Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ Jean Charest addresses his fellow Conservatives — will he recover from this self-inflicted wound？

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Jean Charest just penned an open letter published in the Toronto Sun.

00:00:21.020 You know, folks, I think he just killed his chances of ever becoming CPC leader.

00:00:26.900 It's Friday, August 26, 2022. I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levin Show.

00:00:37.520 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:00:49.540 Jean Charest recently published an open letter in the Toronto Sun newspaper.

00:00:54.080 It was addressed to, quote, my fellow members of the Conservative Party of Canada, please accept this as my final pitch to those of you who have yet to cast a ballot in the leadership race, end quote.

00:01:07.660 And you know something, folks? I want to personally thank Mr. Charest for his pithy prose because he has demonstrated beyond a doubt, in his own words, no less, that he is yet another closet liberal who likes to wear Conservative clothes, you know, like the already rejected CPC candidate, sneaky Patrick Brown.

00:01:32.660 You want proof? You want proof? No problem.

00:01:35.960 Allow me to analyze some of the comments made by Jean Chrétien, or I mean, sorry, Jean Charest, because as I read his letter, all I could think of was that age-old phrase hoisted by his own petard.

00:01:51.660 The first nugget that had the needle on my internal bullshite detector veering deep into the red zone was this, quote,

00:02:00.880 We need a healthy debate about ideas within our own party that is the base upon which we earn the support of Canadians and attract high-caliber candidates.

00:02:13.180 A competitive race is a good thing, end quote.

00:02:16.240 Oh, really? A competitive race is a good thing. Is this the same Jean Charest that stated back in April that Pierre Pallievre should be disqualified as a CPC candidate for supporting the trucker convoy?

00:02:33.360 Let's check out that piece of video evidence.

00:02:37.200 He's attracting big crowds, sir. Like, I'm telling you, you're seeing a thousand people there, and I've seen some of your crowds, 500 in Quebec, but smaller crowds, he's got momentum.

00:02:47.580 He's talking about axing carbon price, cutting things, getting rid of the gatekeepers.

00:02:53.040 Now, you've become very much more openly critical of him. Now, you're here in Ottawa, specifically about his support of the truckers.

00:03:01.560 Yes.

00:03:02.180 Why?

00:03:02.700 Not support. Support of a blockade.

00:03:05.480 He says he supports freedom.

00:03:06.900 No, no, no, no, no.

00:03:07.540 He says he supports freedom.

00:03:08.520 Excuse me. I mean, were you mistaken? I mean, he actually didn't support the blockade? What you saw, what he did was...

00:03:15.220 He was out there with the truckers.

00:03:17.260 You sound like you drank the Kool-Aid here.

00:03:19.220 No, no, he was out there with the truckers. I'm giving you his view.

00:03:21.680 Look, Evan, everyone knows that Pierre Polyev supported the blockade, and I don't care how much spin you put into it.

00:03:29.000 Here is someone who makes laws and says, I can break laws because I'm above the law.

00:03:33.940 Well, I'm sorry. If you want to be a leader of a party, if you want to sit in the House of Commons and make laws, you have to obey them.

00:03:40.800 The laws of the land are not a buffet table from which you choose what you want or do not want to support.

00:03:46.940 And if you say to Canadians, I want to be the leader of the Conservative Party and I want to be the chief legislator of the country, but I don't have to obey the laws.

00:03:55.860 I'm sorry. That's not just a failure in leadership.

00:03:59.260 It disqualifies you, as far as I'm concerned, as being someone who thinks or aspires to be a leader of a party.

00:04:06.720 But, sir...

00:04:06.940 Wow. Jean Charest doesn't want a healthy debate. Rather, he is an adherent of cancel culture.

00:04:15.380 Conservatives, by definition, should be outspoken in their opposition to cancel culture and wokeism and political correctness.

00:04:23.740 But not this fake Tory, a man who will never be able to live down that period of eight years on his resume in which he served as the Liberal Premier of Quebec.

00:04:36.280 Goodness.

00:04:37.300 The open letter goes on, quote,

00:04:39.120 Now, I do agree that all of those topics are very important indeed.

00:05:09.100 Indeed, what I take issue with here is Charest claiming that he has spoken to thousands of party members.

00:05:16.920 Hey, the camera does not lie. Check out the thousands, hundreds, dozens.

