.160 then in response

00:39:24.860 to that,

00:39:25.380 withdrew all

00:39:26.420 of their reporters

00:39:27.220 from the press gallery

00:39:28.300 and post-media

00:39:29.420 controls,

00:39:30.080 I would suggest,

00:39:30.900 probably 75%

00:39:31.940 of the media

00:39:32.640 in Alberta.

00:39:35.080 But now,

00:39:36.020 because post-media

00:39:38.400 is no longer

00:39:39.120 a member

00:39:39.540 of the press gallery

00:39:40.460 either,

00:39:41.340 guess who they get

00:39:42.180 to sit with

00:39:42.860 in the legislature?

00:39:44.460 Guess who they get

00:39:45.180 to share office space

00:39:46.320 with?

00:39:46.800 They tried to keep

00:39:47.780 Kean and I out

00:39:48.580 and now they're

00:39:49.200 probably going to have

00:39:50.240 to share office space

00:39:51.420 with us.

00:39:51.820 So there's

00:39:52.940 great irony in that

00:39:53.920 and I'm really

00:39:54.340 enjoying that.

00:39:55.300 I can't wait

00:39:55.760 to share a desk

00:39:56.380 with Tyler Dawson.

00:39:57.520 I've heard that

00:39:58.340 Tyler Dawson

00:39:59.140 and the other

00:39:59.760 post-media reporters

00:40:00.660 were specifically

00:40:01.400 ordered by their

00:40:02.840 corporate head office

00:40:03.840 to shut up 0.98

00:40:04.820 about being censors. 0.53

00:40:06.080 They just couldn't

00:40:06.700 help themselves

00:40:07.420 when they were

00:40:08.240 on their own,

00:40:09.180 but they so

00:40:09.760 embarrassed the company

00:40:11.000 and exposed their

00:40:11.860 company to

00:40:12.500 Competition Act

00:40:14.160 litigation

00:40:14.700 that they've

00:40:15.560 not only been told

00:40:16.420 to quit

00:40:17.040 that little

00:40:18.060 mean girls club,

00:40:19.360 but they've

00:40:20.040 been told

00:40:20.460 not to utter

00:40:21.220 a peep

00:40:21.900 about it

00:40:22.420 in public.

00:40:22.980 I wonder

00:40:23.340 if they'll

00:40:24.020 be able

00:40:24.280 to behave

00:40:24.780 themselves

00:40:25.140 when they

00:40:25.580 see you

00:40:26.100 in those

00:40:27.060 offices there.

00:40:28.080 Listen,

00:40:28.280 I'm so proud

00:40:28.860 of you guys

00:40:29.500 being accredited

00:40:31.000 by the legislature

00:40:32.660 directly.

00:40:33.240 Do you guys

00:40:33.600 have like a

00:40:34.080 pass or a

00:40:35.260 card?

00:40:35.800 Did you get

00:40:36.360 anything that

00:40:37.500 you could sort

00:40:38.140 of hold up?

00:40:38.580 I know that

00:40:38.940 we're all members

00:40:39.460 of the Independent

00:40:40.020 Press Gallery,

00:40:41.360 the second largest

00:40:42.420 press gallery in

00:40:43.180 Canada,

00:40:43.980 the one that

00:40:44.380 Candace Malcolm

00:40:44.920 set up,

00:40:45.340 but did you get

00:40:45.860 anything like

00:40:47.340 a card or

00:40:48.200 a pass today?

00:40:50.940 Yeah,

00:40:51.160 we'll send

00:40:51.680 the producer

00:40:52.280 a photo that

00:40:53.040 you can put

00:40:53.420 up on the

00:40:53.900 screen right

00:40:54.440 here.

00:40:55.620 This is the

00:40:56.780 press pass

00:40:57.260 that was given

00:40:57.660 to us by

00:40:58.200 the Sergeant

00:40:58.700 at Arms

00:40:59.260 and the

00:41:00.800 security staff,

00:41:01.520 the sheriffs

00:41:01.900 that are in

00:41:02.200 the area.

