Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Federal court rules against our COVID jail Charter challenge (but we're fighting back)

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. We had a setback in court today.

00:00:03.260 The Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada dismissed our charter challenge of the hotel COVID jails.

00:00:11.240 Well, we're not going to take that lying down. We're going to appeal.

00:00:14.080 If you want to learn more about the ruling, you can find it at nocovidjails.com.

00:00:20.060 But what comes next is about 10 minutes of me going through the ruling.

00:00:24.440 And hopefully I cover enough bases to give you a feeling for it.

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00:00:44.880 And like I say, if you want more about this court ruling, you can go to nocovidjails.com.

00:00:49.860 Okay, here's today's podcast.

00:00:50.800 We lost our COVID jail charter lawsuit in the federal court. We're going to appeal. I'll give

00:01:13.240 you the details. It's June 18th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:19.240 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:22.920 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:26.980 The only thing I have to say to the government, the why I'm publishing, is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:32.860 Terrible news. This morning, a judge on the federal court of Canada ruled that Justin Trudeau's airport

00:01:44.500 COVID jails are legal. Rebel News went to court challenging that law under the Charter of Rights

00:01:51.340 and Freedoms. We hired two of the best constitutional lawyers in Canada. I spoke with the lawyers this

00:01:57.100 morning. I have instructed them to appeal this ruling to the federal court of appeal.

00:02:03.740 Trudeau, through the unlimited resources of the Justice Department against us, it's really a David and Goliath battle.

00:02:10.120 I hope you'll help us cover the cost of our fight. Please go to nocovidjails.com.

00:02:15.820 If you want to help, by the way, you'll actually get a charitable tax receipt for that from the Democracy Fund

00:02:21.180 so you can deduct it from your taxes. Please help if you can.

00:02:24.300 Let me tell you a little bit about what happened, and then I'll tell you why I think we have a chance

00:02:29.400 on appeal. The judge, Chief Justice Paul Crampton, ruled that jailing healthy people, law-abiding people,

00:02:37.260 citizens who have done nothing wrong, jailing them for up to three days, and billing them 0.87

00:02:42.440 thousands of dollars for the cost of it, is just a minor inconvenience, not an important violation

00:02:49.080 of our liberties. I'm guessing he himself hasn't had to stay in one.

00:02:54.300 And the fact that the quarantine makes no sense from a health point of view, it's no

00:02:59.400 safer to send someone to a hotel for three days, where they will have contact with many

00:03:04.060 people, as opposed to sending them straight home by themselves.

00:03:07.260 Well, the judge didn't mind. He actually wrote that it's Canadians' duty to suffer through

00:03:13.020 such indignities to save lives, even though the government provided no evidence that these

00:03:17.740 costly schemes have saved lives. In fact, there was evidence that the COVID jails are dangerous,

00:03:24.380 whether it's COVID outbreaks at these COVID hotel jails, or cases of alleged rape there that the judge

00:03:31.720 acknowledged. Justin Trudeau and the rest of the ruling class themselves don't have to follow these

00:03:38.320 rules. The president of the CBC, for example, flies back and forth to Canada from her home in New York

00:03:44.940 City every week. She doesn't quarantine anywhere, certainly not in an airport hotel. Trudeau himself

00:03:51.420 just got back from a week of boozy parties in Europe, violating every quarantine rule, mask rules,

00:03:58.540 social distancing rules. And when he came back to Canada, he reportedly spent a few hours in one of

00:04:05.660 these COVID airport hotels and then just left. So yeah, rules are for the little people. 1.00

00:04:10.540 We sued the government because we had sent our then reporter, Kian Bextie, to report in Florida.

00:04:17.820 And he had to come back to Canada through one of these COVID jails in Calgary. When he was in the

00:04:23.820 hotel, he came into contact with no less than 14 people, as opposed to just taking his own car home

00:04:30.140 from the airport. It's ridiculous. Our lawyers did an excellent job. Sarah Miller and Robert Hawks ran 0.96

00:04:37.420 circles around the government's lawyers. In cross-examination, they were able to get some

00:04:41.580 incredible admissions from the government's witnesses. And they really grilled the health

00:04:45.740 bureaucrats the government sent out to defend the law. But in the end, Crampton sided with the

00:04:51.900 establishment and against the people. I've read the ruling. In my opinion, it's a political document

00:04:57.500 designed to make this problem go away. And fair enough. If the entire media and entire

00:05:03.740 political establishment and the airline industry itself seem fine with all this and the other awful

00:05:09.420 parts of the lockdown, so why would a top judge go out on a limb by himself and what? Become a pariah

00:05:15.820 at all the Ottawa cocktail parties? Our lawyers were in court alongside lawyers from the Justice

00:05:21.340 Center for Constitutional Freedoms. And there were a handful of other individuals who sued on their own.

