Ezra Levant's Battleground: May 17 2018
Episode Stats
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1 hour and 1 minute
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171.62051
Summary
Trump calls immigrants "animals." Is this a breaking news moment, or is it just another day in the news cycle? And why is it so common for celebrities to react to this kind of thing, and why do they do it so poorly?
Transcript
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I'm Ezra Levan, it's May 17th, and you're watching Battleground.
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What we do every day at 12 noon Eastern Time is we have what's called a YouTube Super Chat.
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It's live TV, plus you can write comments to me live on the side of your YouTube screen.
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Sometimes we have hundreds of comments over the course of the hour.
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If you want yours to stand out, there's a function that YouTube invented called Super Chat.
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You chip in a couple bucks, or I suppose as much as you want, five bucks, ten bucks.
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The other day someone chipped in 50, and it puts your comment in a bright highlighted color,
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and it appends it to the top of the comment box so I will not miss it.
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It's fun, and it's also a way to support our viewer-supported TV show.
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In addition to the Super Chat function on YouTube, we are also live streaming on Facebook,
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and pretty soon we'll add a live stream on Twitter, Periscope, too.
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So I think we're going to triple the amount of folks who are watching the show in different mediums,
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What we do, it's a little less produced here than my evening show Behind the Paywall.
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I have some video clips and some other websites that I've just found interesting.
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Maybe I tweeted them, something like that, and we show them, and I read your comments.
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I want to start with the news I think of the moment,
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and it's just so ephemeral because there's one of these every single day.
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He is the target of the majority of the fake news in the world,
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I mean, it's not huge, but sometimes the little things are telling.
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Let me start by showing you a CNN video, CNN, the most trusted name in news.
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I don't even think even they have the chutzpah to say that anymore.
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We have people coming into the country who are trying to come in.
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We're stopping a lot of them, but we're taking people out of the country.
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These are animals, and we're taking them out of the country
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at a level and at a rate that's never happened before,
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and because of the weak laws, they come in fast.
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You notice they didn't play the question beforehand,
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and they played Donald Trump using very tough language,
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I want to show you some of the celebrity tweets,
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and then I'll show you what CNN did not show you.
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I go to him for my deep thoughts on immigration.
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but also he has no idea what he's talking about.
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Him talking about laws is like a chimp talking about brain surgery.
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So calling someone a dehumanizing bigot monster chimp,
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that's cool, but calling someone animals isn't.
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Do we have any more of these celebrity reactions?
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because if there's someone who's an arbiter of good taste,
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How the F-U-C-K isn't this a breaking news story?
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The president of the United States calling immigrants animals.
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ICE is deporting people who've served multiple tours in the U.S. military,
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They're deporting people who love America more than Trump will ever pretend to.
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are not the most thoughtful people for a living.
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They read lines that other people write for them.
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you could say that an actor sort of lies for a living.
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Not lies, but pretends to be something he is not for a living.
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So when an actor actually shows himself to be vacuous,
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you can't be too mad because they're just an actor.
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The job is to read lines convincingly that someone else wrote.
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I don't think it's listed as a terrorist group,
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it's a great little ad and you know what that makes me really excited about the trip i was
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thinking 10 days is a long time away but first of all i remember how great the food is and and i mean
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i know it sounds funny but israel really is a foodie kind of place i mean it's the crossroads
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of three continents asia africa europe and you got all kinds of folks so you got your ashkenazi jews
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european tradition you got your arab jews called sephardim you've got ethiopian jews you got and
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it's not just jews you've got a million muslims there you've got a million russians who've come
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over the last 20 years so it's a hell of a place and of course we're going with smart tour guides
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bit of political i don't know if i mentioned this but we've actually got tickets to the israel air
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force academy's graduation air show that's a pretty hot ticket um i'm excited about that oh i see there's
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a super chat comment um from ccmmaac123 uh 35 bucks thank you very much says hi ezra proud producers
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club member here this is the first time i've been able to participate live i love the format of this
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live show your thoughts on kinder morgan will they stay well thanks very much for your generous
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super chat comment i do not think kinder morgan will stay i think uh they are not interested in
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drama and all we're getting from our drama teacher prime minister is drama and all we're getting from
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bill morneau is vague passive aggressive comments kinder morgan does not want to bail out they do not
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want a government investment partner would you want government investing in your project they just want
