Rebel News Podcast - Ezra Levant's Battleground： May 14 2018

00:00:00.000 I'm Edsel Levan, it's May 14th, and you're watching Battleground. Sorry we're a couple

00:00:04.140 minutes late. That's how it is in live TV, unlike our produced shows at 8 p.m. Eastern time. Great

00:00:09.540 to see you again. It's May 14th, which happens to be the Independence Day for the State of Israel,

00:00:14.800 and it's also the day that Donald Trump chose to officially commemorate, or lay the cornerstone,

00:00:22.300 in fact, of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, the capital of the modern state of Israel and

00:00:28.060 the eternal capital of the Jewish people since biblical times. You know, it's a striking,

00:00:34.720 groundbreaking, momentous event, but it really shouldn't be. I mean, why is it strange that you

00:00:39.700 have your embassy in the capital city of a foreign country, where they say their capital city is,

00:00:45.600 in no other country in the world would we reject their choice of the capital in favor of an enemy's

00:00:53.540 choice of the capital, and that's really what it was. I should know, I'm going to play some clips

00:00:57.680 from that today. We're going to talk about a few other things, including a great video

00:01:00.560 from Brazil of a woman using her own handgun, concealed carry, to stop a would-be robber.

00:01:07.820 It's just a great video. It's only about 10 seconds long, but I got to show it to you

00:01:10.860 at least twice. We want to talk also about John Kerry. While Donald Trump is busy moving the embassy

00:01:16.420 to Jerusalem and Israel, John Kerry is busy meeting with an enemy of the West, namely the senior 0.98

00:01:23.680 diplomats of the Islamic Republic of Iran, desperately trying to salvage Iran's position

00:01:30.040 against Donald Trump's changes there. Also have some information on the latest from the religion

00:01:35.100 of peace. A gun, sorry, a knife man in Paris stabs a bunch of folks, kills one before being shot by

00:01:41.780 police, shouting Allah Akbar. The various media, though, they're still hunting for the reason

00:01:47.320 why he could have done what he did. And of course, we'll wrap up as we often do with

00:01:52.240 Teen Vogue, which is my favorite go-to for politics. But without further ado, let me start

00:01:57.500 by playing. We've got, I think, one or two clips. Here is an image from Donald Trump. He was not

00:02:05.440 there in person in Jerusalem, opening the, I don't know, ribbon cutting and foundation stone,

00:02:11.960 an official, an official thing for moving the embassy to Jerusalem. Almost immediately after

00:02:18.580 declaring statehood in 1948, Israel designated the city of Jerusalem as its capital, the capital

00:02:26.700 the Jewish people established in ancient times. So important. Today, Jerusalem is the seat of Israel's

00:02:36.020 government. It is the home of the Israeli legislature and the Israeli Supreme Court and Israel's prime

00:02:44.220 minister and president. Israel is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation

00:02:50.960 to determine its own capital. Yet for many years, we fail to acknowledge the obvious, the plain reality

00:02:58.880 that Israel's capital is Jerusalem. On December 6, 2017, at my direction, the United States finally and

00:03:08.100 officially recognized Jerusalem as the true capital of Israel.

00:03:14.520 Pretty obvious. I mean, you put your embassy where the other country's capital is. As Trump, most matter-of-factly

00:03:22.160 said, that's where the legislature is, the Knesset, that's where the Supreme Court is, that's where the

00:03:26.040 prime minister and president is. I should say, while this is regarded as a breakthrough, and I suppose it

00:03:30.900 is, presidents going back decades have all promised that they would do this too, including, I should

00:03:39.040 mention, Barack Hussein Obama. He promised to move the embassy. It's sort of a tradition when you're in

00:03:44.820 fundraising and campaigning mode, promise to move your embassy. That goes over well with Jewish donors 0.86

00:03:51.380 and with the Christian Zionists and allies of Israel who are neither Jewish nor Zionists, Christians.

00:03:57.040 But then just bring in what was called a waiver and say, well, you know what, there's very, very tense

00:04:03.080 and very sensitive diplomatic moves afoot, so we can't do that. Well, Donald Trump isn't much for

00:04:09.080 sensitive diplomatic and bureaucratic things, so he's the first candidate to actually live up to that

00:04:14.360 pledge. And it was so interesting how little the sky fell. It's like when Donald Trump withdrew the United

00:04:21.320 States from the UN Global Warming Scheme, the Paris Agreement, nothing happened. Nothing went wrong.

00:04:28.380 There were no riots in the streets, even in the Middle East. No one really cared. I mean, yes, the 0.94

00:04:33.960 Hamas-run Gaza Strip has some protests, some riots, some shots, some missiles, but they always do that. 1.00

00:04:40.820 There has been no third intifada. There has been no war. No one cares. And it shows just how timid and

00:04:48.800 foolish the establishment consensus has been. Donald Trump smashed that consensus just as he smashed 0.99

00:04:55.160 the consensus on the right way to deal with North Korea and is doing with Iran. I want to show you 0.61

00:04:59.400 a little bit from Benjamin Netanyahu. He is the prime minister of Israel, and here's what he said

00:05:03.660 on today, that momentous day. What a glorious day. Remember this moment.

00:05:14.660 This is history.

00:05:18.080 President Trump, by recognizing history, you have made history.

00:05:24.040 There were a lot of Americans there. Donald Trump himself was not. He has other things to do. The

00:05:32.280 Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, was not. He has other things to do, probably related to Iran or North

00:05:37.560 Korea. The Deputy Secretary of State was there, and of course, Jared and Ivanka Trump, who themselves

00:05:43.760 are Jewish, by the way, so they probably had a personal connection. There were a lot of congressional

00:05:48.140 and delegates there, politicians who are either supporters of Israel or have big Jewish

00:05:55.500 constituencies. But look at this headline in Breitbart, and I've seen this confirmed in various

00:06:00.900 other stories as well. Not a single Democrat attended the event. Democrats are a no-show for Jerusalem

00:06:13.380 embassy move. I thought, can that possibly be true? That's written by our friend Joel Pollack.

00:06:18.840 And I saw it from other sources, and I just find it almost impossible to believe, because, of course,

00:06:24.840 historically, Democrats are the party of Jews the same way that the party of blacks and other

00:06:30.620 minorities. And surely, if you're in sync with the Jewish people who care about the Jewish people who

00:06:37.940 care about Israel, either for American reasons or Jewish reasons or Israeli reasons, you're going to go to 0.97

00:06:42.620 the unveiling of the cornerstone for the embassy in Jerusalem. I mean, what's that really got to do

00:06:47.380 with partisan stripe? Well, it's got a lot to do. Where is Chuck Schumer, the Jewish senator from New York,

00:06:55.160 who obviously has an enormous Jewish population? Where are Democrats from Florida, from California,

00:07:01.680 from Chicago, from Atlanta? There are a number of districts. I don't think there's any district in the

00:07:07.580 United States that is majority Jewish. But you've got almost a million Jews in New York City alone.

00:07:11.900 Where are the senior Democrats? Where's Bill de Blasio? Well, I think it's a statement that the

00:07:16.720 Democrat Party is no longer for the Jews. Strangely, American Jews are still for the Democrats. I asked 0.95

00:07:23.180 Joel Pollack about that on the show. I said, he was reporting to me, and I saw this report elsewhere,

00:07:28.200 of just how Trump-mania has gripped Israel. There's banners, there's posters. The professional soccer team

00:07:37.800 in Israel has renamed itself the Trump Squad. They've actually changed the name of their version of

00:07:44.260 Manchester United or whatever to add the word Trump to it. That's how Trump-mania has taken over the country.

00:07:50.200 It's not just this embassy move, which is symbolic, but it's also the Iran thing. Israeli Jews love

00:07:57.440 Trump, but so far, U.S. Jews are loving the Democrats. Joel Pollack explained that, saying that

00:08:05.200 people who are nominally or ethnically Jewish likely have other identities that are more primary to them

00:08:12.560 and issues that are more primary to them than being Jewish or support for Israel, gun control, abortion.

