Rebel News Podcast - How the Liberal media reacts to popular black man supporting Donald Trump

00:00:00.000 Tonight, is a popular, successful black man allowed to support Donald Trump?

00:00:05.240 I'll show you the liberal media's reaction.

00:00:07.780 It's October 12, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:15.880 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:19.680 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:23.440 You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.

00:00:26.400 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so. 0.95

00:00:36.960 In the United States, black voters vote Democrat.

00:00:40.600 A chart of U.S. presidential exit polls going back a generation shows it.

00:00:45.680 In 1980, even the great Ronald Reagan, so gentle and amiable and friendly, not a harsh edge to him,

00:00:52.460 he only got 11% of the black vote.

00:00:54.280 In 1984, a year when Reagan won a massive re-election, he won 49 states,

00:01:00.400 his share of the black vote actually fell to 9%.

00:01:03.660 Republicans never exceeded 12% of the black vote.

00:01:07.120 And in 2008, when Barack Obama ran, he got 95% of the black vote.

00:01:12.620 95%!

00:01:13.820 I mean, I guess I understand.

00:01:15.980 But look at 2016, when Trump was running against super-white Hillary. 0.58

00:01:20.780 Trump got just 8% of the black vote.

00:01:22.760 Now, blacks are about 12% of the U.S. population, so to lock up 90%-plus of that vote,

00:01:30.020 pretty much before a campaign even begins,

00:01:32.940 that's a strong electoral advantage when you're living in really a 50-50 America.

00:01:38.900 And black votes are not spread out evenly in places like Maine or Oregon.

00:01:43.460 They're concentrated in urban centers like Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit.

00:01:48.080 And that's a big reason why states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois are considered locks for the Democrats,

00:01:54.620 though Trump managed to squeak through in Pennsylvania and Michigan this time.

00:01:59.320 So what would happen, just to brainstorm, if the Republican vote amongst black Americans went up a bit,

00:02:06.360 say, to 20%, say to 30%, let's get crazy here, 40%, I mean, let's not get carried away,

00:02:16.400 but let's say it was no longer considered a sure thing to the Dems.

00:02:20.700 That could shave off a few percentage of the total vote. 0.75

00:02:24.640 And like I say, a lot of the states that are close, they just wouldn't be close anymore if they have a large black population 1.00

00:02:30.880 and you move 20% of that vote over.

00:02:33.500 Now, there have always been black conservatives, and I'm not even talking about 150 years ago

00:02:38.660 when it was the Republicans, the party of Lincoln who freed the slaves,

00:02:43.160 while the Democrats were the party of slavery in the KKK. 0.52

00:02:48.420 I'm talking about Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell, scholars, intellectual stars,

00:02:55.320 but not popular culture stars.

00:02:59.600 The stars, the leaders of the black community in recent years,

00:03:02.280 are often celebrities in the field of entertainment and sports.

00:03:07.400 Frankly, black conservatives can come across as that square cousin 1.00

00:03:11.400 in that old sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. 0.86

00:03:14.840 Nerdy, almost white in style and manner compared to the hip Will Smith,

00:03:20.140 who was so cool in that show.

00:03:21.760 I guess that's my point.

00:03:22.660 Democrats own the cool territory, don't they?

00:03:25.720 Whether it's Colin Kaepernick and the Black Lives Matter votes,

00:03:29.200 protests rather, or Jay-Z and Beyonce and other pop stars,

00:03:32.920 they were all for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

00:03:35.040 They locked up the cool vote.

00:03:37.780 Sorry, Clarence Thomas just isn't going to beat that in the popular culture.

00:03:40.600 Well, enter Kanye West.

00:03:44.060 He's a very successful music star, rapper, merchandiser, visionary.

00:03:50.520 He's a little bit like Elon Musk of Tesla, except for with music and words.

00:03:56.060 He's sort of far out, sort of open-minded, experimental.

00:04:00.600 You know, Elon Musk is a bit eccentric.

00:04:02.420 He's a disruptor.

00:04:03.640 He's a contrarian.

00:04:05.120 But Elon Musk is pretty harmless.

00:04:06.920 He's a geek underneath it all.

00:04:08.360 Kanye West, he's as big as it gets in what I think you could call urban culture,

00:04:14.720 from clothes to music.