00:41:02.660 They recognize

00:41:03.100 this badge

00:41:03.660 and it gives

00:41:04.440 us the power

00:41:05.080 to come in

00:41:05.580 and out of

00:41:05.940 the building

00:41:06.340 as we need

00:41:07.140 and specifically

00:41:08.920 and most

00:41:09.700 importantly,

00:41:10.420 to stand

00:41:11.000 in the hallway

00:41:11.620 outside of

00:41:12.480 the Premier's

00:41:13.040 office and

00:41:13.560 in the rotunda

00:41:14.320 where press

00:41:15.160 conferences

00:41:15.600 happen and

00:41:16.380 where members

00:41:17.040 of Cabinet

00:41:17.940 pass in

00:41:19.220 and out

00:41:19.580 of as they

00:41:20.240 go into

00:41:20.760 the actual

00:41:22.180 House,

00:41:23.260 the legislature

00:41:23.960 will vote

00:41:24.680 on things,

00:41:25.140 will do

00:41:25.320 what they

00:41:25.600 call inns,

00:41:26.860 which is a

00:41:27.340 much more

00:41:27.700 polite version

00:41:28.400 of what I

00:41:28.900 do when I

00:41:29.580 chase Anne

00:41:30.800 McGrath

00:41:31.200 down a

00:41:31.600 suburban

00:41:31.940 street.

00:41:32.720 They'll be

00:41:33.240 in a very

00:41:33.600 specific spot,

00:41:34.640 it'll be

00:41:34.920 very cordial

00:41:35.900 and I'm

00:41:36.540 really excited

00:41:36.980 for that.

00:41:37.560 It's going

00:41:37.800 to be sort

00:41:38.160 of like

00:41:38.400 turning over

00:41:38.880 a new leaf

00:41:39.480 because those

00:41:40.340 tactics of

00:41:40.900 finding people

00:41:41.560 where they're

00:41:42.320 not expecting

00:41:42.960 you,

00:41:43.400 jumping out

00:41:43.880 behind a

00:41:44.220 potted plant,

00:41:44.860 as Sheila

00:41:45.200 said earlier

00:41:45.720 today,

00:41:46.600 we do that

00:41:47.360 because we

00:41:47.740 have to,

00:41:48.180 because we're

00:41:48.580 relegated to

00:41:49.140 the sidelines

00:41:49.780 and we can't

00:41:51.480 get this kind

00:41:52.080 of access.

00:41:52.900 We'll be in

00:41:53.400 very specific

00:41:53.980 spots where

00:41:54.580 they'll know

00:41:55.040 we're going

00:41:55.380 to be there

00:41:55.800 but we're

00:41:56.080 still going

00:41:56.360 to ask

00:41:56.600 those same

00:41:56.960 questions that

00:41:58.140 nobody else

00:41:58.680 is asking,

00:41:59.200 that the

00:41:59.400 mainstream

00:41:59.640 media certainly

00:42:00.200 is.

00:42:00.460 And let me

00:42:02.280 just finish

00:42:02.780 by saying

00:42:03.260 we will

00:42:03.960 continue to

00:42:04.800 be on

00:42:05.780 our best

00:42:06.400 behavior when

00:42:07.360 we're at

00:42:07.740 these things

00:42:08.180 because despite

00:42:09.240 what the

00:42:09.680 mainstream media

00:42:10.440 and our

00:42:10.820 competitors

00:42:11.320 would have

00:42:11.900 you believe,

00:42:12.900 Keane and I

00:42:13.340 always act

00:42:13.920 very professionally

00:42:15.740 when we're at

00:42:16.720 press conferences,

00:42:17.940 when we're at

00:42:18.380 debates,

00:42:19.200 when we are

00:42:19.900 reporting,

00:42:20.960 we act

00:42:21.500 professionally

00:42:22.080 because we

00:42:22.780 are professionals,

00:42:23.580 we're doing a

00:42:24.180 professional job,

00:42:25.400 and we're holding

00:42:25.860 our politicians to

00:42:26.720 account on behalf

00:42:27.440 of the people.

00:42:28.000 So our style,

00:42:29.980 while we might

00:42:30.480 not have to

00:42:30.940 chase politicians,

00:42:32.300 we are still

00:42:32.880 going to continue

00:42:33.860 to be the

00:42:34.360 professionals we've

00:42:35.280 always been.

