Ezra Levant's Battleground： May 16 2018
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Summary
Hamas admits that 50 out of the 60 dead in Gaza were their own operatives. The New York Times dedicates its entire front page to the story. The Middle East did not care. Why would they care? This is a pure media stunt by Hamas.
Transcript
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Well, hello, everybody. There you are. I was waiting for you. S. Levant here. It's May 16th, and you're watching Battleground.
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Well, hi, guys. Don't mind me. I'm a little over-clemped today. We're getting things organized here.
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What we do every day between 12 noon and 1 p.m. Eastern time is we have a live chit-chat on YouTube.
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As you may know, every day at 8 p.m. Eastern time, I have a more formal show where I have a produced monologue and interview two guests usually, and I read a little bit of mail.
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But from noon till 1, I have this kibitz. YouTube doesn't call it kibitz. They call it super chat because they allow you to make comments along the side of the page.
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And if you want your comment to be highlighted, you can simply chip in a couple bucks, and it's put in a bright color, and it stays up there proportionate to how many bucks you put in.
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I'm actually having some trouble loading it right now, so I'll look at the comments in a minute, but I'm going to get started with some news today while we wait for folks to gather.
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You know, we talked about the Gaza situation and the U.S. moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
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I think there is some news that warrants us talking about it again today.
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And it's the fact that the media counter-narrative, which was so vicious, it wasn't about the historic decision to move the embassy to Jerusalem, the historic capital of biblical Zion, the modern capital of the state of Israel.
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It was focused on denigrating that, I think because of the general anti-Israel antipathy in the media, but also because it was Trump who did it.
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I want to start by showing you the New York Times.
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The New York Times itself, Israelis kill dozens in Gaza.
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I suppose technically it is true, but who were the dozens and who were the Israelis in Gaza and what happened?
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Well, there was a mass riot, but not just a riot in Gaza.
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In fact, we see today that Hamas, senior Hamas leaders have said 50 out of the 60 they claim were killed were Hamas terrorist operatives.
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Can I, can I put up the online version of the New York Times?
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This is the front page of their website yesterday.
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight stories.
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A new embassy in Jerusalem and no sign of peace.
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Inside a makeshift hospital where Gaza treats its wounded.
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By the way, this is more extreme anti-Israel coverage than in the Arab media.
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I say again, other than Gaza, which is controlled by the Hamas terrorist group, which has now admitted that 50 out of the 60 dead were their own operatives.
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And as you can see by the front page of the New York Times, they absolutely fell for it.
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Now, you're probably thinking, well, fell for what?
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That headline is true no matter what, even if they were terrorist operatives.
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And I don't think this video was supposed to get out there.
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This is a, put it up and I'll give some, so this is a morgue.
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These are people who you can see in the background.
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These are the people that the New York Times dedicated their entire front page to.
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The horrific horror show that Israel's perpetrated.
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Hey, do we have the video we used from yesterday about that youngster with the canes?
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And you have to be extremely disciplined as a journalist to ignore these little discontinuities.
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You know on YouTube you can find these goofy little videos where someone went through a movie frame by frame
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and does a video of Seven Mistakes in Star Wars that you probably didn't notice or something like that.
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Here's one of the disabled civilians who forgot that he was being filmed.
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My point is, you know those guys who go through and find seven flaws, seven discontinuities in Star Wars.
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I mean, if you're in a professional Hollywood movie, it's really hard to find the errors.
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It's the opposite when you're dealing with Pollywood.
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You have to work extremely hard to make sure you don't show all these discontinuities, irregularities, and hoaxes.
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But the New York Times, you know their motto, all the news that's fit to print.
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It's weird that the New York Times is so anti-Israel.
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The newspaper is being owned by Jews, obviously, for more than a century.
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The New York Times is also dead silent about the perils of the Holocaust towards European Jewry under the Nazis.
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But I guess they're keeping up with that longstanding tradition.
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And let me go and mention it again, what we're doing here with the super chats.
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And I got an email yesterday saying, Ezra, less monologues, more comments.
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If you want your comment to stand out like the corker, he chipped in five bucks.
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Now, our ethics-violating PM is receiving an honorary law degree today at New York University.
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The first prime minister in Canadian history to be convicted of not one but four breaches of the federal law,
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in this case, the Conflict of Interest Act, is receiving an honorary law degree.