00:05:27.020 All of our cases were bundled together and heard at once. But I note there wasn't a single lawyer in

00:05:33.100 court from a liberal civil liberties group. There were no tourism or travel or business groups. No

00:05:40.220 chambers of commerce there. No political group. No opposition political party. Nobody. Nobody who we

00:05:48.140 ought to rely on in society to protect us from authoritarian measures. I think the government got the message

00:05:54.380 loud and clear. No one important cares about this. Well, I care about it and I hope you care about it too.

00:06:01.260 So we're going to appeal. Here's what Justice Crampton said. Like times of war and other crises,

00:06:08.940 pandemics call for sacrifices to save lives and avoid broad-based suffering. If some are unwilling to

00:06:16.060 make such sacrifices and engage in behavior that poses a demonstrated risk of the health and safety of

00:06:21.660 others, the principles of fundamental justice will not prevent the state from performing its essential

00:06:27.100 function of protecting its citizens from that risk. Exactly what sacrifices has anyone from the ruling

00:06:34.540 class made? A judge or Trudeau himself? Trudeau? The judges? They haven't lost a day's pay. In fact, for Trudeau,

00:06:43.180 his workload has been a lot lighter than usual, hasn't it? I mean, the government has had a nice long

00:06:48.780 staycation. The entire ruling class has had the time of their lives. Imagine comparing what's going

00:06:54.460 on to a war. The only comparison I see is to war profiteers, people who love the new rules and are

00:07:00.860 doing just fine by them. And what health and safety benefits exactly did the judge mean? I read the

00:07:07.900 ruling. There's no evidence that these COVID jails have stopped anyone from getting sick. The government

00:07:13.580 doesn't even try to collect any such data. But we know that there have been outbreaks at these

00:07:18.940 very same COVID jails. Outbreaks of the virus there, of course there are. What's so weird is,

00:07:25.180 if you land in Canada and you have the coronavirus, you are not sent to one of these hotels. Only

00:07:32.060 healthy people are sent to these quarantine hotels. I'm serious. The law is a joke and this government is a

00:07:37.260 joke and this judge stood by him. Well, we're appealing. Section 7 of our Charter of Rights

00:07:43.580 guarantees life, liberty, and the security of the person. I think a court of appeal could be

00:07:48.780 persuaded that detaining our reporter for no provable benefit deprives him of his liberty and

00:07:55.020 isn't in accordance with the principles of justice. It's arbitrary. It's overly broad. Section 9 of the

00:08:02.300 Charter guarantees that Canadians can't be arbitrarily detained. You're healthy. You've done nothing wrong.

00:08:09.260 Why should the government be able to scoop you up for three days? And then there's the law itself,

00:08:13.500 the Quarantine Act. It delegates certain powers, but Trudeau's cabinet in issuing these orders just to

00:08:21.100 detain people, they far exceeded those powers. It's just not in there in the law to let them do what

00:08:26.620 they're doing. You can read the whole ruling for yourself at our website, nocovidjails.com. It's

00:08:33.740 over 130 pages long. Frankly, it's a very frustrating read. But you'll see the importance of our participation.

00:08:39.820 You know, if you read the ruling, rebel news and our arguments and our facts are mentioned more than

00:08:46.780 50 times in the ruling by the judge. If we hadn't been there, our ideas and arguments would not have

00:08:56.460 been put to court. Some of them were made by other lawyers, to be sure. But we had unique points that

00:09:00.700 we made. And I think our lawyers were also the most effective at grilling the government's own

00:09:06.380 witnesses. There were other excellent lawyers in the room, but I think ours were the best and made

00:09:09.660 the most interesting points. So if you think we have to continue the fight to appeal, please help us.