00:05:24.240 Would you believe a handful of people who showed up at the Jean Charest campaign kickoff a while back?

00:05:30.720 Here, but I just wanted to say hello. My name is Patrick Ria. I am one of the local volunteers here for Mr. Charest, Jean Charest.

00:05:38.540 And it's a great crowd. Lots of friendly faces. Faces I haven't seen in a long time.

00:05:44.620 And some faces that I... Well, I guess I haven't seen anyone in a long time.

00:05:47.860 COVID's really gotten in the way of that, right?

00:05:49.580 Wow. Not exactly a Donald Trump rally, eh? Yet the emcee called that gathering a great crowd?

00:05:58.340 Are you kidding me? It looked like there were more media types than there were actual Jean Charest supporters.

00:06:05.420 And what the hell was that venue? A mechanics garage?

00:06:09.580 Gee, maybe Charest was getting an oil change for his Model T.

00:06:12.840 Hey, I'll give him points for time management and multitasking, if that is indeed the case.

00:06:20.240 Charest goes on, quote,

00:06:21.680 COVID magnified a feeling of unease and alienation that many Canadians were already feeling.

00:06:28.060 And Mr. Pollyev captured part of that sentiment.

00:06:31.520 It wasn't dumb luck that Maxime Bernier was able to cultivate enough support for a new party and run in the last federal election.

00:06:39.740 Just as it's no accident that Mr. Pollyev was able to sell memberships to Canadians with an affinity for Maxime's style of leadership.

00:06:50.620 Resentment has been bubbling up across segments of our population for a long while now, end quote.

00:06:58.140 Yeah, but guess what, Mr. Charest?

00:07:00.420 Ray, you are adding to that resentment by taking issue with Mr. Pollyev and Mr. Bernier going to bat for ordinary Canadians.

00:07:11.380 Look, Andrew Scheer is a nice guy, but he was so wishy-washy when he ran the party back in 2019.

00:07:19.080 Erin O'Toole, meanwhile, did so many policy backflips last year, 1.00

00:07:23.140 ranging from the carbon tax to the gun grab, that he made Nadia Comaneci blush.

00:07:29.820 In fact, the worst thing I can say about you, Mr. Charest, 0.99

00:07:33.140 is that you are good friends with that lying liar, sneaky Patrick Brown, 0.99

00:07:38.660 a grifter who once displayed your poster in his bedroom. 0.99

00:07:43.420 Oh, talk about creepy. 0.68

00:07:46.080 There is so much more nonsense to be found in Charest's open letter,

00:07:50.440 but I'm going to cut to the chase, folks.

00:07:52.140 You see, the most egregious and outrageous part of the letter is this one statement.

00:07:59.480 Quote,

00:08:00.500 Most of the voting public believes there are much bigger issues than freedom at stake in this country, end quote.

00:08:10.080 What?

00:08:11.240 First of all, he puts the word freedom in quotation marks.

00:08:14.880 That means he's being dismissive of this word and what it stands for.

00:08:20.060 How dare he?

00:08:22.620 Ask yourself this, folks.

00:08:24.840 Are you more or are you less free today than in 2015 when the Trudeau liberal control freaks were first elected?

00:08:34.340 And make no mistake, the COVID-19 pandemic, that was a gift for these hooligans.

00:08:39.720 The coronavirus has allowed them to clamp down on our rights and freedoms in a way that would make a banana republic dictator envious. 0.86

00:08:50.200 Oh, by the way, Justin, I'm not singling out your dearly departed friend, Fidel Castro.

00:08:56.460 Maybe more than a friend. 0.98

00:08:57.980 Anyway, I want to repeat Sheree's imbecilic statement that left my jaw on the linoleum. 0.99

00:09:06.680 Once again, quote, 0.97

00:09:07.840 Most of the voting public believes that there are much bigger issues than freedom at stake in this country, end quote.

00:09:14.820 What could possibly be more important than freedom?

00:09:20.040 Freedom is the most basic of human rights.

00:09:23.480 The opposite of freedom is tyranny and slavery.

00:09:27.380 And this Laurentian elite dismisses freedom as if it was some sort of disposable Kleenex.

00:09:34.520 Ask yourself, is this who you want as the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada?

00:09:40.680 Is this who you want as the next Prime Minister?