00:04:16.780 And he happens to be married to a celebrity supermodel, Kim Kardashian.

00:04:20.860 Just in case you didn't know,

00:04:22.560 she actually has more followers on Twitter than Donald Trump himself.

00:04:25.940 Now, Kardashian recently visited the White House to plead for clemency for a black woman who was given an onerously long prison term for her nonviolent role in a drug offense many years ago.

00:04:39.780 Trump listened and carefully commuted her sentence, setting the woman free from prison.

00:04:46.300 Trump and Kardashian seemed to have a serious conversation about the serious issue of prison reform.

00:04:54.200 It was interesting.

00:04:56.420 And the fancy people hated it.

00:04:59.220 For a decade, they loved it.

00:05:01.720 When any and every celebrity would visit Obama and the White House.

00:05:05.420 But they didn't like it one bit when a celebrity visited Donald Trump, even though she actually achieved some real success for, in this case, a black woman.

00:05:16.300 That, by the way, obviously Obama himself didn't help.

00:05:19.740 Anyways, that's some background.

00:05:20.940 Kanye West has met with Donald Trump before.

00:05:24.920 Kanye has posted selfies of him self-wearing that recognizable Make America Great Again hat.

00:05:31.900 And that caused a big freak out on the left.

00:05:34.600 He went on Saturday Night Live just a couple weeks ago.

00:05:37.220 And when he started riffing on Trump, they cut him off and they booed him.

00:05:40.900 They would never do that to a Democrat ranting for Hillary, would they?

00:05:44.960 So Kanye's been going rogue a bit, and the left does not like it.

00:05:51.280 But would you look at that?

00:05:53.600 An opinion poll by Rasmussen, reputable pollster, published here in USA Today just last month, about six weeks ago,

00:06:02.060 showing that Donald Trump's approval amongst American blacks was 36%.

00:06:06.940 Are you sure that's not 3.6%?

00:06:09.000 No, 36%.

00:06:12.780 That is unbelievable.

00:06:15.540 For decades, 36% on Election Day would mean the destruction of the Democratic Party in several states.

00:06:24.660 And it's a sign that maybe some other blacks feel emboldened and feel that maybe it's okay to publicly identify,

00:06:32.920 if not as a Republican, at least for Trump, if not for the party of Lincoln,

00:06:38.760 that maybe some blacks think the last 50 years of urban leftist policy, welfare, crime, affirmative action,

00:06:45.940 hasn't actually worked for their community.

00:06:47.660 And maybe the president, this president, who's obsessed instead with job creation instead of virtue signaling and identity politics,

00:06:57.140 maybe this job creator is actually better for blacks than Democrats who take blacks for granted.

00:07:03.720 And so Kanye West went to the White House yesterday, the same way his wife did a few months ago.

00:07:08.100 And Trump invited in the cameras, and Kanye West rift in a free-flowing way, a stream-of-consciousness way,

00:07:16.100 sort of like Elon Musk smoking a joint, but a bit more fantastical even, a bit poetic,

00:07:23.060 something you might expect from a singer-rapper, I guess.

00:07:26.140 I will state the obvious.

00:07:28.100 It was unusual.

00:07:30.420 But everything about Trump is unusual.

00:07:32.000 It's unusual for a U.S. president to make peace with North Korea.

00:07:35.280 It's unusual for a president to pull out of the U.N.'s global warming scheme.

00:07:38.760 It's unusual for a president to riff and rant himself on Twitter.

00:07:42.400 So maybe the Kanye West meeting wasn't quite so unusual after all,

00:07:45.860 but I'd like to play some clips for it for you.

00:07:49.260 And you can make of it what you will.

00:07:50.980 You don't have to like this guy, but he's interesting to look at.

00:07:54.840 Here, take a look at this.

00:07:56.000 And we're going to have lunch.

00:07:56.980 We're going to talk.

00:07:58.260 You said, yes, you know I love you.

00:08:00.820 Did I?

00:08:02.120 I don't want to put you in that spot.

00:08:03.620 No, I'm standing in that spot.

00:08:05.880 I love this guy right here.

00:08:07.220 Let me give this guy a hug right here.

00:08:10.500 I love this guy right here.

00:08:12.160 That's really nice.