00:09:15.580 I've already told the lawyers to start working on the appeal. We've spent about a hundred thousand

00:09:19.260 dollars on this so far. And I know that's a huge amount of money, but there was so much cross

00:09:23.740 examination. All the government experts took a lot of time. I'm sure an appeal will probably

00:09:29.100 come close to $50,000 more. This is a civil liberties case though. So you'll get a charitable

00:09:35.580 tax credit for anything you can chip in at NoCovidJails.com. So that's a plus. Thanks for your help.

00:09:42.060 We have to do this because everyone else in society who's supposed to be doing this,

00:09:47.660 they're not doing this. We have to fight for freedom.

00:09:49.820 For more details, go to NoCovidJails.com.

00:10:06.220 Welcome back. Well, the whole point of science is to test a hypothesis, run an experiment, see if the

00:10:14.540 facts are in line with your theory. And if not, adjust your theory and test again. If you've got

00:10:20.460 it right, are you sure you've got it right? If you're wrong, what can you learn from it? That's

00:10:25.340 the process of all progress. And yet all those basic principles, in fact, the very root of the

00:10:31.580 word science to observe, has been thrown out during the pandemic as the science has been treated more

00:10:38.220 like religion or as I would call it, superstition. And yet the scientists have been so wrong so often

00:10:45.180 on everything from masks to vaccines. Yesterday, one MP had a little summit in Ottawa with three experts,

00:10:54.700 including people who have spent their lives in various related fields like immunology,

00:11:00.140 criticizing the mainstream scientific narrative, a political narrative masquerading as science.

00:11:07.820 The MP is Derek Sloan, and he had three people from the scientific medical community with him.

00:11:13.900 Derek joins us now via Skype from Ottawa. Derek Sloan, great to see you. Thanks for being here.

00:11:18.460 Did I accurately describe your summit yesterday of three scientific, I'm not even going to call

00:11:25.340 them dissidents because they're just people asking questions with what scientists are supposed to do?

00:11:31.660 Yeah, that's a good, good summary of it. It was a summit on censorship, scientific censorship.

00:11:36.940 And oddly enough, right in the middle of our live stream, which was an official parliamentary press

00:11:42.540 conference that was being broadcast on CPAC. We also did a Facebook Live to capture it as well.

00:11:48.620 Facebook shut it down about halfway through, right in the middle of Dr. Bridal's presentation. So

00:11:54.700 censorship is alive and well. And you're right, we're living in a time of sort of a medical priesthood

00:12:00.380 where, you know, the people at the top, whether it's Dr. Tam or others, sort of tell us

00:12:04.540 what the hidden knowledge is. And we just have to go along with it. But that's not how science really is.

00:12:10.620 And I was proud to host these doctors yesterday.

00:12:13.100 Yeah, I watched about half of it on YouTube live stream. And the whole time I was thinking,

00:12:20.140 because we've been through YouTube censorship before. I mean, I understand Facebook censors.

00:12:24.220 YouTube is just as bad. They have a whole list of things you're not allowed to say on YouTube,

00:12:29.980 including about other remedies like hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin. I just don't know enough about

00:12:37.660 those alternative prescriptions, but they're not, they're not like wacky homemade things. They're,

00:12:45.660 you know, long standing medicines used for other ailments. The fact that YouTube, a bunch of woke,

00:12:53.580 you know, tech leftists are telling scientists and doctors what they can and cannot say,

00:12:58.860 I find very odd. This does not apply to any other ailment. I can tell you, if you look at YouTube's

00:13:05.180 rules, it only applies to COVID-19. You just can't talk about the most important subject in the world

00:13:13.740 in a way they don't like. But here's the thing. As of right now, that entire press conference you had

00:13:21.580 yesterday is still available on YouTube, on CPAC's channel. And it has about 140,000 views.

00:13:30.380 So I wonder if YouTube is saying, well, maybe we're not going to censor an official press

00:13:36.380 conference by a member of parliament in the parliament of Canada. I tell you, if that was

00:13:39.740 on our channel, Derek, it would be taken down by now. I wonder what's going on there. And I'm not

00:13:43.900 looking for them to censor it at all. I'm just sort of stunned that they haven't because they censor so

00:13:48.700 many others. Well, I think it would be a red line for social media to actually censor a parliamentary

00:13:55.660 process. I mean, CPAC is kind of our official, I mean, it's not owned by the government, but it's our,

00:14:01.580 you know, our equivalent of C-SPAN, right? It does, it plays all official, you know, parliamentary

00:14:07.900 proceedings in the House of Commons committees and otherwise. It would be, I believe YouTube is,

00:14:15.180 you know, afraid of crossing that line. I mean, if they're censoring democratic processes in our

00:14:21.740 House of Commons, I mean, that is, that is extreme beyond any measure.

