Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ CBC staffer throws colleagues under the bus during kiboshed Poilievre ambush

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Today's show, it's a visual show. I want to show you a clip that the CBC

00:00:06.120 program This Hour Has 22 Minutes deleted secretly from a video. I just noticed a sort of a flaw in

00:00:13.200 their editing and I thought, hey, what did they cut out? And I actually wrote to the CBC and they

00:00:18.560 incredibly showed me what they cut from a video. And I think it gives the whole game away. I want

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00:00:40.280 you know we don't take a dime from Trudeau. All right. Here's today's podcast.

00:00:59.540 Tonight, the CBC's government comedians joined the Liberal Party's campaign

00:01:04.040 against Pierre Polyev. It's March 25th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:11.540 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:14.880 I'm old enough to remember when the CBC's comedy show This Hour Has 22 Minutes debuted.

00:01:30.280 It was about 30 years ago. I was alive to the biases in the CBC back then. But I tell you,

00:01:36.280 their biases were lighter then than they are now. Now they're just, they don't even hide it.

00:01:40.200 You know, for a few years back then, the CBC actually had a regular debate show where they

00:01:46.260 had a permanent left-wing host named Judy Rebick and a permanent right-wing host named Claire Hoy.

00:01:52.000 In every episode, they would have one guest on the left joining Judy Rebick and one guest on the right

00:01:57.400 joining Claire Hoy. Just stop and think about that. The CBC actually had a permanent seat, 0.75

00:02:03.180 two permanent seats, one for a conservative journalist and one permanent open invitation

00:02:08.540 for conservative guests. I myself appeared on that show a few times when I was a college student.

00:02:14.680 It's unthinkable now. In fact, the CBC soon abandoned that pretense of balance. They

00:02:20.980 canceled Face Off and they replaced it with a show called Counterspin with only one permanent host,

00:02:28.740 a far-left activist named Avi Lewis. And then he was replaced by an even further left-wing extremist

00:02:35.580 named Carol Off, who I think would describe herself as a Marxist. So that's the CBC. But

00:02:42.600 I'm telling you for a brief moment, the CBC pretended to be even-handed. That's about 25 years ago. And I

00:02:49.800 think that applied to their comedy show, which debuted at around the same time. This hour is 22 minutes.

00:02:56.100 Again, this was back before the internet really took off. This was before the proliferation of hundreds of

00:03:00.600 TV channels, endless internet channels. So back then, there was actually an audience. 22 minutes

00:03:06.620 often had a million viewers on real TV. I'd be surprised if they hit 100,000 today.

00:03:13.120 They actually even talked about free speech back then. Here's Rick Mercer doing a rant. This is

00:03:18.440 almost 20 years ago now. Now, this was actually from the Rick Mercer report, which was a spinoff from

00:03:23.540 22 minutes. But still, take a look at this. People who cover politics in this country, they know the name

00:03:29.320 Ezra Levant. The rest of the country, they couldn't pick him out of a lineup, which I always believed was a very

00:03:35.080 good thing, because without a doubt, he's one of the most aggravating men on this earth. And I only say that because

00:03:40.860 in full disclosure, he happens to be a friend of mine. I've known him for over 10 years. The last time I saw Ezra, I was doing a

00:03:47.500 show in Alberta. The audience, they were all conservationists. They were saving rivers. Ezra picked me up after the show for a

00:03:53.520 beer. I walked out front. There was Ezra, leaning against his Hummer, smoking a cigar. And yes, the engine was running,

00:04:01.560 which I'm sure he did purely for my benefit. The man is a provocateur. He is an agitator. And now, thanks to the 0.83

00:04:07.720 Alberta Human Rights Tribunal, God forbid, he's a freedom fighter, because he has been defending his actions in

00:04:14.800 front of that tribunal for the past two years. He has no idea when it's going to end. He has no right to a speedy trial.

00:04:20.940 He has to pay his own legal costs. His accusers do not. So what is it that Ezra did? Well, he published

00:04:27.040 the Western Standard, which, in my opinion, is a completely nutty magazine. He once published a

00:04:32.940 column by a stay-at-home mother of nine who offered witty tips from her pastor on how to avoid your 0.67

00:04:38.800 children turning out gay. But to be fair to Ezra, every time I complained, he'd say the same thing.

00:04:44.480 You should write your own column. I'll publish it next week, word for word. If nothing else,

00:04:49.920 Ezra believes in freedom of speech, which is why I knew. When half the world exploded,

00:04:55.340 because some newspaper in Denmark published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, I knew Ezra

00:05:00.900 would republish those cartoons so we could see what all the fuss was about. Yes, it would offend people,

00:05:06.800 but I knew he'd do it anyway, because that's what Ezra does. But hey, it's a free country.

00:05:12.420 Well, it used to be. Since then, he spent over $100,000 defending his right to republish the

00:05:18.180 cartoons. And his magazine? Well, the irony there is they went out of business. The gods of the free

00:05:23.700 market took care of that. Turns out not that many people were interested in what the magazine had

00:05:28.160 to say. So it's gone. But if we're not careful, if we force the Ezras in this country to shut up, 1.00

00:05:33.880 our freedom of speech could be next. You'd never see that on the CBC now. Just never. Now,

00:05:39.060 I'm not glorifying the old days of the CBC. I know it was biased. I know it hated the West,

00:05:44.400 it hated conservatives, it hated Christians, hated guns, hated America, hated the Reform Party, 0.75

00:05:49.580 whatever. But I'm here to tell you that it was a fraction of how bad it is now. Which brings me

00:05:56.400 to this latest effort by the CBC show, This Hour Has 22 Minutes. It's still around. Stop and scratch

00:06:03.000 your head for a second. Imagine how weird it must sound to anyone outside of our own country

00:06:08.240 that the state broadcaster gets tax dollars to hire comedians to make jokes. Like, the fact that

00:06:14.480 we consider that normal is so unusual. And 90% of the time, those jokes target conservatives.

00:06:20.460 Here's a 22 Minutes Battle Axe named Mary Walsh. Remember this? 1.00

00:06:27.200 Mayor Ford! It's me, Mark Delahunty!

00:06:30.100 Can I go to my car, please?