00:08:18.800 Basically, most American Jews are more liberal than they are Jewish. I've seen so many Jews who

00:08:25.940 reflexively are anti-Trump, and they find some weird excuseology for not supporting him, even though he

00:08:31.800 is by far the most pro-Israel president in memory, I suppose, since the State of Israel was created in

00:08:39.680 the first place by, was it Roosevelt? Was it Truman? Anyways, what are we doing here? Just to catch up,

00:08:46.220 we started a couple minutes late today. It's 12-11. Every weekday, we're still trying it out because, you know,

00:08:51.100 the numbers are not there, and I see in the comments people are not getting the notifications that they are

00:08:55.520 supposed to get from YouTube. We have over 900,000 YouTube subscribers, but a lot of people are saying

00:09:00.940 they're not getting the little alert bell that we have this daily chat show. We're trying to fix that.

00:09:05.440 We are also planning, we've decided to add a Facebook live stream and a Periscope live stream, so hopefully we'll triple our audience.

00:09:12.280 I think it's fun. I like sitting down here for an hour and kibitzing and taking some comments and running

00:09:18.320 some clips without a lot of preparation. It's loosey-goosey. It's just a fun hour from 12 to 1

00:09:23.180 Eastern, and then I do my proper show at 8 p.m. And let me just explain briefly the comments. There's a lot

00:09:29.220 of comments going on the screen here. I see them out of the corner of my eye, but of course, I'm looking

00:09:33.860 in the camera. And I do, on Friday, we really get a lot of the comments. And if you want your comment

00:09:38.940 to stand out, Google has something called Super Chat, which you chip in two bucks, three bucks,

00:09:44.340 five bucks. The other day, someone put in 50 bucks. There's one right there, Chaz 1422. And you can see,

00:09:50.900 did you see that where it just happened there? So Chaz 1422 for 20 bucks. Thank you very much.

00:09:57.860 That comment is in a bright highlight. So I'm looking here, but I see it out of the corner of my eye.

00:10:01.960 I don't see a comment attached to it, Chaz. If you want to add one in, I'll read it. 0.64

00:10:05.040 So what does that do? Well, number one, it's financial support for the rebel. I appreciate that.

00:10:09.580 We're 100% user support. We don't get any government money, unlike most of our competitors.

00:10:14.160 And number two, it's fun. It's fun. Your comment will stick out, and I'll be sure to read it. Whether

00:10:19.240 it's friendly or critical, I'll read it either way. So that's what Super Chat means. We also try and get

00:10:26.420 a few video clips through, and we have a few house ads, I call them, just ads for what we're doing.

00:10:31.940 In fact, why don't we do that? Because today is, I should just tell you, today is the last day

00:10:38.600 for early repricing for our Rebel Live event in Toronto. Obviously, we have a lot of viewers around

00:10:44.800 the world. Thank you very much for that support. We're headquartered here in Toronto, Canada.

00:10:49.200 And last year, we had about, I don't know, six, seven, 800 people, I forget the number,

00:10:52.560 who attended our one-day CPAC-style conservative conference in Canada. Let me show a little ad for

00:10:59.300 this year's, but it mainly features clips from last year's. And you might recognize Jordan Peterson

00:11:04.740 before his Big Shot book came out, and Doug Ford. Before we throw the clip, I just want to tell you,

00:11:09.800 I saw over the weekend that Jordan Peterson spoke to a sellout crowd in London, England,

00:11:15.980 at the Apollo Hammersmith Theater, which holds 5,000 people. You're selling out a theater with 5,000

00:11:26.380 people. There are real rock bands that can't even fill 5,000 people. I mean, obviously, your absolute A-list

00:11:34.320 pop stars are going to sell in 5,000. They'll sell out a stadium of 30,000, 40,000, 50,000.

00:11:40.160 But for a professor who's written a fairly academic book of philosophy to sell 5,000 seats,

00:11:50.260 that is a rock star. Anyways, that's Jordan Peterson. I was just thinking about him because

00:11:55.060 he was at our Rebel Live event this year. Professor Peterson is not going to be in town

00:11:59.160 on June 2nd, but Lindsey Shepard, who you might say is a disciple or inspired by him.

00:12:06.780 Let me play for you our Rebel Live ad.

00:12:10.760 We're going to discuss topics that the political elites and the media party don't want us to

00:12:16.840 discuss. Political correctness be damned.

00:12:24.780 Compassion isn't enough of a principle to guide the world by.

00:12:28.200 Perhaps we are in better touch with the pulse of the country.

00:12:32.660 We are in this fight with you, and you're all in this fight together.

00:12:47.040 If you see over the last few years, there's been this populist movement going around the world.

00:12:51.680 That's the status of the left at this point, is I don't know if you're the Onion or the New York Times.

00:13:03.360 Most modernism is a sophisticated philosophy.

00:13:05.800 No, it's wrong, but it's deeply wrong.

00:13:12.740 We're simply people with another point of view.

00:13:14.920 All right, we call it The Rebel Live.

00:13:25.900 It's at therebellive.com.

00:13:28.320 You can go there for ticket information.

00:13:30.480 My point is today is the last day for those early bird prices.

00:13:34.280 I just want to say I see that Chaz 1422 has put up his comment, which is the Jews who are Democrats 0.91

00:13:44.100 cannot be seen supporting borders in Israel because it will appear hypocritical

00:13:48.320 for the condemnation of our own borders.

00:13:53.340 There's something to that, that Jewish leftists who have an ethnic pride,

00:13:58.260 a residual, vestigial pride in being Jews, accept Israel as a Jewish state, which is,

00:14:05.580 that's what it's called, it's called a Jewish state.

00:14:07.300 Their flag is the symbol of Judaism, the Star of David.

00:14:11.020 There is a Jewish character to the country.

00:14:14.360 Other religions have legal rights.

00:14:16.840 In fact, I put it to you that Muslims in Israel have more civil rights than they do in any other

00:14:23.240 Muslim country, but it is a, it's an ethnic state.

00:14:28.500 It's an ethnic nationalist state.

00:14:30.160 It is not, Zionism is a form of ethnic nationalism, even more than religious nationalism. 0.74

00:14:34.820 It's not a theocracy, but it's a, it's an ethnic democracy.

00:14:39.080 And you're right.

00:14:40.100 I've been mean, I've been thinking about this for more than a year, doing a video called Jews

00:14:44.840 for Borders, because as a Jew, I believe in borders for Israel, but I believe in them for

00:14:49.740 the United States and for Canada too.

00:14:51.500 What makes the United States and Canada and Britain and Germany and Sweden great is the,

00:14:57.020 is the nature of those countries.

00:14:59.140 And you can't swamp, you can't swamp those countries with, with people who don't share 0.99

00:15:05.000 those values.

00:15:06.400 Obviously, Canada and the United States have been settled, they've been colonized, settled,

00:15:11.460 and have had immigration in a way that indigenous countries like the UK and Germany have not.

00:15:17.740 But you need to, you need to, if you want to keep the characteristics of your country,

00:15:22.680 you have to make sure that anyone who comes into your country shares those characteristics.

00:15:26.480 Israel, this is a life and death situation. 0.94

00:15:28.900 If you simply allowed anyone who wants to come to Israel to come, the Jewish fact of Israel 0.62

00:15:34.240 would be erased within years.

00:15:36.260 That's sort of obvious.

00:15:37.380 We're talking about the Middle East a lot because of course, today is the historical

00:15:40.800 Independence Day of Israel.

00:15:42.760 What a momentous occasion for the Israeli embassy move.

00:15:46.240 I noticed that some other small countries are deciding to move their embassies as well.

00:15:51.520 Some small Latin American countries.

00:15:53.440 I can't even remember.

00:15:54.200 There's some little, really little countries that, that are almost, you know, many countries

00:16:00.740 out of the 200 countries in the world, I'd say that fewer than 10 have gone along with

00:16:04.340 it.

00:16:04.440 But as Joel Pollack reminded us the other day when he reported to us from Jerusalem,

00:16:08.000 even the, even Russia, the Russian Federation now refers to Israel as West Jerusalem as

00:16:14.860 its capital.

00:16:15.660 So, you know, they're reserving some questions about the final status of East Jerusalem, but

00:16:20.320 even Russia is, is acknowledging this.