00:14:27.020 Well, I agree with you. However, as you just mentioned, Facebook just did it. And I am quite

00:14:34.380 certain that there will be very little, if any, concern expressed by any authority on that, whether

00:14:42.780 it's the Speaker of the House or anything. I don't know. Maybe there's a point of privilege in there

00:14:47.180 for you. Why is Facebook censoring a, I mean, you have what's called parliamentary privilege. I mean,

00:14:55.180 I know this was not in the chamber of the House of Commons, but it was on the precincts of the House

00:14:59.580 of Commons. You have special privileges as an MP. You can, for example, stand up in parliament and

00:15:05.420 defame someone. Not that you would, but that's legally protected. This is an emanation from parliament,

00:15:11.340 official parliamentary event. And Facebook, based in California, just said, no, no, you can't hear

00:15:16.940 from Canadians. You can't hear. What's that by, but foreign political meddling?

00:15:22.460 Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, the censorship level is extreme. And, and, you know, in a,

00:15:27.820 in a normal time, I'm sure I could ask for unanimous consent from the House to, to censor,

00:15:33.660 uh, face, uh, censure, you know, C-E-N-S-U-R-E, uh, you know, Facebook for what they've done.

00:15:39.740 Uh, my guess is if I tried to do that, I would not get unanimous consent.

00:15:44.140 And, um, but listen, in normal times, there's all kinds of things we could do, uh, to address this,

00:15:49.100 but instead the liberals are bringing forward the opposite types of things like Bill C-10.

00:15:53.340 And, uh, you know, they're talking about hate speech legislation, uh, for online regulation.

00:15:58.460 So the liberals are doing the opposite of what needs to be done. The censorship that we're

00:16:02.060 seeing is right in front of our face and we need to act. Yeah. Well, I, I think that in,

00:16:08.140 in your case in particular, I don't think you would find any assistance from the liberals or even 0.79

00:16:13.340 from the conservatives who threw you out of the party on even more ridiculous grounds. Let me ask 0.78

00:16:19.180 you this. We sent a reporter, Drea Humphrey, just outstanding, a young reporter from Vancouver. We

00:16:26.220 flew in Ottawa for this and we sent a videographer, Catherine from Toronto. So we, we went to great

00:16:32.380 lengths and went, you know, literally to great lengths to be there. Um, who else was there from

00:16:39.340 the media? Because you're an MP, there's not a lot going on in Ottawa these days. You had three

00:16:44.220 qualified experts talking about the issue of our time, talking about censorship, including at the

00:16:50.540 hands of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I mean, again, I didn't watch the entire

00:16:56.140 press conference, but from what I could see, there was a single question put on like a phone call to

00:17:02.060 you and that's it. I haven't seen any coverage of it. Were there any media there?

00:17:09.180 So basically no. Uh, so the CPAC of course is, is operated by the big television companies. So there

00:17:15.820 were, there were some cameramen and so on from the big companies because they, they have to, you know,

00:17:21.100 broadcast these types of things. Um, no, we, we were ghosted. There was, there was a question from,

00:17:26.620 from, from, uh, from a reporter from a, from iPolitics.ca. I believe someone from the Western

00:17:32.620 Standard reached out to us after the fact. Um, but no, uh, there was not mainstream media coverage.

00:17:38.540 And in fact, Ezra, I'm thinking about doing a whistleblowers, uh, sort of summit for people in the media,

00:17:45.100 because, uh, both Dr. Bridal and myself have been reached out to, uh, from some members of the media

00:17:51.660 who say, listen, we'd like to be covering more of what you guys are doing, but our editorial boards

00:17:55.820 are preventing it. I am going to be soon issuing a call to other members of the media to confidentially

00:18:02.060 give me their information so we can do something similar that we did with the medical whistleblowers.

00:18:07.260 Well, the thing about medical whistleblowers, I mean, if you're, for example, you have the associate

00:18:11.180 professor of immunology, he's got some protection. In fact, he started his remarks yesterday by saying

00:18:16.460 that his administration at least stood by him. He's got tenure. It's tough to dynamite out a

00:18:22.460 tenured professor from university. I mean, they can be mean to him, but good luck firing a professor.

