Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ Comedian's Free Speech Victory, Trudeau in Scotland

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00:01:14.420 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:01:32.680 in which we look back at the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels.

00:01:38.040 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:01:39.940 Well, victory on the free speech front.

00:01:43.220 The Supreme Court of Canada recently released a decision in favour of comedian Mike Ward,

00:01:48.840 deciding that there is no such human right as the right not to be offended.

00:01:54.800 The bad news?

00:01:56.000 The decision was a judicial photo finish, with the court deciding 5-4 that no crime had occurred,

00:02:03.280 meaning that the Supreme Court was just one vote away from setting a disturbing new precedent

00:02:10.380 when it comes to free speech.

00:02:12.800 Rebel News Commander Ezra Levent will weigh in with his take.

00:02:17.240 Well, another climate catastrophe conference recently wrapped up in Glasgow.

00:02:22.860 And Hutman, check out who's flying all over Europe,

00:02:26.620 telling others to reduce their carbon footprints while he ramps up his own emissions.

00:02:31.880 Yes, that would be none other than Justin Trudeau, just like the rest of the world leaders.

00:02:37.400 Our man in the UK, Lewis Brackpool, was there to cover all the egregious virtue signalling

00:02:43.200 and the hypocrisy.

00:02:45.320 And unlike President Biden, Lewis managed to stay awake.

00:02:50.200 And letters, we get your letters.

00:02:51.640 We get them every minute of every day.

00:02:53.360 And you had plenty to say regarding my interview with veteran radio broadcaster Peter Sherman,

00:02:58.340 the latest victim of cancel culture.

00:03:02.000 And what was Peter's sin?

00:03:04.100 Well, he offered up safety advice that somehow offended a social justice snowflake.

00:03:11.980 Just wait till you hear the baffling details.

00:03:15.640 Those are your rebels.

00:03:16.740 Now let's round them up.

00:03:17.940 Mike Ward is rougher.

00:03:25.300 He's not to everyone's taste.

00:03:27.860 And one of the things he joked about was this guy, Jeremy Gabriel,

00:03:32.520 who was actually just a kid at the time.

00:03:35.100 As you can probably tell by looking at him,

00:03:37.460 he has a rare disability called Treacher-Collins Syndrome.

00:03:42.600 It's tough.

00:03:43.680 It's tough to look at.

00:03:44.860 Imagine how tough it is to be him, to be his family.

00:03:48.960 And he was a kid at the time, and Mike Ward made fun of him.

00:03:53.360 That's definitely not to everyone's taste.

00:03:55.360 I think it's very important to note that Jeremy Gabriel was not a private person, though.

00:04:01.040 He was a celebrity, like a child actor, like Greta Thunberg was,

00:04:05.420 until, like so many child actors, she aged out and became just an actor,

00:04:10.360 which has less cachet.

00:04:11.680 Jeremy Gabriel was a celebrity because he was born deaf.

00:04:17.280 But when he turned six, he got a special hearing aid that allowed him to hear.

00:04:23.080 And he began to sing.

00:04:24.620 And that's how he became a celebrity,

00:04:26.500 because he was a child with such a punishing disease,

00:04:30.500 and yet he still had dreams, and he tried to reach them.

00:04:33.180 I suppose he did.

00:04:34.280 He even sang for the Pope and Celine Dion.

00:04:36.740 I think we can all agree that mocking little Jeremy is punching down.

00:04:42.940 He wasn't an immoral person.

00:04:45.120 He was a kid.

00:04:45.720 He didn't do anything wrong.

00:04:47.400 In fact, he did a lot with what little God had given him.

00:04:51.100 Maybe that is doing a lot, actually.

00:04:53.920 He was a celebrity, and Mike Ward took a run at him.

00:04:57.720 So the kid's parents took my ward to the Quebec Human Rights Commission.

00:05:02.760 I know a bit about that.

00:05:03.940 In 2006, I published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed as part of a news story about them being banned

00:05:09.580 and the riots against them, etc.

00:05:11.540 And I was taking one of those kangaroo courts myself.

00:05:14.520 The claim in that case was that I was mocking Mohammed,

00:05:18.600 who, by the way, died many centuries ago.

00:05:21.940 But publishing those cartoons in that context

00:05:25.120 was a very important journalistic act, if I may say so myself.

00:05:30.320 Not because the cartoons were inherently interesting.

00:05:33.080 I would never have published them or even known about them

00:05:35.500 were it not for the boycott against them,

00:05:37.500 the banning of them, the riots that killed more than 200 about them,

00:05:41.680 and later the terrorist attacks against other cartoonists.

00:05:44.180 I believe what I did was journalistically and legally and morally important, very valuable.

00:05:50.000 And the human rights complaint against me was odious for those reasons,

00:05:53.600 but also because even if my publication of those cartoons was not important,

00:05:59.240 it's still my right, because we're a free country.

00:06:01.880 I'm not here to tell you that Mike Ward's jokes about a disabled boy

00:06:04.800 were journalistically and morally important or valuable,

00:06:07.780 but I'm here to tell you that despite that, or maybe even because of that,

00:06:10.620 they're important to defend.

00:06:11.600 Because you have to fight for free speech, even for people you don't agree with.

00:06:16.480 You don't have to think jokes are funny to approve of them legally.

00:06:21.200 You can be mad at Mike Ward.

00:06:23.000 You can say so.

00:06:23.860 You can ignore him.

00:06:25.380 But saying mean words is not a crime.

00:06:28.040 I acknowledge they hurt the lad.

00:06:30.080 Here's what he told the Human Rights Commission.

00:06:31.620 He said, I was 12 or 13 when I saw those videos.

00:06:36.080 I didn't have maturity to be strong in the face of this.

00:06:39.160 I lost confidence and hope.

00:06:40.400 It made me think my life is worth less than another's because I'm handicapped.

00:06:44.360 I accept those comments as true, but what is the rule for jokes?

00:06:48.620 They can't make fun of people?

00:06:50.520 On what grounds?

00:06:53.660 And if they're under 18 or over 18?

00:06:57.540 What if they're a child celebrity promoted by their parents, as in this case?

00:07:02.000 What if the joke teller themself is disabled? 0.96

00:07:05.760 What's the rule for that?

00:07:07.200 And what exactly is disabled?

00:07:09.260 What's the definition?

00:07:10.820 And who gets to decide?

00:07:12.120 Again, I'm not saying I like picking on the kid.

00:07:13.980 But you're seriously going to ban mean jokes?

00:07:17.340 And who decides what's mean?

00:07:19.800 And does it matter if it's a funny joke?

00:07:22.340 Some mean things can be really, really funny.

00:07:25.740 Oh, and by the way, can a disabled person tell jokes about disabled people? 0.99

00:07:31.040 Can he tell jokes about himself?

00:07:32.900 Well, predictably, the Quebec Human Rights Commission convicted Mike Ward,

00:07:37.060 claiming he had indeed discriminated against young Jeremy.

00:07:41.460 And then the Court of Appeal upheld that conviction.

00:07:45.300 Well, thankfully, this case went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada,

00:07:49.460 which just recently released its decision.

00:07:52.560 The good news, the Supremes ruled in favour of Mike Ward

00:07:56.220 that there is no such human right as the right not to be offended.

00:08:00.840 The bad news, this decision was a judicial photo finish

00:08:05.240 with the court deciding 5-4 that no crime had occurred,

00:08:10.180 meaning that the Supreme Court was just one vote away

00:08:14.300 from setting a disturbing new precedent when it comes to free speech.

00:08:20.440 And joining me now is a man who knows all about fighting for freedom of speech,

00:08:24.980 freedom of expression, and freedom of the press.

00:08:27.440 And that would be Rebel News Commander Ezra Levent.

00:08:30.820 So, Ezra, like I said, the Supremes did get it right.

00:08:34.200 But the fact that it was only 5-4, that was gut-wrenching for me.

00:08:40.000 That was a little disturbing.

00:08:41.240 Oh, yeah.

00:08:41.640 And I think 10 years ago, that would have been 6-3 or 7-2.

00:08:46.660 And 20 years ago, it would have been 9-0.

00:08:49.080 Yes.

00:08:49.700 I think the Supreme Court is heading the way culture at large is heading,

00:08:54.700 which is towards a cancel culture, a censorship culture, a woke culture.

00:08:59.640 I don't think the Supreme Court so much shapes the world as it does reflect it.