00:16:22.920 So, while Donald Trump remakes the world, looks like he might, well, bring peace to the Korean

00:16:29.880 peninsula for the first time in, what, 80, 70 years, is making changes in the Middle East

00:16:35.840 and the supposed third rails of the region, oh, you can't, you can't put anything ahead

00:16:41.900 of the Palestinians, you can't move the embassy, he's just doing it, nothing bad is happening.

00:16:45.100 So, John Kerry, the former Secretary of State in Bill Clinton's second, sorry, in Barack

00:16:51.800 Obama's second term, he is meeting furiously with Iranian senior politicians, and when I

00:17:01.140 say politicians, they're dictators, of course, it's not a free country.

00:17:04.100 Let me show you.

00:17:05.920 Someone was in Paris and just happened to be sitting near, look at this, I want to read

00:17:11.600 this.

00:17:12.880 Hold this up on the screen.

00:17:13.740 So, John Kerry just left a meeting at Lavon U in Paris with three Iranians, Iranians.

00:17:21.880 A friend was sitting next to the table and heard John Kerry blasting real Donald Trump.

00:17:26.900 The Iranians had a five-person security detail and left in diplomatic vehicles.

00:17:32.220 Is he F-A-R-A, I think that's foreign agent something, something registered.

00:17:39.340 So, and there's a picture of John Kerry walking away.

00:17:41.480 So, this is someone who just happened to be in Paris and saw John Kerry meeting with

00:17:48.060 a bunch of Iranian officials.

00:17:50.020 And how did he know they were officials?

00:17:51.920 Well, they had security and cars.

00:17:54.200 And there's Kerry walking away.

00:17:56.120 And there's one more, there's some more images.

00:17:58.720 But put the next one up, please.

00:17:59.860 So, someone in Paris saw the men, and this is, it looks like they're coming into a hotel,

00:18:05.940 and ID'd them.

00:18:06.900 Let me read this.

00:18:08.240 The one in front is certainly Kamal Karazai, Iran regime's foreign minister from 1997 to

00:18:14.540 2005.

00:18:15.200 The one behind the door looks very similar to Alborgasm Delphi, current ambassador to

00:18:22.160 France.

00:18:22.700 That would make sense.

00:18:23.940 See photos for comparison.

00:18:26.220 Please bear in mind, these people aren't diplomats.

00:18:29.300 They're diplomat terrorists.

00:18:30.900 Okay, that last point is certainly a strong opinion, but there's some truth to it.

00:18:34.600 I don't think these individual men themselves would, you know, be pulling the trigger or

00:18:39.380 the detonator on a bomb.

00:18:40.940 But, of course, Iran is the world's largest sponsor, state sponsor of terrorism. 0.73

00:18:45.760 That's unquestionable.

00:18:46.800 They are colonizing Syria. 0.88

00:18:48.920 They use Hezbollah as a proxy. 0.77

00:18:51.060 They've bombed places around the world, including in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 0.55

00:18:57.260 That's a given.

00:18:58.120 I mean, it's given that anyone who is negotiating with Iran now in, you know, unauthorized negotiations

00:19:05.300 in Paris in 2018 or authorized negotiations during the entire Obama regime under Kerry

00:19:12.180 and Hillary Clinton before him, of course they were dealing with a terrorist state.

00:19:15.840 What's interesting today is not that Iran's a terrorist state.

00:19:19.080 We know that.

00:19:19.540 What's interesting is that even as Donald Trump has changed course on Iran, has said he's

00:19:26.800 pulling out of Obama's deal with Iran as he's moving to bring sanctions back, that

00:19:33.220 John Kerry is actively undermining U.S. foreign policy and literally meeting with the enemy

00:19:40.680 in a rogue manner.

00:19:43.060 Now, that's actually subject to a U.S. law called the Logan Act.

00:19:46.540 We had John Cardillo talk about that with us last week, and he did a special show about

00:19:50.400 it.

00:19:51.480 My point is, imagine if the shoe was on the other foot.

00:19:54.480 Well, you don't need to imagine when General Flynn, part of Donald Trump's transition team,

00:19:59.700 simply made a phone call to the Russians saying, hey, we're going to be taking office soon,

00:20:03.540 just want to introduce myself, don't make any sudden moves, we'll talk to you when we're

00:20:07.780 free.

00:20:08.000 That spurred this whole Mueller inquisition because of a legitimate phone call made in the authorized

00:20:17.660 part of Donald Trump's transition campaign, whereas here you have John Kerry deliberately

00:20:22.880 being contrary to America's interests with legal impunity.

00:20:26.160 But of course, he's a Democrat.

00:20:28.360 All right.

00:20:29.020 It is 1223.

00:20:30.180 I'm going to take another comment or two, but I do have three more things I want to show

00:20:35.280 you, including a great video taken from security cameras in Brazil.

00:20:39.940 Let's just look at some of the comments.

00:20:41.600 Spencer J. Ezra heard a terrorist found not guilty in Toronto because of a mental illness

00:20:46.300 attack on a recruitment center.

00:20:48.020 Yeah, I saw that too.

00:20:49.520 And it could be true.

00:20:50.660 It could be true.

00:20:51.300 Look, I'm not a medical doctor.

00:20:53.000 I'm not a psychiatrist.

00:20:54.000 I have not examined that terrorist myself.

00:20:57.840 But, and I have no doubt that there is mental illness.

00:21:03.020 But it's not just mental illness. 0.69

00:21:04.960 It's mental illness combined with jihad because of he, of course, he walked into a Canadian 1.00

00:21:09.880 military recruitment center looking to kill.

00:21:13.760 So maybe it was mental illness that took away any self-control, but it was jihad that gave 0.74

00:21:19.400 him the battle plan.

00:21:21.520 So I think we ought to be careful about simply labeling any jihadist attack crazy because only 0.90

00:21:29.160 a crazy person would do it. 0.93

00:21:31.140 That's sort of like the Soviet idea that, no, no, we don't have any crime. 1.00

00:21:35.220 We just have people who are mentally ill. 0.93

00:21:37.100 Well, how do you say that? 1.00

00:21:38.020 Well, because to commit a crime, you've got to be crazy. 1.00

00:21:40.760 So therefore, you are mentally ill. 1.00

00:21:43.000 We don't want to get into a circular reasoning where, wow, this attack is so crazy. 1.00

00:21:47.080 They must be crazy because only a crazy person doesn't attack because that was our premise.

00:21:52.000 So it's a circular reasoning. 0.93

00:21:53.980 He may have been mentally ill, but I don't think we should use that as a catch-all because

00:21:58.040 I think that helps us avoid.

00:21:59.320 That's an excuse to avoid the pathology of the jihadist movement itself.

00:22:05.380 Speaking of terrorists, unfortunately, there was a terrorist attack again in Paris.

00:22:11.360 Hundreds of Frenchmen have been killed in the last five years, not just in the Bataclan

00:22:17.560 shootings.

00:22:18.320 But one of the most horrific attacks was an ISIS terrorist who got behind the wheel of

00:22:23.440 a very large truck in Nice, France, on their Independence Day, the Bastille Day.

00:22:29.240 And all the roads were shut down because it was like everyone was gathered along the roads

00:22:33.740 for the celebration.

00:22:35.200 So everyone was lined up perfectly.

00:22:36.900 So a couple of years ago, this terrorist got behind the wheel of a truck and not just like

00:22:41.740 a little pickup truck or a halftone, but almost like a semi truck, like a truck with a lot

00:22:46.460 of power and momentum.

00:22:47.820 And he barreled down for miles and he murdered more than 80 people and injured more than 400.

00:22:56.040 So he murdered or wounded close to 500 people with his truck before he was finally stopped because

00:23:05.080 he was just barreling down this road.

00:23:07.240 It was like a bowling ball knocking down pin after pin after pin, but a bowling ball with

00:23:13.120 an enormous diesel engine in it.

00:23:15.300 500 people killed or wounded in one incident.

00:23:19.560 That's like taking out an airliner.

00:23:22.700 So, yeah, another attack.

00:23:24.080 I think we have some video on that.

00:23:27.060 Do we have video or just the article?

00:23:29.140 Just the article.

00:23:29.940 Here we have it here.