00:08:12.460 Yeah.

00:08:14.020 That's really nice.

00:08:15.380 And that's from the heart.

00:08:16.420 I didn't want to put you in that position.

00:08:18.960 But that's from the heart.

00:08:20.220 Special guy.

00:08:21.320 These two are special people.

00:08:23.760 Whether you like it, whether you don't like it,

00:08:26.120 they're special people.

00:08:27.960 And I appreciate it.

00:08:29.220 Jim, Kanye, I appreciate it.

00:08:30.780 So let's go have some lunch.

00:08:32.100 What message does that send to black Americans everywhere?

00:08:35.820 Now, I don't know.

00:08:36.440 I'm not a black American, but I can imagine it normalizes the possibility of liking,

00:08:42.100 maybe even loving Trump, which is a place Trump actually held in black pop culture until he ran

00:08:49.400 as a Republican.

00:08:50.340 Literally dozens of rap songs idolize Trump, name check him for his wealth and style and

00:08:57.140 beautiful women and audacious attitude. 1.00

00:08:59.660 Maybe Kanye is saying, hey, guys, it's OK to like Trump like you did before.

00:09:05.080 Kanye wasn't just poetic.

00:09:07.060 He had some substance.

00:09:08.840 Listen to this.

00:09:09.980 When talking about crime and guns, 0.82

00:09:14.460 there are issues that plague the black community.

00:09:16.480 Take a listen.

00:09:17.260 The problem is illegal guns.

00:09:19.640 Illegal guns is the problem.

00:09:21.500 Not legal guns.

00:09:23.280 We have the right to bear arms.

00:09:25.440 Is Kanye West a gun owner?

00:09:26.680 Is he a member of the NRA?

00:09:30.200 I wonder.

00:09:31.700 He had something nonpartisan to say, I think, talking about wishing a country's president

00:09:36.080 well, because that reflects on the whole country.

00:09:39.680 President's a symbol of the whole country.

00:09:41.060 Tell me what you think of this.

00:09:41.800 What do you think of this?

00:09:42.560 But you know what I don't like about it's not that I don't like what I what I need Saturday

00:09:47.040 night live to improve on and what I need the liberals to improve on is if he don't look

00:09:51.280 good, we don't look good.

00:09:53.620 This is our president.

00:09:55.360 He has to be the freshest, the flyest, the flyest planes, the best factories.

00:10:00.880 And we have to make our core be in power.

00:10:03.880 We have to bring jobs into America because our best export is entertainment and ideas.

00:10:10.160 But when we make everything in China and not in America, then we're cheating on our 0.94

00:10:14.140 country and we're putting people in positions to have to do illegal things to end up in

00:10:19.560 a cheapest factory ever, the prison system.

00:10:22.940 Now, this next part is very important, I think, and very personal and I would imagine

00:10:29.240 tough to talk about.

00:10:30.300 You know, a great many black families don't have a dad in the house.

00:10:34.020 Kids are raised by single moms. 1.00

00:10:35.720 Conservatives would argue that the welfare state has enabled that.

00:10:39.280 They've exacerbated that by, you know, provided for whatever reason.

00:10:44.120 But listen to what Kanye West says.

00:10:46.960 Trump means to him what a great America means to him.

00:10:50.940 Listen to this.

00:10:51.440 What do you think of this?

00:10:52.420 I think it's the bravery that helps you beat this game called life.

00:10:57.160 You know, they tried to scare me to not wear this hat.

00:11:00.060 My own friends.

00:11:01.240 But this hat, it gives me power in a way.

00:11:05.200 You know, my dad and my mom separated.

00:11:08.880 So I didn't have a lot of male energy in my home.

00:11:12.620 And also, I'm married to a family that, you know, not a lot of male energy going on.

00:11:20.160 It's beautiful, though.

00:11:21.980 Is that not true?

00:11:22.680 I mean, Donald Trump has successful kids who themselves seem to have successful kids, even though they're little.

00:11:28.440 I'm not saying that Donald Trump's the perfect husband.

00:11:30.600 But I think he did pretty well as a dad, all things considered.

00:11:34.200 Is it wrong for Kanye West to talk about masculinity and dads?

00:11:38.920 I mean, we certainly hear a lot about feminism and women. 1.00

00:11:42.540 My God, Trudeau doesn't shut up about it.