00:09:46.000 But if Sheree thought this Hail Mary pass was going to win over those Conservatives who still might be on the fence in terms of who they're going to support,

00:09:56.100 then he is sadly, sadly mistaken.

00:09:59.340 In fact, this open letter would appear to be a fatal self-inflicted wound.

00:10:04.360 I went through the online comment section on the Chwano Sun website.

00:10:08.380 I have yet to find a positive response to Sheree's claptrap.

00:10:13.740 And keep in mind, the Sun skews right of centre.

00:10:16.940 Conservatives buy the Toronto Sun, but they sure aren't buying what Jean Sheree is selling.

00:10:23.500 Here's a sampling.

00:10:25.060 Trevor Toope writes,

00:10:26.280 This guy has obviously not been paying attention the last two years and more.

00:10:31.800 Maybe the electorate has awoken from the usual bromides and platitudes these guys hand out as the red hot issues.

00:10:40.920 Maybe people have finally realised that our fundamental freedoms are under attack by such as the like of Jean Sheree and other Laurentian elites.

00:10:50.980 John Hinckley writes,

00:10:52.840 John, give me a break.

00:10:54.780 You're no different than Aaron O'Toole or what's-his-name who preceded him. 0.94

00:10:59.460 Mealy-mouthed psychopaths who are afraid to take Trudeau to task for his many, many ethical and moral transgressions. 0.85

00:11:08.620 C. Jackamchuk writes, 0.73

00:11:10.540 Now, I would never judge the worth of any candidate by their hairstyle, but when it comes to Jean Sheree, that hairdo does remind me of another funny man, namely Larry Fine of the Three Stooges.

00:11:36.340 In fact, the resemblance is downright uncanny. 0.99

00:11:40.380 And if Moe was the meanest stooge and Curly was the funniest stooge, surely Larry was the dumbest stooge. 0.99

00:11:48.860 Check out the video evidence. 1.00

00:11:50.440 All a real pal.

00:11:51.720 Yeah, we can camp near a lake and catch all the fish we can eat.

00:11:55.080 You know fish is great brain food.

00:11:57.280 You know you should fish for a whale.

00:11:59.180 Get out of here.

00:12:00.120 What's it say? 1.00

00:12:08.480 Ah, shut up. 1.00

00:12:10.180 What'd that mean? 1.00

00:12:11.880 You too?

00:12:13.240 Come on.

00:12:13.740 Nothing.

00:12:14.260 That's fine.

00:12:14.760 Give me a hand.

00:12:16.580 Yeah, Grandpa, we got no time for kibitzers. 1.00

00:12:20.460 Come here.

00:12:21.660 I'm sorry, Moe.

00:12:22.480 I didn't know your face was there.

00:12:25.260 I didn't know yours was there either.

00:12:27.040 Go on.

00:12:27.560 Bottom line, folks, there is one single solitary paragraph in Sheree's open letter that I wholeheartedly agree with.

00:12:37.420 Namely, quote,

00:12:38.940 Canadians are looking for a leader who is ready to take on the responsibility of Prime Minister and all the responsibilities and the tough decisions that come with it.

00:12:51.040 End quote.

00:12:51.520 You are indeed correct, Jean.

00:12:55.320 After seven years of misery under the Trudeau Liberals, Canadians are looking for a brave Prime Minister to make tough decisions in order to repair this broken and divided country.

00:13:09.160 However, that person is not you, Mr. Sheree.

00:13:14.440 Why are Canada's big banks becoming increasingly political?

00:13:28.000 Case in point, we looked on in revulsion last February when some Canadians actually had their bank accounts frozen for the egregious crime of making monetary donations to the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.

00:13:43.460 And even before that took place, we experienced political interference right here at Rebel News last December.

00:13:51.580 That's when the Royal Bank of Canada declined to approve our mortgage application pertaining to a Calgary property.

00:14:00.060 This had nothing to do with our financial wherewithal.

00:14:02.460 Rather, the Royal Bank apparently doesn't like our editorial stance.

00:14:09.020 Remember Ezra Levin's commentary at the time?

00:14:12.200 I'll be blunt with you.

00:14:13.540 The bank has been, you know, trying to pry away from certain, you know, clients where they're kind of out there in the media and very strong opinionated.

00:14:24.780 I'm embarrassed I was turned down for a mortgage last week by the Royal Bank.

00:14:32.160 That's pretty embarrassing.

