Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ NDP activists storm a conservative premier’s press conference, and the media blames the conservative premier

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Great to be back. I want to talk to you about Danielle Smith and the fact

00:00:04.280 that her event was stormed by NDP activists, but you wouldn't know it if you relied on the regime

00:00:09.520 media. For some weird reason, they obscured the identity of her attackers. I'll take you through

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00:00:58.580 Tonight, NDP activists storm a conservative premier's press conference, and the media blames

00:01:09.860 the conservative premier. It's May 12th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:13.840 You're fighting for freedom!

00:01:17.140 Shame on you, you censorious bug! 0.70

00:01:20.340 Hey, it's great to be back. I'm sorry I missed so many days. I was fine, except for I looked 0.52

00:01:35.380 and sounded terrible, too terrifying to be on TV. I'm fine now. Great to be here, and don't

00:01:40.340 you worry about me. Thanks to my friends who filled in for me. Let me talk about a story

00:01:45.960 that I think is incredibly important, and not many other people in the media seem to believe

00:01:53.800 it, but let me try and make the case to you. Here, watch this video.

00:01:56.760 Hospitals are not for sale. Hospitals are not for sale. Hospitals are not for sale.

00:02:07.720 We saw your video about buying hospitals. Check it out. We've got a big offer.

00:02:11.000 Everybody in them, they're not.

00:02:13.000 We will not sell our arms and legs for hospitals. Hospitals should be public.

00:02:25.800 They're going to cost us an arm and a leg when you sell it, though, aren't they?

00:02:31.800 Everybody, we will resume the press conference and let's get the bees right off. 0.98

00:02:40.760 So you've got some middle-aged men storming into a press conference by Danielle Smith,

00:02:44.920 the conservative premier of Alberta. I'm not sure if you caught it since it happened so fast,

00:02:49.400 but the protesters pushed and shoved a policeman. And the main police detail whisked Danielle Smith 0.99

00:02:56.600 out of the room. She was wearing green. I don't know if you saw her. That's the right move. You 0.99

00:03:01.080 don't know if there's a gun or if someone else is about to do something. You don't know if that stunt

00:03:06.680 was just a distraction for the main attack to come. I don't know if you saw this literally a day

00:03:12.280 earlier. A man was brandishing a gun at the legislature in Edmonton and Alberta. What did that

00:03:18.040 have to do with this? Was that a part of this? The police didn't know, so they just got Danielle

00:03:21.800 Smith out of the way. Here, let's watch that video just one more time.

00:03:36.360 It's odd, isn't it? Look, I'm not an expert in security at all, but to my layman's eyes, it's a

00:03:42.600 little odd that the premiers whisked away. That's very good. But there were two other women left in 1.00

00:03:48.360 the lurch. I think at least one of them was an MLA or at least a candidate. The two women who were

00:03:52.920 left standing there were clearly stunned and didn't know what to do with themselves. Did they run?

00:03:59.480 Were they a danger? There was a cop who just let one guy go. That's weird. Security just seemed to

00:04:06.920 stand around. No one said even get out or we'll call the cops. No one, I don't know if they called

00:04:12.680 the cops. The whole thing's a little strange. And then the disruptors just walked out. No charges

00:04:20.280 laid against them of any kind, to my knowledge. No trespass charges, no harassment charges,

00:04:26.280 no assault charges, even for the guy who hit the cop. You try that and see how it works out.

00:04:31.560 Now, isn't that funny? Because you see, in Alberta, they have been arresting and jailing

00:04:37.080 a pastor named Derek Reimer in recent weeks for simply coming within 100 meters or whatever the

00:04:43.160 rule is of drag queen story hour. He just comes near them. He's arrested and jailed. These thugs

00:04:49.960 burst right in, caused a security incident, physically shoved a cop and nothing.

00:04:57.160 Hey, if these had been conservative men storming a Rachel Notley event or a Christy Freeland event,

00:05:04.760 I think they'd be in jail right now without bail, facing charges. I mean, ask Pastor Arthur

00:05:09.880 Pavlovsky or Pastor James Coates or Tamara Leach just to name a few. None of those people even

00:05:14.680 touched a cop or anyone, actually. Remember this? The incident happened on Friday when Deputy

00:05:20.840 Prime Minister Christy Freeland was visiting the City Hall in Grand Prairie, Alberta. A man called

00:05:26.840 her name. He unloaded a verbal assault of insults, F-bombs and worse. Freeland and her aides got away.

00:05:44.680 The man was escorted out of the City Hall, still shouting. On Twitter afterwards, Freeland said,

00:05:51.560 nobody anywhere should have to put up with threats and intimidation. Although she said the harassment

00:05:57.400 doesn't reflect the people of Alberta. In Ottawa, the Prime Minister was speaking out for her.