00:18:28.540 Um, journalists are not the same. There's no such thing as tenure for a journalist.

00:18:33.020 Journalists are sacked every day and no one cares. So I don't know if you'll find the same

00:18:37.820 courageous journalists coming forward because they'll be fired immediately. Um, I want to get

00:18:42.540 back to what Facebook did to you as, as I noted, and I'm not trying to jinx it. Um, CPACs, that's the,

00:18:49.660 that's the cable company, the, the nonprofit, uh, consortium of for-profit cable companies

00:18:57.260 that broadcast everything on Parliament Hill. I think I got that right. So they, they sort of broadcast

00:19:01.900 anything, anyone, that's the job. Yes. And YouTube hasn't shut them down. Good. I don't want them to,

00:19:09.340 but Facebook did. I think you've got to do so. I don't, I'm not telling you what to do. I just think

00:19:15.260 you gotta, I think you've got to not let that pass. No one else will care about it. None of the other

00:19:21.020 parties. Um, I think Facebook should be sensitive right now to its political meddling because the

00:19:27.500 government is saying, Oh, don't worry about it. We're just going to regulate, we're just going

00:19:31.660 to regulate social media, but we'll never misuse it to silence our opposition. Like Facebook turned

00:19:38.940 off the feed of an opposition MP who is criticizing, you know, the government narrative. And how is that

00:19:49.740 acceptable? I don't know. I don't know what tools you have at your disposal as an ordinary MP, but I

00:19:54.940 just, I mean, I know what I could do if that was done to me, nothing, but maybe you can do something

00:20:00.700 by virtue of your standing as an MP. Yeah. I really like what you're saying. And no, I'm not going to

00:20:06.400 let this go. And I've been thinking of different ways to address it, maybe with a question in question

00:20:10.300 period or some other, uh, you know, question to the speaker. Yeah. I think the speaker, I mean,

00:20:14.660 I think the speaker, uh, should be appalled. I mean, he's a liberal obviously, but the speaker

00:20:19.500 should be, uh, I think, I forget the name of the new speaker, um, should be appalled that any one

00:20:25.500 of his MPs of any party is being silenced. The speaker represents the MPs. Absolutely. Yeah. No,

00:20:32.100 I, you know what? I think there's, I mean, listen, this is a very big issue. If, if all of parliament

00:20:36.480 wanted to do something about this, they could, uh, you know, with respect to the speaker, I'm going to

00:20:41.160 look at some of my options. My guess is that they would say that, that Facebook is outside of the,

00:20:47.200 the, the, the, the ambit of the house of commons. So, you know, if, if, um, you know, the, the

00:20:53.060 privilege as he would see it is, is related to me being able to speak in the house of commons,

00:20:56.940 whether or not social media, uh, you know, transmits that it would be outside of that

00:21:02.420 immediate scope. But I will think about this and I will see what I can do to raise awareness on this

00:21:08.080 issue because you're right. It's, it's really appalling. And it's not the first time we've seen

00:21:12.000 this. I remember they, they censored a meeting that governor DeSantis had, but it wasn't,

00:21:16.440 it wasn't in, uh, you know, the, the legislature. It was, it was a meeting of elected officials and

00:21:21.940 appointed individual individuals discussing official business. But this was something on

00:21:26.560 parliament Hill that was, uh, you know, an official press conference that was covered by CPAC and,

00:21:32.500 uh, you know, Facebook shut it down halfway through now. It still is actually up in Facebook on two

00:21:37.240 parts, but you're right. Uh, I've never had that happen before where they just, you know, we had

00:21:41.600 thousands of people watching live and it just, the numbers just started going down and then it

00:21:46.940 was zero and then it was off. Um, so very bizarre, never had that happen before. And I will do

00:21:52.380 whatever I can to, uh, to continue raising awareness and, uh, and get some answers on this.

00:21:57.660 You know, I mean, Facebook, they're odious. Mark Zuckerberg is a God complex, you know, all these

00:22:03.420 tech giants, these oligarchs, they are what they are. But the fact that, I mean, you mentioned

00:22:09.460 someone from iPolitics called and I called in to ask a question. I heard that and we had our people

00:22:14.540 there. Um, I find that more troubling because at least in America, when you have a right wing or a

00:22:21.280 left wing or a dissident or an unusual political character, they're covered by the media. Uh, the

00:22:26.560 media might mock them. The media might attack them. But I think that the, uh, you use the word ghosting

00:22:34.220 they, you know, the absolute pretending you don't exist. It's not like they're busy.