00:14:34.100 I'm almost 50 years old.

00:14:35.600 I've been a Royal Bank customer for 22 years.

00:14:37.620 What's wrong with me?

00:14:39.680 Except I wasn't rejected because I'm a failure.

00:14:41.920 In fact, the Royal Bank mortgage officer who reviewed my application in detail said it was very strong.

00:14:48.220 But he's just a regional banker in Calgary.

00:14:50.400 He said the decision to kill it was made at the Royal Bank's Toronto head office.

00:14:54.780 He told me my mortgage application was cancelled because Rebel News has the wrong opinions.

00:15:00.740 Shocking.

00:15:01.780 Well, now comes yet another example of a bank carrying out a jihad against a client for the egregious crime of wrongthink.

00:15:11.600 Yes, apparently having a politically incorrect and non-woke mindset is sinful in the eyes of Canada's big banks.

00:15:21.000 And folks, just wait until you hear the details pertaining to this particular story.

00:15:27.140 And joining me now from Grand Prairie, Alberta, is Gary Duke, who used to be a Scotiabank client until the bank decided to, well, fire him.

00:15:39.700 Hey there, Gary.

00:15:40.660 How you doing there, my friend?

00:15:43.100 Hey, good.

00:15:43.740 Thank you very much.

00:15:44.700 Thanks for interviewing me.

00:15:45.980 Well, it's a pleasure, Gary.

00:15:47.280 I wish it was a better subject matter.

00:15:49.480 But, Gary, what, pray tell, did you do that made your local Scotiabank determine that they no longer want to do business with you any longer?

00:16:00.720 Well, I just tried to get online with an app to do some banking online.

00:16:11.680 And basically, there was a rainbow app.

00:16:18.080 So I said, is there any way to get this rainbow app off my phone?

00:16:21.860 And he responded in quite a shocking way.

00:16:25.760 That kind of surprised me.

00:16:27.460 And when you say, hey, are we speaking now?

00:16:31.120 We talked off air.

00:16:32.220 You had dealings with Mitchell Toft.

00:16:34.860 He's the assistant manager at the branch.

00:16:38.900 Right.

00:16:39.380 Yeah.

00:16:39.760 So it was through an email discussion that I asked him, like, if there's any way to get the app off.

00:16:45.280 And, yeah, he responded.

00:16:48.360 He did not respond for a couple of days.

00:16:50.720 And then when he did, he basically hunted me from my bank.

00:16:57.460 Okay.

00:16:58.260 So, and, I mean, I don't know.

00:17:00.700 I don't know whatever happened to can we agree to disagree.

00:17:04.640 But you sent along the text that Mr. Toft sent to you.

00:17:10.160 I'm going to read it verbatim.

00:17:12.020 Gary, Scotiabank strives to provide an inclusive environment for all members of the LGBTQ plus community.

00:17:20.100 And during Pride Month, like every other financial institution, we have chosen to show our support in a variety of ways, including visual signs such as rainbows on our app.

00:17:32.620 Your request slash complaint will not be entertained as it does not align with our principles.

00:17:40.620 Your comments are not appreciated, nor will they be tolerated, which is why we have chosen to terminate our relationship with you.

00:17:49.200 You may gather the funds from your account, and a termination notice will be mailed to you advising the date you have until to retrieve any funds.

00:18:00.300 Any funds in the account upon the date of closure will be put into a bank draft and mailed to the address we have on file.

00:18:09.060 Well, well, holy smokes, Gary.

00:18:11.820 I mean, right away he went to the nuclear option just because you complained about a rainbow illustration on the app.

00:18:21.800 Why do you think he responded this way?

00:18:27.120 Well, I think it's the culture in general that we have right now.

00:18:30.980 You know, give him the benefit of the doubt, he might have thought I was a troll and possibly testing him to kind of keep up the standard that they're trying to promote nowadays out there and the woke, kind of woke-ism.

00:18:49.240 So that could be that he was concerned that if he didn't say the right thing that he would be, you know, he would be attacked from his end.

00:19:00.360 So I understand that, and that's the fear a lot of us have for not even wanting to speak out nowadays is that whole thing, right?

00:19:09.920 The bullying tactics that go on.

00:19:12.300 But Gary, I think there's some perverse irony here.

00:19:15.400 His first sentence is, Scotiabank strives to provide an inclusive environment.