00:06:04.040 Threats, violence, intimidation of any kind are always unacceptable. And this kind of cowardly 0.90

00:06:11.960 behavior threatens and undermines our democracy and our values of openness and respect upon which

00:06:20.600 Canada was built. Trudeau was the victim of a stone-throwing attack during last year's election

00:06:26.680 campaign. He says these behaviors are getting worse. F-bombs or worse, said the journalist. I'm

00:06:33.880 not sure what worse is because I listened to it. I didn't hear anything worse, but it sounded very

00:06:37.400 dramatic. Look, I don't like that. I don't like shouting. He was a scary guy, I suppose. I don't

00:06:42.760 like that. I don't like the kid who threw pebbles. I don't like that. Not at all. But where is Trudeau

00:06:48.840 with his dramatic actor voice here? Where is the national media outrage here? Neither Christopher

00:06:55.880 Freeland nor Justin Trudeau had to be whisked away to safety by police. Neither had their event

00:07:00.440 canceled. But it was a national disaster. I'm surprised they didn't invoke the Emergencies Act.

00:07:06.360 That came later, of course. National news. Every conservative was asked to disavow that shouter in 1.00

00:07:14.360 Grand Prairie. If these folks storming Danielle Smith had been conservatives, they would obviously

00:07:20.280 have been kicked out of the party if they had done this to Rachel Notley. They would have been kicked

00:07:24.680 out of the conservative party. We'd have a week of deep thinkers talking about radicalized extremists

00:07:30.200 who were fed disinformation and became violent or whatever the liberals say these days. Oh, I forgot to

00:07:35.800 mention one of those dirty tricksters is actually an NDP candidate. Patrick King is his name. He ran 0.94

00:07:42.920 in the federal NDP in Calgary last election, a year and a half ago. And the other fella is a provincial

00:07:49.560 labor union organizer. Aaron Doncaster, I think is his name. Just to remind you, Rachel Notley's husband,

00:07:55.400 Lou Arab, is a senior labor organizer in the province who surely worked on same campaigns as him.

00:08:01.240 These were as insiders as can be. But no arrests, no nothing. The NDP put out this tweet gently

00:08:09.800 disavowing the storming of Smith's event. But it was their people who did the storming.

00:08:16.440 In fact, and this is really bizarre, the NDP themselves tweeted out the location of Smith's

00:08:22.200 event. Why would they do that? They directed their supporters to Smith's event when they were asked

00:08:28.040 about it. Notley claimed, oh, no, no, no, no, no. Don't you worry your privilege ahead. They always do

00:08:33.160 that. There's nothing weird about that. They always, all the time, tweet out the location of Danielle Smith's

00:08:40.680 events. Rachel Emanuel with True North. I wanted to ask you about the protesters that interrupted

00:08:46.440 Daniel Smith's press conference today. I know that after it happened, the Alberta NDP issued a tweet

00:08:51.000 saying they condemned the protests. Elections is about time of reading voters. However, prior to that

00:08:55.800 event, the Alberta NDP had also tweeted the location of Daniel Smith's. They had also tweeted

00:09:00.360 Daniel Smith's location and where her event would be. Do you have any regrets about doing that? Do you think

00:09:04.840 that was a mistake that actually might have led to the protests occurring? No, because my understanding is that

00:09:10.120 the UCP had also tweeted the location of the press conference. And that's actually where we got the

00:09:17.160 information from. So it's quite common for press events to be described publicly about where they are.

00:09:26.440 But let me say that once again, I don't support that kind of intervention in a public event that's designed

00:09:35.000 to deliver message to voters. Whether you agree or don't agree, our elections and our democratic process

00:09:42.040 is sacred and people need to be able to speak to voters without fear of intimidation or any kinds of

00:09:51.560 threats like that. So I definitely do not support or endorse what happened. What a weird lie. That question

00:10:00.200 was asked by Rachel Emanuel. None of the mainstream media would ask that question. So that's what

00:10:04.840 happened. That's what it looked like. That's who did it. That's who teed it up. So how did it look to

00:10:12.920 the millions of people or hundreds of thousands of people who only heard about it later through the

00:10:17.320 regime's media in a newspaper on TV? Well, let's take a look. The Canadian press, which feeds into newspapers,

00:10:25.160 they had this article in the Toronto Star as it happens, but this appeared elsewhere.

00:10:29.400 Alberta election campaign continues. That's their headline. Alberta election campaign continues

00:10:35.080 after minor drama at Danielle Smith's announcement. Minor drama. She's so dramatic. She's so sensitive.

00:10:41.880 And of course, the main news here is that the campaign continues. Imagine thinking that's news at all.

00:10:47.080 The Alberta election is nearing the end of its second week as United Conservative leader

00:10:51.240 Danielle Smith dismisses concerns about over past musings about selling hospitals to private operators.