00:09:05.320 I mean, it does a bit of both, let's be honest.

00:09:06.900 It can be quite activist.

00:09:08.400 But I think that in five years from now,

00:09:10.900 if this same case were to be heard or a similar case,

00:09:14.040 that they would inevitably rule against free speech in the comedian.

00:09:19.420 I should note that of the judges who were for censorship,

00:09:23.800 they're not all liberals.

00:09:25.080 I'm trying to remember their names exactly.

00:09:27.180 I'm sorry I don't have them in front of me.

00:09:28.280 But I'm pretty sure that there was a Harper appointee there, too.

00:09:32.400 Wow.

00:09:32.580 And that's just how it is.

00:09:34.540 It's sort of a laugh when you think that the arbiters of comedy,

00:09:38.720 comedy is often a young person's thing.

00:09:40.500 Like, everyone likes a laugh.

00:09:41.960 Everyone likes a joke.

00:09:43.160 But the edgy stuff, it's typically something that young people are in.

00:09:46.180 I just think that's how it is.

00:09:47.580 It's like pop music.

00:09:49.200 You can be 60 and like pop music, but it's more likely if you're 20.

00:09:53.780 I think the same way with stand-up comedy.

00:09:55.600 So the idea that some very rarefied judges in their 60s and 70s are going to look at a joke

00:10:05.820 and look at it word for word and decide if that joke is legal or not, that's bizarre.

00:10:12.580 That is not what a free country does.

00:10:14.420 And let's acknowledge that these jokes were not gentle and were not nice.

00:10:19.980 This Jeremy Gabriel was a young boy.

00:10:22.620 Even if he wasn't disabled, mocking a young boy is not a particularly good sport.

00:10:30.580 And mocking his disability, let's be honest, it was mean.

00:10:34.300 Now, you can be funny and mean or unfunny and mean, but it's still mean.

00:10:38.360 So you don't have to love the joke to say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:10:43.540 The Canadian government is prosecuting a guy for years, or the Quebec government.

00:10:48.580 Yes.

00:10:49.080 For years.

00:10:50.640 And they finally, after ringing him out, I don't know how many years he's been through the courts, many years.

00:10:56.320 How many hundreds of thousands of dollars he spent on legals.

00:10:58.880 And, woo, a victory, five to four for free speech.

00:11:03.680 This is a warning sign.

00:11:07.280 It's also, in a way, a sign of impotence by the courts.

00:11:11.060 So let's say that they actually did condemn this comedian.

00:11:15.100 Do you think that's going to stamp out his jokes from the Internet everywhere?

00:11:20.100 On YouTube, on Twitter, on Telegram, and Signal, and WhatsApp, and other private ways of sharing?

00:11:28.120 I mean, even if you got every big social media company, like, wouldn't, like, do these judges really think that, like, King Canute, they can order the tide to stop?

00:11:39.560 Yeah.

00:11:39.940 And, of course, King Canute, he knew that he couldn't order.

00:11:44.460 His courtiers were flatterers. 0.94

00:11:47.360 And he proved, he was proving to them that he wasn't divine by ordering the waves to stop, and they wouldn't.

00:11:54.020 And he knew who he was.

00:11:55.580 This court, or at least four of them, actually think that they can order people not to laugh at bad jokes.

00:12:02.860 But, no, and this is exactly what I want to get at, Ezra, is that these dissenting justices think this through to the nth degree.

00:12:11.660 And by that, and you alluded to it in your monologue, what would be the new rule book, if you will, when it comes to jokes and stand-up comedy and humorous observations,

00:12:22.060 if it was five to four the other way, that, in this instance, making fun of a child with a disability is offside?

00:12:30.840 Well, then, what else is offside?

00:12:33.100 Who is a sacred cow? 1.00

00:12:35.020 So, I don't think they thought this through.

00:12:36.960 Yeah.

00:12:37.520 You know, there are some very disabled comedians out there who actually turn their disability into a joke. 0.99

00:12:45.200 It's obviously dominant in their minds.

00:12:47.360 It's the central fact of their life.

00:12:49.460 And they've decided to run with it and make fun of it and make jokes about it.

00:12:55.220 And I don't know if that's their sense of humor, if that's a kind of psychological therapy, or if that's just a way to earn a living.

00:13:02.180 But there are some very disabled comedians out there, and their jokes are about their disability. 0.97

00:13:08.020 And some of them are bloody funny.

00:13:10.960 And you think, should I be laughing about this?

00:13:13.500 Is this okay?

00:13:14.060 Well, he's making the joke himself.

00:13:15.440 I guess it's acceptable. 0.75

00:13:17.060 And when you think of the comedians who make jokes with Jews as the butt of the jokes, they're invariably Jewish comedians. 1.00

00:13:24.840 When you think about Asian or Muslim comedians or black comedians, those are the people. 0.92

00:13:32.200 Like, who uses the N-word in comedy more than black comedians? 0.97

00:13:37.260 I mean, Chris Rock.

00:13:39.340 I mean, it's shocking at first.

00:13:41.380 It's like rap music.

00:13:42.820 Rap music uses the N-word a lot.

00:13:45.840 And should it be banned because it's racist? 0.84

00:13:48.180 What if 99% of the people making that music are black themselves? 0.66

00:13:51.640 Is there a special exemption? 0.73

00:13:52.580 Is something allowed if it's racist but funny?

00:13:56.500 If it's unfunny, is it banned?

00:13:58.380 And I apply the racism to the disability joke here.

00:14:00.720 This joke about this young boy, Jeremy, I don't know if it was funny.

00:14:05.700 I haven't actually seen the original format in which the joke was made.

00:14:10.280 And that's sort of pitiful, too.

00:14:11.720 These judges in the Supreme Court, they print out the, in their ruling, they have the joke word for word.

00:14:17.100 And they're, like, analyzing the joke.

00:14:19.520 That's kind of funny.

00:14:20.520 It is funny.

00:14:21.360 It's like the old saying, you know, don't dissect a joke.

00:14:23.780 It's like dissecting a frog.

00:14:26.080 It's, you know, it's not very interesting.

00:14:28.620 Nobody's interested.

00:14:29.580 And at the end, the frog is dead.

00:14:30.900 The idea that you've got these joke tester generals, you know, these, these, welcome to the court of humor.

00:14:39.560 We will decide if this is funny or not or rude or not.

00:14:43.020 And by the way, what if being rude is the point?

00:14:47.700 Oh, well, you can't be rude.

00:14:49.420 Well, really?

00:14:50.460 I mean, we don't want to be rude all the time.

00:14:53.980 That would be a terrible world if people tried to outdo each other with rudeness.

00:14:57.740 But actually, occasionally, there is a point of rudeness.

00:14:59.500 I'm going to give you a quick case.

00:15:00.400 I forget the name of the case.

00:15:01.460 It was, I think it was during the Vietnam era.

00:15:06.220 Someone went into a courtroom with a shirt that said, F-U-C-K, the draft.

00:15:12.720 Not, excuse me, sir, I'm against the draft.

00:15:16.180 Or I do wish to lodge my protest against the draft. 0.84

00:15:20.340 I think it's a daft idea. 0.89

00:15:21.820 Like, it wasn't a polite, it was F-U-C-K, the draft. 0.97

00:15:26.320 And they got thrown out, and I think they got fined.

00:15:28.380 And this went all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States.

00:15:31.780 And the Supreme Court ruled that not only was that protected by the First Amendment,

00:15:36.740 but the choice of the word F-U-C-K, the draft,

00:15:40.280 was absolutely necessary to convey this man's feelings.

00:15:44.680 The sharpness of his feelings, the severity of his feelings,

00:15:50.860 the roughness of his feelings, his extreme opposition to the draft.

00:15:56.820 He needed to say F-U-C-K, the draft,

00:15:59.940 to communicate what was on his mind and his heart.

00:16:03.000 And the First Amendment in the United States, God bless it, upheld that.

00:16:07.020 And that's another way of saying the court said being rude is actually a human right.

00:16:16.340 Interesting.

00:16:16.480 Kind of the opposite of what they were trying to get here.

00:16:18.500 You know, people say, oh, there's a, you're not allowed to say something,

00:16:26.080 you're not allowed to be, say, do something offensive.

00:16:30.620 Being offended, the right to be offended, think of it for a second.

00:16:35.180 Let's say someone does something offensive.

00:16:36.800 Now, it's in the eye of the beholder.

00:16:40.240 Your right to be offended by it.