00:42:36.720 As for one thing

00:42:37.840 I'd be remiss if I

00:42:38.620 didn't mention,

00:42:40.080 the battle to

00:42:41.580 get in here was 0.99

00:42:42.460 huge, long,

00:42:43.820 it was months

00:42:44.400 long actually,

00:42:45.180 and it all

00:42:45.540 started when we

00:42:46.460 were trying to

00:42:47.020 get into the

00:42:47.540 press gallery in

00:42:48.420 the first place,

00:42:49.480 they ignored us

00:42:50.320 for months,

00:42:51.120 and then Tyler

00:42:51.580 Dawson, when he

00:42:52.160 replaced Catherine 0.57

00:42:53.020 Grakowski,

00:42:53.920 said no,

00:42:54.380 you're not coming

00:42:54.840 in, and that's

00:42:55.380 when the legal

00:42:55.940 sort of fight

00:42:56.620 really initiated

00:42:57.720 we were running

00:42:58.600 our campaign at

00:42:59.520 LetUsReport.com,

00:43:01.320 where folks were

00:43:02.160 so generous to

00:43:02.980 help us out,

00:43:03.720 but I mean,

00:43:05.080 you've seen the

00:43:05.580 legal bills as

00:43:06.160 much as I have,

00:43:07.220 and they're

00:43:07.620 thousands of

00:43:08.240 dollars, we

00:43:09.400 still need to

00:43:09.920 pay those off,

00:43:10.900 we're in this

00:43:11.660 building now,

00:43:12.160 and we'll be able

00:43:12.680 to continue

00:43:13.220 reporting here for

00:43:14.080 as long as

00:43:15.160 they let us,

00:43:15.800 I expect that

00:43:16.960 to be in

00:43:17.360 perpetuity,

00:43:19.380 but that bill

00:43:20.980 is still lingering,

00:43:21.920 and we need

00:43:22.220 folks' help at

00:43:23.420 LetUsReport.com

00:43:24.500 to sort of

00:43:25.320 finalize that bill

00:43:26.160 with the lawyers.

00:43:27.040 Yeah, I'm

00:43:28.360 glad you

00:43:28.680 mentioned that

00:43:29.140 because we

00:43:29.660 have had to

00:43:30.300 lawyer up not

00:43:30.980 just to take

00:43:32.020 on the press

00:43:32.520 gallery, but

00:43:33.120 take on post

00:43:34.180 media, and

00:43:35.360 it's expensive.