00:06:31.440 I gave up the Princess Warrior stuff, but when I saw what was happening to you...

00:06:35.260 Oh, oh, oh, oh, can I...

00:06:35.860 I came all the way from Newfoundland to talk to you, honey.

00:06:39.040 The plug in the jug, keep the muzzle on, dog.

00:06:41.240 He was a much gutsier kind of fella than that.

00:06:43.580 So that was the late mayor of Toronto, a conservative populist named Rob Ford.

00:06:48.140 And he was taking his five-year-old daughter to school at about 8 a.m. It wasn't even fully

00:06:52.060 light out. And the CBC ambushed him at his family home, coming right onto his property

00:06:57.060 and terrifying his daughter. Not a lot of funny in there. A little bit of terrifying for the family.

00:07:03.780 And there had been serious threats to the Ford family. And the CBC thought they would just

00:07:09.040 stalk him at his home. But hey, it's funny because she dressed up in a costume, right?

00:07:14.060 Anyways, Mary Walsh is a bit long in the tooth now, but this hour has 22 minutes, has reprised 0.99

00:07:19.320 that schtick. But without even the fig leaf of comedy. No costume, no theme, just barging

00:07:25.380 in and interrupting conservatives for laughs. But it's such a low effort production this

00:07:29.960 time, they forgot to add the laugh track, which was always essential with Mary Walsh.

00:07:34.280 Laugh tracks are amazing. I don't know if you realize how powerful laugh tracks are as a

00:07:39.740 subliminal effect on you. There's a human instinct when you hear other people laughing,

00:07:45.560 you want to laugh too. You ever notice that? Try watching any TV sitcom with the laugh track

00:07:51.540 removed. You can find a lot of them online that way. You realize how essential the laugh track is

00:07:57.400 in modern sitcoms. Watch the first minute or so from this episode of Big Bang Theory with the laugh track

00:08:05.120 edited out. Take a look.

00:08:06.760 All right, Pictionary. What are the teams? How about boys versus girls? Oh, that hardly seems fair.

00:08:13.240 But I guess any team that I'm not on has a decided disadvantage.

00:08:18.660 Once again, unbelievable. Once again, I know.

00:08:21.520 All right. Round one. Here. Got it. Okay. Ready, set, go.

00:08:33.440 Uh, box. Uh, window. Batman.

00:08:41.980 Batman and Robin.

00:08:45.860 Wonder twins plus the monkey.

00:08:49.540 Wonder twins plus the monkey and Batman.

00:08:52.520 That is so unfunny, isn't it? I'm not picking on that show. They're all unfunny without the laugh

00:08:58.860 track to cue you to tell you that was funny. Well, without further delay, let me show you the latest

00:09:04.540 unfunniest video you'll see all week. A CBC government comedian reprising that Mary Walsh

00:09:10.860 interruption trick without a costume or a theme, without any jokes, really just a liberal party heckler.

00:09:16.940 Let's watch the whole cringeworthy thing. It's only a couple of minutes and then I'll take you through

00:09:22.320 it minute by minute. Take a look.

00:09:24.280 Pierre Polyev loves free speech. You can tell by the way he hates talking to the press and hasn't

00:09:28.960 responded to any of our requests for an interview. Maybe he just doesn't check his email. But he did

00:09:33.660 reach out to me personally with a very thoughtful robocall.

00:09:37.300 I'm common sense conservative leader Pierre Polyev calling to give you a special invitation to my

00:09:42.080 Spike the Hike, Axe the Tax rally at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 17th in Halifax.

00:09:48.300 And the next Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Polyev!

00:09:56.300 Happy St. Patrick's Day, Halifax! I can resist everything except temptation.

00:10:04.300 I tried to get Pierre to notice me by playing it cool.

00:10:07.300 Axe the Tax! Axe the Tax! 0.93

00:10:10.300 But I did have to stand in line with my fellow patriots.

00:10:13.300 Wow, Pierre Polyev, such an honor to meet. My name is Dan. I'm with 22 Minutes. It's so nice to meet you.

00:10:19.300 Canada's next Prime Minister and laser eye surgery success story. Congratulations. I think you're doing an amazing job.

00:10:26.300 If it was up to me, you'd be the leader of the opposition for the rest of your life.

00:10:29.300 Well, I won't be sadly for you and you and your...

00:10:33.300 But you know what? You'll have to earn a living rather than getting it from taxpayers' money.

00:10:39.300 I love that you're cracking down on crime, alright? I love that you're cracking down on murderers, thieves, CBC journalists.

00:10:46.300 I love that you're cracking down on Axe the Tax.

00:10:48.300 That's why your ratings are so terrible.

00:10:50.300 Alright, my friend.

00:10:51.300 No, I think that's Heartland.

00:10:53.300 Thank you, sir.

00:10:54.300 Listen.

00:10:55.300 Okay, thank you, sir.

00:10:56.300 Pierre, we love you, Pierre!

00:10:57.300 Okay, thank you. Just come up this way. You're done.

00:10:59.300 Getting snubbed by my hero was the greatest moment of my life.

00:11:03.300 So I decided to get back in line and do it again.

00:11:05.300 I mean, I'm happy to wait and just, you know, cross my fingers, I guess.

00:11:08.300 Yeah, okay. Well, we're going to have to just monitor our timing.

00:11:10.300 Mr. Polyev, me again, we've got a lot of big questions for you.

00:11:13.300 We want to know what is your least favorite province and could we save money by sinking PEI into the sea?

00:11:18.300 I think we could save money by spending a billion less on terrible comedians.

00:11:22.300 Absolutely.

00:11:23.300 And propagandists from the PMO.

00:11:25.300 Your critics are saying that your policies are far right, even authoritarian.

00:11:29.300 How will you stamp out that dissent when you're Prime Minister?

00:11:33.300 Thank you, thank you for standing up for freedom of the press.

00:11:36.300 Let's bring it home! 0.94

00:11:37.300 Canada!

00:11:38.300 Canada!

00:11:39.300 Canada!

00:11:40.300 Canada! 0.96

00:11:41.300 Well, one thing is for sure, Canada is broken.

00:11:44.300 But that guy in there, that's the guy who's going to finish the job.

00:11:47.300 For 22 Minutes, I'm Dan Dillabeau.