00:10:58.840 Smith was hustled offstage Thursday after a handful of vocal placard waving protesters

00:11:05.240 disrupted a news conference in Calgary. She later returned to take questions comparing the protesters

00:11:10.280 to the opposition NDP and saying both seek to misrepresent her position on health care.

00:11:14.760 So that's the news, eh? That's it. So an NDP candidate and a senior NDP organizer are placard-waving

00:11:24.680 protesters and nothing about security or police whisking Smith away, which is safety, nothing about

00:11:30.520 police being assaulted. There was just a disruption. No mention of the NDP identity of the protesters.

00:11:37.240 They called the peaceful truckers terrorists for honking their horns, but attacking a cop and causing

00:11:42.520 an assassination scare. It's just a protest, you see. And of course, they'll mention the NDP advertising

00:11:48.760 the location of the event. Here's how Justin Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster treated the issue.

00:11:56.120 A group interrupted a UCP event to protest a 2021 Danielle Smith video today. What's it all about? A group. I love

00:12:05.880 that. And the group has a name, of course, NDP. If that's too much reporting, this is about obscuring

00:12:14.440 facts, not revealing them. During a United Conservative Party event Thursday focused on a

00:12:21.160 seniors discount, Pamela Rath, UCP candidate for Calgary Mountain View, was interrupted by a group

00:12:26.600 of protesters. Oh, so Danielle Smith wasn't either? They interrupted. Rath was in the middle of a sentence

00:12:33.080 discussing jobs and investments. When she looked to her left, there were a group of three protesters,

00:12:38.040 a group holding signs like one that read for sale Foothills Hospital began shouting. One of the men

00:12:45.480 wearing a tan colored hat was Patrick King, the NDP candidate in Calgary Signal Hill in the 2021

00:12:50.120 federal election. Another unidentified man made it past event organizers and began to shout hospitals are

00:12:55.960 not for sale. Organizers attempted to stop the man, but he was able to make it to the front of the stage

00:13:01.800 where he stood unimpeded, holding up a sign for more than a minute before the UCP feed cut up.

00:13:07.240 When it returned, UCP leader Danielle Smith addressed the incident. I think that activists,

00:13:11.720 like we just saw here, and the NDP keep trying to confuse the issue, Smith said.

00:13:17.320 So the CBC eventually did identify one of the men, give them that. Not in the headline,

00:13:23.240 not in the lead, a group. And weird, they never mentioned that Smith herself was whisked away

00:13:29.320 by police. Why? And they certainly never mentioned the assault on police. Why did they not see it?

00:13:37.240 They were there. I'm 2000 miles away. You watch the TV report that actually went on air. It's even

00:13:44.520 crazier. A UCP campaign announcement hijacked by protesters today. Party candidate Pamela Rath was

00:13:51.720 cut off mid-speech as protesters, as you saw, rushed the stage area holding signs. One of them reading

00:13:59.000 the Rocky View Hospital is up for sale. The announcement was paused as the protesters were

00:14:04.280 ushered off stage. As you can see, the NDP condemned that disruption in a tweet.

00:14:10.760 Thanks for staying up with us. I'm Rob Brown.

00:14:12.760 So as you just saw, concern over the privatization of healthcare is pushing some Albertans to act out.

00:14:19.240 It stems from a video from a couple of years ago where Danielle Smith spoke about potential

00:14:24.920 reforms to Alberta's health system. Got it. Danielle Smith provoked these 0.88

00:14:29.400 disruptors. She caused it. And by the way, they didn't storm the floor and cancel the event. They

00:14:36.920 just were acting out. Did the CBC cover the trucker convoy this way?

00:14:42.760 No. It's not just the CBC. Here's CTV. They went to the head of the nurses union for reaction.

00:14:48.840 The union representing nurses believes election spin is just pulling attention away from where it

00:14:55.000 should be. People are still waiting 12 hours in the emergency room. And that's not acceptable.

00:15:00.600 Oh, Cam Westhead. Seems like a really good source on this. But who's he? They said he had the

00:15:06.760 nurses union. Why didn't they say this? He's a former NDP MLA. Why didn't CTV mention that?

00:15:15.720 Did they truly not know? This CTV broadcast, they actually led with Rachel Notley's announcement

00:15:24.680 first, then Smith's coverage. They rewarded the NDP dirty tricksters. Global News didn't mention NDP 0.78

00:15:34.360 involvement at all. And spent more time on an NDP candidate's signs getting damaged. That's more

00:15:41.640 important than an assassination scare. The police jumped in and whisked Smith away. Seriously.