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I wonder if he would be allowed to be a lawyer having been convicted of breaking the law.
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I think there's two other things to say about his trip to New York.
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The first is he's, that's his 56th foreign trip since becoming prime minister.
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The missus can do some shopping, visit George Soros and other billionaires.
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I mean, he absolutely loves going to New York and he does so all the time now.
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And you just realize, well, he's a very short attention span.
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He often takes personal days when he's even in Ottawa.
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And I don't say that as any kind of allegation or aspersion.
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She demands not one but two taxpayer-funded nannies.
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But when she injected herself into a Martin Luther King Day event in Ottawa, which really
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has nothing to do with Canada to begin with and has really nothing to do with Sophie Gregoire
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Trudeau, but she had written a little song that had nothing to do with being black.
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And she insisted on inflicting that song on everybody.
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I'm not sure if you read the Ethics Commissioner's report into Justin Trudeau, but they didn't just
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have the one trip to the Billionaires Island in the Bahama.
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And Sophie Trudeau called up and said, hey, do you mind if I just come with some of my
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And the Aga Khan's family said, well, we're not going to be here in the island.
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So she's an extremely, extremely high-maintenance woman.
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And of course, she wants the family trip to the Taj Mahal and the family trip to Tokyo
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I just simply have to show you, just to remind you, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.
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And some people live, oh, no, no, no, no, but not quite.
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And I could conquer the world with all the love that I feel.
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When you smile back at me, when you smile back at me, I see it from the cone of your eye.
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You've got to dig up our YouTube video where Gavin McInnes plays that in the background and he sings along.
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I think that's probably the funniest video we've ever produced.
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I think the funniest was Gavin McInnes singing along with Sophie Gregoire.
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I didn't want to do it because all I was thinking about was how funny Gavin was and I couldn't live up to that.
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Yeah, I think that's a big reason why Justin Trudeau has gone on 56 foreign trips.
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I wasn't mocking it because I couldn't be as funny as Gavin, but what's that got to do with the Martin Luther King Jr. Day?
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That was just inflicted on the poor people at the Martin Luther King Day.
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Well, because she's been practicing that in front of the mirror.
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And she's the first lady, even though we don't really have that thing in Canada.
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So we're quarter done and I haven't even really got started.
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Let me read some more questions because I got an email from folks saying, enough with the chitchat.
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See Baz Pig says, my cat makes strange noises at night.
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I hope you're not comparing your cat's strange noises to our first lady because that's Islamophobic if you are.
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So, Miss Little Pig says, I think that was animal abuse.
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Theodore Sigerson, does anyone have the link to the video Ezra mentioned just now with Gavin?
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And I don't know how we could, maybe you can actually type it in as a comment.
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Just Gavin McInnes, Sophie Gregoire will probably show up.
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I mean, I read the book and I think I saw a movie to that effect about 10 or 20 years ago.
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And I just, every second that I see, and I see the ads for The Handmaid's Tale everywhere,
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and I see it referenced all over the cultural left, and I can't bear it because every second
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that you're talking about a fake theocracy that treats women like chattel and property
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and, you know, harems for the pleasurable purposes of a patriarchal society,
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and you're doing it as a Christian theocracy, which does not exist,
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and you're ignoring Muslim theocracies, which exist, that do the same thing but much more brutally,
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I don't know if I told you this, but when I went to Germany a couple years ago,
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I went to a refuge, a private refuge run by a Christian nun named Sister Hatun was her name.
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This was a refuge in Germany where people fled from the official government refugee centers in Germany.
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But when they were in Germany, the non-Muslims were still persecuted.
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So even in Germany, ISIS was running the refugee centers.
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So some of the Christians and Yezidis had to flee from the official German refugee center,
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And I met, for the first time in my life, a Yezidi.
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They've got brown skin because it's from the Middle East.
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But they have blue eyes, which is quite something when you see that combination.
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And so they were prized by ISIS terrorists as rape slaves.
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And so ISIS would come in and murder the men or demand they convert.
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And they would take these Yezidi women as rape slaves, and they would pass them around.
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And I met a woman who was a rape slave of ISIS who said, who told me, we have it on, you
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can Google the video on our rebel site, she lost count after she was raped 240 times.