00:11:44.860 Listen to that part again.

00:11:46.880 Listen to this a bit.

00:11:47.820 You know, I love Hillary. 0.98

00:11:49.580 I love everyone, right?

00:11:50.980 But the campaign, I'm with her, just didn't make me feel as a guy that didn't get to see my dad all the time.

00:11:57.340 Like a guy that could play catch with his son.

00:12:01.340 It was something about when I put this hat on, it made me feel like Superman.

00:12:05.600 You made a Superman.

00:12:06.740 That's my favorite superhero.

00:12:08.640 And you made a Superman cape.

00:12:10.300 For me, also, as a guy that looks up to you, looks up to Ralph Lauren, looks up to American industry guys.

00:12:16.020 Non-political, no bullsh**, put the beep on it, however you want to do it, five seconds delay.

00:12:21.340 And just goes in and gets it done.

00:12:24.380 Isn't that true?

00:12:25.100 Look, if Hillary Clinton obsessed about her own gender for two years, is it not fair for some people to say,

00:12:32.200 well, yeah, that's not me.

00:12:33.200 You're not talking to me.

00:12:33.980 Is it not fair for people to say, you know, I'm a bit sick of that.

00:12:37.860 I really don't want to talk about gender all the time.

00:12:40.500 But if you make me do it, I guess I'm a man and I like manly things and Trump's pretty alpha male.

00:12:47.160 But this next line is what terrifies the black Democrats and the white Democrats who seek to control the black Democrats, 0.83

00:12:53.480 oh, like the Clintons do. 1.00

00:12:55.540 Take a listen.

00:12:56.280 So, and that's a move.

00:12:57.980 One of the moves that I love that liberals try to do,

00:13:01.220 the liberal will try to control a black person through the concept of racism

00:13:05.000 because they know that we are very proud, emotional people. 0.95

00:13:07.800 So when I said I like Trump to like someone that's liberal, they'll say, oh, but he's racist.

00:13:12.220 You think racism can control me?

00:13:15.240 Oh, that don't stop me.

00:13:16.120 That's an invisible wall.

00:13:18.520 Mr. West, what would you like to do?

00:13:19.860 You don't think you reject those who say he's racist.

00:13:22.600 You have one question.

00:13:23.500 We can go to another question.

00:13:24.760 Okay.

00:13:25.140 I answered your question.

00:13:26.280 I don't answer questions in simple sound bites.

00:13:29.000 You are tasting a fine wine.

00:13:31.000 It has multiple notes to it.

00:13:32.260 You better play 4D chess with me like it's Minority Report because it ain't that simple.

00:13:37.120 It's complex.

00:13:38.800 Isn't that the truth?

00:13:39.980 I don't know if you remember, but Barack Obama's Vice President, Joe Biden,

00:13:45.080 actually said, with a straight face, that Republicans would put black people back in chains. 0.88

00:13:54.960 And he said it with a fake black accent. 0.99

00:13:57.260 It was so transparent.

00:13:59.400 But he said it. 0.99

00:14:00.020 He said the Republicans would make black slaves again. 0.97

00:14:04.240 Look at this. 0.93

00:14:05.120 He's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules.

00:14:09.280 Unchained!

00:14:10.620 Wall Street.

00:14:13.960 They're going to put you all back in chains.

00:14:16.540 Now look, Kanye West is eccentric.

00:14:18.820 I grant you that.

00:14:19.660 You could call him erratic.

00:14:20.860 I grant you that.

00:14:21.620 I compare him to Elon Musk.

00:14:23.300 But look, he's interesting.

00:14:25.100 He's breaking the mold.

00:14:26.760 He's doing things he's being told not to do.

00:14:28.660 You could even maybe call him a rebel.

00:14:30.280 So watch the reaction of that.

00:14:32.800 Just watch.

00:14:34.960 Look at this.

00:14:35.680 Look at this.

00:14:36.580 Listen, I have no animosity for Kanye West.

00:14:42.980 I'm just going to be honest.

00:14:45.880 I may get in a lot of trouble for it.

00:14:47.220 I feel actually feel bad for him.