00:11:49.300 What do you think of that?

00:11:50.300 Here, let's look at it again.

00:11:52.300 Forgive me, I just want to point out a few things.

00:11:54.300 Look at the first eight seconds.

00:11:55.300 Pierre Polyev loves free speech.

00:11:57.300 You can tell by the way he hates talking to the press and hasn't responded to any of our requests for an interview.

00:12:02.300 Is that what free speech is?

00:12:04.300 A conservative politician has to be interviewed by an unfunny government comedian or it's censorship?

00:12:11.300 Yeah, no, I don't think so.

00:12:12.300 By the way, the CBC and two of its reporters literally filed a lawsuit against the Conservative Party a couple years ago.

00:12:19.300 Why would any Conservative Party politician be interviewed by someone who sued them?

00:12:25.300 In fact, to be accurate, it was an anti-free speech lawsuit from the CBC.

00:12:30.300 The CBC was arguing that the Conservative Party didn't have the legal right to use short clips from CBC News in their videos.

00:12:37.300 That's not true.

00:12:38.300 Canadian copyright law allows short excerpts to be used by anyone.

00:12:42.300 It's called fair use.

00:12:43.300 The CBC knew that.

00:12:45.300 That's what the court ruled in the end.

00:12:47.300 The CBC was just harassing the Conservatives and trying to censor them.

00:12:51.300 Here's what censorship journalists actually looks like in Canada.

00:12:55.300 Ms. Freeland, how come the IRDC is not a terrorist group?

00:13:00.300 Why is your government supporting Islamo-Nationality? 0.97

00:13:03.300 What?

00:13:04.300 You've been missing?

00:13:05.300 What are you doing?

00:13:06.300 You're under arrest for assault.

00:13:08.300 Why are you pushing me?

00:13:10.300 You're under arrest for assault.

00:13:11.300 You're under arrest for assault.

00:13:12.300 Police.

00:13:13.300 Police.

00:13:14.300 You're under arrest for assault.

00:13:15.300 Police.

00:13:16.300 Police.

00:13:17.300 You're under arrest.

00:13:18.300 Okay, back to the unfunny CBC video.

00:13:20.300 Here, watch almost a full minute.

00:13:21.300 He just doesn't check his email.

00:13:23.300 But he did reach out to me personally with a very thoughtful robocall.

00:13:26.300 I'm Common Sense Conservative leader Pierre Polyev calling to give you a special invitation

00:13:31.300 to my Spike the Hike, Axe the Tax rally at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 17th in Halifax.

00:13:38.300 And the next Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Polyev.

00:13:42.300 Happy St. Patrick's Day, Halifax!

00:13:51.300 I can resist everything except temptation.

00:13:54.300 I tried to get Pierre to notice me by playing it cool.

00:13:57.300 Axe the Tax!

00:13:59.300 Axe the Tax!

00:14:00.300 But I did have to stand in line with my fellow patriots.

00:14:03.300 Wow, Pierre Polyev, such an honor to meet.

00:14:06.300 My name is Dan.

00:14:07.300 I'm with 22 Minutes.

00:14:08.300 It's so nice to meet you.

00:14:09.300 Thank you.

00:14:10.300 Canada's next Prime Minister and laser eye surgery success story.

00:14:13.300 Is that funny?

00:14:14.300 The laser eye surgery thing, I don't know if Pierre Polyev has had laser eye surgery

00:14:19.300 or if he's wearing contact lenses.

00:14:21.300 I really don't know anything about Polyev's medical situation.

00:14:25.300 It's a weird personal comment.

00:14:28.300 And a bit of a laugh that the CBC thinks Pierre Polyev, not pretty boy clothes horse,

00:14:33.300 Mr. Hair, Justin Trudeau, Mr. Fancy Socks is the one obsessed with cosmetics.

00:14:39.300 But mainly, that's your first best line?

00:14:43.300 You've been waiting for hours.

00:14:44.300 You've had hours to think of a line.

00:14:47.300 And that's all you've got.

00:14:49.300 And in fact, it looks like they were preparing for this for days.

00:14:52.300 That first scene looked like it was filmed in a hotel room, I think.

00:14:55.300 Did they fly this guy in for this or something at taxpayers' expense?

00:14:59.300 I don't know.

00:15:00.300 Here, watch the next few seconds.

00:15:01.300 Congratulations.

00:15:02.300 I think you're doing an amazing job.

00:15:04.300 If it was up to me, you'd be the leader of the opposition for the rest of your life.

00:15:07.300 We know.

00:15:08.300 We know that.

00:15:09.300 We know you're opposed to Polyev and the conservatives.

00:15:11.300 You sue them.

00:15:12.300 You hate them.

00:15:13.300 You attack them.

00:15:14.300 But this is your work time.

00:15:16.300 And your job at work is to tell jokes or be funny.

00:15:19.300 Telling the leader of the conservatives that you hope they never win is what you think to

00:15:24.300 yourself in your mind quietly.

00:15:25.300 You don't make funny jokes about that.

00:15:28.300 You don't say, I hope you never win, because that's too on the nose.

00:15:33.300 And that's not funny, right?

00:15:34.300 You try and find funny ways to say that.

00:15:37.300 Just giving advice.

00:15:38.300 Now, Polyev was obviously caught unawares here.

00:15:41.300 He's at a conservative party event.

00:15:43.300 He's meeting conservatives.

00:15:44.300 He's in the handshaking selfie line.

00:15:46.300 He's in the zone.

00:15:47.300 Hi, how are you?

00:15:48.300 Let's have a photo.

00:15:49.300 Hi, how are you?

00:15:50.300 Thanks for your support.

00:15:51.300 And the CBC comedian presents himself.

00:15:53.300 Doesn't really identify himself, does he?

00:15:55.300 My name is Dan, and I'm with 22 Minutes.

00:15:57.300 He doesn't say his last name.

00:15:59.300 And he says 22 Minutes, not this hour has 22 minutes.

00:16:02.300 I honestly think Polyev might have missed who this guy was, because no one else watches

00:16:07.300 the show.

00:16:08.300 No one has heard of Dan on 22 Minutes of You.

00:16:11.300 And I think it was deliberately done to be quick and confusing.