00:19:20.560 Well, not all that inclusive.

00:19:23.500 I mean, if you have something against the rainbow imagery, they are exclusive, meaning go take your business elsewhere.

00:19:32.560 And I understand, Gary, you had a 10-year relationship with this bank.

00:19:36.180 You once had your mortgage with it.

00:19:39.060 I just think this is so over the top, especially since you weren't doing a demonstration in the bank.

00:19:46.560 You weren't hounding them.

00:19:48.340 You were just voicing your opinion of your displeasure.

00:19:51.220 And for that, you've got to go elsewhere.

00:19:53.880 Seems severe to me.

00:19:56.200 Yeah.

00:19:57.360 You think?

00:19:59.440 Absolutely.

00:20:01.040 Yeah.

00:20:01.460 And it kind of goes along with all the stuff we're hearing on the media with people like tenured professors being fired from universities.

00:20:08.940 That you guys actually ran a story on that and just counter, you know, anyone who disagrees with the narrative nowadays, including the vaccine passports, which, you know, was another issue that I've had over the past year.

00:20:28.320 I'm losing well over $100,000 in income because of people canceling me because I don't want to take a vaccine.

00:20:37.360 And I sent you those letters as well.

00:20:39.680 So you probably saw that.

00:20:43.160 And the fact that I couldn't go on an airplane.

00:20:46.640 So it's just consistent with what's going on lately.

00:20:49.940 And they figure that the more they do it and the more they get away with it, the more they're going to continue.

00:20:56.680 Yeah.

00:20:57.220 Where is the inclusivity?

00:20:59.400 You're quite right.

00:21:00.280 Especially in the days of COVID, we do have two-tier Canadian citizenship, whether you're vaxxed or not. 0.53

00:21:08.120 Absolutely.

00:21:09.140 And also, getting back to this particular issue, Gary, you know, the LGBT plus, et cetera, community, they have long said, we want more acceptance.

00:21:20.320 We want more tolerance.

00:21:21.540 Okay, I understand that.

00:21:23.520 But recently, it seems to me it's more than tolerance and acceptance they want.

00:21:32.080 They want affirmation.

00:21:33.760 They want everyone to get up and say, it is great what you're doing.

00:21:38.400 And if you don't do that, you are therefore homophobic, transphobic, biphobic, et cetera.

00:21:45.320 Do you get that feeling yourself, Gary?

00:21:47.840 Gary, yeah, absolutely. 0.97

00:21:51.520 It's definitely hypocritical.

00:21:54.800 They're not across the board being in any way like, I can't think of the word right now, but my brain is shutting down.

00:22:08.260 Sorry.

00:22:09.260 Well, no problem.

00:22:09.880 I mean, I just, again, I think it's ironic that a community that screams about tolerance in many cases.

00:22:19.500 Yeah, they're not being consistent.

00:22:20.600 Yeah.

00:22:20.900 Yeah.

00:22:21.300 They seem to be intolerant.

00:22:23.300 I agree 100%.

00:22:24.520 And sorry.

00:22:25.100 It's just, that's my concern.

00:22:29.260 And for those who, you know, it's basically scare tactics and bullying tactics and that kind of thing that they want to force others to believe what they believe.

00:22:39.560 And if not, then you're out kind of thing.

00:22:43.500 Cancel you.

00:22:44.060 So I'm concerned for the future.

00:22:46.280 I'm concerned for the future for my children, who are my grandchildren included, who are going to be dealing with this stuff.

00:22:55.840 And if you don't agree with the system or Prime Minister Trudeau or whoever who demonizes us, including Kenny, demonizes us continually, right wing and fringe minorities and et cetera, you know, racists and all the homophobic and anything they can think of to try to get us in this, in this little area to try to squish us.

00:23:20.400 Right.

00:23:20.800 Oh, absolutely.

00:23:21.740 We don't want to hear our views.

00:23:23.020 I'm sure George Orwell is turning over in his crypt.

00:23:26.660 I mean, you know, talk about a, you know, a 1984 like thought crime.

00:23:31.700 But, you know, Gary, we did reach out to Mr. Toft. 0.94

00:23:35.380 It was pretty much a fool's errand. 0.95

00:23:37.540 He, we spoke for about three minutes, but he didn't say much. 0.93

00:23:41.060 Let me throw to that phone interview right now.

00:23:44.560 So there we have it.