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Rape slavery authorized by the Koran, enforced by a caliphate, a theocracy called the Islamic
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And the left is silent on that, but they want me to watch a show about rape slavery and
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That would be like someone making a fictitious movie of the week about a Holocaust where the
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Don't show me a piece of Hollywood fiction where the Christians are the slavers.
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In fact, speaking of all slavery, it was the Christians, Wilberforce and others, who ended
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But don't tell me a fictional work where the Christians are the abusers.
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In the Middle East, the Christians are the abused by the Muslim rape slavers.
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And the Corker writes again, Ezra, how much do you think we taxpayers will pay to get Kinder
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That's a reference to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion.
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Of course, you don't need to pay to get the pipeline built.
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A company called Kinder Morgan wants to put in $7.4 billion of their own money.
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It will not get built just by adding more money with its $5 billion or $10 billion.
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In fact, the money was there like it was for Energy East Pipeline, Northern Gateway Pipeline.
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No amount of money can get it through if there's no rule of law in Canada, either the constitutional
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law or just plain old enforcing the criminal code.
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I don't know if you saw my show, my paywall show at 8 p.m. a few weeks ago.
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I did a story on a rock quarry in Digme Neck, Nova Scotia, tiny little town.
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They wanted to mine this rock and then have a marine terminal ship it to the States and
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And over the course of the 50-year life of the mine, they thought they'd make half a
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And they were invited to invest and they did and they spent millions and they went through
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an environmental review as they knew they would and that was fine.
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But at the end of this, it was blocked, not for any real environmental reason, not for
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any real safety reason, for made-up reasons of social license.
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It was a loosey-goosey, you're against our values ruling.
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And so they sued under NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, which says you have
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And the NAFTA panel sided with the American investor.
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It was appealed to the federal court in Canada.
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Canada's federal court agreed, I've held the ruling.
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So this loosey-goosey social license, you don't have to buy in from the community.
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Check, there's not a catch I'll call it, you know, does the local activist approve.
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Canada's going to be on the hook for half a billion dollars in penalties.
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That's what this mine says they would have earned over 50 years.
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And Canada's going to have to pay them half a billion.
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Imagine how much Kinder Morgan will be able to soak taxpayers for, not because they want
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But if Justin Trudeau and John Horgan and other Canadian entities break the law by faking the
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reasons that pipeline can't get built, get ready to pay out the whole amount.
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VM Parliament says, do you think the NDP have a chance to win in Ontario?
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She's really doing poorly as the Liberal Party is in.
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I've seen several polls put them in third place.
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Kathleen Wynne as a personality is so unlikable.
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The latest Liberal Party ads have a young actress just as a stand-in, not pretending to be Kathleen
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Wynne, but just some anonymous actress saying, hey, not everything's gone great.
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Can we call that ad up, that Ontario Liberal ad?
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I'd like to show it to our viewers, those of you who are not from Ontario.
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Have you ever seen the key ad for a party not feature that party's leader?
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I mean, whether it's Trump or Hillary Clinton or Obama in the States or in Canada.
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But you're so embarrassed and ashamed of your leader.
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I mean, the ad itself, for what it is, it's a little wobbly.
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But the shocking fact is they hired an actor because the leader is so odious.
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Everything hasn't been perfect in Kathleen Wynne's Ontario.
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But four years ago, Wynne said she'd build Ontario up by investing in hospitals and schools and transit to create jobs.
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I won't show it to you, but I love, okay, fine.
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But here, can I be a paid actor and read to you some lines?
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It's when you're paying an actor to go out and say that because your leader is so hated, you're in trouble.
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And my point is, Doug Ford, I think he's going to win.
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I think it's right for Ontario that he does win.
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But what if Kathleen Wynne does so poorly in the polls and there's like this stink of death over her campaign?
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In a debate recently, Doug Ford said, Kathleen, when you have a nice smile.
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Okay, I don't think that's a particularly weird thing to say.
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Oh, my God, the liberal press release is sexist.
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No, no, he just said you have a nice smile, which I don't even think is true.
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I saw an article in the Toronto Star yesterday panicking that nothing's sticking to Doug Ford.
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That's pretty healthy, right, in a three-party race.
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But what happens if people look around and say, you know, I don't like Doug Ford and I don't love Kathleen Wynne,
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but I sure don't like Doug Ford and I'm going to vote for Kathleen Wynne.