00:23:30.660 Paris attack.

00:23:31.220 Knife man kills one before being shot by police.

00:23:34.160 Let me read a little bit.

00:23:35.180 A knife man has killed one person and wounded four in a suspected terror attack in central

00:23:39.800 Paris.

00:23:40.420 French officials say the attacker was then shot dead by police.

00:23:45.260 In the Opera District, witnesses say they heard him shout, Allah Akbar, so-called Islamic

00:23:51.920 state, later said one of its soldiers had carried out the attack on Saturday evening.

00:23:59.780 Well, what's so interesting here, I think this is BBC, that they actually use the word

00:24:06.440 terror because like our own state broadcaster in Canada, they typically don't say that word.

00:24:12.540 But I guess this hasn't been through the editor yet.

00:24:16.560 What's so frustrating about this and so typical is that they knew about this guy.

00:24:22.300 They knew about him in advance.

00:24:23.520 I've shown you headlines before from the UK that say 23,000 jihadists are walking around

00:24:30.920 the UK on a watch list.

00:24:33.560 You can't watch 23,000 people.

00:24:35.920 And I think it was 3,000 or 7,000 to be watched around the clock.

00:24:39.720 You know how many police it takes to watch someone around the clock?

00:24:42.680 It takes dozens because you've got, what, three shifts a day and you have to have managers

00:24:49.580 and track them.

00:24:50.960 Like, it takes dozens of cops to watch one person around the clock.

00:24:56.100 And why are they doing that?

00:24:58.640 Watching and just, and then watch them do the attack?

00:25:01.560 Yeah, we were watching them.

00:25:02.960 We don't need a watch list.

00:25:04.100 We need a stop list.

00:25:05.500 And let me show you this story, maybe this headline.

00:25:10.940 This is about this suspect.

00:25:15.520 France defends anti-terrorism strategy after attack by man on watch list.

00:25:20.620 The French government defended its anti-terrorism measures over the weekend after it turned out

00:25:28.140 that the perpetrator of a deadly knife attack in Paris was on a state security watch list.

00:25:34.140 I'll just read one more sentence.

00:25:36.400 Government spokesman Benjamin something-something said the man, a naturalized French citizen

00:25:42.540 who was born in Chechnya, had been on the watch list since 2016.

00:25:50.180 Okay, well, Chechnya is pretty much about as terrorist-y a place as it gets. 0.74

00:25:55.440 First of all, what's he doing in France?

00:25:58.080 There's no connection to France.

00:25:59.320 I mean, I understand why some Muslim migrants would come from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia.

00:26:05.500 These were French colonies.

00:26:07.160 They actually speak French there, and France made them part of the French Empire.

00:26:11.600 So I can at least understand a historical, geographic, and linguistic connection.

00:26:18.280 But why are you bringing in someone from Chechnya?

00:26:20.860 You know where Chechnya is?

00:26:21.760 It's in the bowels of Russia. 0.78

00:26:23.920 It's also one of the worst places in the world.

00:26:26.060 I mean, Grozny in the Islamic character of the Civil War there.

00:26:30.640 It's as horrific as anything in Syria. 0.99

00:26:34.260 Why was he in France to begin with?

00:26:37.740 And second of all, if he's on your watch list for two years, why?

00:26:43.540 Why?

00:26:44.120 Well, what did he do to put him on that watch list?

00:26:47.080 And why wasn't that enough to kick him out?

00:26:50.060 This is where we're going in North America, by the way.

00:26:52.400 All right, let's take a quick look at the clock.

00:26:53.960 It's 12.29.

00:26:55.120 I started a minute late today.

00:26:56.220 Sorry about that.

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00:28:12.560 Hey, welcome back.

00:28:41.800 I was just looking at our sign-ups.

00:28:44.680 In fact, we've had four more people sign up just in the course of the show for TheRebelLive.com.

00:28:51.720 Today is the last day to get your early repricing.

00:28:54.880 It's going to be great.

00:28:56.560 Sorry, I was talking about the last ad.

00:28:57.940 We have these house ads.

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00:29:01.460 Here's my news about SaveTheChristians.com.

00:29:03.520 It is now available on DVD and video on demand.

00:29:07.740 So you can rent it online for, I think it's six or seven bucks, or you can pre-order the

00:29:14.240 DVDs and we'll ship them to you if you're old school that way.

00:29:17.340 That is our first Rebel documentary, and we made it after visiting Iraq, northern Iraq,

00:29:22.920 the region called Kurdistan, which is where the Christians in Iraq fled, because it's

00:29:27.800 pretty rough to be a Christian over there.

00:29:29.140 Lots of interviews with actual Christian victims of ISIS ethnic cleansing.

00:29:35.080 It's terrifying.

00:29:36.380 The video we had, of course, the premieres in Toronto and Calgary, and I'm delighted that

00:29:41.840 it is now available everywhere.

00:29:43.520 I see a super chat from Mark B for two bucks.

00:29:45.600 Thanks for that.

00:29:46.840 So yeah, that was an important thing we did, I think, to shine a light of scrutiny on the

00:29:50.780 treatment of Christians in Iraq.

00:29:51.840 I think it's probably the most underreported story in the Western media right now.

00:29:56.520 I think it's very depressing. 0.62

00:29:57.700 I, listen, the Jews are being pushed around and kicked around, and that's why having a 0.99

00:30:03.000 Jewish state of Israel is important. 0.74

00:30:04.900 It's sort of a place where they're a majority and they have their own army and they can defend

00:30:08.180 themselves and they're not at the mercy of being a minority perpetually in other people's

00:30:12.320 countries.

00:30:13.640 The Kurds have no such luck. 0.98

00:30:15.860 They are a majority in Kurdistan, but that's part of Iraq. 0.90

00:30:19.660 But the Christians in Iraq are the worst off of all, because other than little pinprick-sized 1.00

00:30:27.280 towns and villages in Iraq that are 100% Christian. 0.95

00:30:30.460 There's no such thing as a multicultural or multi-ethnic town in northern Iraq.

00:30:35.780 There's a Christian town and a Muslim town.

00:30:37.720 I suppose they could have one town where you have a Christian half and a Muslim half, but

00:30:41.160 it's not like in North America, where on the same street you could have five religions,

00:30:44.960 five races, five ethnicities.

00:30:46.580 It's not that way.

00:30:47.640 It's just not that way in Iraq.

00:30:48.860 And my point is, you go to these little Christian enclaves, some of which are over 1,000 years

00:30:54.140 old.

00:30:54.540 I mean, these folks, they still pray in Aramaic, the ancient language of Jesus.

00:31:01.440 I mean, these are ancient Christians.

00:31:04.520 But there's just, what, maybe a couple hundred thousand left in all of Iraq.

00:31:09.740 So there's no contiguous area.

00:31:11.720 So every single place they are, they're a perpetual minority always. 1.00

00:31:17.740 And yes, sometimes it's less brutal than others, but it's always brutal.

00:31:23.280 I think I might have told you this story before.

00:31:24.640 When we visited the Christian town of Batnaya, or Telescop, we visited a lot of Karakosh,

00:31:29.460 Batnaya, Telescop, we visited a lot of these little Christian towns.

00:31:31.880 The one we were in, in July last year, had been liberated from ISIS, but it had not been

00:31:38.800 repopulated by Christians yet.

00:31:42.020 So we were there in July when it was liberated.

00:31:44.420 We were the only Western journalists in there.

00:31:45.900 We were the only people at all in the town.

00:31:47.480 We had to go in with security.

00:31:49.760 In October, that same Christian town that was liberated was reconquered, this time by an 1.00

00:31:55.740 Iran-backed Muslim militia called Hashtel Shadi.

00:31:59.420 And that goes to my point.

00:32:01.060 At least Israel, they've got this place to make a stand.

00:32:03.640 You've got, what, 8 million Israelis, of whom, what, 6 million are Jews.

00:32:06.740 They've got a place, they've got an army, they've got an air force, they've got a place.

00:32:10.420 But the Christians in Iraq, I have to say, they do not have a bright future. 1.00

00:32:15.260 And frankly, my view is if we're going to be taking refugees, take the Christians, take 1.00

00:32:20.240 the ones who are actually being persecuted.