00:16:41.960 Your right to be appalled by something.

00:16:44.480 I'm appalled by the draft or I'm appalled by Mike Ward.

00:16:48.560 I'm appalled by something and I'm going to express it, how appalled I am.

00:16:52.420 Your reaction to the world, you're allowed to be offended.

00:16:55.780 In most countries, not most, in many countries, you're not allowed to be offended.

00:16:59.660 Yeah.

00:16:59.980 And who gets to decide what you're offended?

00:17:01.780 Well, we all get to decide what we're offended by.

00:17:03.840 I'm going on too much length, but my point, David,

00:17:07.340 is who the hell are these nine judges to tell us what we can or can't think is funny?

00:17:13.380 Who can or can't make the jokes?

00:17:15.680 I mean, it's like my old friend Tarek Fata.

00:17:18.080 When people say you're not allowed to criticize Islam and that's Islamophobic.

00:17:21.640 Well, is he not allowed to criticize the faith he grew up in?

00:17:24.800 Exactly.

00:17:25.020 And he was schooled in and he disputes?

00:17:27.640 You can't, I mean, does it apply to him too?

00:17:30.480 Well, of course it would.

00:17:31.400 Why wouldn't it?

00:17:32.440 So I think we have to push back, but it's in the culture.

00:17:37.300 Indeed.

00:17:37.680 And you know, what you just said about the number of disabled comedians that are out there,

00:17:41.600 triggered a memory, Ezra, back in the 80s.

00:17:43.620 A couple of times I saw, I can't remember his name, unfortunately.

00:17:46.600 He was a blind comedian.

00:17:48.380 And the way he began his set at each time is he comes onto the stage.

00:17:53.160 He's helped onto the stage with his back to the audience.

00:17:57.000 And then it dawns on him after a couple of jokes that he's not facing the audience.

00:18:01.520 He doesn't know because he's blind.

00:18:03.240 And the line is something along the lines of, 1.00

00:18:05.580 that damn dog is seeing eye dogs screwing up. 1.00

00:18:11.000 And it's funny, you laugh, but at the same time you have empathy because he's a blind man. 1.00

00:18:16.580 But that was never an issue back in the 80s.

00:18:20.000 I mean, I can't imagine.

00:18:20.880 Because that's a fairly safe joke.

00:18:22.460 Oh, yeah.

00:18:22.920 But what if he was vicious about it?

00:18:24.580 And what if he did something that was actually anti-blind?

00:18:28.300 You're being mean to blind.

00:18:29.360 Well, you know what?

00:18:30.820 How about we all get to make our own decisions?

00:18:33.440 And if Mike Ward did something defamatory about this boy that would deeply harm his, 0.90

00:18:40.080 you know, oh, this boy is a thief or something.

00:18:43.420 Okay, we'll assume in defamation. 0.89

00:18:45.000 But simply being mean is not a crime.

00:18:47.060 But that's the thing.

00:18:48.360 With Mike Ward, as Rose, I understand it.

00:18:50.460 This is a comedian.

00:18:51.580 He's very edgy.

00:18:53.460 And it was called, you know, Sacred Cows.

00:18:56.580 This particular comedy tour was the Sacred Cows tour kind of thing.

00:19:02.560 So you know what you're, it's not like Jerry Seinfeld who's super clean.

00:19:06.540 He doesn't even use the F-bomb.

00:19:08.460 And isn't it that the parents of Jeremy bringing that child to this concert,

00:19:13.820 do you think, Ezra, it's kind of like somebody going into a strip club and going,

00:19:17.520 oh, my God, all this nudity.

00:19:19.580 I mean, what did you expect?

00:19:20.920 Yeah, I mean, again, I'm not comparing this boy to, you know, there's some pageant parents

00:19:29.320 who take their very young girls and make them into these, you know, pageant, 1.00

00:19:34.220 like a mini Miss America thing. 0.99

00:19:36.860 And really, it's the parents living out their own dream through their own kid.

00:19:40.920 I agree.

00:19:41.180 And listen, knock yourself out.

00:19:43.500 I can think of a lot worse ways to, you know, spend time with your kid.

00:19:49.020 But is it really about the parent or the kid?

00:19:52.100 And they turned this kid into a mini celebrity.

00:19:55.900 He sang for Celine Dion.

00:19:57.220 He sang for the Pope.

00:19:58.960 He, like, they turned him into this celebrity singer.

00:20:01.560 And that's why Mike Ward took a run at him.

00:20:03.940 So it wasn't a private person.

00:20:05.700 And that's the nature of the public square.

00:20:08.140 If you're doing something for the public's delight, the public can express their view.

00:20:13.780 And they can't, they don't just have to applaud and say, what a good boy.

00:20:17.440 I would say, what a good boy.

00:20:19.440 If I, you know, if I, if I had been around and at the time and had, I mean, this is all

00:20:24.060 in French, in Quebec, you know, you see some young kid who has a grave disability trying

00:20:31.120 to, you know, put his best foot forward.

00:20:34.560 Yeah, I'd clap.

00:20:36.120 It'd be weird not to.

00:20:37.700 But you can't ban people from having the opposite response.

00:20:42.420 You entered the public square.

00:20:44.360 You created the spectacle.

00:20:47.340 You told people to watch and to react through applause.

00:20:51.280 You cannot punish someone who reacted in a different way, even if it was rude.

00:20:58.000 And I'm not saying Mike Ward wasn't rude.

00:21:00.020 But for God's sakes, imagine living in the country where the government can tell you what

00:21:06.400 jokes are legal or not.

00:21:07.260 I'm far more afraid of a government telling me what I can laugh at or not than some comedian

00:21:12.740 telling a rough joke.

00:21:14.240 A hundred percent.

00:21:14.940 And, you know, I can't help but think, Ezra, it was ever thus that dictators always frowned

00:21:21.480 on comedy.

00:21:22.140 And for a good reason.

00:21:23.400 I mean, after you laugh at the joke, you start to analyze, why am I laughing at this joke?

00:21:28.900 And then there's nuggets of truth and reality.

00:21:32.160 And that is beyond, you know, the dictator's control that might breed, you know, revolutionary

00:21:38.760 ideas, whatnot.

00:21:40.040 And I think, too, I dug this up.

00:21:41.800 It was a great quote from our friend Mark Stein, who knows a little about fighting for free

00:21:46.200 speech himself.

00:21:47.320 From 2014, I call him in the National Post, when it was far less woke than it is today.

00:21:51.800 And he said, a culture that values safe spaces where ideas cannot be debated is a culture

00:22:00.140 that will stagnate and die very quickly.

00:22:03.400 Your response.

00:22:04.600 Yeah, well, for sure.

00:22:06.180 And just to get back to what you said about powerful people not liking comedy, I think it

00:22:13.040 was Solzhenitsyn who was sent to the gulag for a joke about Stalin's mustache.

00:22:16.880 The Ayatollah said there's no jokes in Islam because...

00:22:22.500 And that's funny, too.

00:22:23.540 Yeah.

00:22:24.180 And it was an Orwell who said every joke is a little revolution.

00:22:28.920 And you're right, because if people laugh at the state, they're no longer afraid of the

00:22:35.020 state, or at least in that moment, they feel liberated from the state.

00:22:37.980 And I read very carefully the four dissenting judges here, and they basically said, you

00:22:49.440 can't laugh at marginalized people. 0.99

00:22:52.180 That's their rule.

00:22:53.940 Well, who decides who's marginalized?

00:22:56.220 Well, someone has to.

00:22:58.260 And isn't it a surprise that the government's favorite people are the marginalized ones, and

00:23:05.180 the government's unfavorite people, have as many laughs at them as you want. 0.55

00:23:09.740 I mean, all this anti-bullying, what we've learned in the last year that it was BS.

00:23:14.660 I've seen more bullying from Justin Trudeau and the premiers about people who are not vaccinated

00:23:20.060 than I've ever seen in my life.

00:23:21.340 Good point.

00:23:21.840 Bullying is an official...

00:23:22.940 So, oh, don't be mean.

00:23:24.900 I've seen more meanness.

00:23:26.200 Don't make jokes.

00:23:27.380 I've seen more mockery and marginalization and denormalization of people in the last two

00:23:32.140 years than I ever have in my life, and it is so subjective, and when you make jokes

00:23:37.020 illegal, you're basically letting the powerful people use that as a weapon to kill everything.