00:23:45.680 He wouldn't give any details.

00:23:47.380 I was just trying to give him a chance to give his side of the story.

00:23:50.660 Uh, he certainly didn't disagree with any of your, um, facts.

00:23:55.600 And in fact, he's got his, uh, response to you in writing.

00:23:59.800 We reached out, of course, to corporate communications.

00:24:03.040 Uh, the lady there said, because it's a Friday in the summer, uh, she didn't know if she could get back to me in time.

00:24:09.920 And geez, talk about bankers hours.

00:24:11.580 Well, folks, just as our interview with Gary Duke wrapped, I did indeed get a response from Scotiabank regarding his case.

00:24:21.000 Not much of a response here.

00:24:22.460 You be the judge.

00:24:23.740 Quote, Scotiabank cannot comment on individual customer matters for privacy reasons.

00:24:29.280 We are committed to building an inclusive environment and culture through active allyship and believe that all employees, customers, and the community should be treated with equal respect and consideration.

00:24:45.180 End quote.

00:24:45.820 Thank you.

00:24:46.460 And that's from Katie Ruskina, she, her, uh, manager, media relations and issues management with, uh, Scotiabank.

00:24:55.940 So once again, as you see, uh, they believe that all employees, customers, and the community should be treated with equal respect and consideration.

00:25:05.660 Not quite sure how being fired as a customer is an act of respect or consideration, but there's the official, uh, position of Scotiabank on this matter.

00:25:28.380 Well, folks, lots of response to my Patrick Brown monologue from last night.

00:25:33.600 Yeah, guess what?

00:25:34.880 Shockers.

00:25:35.460 Patrick Brown is involved in a yet another scandal.

00:25:39.480 Dislike button.

00:25:40.620 RIP writes, Menzies is PB's worst nightmare. 1.00

00:25:45.400 LOL.

00:25:46.080 Well, I'll tell you, my friend, you know what would be a real nightmare?

00:25:49.840 Could you imagine if Patrick Brown was still in the race to be conservative party leader?

00:25:55.140 Could you imagine if through some cosmic fluke, this man became the prime minister in the next election?

00:26:02.280 I mean, if you think Justin Trudeau is corrupt, um, Patrick Brown would make that guy look like a piker. 0.90

00:26:10.720 See, Trudeau's lazy. 0.98

00:26:12.380 Patrick Brown works really, really hard at being a grifter.

00:26:16.460 And then on our interview with Mark Morano on his latest book debunking the so-called Great Reset,

00:26:26.160 Ejitta writes,

00:26:26.960 Well, you know, I don't know if we have to bring Satan into this.

00:26:52.140 I think, uh, Klaus Schwab and the various elites are doing the devil's work quite well on their own.

00:26:59.540 But really, this is the textbook definition of Marxism, isn't it?

00:27:04.660 All about breaking things down, tearing things down, and rebuilding a new society in the shape of a communist utopia,

00:27:13.360 which, of course, never, uh, comes to fruition.

00:27:17.540 As the saying goes, look good on paper.

00:27:21.620 And S. Strick 63 wrote, 1.00

00:27:25.000 Who elected this idiot? 1.00

00:27:26.720 Well, that's the thing. 1.00

00:27:27.500 He's not elected.

00:27:28.880 He's a non-elected, unaccountable bureaucrat.

00:27:32.020 I assume we're talking about Klaus Schwab here.

00:27:35.220 All the more reason to take whatever he says with a shovelful of salt.

00:27:42.080 Well, folks, that's the Ezra Levent show for tonight.

00:27:45.300 Have yourself a great weekend.

00:27:46.640 The big boss man, Ezra, he'll be back on Monday.

00:27:49.680 In the meantime, as always, stay sane.

00:27:54.940 American media and British media as well, um, through these other entities,

00:28:00.340 got purchased, uh, and, and corrupted, um, millions of dollars.

00:28:05.860 And this is in the Columbia Journalism Review,

00:28:07.520 went from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to legacy sites like the Guardian and the BBC

00:28:13.840 for COVID education.

00:28:15.420 And that means smearing people like, like me, um, or other very distinguished dissidents

00:28:21.380 like Dr. McCullough, Dr. Malone, Dr. Alexander.

00:28:24.440 Um, and also the CARES Act, uh, is a billion dollars of our tax money, um, much of which

00:28:32.580 goes to basically paying influencers and, and paying off community groups.