00:16:15.300 Our David Menzies always says, David Menzies with Rebel News.

00:16:18.300 He always says that, not, I'm David with Rebel.

00:16:21.300 Because people might not catch that.

00:16:23.300 This CBC activist was trying to be a trickster. 1.00

00:16:26.300 Now, Polyev took a moment to switch gears mentally.

00:16:29.300 It took him about two seconds to get into gear.

00:16:32.300 And he says his line about the government commuting having to earn a living rather than

00:16:36.300 living off the taxpayer dime.

00:16:38.300 Now, right there, Polyev just gave more time to the CBC provocateur than Justin Trudeau

00:16:44.300 has ever given to any of our staff combined in the last nine years.

00:16:49.300 The CBC might not like Pierre Polyev's answer, but he answered.

00:16:53.300 And he didn't call the cops on them.

00:16:55.300 He didn't have the guy arrested.

00:16:57.300 But look at this.

00:16:58.300 Look at the video at one minute and 15 seconds into the video.

00:17:02.300 Just watch for a couple seconds.

00:17:03.300 Rather than getting it from taxpayers' money.

00:17:05.300 I love that you're cracking down on...

00:17:07.300 Look at that again for a second.

00:17:08.300 Taxpayers' money.

00:17:09.300 I love that you're...

00:17:10.300 Did you see that?

00:17:11.300 It's an amateur edit.

00:17:13.300 They cut something out of the video.

00:17:14.300 Did you see it sort of jerked for a second there?

00:17:17.300 What did the CBC cut out?

00:17:19.300 Why wouldn't they show that?

00:17:21.300 Did Polyev say something they didn't want the public to hear?

00:17:24.300 Why would they cut anything?

00:17:26.300 Wasn't the whole interaction interesting?

00:17:28.300 Of course it was.

00:17:30.300 But was it embarrassing to the CBC? 0.98

00:17:32.300 I mean, did Polyev say anything dumb?

00:17:34.300 Probably not or the CBC would have aired it. 0.81

00:17:36.300 That would have been hitting the jackpot, right? 0.99

00:17:39.300 Did the comedian say something dumb or rude or false or worse? 0.92

00:17:43.300 If not, why did they cut it out?

00:17:45.300 Don't you think the CBC should have shown the full video?

00:17:49.300 If not, why didn't they?

00:17:51.300 Did the Liberal government tell them not to?

00:17:54.300 I put these questions to the CBC.

00:17:56.300 I got an answer from them.

00:17:59.300 And I'll tell it to you in a moment.

00:18:01.300 But I want to finish the video as they presented it.

00:18:04.300 Okay, back to the video.

00:18:06.300 We'll pick up after their stealth edit.

00:18:08.300 Take a look.

00:18:09.300 I love that you're cracking down on crime.

00:18:11.300 I love that you're cracking down on murderers, thieves, CBC journalists.

00:18:15.300 I love that you're cracking down on axing the tax.

00:18:18.300 That's why your ratings are so terrible.

00:18:20.300 No, I think that's heartland.

00:18:22.300 So the CBC activist continues to babble even after Polyev is done with him.

00:18:27.300 You can see that other people are shaking Polyev's hands,

00:18:30.300 but the CBC loser is still there babbling away. 0.93

00:18:32.300 Okay, fine. 0.97

00:18:33.300 This is supposed to be performance art.

00:18:35.300 This CBC guy has had hours, probably days, to think about his lines.

00:18:40.300 And what does he have?

00:18:42.300 I love that you're cracking down on crime.

00:18:45.300 Murderers, thieves, and CBC journalists.

00:18:48.300 Okay, my first objection is, where's the funny part? 0.62

00:18:52.300 Isn't the whole premise here that we have to tolerate this guy's antics?

00:18:55.300 Because he's just joking.

00:18:57.300 But where's the joking part?

00:18:59.300 You're cracking down on crime.

00:19:01.300 And the joke is he's treating the CBC like murderers.

00:19:04.300 I think that's a joke.

00:19:05.300 But he's not, is he?

00:19:07.300 Not even a little.

00:19:09.300 I mean, not even enough to make a joke about it.

00:19:11.300 I mean, that joke might work with Christian Freeland

00:19:15.300 when they actually did crack down on a journalist, David Menzies,

00:19:18.300 and arrest him and put him in a police car. 0.97

00:19:19.300 But these CBC losers just hanging around, babbling on, 0.96

00:19:23.300 while everyone else got their hands shaking, so he moved on. 0.96

00:19:27.300 He had his moment to get something funny out.

00:19:30.300 It didn't really happen.

00:19:32.300 So he's sort of sticking around, trying it again.

00:19:35.300 It didn't work. 0.99

00:19:36.300 It's a bit pathetic by now, don't you think? 0.98

00:19:39.300 Polya pokes back that the CBC ratings are terrible, 0.94

00:19:42.300 and the CBC guy says, I think that's Heartland.

00:19:46.300 Now, I had to Google Heartland, I admit,

00:19:48.300 and I discovered it's a CBC show, sort of a family drama.

00:19:51.300 I get it.

00:19:52.300 And it actually looks like it's been a rare CBC ratings success,

00:19:56.300 in the United States at least.

00:19:58.300 Here's a story that says so.

00:20:00.300 A couple years ago saying Heartland is actually pretty popular in the U.S.

00:20:04.300 So the joke doesn't even work even if you understand the reference to Heartland.

00:20:09.300 Heartland's actually doing well, unlike 22 Minutes.

00:20:13.300 Okay, back to the video.

00:20:14.300 Watch this part.

00:20:15.300 Getting snubbed by my hero was the greatest moment of my life.

00:20:19.300 So I decided to get back in line and do it again.

00:20:21.300 I mean, I'm happy to wait and just, you know, cross my fingers, I guess.

00:20:24.300 Yeah, okay.

00:20:25.300 Well, we're going to have to just monitor our time.

00:20:27.300 Okay, so he wants to go back a second time.

00:20:29.300 I think he realized he blew it the first time.

00:20:32.300 Zero comedy value, zero gotcha value.

00:20:35.300 And believe it or not, they let him go back in.

00:20:38.300 Do you think Justin Trudeau would let our reporters go through a line like that?