00:23:42.880 And I think we dodged a bullet by one centimeter in this ruling, but the next shot will hit

00:23:49.340 its target.

00:23:49.980 I think we have only years left, if that.

00:23:54.200 I hope you're wrong.

00:23:55.320 I think you're right.

00:23:56.120 It was an excellent commentary, Ezra.

00:23:57.720 Thank you so much for weighing in on it.

00:23:59.380 And, you know, the Supremes, you got it right, albeit five to four.

00:24:02.400 Here's the punchline to this black piece of humor.

00:24:06.760 It should have been nine to zero.

00:24:09.560 What were you thinking as far as you dissenting justices?

00:24:13.500 Disgraceful.

00:24:14.460 Keep it here.

00:24:15.100 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:24:17.260 This is Lewis Brackpool reporting for Rebel News, and as you can see, I'm here in sunny Glasgow,

00:24:28.320 where behind me is COP26, the United Nations climate conference, where world leaders gather

00:24:36.480 together and show off their private planes and land rovers.

00:24:40.780 So Rebel News does not have anything in common with these elites.

00:24:43.540 They came here on private jets, and we came here, well, on EasyJet.

00:24:48.380 And there aren't going to be many organizations that are going to come here and expose the

00:24:52.280 hypocrisy.

00:24:53.380 Well, we are.

00:24:54.680 And if you'd like to help fund the truth, please head on over to Rebel UN and follow my work.

00:25:01.220 Now, as you probably already know, I'm not an eco-maniac.

00:25:04.620 I don't believe in alarmism, and I don't believe that the world is going to end in 10 to 20 years'

00:25:09.080 time.

00:25:09.440 I also don't think that Greta Thunberg is a trustworthy source of information.

00:25:14.240 You all come to us young people for hope.

00:25:18.040 How dare you?

00:25:19.720 Now, Rebel News was supposed to be inside the conference today.

00:25:23.240 Unfortunately, due to our recent history with the United Nations, they've actually banned

00:25:28.860 Rebel News from even attending the conference due to asking tricky questions such as, who funds

00:25:34.720 you?

00:25:35.560 Well, we know the answer to that, and that's the taxpayer, which is yourself.

00:25:40.300 First bit of hypocrisy is the fact that Chinese state media are allowed to attend this conference,

00:25:46.620 along with Al Jazeera.

00:25:48.220 But the United Nations' excuse for when we applied to attend this conference was that they have

00:25:53.500 no previous record of Rebel News even being at any of the previous conferences, which, as

00:26:00.300 you can see by the screenshots, is a load of bull.

00:26:03.160 It's quite easy to work out why Rebel News is not allowed to attend this conference.

00:26:08.260 We are the organization that asks the difficult questions and points out the hypocrisies of

00:26:13.120 these world leaders and the mainstream media.

00:26:15.900 But regardless of me not being allowed to attend, I'm going to still point out these hypocrisies,

00:26:21.740 even if it means standing just outside the venue.

00:26:25.220 Well, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow is now mercifully over all the virtue-signaling

00:26:33.200 fearless leaders, you know, those elitists who admonish the great unwashed masses of planet

00:26:39.380 Earth to do better.

00:26:41.560 Well, they've now returned to their home countries, most of them getting there via carbon-spewing 0.99

00:26:47.160 private jets, by the way.

00:26:48.520 But then again, what do you expect these elites to do?

00:26:53.340 Fly coach?

00:26:54.900 Lead by example? 0.89

00:26:56.460 Well, in the words of one unhinged Swede, who is increasingly resembling Gollum from The 1.00

00:27:03.040 Lord of the Rings, how dare you? 0.96

00:27:05.420 How dare you?

00:27:06.340 And joining me now is our UK correspondent, Lewis Brackpool, who was able to take in this 0.86

00:27:13.460 smorgasbord of hypocrisy firsthand.

00:27:17.780 Hey, Lewis, welcome to Rebel Roundup for the first time.

00:27:20.900 How are you doing?

00:27:22.600 Thank you so much for having me on.

00:27:24.460 It's an absolute pleasure to be here.

00:27:26.340 Oh, that's fantastic. 1.00

00:27:27.680 You know, Lewis, not only are these UN types hypocrites, they are also filthy liars. 0.98

00:27:34.440 As you pointed out in your video, they stated that the reason Rebel News was denied access 0.95

00:27:40.380 to the conference was due to the fact that there were no previous records of Rebel News

00:27:46.400 attending UN conferences.

00:27:48.040 But that's simply not true.

00:27:51.340 Yet, here's the thing, Lewis.

00:27:53.180 I think these lying gatekeepers did you a big favor.

00:27:58.220 Keeping you out of that snore fest was a godsend, given that you could expose the 0.88

00:28:04.180 hypocrisy occurring outside the venue.

00:28:07.000 For example, that image of an overflowing garbage can. 0.88

00:28:11.500 How perversely ironic, Lewis.

00:28:13.360 These elitists want us to shiver in the dark so that we can reduce our carbon footprint.

00:28:18.620 Yet, they can't even be bothered to take care of their own litter.

00:28:22.720 What's your take, my friend?

00:28:25.420 You're totally right.

00:28:26.800 I mean, it's been a bit of a staunchy week for them.

00:28:30.020 I think the Glasgow bin handlers were on strike as well on the same week.

00:28:35.140 So it's great to be honest.

00:28:39.320 Yeah, at the point now, the hypocrisy was a lot of fun.

00:28:41.700 I'm sure you saw the petrol-generated powered sign that said,

00:28:48.260 let's do net zero, being projected onto a bridge.

00:28:51.020 What was funny about that as well, people were stopping in their cars to film the actual sign,

00:28:55.960 but not the generator.

00:28:57.720 So it's quite funny to see people's reactions to different things.

00:29:02.600 Yeah, and I wonder if there's awareness of the hypocrisy by the general public,

00:29:08.680 because we know, Lewis, the mainstream media will not report this.

00:29:13.660 And I mean, I even heard it come up in a talk radio station in Toronto,

00:29:16.800 and the host was a complete apologist.

00:29:19.980 Oh, yeah, we understand hypocrisy, yada, yada, yada.

00:29:23.780 But, you know, it's for the greater good for the years and decades ahead to clean up the planet.

00:29:29.380 Are you buying that?

00:29:30.520 Because I subscribe to the proviso of lead by example.

00:29:35.360 Exactly.

00:29:36.200 I'm all about practice what you do.

00:29:38.640 That's the motto that I would be.

00:29:41.060 And speaking to climate protesters throughout the few days that I was there,

00:29:46.220 they seem to be siding with the establishment.

00:29:48.220 And I asked the question, when did this happen in the course of history,

00:29:52.260 where earth-loving history started siding with the enemy, essentially,

00:29:58.260 the establishment that doesn't seem to care about you and only is there for profit?

00:30:03.800 So it's very baffling.

00:30:05.760 I'm sure you'll be seeing a clip of me soon going head-to-head with a climate activist,

00:30:10.560 where I do say, well, surely if the elites practiced what they preached,

00:30:15.140 surely they would set the example for the people and the people would follow.

00:30:19.040 But they seem to be following anyway, which is completely nuts.

00:30:23.680 You know, and Lewis, were these the protesters that were all dressed in red?

00:30:28.200 I saw a clip of that.

00:30:29.780 I don't know what the message was.

00:30:31.600 Maybe I'm a bear of little brain like Winnie the Pooh, but what were they trying to convey?

00:30:37.020 Do you know what, I'm trying to work that out, even after the trip, if I'm totally honest.

00:30:45.180 I think their message, from what one of the stewards pointed out,

00:30:53.040 was that it's the blood on the UK's hands, almost.

00:30:56.660 They're the photo or a drawing of the United Kingdom,

00:31:00.040 so all of the countries, just in red, and it's sort of like a heart and veins and things like that.

00:31:06.720 I think it was like the blood on the UK's hands,

00:31:09.180 when we're only 1.1% of the total world's emissions,

00:31:13.520 and China's worth 30%.

00:31:15.260 So I think they're getting the message wrong.

00:31:18.700 Yeah.

00:31:19.280 You know, same with Canada.

00:31:21.580 I mean, we have a carbon emission output of, I think, less than 2% of the global toll.

00:31:26.680 I think it's 1.8%, and yet countries like China, India, they get a free pass for some reason.

00:31:34.120 And, you know, another baffling thing, I'm going to throw to it now, Lewis,

00:31:36.760 it was that advertisement of a raptor addressing the UN Assembly.