00:15:47.000 You just had some angry men shouting and storming the premier's event, assaulting police. Smith had to

00:15:53.160 be rushed away. And that is the media coverage of it hiding NDP involvement, calling it much ado about

00:16:01.000 nothing. A minor drama. Smith deserved it. She caused it. Are you serious? Yeah, deadly serious.

00:16:10.840 I say this again and again in almost every news story about which I have first-hand knowledge.

00:16:19.000 When I know what happened, when I see the regime media's coverage of it, it's spun, if not an outright

00:16:24.120 lie. Now here, I don't have first-hand knowledge. I was not there, but I have two things. The raw video of

00:16:29.480 what happened and the curiosity to Google the people who were talked to. Don't tell me the media party

00:16:36.680 didn't know what they were doing. Why are their errors and omissions always pointing in the same

00:16:43.400 direction? Anti-conservative, pro-NDP, pro-Trudeau. Why did they downplay violence against the right? For

00:16:49.880 example, they never mentioned the attacks on our rebel news journalists. Why do they excuse violence

00:16:55.480 violence committed by the left, especially Antifa and these thugs? I'm not overreacting. They

00:17:01.400 assaulted a cop and committed trespass, but were let go with nothing. The NDP itself hasn't kicked them

00:17:09.160 out. Never believe the media. Never. Not when they tell you they're afraid of the truckers or the

00:17:17.640 proud boys or conservatives or Christians or whoever they're demonizing today. They're lying.

00:17:24.360 They're not afraid. They're accusing you of what they're doing themselves.

00:17:32.520 Stay with us. You know, I had a chat today with Sheila Gunn-Reed and Adam Sosa about this on our

00:17:36.840 live stream. And I'd like to show you an excerpt of that. Take a look.

00:17:51.400 Let's show what I think can only be called the storming. Maybe not a hurricane category five,

00:17:58.360 more like a category two storm, but it was storming. These dirty tricksters stormed 0.96

00:18:03.560 an event. And I'm going to watch it very carefully because I understand that they shoved a cop. 0.99

00:18:09.720 One was restrained by like, this is not prickly journalism. This is not journalism at all.

00:18:15.400 This is the premier of the province having her event stormed. And you're not even going to believe

00:18:20.600 what I'm about to say. One of the stormers, de Sturmer, was an NDP candidate from the last federal

00:18:28.680 election. Patrick King, I believe, was his name, no relation to the trucker. And another was Aaron.

00:18:34.600 Oh, shoot. I just forgot his last name. A labor union organizer who has worked in the past

00:18:41.160 on labor projects with Rachel Notley's husband. So you've got

00:18:45.720 a labor union organizer who knows Mr. Notley, Lou Arabs' name, and an NDP candidate from the federal

00:18:53.880 election 2021. Like these people are so brazen. They didn't even outsource this dirty tricksterism

00:19:00.600 to some college kid. They did it themselves. Without further ado, take a look. And let's play this

00:19:05.560 once and then maybe we'll even play it and pause in key moments a second time. Take a look.

00:19:09.160 Hospitals are not for sale. Hospitals are not for sale. We saw your video about buying hospitals.

00:19:16.760 Check it out. We've got a great offer. Yeah, this is a great opportunity for everybody in

00:19:21.320 Alberta. Madam Premier, anything to say? Madam Premier, no? You have a lot to say about this not so long

00:19:26.680 ago. Madam Premier, hospital for sale, anything? Yeah, you had a whole show to talk about this.

00:19:30.840 We will not tell our arms and legs for hospitals. Hospitals should be public.

00:19:36.200 They're going to cost us. That's not going to lie when you sell it, though, aren't they?

00:19:39.640 You've already privatized lab services. How does it end?

00:19:44.040 In this case, video silence, eh? That's all good. Yeah. We got all day.

00:19:47.880 Yeah, we're here for a first hearing. It's all the time.

00:19:53.400 Where's the security? Yeah, how did this go on this long?

00:19:57.880 Yeah, so basically what happened was security moved, because one of the big concerns is they

00:20:03.720 pretty much rushed, and I don't want to get into gender politics, but one, the Premier of Alberta,

00:20:07.080 two, a lady, and intimidated her. Both things I have problems with. But security effectively

00:20:13.560 enveloped her and moved her off to the side. It should cut over. If nothing else, I do have a shot.

00:20:19.960 I think it's going to be here in a second, of them over to the side with the Premier, ensuring that

00:20:25.000 she's safe. And then basically, at that point, it is shocking that they got in and they got that far.