00:22:39.160 There's nothing going on in Ottawa. They've had the laziest 18 months of their life.

00:22:46.160 Um, they could have called in, they could have watched it on YouTube and called in. None of them

00:22:50.520 did it. I think it's a form of de-platforming you. Just like when Maxime Bernier was arrested,

00:22:57.320 there was either silence on that or cheering. I think there's something deeply wrong with our

00:23:04.180 media party that, that they're, they are acting like liberal partisans and that they can't restrain

00:23:11.540 their hatred towards conservative populist dissidents like you and Maxime Bernier. So they think,

00:23:17.480 well, I could either attack him, but that gives him more oxygen. I'm just going to pretend he doesn't

00:23:22.960 exist. I think that's a really, really broken media system that won't you. I mean, forget about

00:23:28.900 you. You had three of the most interesting speakers I've heard on the pandemic completely cut off.

00:23:36.360 Yeah, no, you're totally, you're totally right. And, uh, yeah, I mean, listen, um, the media is

00:23:41.480 supposed to, uh, you know, uh, air, uh, you know, the non-mainstream views, right? Like, I mean,

00:23:47.680 they're not supposed to just be a mouthpiece for the government. That's, I mean, that's a communist

00:23:51.660 country, right? If the media is just a mouthpiece for the government and not actually, you know,

00:23:56.480 holding them to account or, or, or airing things that are being brought up by people who are

00:24:01.280 dissenting, I mean, they're not doing their job and it's clear that they're complicit. Uh, you know,

00:24:05.780 I believe a lot of rank and file in media are, are starting to get frustrated by this. And hopefully,

00:24:10.520 when I opened my whistleblowers forum for them, we can, we can find a way to address this more broadly.

00:24:16.340 Yeah. Well, listen, I'm glad you did what you did yesterday. And I'm glad we sent our reporter

00:24:20.500 from halfway across the world to come and be there. Uh, that's the length we went to cover it.

00:24:25.360 Uh, the rest of the media party couldn't bother walking down the street. Derek Sloan, great to

00:24:29.760 see you. Thanks for your time today. Absolutely. Talk to you soon. Right on. There you have it,

00:24:33.740 Derek Sloan. Uh, by the way, at least until it's taken down, we will have the entire press conference

00:24:39.500 embedded on our website from CPAC's own YouTube channel. I'm quite certain that if we were to upload it

00:24:46.220 to our own YouTube channel, we would get what's called a strike. We would be suspended for two

00:24:50.780 weeks, but we can embed on our website, CPAC's channel. And if they're shut down, it'll just

00:24:56.380 leave a little hole on our website, but we won't be hurt. So check out the whole thing there. Stay with

00:25:00.880 us more ahead. Hey, welcome back. I I'm disappointed that we lost in federal court today. I really

00:25:17.820 thought we had a chance the way the hearing went, the government had so many terrible admissions.

00:25:23.020 They, they really were on the back foot the whole time. I think this is a very political decision.

00:25:27.540 Hopefully the federal court of appeal will apply the law as I think it ought to be

00:25:32.240 strengthening our right to due process, strengthening our right to be free from

00:25:36.240 arbitrary detention. And of course, same to the government, the quarantine act just simply

00:25:41.160 doesn't allow you to do this, to imprison healthy people for three days, just because it just doesn't

00:25:46.400 let you do that. So if you want to help us go to nocovidjails.com. Now, yesterday I talked at

00:25:52.820 length about Andrew Neil. He's the excellent journalist at GBnews.uk. That's that new British 0.98

00:26:00.100 news site. And I was talking about how he was fighting him back against cancel culture. And I

00:26:04.680 was sort of leading up to it. But last night he did a five minute monologue on his response. He's so

00:26:11.220 smart. Instead of describing it to you, let me show it to you in full. So I'm going to say goodbye now,

00:26:17.660 but don't go away. Here's five minutes of Andrew Neil explaining how he's fighting against cancel

00:26:25.500 culture. Good night.

00:26:33.000 Welcome back. Tonight, a Media Watch special. We ask companies boycotting GB News for peddling hate.