00:32:23.420 There is no genocide against Muslims in the world.

00:32:26.900 And I don't think there ought to be.

00:32:28.760 There is not.

00:32:29.480 And God forbid, even if there were, there's dozens of Muslim-majority countries in which 1.00

00:32:35.980 they can seek refuge.

00:32:37.740 There is no country for Christian Arabs. 1.00

00:32:40.320 I mean, Lebanon has a bit of a Christian community left, but a lot of them have fleed

00:32:45.640 since Iran's colonized that country through Hezbollah. 0.85

00:32:49.200 So anyway, that's a very long tangent on the question of our documentary.

00:32:56.960 But I just wanted you to see that because I was excited that it's finally viewable.

00:33:01.260 I just have an email here.

00:33:02.900 I missed a super chat.

00:33:03.940 Mark B says, hey, Ezra, I spoke with Doug Ford on the phone Thursday.

00:33:08.280 He said he would call you to discuss your perspective on his actions regarding Tanya Granik-Allen.

00:33:13.160 Has he phoned you yet?

00:33:15.200 No, he has not.

00:33:16.520 There's a chance that I missed his phone call, but I will check my voicemails.

00:33:21.280 I have not.

00:33:22.240 Let me tell you, let me speak very clearly about Doug Ford.

00:33:25.480 As you saw, he was a guest speaker at our Rebel Live last year.

00:33:29.920 I support Doug Ford.

00:33:31.020 I want him to be premier.

00:33:32.300 I think he'll be a good premier.

00:33:33.620 I think a friend's post would be better than Kathleen Wynne, and Doug Ford will actually

00:33:38.980 be positively good.

00:33:40.340 I guess I'm saying anyone is better than Kathleen Wynne.

00:33:42.800 And I'm not going to say the NDP is better than Kathleen Wynne, because what we've seen

00:33:46.320 in Alberta and NBC now proves that the NDP can actually make any situation worse.

00:33:51.320 But Doug Ford will be a good premier.

00:33:53.180 The question is, how good?

00:33:54.200 Will he be principled?

00:33:55.520 Or will he be a bit of a Patrick Brown seller?

00:33:57.480 And I'm a little bit nervous about Doug Ford.

00:34:00.120 I want him to be strong as a conservative.

00:34:02.280 I want him to also be democratic.

00:34:04.040 But most importantly, I want him to maintain his healthy distrust and disrespect of the

00:34:09.220 mainstream media.

00:34:10.040 Because when you are afraid of the mainstream media, especially the CBC, then an interview

00:34:16.260 is no longer about your views.

00:34:18.260 It's about the CBC conditioning and shaping you.

00:34:21.800 It's sort of like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

00:34:23.960 You know what that is?

00:34:25.200 It's like if you have a drawer with a dice in it, and you want to see, well, what's

00:34:33.440 the numbers on the dice?

00:34:34.320 And you pull the drawer open to check it.

00:34:35.980 Well, the dice have moved around.

00:34:37.580 So you can never actually measure something without changing it, is Heisenberg's uncertainty

00:34:43.280 principle.

00:34:43.760 It's a quantum physics concept.

00:34:45.800 But I think it applies to journalism, too.

00:34:47.680 In the case of the CBC, when the CBC asks you a question, Doug Ford, will you disavow

00:34:54.340 this candidate?

00:34:55.960 It's not a measurement.

00:34:57.660 Do you see what I mean?

00:34:58.280 It's not actually reporting.

00:35:00.060 It's trying to pressure Doug Ford to give an answer.

00:35:04.360 When the CBC calls you with a gotcha question, they're not actually doing reporting.

00:35:08.140 They're doing conditioning.

00:35:09.160 They're shaping the battlefield for their Liberal Party masters.

00:35:11.880 And it's very tempting for a conservative politician, Doug Ford, Andrew Scheer, Jason

00:35:17.160 Kenney, to say, this is not reporting.

00:35:19.680 This is bullying.

00:35:20.700 And I don't like it.

00:35:21.980 And so I'm going to join the mob and go after Tanya Granik-Allen or the rebel or carbon 0.88

00:35:28.900 tax protesters who chant Locker Up.

00:35:30.660 Do you see what I'm saying?

00:35:31.800 And my favorite moments of Doug Ford are when he disrespects the media like his brother

00:35:37.640 Rob did so well.

00:35:38.900 And I hope he comes back to that.

00:35:41.060 All right.

00:35:42.500 Let me check the time.

00:35:43.540 It's 1238.

00:35:44.340 I've been kibitzing. 0.63

00:35:45.140 We're two-thirds done.

00:35:45.980 I want to show you two more stories.

00:35:49.460 Let's first do a short video.

00:35:52.620 I don't know if you saw this.

00:35:53.940 This is a closed-circuit TV vid from Brazil.

00:35:59.580 I don't think there's any sound on it.

00:36:01.020 Why don't you put it up and I'll just talk over it.

00:36:04.380 Okay.

00:36:04.840 So there's a guy that's outside of school.

00:36:06.160 You see there's a gunman.

00:36:07.240 And look who comes up and just pop, pop, pop.

00:36:12.140 Just pop, pop, pop.

00:36:13.860 Down he goes.

00:36:15.320 Down he goes.

00:36:16.400 And look at that gal. 1.00

00:36:18.200 Kick and takes his gun. 0.99

00:36:20.000 She's smart. 0.99

00:36:21.320 She's smart.

00:36:22.120 Takes his gun away.

00:36:23.180 And he's down there.

00:36:24.860 And he raises his hand as if to say, please don't hurt me.

00:36:28.900 And she's right on top of him.

00:36:31.000 And let's watch it again.

00:36:32.680 There he is.

00:36:33.140 He's coming up with a gun.

00:36:34.060 He's looking to do a robbery.

00:36:35.700 And there's other moms there. 1.00

00:36:36.940 You see that mom with the pink. 0.96

00:36:39.960 But this mom just pop, pop, pop. 1.00

00:36:43.420 She shot him down.

00:36:44.460 I want you to play it one more time because I want you to see the mom and daughter scurrying

00:36:48.480 away at the top.

00:36:49.960 This gal is so great. 0.84

00:36:52.700 Cool as a cucumber, eh?

00:36:54.340 I mean, I bet her heart was just pounding.

00:36:57.040 But she knew what she was doing.

00:36:59.200 Okay.

00:36:59.480 So look at that mom who's now going to grab her girl. 1.00

00:37:02.300 Grab the girl. 1.00

00:37:03.060 You see that in the top right?

00:37:04.180 Grab the girl and run away. 0.99

00:37:05.200 Wow, the lady with the handgun. 1.00

00:37:07.980 Pop, pop, pop.

00:37:10.140 Am I enjoying watching this too much?

00:37:11.960 I'll confess it.

00:37:12.840 Not because I like pain or violence, but the opposite.

00:37:16.500 This thug was trying to rob these people.

00:37:20.460 I think this was outside of school.

00:37:23.000 And boy, he did not expect a mom to be packing.

00:37:28.840 Okay, we'll watch just this one more time.

00:37:30.680 There's so much going on.

00:37:31.680 And look at pop, pop, right in her purse.

00:37:34.100 And then she backs away and then comes back because she's not scared.

00:37:38.260 And you see the gun there?

00:37:39.560 And then she goes away, kicks it away. 1.00

00:37:41.200 Yeah, she kicks it away. 1.00

00:37:42.580 I actually read that she might have been an off-duty cop who's also a mom. 0.74

00:37:46.960 It wouldn't surprise me because I think she reacted in a manner that suggested training,

00:37:52.360 kicking the gun away, pulling the gun away, and just the presence of mind not to flee.

00:37:57.440 Of course, I obviously don't blame the mom who fled with her daughter when things started going down.

00:38:03.360 What is a gun?

00:38:07.640 I mean, it's a weapon.

00:38:08.580 It's a tool.

00:38:10.140 But if you look at it philosophically, I think it's a great equalizer.

00:38:15.820 Had no one there had a gun, if no one had a gun, who would have won that altercation?