00:20:30.200 I believe it was Becca Pollock at that point, said, you've made your point. Get out of here. 0.97

00:20:35.080 We're going to proceed. Daniel Smith was saying, you know what, I'm going to answer the question,

00:20:38.840 but get out of here, and then I'll talk about it. At that point, yeah, there's a shot of me

00:20:43.960 capturing the action. But then staff from the hotel actually came in and said, we're going to call the

00:20:50.520 police. You will be charged with trespassing. And at that point, they left. So they clearly,

00:20:55.000 these weren't just random people. They understood that sort of nuance of being formally informed that

00:20:59.800 you're trespassing. At that point, they left pretty quickly. They were saying, we've got all

00:21:04.120 day and we're not going anywhere. The second that language came up and the facility said,

00:21:08.280 this is a private facility, that's when they cleared out. Yeah. Can we watch it again? And I

00:21:12.920 don't know if it's possible to play it slow or if it just pause it. I want to watch this thing from

00:21:18.040 the beginning. If you want to, yeah, play it a quarter feedback, a quarter speed. I just want to watch it.

00:21:23.880 I had a tough time seeing anything besides that guy's gut hanging out of the bottom of his shirt.

00:21:29.480 it. Okay. So go ahead and play it at a quarter speed.

00:21:41.800 And then just let them go for a second. Just let them go. Here. Okay. So play it again. I want to see

00:21:51.240 the preener being whisked away. Go back to the beginning, if you please. Thanks for your help.

00:21:54.840 Go back to the beginning. I just want to watch. What's the very first part we can spot? Is she

00:21:59.720 even at the mic at this point or was she rushed? It looks like she was not at the mic anymore.

00:22:04.600 Looks like they maybe whisked her away right away. And some guy's running in the back.

00:22:08.760 Someone who looks like security is pushing the bearded guy away, but then it looks like maybe the

00:22:15.080 premier was. Yeah. So you can see behind them, they took the premier away and then they left

00:22:19.960 them here. So thanks very much. We don't need to see anymore. So what we have here is a bunch of

00:22:27.800 middle-aged guys storming a stage with, it looks like three women were there, the premier and two

00:22:33.960 other women. Apparently the other women, the protective premier, but those other women there 0.92

00:22:39.560 are expendable. Um, I think it is right to take the premier away. I mean, she is the protective person

00:22:45.880 here, but, but why did they let these other, uh, blokes free just to listen? I, I'm not a security

00:22:54.600 expert. So I, and I suppose they were clearly not being violent at this point, but, but why did that

00:23:00.680 guy not escort them out of the room? I don't quite know. Well, you know, I think that go ahead, go ahead.

00:23:07.400 No, no, no. I was just going to say, uh, like they, they tackle him and they just let him go.

00:23:14.120 Like, you don't even know what this guy has in his pockets, what he's going to do. Uh, I, I found it,

00:23:19.960 you know, kind of weird to see, okay, they grab him. He obviously is willing to wrestle a cop and they

00:23:27.480 just let him go stand by these ladies who are sort of, I guess, shell shocked. What I can tell you though,

00:23:34.120 is if you toss a little bit of gravel in the general direction of the prime minister,

00:23:38.600 you're going to be flattened like a pancake and taken away in handcuffs. And these guys were treated

00:23:43.000 with kid gloves. And I, I want to know why. Yeah. I wonder if some anti-mask or anti-vax protesters

00:23:49.240 would have wrestled with a cop like that, if they would be caught and released within seconds and

00:23:53.320 let go without criminal charge or, or yeah, you know, um, right now in Calgary, there's a pastor named

00:24:00.040 Derek Reimer who merely for being near, um, uh, extreme, uh, cross-dressing, uh, what's a drag 0.57

00:24:08.760 queen story hour is done. What three weeks in prison just for being near them. And here you have 1.00

00:24:16.840 people breaking in, threatening the premier physically wrestling with cops and okay guys,

00:24:21.800 no problem. See you next time. NDP candidate. Have your say. They let them have their say and

00:24:26.840 even argue back and forth. Yeah. And, and so shoe on the other foot, what would have happened had

00:24:33.720 three burly men stormed an event with, uh, Christia Freeland or what's her name? Catherine McKenna,

00:24:42.360 the former environment minister, or Rachel Notley herself. We don't have to, we don't have to wonder

00:24:45.800 that guy in Grand Prairie yelled at Christia Freeland and they investigated him for a hate crime.

00:24:50.520 I remember exactly the case you're talking about. They merely hollered, he merely hollered at her,

00:24:56.200 not disrupting an event. Let's take a look at what Trudeau CBC state broadcaster that can't shut up

00:25:01.960 about microaggressions and gender rising things. And, um, what do they have to say about a couple of,

00:25:08.040 uh, white dudes, middle aged, burly white dudes. Normally those are the hated people in the CBC, 0.70

00:25:15.720 but, uh, let's see what they have to say today. Take a look.