00:26:40.380 What on earth are you talking about?

00:26:45.420 Now, since GB News launched on Sunday night, our young and diverse team of reporters across the

00:26:52.060 country have covered. Nissen's plans to invest more in Sunderland, regeneration of Skegness,

00:26:57.920 whiskey production in Hoyk, pressures on the hospitality sector in Newcastle, the pollution charge

00:27:03.900 in Birmingham, house building and brick house, flooding in Bedfordshire, Scotland's fan zone

00:27:09.780 in Glasgow, the struggles of the wedding industry in Ipswich, COVID infection rates in Bolton,

00:27:16.620 that's a hotspot, vaccinations in Abergavenny, the debate over Irish language lessons in Belfast,

00:27:23.500 and of course, Wales's wonderful Euros win in Cardiff. Now, some of these stories you won't see on other

00:27:30.620 news channels. All of them are important to the communities involved, and not a scintilla of hate

00:27:37.420 in any of them. We've interviewed the Chancellor of the Exchequer, reported on growing anti-Semitism

00:27:43.180 in London, and covered the country's many mental health problems. Again, not an iota of hate in sight.

00:27:52.380 Indeed, the only hate this channel has broadcast was when we showed film of a BBC Newsnight reporter

00:27:58.140 being attacked by a baying anti-lockdown mob, and we condemn that unreservedly.

00:28:05.780 Yet a number of companies, some of them well-known brands, have decided to stop advertising

00:28:10.620 on GB News. They've bowed to pressure from a fringe group called Stop Funding Hate,

00:28:17.060 a misnomer if ever there was one. It's quite remarkable that serious, important executives

00:28:22.920 in well-established companies can be so easily cowed. They've all taken the knee to stop funding

00:28:30.440 hate. It's important that they, and you, realise to whom they are in thrall. SFH doesn't stand

00:28:38.620 for a liberal, inclusive society. It's dominated by far-left agitators and cranks that push for

00:28:45.720 advertiser boycotts of any media organisation with which it disagrees. Its default position is to

00:28:52.840 smear anything it takes against as a peddler of hate. In GB News' case, SFH started rounding up

00:29:00.760 the lynch mob four months before we'd even started broadcasting. So I don't think we're talking open

00:29:07.200 minds here. If advertisers want to see real hate, they should have a look at the social media postings

00:29:13.420 of SFH supporters. They smear and threaten businesses and people who won't do their bidding with words

00:29:20.080 like vile, scum, toxic, and many more words that we can't repeat here tonight. Yet through fear or 0.99

00:29:27.720 ignorance, some companies do as SFH bids. Woke nonsense has reached the boardroom, and corporate

00:29:35.860 capitalism is becoming the useful idiot of bigots bent on censorship. Now, I understand that in some 1.00

00:29:42.780 cases it was not the bosses of the brands that pulled their ads, but their advertising agencies.

00:29:47.900 Fair enough. There's still time for you to have a word with your agencies, who work for you after

00:29:52.860 all, and risk doing you huge harm. But all these brands should understand that this boycott business

00:29:59.540 can play both ways. GB News viewers are incensed with advertisers who've taken against us for no

00:30:06.100 reason. Many have written to these advertisers to tell them so. And our numbers, our viewers are

00:30:12.060 growing for three nights in a row. This show has been the number one rated show in its time slot on

00:30:19.320 any news channel available in the UK. And if you add our audiences, our friends, our allies, our

00:30:25.800 sympathizers, together we can muster millions of supporters on social media. It's not a good idea to be on

00:30:33.180 the wrong end of them. We will not go there. We have more important work to do. We want to provide

00:30:39.260 a high quality news channel which reputable advertisers are proud to use and which delivers

00:30:45.520 great results for them. So far, not a single example of hate has been given in evidence to

00:30:52.320 justify the boycott of this channel. But this program issues a standing invitation to the bosses

00:30:58.020 of any company or agency that thinks to the contrary, to come on air. We'll look at your

00:31:04.160 examples. If you have them, we'll discuss them together. Our studio door is open. Because you're

00:31:10.520 in the politics business now. And that's where you are when you succumb to political pressure.

00:31:16.520 And then, like politicians, you have to be held to account. And that's tonight's Media Watch.

00:31:28.020 We'll see you next time.

00:31:34.160 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - June 19, 2021

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