00:38:22.180 Well, the thug, because biologically speaking, a young man, he looked like he was in his early 20s,

00:38:29.700 is just plain old stronger than moms, especially moms who have to care for their little ones. 1.00

00:38:37.760 So if it was just fists, that young man would have won.

00:38:42.360 Now, he had a gun, which obviously is an extra degree of menace, and it's also a symbol.

00:38:48.760 It saves him from having to use his fists. 0.93

00:38:50.640 He just waves the gun around, and it's his way of saying, not only will I punch you, 0.99

00:38:55.260 I will kill you, so give me your money, as he started to do. 1.00

00:38:58.120 And he would cut through there like a hot knife through butter, 1.00

00:39:01.360 and none of those women would be able to do anything. 1.00

00:39:03.280 Even if one of them were physically strong enough, or a group of them were physically strong enough,

00:39:06.880 they surely wouldn't risk being shot.

00:39:08.620 But one of the moms had a great equalizer. 1.00

00:39:11.680 She didn't look like she was as tall as him.

00:39:13.520 She didn't look like she was as strong as him.

00:39:15.500 But she had that gun on her, I think it was in her bag, her purse. 0.74

00:39:20.940 And that was the great equalizer.

00:39:23.180 And so instead of him surprising the women, oh boy, she had a surprise for him.

00:39:28.980 So he revealed himself, and then she used the element of surprise, the great equalizer.

00:39:35.800 Didn't kill him.

00:39:37.040 Looked like it just stunned him and hurt him.

00:39:39.900 And he was, I didn't see a lot of blood.

00:39:41.880 There was a very quick clip, and he was still moving around a little bit.

00:39:45.140 So, I mean, it obviously wasn't one of those huge firearms that has massive kickback.

00:39:50.100 I mean, there are firearms that are more suited to a smaller person like a mom, it might be. 1.00

00:39:56.520 But it certainly was enough to stop that.

00:39:58.540 I say again, it's not the violence that I find gleeful there.

00:40:03.640 It's that such an evil man whose evil plans were so soundly and shockingly refuted and rebuked by a woman with a presence of mind.

00:40:15.520 And that's the joy I feel when I watch that.

00:40:18.280 And the admiration for a mom that was truly able to defend her own child, which I didn't see there.

00:40:26.360 Maybe she was just picking her up.

00:40:27.900 And others.

00:40:28.960 That woman is a true hero in every sense of the word.

00:40:32.720 And just imagine if she hadn't been there.

00:40:36.200 There would have at least been a robbery.

00:40:38.020 Maybe there would have been a pistol whipping. 0.99

00:40:40.080 Maybe there would have been shooting. 0.60

00:40:41.460 Maybe there would have been a murder. 0.68

00:40:42.680 Maybe they would, I mean, it looked like he was just an opportunistic smash and grab type thief.

00:40:48.040 But how many times across the world does a law-abiding gun owner with a concealed gun stop a mass shooting?

00:40:54.860 And I can understand by definition, if you stop a mass shooting before it gets to the mass part of the shooting,

00:41:00.480 by definition, that's going to be not as newsworthy as a mass shooting that goes to term.

00:41:05.840 And as our friend Dr. John Lott always tells us, mass shootings always end with a second gun.

00:41:11.740 Either when a cop finally arrives with a second gun, or a private citizen, or if the shooter takes his own life.

00:41:18.140 But the longer it takes for that second gun to arrive, the longer the carnage.

00:41:23.040 In this case, a mom happened to be right there. 0.99

00:41:24.960 I'm sorry, that is an amazing video.

00:41:26.600 Not because I'm happy to see anyone get shot.

00:41:29.120 But rather, I'm happy that an evil man was surprised by the great equalizer that is a firearm.

00:41:34.940 Let me ask you, if no one there had a firearm, of course the strongest bully would succeed.

00:41:41.140 Or if that woman had not been allowed to carry a firearm, and I presume that she had lawful right to use it. 1.00

00:41:47.540 But if she had not, and if she didn't, as they say when you outlaw guns, only outlaws have guns. 0.92

00:41:52.980 I thought that was an inspiring video.

00:41:54.880 And yeah, we showed it to you four times, but I think that's about right.

00:41:58.500 I'm going to take a quick peek.

00:42:00.160 It's 12.44.

00:42:00.860 I only have 15 minutes left.

00:42:02.460 I have one more little thing I want to tell you about.

00:42:05.060 It was Teen Vogue, which is my go-to for political ideology.

00:42:08.780 But let's read a few more comments there.

00:42:11.240 Jason Montgomery says, we can't defend ourselves in Canada at all.

00:42:14.340 It's illegal to hurt the guy who is robbing you. 0.95

00:42:16.300 How screwed up is that? 0.96

00:42:17.100 Well, not just that. 0.92

00:42:18.560 Not just is concealed carry almost impossible to get in Canada.

00:42:22.820 And security guards in Canada are almost always unarmed.

00:42:27.840 But yeah, if you do actually defend yourself, you will find yourself facing charges invariably.

00:42:37.260 Invariably.

00:42:39.960 Keith McIntosh says, Mark Stein and his battle with CRTV.

00:42:43.300 Comments possible of a Gavin return now.

00:42:45.540 What about Stein's comments?

00:42:46.840 Read the difficulties of the paywall model.

00:42:50.260 I haven't read Mark Stein's comments on the difficulties of a paywall model,

00:42:54.000 but I can imagine that they're difficult.

00:42:56.380 We live with that every day here.

00:42:58.360 Unlike, as I mentioned before, we receive no corporate funding.

00:43:01.560 We receive no funding from governments.

00:43:04.260 So we live off the support of our viewers.

00:43:06.720 We do that through a trickle of ad money.

00:43:09.320 We were basically demonetized by Google in January of 2017.

00:43:12.640 As so many conservative sites were that were supportive of Brexit or Donald Trump.

00:43:18.040 YouTube just turned off the money.

00:43:19.900 Facebook's turned off the money in other ways, too.

00:43:21.900 I won't get into.

00:43:22.920 And Twitter has censored us, too.

00:43:24.400 So those big three social media companies.

00:43:26.380 So yeah, it's tough.

00:43:27.520 I don't know the particular comments you're referring to.

00:43:29.800 In terms of Mark Stein versus CRTV, I admire both Mark Stein's journalism and CRTV's, the fact that they're trying to make a go of it with conservative media in this country.

00:43:41.660 So I don't feel the need to take a side in that fight.

00:43:44.840 I've known Mark Stein for, oh, I don't know, 15 years for sure.

00:43:50.740 I mean, he used to write for the Western Standard magazine.

00:43:53.480 I don't know if some of you remember, but going back as far as 2004, I was the publisher of a magazine called the Western Standard.

00:44:00.200 Mark Stein wrote the back page.

00:44:01.260 I was friends with him back then.

00:44:02.500 We fought the Human Rights Commission together.

00:44:04.220 On the other hand, I admire what CRTV is doing.

00:44:06.840 Mark Levin is outstanding.

00:44:08.020 Of course, Gavin McInnes is a hoot over there.

00:44:09.700 Your question about Gavin McInnes returning, I think, is most unlikely because, of course, CRTV pays pretty well.

00:44:17.160 Unlike us, they're owned by a billionaire.

00:44:20.000 Kerry Katz, who is pouring his money into a conservative media alternative.

00:44:24.440 And I think that's amazing.

00:44:26.880 A lot of people, when they get super rich, their hobbies are yachts or private jets or private islands.

00:44:33.840 Kerry Katz has poured tens of millions of dollars into a conservative media outfit. 0.73

00:44:37.980 But we started The Rebel literally from scratch.

00:44:40.500 We were all laid off from the Sun News Network together, and I took my severance pay, and I used it to pay the first paychecks.

00:44:46.040 And we've been sort of crowdfunding our way ever since.

00:44:48.120 Yeah, if I had 20 million U.S. to put into The Rebel, we'd probably be a little bit bigger and better and stronger than we are now.

00:44:53.480 But, hey, we're three and a half years old, and we're still fighting like hell every day, and partly because of the support from folks who super chat us.

00:45:00.360 That's where the money goes.

00:45:01.660 We've got a payroll to make here, people, so super chat away.

00:45:04.320 Okay, I'll read one more comment, and then I'll go to Teen Vogue.