00:31:45.080 Here, folks, just check it out in case you missed it.

00:31:47.660 Listen up, people.

00:31:49.480 I know a thing or two about extinction.

00:31:51.360 And let me tell you, and you'd kind of think this would be obvious,

00:31:57.280 going extinct is a bad thing.

00:31:59.800 So, I mean, it is, like I said, Lewis, baffling.

00:32:04.900 You have a dinosaur, and, of course, we know the dinosaurs were wiped out

00:32:09.600 by a device that was not of their making.

00:32:14.020 In other words, a meteor or an asteroid crashed into the planet.

00:32:17.460 So, he's kind of making, in a sense, the case for those who are climate change skeptics,

00:32:24.500 i.e. that maybe this is not man-made climate change.

00:32:28.900 Maybe there are forces that are greater.

00:32:31.100 But the other thing, Lewis, it dawned on me after viewing that ad much later.

00:32:35.020 I had an epiphany.

00:32:36.420 Why would they do this silly dinosaur thing like they plucked it from Jurassic Park? 0.78

00:32:40.960 And I think the reason, Lewis, is indoctrination. 0.90

00:32:45.060 The demographic that adores dinosaurs is children.

00:32:50.560 And as the Marxists like to say, my friend, get them young, get them forever.

00:32:55.700 Yeah, and you're completely right.

00:32:58.080 I've been seeing a lot of the propaganda over the coming days.

00:33:02.520 In fact, telling you a story, I was actually waiting for the flight home,

00:33:07.600 and I was in the airport sitting there.

00:33:10.500 Quite funny, there were a few people with the UN climate change masks on,

00:33:14.660 which did make me laugh because they were waiting forward for their flights.

00:33:18.340 And the TV was on, and they were playing some sort of drama series,

00:33:22.840 some Scottish drama series.

00:33:24.700 And you could see it was, I'm going to use the term,

00:33:29.380 it was part of an identity group.

00:33:31.520 And she sat there to lecture her own mother on how we should be doing it for the climate. 1.00

00:33:40.280 And each individual person makes a greater difference.

00:33:43.200 And this was all just being pumped out to everyone in the airport.

00:33:46.520 So I think we're seeing a lot of this on our own soap operas.

00:33:50.640 And I don't know who's buying that, and I don't know who's falling for it either.

00:33:55.460 And, you know, this whole idea that we, the great unwashed masses,

00:34:00.440 we must sacrifice yet more.

00:34:03.240 I understand, Lewis, in the UK, isn't gasoline and home heating fuel,

00:34:09.400 aren't those prices going through the roof right now?

00:34:13.160 They are, that's correct.

00:34:14.620 We had recently a fuel crisis where I believe some,

00:34:19.500 I think it was a particular, I think it was Sky News maybe,

00:34:23.340 but don't quote me on that just in case,

00:34:26.400 ran a stall and it panicked a lot of the public,

00:34:30.200 which ended up buying a lot of fuel and ended up hoarding.

00:34:34.940 A bit like the bullet paper scenario with COVID,

00:34:37.700 not so long ago with various countries.

00:34:40.740 And now what we're seeing is a hike of energy prices,

00:34:43.800 a hike of fuel prices.

00:34:45.800 And on top of that,

00:34:47.400 Boris Johnson has a plan to ban diesel and petrol in the UK by 2030.

00:34:51.900 So we're seeing these radical changes happen in real time.

00:34:56.980 Oh, so that's very interesting.

00:34:58.200 How does Boris expect Brits to get around and to keep their houses warm by using

00:35:04.820 the lithium crystals?

00:35:05.880 Yeah, I wish that we're all in the set of a Star Trek,

00:35:12.320 but unfortunately not.

00:35:15.900 I'll be honest.

00:35:16.840 I don't have the answer for that one, David.

00:35:19.080 I don't know how we're supposed to transfer to electric.

00:35:22.880 I think what we're seeing is another form of a class system or an elite system

00:35:28.540 where it's only the plebs cannot afford to go electric here by 2030 or after 2030.

00:35:35.380 And only the people who have invested in climate change

00:35:39.200 and are understanding the message perfectly

00:35:41.780 can afford these great gifts of electric cars.

00:35:46.680 So we're going to be seeing that.

00:35:48.760 Yeah, I agree.

00:35:50.080 And I mean, you know, it just seems so shameful to me, Lewis,

00:35:55.020 that the average Brit, the average citizen in the West,

00:35:58.920 you're being hit with more carbon taxes, more carbon levies,

00:36:03.040 when prices are already going through the roof,

00:36:04.820 when you have suffered so much from COVID-19.

00:36:08.940 So many people have lost their jobs.

00:36:11.040 It has caused the world economy trillions of dollars in damage.

00:36:15.740 And I want to focus on that.

00:36:16.920 You know, last month we had Glenn Beck speak at one of our rebel events.

00:36:21.800 And he was of the opinion, I'm paraphrasing right now,

00:36:24.800 but, you know, the climate change hysteria has been going on for well over a decade.

00:36:31.400 And it was meant to change our behavior.

00:36:34.220 And we really didn't change our behavior that much.

00:36:36.860 So he, Glenn Beck was of the opinion, Lewis,

00:36:40.640 that those who espouse the whole build back better,

00:36:45.280 you know, the new world order, however you want to call it,

00:36:47.860 they needed something else.

00:36:49.960 And gosh, has COVID-19 ever been a governor

00:36:55.060 in terms of changing our behavior, making things different?

00:36:59.660 Do you think that could be the unspoken story here about all these,

00:37:05.160 you know, when it comes to COVID-19

00:37:08.140 and as it pertains to this climate change hysteria as well?

00:37:13.580 Thank you, David.

00:37:14.700 And I believe that it's just,

00:37:17.480 it's trying to understand what better means.

00:37:20.280 What does better mean when you say build back better?

00:37:23.780 We don't know.

00:37:24.840 Only these elites know.

00:37:26.560 And of course, I'm not surprised if we're going to see

00:37:29.200 Klaus Schwab start making more and more strange policies,

00:37:33.740 pushing out to other governments.

00:37:35.220 It's just, it's really quite worrying.

00:37:38.520 What I said in one of my videos was,

00:37:41.380 are you ready to embrace this new normal

00:37:45.100 under the guise of once COVID and now climate change?

00:37:48.680 And that's what we're going to slowly start seeing.

00:37:50.760 We're going to start seeing policies

00:37:52.440 that are going to trickle over from what they've done with COVID.

00:37:56.460 But now the narrative is changing towards climate change.

00:38:00.320 And they've already started pumping it out on the TVs

00:38:02.740 with the media, soap shows,

00:38:06.080 everything you're going to start to see.

00:38:08.720 And it's going to really transform the conversation.

00:38:12.580 And anyone who either is a denier

00:38:14.880 or doesn't necessarily believe it

00:38:18.100 or even just a bit sceptical

00:38:20.500 are going to be shut down in conversation

00:38:22.940 and possibly even barred as well.

00:38:25.420 It's just going to be another repeat.

00:38:27.020 So, yeah, I keep your eyes peeled for that, maybe.

00:38:30.480 Yeah, no, I think you're right, Lewis.

00:38:31.720 And I mean, further to what Glenn Beck said,

00:38:35.120 I mean, I'm not pretending I have all the answers,

00:38:37.060 but I think with both issues,

00:38:38.460 climate change and COVID-19,

00:38:40.300 I think there is some kind of nefarious strategy

00:38:43.860 behind the scenes.

00:38:45.320 I'm not exactly sure what it is,

00:38:46.920 but I'm not buying what we're getting on face value.

00:38:49.520 But Lewis, I want to thank you so much

00:38:51.100 for doing an excellent report.

00:38:52.660 Now, I really believe that.

00:38:53.800 And I really mean that, that those UN gatekeepers

00:38:57.560 did you a favour by not letting you

00:38:59.980 into that boring bun tosser of an event.

00:39:04.200 And I have factual proof that it was boring.

00:39:08.460 I've seen this photo of President Biden

00:39:11.420 nodding off to sleep during the conference.

00:39:15.140 So if such a great mind like that

00:39:18.000 could be bored into slumber,

00:39:20.560 I can only imagine what journalists would do

00:39:24.080 in such an environment, Lewis.

00:39:27.440 That's the first thing I've actually agreed with Joe Biden.