00:43:37.620 That's the role

00:43:38.420 that's fallen to

00:43:39.160 us because you

00:43:39.960 don't see the

00:43:41.000 Canadian Association

00:43:41.860 of Journalists

00:43:42.740 doing it, in

00:43:43.660 fact, they put

00:43:44.220 out a bizarre

00:43:45.240 memo saying

00:43:46.040 they like

00:43:46.600 censorship, the

00:43:48.780 Canadian

00:43:49.360 Journalists for

00:43:50.040 Free Expression

00:43:51.120 completely silent,

00:43:53.000 we did it for

00:43:54.660 us, but I

00:43:55.700 understand there

00:43:56.380 may be some

00:43:56.900 other media in

00:43:57.920 Alberta who

00:43:58.940 were kept out

00:43:59.620 by the mean

00:44:00.160 girls, I'm

00:44:00.640 calling the 0.85

00:44:00.920 mean girls as 1.00

00:44:01.820 a metaphor,

00:44:02.540 the girls and

00:44:03.200 guys, it's like

00:44:03.760 a mean clique

00:44:04.400 in high school,

00:44:05.760 we weren't the

00:44:06.420 only ones they

00:44:07.040 kept out, I

00:44:07.580 understand they

00:44:09.540 kept out an

00:44:10.520 ethnic media

00:44:11.260 group called

00:44:12.540 Times of Asia,

00:44:14.340 if I'm not

00:44:14.700 mistaken, I

00:44:15.660 understand they

00:44:16.120 kept out a

00:44:16.680 Catholic media

00:44:18.540 company, so

00:44:19.240 these little

00:44:19.780 bigots in the

00:44:21.080 press gallery had

00:44:21.920 this tiny little

00:44:22.740 club, and they

00:44:23.740 were basically

00:44:24.300 mean to

00:44:25.180 everyone who

00:44:26.280 didn't look and

00:44:27.140 sound exactly

00:44:27.980 like them, and

00:44:29.300 Times of Asia and

00:44:30.420 this Catholic news

00:44:31.360 organization didn't

00:44:32.700 have the money or

00:44:33.620 the lawyers or the

00:44:34.420 horsepower to fight

00:44:35.160 back, we fought

00:44:36.540 back for ourselves,

00:44:38.100 but in doing so we

00:44:39.200 widened the scope

00:44:41.080 of freedom for

00:44:41.860 everyone, including

00:44:42.960 I hope, those two

00:44:44.720 aforementioned

00:44:45.460 groups that were

00:44:46.460 censored, I don't

00:44:47.120 know those two

00:44:47.800 groups, Times of

00:44:49.780 Asia or the 0.87

00:44:50.800 Catholic group, but

00:44:52.100 if we help pave

00:44:53.460 the way for

00:44:53.980 them to have

00:44:54.580 free access to

00:44:55.380 the legislature, I

00:44:56.620 say that's a

00:44:57.520 good job done.

00:45:00.620 Yeah, I think

00:45:01.360 it's a public

00:45:01.760 service, we set a

00:45:02.560 precedent here that

00:45:04.100 journalism isn't to

00:45:05.300 be kept by elites

00:45:07.280 in the media, it's

00:45:08.340 something that's

00:45:08.960 accessible to

00:45:09.640 anyone who has an

00:45:11.080 audience and has a

00:45:12.060 story.

00:45:13.640 Sheila made a 0.70

00:45:14.420 point, I just want

00:45:14.980 to emphasize that we

00:45:15.940 are professional, we

00:45:17.520 are not disruptive, we

00:45:19.080 are not negative, I

00:45:20.780 mean, we're not

00:45:21.480 abusive, we're not

00:45:23.460 insulting, we don't

00:45:25.200 shout or interrupt, we

00:45:27.020 don't do anything, we're

00:45:28.160 not a security threat, we

00:45:29.240 don't do anything that

00:45:29.980 would legitimately keep

00:45:31.960 us out.

00:45:32.380 The one thing we have

00:45:33.500 always done and we

00:45:34.280 will always do is that

00:45:36.200 we ask accountability

00:45:38.220 style questions, unlike

00:45:40.480 the other parties, and

00:45:42.100 it's for that reason

00:45:43.120 they kept us out.

00:45:43.900 I note in closing that

00:45:45.720 the Parliamentary Press

00:45:46.680 Gallery in Ottawa, which

00:45:47.720 keeps us out to this

00:45:48.640 day, well their day

00:45:49.880 will come too, they

00:45:51.340 accredit Xinhua and

00:45:52.940 the People's Daily, which

00:45:54.680 are both owned by the

00:45:56.160 government of China, the

00:45:56.960 propaganda arm, so they

00:45:58.060 don't mind that, they

00:45:59.720 don't mind the gonzo

00:46:01.240 journalism of Vice, the

00:46:03.200 hyper-partisan journalism

00:46:04.580 of the Huffington Post,

00:46:05.840 they don't mind the lobby

00:46:07.900 group funding for groups

00:46:09.380 like National Observer,

00:46:10.840 it's not even a real news

00:46:11.700 organization, they're

00:46:12.840 literally paid cash from

00:46:14.000 the Tides Foundation to

00:46:15.680 print on demand.

00:46:17.060 So they don't actually

00:46:19.680 oppose us for any of

00:46:21.360 their stated reasons.

00:46:22.900 The only reason they

00:46:24.020 ever kept our people out

00:46:25.840 is that we are not

00:46:27.460 leftist like them.