00:45:10.900 Let me find one here.

00:45:12.640 The sharpened pen murder rate higher in London than in New York City for the first time ever with strict gun control.

00:45:18.300 Who knew you could kill people with knives, too?

00:45:20.800 Well, knives, and there's huge acid attacks in London.

00:45:23.760 That's the thing.

00:45:24.380 It really is people who kill people.

00:45:26.380 I mean, and they'll find a way.

00:45:28.100 Cain and Abel didn't have firearms.

00:45:29.640 Daya's vault says laws only have effect if you follow them, or if you feel obliged to follow them, rather.

00:45:37.160 Well, that's the thing.

00:45:38.140 I mean, it's already against the law to commit murder.

00:45:40.820 So if someone's decided they're going to commit murder or commit an armed robbery, they're probably going to ignore a paperwork crime like possessing a firearm illegally.

00:45:49.220 Look, I'm just not going to get into that quarrel.

00:45:56.460 I'm not a party to it.

00:45:57.640 I admire both sides.

00:45:59.380 And, of course, I believe that we should have harmony on our side of the aisle.

00:46:04.340 It's just not my fight.

00:46:05.440 I have too many fights on my own to get into.

00:46:08.080 Well, look, we're called the rebel.

00:46:21.900 We're not called the mainstream.

00:46:23.400 We're not called the calm people.

00:46:25.500 And so it's sort of by definition that the people I like and that are like me are going to be a little bit prickly porcupines sometimes.

00:46:33.100 And sometimes if you're a prickly porcupine, you're prickly to friends as well as to foes.

00:46:39.860 And it's true. 0.56

00:46:40.960 I mean, if you're boring and if you're always agreeable, you're probably a dream to work with from a human resources point of view.

00:46:51.280 But if you're prickly, if you're a rebel, if you're a troublemaker, if you're a dissident, if you fight, maybe some of that personality comes across in an HR way too.

00:46:59.400 And so I look at the people who got their start with the rebel.

00:47:03.700 And there were a lot of them.

00:47:04.960 I mean, and some of them left us in various ways.

00:47:08.440 But I still, even the ones who left us in a bit of a puff of smoke over the years, I still have a bit of feelings of sentimental affection for them because we helped launch a number of careers.

00:47:19.960 And by the way, I don't think people should stay at the rebel forever if they're moving on up.

00:47:24.280 I mean, we're a great place to get started and to learn certain things about independent media.

00:47:31.040 And I think it's appropriate for some people who want to go independent.

00:47:34.400 And I keep in touch with some of our alumni.

00:47:38.400 I mean, we talked about Gavin earlier.

00:47:39.960 I mean, Gavin moved on because he got a great offer that we simply couldn't match.

00:47:43.520 I still talk to Gavin, I don't know, by text or by phone a few times a month.

00:47:48.580 But so, yeah, and I believe that we have had a role as a bit of a talent factory.

00:47:54.600 If not a talent factory, it's sort of a talent recruiter, you know.

00:47:59.600 And even to this day, we do.

00:48:02.200 And there's also a thing about when you find affordable talent, they're a little bit rough around the edges and they're not seasoned.

00:48:09.220 By the time they get seasoned and experienced, well, maybe you can't afford them anymore.

00:48:13.400 Anyways, don't mind me.

00:48:14.960 It's part of the fun of being a startup entrepreneur with not a lot of dough.

00:48:20.140 And I tell you, on the whole, everything considered, including some of the bumps in the road, I love what we've done at The Rebel.

00:48:27.260 And I love the legacy that we have already created in our alumni.

00:48:34.900 I'm not saying I agree with everything our alumni say and do.

00:48:37.140 Of course not.

00:48:38.220 But we're helping make a fuss.

00:48:40.980 Okay.

00:48:41.600 It's 1251.

00:48:42.440 We have nine more minutes before we go because I finished at 1 p.m.

00:48:47.960 I've got other work to do.

00:48:49.280 I want to show you something so weird.

00:48:53.020 You know Vogue, right?

00:48:54.020 It's the women's magazine.

00:48:55.300 And there's something called Teen Vogue, which is, I guess, for teenage girls, and that's great.

00:49:00.860 And, you know, teenage girls dating, fashion, makeup, music.

00:49:06.420 Well, no, not these days because, of course, Teen Vogue is part of the Trump resistance.

00:49:12.320 So check this out.

00:49:13.200 This is from Teen Vogue.

00:49:15.220 You see up there in the top left corner it says Teen Vogue.

00:49:18.800 And who's that hairy guy?

00:49:20.780 Well, let me read to you.

00:49:21.940 Who is Karl Marx?

00:49:23.740 Meet the anti-capitalist scholar.

00:49:25.860 The communist scholar's ideas are more prevalent than you might realize.

00:49:31.880 Let me just read the first sentence.

00:49:32.800 You may have come across communist memes on social media.

00:49:39.280 The man, the meme, the legend behind the trend is Karl Marx, who developed the theory of communism,

00:49:44.820 which advocates for workers' control over their labor instead of their bosses.

00:49:50.400 The political philosopher turned 200 years old on May 5th, but his ideas can still teach us about the past and the present.

00:49:57.560 Really, really.

00:49:58.960 Communism is responsible for, according to scholars, 85 to 100 million deaths over the last century.

00:50:11.400 The Soviet Union, Mao's China, Khmer Rouge, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua.

00:50:23.440 Is there some hellhole that does not owe some, a modern hellhole that does not owe its foul ideology to Marx?

00:50:32.280 I'm not saying that Nazism was Marxist.

00:50:35.760 It posed itself as counter-Marxism.

00:50:38.240 But Nazis stands for national socialism. 0.91

00:50:42.080 And in economic policies, they were certainly socialists.

00:50:45.780 They were sort of socialists and nationalists.

00:50:48.300 Yet Karl Marx has killed more people through his ideology than anyone else.

00:50:53.580 So you have to put the blame for the actual murders at the hands of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao.

00:50:59.380 But that's teen vogue.

00:51:02.740 That is teen vogue for you. 0.75

00:51:05.680 Is there any teenage girl who wants to read that?

00:51:08.820 I don't know.

00:51:09.520 But that's the total infiltration and hijacking of our culture by the hard left.

00:51:16.080 If you are reading an apology, an excuse, a promotion of Karl Marx in teen vogue, that's a sign of how far the culture has gone.

00:51:26.400 I see a $20 super chat from Allie Clark.

00:51:28.360 Allie, thanks very much.

00:51:29.320 I remember you made some super chats last week, too.

00:51:31.920 It was very generous of you.

00:51:33.080 Allie wrote, keep up the great work, Rebel, a great voice for conservatives.

00:51:37.460 Well, thank you.

00:51:38.100 I mean, I believe we're ideological conservatives.

00:51:40.560 You put conservatives in a capital C, which may refer to the political party.

00:51:45.360 Of course, we support conservative political parties, Doug Ford, Jason Kenney, Andrew Scheer.

00:51:50.120 We want them to beat their liberal and socialist rivals.

00:51:54.040 But I believe we have a special duty to be good faith critics.

00:51:57.300 And what do I mean by that?

00:51:58.840 Those political parties I just listed have their enemies who are bad faith critics, gotcha critics, 0.99

00:52:04.180 who turn molehills into mountains, who are unfair and have double standards, what they excoriate a conservative for, they praise or ignore in a liberal.

00:52:14.000 I'm talking about good faith criticisms, criticisms from the right.

00:52:18.520 Because if you're trying to steer straight, if you're a conservative politician, but a hundred other media are pulling you this way, pulling you this way, the best you can do is stay on course.

00:52:31.100 But any movement is always going to be that way if all the vacuum, if all the suction is this way.

00:52:36.420 But if you have one or many media to your right, pulling you this way, it counteracts the pull that way, you can fly straight.

00:52:45.580 And so any conservative media who says, oh, the rebel, they're a hassle, Doug Ford, Andrew Scheer, Jason Kenney, whoever says, oh, the rebel, I wish they'd just stop criticizing from the right.

00:52:55.500 Or there are embarrassing cousins because they're so right wing.