00:20:41.300 Not once, but twice.

00:20:43.300 So here's the second try.

00:20:44.300 You normally don't get a second chance in comedy to tell a joke again if you blew it the first time.

00:20:51.300 So here's his absolute best effort.

00:20:54.300 Take a look at the next 30 seconds.

00:20:56.300 Probably have me again.

00:20:57.300 We've got a lot of big questions for you.

00:20:58.300 We want to know what is your least favorite province, and could we save money by sinking PEI into the sea?

00:21:04.300 I think we could save money by spending a billion less on terrible comedians and propagandists from the PMO.

00:21:10.300 What's your least favorite province?

00:21:12.300 Boy, that needed a laugh track, eh?

00:21:15.300 Is that supposed to be funny on its own?

00:21:18.300 Like, was the question supposed to be funny?

00:21:20.300 Or did the CBC actually think Pierre Pauliev would be tricked and say, hmm, let me think about that.

00:21:26.300 The province I don't like.

00:21:27.300 I mean, did they really think that he would give them an answer to that and say, I don't like this?

00:21:34.300 Like, I don't know.

00:21:36.300 I'm just trying to understand where the funny part was supposed to be.

00:21:39.300 Sinking PEI into the sea.

00:21:42.300 I just find it hard to believe that's the best they have on their second try.

00:21:47.300 How many chances do you give a guy to tell a joke?

00:21:51.300 By this point, Pauliev knew who this guy was, and he too had a chance to work on his banter.

00:21:57.300 I think Pauliev's response was smoother this time and that the CBC activists just walked into it by talking about saving money, right?

00:22:04.300 But by that point, I think the CBC agent sort of panicked and he went back to the usual CBC talking points about conservatives.

00:22:13.300 Take a look.

00:22:14.300 Your critics are saying that your policies are far right, even authoritarian.

00:22:18.300 How will you stamp out that dissent when you're prime minister?

00:22:22.300 Thank you.

00:22:23.300 Thank you for standing up for freedom of the press.

00:22:25.300 Let's bring it home.

00:22:26.300 Canada!

00:22:27.300 Canada!

00:22:28.300 Canada!

00:22:29.300 Canada!

00:22:30.300 Well, one thing is for sure. 0.82

00:22:31.300 Canada is broken.

00:22:33.300 But that guy in there, that's the guy who's going to finish the job.

00:22:36.300 Your critics are saying you're far right, even authoritarian.

00:22:40.300 Really?

00:22:41.300 Is that what his critics are saying?

00:22:43.300 Like bringing in martial law authoritarian?

00:22:46.300 Like invoking the Emergencies Act?

00:22:48.300 Like regulating the internet?

00:22:49.300 Like C63?

00:22:50.300 Like the new life in prison crime for hate?

00:22:54.300 Or arresting journalists?

00:22:56.300 Who are these critics is probably a question Pierre Pauliev would have asked if he cared and if he had an apple in his hand.

00:23:02.300 But that last line, thank you for standing up for freedom of the press.

00:23:06.300 This CBC loser, the unfunniest man on TV who had not one but two tries to tell the same joke and was unfunny both times, he was not arrested.

00:23:15.300 He wasn't ignored by Pauliev either. 0.97

00:23:17.300 He was slightly disruptive.

00:23:19.300 He got more face time than anyone else seemed to.

00:23:22.300 He faced no consequences.

00:23:25.300 Tried doing that to Trudeau.

00:23:27.300 What are you doing?

00:23:28.300 Get off me! 1.00

00:23:29.300 Hey! 0.99

00:23:30.300 I can...

00:23:31.300 Hey! 0.99

00:23:32.300 This is assault!

00:23:33.300 Move! 0.97

00:23:34.300 I'm on a side...

00:23:35.300 What is this?

00:23:36.300 I'm on a sidewalk!

00:23:38.300 I'm on a sidewalk!

00:23:42.300 What is this?

00:23:43.300 You cannot push me!

00:23:45.300 Not rushing and working!

00:23:46.300 Hey! 0.99

00:23:47.300 My...

00:23:48.300 Are you kidding?

00:23:49.300 Are you kidding?

00:23:50.300 I told you.

00:23:51.300 What is this?

00:23:52.300 You can't...

00:23:53.300 Am I under arrest?

00:23:54.300 Am I under arrest?

00:23:55.300 What did he mean by freedom of the press?

00:24:05.300 Is this CBC comedy show, is that journalism?

00:24:09.300 Like, was that supposed to be a news interview?

00:24:12.300 Because it looked like lame performance art, a failed attempt at comedy.

00:24:16.300 Is this guy actually saying that no, no, no, this was real journalism and Pauliev was wrong to not go along with it?

00:24:24.300 Who is this guy, by the way?

00:24:27.300 He didn't say his last name to Pauliev, did he?

00:24:30.300 I Googled him.

00:24:31.300 It's Dan Dillabow is his name.

00:24:33.300 Who's that?

00:24:34.300 Not sure.

00:24:35.300 Never heard of him before.

00:24:36.300 Googled him.

00:24:37.300 Just...

00:24:38.300 Here's some random tweets.

00:24:39.300 I'm just going to read them to you.

00:24:41.300 Donald Trump, your wife is probably cheating on you right now. 1.00

00:24:45.300 You're a comedian, right?

00:24:47.300 Part of me thinks this is no longer funny.

00:24:49.300 Part of me thinks this was never funny to begin with. 1.00

00:24:51.300 But most of me is going to spend all afternoon photoshopping naked Trump with a tiny little nuke dick in exchange for three likes. 1.00

00:24:58.300 You're funny. 1.00

00:25:00.300 Should all muggles be slaughtered? 1.00

00:25:03.300 This conservative firebrand has a few thoughts. 0.97

00:25:06.300 When Trump says Obama created ISIS, I think he's a little jealous that Obama created a successful organization. 1.00

00:25:13.300 I love this dumb shit country and I can't help it. 1.00

00:25:18.300 Not sure what country he's talking about. 1.00

00:25:20.300 I'm afraid it's Canada.

00:25:21.300 Everyone, please cut Elon Musk some slack. 1.00

00:25:23.300 You all don't understand what it's like to completely suck ass. 1.00

00:25:26.300 Really shocked and disgusted to learn that POTUS stands for P. 1.00

00:25:31.300 Oh, thanks, you're in super.