00:14:49.260 What I saw was a minstrel show today. 0.90

00:14:51.960 Him in front of all of these white people, mostly white people, embarrassing himself and 0.94

00:14:57.120 embarrassing Americans, but mostly African Americans, because every one of them is sitting 1.00

00:15:03.040 either at home or with their phones, watching this, cringing.

00:15:08.080 I couldn't even watch it.

00:15:09.860 I had to turn the television off because it was so hard to watch.

00:15:15.100 Him sitting there being used by the president of the United States, the president of the United

00:15:20.900 States, exploiting him and I don't mean this in a disparaging way, exploiting someone who

00:15:27.140 needs help, who needs to back away from the cameras, who needs to get off stage, who needs

00:15:33.500 to deal with his issues.

00:15:35.000 And if anyone around him cares about him, the family that he mentioned today or whomever,

00:15:41.400 his managers, maybe some other people who are in the music business who know him, they

00:15:45.860 need to grab him and snatch him up and get Kanye together because Kanye needs help.

00:15:51.240 And this has nothing to do with being liberal or conservative.

00:15:55.240 This is to do with honesty.

00:15:57.060 And we have to stop pretending, sitting here on these CNN panels or on whatever network

00:16:01.840 panels and pretending like this is normal and let's have this conversation about Kanye

00:16:06.180 West and what he's in.

00:16:07.260 A minstrel show?

00:16:09.700 We really don't know what a minstrel show is in Canada in 2018.

00:16:13.320 It's this. 0.54

00:16:13.760 It's white people doing a shtick, a vaudeville style show in blackface. 0.97

00:16:20.280 That's what CNN thinks of a conservative black man or just anyone who likes Trump, I guess. 0.98

00:16:26.100 Here, it gets crazier on CNN. 0.99

00:16:28.840 Kanye West is what happens when Negroes don't read. 1.00

00:16:30.860 And we have this now. 0.97

00:16:33.540 And now Donald Trump is going to use it and pervert it.

00:16:35.720 And he's going to have somebody who can stand with him and take pictures.

00:16:40.800 Just looking at Scott's face.

00:16:43.680 Could you imagine anyone saying that about a black person? 1.00

00:16:47.200 And basically, if you're black, you have to be a Democrat or else you're crazy or a stupid 1.00

00:16:52.460 N-word or just you're impossible. 1.00

00:16:55.260 You don't exist.

00:16:55.740 You're not real. 1.00

00:16:56.120 You're an abomination of some sort. 1.00

00:16:58.180 You know, people expect that if you're black, you have to be Democrat. 0.99

00:17:02.000 I have a I have conversations that basically said that welfare is the reason why a lot

00:17:08.420 of black people end up being Democrat.

00:17:10.060 They say, you know, first of all, it's a limit to amount of jobs.

00:17:14.400 So the fathers lose the jobs and they say, we'll give you more money for having more kids in 0.78

00:17:20.840 your home.

00:17:21.720 I hate this next reaction the most.

00:17:25.500 MSNBC shaming him for talking about his feelings about a father figure.

00:17:29.500 Well, OK, I'm doing this for everybody who's watching us who turned their volume down.

00:17:38.080 You can put it back up again.

00:17:39.680 That was bonkers.

00:17:39.980 But if you think you're going to get a thoughtful play-by-play and political analysis, you're not.

00:17:45.680 Because that was an assault on our White House.

00:17:47.940 You can't analyze some of that stuff that was said.

00:17:52.860 As we warned you at the top, there was a little bit of profanity.

00:17:55.880 There was actually more than you heard.

00:17:57.540 We were able to bleep some of it out.

00:18:00.040 But there was some of it did make it in there.

00:18:02.760 That was crazy.

00:18:03.900 That was bonkers.

00:18:04.800 I mean, the things that Kanye said.

00:18:07.380 Can I go with my favorite?

00:18:08.560 Yeah.

00:18:08.760 How he talked about he had a lack of male role models in his life growing up.

00:18:14.380 Not a lot of male energy in his house, he said.

00:18:15.860 The reason he was drawn to MAGA was because of the male power.

00:18:20.700 When he put that cap on, he felt like a guy who could play catch with his son.

00:18:25.080 Because he didn't have that opportunity, which was stunning.

00:18:28.160 And look at this guy, this next guy.

00:18:31.360 You probably don't know him.