00:52:58.400 Well, look, do you think it's easier to be a politician if you are the most right wing thing around?

00:53:03.600 No, no, no.

00:53:04.300 I mean, just rhetorically and, you know, in terms of positioning politically, if you have someone to your right, then you can say, well, I'm moderate.

00:53:13.620 If you have no one to your right, the same position is no longer moderate, is it?

00:53:17.660 So I agree with you that I think we have an important role to play.

00:53:21.200 But, of course, our main role is not determined by reference to political parties.

00:53:25.440 It's determined by reference to our viewers.

00:53:27.780 And if we give them the news and opinions they want.

00:53:29.740 It's 1256.

00:53:32.060 I'm going to read a few more comments and then we'll finish up today.

00:53:34.900 Just a reminder of what we're doing here.

00:53:36.440 We're going to add Facebook and Twitter Periscope soon.

00:53:39.860 And every day from 12 noon to 1 Eastern, I come on, I kibitz, show some video clips, read some headlines.

00:53:47.020 Friday, we generally take more comments.

00:53:49.960 For those who want to chip in, you can get your comment put in highlighted ink like Ali Clark just did.

00:53:54.300 Or you can have them amongst the rest and I try and skim them.

00:53:59.240 Let me do that for the remaining four minutes.

00:54:01.020 Well, Starbucks, because they're such social justice warriors to the world, they've sort of ensnared themselves, haven't they?

00:54:17.000 Because some people complained that they weren't allowed to use Starbucks bathroom because they weren't paying customers and that was racist.

00:54:27.300 Starbucks has now announced that all of their bathrooms are now public bathrooms for the public.

00:54:33.620 So you've got your free Wi-Fi and your free bathrooms.

00:54:37.140 Gee, what could go wrong, eh?

00:54:39.160 The sharpened pen, 20 bucks.

00:54:40.720 Thank you very much.

00:54:41.380 I'll keep my eye peeled if I see a comment associated with your super chat.

00:54:45.420 But I think most people will not abuse Starbucks bathroom privileges.

00:54:54.540 Most people will sort of be grateful for it.

00:54:56.300 And who knows, maybe someone going into a Starbucks to use the bathroom will feel some sort of moral obligation to buy something when they're in there.

00:55:03.400 But of course, all it takes is one hobo who says, yeah, free bathroom. 1.00

00:55:07.940 I'm going to use that for a whole bunch of things.

00:55:10.580 And how can they be kicked out now?

00:55:12.160 Because the CEO himself, such a leftist poser, has said, free bathrooms, free Wi-Fi.

00:55:18.860 Victoria Pisano has a super chat for 10 bucks.

00:55:21.280 Thanks very much.

00:55:22.120 I can never understand the constant beef against Jews.

00:55:24.360 Is it their success, land, religion?

00:55:27.060 Well, listen, I suppose there's many reasons that people are against Jews.

00:55:29.760 The same thing could be for other prejudices.

00:55:32.500 Some of it is ancient and cultural.

00:55:36.620 Some of it is religious.

00:55:37.960 Some of it is people just need a scapegoat.

00:55:39.700 Some people just had a bad experience with some Jews.

00:55:42.420 I can, there was something that happened over the weekend.

00:55:44.480 And let me close.

00:55:45.680 I'll do something on this tomorrow, maybe.

00:55:48.280 There's a Jewish, a very old Jewish paper out of New York called The Forward.

00:55:52.520 In fact, it used to be in Yiddish.

00:55:55.480 It used to be published in Yiddish in New York.

00:55:57.600 Obviously, it was always left-wing.

00:55:59.700 But it's become insanely left-wing in recent years.

00:56:03.460 The Daily Forward, it's called, it's a website now, too.

00:56:05.780 And they are so left-wing.

00:56:07.320 They're actually anti-Israel.

00:56:08.880 If you can imagine, they're pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas, anti-Israel. 0.98

00:56:13.320 Really, really gross and weird. 0.92

00:56:15.260 They did a profile on Jordan Peterson, who I would call a philo-Semite. 0.54

00:56:19.080 I know Jordan Peterson somewhat, and I know those around him.

00:56:22.400 And there's not an anti-Semitic bone in his body.

00:56:24.340 It's absurd to say so.

00:56:25.180 In fact, he gives extended lectures on the Old Testament.

00:56:28.460 I actually spoke on a panel with him about the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration,

00:56:32.600 which created the modern state of Israel.

00:56:34.140 They call him anti-Semitic.

00:56:35.460 It's insane.

00:56:36.540 But the Daily Forward did.

00:56:37.820 They smeared him, and they photoshopped.

00:56:39.360 Can we call it up in the few seconds we have left?

00:56:41.620 If you go to the Jewish Daily Forward.

00:56:44.480 I don't know if we can find it.

00:56:45.420 We'll need one minute left.

00:56:46.120 They photoshopped a picture of him with Adolf Hitler giving the Sieg Heil.

00:56:53.860 And they said that he is enabling anti-Semites.

00:56:57.280 They forged that picture.

00:56:59.360 Because, of course, Peterson doesn't propose in front of such a picture.

00:57:02.860 And here's my point.

00:57:04.340 It's a long answer to your question, Victoria.

00:57:05.860 If you have a group of far left-wing activists, liberals, who just happen to be Jews but are as 0.84

00:57:12.920 about as Jewish as a ham sandwich, there's nothing Jewish about them other than a vestigial 1.00

00:57:17.440 history, an echo, a memory.

00:57:19.820 I mean, they don't go to synagogue.

00:57:21.280 They don't believe in the Torah.

00:57:23.440 They're not Zionists.

00:57:24.920 Like, the only thing Jewish about them is they were born Jewish, and they have a Jewish name.

00:57:28.740 But they're liberal.

00:57:29.580 They know that.

00:57:30.780 So if their only use for being liberal is to play the, for being Jewish, rather, is to 0.87

00:57:35.540 play the Jewish card as a racist card, which is what they did to Jordan Peterson. 0.55

00:57:39.960 They thought, well, we'll make an attack on Jordan Peterson that no leftist has done before

00:57:43.460 because, yeah, go ahead and put it up if you got it.

00:57:46.200 So, yeah, do you see that?

00:57:49.660 Is Jordan Peterson enabling Jew hatred?

00:57:52.540 And on Twitter, those words weren't there.

00:57:54.440 You just saw the Sieg Heil there.

00:57:55.720 It was as if he spoke in front.

00:57:58.040 It's just super, super, super gross.

00:58:00.800 This is actually taken from a website called vdare.com.

00:58:03.820 I guess that's the quickest place our producers found it.

00:58:06.340 But, yeah, that's the graphic I'm talking about there.

00:58:09.420 So if you're, I mean, Jordan Peterson knows that that was just radical leftists using their

00:58:15.240 Jewish identity to make an attack. 0.91

00:58:17.620 But let's say that attack would actually work and get someone marginalized.

00:58:21.380 So a group of liberals got you sacked from your job for anti-Semitism when you're not an anti-Semite.

00:58:26.840 And they did it in the name of the Jews. 1.00

00:58:29.580 How are you not going to hate Jews because of that? 1.00

00:58:32.040 I'm not saying it's fair, but I'm saying it's understandable if someone is attacking you unfairly

00:58:37.540 in the name of the Jews, as was just done to Jordan Peterson.

00:58:41.740 And let's say, God forbid, Peterson lost his job or his career over that.

00:58:47.400 How could he not have some animus towards the Jews, since those who attacked him did it in the name of the Jews? 0.81

00:58:55.060 I want to get into this in greater length in a future show because it's 101 already, so I have to sign off.

00:59:01.920 I am going to go now because I've got to get to other things.

00:59:04.020 I'll see you back here tomorrow at 12 noon Eastern.

00:59:05.940 We're going to try and fix our notification system.

00:59:07.880 And thanks to all of you who chipped in with the Super Chat.

00:59:11.180 I appreciate that.

00:59:12.840 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:59:16.100 tune in tonight at 8 p.m. if you can for our show.

00:59:18.680 And if not, I'll see you tomorrow at noon, same time, same YouTube channel.

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Rebel News Podcast - May 14, 2018

Ezra Levant's Battleground： May 14 2018

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