00:25:34.300 I'll stop there.

00:25:36.300 I think it's pretty obvious why this extremely unfunny loser was hired by the CBC and it has nothing to do with humor. 0.81

00:25:45.300 But his politics sure match the CBCs, don't they?

00:25:48.300 By the way, not too long after I sent that message to Chuck Thompson, the head of PR for the CBC, he actually wrote back.

00:25:58.300 And take a look at his email to me.

00:26:00.300 I said, what was missing in that jump cut?

00:26:03.300 Remember, I pointed out that there was a bit of an edit there.

00:26:05.300 And what did they cut out?

00:26:07.300 Well, to my surprise, the CBC wrote back to me and they said, well, there was a cut, but it was done in the interest of time.

00:26:15.300 And I thought, is that true?

00:26:17.300 A very long conversation they cut out?

00:26:19.300 Because if it was, I'm guessing they would have shown that.

00:26:22.300 And he actually sent me the full clip, which I asked him to do.

00:26:25.300 I was quite surprised by the CBC response to me.

00:26:29.300 And look here, we made a little mashup of the version that aired and the version that they cut.

00:26:36.300 Take a look at this little comparison.

00:26:37.300 It's only about 25 seconds.

00:26:39.300 You know what?

00:26:40.300 You'll have to earn a living rather than getting it from taxpayers' money.

00:26:44.300 I love that you're cracking down on crime.

00:26:46.300 You'll have to earn a living rather than getting it from taxpayers' money.

00:26:49.300 Oh, listen, I'm one of the good ones, all right?

00:26:52.300 I love that you're cracking down on crime.

00:26:55.300 Oh, listen, I'm one of the good ones, all right?

00:26:59.300 So they only cut three seconds.

00:27:02.300 But it was the three seconds of this guy when Pierre Polyev criticized the CBC.

00:27:06.300 He said, oh, I'm one of the good ones.

00:27:08.300 And then he went back to telling a joke.

00:27:10.300 Why would they cut that out?

00:27:12.300 It wasn't too long.

00:27:14.300 That was a lie.

00:27:15.300 I'm one of the good ones.

00:27:17.300 That was his way of saying to Polyev, hey, you can talk to me.

00:27:21.300 I'm not like those other CBC guys.

00:27:23.300 I'm on your team. 0.98

00:27:24.300 Now, Polyev's not that stupid, but he gave the game away, that Dan Dillebeau there, didn't 0.99

00:27:30.300 he? 0.99

00:27:31.300 He said two things.

00:27:32.300 He said, I'm not like them.

00:27:34.300 He threw his colleagues under the bus.

00:27:36.300 But much more importantly, he said, yeah, I know what you mean.

00:27:40.300 They are all liberal.

00:27:41.300 They all hate you. 0.91

00:27:42.300 They are all partisan.

00:27:44.300 Not me, though.

00:27:45.300 So please talk to me.

00:27:47.300 They edited that not because it wasn't funny.

00:27:50.300 Nothing in this was funny.

00:27:52.300 They edited that because it was embarrassing to them.

00:27:56.300 This whole ambush shtick was supposed to be embarrassing to Pierre Polyev.

00:28:01.300 I don't really think it was.

00:28:02.300 I think it took him like two seconds to find his talking point.

00:28:06.300 And he did.

00:28:07.300 And nothing really happened. 0.98

00:28:09.300 But this loser couldn't get a laugh out of it. 0.94

00:28:11.300 But the CBC edited that because they didn't want to show the world that yes, they're partisan. 0.99

00:28:17.300 And yes, this loser threw his colleagues under the bus. 0.65

00:28:21.300 And the fact that they lied when they sent me the full clip. 0.98

00:28:25.300 Oh, we edited it for timing reasons.

00:28:27.300 The CBC never stops with the disinformation.

00:28:30.300 They never stop with the lies.

00:28:33.300 And the fact that they made a political edit, not an editorial edit, not a comedic timing edit.

00:28:39.300 The fact that they made a political edit to their own video shows you more than anything else that the entire CBC operation from their journalists to their comedians, everything is done with a political lens.

00:28:54.300 Their entire purpose is to act as a liberal stalking horse.

00:28:59.300 There's only three things you need to know about the CBC.

00:29:02.300 Number one, they take 1.5 billion tax dollars from you every year.

00:29:07.300 Number two, they hate you.

00:29:11.300 And number three, they lie to you.

00:29:15.300 Stay with us for more.

00:29:17.300 Hey, welcome back.

00:29:29.300 Well, I really enjoyed my conversation with Candace Malcolm the other day.

00:29:33.300 And I feel sort of a collegial sense with her and with Derek Filderbrand of Western Standard because we're all the captains of our little ships.

00:29:43.300 And that's the thing.

00:29:44.300 When you're at sea, you can be the captain of a canoe and then there's a captain of an aircraft carrier, but you're both captains and there's a commonality there.

00:29:55.300 And I'd love to see the success of True North, TNC.News.

00:29:59.300 By the way, my comment about canoes and aircraft carriers, I'm not implying that either of us are one or the other.

00:30:05.300 I'm just saying even in small companies like ours, there's a certain respect and understanding of what it goes through to be a founder, which Candace Malcolm is.

00:30:16.300 We love what she's built.

00:30:17.300 I really do follow it.

00:30:19.300 I love their chief guy, Andrew Lawton.

00:30:21.300 He's a personal friend of mine.

00:30:23.300 And one of the reporters I always cover, I always watch, pardon me, not just his stories, but on Twitter is a reporter named Elie Contenantel.

00:30:32.300 And forgive my pronunciation, it's a French name, and I apologize for my accent.

00:30:38.300 It's not spot on.

00:30:39.300 But here's a story that Elie did the other day, and it caught my eye.

00:30:43.300 Headline is Campus Watch.

00:30:46.300 Son of refugees forced out of Queens student election for being conservative.

00:30:54.300 I'll read the first sentence and then I'll bring in Elie right away.

00:30:56.300 A Queens University student is speaking out after he and his peers were forced out of an election by activists who claimed he posed a threat to, quote, equity-deserving groups for being affiliated with the Conservative Party.