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to be able to build the pipeline with their own looking for an investor they're not looking for an
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insurer um and bill morneau yesterday was starting to telegraph that he's going to blame kinder morgan for
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driving a hard bargain they they don't want a bargain they just want the laws of canada to be
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implemented uh i am quite sure they're going to go because i do not think first of all that justin
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trudeau bill morneau catherine mckenna and jim carr are serious about keeping them uh they haven't
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lifted a finger to pave the way in bc uh trudeau and gerald butts their whole base is environmentalists
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in bc they're not going to call off their dogs um i'm just worried that this is not just going to be a
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loss of a 7.4 billion dollar construction project and all the oil and gas industries that are
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depending on the pipeline but it's going to basically be the final word on should you invest
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money in a big industrial project in canada and they killed northern gateway they killed energy east
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they're killing kinder morgan they've driven out pacific northwest lng it's about a hundred billion
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dollars all told between him and rachel notley so it's not just the loss of kinder morgan who on
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earth would invest here and i point out again the total essay the large french oil and gas company
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they pulled out of alberta and invested in iran they actually think that's a better risk adjusted
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rate of return uh so thanks for that super chat comment um let me check the time it's 12 43 i got to be
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careful i only have 17 minutes left and i have um a couple more video clips yesterday i mentioned rob
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ford and how he had a natural disdain for the media i mentioned his brother doug ford who's sort of one
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standard deviation more normal than rob god bless doug and may he rest in peace uh rob god bless rob and
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may he rest in peace i loved him and i loved him for his flaws because he was so very human and i think
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everyone thought he's human he's frail he's made a lot of mistakes but the way he is being crucified
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is i think the bullying of rob ford by the sneering snob media was half of his appeal because everyone
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projected and said they must feel the same way about me i mean the mockery in the globe and mail in the
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toronto star about him being fat well i mean i'm fat too i'm not quite as fat as rob ford was so the
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way they sneered at rob for being fat you don't think they think that way about you too the way
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they sneered at him for his foibles you don't think they feel that way about you too and so i think
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it was like a diamond the more pressure was put on him the the stronger he became in terms of his
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appeal for the public rob is gone doug is here doug is not as uh edgy as rob he doesn't have the same
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challenges that we know of he's not as ideologically strong either um i'm told that rob used to call
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doug the pinko in the family i don't know if that's true that's gossip but what i loved best about rob
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ford is he did not give the media any more respect than they deserve and they deserve very little
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and i mentioned to me probably the greatest media relations example i've ever seen in my life
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no donald trump had a better one when he was challenged on the word pocahontas in north dakota
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we'll have to play that clip tomorrow hannah remind me to get the pocahontas clip from trump but other
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than that what i'm about to show you is perhaps the finest example of how to handle a journalist
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i have ever seen so this is audio this is from a radio show on canada's state broadcaster called
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the cbc the interviewer is a marxist that's what she is named carol off and this was right after rob
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ford won the mayor's race in toronto and the cbc was his greatest antagonist he had enough respect that
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he agreed to the interview but not much more plate now i'm not sure what image we're going to show
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this is just from youtube it's the audio so there may be some stock images that whoever uploaded this
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threw on there so it's not the that's not the video that's important it's not the visuals that
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important it's the sound what you're about to hear now is an actual radio interview done by the
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state broadcaster to rob ford god blessed his soul take a listen people are saying that's a calling it
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stunning win what do you think that things are going really well what drew so much after juniors
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aren't even here eh all right all right hello mr ford are you there yeah yeah i'm here yeah oh are
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you at some event or i'm a coach i'm a football coach okay so you're at football practice then yes
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all right well okay we'll continue then what is it do you think drew so much support to your campaign
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no it's just people are sick and tired of the wasteful spending people are sick and tired of
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wasteful spending that's the that's the bottom line that's what it comes down to it well they
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know i'm the only one that could go down there you just go get you go out and get changed don't worry
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about the water right now sorry it went on how perfect is that go out and get changed don't worry
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about the water right now go out and get changed he was coaching high school football volunteer of course
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and and this big fancy pants muckety muck probably makes half a million bucks a year state broadcaster
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socialists cbc radio their flagship show calls them up yeah he'll he'll show them enough he'll take a
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call that's the great thing about rob for he'll take a call from anyone and i think his brother's the
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same way um you used to call rob ford about a pothole he'd call you back he'd call you back i know
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he called me back once um so he'll take a call from this socialist but he's not going to stop
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coaching these high school kids who's more important these high school kids that actually