00:18:32.260 He's so obscure.

00:18:33.620 Born in South Africa, mixed-race parents.

00:18:35.740 He now hosts a late-night show, low-rated, in the United States.

00:18:40.240 Trevor Noah is his name.

00:18:42.060 He came from South Africa, but he seeks to lecture American blacks about their experience

00:18:47.800 and about what they can or can't say. 0.98

00:18:50.620 As you probably know by now, there was a ranting lunatic in the Oval Office today. 0.70

00:18:55.960 And he had to sit there quietly as Kanye West did this. 0.80

00:19:00.500 At the White House today, a presidential sit-down like we've never seen before.

00:19:05.020 Kanye West met with President Trump in the Oval Office, and he had a lot to say.

00:19:09.400 I love Hillary. 0.98

00:19:10.500 I love everyone, right?

00:19:12.000 But the campaign I'm with her just didn't make me feel like a guy that didn't get to

00:19:17.060 see my dad all the time, like a guy that could play catch with his son.

00:19:22.280 It was something about when I put this hat on, it made me feel like Superman.

00:19:26.180 The iPlane 1 is a hydrogen-powered airplane, and this is what our president should be flying

00:19:33.700 in.

00:19:33.980 So there's theories that there's infinite amounts of universe, and there's alternate universe,

00:19:38.780 because time is a myth.

00:19:39.660 Would you build a trapdoor that if you mess up and you accidentally, something happens,

00:19:44.340 you fall and you end up next to the Unabomber? 0.86

00:19:46.980 All we really have is to get, over and over and over again, the eternal return, the hero's

00:19:52.020 journey.

00:19:52.660 And Trump is on his hero's journey right now. 0.99

00:19:55.480 And he might not have expected to have a crazy mother like Kanye West. 1.00

00:20:01.020 I'll tell you what, that was pretty impressive. 0.97

00:20:09.920 You know, Trump's mouth said, that was impressive, but you could see he was thinking, is it racist

00:20:15.820 if I call the cops?

00:20:17.060 Is that...

00:20:18.720 And I'm not a fan of this new Kanye West, but I will say I really enjoyed seeing Kanye

00:20:24.500 make Trump feel the way Trump makes us feel every single day.

00:20:28.160 Isn't it gross, though, that all the white-owned, white-dominated networks dispatch just their 0.96

00:20:33.500 African-American hosts, or mainly their African-American hosts, to destroy Kanye West? 0.96

00:20:38.340 Hey, who's the ventriloquist's dummy now?

00:20:42.320 Even our own Canadian state broadcaster, Trudeau's CBC, got into it. 0.96

00:20:45.780 They played more the insanity angle, since there really aren't any blacks who are allowed to 1.00

00:20:50.380 work in senior positions at Trudeau's CBC. 0.98

00:20:52.760 They didn't have blacks who could attack the rogue Republican black. 0.98

00:20:58.560 Here's a CBC newsreader from The Atlantic saying how much she cares about mental illness. 0.97

00:21:04.640 And hey, guys, don't stigmatize people who are a bit off balance. 0.95

00:21:08.220 Oh, but unless it's Trump-lover Kanye West, whom she not only diagnoses as mentally ill, 0.97

00:21:17.160 but she mocks because he supports Trump. 0.95

00:21:21.760 Less courageous critics in Canada merely said that the president abased and debased his office.

00:21:27.840 That's what Ali Velshi, the Canadian who's now down at MSNBC, said, didn't he?

00:21:31.780 Funny, I didn't hear that same concern for the dignity of the office when this lady, Glozell, 0.99

00:21:38.000 is her name.

00:21:39.200 She's a YouTube sensation, didn't you know?

00:21:41.820 She's famous for filling up a bathtub full of cereal and sitting in it and eating it, don't you know? 1.00

00:21:49.480 That dignified young lady was invited to interview Barack Obama. 0.67

00:21:54.420 That's not kooky, people.

00:21:57.280 But Kanye West talking about maybe supporting Republicans, that's crazy. 1.00

00:22:01.400 That's mentally ill, people. 0.99

00:22:03.520 Now, look, it is all a bit unusual and a bit tawdry. 0.99

00:22:06.880 These Democrats saying to a black man, a successful black man, a thinking black man, 0.95

00:22:11.780 you cannot be black if you're a Republican. 0.87

00:22:16.660 But let me end with the most thoughtful comment of the day. 0.87

00:22:18.920 It wasn't just Kanye in the Oval Office, though.