00:31:08.300 Noah Maggi is a son of refugees from Uganda.

00:31:12.300 His two running mates, Jason Kim and Nicholas David Brassett, Duke, are also visible minorities.

00:31:17.300 Joining us now is Elie Contenantel.

00:31:20.300 Elie, great to see you again.

00:31:21.300 Yes, likewise, Ezra.

00:31:23.300 It's always a pleasure to talk to you.

00:31:25.300 Well, thank you for saying that.

00:31:26.300 I mean, I believe that anyone and everyone can be conservative.

00:31:32.300 And in fact, these days, I put it to you that the entrepreneurial spirit, protecting families from radical transgenderism, tax relief, I think all of those traditional conservative values are naturally appealing to new Canadians. 0.95

00:31:49.300 And of course, then there's cultural values like freedom.

00:31:52.300 And when I read that a guy from Uganda, I thought, I bet he's an Ismaili Muslim. 0.98

00:31:57.300 If he's from Uganda, if his name is Noah Maggi, those people know what tyranny is like. 0.99

00:32:03.300 So I'm glad they're conservatives.

00:32:05.300 And yet they were blocked.

00:32:07.300 Tell me the facts.

00:32:08.300 By the way, is Noah Maggi an Ismaili Muslim?

00:32:10.300 No, his story is actually even more fascinating than this.

00:32:14.300 So his parents are part of the South Asian people living in Uganda that were exiled in the 70s.

00:32:21.300 And it's from Idi Amin, right? 0.60

00:32:23.300 He kicked out anyone who wasn't black. 0.94

00:32:25.300 Yeah. 0.95

00:32:26.300 So they were kicked out of Uganda and they came to Canada.

00:32:29.300 That's what he told me in the 70s.

00:32:31.300 He was born in Canada.

00:32:32.300 So that's why, you know, he's a son of refugees, not a refugee himself.

00:32:36.300 But his family was Muslim and he's a convert.

00:32:39.300 He converted to Christianity.

00:32:41.300 Oh, interesting.

00:32:42.300 So it's a very, very interesting historian.

00:32:46.300 I spoke to him for, I would say, a good 40 minutes.

00:32:49.300 His life story is so, so interesting.

00:32:51.300 Someone that has a lot of very valuable life experience.

00:32:54.300 He's not Jewish, but he is involved with the Jewish community.

00:32:58.300 He's a great ally of the Jewish community.

00:33:00.300 All of these things sound great, except when you are a woke white activist who despises anyone, especially anyone that they view as oppressed and they would view someone like him as oppressed.

00:33:15.300 And yet he is a successful guy and he's a conservative.

00:33:19.300 So they didn't like that at all, especially that he was involved with the Jewish community.

00:33:25.300 And it has unfortunately become, and I see this on my university campus, being a Zionist in 2024 on university campuses is unfortunately become socially unacceptable because of all the radical pro-Palestine propaganda.

00:33:43.300 So unfortunately, even though this student, I think had, Noah had such a, was such a qualified person, his two teammates were also classified, very diverse.

00:33:55.300 The three of them were incredibly diverse.

00:33:58.300 You had woke activists that actually said, no, we deem that they are not fit to represent equity deserving groups.

00:34:06.300 And therefore, rather than run against them to try to, let's say, let's argue that our position is better.

00:34:13.300 We're going to smear you and we're going to try to get you canceled. 0.99

00:34:17.300 And at the rules, all it takes is one person to quit and the whole thing falls.

00:34:22.300 One of the guys, unfortunately, fell through that.

00:34:26.300 So the whole bid fell through, unfortunately.

00:34:29.300 Very sorry to hear that.

00:34:30.300 And again, I don't want to read too much into a name, but Jason Kim, I'm guessing that's a, that's a Korean name.

00:34:36.300 An Asian. 0.97

00:34:37.300 Yes.

00:34:38.300 He's Asian.

00:34:39.300 And, and I'm only mentioning this because these are people who, you know, minorities there.

00:34:45.300 These are not traditional old stock Canadians.

00:34:48.300 They're either first generation or second generation newcomers.

00:34:52.300 If someone was kicked out of Uganda by Idi Amin, they're for sure descendants of refugees. 1.00

00:34:59.300 You would think that these people would check all the boxes.

00:35:03.300 But I guess the one box that they really care about is, are you a leftist?

00:35:08.300 And these three guys, sounds like, weren't.

00:35:11.300 I mean, I think the left pretends to be intolerant, but they hate nothing more than a minority who doesn't follow the script.

00:35:19.300 I mean, look at the hatred for Clarence Thomas on the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:35:24.300 He's a black judge, but he's the most conservative judge. 0.88

00:35:28.300 And he, the left has so much racism towards him because he, they consider him a race traitor.

00:35:38.300 Was that the kind of, what did they say about these three guys?

00:35:41.300 How did they attack them?

00:35:43.300 Because if they're a rainbow of racial diversity, they must've said something.

00:35:48.300 Yeah.

00:35:49.300 So I will just clarify, their issue was specifically with NOAA.

00:35:54.300 It wasn't necessarily with the others, because the others, you know, are free thinkers and they have their own views.

00:36:00.300 And these three were not like, we're three conservatives, let's take over the joint.

00:36:04.300 They were like, here, I'll read you a quote from when they were running that they put out.

00:36:10.300 They said students at Queens have lost their student identity, their student priding, quite frankly, what it means to be at a prestigious institution to strive for academic excellence.

00:36:19.300 So they actually wanted to generally improve everything for everybody.

00:36:23.300 But according to the activists, they went on Instagram and they said that him being conservative was a concern to the student body.

00:36:32.300 And they also said that he had unclear stances on pressing issues.

00:36:37.300 You know what's the pressing issue, Ezra?

00:36:39.300 What?

00:36:40.300 It's the so-called decolonization of campus.

00:36:42.300 And if you read Frantz Fanon, one of the most famous decolonization authors, he says decolonization is always violent. 0.66

00:36:51.300 And they're saying that decolonization is a pressing issue.

00:36:55.300 And lastly, as they said, they were very mad that he was aligned with this club, the conservative club, because they supported John A. McDonald, who they view as the notorious colonist whose legacy represents a violent genocide and the erasure of indigenous peoples.