00:25:21.400 A UCB campaign announcement hijacked by protesters today. Party candidate Pamela Rath was cut off mid

00:25:41.080 speech as protesters, as you saw, rushed the stage area holding signs. One of them reading

00:25:47.560 the Rocky View hospital is up for sale. The announcement was paused as the protesters were

00:25:52.840 ushered off stage. As you can see, the NDP condemned that disruption in a tweet.

00:25:59.320 Thanks for staying up with us. I'm Rob Brown. So as you just saw, concern over the privatization

00:26:04.280 of healthcare is pushing some Albertans to act out. It stems from a video from a couple of years ago,

00:26:10.760 where Danielle Smith spoke about potential reforms to Alberta's health system.

00:26:16.280 Our Joel Dryden has the details in our top story.

00:26:20.200 We're right here. She can say anything that she wants.

00:26:22.120 The mic. The mic. The press is right there.

00:26:24.040 That we're having and you're disrespecting everybody here.

00:26:26.760 Their protest ties back to an NDP event on Wednesday and a 2021 video of Danielle Smith.

00:26:32.840 It's a structure issue.

00:26:34.920 In the video, Smith suggests if AHS isn't meeting terms,

00:26:38.520 then the province could issue a request for proposals for private entities to run hospitals

00:26:43.320 while remaining publicly funded.

00:26:46.520 Fiona Clement specializes in health policy at the University of Calgary.

00:26:50.280 She says such an idea would be possible.

00:26:52.520 It's the same kind of law as the private surgical delivery system.

00:26:57.880 I mean, she's absolutely correct in her interpretation of what's allowable and what's possible.

00:27:03.880 Clement notes that's not to say anything about how effective

00:27:07.160 or controversial such a model might be.

00:27:13.640 So I should let you know that it was Danielle Smith who pushed them to do this.

00:27:18.280 That's what the CBC tells us.

00:27:19.560 Yeah.

00:27:19.960 Yeah.

00:27:20.360 She caused them to act out.

00:27:22.840 They're just acting out.

00:27:23.960 Yeah, you guys.

00:27:25.160 They should never have been provoked.

00:27:27.080 And by the way, they never disclose that these, quote, protesters are senior NDP activists.

00:27:34.200 I just sent you, Olivia, the CBC headline, which I'm sure you have there, a group.

00:27:39.960 They also didn't do one other thing.

00:27:42.680 They said the NDP condemned the protest, but they didn't say that the NDP inspired it and tweeted out

00:27:48.760 exactly the location so that not only protesters would go there, which I think they were already

00:27:53.960 organized by the NDP if I had to speculate, but they were hoping that other ones would go too,

00:27:58.280 because the NDP tweeted out the location of this event and CBC also refused to disclose that.

00:28:05.720 You know, we're talking about very serious matters here.

00:28:09.320 It certainly would be a national crisis if the shoe were on the other foot. 0.83

00:28:13.160 Imagine if some dirty tricksters in their 40s and 50s from the UCP stormed a Notley event,

00:28:19.640 one of whom was a former candidate, one of whom was a senior organizer. 0.87

00:28:24.600 Would it be treated in that way?

00:28:26.520 But I want to show you see that guy there, Patrick King, and you see he's wearing that hat there.

00:28:32.280 I just can't let that go, that hat. 0.99

00:28:35.320 Patrick King of the NDP is such a loser. I'm not saying you can't wear a hat. 0.97

00:28:41.320 My dear friend David Menzies wears a hat, and I think it suits him.

00:28:46.120 Cowboy hats, there's some people for whom it's a fixture.

00:28:50.360 I got good friends who wear ball caps all the time, and I get it.

00:28:53.880 Tim Pool, part of his persona is that toque he wears, or beanie, as they call it in America.

00:28:58.920 I'm not anti-hat, but when you are sort of a young guy wearing a fedora like that in that way,

00:29:07.000 it looks like he got the safari fat flaps tucked up this time, then I can mock you because you,

00:29:13.720 look at that picture of him. Look at his official biography picture.

00:29:17.800 Did he think there were going to be elephants there yesterday? Like, why is he dressed like that?

00:29:24.920 It was cloudy in Calgary yesterday, wasn't it?

00:29:28.760 Was it like he had to wait to keep the sun off his head?

00:29:30.840 You know, our alumnus, Gavin McInnes, says that there's a place for bullying.

00:29:37.080 And I'm not sure I want to go that far because bullying implies a cruelty and a malice and an unfairness

00:29:43.320 that I don't subscribe to. But I think what he means is just public peer pressure to jostle people

00:29:49.640 back into some norms. And if that's what Gavin means, I think that Patrick King needs to be

00:29:58.840 given what would be called an attitude readjustment on that hat.

00:30:05.000 Yeah.

00:30:05.560 Just starting there, like a guy wearing that hat needs an attitude readjustment, just a friendly way.