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But if she's in third place consistently, consistently, consistently, and if the campaign starts to look really desperate,
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which I think it is, the election's on June 7th, if I'm not mistaken.
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What happens if the anybody but Ford, ABF, ABC, anybody but conservative vote says, shoot.
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Voting for Kathleen Wynne just, it's a wasted vote.
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We haven't really done a lot of due diligence on her because we never thought she was serious.
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That's almost what happened in Alberta with Rachel Notley.
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Sorry, I'm trying to remember who it was there, but Rachel Notley came up the middle.
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Well, that's sort of how Bob Ray was elected, I don't know, 20, 23, 20 odd years ago.
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He just came up the middle when people said, a pox on everyone else.
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If the anti-Doug Ford vote coalesces around the NDP, they have a chance.
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Especially if Doug Ford continues to demoralize the conservative base by flip-flopping on key issues.
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He threw out Tanya Granick-Allen, which I thought was a mistake.
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Okay, El Chepacabra is back, saying, hi, Tammy.
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Tammy Putinsk-Zanbelt says, okay, donkey smile.
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Entry Required says, I thought the discussion about Trudeau's cook being kept in a separate residence
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I had Manny Montano-Grino on to talk about that.
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He points out that Trudeau's living in Rideau Hall.
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And he's got another residence over the Quebec side called Harrington Lake.
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And rumors are, and I have no proof of it, that Trudeau's mom is in there, Margaret Trudeau.
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I suppose we could stake out with a camera there and see who's coming and going.
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You know, Justin Trudeau always says that the purpose of a carbon tax is to make choices
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costly, so Canadians make better choices about their carbon footprint.
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His choice is to have an entire house dedicated to his chef and to drive the meals over from
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Drive them half a mile to Rideau Hall because apparently the kitchen in Rideau Hall isn't
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Or as Manny suggested, maybe Trudeau doesn't want any strangers in the house.
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Maybe things are not as idyllic with that karaoke star, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.
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And he just doesn't want any personnel in the house.
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If you want your comment to stand out, just throw it in the super chat here.
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And of course, but he has in fact reached out to us.
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R said, says, how can you own Jerusalem for yourself?
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I'm not sure what you're referring to, but if you've read the Bible, you know that Jerusalem
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is the biblical, historical, eternal capital of the Jews.
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That's where the word Zionism comes from, Mount Zion.
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I think the reality of moving, that reality, I mean, you just move your capital, move your
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I'm going to take a break from reading comments.
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And I want to show you what's, I want to show you a clip of what's coming up tonight.
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Today on Off the Cuff Declassified, North Korea is threatening to pull out of their summit with
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the United States, but it doesn't look like we're taking them seriously.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller is under fire as the one-year anniversary of his probe draws near.
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The rebels' Tiffany Gabay joins me to discuss the unrest in Gaza.
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And are China and Russia faking their GDP numbers?
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And while I'm showing and teasing and pitching other talent, can I show you a promo for today's
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Let's show that ad, too, so people can see what that's all about.
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It's another all-new gun show with me, your host, Sheila Gunn-Reed.
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Now, joining me tonight is my good friend, Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science.
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Today, we're talking about, well, a little bit of everything.
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David Suzuki, the push to force banks to divest from fossil fuels, and the embedded anti-oil
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Hey, by the way, if you want to hang out with John, and Sheila, and me, and Katie Hopkins,
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and speaking of Australia, Dr. Tanvir Ahmed, one of our contributors down there, we are going
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I don't know if you know this, but we're going to Israel.
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Do we have a TV ad that we can play about that?
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We don't have a TV ad for that now, but I'll play one later this week.
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We're going, and we're inviting our most enthusiastic rebels to come with us.
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If you're Christian, if you're Jewish, if you're Muslim, if you're interested in the
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But it'll also be briefings, political briefings, military briefings.
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We are actually, I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but it's a fact.
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We are going to the graduation ceremony of the Israel Air Force Academy, which has an
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But it's, you know, Israel's Air Force is the most modern in the world with Americans.
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I mean, they're one of the early adopters of the, I think it's the F-35 or maybe it's
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And it's going to be about 60 or 70 other rebel viewers.
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And the five talents I just mentioned, Sheila, John, Tanvir, Katie Hopkins, myself, we'll have
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It's sort of like a cruise, which was scuppered by an alt-left activist group.
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But you can't scupper this one because it's going forward.