00:39:30.980 I'm just falling asleep during the conference.

00:39:34.780 Well, there you go.

00:39:36.060 Great job, my friend.

00:39:37.080 I'll look forward to your future videos.

00:39:39.240 And you have a wonderful weekend, Lewis.

00:39:42.740 Thank you very much, David.

00:39:43.840 Thank you for having me on.

00:39:44.940 You take care.

00:39:46.020 You got it.

00:39:46.620 And that was Lewis Brackpool in London.

00:39:50.260 Keep it here, folks.

00:39:51.060 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:39:58.840 This is absolutely incredible.

00:40:01.300 And I think before we start to deconstruct it,

00:40:04.440 let's throw back to that four minute,

00:40:07.360 less than four minute clip

00:40:08.620 where you are introducing Farrakhan

00:40:10.740 and things just go right off the rails.

00:40:13.780 No fault of your own, I might add.

00:40:15.620 But here it is, folks.

00:40:16.680 This is what the interaction was like

00:40:19.060 with Mr. Sherman and Ms. Khan

00:40:21.640 back in September.

00:40:23.700 You know, not too many years ago,

00:40:25.600 I had a relative,

00:40:27.640 a young lady relative,

00:40:29.540 come to stay with us in Toronto

00:40:31.980 because she wanted to move to Toronto

00:40:35.020 from where she lived.

00:40:36.600 And she stayed with my wife and myself

00:40:40.540 and went about her business,

00:40:43.700 tried to find a job,

00:40:44.500 all the rest of it.

00:40:45.120 She's, this is a number of years now

00:40:47.100 and she's since grown up and doing fine.

00:40:48.940 But when she arrived,

00:40:50.360 she was not a big city girl.

00:40:53.060 And we had to wrestle with

00:40:55.340 how you behave if you're a young lady,

00:40:58.280 you know, a nice looking young lady 0.99

00:40:59.740 going into establishments where,

00:41:03.100 let's just say you could get into trouble.

00:41:04.640 You go, you're trying to get social,

00:41:07.420 you're trying to make friends

00:41:08.260 and you go into a bar.

00:41:09.960 It might not be the first choice,

00:41:11.680 but maybe it's the only choice.

00:41:13.540 And I remember finding out that

00:41:15.380 she had been doing things like

00:41:18.180 ordering a drink,

00:41:19.380 leaving it on the bar,

00:41:20.300 going to the washroom

00:41:21.400 and then coming back.

00:41:23.000 And when you hear that,

00:41:24.340 you go, you can't do that.

00:41:25.920 And here's why.

00:41:27.000 And you have to explain it.

00:41:28.640 Then you look at these signs

00:41:30.620 that are up on bathroom walls

00:41:32.480 in female washrooms 1.00

00:41:34.860 in public establishments,

00:41:36.660 particularly where alcohol is served.

00:41:39.180 And you see that there's a drink

00:41:41.000 that doesn't really exist

00:41:42.140 that you can order.

00:41:43.380 And if you order it a certain way,

00:41:44.700 what you're doing is signaling

00:41:45.680 the waitstaff that you're in trouble

00:41:47.180 and what kind of trouble

00:41:48.520 is what you're telling them

00:41:51.360 through this encoded drink

00:41:53.300 that you're ordering.

00:41:54.460 And maybe they'll call the police

00:41:55.740 or maybe they'll help shoo away

00:41:57.940 the guy who's bothering you,

00:41:58.960 whatever it happens to be.

00:41:59.980 Anyway, these are various approaches

00:42:02.200 to assisting young women

00:42:04.180 who get themselves

00:42:05.480 or through no fault of their own

00:42:07.360 wind up in trouble

00:42:08.920 when it comes to the service of alcohol.

00:42:11.260 Ontario's mandatory training program

00:42:13.040 for those who sell and serve

00:42:14.900 and deliver and handle alcohol

00:42:16.960 is soon going to include training

00:42:19.280 on how to recognize

00:42:21.020 and respond to sexual violence

00:42:23.060 in a bar or a restaurant setting.

00:42:26.000 And this is due in great degree

00:42:28.880 to SmartServe Ontario.

00:42:31.880 And we're lucky to have with us

00:42:33.360 Farrah Khan,

00:42:34.560 who is manager of Consent Comes First

00:42:36.640 at Ryerson University's

00:42:38.340 Office of Sexual Violence

00:42:39.600 Support and Education.

00:42:41.020 And Farrah, welcome to the program.

00:42:42.380 You had a lot to do with this.

00:42:44.460 I did in the way of advocating

00:42:46.880 with violence against women

00:42:48.420 organizations and advocates

00:42:50.900 across this province,

00:42:52.720 as well as with city councilor

00:42:54.740 Kristen Wong-Tam,

00:42:56.220 as well as Peggy Fattler,

00:42:57.480 who actually did a private members bill

00:42:59.060 in 2017.

00:43:00.540 Kristen did a city motion

00:43:03.160 that passed in 2016.

00:43:06.400 And so we've done a lot of work

00:43:07.720 to really raise this issue

00:43:09.000 for a very long time

00:43:10.100 with SmartServe.

00:43:10.800 And at first,

00:43:11.300 they were reluctant to do it.

00:43:12.960 I'm happy that this has come through,

00:43:15.060 but I'm very disappointed

00:43:16.140 in the breadth and depth

00:43:17.640 that they're covering.

00:43:18.880 I also want to just check you

00:43:20.480 for a second.

00:43:21.420 I heard you say at one point,

00:43:23.260 they get themselves

00:43:24.180 into this trouble,

00:43:25.060 kind of like that kind of naming.

00:43:27.020 And I just want to be

00:43:27.900 really clear here

00:43:28.820 that the survivor,

00:43:31.080 someone who's affected

00:43:31.940 by sexual violence,

00:43:32.600 someone who is sexually assaulted,

00:43:33.900 doesn't get themselves

00:43:34.740 into trouble.

00:43:35.520 Oh, yes, they do.

00:43:36.520 I'm not going to get

00:43:37.120 in an argument on this.

00:43:38.260 I wound up with...

00:43:39.220 The person that's responsible 0.93

00:43:40.840 for sexual violence...

00:43:41.740 The person that's responsible

00:43:42.980 for sexual violence

00:43:43.800 is the person that's committing

00:43:44.960 a sexual violence.

00:43:46.000 We don't agree and shame...

00:43:46.900 Farrah, I'm going to remind you

00:43:48.180 that you're a guest

00:43:48.940 on this program.

00:43:50.040 I'm asking you questions

00:43:51.160 and I'm giving you answers.

00:43:52.080 And what you heard me say

00:43:53.540 when I introduced you...

00:43:54.740 I think this interview is done.

00:43:55.540 I'm going to end this interview now

00:43:56.580 because I don't think

00:43:57.120 you're respecting me.

00:43:58.500 So, Peter,

00:44:00.340 I read Sue Ann Levy's story

00:44:03.560 in True North,

00:44:04.340 our good friend Sue Ann Levy,

00:44:05.680 about this incident

00:44:06.960 three times.

00:44:08.340 I listened to the clip

00:44:09.820 and, Peter,

00:44:10.940 let me give Ms. Kahn

00:44:12.600 the benefit of the doubt.

00:44:13.620 Let's say there was

00:44:14.700 something somehow,

00:44:17.180 like I said,

00:44:17.720 I don't get it,

00:44:18.760 offensive in how you

00:44:20.360 characterize that anecdote.

00:44:22.640 In this DNA of cancel culture,

00:44:24.700 it seems, Peter,

00:44:25.440 that, you know,

00:44:26.220 once upon a time

00:44:26.960 in broadcasting,

00:44:27.680 if you said something

00:44:28.820 really egregious,

00:44:30.440 you would do a mea culpa

00:44:32.280 apology on the air,

00:44:33.380 perhaps maybe a two-day,

00:44:35.040 a two-week suspension,

00:44:36.240 what have you.

00:44:37.300 Now it is a death sentence. 0.99

00:44:39.280 It is the guillotine 0.99

00:44:40.320 coming down 0.96

00:44:41.080 on the alleged offender.

00:44:43.740 How did we get to this point

00:44:45.400 where there is,

00:44:47.400 you know,

00:44:47.760 unlike a first-degree murderer

00:44:49.280 on parole,

00:44:49.940 there is no second chance

00:44:51.780 anymore?

00:44:52.160 No, there are no second chances.

00:44:53.500 It's not just broadcasting.