00:30:10.360 And maybe he'll stop doing other antisocial things like storming events from women

00:30:14.200 and shouting over them. The hat's the giveaway. I'll tell you right now, he's a male feminist. 1.00

00:30:21.240 Oh, sure.

00:30:21.880 If you are wearing that hat, you are a male feminist. 1.00

00:30:26.200 People who wear those hats don't actually go outside. That's what I've learned.

00:30:30.200 Like you want to give the perception of being outdoorsy, but you don't actually go outside.

00:30:35.320 The guy at the store said I'm the only one he's ever seen pulling off.

00:30:37.800 If I may, one thing that I did want to get to, and then we can do the haberdashery breakdown.

00:30:49.480 I apologize. I just can't stop laughing.

00:30:53.880 Over to you, Adam. Take it away. Make this serious again.

00:30:56.200 That was incredibly interesting here. Listen, these people clearly are associated in the NDP. I don't

00:31:02.280 know if they were hired by them. I don't know if Rachel Notley asked them to go. They claim they

00:31:05.800 didn't. But whatever happened, they were clearly doing something inspired by the comments of Rachel

00:31:10.760 Notley and the NDP. That's why they were there. That's why they were shouting those sentiments.

00:31:15.240 But I very likely think beyond the sort of evident point slip you're going to see in the NDP from

00:31:20.920 this disruption, I think that they've awakened Daniel Smith. At a few of these events, Daniel Smith has come

00:31:27.240 out, issued sort of bland statements about saving 700 bucks on taxes, which is great, or a 25% tax cut

00:31:35.560 on registry, or cost cut on registry services. Okay, wonderful, great. These aren't sort of key

00:31:40.840 critical things. After that disruption, after those people burst in, and after Daniel Smith was pushed

00:31:47.560 away, I think she had a bit of an adrenaline rush. Because when she came back, it was a little bit more

00:31:53.160 rock and roll. She was going after the NDP. She seemed engaged. I don't know if this is a conscientious

00:31:59.320 UCP strategy to have her ramp up towards the election. But the previous events have not felt

00:32:05.000 rock and roll. They haven't felt exciting. I'll give the NDP credit. Their events, it was music,

00:32:08.920 it was boisterous. The UCP events have felt a little bit drab. This is the first time I really felt like

00:32:16.280 Daniel Smith was sort of speaking from the heart, wearing her heart on her sleeve a little bit.

00:32:21.880 And a few journalists that I talked to there shared the sentiment that they think this is a turning

00:32:25.880 point, not just because of what just what happened, because those people disrupted the event, but

00:32:31.080 because Daniel Smith and the UCP, who have been sort of on the defensive, who've been sitting back,

00:32:36.360 are now saying, you know what, enough is enough. It was interesting to see. And I hope that continues.

00:32:42.120 I will echo Adam's sentiment that these people are being radicalized by NDP rhetoric and lies.

00:32:50.600 And I worry that it's only a matter of time before somebody is hurt. Yeah. Thanks to just the

00:32:57.960 superheated nonsense that Rachel Notley is spewing at these low information voters who are 1.00

00:33:05.240 on just a little bit too much CBC. You know, that's exactly right. I mean,

00:33:09.480 I always thought this about the left calling Trump a Nazi. Like that's laughable to me. And I think it's

00:33:15.560 laughable to, it's laughable to half the world. Another 40% say, well, we know he's not a Nazi,

00:33:23.000 but we know what you mean. 10% say, yeah, I'm really worried. He's going to take away all my rights.

00:33:29.320 1% says, well, yeah, maybe he really is a Nazi. And maybe one, maybe one in 10,000. So 1% and 1% says,

00:33:37.560 oh, he's a Nazi because these authoritative people say so. I've never seen any rebuttal to it. I think 0.92

00:33:44.360 he's a Nazi. And then maybe 1% and 1% and 1% or maybe one in a million people says, 0.54

00:33:49.160 oh my God, he's a Nazi. And I have to stop him by any means necessary. We all know the

00:33:54.600 thought experiment. Would you go back in time and kill baby Hitler? 1.00

00:33:57.320 If you could, to save the course of the world. And if maybe one in a million people actually 1.00

00:34:04.440 believes that Trump is a Nazi, well, that's 300 and some people in America who would act on that

00:34:10.600 if they could. And I'm not saying, I'm not saying the leftist thing of, you know, words are violence.

00:34:17.400 But if you say something that insane, why are you saying that endlessly?