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I'm going to read another Super Chat comment by Ali Clark.
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Ezra, did you look into notifications issues on YouTube?
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Had to go to your website to see if you were even on today.
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I mentioned we did ask our YouTube guru about this.
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And I saw a note from him that he was looking in.
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Hannah, maybe we can follow up with our YouTube guru, Adam.
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And you're not the only one who said it, Ali, that we need more notification issues.
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I believe that it's probably some sort of gentle censorship against us on the part of YouTube.
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And I know that sounds like a conspiracy theory.
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But I've actually had three meetings with YouTube and Google about these things.
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I don't know if you've ever watched Paul Joseph Watson.
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I think he says that his last 37 or something videos in a row have all been demonetized.
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And his latest one, which is excellent, which is about the new video by Childish Gambino, not only is it demonetized, but they're treating it like hate speech.
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You have to click, yes, I agree, to see controversial material.
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Like they're literally treating it like hate speech.
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It's just for a political commentary based on a violent video that they've promoted.
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They've got 120 million views on YouTube in a few days to the music video.
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There's no age restrictions on there, even though it's graphic violence.
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But Paul Joseph Watson critiques that graphic violence.
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And that's controversial and all sorts of age appropriate.
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William Coleman says, wasn't happy that the Rebel Live is the weekend of the election.
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Wish it was scheduled at a more appropriate time.
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And part of me thought, well, this will be a very exciting time to have it.
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I should say that the Rebel Live attendance is really coming along.
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In fact, why don't we just, if people are wondering what I'm talking about,
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We're going to discuss topics that the political elites and the media party don't want us to discuss.
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Compassion isn't enough of a principle to guide the world by.
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Perhaps we are in better touch with the pulse of the country.
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We are in this fight with you, and you're all in this fight together.
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If you see over the last few years, there's been this populist movement going around the world.
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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.
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We're simply people with another point of view.
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When I was, I think, 29 or something, I ran for Parliament.
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I actually won the nomination for the Canadian Alliance, as it was then known, the precursor
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of the Conservative Party, in Calgary Southwest, one of the safest ridings in Canada for Conservatives.
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But five weeks after I got that nomination, Stephen Harper was selected as the new leader
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of the party, and he needed a safe seat to run in, and so he sort of moved into that by-election.
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I had worked so hard for it, but of course, paving the way for the new leader of the party
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who went on to become a very strong prime minister for almost 10 years.
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That's how that story ended, and it pushed me in a different path.
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I went on to help start the Western Standard magazine, to write a series of books, including
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Ethical Oil, to join the Sun News Network, and now with the Rebels.
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Occasionally, I wonder what would have happened had I gone into Parliament.
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I know one thing for sure would have been a lot less financial stress.
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You get a nice six-figure job, and much more important than that, you get all the staff
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and the budget and the travel and two offices, one in Ottawa, one in the Rhine.
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That's actually what costs so much, more than just the salary itself.
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And of course, you have the Forum of Parliament and access to the media.
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So those are all the pluses for being elected as an MP, for example.
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But the minus is, well, there is the insane travel back and forth, especially if I were
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But I think the biggest one is, if you're not the...
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It's like being on a dog sled, you know, when all the huskies are pulling the dog sled.
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If you're not the one at the front, you don't...
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You know, you're pretty much just following the party discipline and the message track.
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But I don't know if I'd be good, especially as I get older, at biting my tongue on things
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I suppose if I was focused on something that I really was passionate about and given, you
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know, the power to talk about, like ethical oil I mentioned, but if I had to shut up about
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That's the bargain you make when you go into elected office.
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You're part of a team and you have to have a team discipline.
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And you can't have a caucus of 100 MPs saying 100 things that are not in harmony with each
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I have to tell you, if I were an MP in Andrew Scheer's caucus, I would not be enjoying...
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I think it's just so evident that Maxime Bernier is biting his tongue every single day.
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That's a very, very long answer to a very friendly question.
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I just don't think I'm built for party politics.
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But in some ways, I think we make more of a difference outside politics.
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I think that's something that Stephen Bannon got right in America, and it's something that
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That new video by Childish Gambino will, in many ways, have more influence than any editorial.
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That's why Kanye West's breaking away from the Democrat pact was so powerful.
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All right, let's look for some more comments here.
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Well, I saw the Save the Christians documentary yesterday.