00:44:55.320 I don't know,

00:44:57.040 other than,

00:44:58.260 what she does,

00:44:59.400 who Farah is,

00:45:00.300 so I don't attribute

00:45:01.240 this to Farah,

00:45:02.320 but I think,

00:45:03.020 generally speaking,

00:45:04.320 woke culture,

00:45:05.420 which is trying to turn

00:45:06.340 society upside down

00:45:07.580 and create,

00:45:08.500 instead of equality

00:45:09.260 of opportunity,

00:45:10.140 equality of results,

00:45:12.400 and there,

00:45:13.060 you know,

00:45:13.580 by adjusting everything

00:45:14.900 from a school test

00:45:16.740 to like an SAT,

00:45:18.680 for example,

00:45:19.460 to address the different

00:45:20.560 layers of society,

00:45:22.060 to changing rules,

00:45:25.240 generally speaking,

00:45:26.060 to the point where

00:45:27.260 anybody who doesn't get

00:45:28.720 inside the circle

00:45:29.580 that they've formed

00:45:30.460 is a bad guy

00:45:31.780 and therefore guilty

00:45:32.680 of everything.

00:45:33.700 It goes to,

00:45:34.460 why are we pulling down

00:45:35.860 statues in the states

00:45:36.960 of Washington here?

00:45:38.280 And this is not

00:45:39.340 the Farah thing.

00:45:40.020 This is just what's going on.

00:45:41.280 Pull down

00:45:41.780 Sir John A. McDonald's

00:45:43.100 statue because he was

00:45:44.320 involved in residential

00:45:45.100 schools.

00:45:45.620 Well,

00:45:45.800 Pierre Elliott Trudeau

00:45:46.700 was involved in

00:45:47.400 residential schools.

00:45:48.660 100%.

00:45:49.180 And so was Jean Chrétien,

00:45:50.640 Minister of Indian Affairs.

00:45:51.960 It doesn't make them

00:45:53.100 bad people.

00:45:54.540 It makes them people

00:45:55.760 who followed a dogma

00:45:57.200 of the times

00:45:58.020 that nobody can justify,

00:46:00.020 but you don't change

00:46:01.640 a dogma of the times

00:46:02.980 20 or 30 or 150 years later.

00:46:06.460 You record it as history

00:46:07.800 and you try not to repeat it.

00:46:09.380 But folks like this

00:46:11.000 are saying,

00:46:12.000 no,

00:46:12.260 if you want to say

00:46:14.020 or suggest

00:46:15.100 in any way,

00:46:15.780 shape or form

00:46:16.400 that you have to teach

00:46:17.980 a young girl

00:46:19.280 not to leave her drink

00:46:20.900 on the bar

00:46:21.500 because she'll be in danger,

00:46:23.200 you're part of the problem

00:46:24.440 because she should be able

00:46:25.600 to leave her drink 0.93

00:46:26.200 on the bar.

00:46:26.940 Well,

00:46:27.400 another one bites the dust

00:46:28.660 thanks to that

00:46:29.400 oh so despicable virus.

00:46:31.200 No,

00:46:31.480 I speak not of COVID-19

00:46:33.000 but rather

00:46:33.660 something that is perhaps

00:46:35.340 even more insidious.

00:46:37.800 Cancel culture.

00:46:39.280 The latest victim,

00:46:40.300 veteran broadcaster

00:46:41.200 Peter Sherman,

00:46:42.260 who had been filling in

00:46:44.160 as a talk show host

00:46:45.500 at AM640 Toronto

00:46:47.120 for the past five years.

00:46:48.900 Alas,

00:46:49.600 Peter was fired last month

00:46:51.200 due to an absolutely

00:46:52.720 baffling incident

00:46:53.960 that occurred

00:46:54.760 during a broadcast

00:46:55.680 on September 24th.

00:46:58.220 Peter was introducing

00:46:59.220 uber-woke activist

00:47:00.520 Farrah Khan.

00:47:01.700 The interview was supposed

00:47:02.900 to be about how

00:47:04.040 Smart Serve Ontario's

00:47:05.640 new training program

00:47:07.300 will include training

00:47:08.660 to recognize

00:47:09.540 sexual violence

00:47:10.800 and drug-induced

00:47:12.220 sexual assault.

00:47:13.820 Well,

00:47:14.400 as you heard,

00:47:15.560 just prior to

00:47:16.560 introducing Khan,

00:47:17.980 Peter spoke of

00:47:18.780 a young family member,

00:47:20.520 a female family member

00:47:21.600 that is,

00:47:22.080 who once stayed with him

00:47:23.560 years ago

00:47:24.420 and Peter advised her

00:47:26.180 not to leave her drink

00:47:27.520 unattended

00:47:28.240 when using the restroom.

00:47:29.500 Well,

00:47:30.700 can you believe it?

00:47:31.820 That innocuous anecdote

00:47:34.060 triggered Khan so much

00:47:35.820 that she lambasted

00:47:37.740 Peter for mentioning it

00:47:39.120 and then hung up,

00:47:40.900 thereby terminating

00:47:42.060 the interview.

00:47:43.180 And because

00:47:44.120 this spirit unicorn

00:47:45.540 social justice snowflake

00:47:47.380 had her feelings hurt,

00:47:49.180 well, 0.96

00:47:49.460 the cowardly, 1.00

00:47:50.360 gutless managers 1.00

00:47:51.360 at Global News

00:47:52.360 threw Mr. Sherman

00:47:53.700 under the bus. 1.00

00:47:55.400 Pathetic. 1.00

00:47:56.080 In any event, 1.00

00:47:57.340 you had plenty to say

00:47:58.460 about another example

00:48:00.120 of someone being deemed

00:48:02.040 to be,

00:48:02.600 well,

00:48:02.820 a non-person

00:48:03.640 due to cancel culture.

00:48:06.900 True 83

00:48:07.720 Full Enough Said

00:48:09.140 writes,

00:48:10.000 this is absolutely

00:48:11.200 effing insane.

00:48:13.080 You can't even

00:48:13.980 disagree with somebody

00:48:15.220 anymore nowadays

00:48:16.220 without getting

00:48:17.540 canceled.

00:48:18.600 Well,

00:48:18.880 two things.

00:48:19.920 You know,

00:48:20.220 the best kind of talk radio

00:48:21.440 is when there is a rousing

00:48:22.960 debate taking place.

00:48:24.340 But these days,

00:48:25.580 such content

00:48:27.040 might offend

00:48:27.960 some people

00:48:28.820 if,

00:48:29.780 God forbid,

00:48:30.380 someone utters

00:48:31.080 something that's deemed

00:48:32.300 to be even

00:48:33.160 remotely politically

00:48:34.860 incorrect.

00:48:36.040 So terrestrial radio

00:48:37.360 in Canada

00:48:38.180 makes for a biosphere

00:48:40.260 of blandness

00:48:41.240 and boredom

00:48:41.900 for the most part.

00:48:43.280 But what's really

00:48:44.420 outrageous

00:48:45.100 is that Peter

00:48:47.040 was passing along

00:48:48.860 an anecdote

00:48:49.540 in which he was

00:48:50.500 giving good advice

00:48:52.000 to a young lady

00:48:53.040 so that she would

00:48:54.660 remain safe.

00:48:55.580 You would think

00:48:56.660 that a feminist 1.00

00:48:57.500 like Farrah Khan

00:48:58.860 would be on side

00:49:00.380 with that kind of advice.

00:49:01.560 You know,

00:49:02.020 the idea of keeping

00:49:03.340 women safe.

00:49:05.140 Yet,

00:49:05.540 this offends her

00:49:06.680 for reasons that,

00:49:08.400 well,

00:49:08.900 completely escape me.

00:49:11.160 Richard Allen writes,

00:49:12.660 he has nothing

00:49:13.460 to apologize for.

00:49:14.840 He should sue

00:49:15.920 the pence

00:49:16.720 off that media company

00:49:18.340 ASAP.

00:49:19.580 Well,

00:49:19.960 Richard,

00:49:20.460 I'm not a lawyer,

00:49:21.580 but I think Peter

00:49:22.320 has an excellent

00:49:23.160 case for wrongful

00:49:24.280 dismissal

00:49:24.940 or breach

00:49:25.880 of contract here.

00:49:27.660 And get a load

00:49:28.200 of this.