00:46:28.440 Last word to you, Sheila,

00:46:29.740 I want to let you know

00:46:30.680 how proud I am of the

00:46:31.680 two of you for reaching

00:46:33.300 this milestone, and it's

00:46:34.620 just so lovely out there

00:46:36.680 in Eminent today, I really

00:46:38.280 wish I were out there

00:46:39.120 with you, but I know you

00:46:41.560 there on behalf of me,

00:46:42.840 our whole team, and all

00:46:44.360 are many thousands of

00:46:46.020 viewers, your victory is

00:46:48.240 our victory, and I'm

00:46:49.700 very pleased to see it.

00:46:51.720 Yeah, both Kian and I

00:46:52.900 are going to do our

00:46:53.560 best to make sure that

00:46:54.660 everybody who supported

00:46:56.180 our right to work here

00:46:57.760 through their donations

00:46:58.880 to letusreport.com will

00:47:01.640 be getting their money's

00:47:02.660 worth, because we are

00:47:03.820 going to be in this

00:47:04.720 building asking

00:47:05.500 accountability questions

00:47:06.820 of the government.

00:47:08.560 We're going to make sure

00:47:09.320 that Jason Kenney's

00:47:10.300 government stays

00:47:11.800 conservative.

00:47:12.440 And I want to share a

00:47:13.760 little anecdote with you

00:47:14.940 because it was a perfect

00:47:16.920 dovetail to our fight to

00:47:19.060 get access to the

00:47:19.860 legislature here.

00:47:21.100 Remember in 2016 when

00:47:23.240 that sheriff threw me out

00:47:25.300 at the behest of Rachel

00:47:26.440 Notley, that armed

00:47:27.720 sheriff?

00:47:28.360 Yeah.

00:47:29.620 Well, guess who was the

00:47:30.760 sheriff who greeted me at

00:47:32.740 security today and had to

00:47:34.560 let me in?

00:47:35.220 Come on.

00:47:36.360 Come on.

00:47:36.820 It was the same guy?

00:47:40.880 Yes.

00:47:41.320 Come on.

00:47:43.640 It was him.

00:47:46.080 And he had to

00:47:47.040 beat me with a smile.

00:47:49.720 That is poetic.

00:47:51.700 That is poetic.

00:47:53.660 The warden, the jailer,

00:47:57.300 the cop, the bouncer is

00:48:00.660 now rolling out the red

00:48:01.880 carpet for you.

00:48:02.800 Well, as Martin Luther King

00:48:04.580 said, the arc of history

00:48:06.120 bends towards justice.

00:48:07.480 Sometimes it does so

00:48:09.300 slowly, but over time

00:48:11.360 things work out.

00:48:13.120 I'm so pleased for you

00:48:14.240 too and for us all.

00:48:15.280 Congratulations, you guys.

00:48:16.920 And let me know if you

00:48:18.440 get any hassle from those

00:48:19.840 mean girls. 1.00

00:48:20.440 Now that their club has

00:48:21.900 lost the only thing of

00:48:23.060 value it ever had, the

00:48:24.800 veto over its competitors.

00:48:26.620 I don't know why anyone

00:48:28.000 would stick around with 0.99

00:48:29.320 those losers if you could 0.99

00:48:30.380 just get access to the 0.98

00:48:31.500 building directly from the

00:48:33.020 speaker or the sergeant

00:48:34.160 in arms.

00:48:34.440 So you let me know if

00:48:35.680 they try any tricks on

00:48:36.960 you.

00:48:37.600 You let me know if like

00:48:38.820 some petty high school

00:48:40.100 rivalries, they do

00:48:41.700 anything to impede you

00:48:43.300 because as God is my

00:48:45.160 witness, we will not let

00:48:47.240 this backslide and we

00:48:48.920 will not submit ever again

00:48:50.820 to their bullying.

00:48:52.820 Congrats, you guys.

00:48:53.940 I'll let you go and do

00:48:54.860 your good work.

00:48:56.320 Thanks, boss.

00:48:57.300 Thanks.

00:48:57.920 All right.

00:48:58.260 There you have it.

00:48:58.780 Kian Bexty from Calgary

00:49:00.860 up in Edmonton today,

00:49:02.540 along with Sheila Gunn-Reed,

00:49:03.820 our chief reporter.