00:34:20.920 Right. Ezra, but more to your point, sorry to cut you off, but that is the problem here. The left

00:34:27.080 thinks that words are violence. So if somebody is committing violence against you, you are now

00:34:31.560 justified in responding in kind. And that's the real problem here. When Rachel Notley is saying,

00:34:37.320 you're going to sell off a hospital and privatize healthcare and people are going to die. What's your

00:34:43.240 thought experiment? If I stop this, I'm going to save lives and I'm going to be a hero because I'm just

00:34:50.360 a useless, over-soyed man in a stupid hat and I've never done anything good for anybody in my life. 1.00

00:34:55.560 Now's my chance to save lives. What's the next natural step except violence from these people? 1.00

00:35:02.280 Yeah. And these are, and these are folks who reach for violence. There is no right-wing equivalent

00:35:07.240 to Antifa. There's not. No. The, the left tried to make the proud boys into that. Proud boys

00:35:13.880 is a, is a, is a pub crawl. It's a fraternity. It's a drinking club. Yeah. Yeah. Um, there is no

00:35:20.040 movement on the left like that. And of course, Rachel Notley would, has never, and will never

00:35:24.520 condemn Antifa because they're her street teams. They're her street gangs. Last, oh, you know what?

00:35:30.440 I, I, uh, it's, it's almost the top of the hour. Adam, let's close with last thoughts to you.

00:35:35.160 You can either introduce the Rachel Emanuel vid or, or have your closing thoughts in general.

00:35:39.480 Yeah. Rachel Emanuel obviously doing some incredible stuff. I think that opens a whole

00:35:43.560 different conversation. There's some, there's some distinct questions there. Um, but I, I did

00:35:47.880 want to say that ultimately, I think what this election will come down to, uh, is whether people

00:35:53.080 believe the things that the NDP say, or if they look at the, I'll be an imperfect track record of

00:35:59.720 the UCP. And that's what Danielle Smith asked people to do at this conference. She was saying,

00:36:03.960 I hope that the media will simply be fair, present the facts as they are. And she asked not to be

00:36:08.680 judged on promises that are unlikely, uh, to, to be realized by the NDP, but on the actions that she

00:36:15.320 has taken. I I'm, I'm ever the optimist. I, I tweeted the other night that I really do want

00:36:21.160 to have a conversation with Rachel Notley. I just want to ask her fair questions. Um, I, I want to have

00:36:27.000 authentic conversations so that our viewers can have an informed opinion when it comes time to vote.

00:36:33.400 That's ultimately what I'm after. Uh, unfortunately, Rachel Notley is imitating the federal liberals. 1.00

00:36:38.360 Um, Rachel Notley is engaging in, in very anti-democratic practices. And for anyone in 0.98

00:36:44.680 Alberta, wherever you sit, wherever you are on the spectrum, that should be extremely concerning

00:36:49.880 to you. So, uh, hopefully people will take some time to actually look at the issues, not believe the

00:36:54.360 buzzwords, not believe the hype, uh, the, the empty sentiment of love, tolerance, and sharing that the

00:36:59.800 NDP, uh, profess while everything they practice seems to, seems to signal otherwise. So I urge

00:37:06.600 people out there to just sort of take a strong, hard look at the facts. Yeah. Well, Adam and Sheila,

00:37:11.960 great to catch up with you. The election is less than three weeks away. Um, and the latest polling

00:37:17.400 I've seen suggests that it will be a modest, uh, UCP government. I think that's probably right.

00:37:24.280 Uh, I think it, it avoids the, um, self-destruct button that Rachel Notley, um, uh, embodies.

00:37:36.680 I think it gives Danielle Smith a chance to grow and to improve. Yeah. I, I think that, um,

00:37:44.120 she will be a more seasoned premier. Obviously she's never been premier before,

00:37:48.360 and she will hopefully be stronger.

00:38:01.880 Well, that's our show for today. It's great to be back. I apologize for being away for days.

00:38:06.040 I felt motivated to come back, but you would not have wanted to see me or, or listen to me. Uh,

00:38:11.800 don't worry. I'm, I'm fine. It's just that some, I had some, uh, oral surgery and I, I looked and

00:38:19.240 sounded atrocious and I just couldn't go on TV like that. I just couldn't do it. Um, but I'll be

00:38:24.520 here on Monday and, um, I do have one more day. I'm going to be, I have some oral surgery in a couple

00:38:31.960 of weeks, but I will do my best to be here as much as possible. And I'm really grateful to the

00:38:36.680 team that covers for me when I'm away. What do you think of that Danielle Smith thing? Hey, 1.00

00:38:41.480 I mean, I, I'm not being hypersensitive, but when you storm into an event like that and when security

00:38:47.000 is on edge anyways, because there was a gun incident at the legislature the day before

00:38:51.080 and the media laughs it off, they hide the identity of who did it and just move on.

00:38:56.520 You know, they wouldn't do that if the shoe is on the other foot.

00:39:00.280 That's our show for today until Monday on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you

00:39:04.600 at home. Good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - May 13, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ NDP activists storm a conservative premier’s press conference, and the media blames the conservative premier

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