00:49:28.780 To add insult

00:49:29.620 to injury,

00:49:30.360 after Peter Sherman

00:49:31.500 was sacked,

00:49:33.100 Farrah Khan

00:49:33.740 was then invited

00:49:35.180 back onto

00:49:36.480 the AM640

00:49:37.640 morning show

00:49:38.400 in which host

00:49:39.840 Greg Bootlegger

00:49:41.000 Brady

00:49:41.480 offered her

00:49:42.580 a groveling

00:49:43.580 apology.

00:49:45.160 That's a fatal

00:49:46.560 strategy.

00:49:47.160 You cannot

00:49:48.260 keep bending

00:49:49.580 the knee

00:49:50.100 to these

00:49:51.040 woke warriors

00:49:52.140 because it is

00:49:53.140 never,

00:49:53.880 ever enough.

00:49:54.940 They are never,

00:49:55.980 ever satisfied.

00:49:57.520 Hey,

00:49:57.740 I'd call the 0.82

00:49:58.480 executives at

00:49:59.300 Global News

00:49:59.960 spineless,

00:50:00.700 but really,

00:50:01.260 folks,

00:50:01.780 I don't want

00:50:02.420 to offend

00:50:02.860 the jellyfish

00:50:03.580 community.

00:50:05.300 Sneaky

00:50:05.860 Sleets

00:50:06.720 writes,

00:50:07.640 she was

00:50:08.220 triggered so

00:50:08.940 fast,

00:50:09.480 ha ha,

00:50:10.120 but what

00:50:10.820 she fails

00:50:11.500 to understand

00:50:12.180 is that he

00:50:13.200 isn't necessarily

00:50:14.160 saying,

00:50:15.020 woman, 1.00

00:50:15.480 get into

00:50:16.120 these situations

00:50:17.240 of their

00:50:18.140 own,

00:50:18.820 but sometimes

00:50:20.160 the things

00:50:20.840 they do

00:50:21.400 opens up

00:50:22.180 the opportunity

00:50:23.160 for these

00:50:24.300 things to

00:50:24.760 take place.

00:50:25.700 Simple as

00:50:26.660 that.

00:50:27.520 Indeed,

00:50:28.140 Peter wasn't

00:50:28.760 blaming the

00:50:29.500 victim here,

00:50:30.480 just pointing

00:50:31.100 out the sad

00:50:32.680 reality that

00:50:33.520 in the bar

00:50:34.020 scene there

00:50:34.580 might be a

00:50:35.240 predator afoot

00:50:36.240 who will

00:50:37.240 spike someone's 0.77

00:50:38.560 unattended

00:50:39.200 drink.

00:50:40.300 But this is

00:50:41.280 where we are

00:50:42.160 in terms of

00:50:42.780 political correctness,

00:50:43.720 folks,

00:50:44.280 and cancel

00:50:45.000 culture.

00:50:45.440 Even

00:50:46.560 stating a

00:50:47.500 truism

00:50:48.060 will get

00:50:49.000 you fired

00:50:49.580 today.

00:50:51.800 Ken

00:50:52.100 Leishman

00:50:52.700 writes,

00:50:53.780 she pre-planned

00:50:54.740 this for

00:50:55.340 free publicity.

00:50:56.560 She was a

00:50:57.080 nobody,

00:50:57.720 now she

00:50:58.180 thinks her

00:50:59.220 name is

00:50:59.920 worthy at

00:51:00.980 Sherman's

00:51:01.760 expense.

00:51:03.200 She sued

00:51:04.220 for damages.

00:51:05.460 Ken,

00:51:05.940 I think you

00:51:06.720 might be on

00:51:07.160 to something

00:51:07.500 here.

00:51:08.080 That was

00:51:08.860 a publicity

00:51:09.720 stunt

00:51:10.260 from the

00:51:10.960 get-go,

00:51:11.960 and when

00:51:12.640 it comes

00:51:13.120 to vilifying

00:51:14.660 someone today,

00:51:15.540 well,

00:51:15.740 let's face

00:51:16.120 it,

00:51:16.260 a white

00:51:16.720 heterosexual 0.84

00:51:17.420 male is

00:51:18.500 perfect when

00:51:19.700 it comes to

00:51:20.340 someone playing

00:51:21.180 the oppressor

00:51:22.520 role.

00:51:23.540 Just one thing

00:51:24.280 though,

00:51:24.740 Farrakhan was a

00:51:25.800 nobody before

00:51:26.620 this interview,

00:51:27.860 and post-interview,

00:51:28.920 guess what?

00:51:29.740 She's still a 0.87

00:51:30.540 nobody.

00:51:31.740 And Peter

00:51:32.860 Donicello

00:51:34.060 writes,

00:51:35.140 640 News 0.99

00:51:36.280 sucks anyway. 0.99

00:51:37.320 I stopped 0.99

00:51:38.460 listening to

00:51:39.400 them long

00:51:40.400 ago.

00:51:41.360 Well,

00:51:41.660 Peter,

00:51:42.220 you're not

00:51:43.180 the only

00:51:43.880 one.

00:51:44.280 You know,

00:51:44.780 some 20

00:51:45.400 years ago,

00:51:45.980 AM640 was

00:51:46.780 known as

00:51:47.340 Mojo Radio,

00:51:48.380 its slogan

00:51:48.840 being talk

00:51:49.800 radio for

00:51:50.420 guys.

00:51:51.360 It was

00:51:51.600 irreverent,

00:51:52.240 it was

00:51:52.460 funny,

00:51:53.020 it was

00:51:53.560 purposefully

00:51:54.340 politically

00:51:55.020 incorrect,

00:51:56.120 it received

00:51:57.040 international

00:51:57.760 publicity,

00:51:58.640 but I

00:51:59.500 think such

00:51:59.900 a format

00:52:00.400 wouldn't

00:52:01.020 last a

00:52:01.620 single day

00:52:02.640 in today's

00:52:03.820 crybaby

00:52:04.600 woke

00:52:04.940 environment.

00:52:05.640 In fact,

00:52:06.160 the reason

00:52:06.700 why Mojo

00:52:07.380 died was

00:52:08.480 that even

00:52:08.780 back then

00:52:09.460 cowardly

00:52:10.060 management

00:52:10.580 types

00:52:11.120 couldn't

00:52:11.780 handle

00:52:12.060 the heat,

00:52:13.000 even though

00:52:13.600 the ratings

00:52:14.300 Mojo

00:52:15.020 got then

00:52:15.760 far surpasses

00:52:17.080 what the

00:52:17.860 new and

00:52:18.440 unimproved

00:52:19.180 AM640

00:52:20.000 gets today.

00:52:20.780 Indeed,

00:52:21.700 you know,

00:52:22.000 folks,

00:52:22.260 in the last

00:52:22.820 ratings book,

00:52:23.760 AM640 was

00:52:25.460 second from

00:52:26.420 the bottom

00:52:26.900 of all

00:52:28.100 AM and

00:52:28.960 FM

00:52:29.500 Toronto

00:52:30.060 radio

00:52:30.540 stations.

00:52:31.840 This station

00:52:32.840 is a dead 0.71

00:52:33.900 dog with

00:52:34.840 fleas,

00:52:35.680 and yet

00:52:35.980 again,

00:52:36.340 another

00:52:37.100 example

00:52:37.660 of the

00:52:38.340 truism,

00:52:39.460 go woke,

00:52:40.800 get broke.

00:52:41.920 Well,

00:52:42.400 that wraps up

00:52:43.020 another edition

00:52:43.620 of Rebel

00:52:44.000 Roundup.

00:52:44.500 Thanks so

00:52:44.860 much for

00:52:45.180 joining us.

00:52:45.760 See you

00:52:46.020 next week.

00:52:46.840 And hey,

00:52:47.180 folks,

00:52:47.580 never forget,

00:52:48.620 without risk,

00:52:49.500 there can be

00:52:50.040 no glory.

00:52:50.940 Good night.

00:52:51.300 One Maybe nog

00:52:53.800 on Brady

00:53:05.180 Bye.

00:53:05.680 Bye.

00:53:06.060 Bye.

00:53:09.100 Bye.

00:53:09.700 Bye.

00:53:10.500 Bye.

00:53:12.520 Bye.

00:53:13.720 Bye.

00:53:14.040 Bye.

00:53:14.480 Bye.

00:53:14.740 Bye.

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Rebel News Podcast - November 06, 2021

DAVID MENZIES ｜ Comedian's Free Speech Victory, Trudeau in Scotland

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