00:49:05.180 And the big news is that

00:49:06.880 we have been granted

00:49:07.840 accreditation, press

00:49:09.660 credentials, security

00:49:10.920 access on equal terms

00:49:13.540 to the losers in the

00:49:14.620 left-wing government 0.98

00:49:15.780 press gallery.

00:49:17.020 Sheila and Kian are

00:49:18.540 accredited reporters at

00:49:20.800 the Alberta Legislature.

00:49:22.300 And I thank you, our

00:49:23.060 viewers, who helped us

00:49:24.580 fight the fight, including

00:49:26.080 hiring lawyers at

00:49:27.600 LetUsReport.com.

00:49:30.300 Stay with us.

00:49:31.080 More ahead.

00:49:33.820 Hey, welcome back on my

00:49:43.960 monologue last night.

00:49:45.480 Marion writes, what would

00:49:46.360 you expect from Justin's

00:49:47.480 employees?

00:49:48.340 I bet he'd add more

00:49:49.260 millions of debt, giving

00:49:50.300 them bonuses.

00:49:51.360 Well, you're talking about

00:49:52.220 the CBC.

00:49:53.420 And, of course, they are

00:49:54.380 Justin Trudeau's employees.

00:49:56.120 They are paid by the

00:49:57.160 government.

00:49:57.860 They specifically lobby for

00:49:59.460 more money, and Trudeau

00:50:00.740 gives them more money.

00:50:02.160 You don't think there's a

00:50:03.040 quid pro quo?

00:50:04.140 If you don't think there's

00:50:05.180 a quid pro quo, you

00:50:06.180 haven't been following

00:50:07.100 Justin Trudeau and

00:50:08.760 everyone from the Aga

00:50:09.840 Khan to the WE

00:50:11.080 charities.

00:50:12.620 Jake writes, the state

00:50:14.100 broadcaster must be

00:50:15.180 defunded.

00:50:16.320 Well, why just defund

00:50:17.720 them?

00:50:17.900 Why not sell them to help

00:50:19.500 pay off the national

00:50:20.280 debt, a large portion of

00:50:21.780 which they incurred?

00:50:23.780 Pierre writes, what do

00:50:24.620 you expect?

00:50:25.120 Mr. O'Toole promised to

00:50:26.320 partly defund the CBC,

00:50:28.100 our Canadian liberal

00:50:28.860 Pravda.

00:50:29.740 They'll fight him tooth and

00:50:30.780 nail. 0.98

00:50:31.060 Yes, they will, and they

00:50:33.500 already are.

00:50:35.380 I think they would fight

00:50:36.260 him even if he didn't

00:50:37.280 promise to defund them.

00:50:38.880 Stephen Harper didn't

00:50:39.980 defund them.

00:50:41.020 He didn't privatize them.

00:50:42.720 And the CBC certainly

00:50:43.660 stuck the knife in him,

00:50:45.060 especially in 2015.

00:50:47.100 I have to tell you, I'm a

00:50:48.000 bit of a skeptic that Aaron

00:50:49.360 O'Toole really will defund

00:50:50.940 the CBC if he's ever

00:50:52.320 elected.

00:50:53.120 Remember, Aaron O'Toole was

00:50:54.520 in government and had the

00:50:56.120 chance.

00:50:56.960 He never talked this way

00:50:58.120 when he was in office,

00:50:59.160 did he?

00:50:59.420 Oh well, we can always

00:51:01.360 hope.

00:51:02.380 Until next time, on behalf

00:51:03.760 of all of us here at

00:51:04.700 Rebel World Headquarters to

00:51:05.820 you at home, good night

00:51:06.960 and keep fighting for

00:51:08.460 freedom.

00:51:08.740 On.

00:51:16.780 On.

00:51:21.240 On.

00:51:22.960 On.

00:51:23.140 On.

00:51:23.820 On.

00:51:24.360 On.

00:51:25.200 On.

00:51:25.560 On.

00:51:25.760 On.

00:51:26.180 On.

00:51:26.600 On.

00:51:27.000 On.

Rebel News Podcast - August 27, 2020

A side of Trump you'll never see on the CBC

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