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Canada is a country with Christian values and should be bringing in Christian refugees as
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Our video, our first documentary error, is now available on video on demand or to pre-order
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Well, I'm in Canada, so I don't report to represent the U.S.
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We're going to Israel, as I told you, because we support Israel.
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I just support that little democracy against the authoritarian dictatorship next to it
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I support Israel for reasons of ethnicity and religious heritage as well.
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But I believe in a sovereign Canada, and that's where I am.
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I think being pro-Canada generally means you're sympathetic to democracies around the world.
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I think it's natural to be pro-Israel if you're a Democrat, especially if you're a conservative.
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In fact, I think it would be very hard to be pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas, if you have Canadian
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But do we even control our own countries anymore?
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First to 40,000, 50,000 Syrian migrants that were not vetted.
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And now to people just walking up from the states that Donald Trump's on the verge of
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I recognize this name from a couple weeks ago, Urethra Grundle.
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I'd like to see Rebel bumper stickers heavily distributed to educate the public that Rebel
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Many don't know that Rebel exists and continue to digest CBC News.
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I don't know if you noticed, but the back of my laptop, I have this little sticker.
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I have to take my computer out and I put it in a little bin.
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And there's so many computers and they all look the same, right?
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So I just slapped that oil sands sticker on there.
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First of all, because I believe in the oil sands.
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And second of all, so I can identify my computer.
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I don't want someone to take mine or vice versa.
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I'm pretty sure I got that sticker for free and it's worth it for me, for them.
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Maybe we should give them out for free, just the cost of shipping, and have a voluntary contribution.
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But you know what, Urethra Grundle, if that is your real name, that sounds like sort of
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You know, I bet your real name is something like Joy Smith, but it's like a pet name.
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Miss Little Pig says, I'd buy a Rebel Bumper sticker.
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Sarah Ann, what are you, 19 stickers on your computer?
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So I don't, because at the airport, everyone takes their computers out as you go through
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And you wouldn't believe how many computers look the same.
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It's like when people put a little ribbon or tape on their luggage, because all luggage
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Allie Clark says, hand them out at events as well.
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Were you like an admiral of the Navy or something?
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Don McKenna, just write it down with a marker on places.
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At least that way, some of our money, that Islamic regime of Iran, steal from us, Iranians
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I support Israel all the way against all Islamists.
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Well, that's interesting, because I think Israel is a military and political and diplomatic
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And that's why some of the moderate Arab dictatorships are becoming more and more friendly with Israel,
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as they see it's the only muscle and political will in the region that might be able to stop
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Urethra Grundle, just hand and mouth spread the word.
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By the way, this little mug, it says on the one hand there, it says the Rebel.
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But on the other hand, it says, don't blame me.
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It's been a while since we freshened up our stock in our store.
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I've been showing too many ads, and I've been reading too many comments.
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I mean, Chelsea Handler, do you know who I'm talking about?
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I mean, if there's conventional wisdom, she's got it.
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How much revenue do you think you'll generate from the super chat feature?
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I mean, if we got 100 bucks a show, that'd be great.
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That would cover some serious staff expenses around here.
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You know, we do it because, you know, we are in the editorial content business.
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But yeah, if the super chat added up, it's, I mean, today, I'm just glancing over, it's
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When I think who is a master of world affairs, who grasps the intricacies of the Arab-Israeli
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conflict, the centuries-long battle between Islam and Judaism and Christianity, who understands
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the sweep of history from the Crusades to the Ottoman Empire to the British Mandate, I think
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maybe Henry Kissinger, maybe in his own way Bill Clinton did, and Chelsea Handler.
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Those are the three titans of foreign policy smarts.
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And as proof for that third selection, which you might doubt, let me show you a tweet from
00:46:11.060
Now, the BB Crazies, BB is a nickname for Benjamin Netanyahu, the BB Crazies, I'm not sure, but
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I think that's spelled wrong, are running the show unchecked and will effectively turn Gaza
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and the Left Bank into starvation camps or mental asylums, if not already, and bomb Iran into
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561 retweets, 2,402 likes, and that's when we took the screenshots, probably more.
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Because there's just, there's so much, every word here is a goddamn masterpiece.
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You know, Winston, did you know Winston Churchill?
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Was it the Nobel Prize for literature that he won for his biography, his autobiography, really,
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Yeah, actually, Benjamin Netanyahu's been the Prime Minister of Israel for a little while.