00:28:38.120 I mean, all the way down to the level of little dance troupes or little churches and synagogues

00:28:42.640 and, uh, and certainly little news outlets.

00:28:45.420 Um, so the news business is in a precarious state and here's millions of dollars flowing

00:28:50.980 if you just, you know, follow the COVID line, follow the talking points, um, they thoroughly

00:28:57.260 corrupted our media.

00:28:59.040 It's sad for our legacy media and it's sad for the consumers of media that are consuming

00:29:06.160 legacy media because they're being lied to consistently.

00:29:09.080 But it's kind of beautiful that a lot of alternative news outlets, um, are, are booming because people

00:29:17.740 know they're being lied to and there's like, see media are corrupted.

00:29:24.220 Naomi Wolf is a celebrated liberal author and journalist who's never been afraid to say 0.78

00:29:28.300 something controversial.

00:29:29.500 She's a Rhodes Scholar, a graduate of both Yale and Oxford.

00:29:32.700 Wolf has worked for President Bill Clinton and presidential hopeful Al Gore.

00:29:36.380 She spent her career as a darling of the liberal corporate media until very recently, about two

00:29:41.020 years ago, when she began to question the narrative surrounding COVID-19.

00:29:44.700 Since then, her mainstream media coverage has been smear piece after smear piece.

00:29:48.540 Wolf's new book, The Bodies of Others is filled with clear eyed, sober insights of the

00:29:52.780 workings of the new public health regime, where it came from and where it's going.

00:29:59.020 I traveled to the mountains of upstate New York to talk to her about the lockdowns,

00:30:02.380 the vaccines, big tech and censorship.

00:30:04.860 Here's the conversation.

00:30:06.780 Your house is far from civilization almost.

00:30:09.900 We have, we have a bear coming around here.

00:30:12.700 First, I'm going to ask you, what prompted you to move away from the city and away from

00:30:17.020 everyone?

00:30:17.740 We're in the forest right now.

00:30:19.580 Yes, we are.

00:30:20.460 And Jeremy's right.

00:30:22.140 I just saw that my nemesis, this teenage black bear who kept me locked upstairs for an hour

00:30:29.180 a couple of weeks ago with a BB gun, because I grabbed the wrong weapon, kind of circled the

00:30:33.660 house continually.

00:30:34.700 So I had a traumatic experience with the bear and the bear has just appeared across the road

00:30:39.660 again, so it's all very exciting here in the woods.

00:30:43.260 Why are we here?

00:30:44.060 We're here, well, I bought this place in 2001 after the 9-11 attack, because I just, I've lived

00:30:50.300 in a lot of conflict areas and war zones as a journalist and also just my family spent time

00:30:55.660 in Israel during two of the wars when I was growing up.

00:30:59.020 And so I was very aware after 9-11 with two small children that it's hard to get out of

00:31:05.980 Manhattan if there's a crisis.

00:31:08.620 Bridges, tunnels, it's so easy to isolate.

00:31:13.340 And I also have finished every one of my books up here because it's a very inspiring place.

00:31:18.620 But I guess we moved up here full time in March of 2020 because my husband Brian O'Shea also has

00:31:29.100 been in many conflict areas as a soldier embedded with special forces and as a former member of

00:31:35.660 military intelligence, the military intelligence community.

00:31:39.980 And so both of us recognized in March of 2020 right away, actually when Governor Cuomo said he

00:31:47.100 was closing Broadway, we both recognized that something very bad was about to happen because

00:31:53.180 no one anywhere closes down commerce and education and basically human assembly if it's not a totalitarian

00:32:04.540 regime.

00:32:05.180 So we didn't know if what was going to come was going to be politically really bad or a really

00:32:11.660 bad act of God or nature, but we both instinctively on March 8th were like we're getting out of the

00:32:18.780 city right away and came up here full time.

00:32:21.980 Due to YouTube censorship policies, we can't put the rest of the interview here.

00:32:25.900 If you want to hear the rest of my interview with Naomi Wolf where we talk about vaccines,

00:32:29.580 the effects of lockdowns, the future of news media and how she has documented proof that the federal

00:32:34.700 government worked with Twitter to get rid of her account, go to rebelnews.com or follow the link in the description. 1.00

Rebel News Podcast - August 27, 2022

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