00:37:12.300 And also they took a big issue with the fact that he was associated with Zionists.

00:37:19.300 So because of that, the whole team was it was basically attacked with the no vote campaign.

00:37:24.300 I'm saying because they were going to be acclaimed.

00:37:26.300 But if there's more people that vote non-confidence, then they can't win.

00:37:31.300 So they were like, we're going to instead of running against them, as I said earlier, we're going to attack them.

00:37:36.300 And in the end, one of the people dropped out.

00:37:39.300 So the student union just eliminated everybody.

00:37:42.300 You know, very frustrating.

00:37:43.300 And the thing about student council politics, and I was involved in student council politics when I was in college, is it's petty and it's bitter.

00:37:52.300 And I think the fact that it's small stakes makes it extra bitter.

00:37:57.300 The crazy thing is people who practice their politics in student council soon graduate.

00:38:04.300 And some of them go on to being on city council or provincial politicians or MPs.

00:38:11.300 And I think the last few weeks, especially that NDP debate or that motion to denounce Israel, I think you saw student council level antics wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh, saying extreme things just to shock and awe, no relation to the actual needs of constituents in Canada.

00:38:32.300 I think what you've just described here at Queen's University is a premonition that 10 years from now, those same cancel culture radicals will be doing this sort of thing, but not on a school level.

00:38:46.300 They'll be doing it on a wider city, provincial, or country level.

00:38:50.300 Absolutely.

00:38:51.300 There's two things I'm going to say to that.

00:38:54.300 It's not in 10 years, it's happening now.

00:38:57.300 A few, right before Christmas, I was having been there with my best friend, and this was in the midst of being in a class and several classes where everybody was anti Israel except myself.

00:39:08.300 And there's a lot of issues that I may say, like, maybe this isn't my hill to die on, but I will always defend Israel because I think the lies and the propaganda and the Jew hatred that goes around Israel is absolutely disturbing and it has to be confronted and the lies have to be debunked.

00:39:24.300 But I was telling my friend, I'm like, I think in the next 10 years, the Liberal Party is no longer going to support Israel.

00:39:31.300 Turns out I was wrong.

00:39:32.300 A couple of days later, they started supporting ceasefires and now they've basically gone full pro Hamas. 0.67

00:39:38.300 And yeah, so when I look at people like Blake Desjardins in the House of Commons, who just a couple of weeks earlier alluded that my friend Eric Duncan, a very good MP, was a traitor to the gay community because he didn't denounce Danielle Smith.

00:39:53.300 Or Janice Irwin in Alberta, who is probably one of the worst politicians in all of Canada, she complains all the time about homophobia and transphobia and queerphobia, yet she's silent as gay conservatives get abused by her base of queer activists. 0.82

00:40:09.300 And then also wears a kifia. Palestine is one of the most homophobic places in the world, 95% of Palestinians oppose homosexuality, and they choose to wear the kifia. 0.97

00:40:19.300 So the drama kind of school level politics where there's no substance, everything is about feelings, everything's about emotion and feeling good and being radical.

00:40:29.300 It may get worse than 10 years. I definitely am worried about some of the young leftists I know today, but there are already a ton of them in parliament.

00:40:38.300 And also a lot of their staff, a lot of MPs are sometimes swayed around by their staff that those people that are in the classes and student unions, especially in Ottawa, some of them have jobs on the hill and they're also influencing policy there.

00:40:51.300 Oh, wow. And you said your own classes are this way. What university do you go to?

00:40:56.300 So I go to the University of Ottawa, which has a terrible reputation for free speech.

00:41:02.300 I'll give you what I had to endure last semester. I found this absolutely insane.

00:41:06.300 The professor puts up to us as a prompt that, well, we're funding Ukraine against the Russian aggression in Ukraine.

00:41:15.300 Why don't we give money to the Palestinian resistance to fight the aggression by Israel?

00:41:22.300 That was literally a question for a class discussion. We have to discuss why we were funding Hamas to the point that I explained to them everything that happened on October 7.

00:41:31.300 And here's the thing. It's ignorance. Most of them didn't even know what happened on October 7.

00:41:35.300 And the most radical ones just deny it all and say, that's not true. That's Zionist propaganda. That's AI.

00:41:42.300 But going back to, I guess, what we're here to talk about, all of this is just part of the problem.

00:41:48.300 Everyone has this woke mind virus. They're getting their information from TikTok.

00:41:52.300 And they are making all these irrational, immature decisions on policy, on student governance and et cetera.

00:42:00.300 And that's why universities look like what they look like right now.

00:42:04.300 That is terrifying. I don't know how I would do if I were a student in campus these days.

00:42:09.300 I mean, I sort of like fighting against all odds, but I think it must be very difficult for Jewish students or for non Jews who just disagree with the pro Hamas mania.

00:42:19.300 It sounds like it's terrifying. Ailey, I salute you and your courage to write things as strongly as you do and then to put yourself back in that environment.

00:42:29.300 I'm sure it's not easy for you. Congratulations again on the report. For those who want to find it, it's called Campus Watch at TNC.news.

00:42:37.300 The headline is, Son of Refugees Forced Out of Queen's Student Election for Being Conservative.

00:42:42.300 And the leader there, Noah Maggi, the way you describe him, sounds like a very interesting young man.

00:42:47.300 Who knows? Maybe he will have a political career as well.

00:42:51.300 Great to see you, Ailey. Thanks for your time.

00:42:53.300 Yes. Thanks, Ezra. Always a pleasure.

00:42:55.300 All right. The pleasure is ours.

00:42:57.300 Stay with us. More ahead.

00:42:59.300 Well, that's our show for the day. You know what? My CBC monologue today, it wasn't an important thing like it was three seconds, but the fact that they had such a political lens, the fact that they tried to trick people, the fact that they tried to cover their tracks, and the fact that when I finally discovered them, they still lied.

00:43:28.300 They still lied. That tells you a lot about the CBC, but not as much as this. They're just not funny anymore, and I think they know it.

00:43:37.300 That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:43:45.300 Thank you.

00:43:54.300 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - March 25, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ CBC staffer throws colleagues under the bus during kiboshed Poilievre ambush

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