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Well, actually, it's democracy with an opposition and an extremely aggressive media.
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Well, effectively turn Gaza and the Left Bank into starvation camp.
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I don't know if Chelsea missed that part, but I think it was 2005 that Israel unilaterally
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abandoned Gaza to its people, and it was immediately seized by Hamas.
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So Israel does not have any soldiers or police in Gaza.
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It is a Jew-free zone, Judenrein in the original German.
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So it is what it is because of its Hamas rulers.
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Left Bank is possibly my favoritest part of this tweet.
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Left Bank is what they call the fancy part of Paris, the left bank of the Seine River.
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In Israel, I think she means the West Bank, the West Bank.
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But other than those little facts, I'm sure she is a masterful command of the situation.
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Could be, but just like my criticisms of people who really think the Handmaid's Tale is where
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I think the religious term that's probably more appropriate to what's going on there is
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Because neither Benjamin Netanyahu nor Hamas are Christian.
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I saw a great tweet today that said, if Hamas threw all their weapons into the sea, the result
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If Israel threw all its weapons into the sea, the result would be genocide.
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VM Parliament, will you give Wynn the mobile billboard treatment?
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Do you recall that we put a billboard outside her office?
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Can I ask, Hannah, can you dig up this short video of me revealing the billboard?
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We put it right up outside of her constituency office.
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It's about a 90-second clip, and I just want to show it to you.
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You know, I almost forgot about that, and we did it.
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You know, if you go to buy billboards, they have a detailed map, and you can choose precisely
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As you can see, I'm standing on the street, 795 Eglinton Avenue East in Toronto, and look
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You can see that's the address of the constituency office of Kathleen Wynne, the atrocious Premier
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Well, the reason I'm here is because, look, just over there, just across the street and
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up is a billboard that we bought for our FireWynne.ca campaign.
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And that was crowdfunded by you, our loyal viewers, staring down at the Premier, staring
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down at all her little workers and busy beavers who are destroying Ontario, telling them that
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If you support our campaign to fire Wynne, help us continue to have this billboard and
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What I mean by that is your own long sign that says FireWyn.
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We also have T-shirts and bumper stickers, too.
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I wanted to show you that billboard because I'm so proud of it.
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From 795 Eglinton Avenue East in Toronto, I'm Ezra Levant for the Rebel.media.
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Well, thank you for the reminder that, you know, we've done so many shenanigans like
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And we gave out hundreds of those FireWyn lawn signs.
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And I think we're going to have some to give out at the Rebel Live event in Toronto.
00:51:41.840
Speaking of the Ontario election, let me show you a clip.
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And what do you do when you have Kathleen Wynne as your premier?
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And then there's things that are not crimes, but they're just awful scandals, ethical breaches,
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And maybe you half mean it, or maybe you're joking.
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Maybe you're paying an homage to the chants at the Donald Trump rallies.
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I don't know if you heard that, but there was a chant, lock her up.
00:52:35.820
You know, that's how people talk when they're unemployed or when they're overtaxed or when
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they're paying electricity bills that are literally the highest in the continental North America.
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That's how people talk when they're sick of being scolded by the premier on everything
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from their carbon footprint to the fact that they resist an extreme sex ed curriculum drafted
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by a convicted child pornographer in the case of Ben Levin.
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Even if it goes a little far rhetorically, that's part of freedom.
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I remember when that same chant was said in Alberta 16 months ago or so at our anti-carbon
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And the mainstream media pounced as if that was some horrific crime.
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And timid conservatives threw unemployed Alberta oil men under the bus.
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Oh, you're not protesting the government politely enough.
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And when I saw that yesterday, I thought, oh, good for Doug.
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I was very disappointed to learn that Doug Ford did indeed later admonish that person for saying
00:53:46.120
Look, the Fords, the late Rob Ford and Doug Ford are all about having some fun and not being
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word police and not scolding people for being exuberant.
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And most of all, not bending the knee to the mainstream media, which really just acts as
00:54:08.380
Whether it's the ideologies that you can't say that, you can't say that, you can't say
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that, or you're an Islamophobic transphobe, or actually the parties of the left.
00:54:16.700
And I think that's one of the secrets to understanding Donald Trump's success, is that whatever his
00:54:22.720
negatives are, let's say half of people find him unfavorable, the media's negatives are far
00:54:30.480
Most people despise the media, and with good reason.