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need a coach or some loser at the cbc some hack who hates him that was i mean you should you can find
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that pretty quick on youtube if you want the whole thing we only played about 30 seconds there but he did
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not stop coaching and and you know i bet you know i bet a lot of coaches volunteer coaches they get a
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call from their wife or something their kid their buddy while they're coaching they don't say okay
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team you all sit there and do nothing while i talk to this buddy of mine no you're coaching while you're
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on the phone that's a normal human being that was my favorite media moment of all time other than
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the pocahontas clip which i'll try and show you as well so yeah i just wanted to mention that because i
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sometimes we don't have our clips as fast who knows hannah if you can find the pocahontas clip
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uh we'll show it today but if not i'll find it and i'll show you once more let's check the time and
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take some comments it's 12 48 what we're doing every day we call it battleground i kibitz i randomly
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chat about things i have a list of clips and other websites that i try and go through uh show you some
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things from other parts of our show take comments super chat is a phrase that google uses for um
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comments that are put on bright colors as you can see cmac123 was generous of shipping 35 bucks that's why
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his comment is pinned to the top here's craig mcdonald for 13.99 thank you very much i'd rather give my
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donations to the rebel than to the ucp or the cpc since they refuse to treat the rebel as legitimate
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media don't they know we're the we're their only friends in the media that's craig mcdonald well you're right and
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i wouldn't even say we're their friends we're the only people giving them a fair shot uh we criticize
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them when it's appropriate but we don't criticize them in a malicious bad faith gotcha kind of way
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which the cbc and the mainstream media do and uh i continue to believe that it's important for the
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conservative parties of canada to have media to their right to pull them to the right when everyone
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else pulls them to the left if jason kenny andrew sheer uh were the most right-wing things in the
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country every single gravitational force would pull them to the left no one would pull them to
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the right surely you want as many to your right as to your left so you can walk straight you can
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walk a straight line to marginalize those on the right let me ask you this have you ever seen the
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liberal party marginalize a medium to their left no they love it it gives them cover i mean how many
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times have you heard a politician say i must be doing something right i got folks on my right and my
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left criticizing i'm on the right path i that's that's not a logical argument but it it has a
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certain effectiveness to say i'm actually moderate doug ford knew that when tanya granic allen ran
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uh in the leadership uh and then supported him she was to his right so he looked moderate when he
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threw her overboard why would you throw overboard your insulation your protection so thanks for chipping
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into us and by the way you never need to give money to these political parties you know how much
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money the federal conservatives got last year i think they raised what 18 million or 20 million
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bucks they get such and that's on top of the government subsidies they get and that's on top
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of the government budgets they have the conservative party of canada and the caucus and the mps and the
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leaders of the opposition they're probably burning up 50 million bucks a year from taxpayers
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so yeah if you're going to give them a hundred bucks they'll send you a little thank you note and
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you'll never get off their email and phone list but they don't need an extra hundred bucks
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whereas we don't get a dime from the government i wouldn't want a dime from the government we'd
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turn into carol off but yeah thank you for that i truly believe that if dollar for dollar bang for
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your buck don't give money to the conservative party and i'm not not against the conservative
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party i'm just saying a hundred bucks to them is nothing okay uh let's check the time it's 12 51
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we only have nine minutes left let's read some more uh quotes screw up says ezra i really like the
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format i wish youtube would let you flourish instead of doing their best to inhibit you yeah
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thanks very much i agree with you i think we have some buffering issues that may be on our end today
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we're going to look into that but yeah they're definitely screwing with our notifications and
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demonetizations they massively demonetized us about 16 months ago but we live on
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um john says rob could have cared less about the fake news media my hero you're exactly right
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and it was very uh it was very telling that all the people who talk about don't bully and mental
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health awareness and be kind be better uh when it was rob ford they brought out the daggers and the
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guy clearly had personal challenges they didn't care they went in for the kill they were literally
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paying the toronto star was literally paying a bounty five thousand dollars for anyone in rob ford's
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friends or acquaintances to tape him on cell phones surreptitiously at home in private residences
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off duty just to get embarrassing stuff oh he's drunk haha here's five thousand dollars they literally
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put a bounty on anything embarrassing these are the folks who had a front page story because during his
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diet he went into a kfc sorry is that news that is not news that's fat shaming now fat shaming and
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other kinds of shaming and explaining is a social justice warrior's bane unless it's rob ford then
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fire away we have one more question then we got a couple more videos they're going to try and jam in