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So when Donald Trump punches back at journalists, not physically, of course, he doesn't punch them
00:54:39.620
or lock them up, but when he rhetorically disrespects them, there's an enormous built-up
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momentum of Americans saying, you're damn right, it's about time someone took those pompous
00:54:54.660
And that's one of the reasons why people loved Rob Ford in his day, and why I think they
00:55:01.760
Hannah, I have one more request of you, if you don't mind.
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Can you dig up the audio of the late Rob Ford when he was phoned by Carol Off of the CBC
00:55:16.180
And I want to show you the proper way to treat a left-wing journalist.
00:55:24.460
I don't say that as an insult, I say that as an observation.
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And she has a show on Canada's state broadcaster, the CBC.
00:55:35.780
Rob knew it, but he's friendly enough, so he took the call.
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And she had some very important questions to ask on behalf of the state broadcaster.
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Well, the late Rob Ford had something more important to do.
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He was coaching football, a volunteer coach in a low-income community, as he always did.
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And so he answered the phone for this radio interview on his cell phone while he was out
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Would you say to a bunch of young kids who love football, it's their favorite thing, it's
00:56:02.820
maybe the only positive thing they're doing for recreation, and some socialist from the
00:56:08.200
state broadcaster wants to harp at you on the phone, would you really say, sorry, kids,
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I have to go talk to some Marxists from the state broadcaster?
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Or would you say, all right, would you holler out coaching instructions while you're on the
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Well, I'll tell you what Rob Ford did, and I have to say, it's probably the most beautiful
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If we can't find it today, we'll find it tomorrow, because it's already 1258.
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You know what, I'm just throwing this on my team, springing it on them.
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If we can't find it today, I promise I'll show it to you tomorrow, because it's, here's
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my point, I mean, we're almost out of time anyways.
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My point is, when a snooty, scoldy, sneering, condescending, moralizing, self-righteous
00:57:02.920
media snob, but then again, I repeat myself, comes to condemn you for being a conservative,
00:57:10.960
for telling a joke, lock her up, for using a phrase that's not politically
00:57:19.440
The answer is not to bend the knee and say, oh, I'm sorry, and I disavow.
00:57:27.000
The answer is probably not my instinct, which is to cuss.
00:57:31.800
The answer is to say, well, no thanks, we're a free country, and you have one point of view
00:57:37.040
of the state broadcaster, and the people have a different point of view.
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And that's what made Rob Ford great, and I think that's one of the things that people
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hope for in Doug Ford, and I sure hope he doesn't have that drummed out of him.
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We can't find that last clip, and I'm sorry I threw that on our production team last minute.
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We'll have it for tomorrow, but I will play it for you, because it was gorgeous.
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Let me wrap up by telling you what we're doing.
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Every weekday we do this 12 noon to 1 p.m. Eastern.
00:58:16.920
I did just barely get through all the clips I had.
00:58:19.700
You can help us out by chipping in through the Super Chat a few bucks here and there.
00:58:24.360
We're going to expand it to Periscope, Twitter, Facebook simultaneously.
00:58:28.700
We've got over 500 folks watching right now, which ain't bad.
00:58:32.740
Ali, we are going to look into your question about getting the notifications fixed.
00:58:36.820
And this is just basically what I do with, like, I'm like a cruise ship.
00:58:39.800
I have two sittings for lunch, so I'm going to skip one lunch a day.
00:58:44.940
It's a good way to hear what folks are interested in, and I want to build this up a bit.
00:58:48.560
So someone who said, how much money are you going to make on this?
00:58:50.640
Well, that's, you know, I'd like to make some money because we've got to pay the bills around here,
00:58:53.300
and we don't get government money, and it's voluntary.
00:58:58.980
You know, we've got 500 people watching right now.
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Of course, this will be on YouTube for people to watch later.
00:59:07.260
And I appreciate your good advice and your great questions.
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Lots of good advice today about the store and bumper stickers.
00:59:12.920
Good questions about notifications and subscriptions.
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And I should wrap up now because it's already 101.
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I'll have that Rob Ford video for tomorrow just for viewers who tune in again.
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Until tonight at 8 p.m., where my paywall shows up, and tomorrow again at 12 noon,
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on behalf of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, goodbye.