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it's 1253 um black pigeon speaks has a great video on the two londons that's what fast heinz 039 says
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okay lorne southern the masculine version of lorne says cbc fake news oh they're totally fake news
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um entry required says ezra oil prices are low how viable is oil size development now i thought i
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remembered ninety dollars a barrel was a break-even point for oil sets well first first of all oil
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prices are not low um i haven't checked them lately but they're in the eighty to ninety dollar range
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right now that's u.s dollars so convert that to canadian that's over a hundred bucks the trouble is
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number one we can't get world prices for our oil because there's the bottleneck um at the pipeline so
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we're selling at a tremendous discount if you're interested google west texas intermediate w2i wti
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or north c brent these are various uh classifications or types of oil on the world market look at the
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prices for what for west texas intermediate i don't know i haven't checked it i'm gonna guess 80 85
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bucks compare that to what's called western canada select that's another way of saying oil sands oil
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western canada select probably 20 bucks a barrel cheaper u.s because we are forced to sell it at a
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discount because we only have pipelines to one customer and there's a glut of oil and a shortage
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of pipelines so that's one problem there are oil sands producers that can make money in the thirty
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dollar range but that's not going to work if you're being carbon taxed and production capped
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and income taxed and regulated to death yeah so that's the problem if you look um there are high
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cost jurisdictions around the world that are booming it's canada that's not uh and it's because of our
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policies 1254 we have time for one more video i want to play this save the christians video because
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we uh we played that before but now i'm pleased to say you can have a video on demand download right
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now for our first documentary called save the christians here's a little explanation of what
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In the Convention, the people said to us and where they come from,
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I was just looking at comments while that ad was running.
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If you haven't seen Save the Christians yet, I encourage you to do so.
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It's about the genocide—there's no other word for it—ethnic cleansing is maybe not
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the word—of Christians in Arab and Muslim lands.
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We visited Iraq, we saw Christian communities that are 1,400 years old, and they're being
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At 1256, I'm pleased to say our hardworking production team has found that clip I was
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Perhaps the only better media relations moment than Rob Ford doing a radio interview while
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barking out coaching orders to the kids was Donald Trump—I think he was in North Dakota,
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which is right near the Canadian border—there was actually a Canadian activist journalist
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And just setting up here a little bit for the clip.
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Elizabeth Warren, as you know, the Democrat senator from Massachusetts, I think, who faked
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her aboriginal identity—she said she was Indian—so she could get an affirmative action
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Sort of like Rachel Dolezal or Sean King—white kids pretending to be black so they could get
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So this woman not only lied and cheated and fraudulently got that position, but she denied
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I mean, if the idea is to promote aboriginal people, she stole that from them.
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She's a liar and it's so weird how she's digging in on a lie.
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But Donald Trump calls her Pocahontas because that's what he does.
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And some journalists said, that's offensive, that's offensive.
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And Donald Trump gave a master class of how to deal with a whiny leftist journalist
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who says you're saying—who scolds you for using words like, lock her up.
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And I think my team here has a video, so let's play the Pocahontas clip.
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Pocahontas—well, no, she's—look, look, she is—
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And when I tweet, you know, not that many people are watching her tweets.
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Look, she is a senator that's highly overrated.
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Yeah, he goes on for a bit, but did you catch the key part?
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Well, yeah, we know that you would say that, because you've already said that.
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And the worst you can do is keep on saying that, and we're just going to all laugh at
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But had he said what any other politician would do normally, which is, oh, I'm so sorry,
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well then that would have been a story, and he would have bent the knee, and then people
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could know that they could silence Donald Trump.
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There's one last Super Chat tweet I'll mention, and then we're out of time.
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Jennifer Breeden, the host of the documentary, will be going back to Iraq.
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We're also going to have her promote the movie In Churches.
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The generosity.com campaign is closed, I think.
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I want to make sure we know exactly what we're doing and who we're giving it to.
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Jennifer will have a role in that, because she goes back to Iraq from time to time.
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So I don't have more specific answers for you now.
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And I do know that Jennifer is going to go back.
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An hour goes by so quick I didn't even get to John Oliver on Venezuela or Roseanne talking about a show.
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But, you know, we'll probably have more tomorrow stuff tomorrow.
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Why don't you tune in tonight at 8 p.m. for my show?
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And either way, I'll see you back here tomorrow at 12 noon Eastern time.
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We're going to try and fix the buffering issue.
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We're going to try and plug in Periscope on Twitter, too.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, keep fighting for freedom.