00:22:22.560 He got most of the ink and airtime because he's the biggest star.

00:22:25.740 But another star, or at least a star a generation ago in the NFL, was this man, Jim Brown.

00:22:30.620 I'm going to end with his comments after the White House visit.

00:22:34.780 He sat in silence while Kanye West riffed for the cameras.

00:22:38.520 But listen to this elegant, dignified man.

00:22:41.980 I'm going to run this for more than two minutes, but I loved listening to it.

00:22:45.160 What do you think of it?

00:22:46.800 Well, we had the opportunity to meet with the President of the United States,

00:22:52.360 which everybody doesn't have that privilege.

00:22:55.060 And with me, at 82 years old, the only thing I could talk about is how to help other people

00:23:04.140 and how to help our young people in this country, the violence,

00:23:09.800 and how to deal with life skills, education, which American program promotes,

00:23:15.280 which is a program I've been working with for 30 years.

00:23:17.580 So it was very positive.

00:23:19.920 So what did you, what recommendations did you give as a place to the Black community,

00:23:23.840 to the President of the United States?

00:23:26.140 Well, I'll tell you, I gave him my opinion of the overall community in this country.

00:23:35.300 I'm a Black man, of course, but my life has not always been around Black people.

00:23:40.800 I have some wonderful white people that have helped me as a child,

00:23:46.500 helped me as an adult, made up for the fact that I did not have a father.

00:23:51.600 So I express my desire to bring a plan along with his plan on how to help people.

00:24:03.780 People need jobs.

00:24:05.200 People need education.

00:24:07.260 People need to be attended to.

00:24:08.780 So that's what I'm talking about.

00:24:11.720 It's not controversial.

00:24:12.760 I'm sorry.

00:24:15.000 Well, you're a legendary football player.

00:24:18.020 Did you find any chance to deal with the issue of taking the knee?

00:24:22.140 Boy, I can be very blunt about taking a knee.

00:24:25.980 See, first of all, I'm an American.

00:24:29.580 That flag is my flag.

00:24:32.800 Things that I've overcome in this country allows to make me a better person.

00:24:36.300 I don't think that we should take knees in protest instead of standing up for our flag.

00:24:45.360 I think we should work out our problems as a family.

00:24:48.960 And that's what I would advocate to my children, to all the young people that I deal with.

00:24:55.360 I am an American.

00:24:57.400 That flag is my flag.

00:24:58.940 And I want to represent it that way.

00:25:01.960 What about what it was?

00:25:03.000 Did you make any specific policies to the president?

00:25:07.260 Well, you'd have to talk to Conway.

00:25:09.200 I mean, he's a beautiful human being, but I can't speak for anyone.

00:25:14.260 Were you shocked with what he said?

00:25:17.460 Two more questions.

00:25:18.720 Two more questions.

00:25:19.540 Huh?

00:25:19.800 Were you shocked by his monologue in there?

00:25:21.980 I don't get shocked.

00:25:23.820 Mr. Brown, what's your reaction from the football?

00:25:26.480 We're going to move along.

00:25:27.580 Thank you.

00:25:27.960 All right.

00:25:28.340 Last question.

00:25:29.160 Excuse me.

00:25:30.160 Last question.

00:25:30.960 Mr. Brown, what's been the reaction from members of the football community to your support for this administration?

00:25:35.980 The president?

00:25:37.920 Oh, really, I don't know.

00:25:42.840 I really don't.

00:25:43.940 I really, and I don't really care because this is the president of the United States.

00:25:53.620 He allowed me to be invited to his territory.

00:26:01.420 He treated us beautifully, and he shared some thoughts, and he will be open to talking when I get back to him.

00:26:14.120 That's the best he could do for me.

00:26:17.020 So I'm happy to say on that, it's been very successful.

00:26:21.120 I wanted to give you all my respect.

00:26:22.620 We've got to go.

00:26:23.400 Thank you.

00:26:24.500 Yeah, I like that.

00:26:26.140 And I think he's right.

00:26:27.800 And I think the Democrats are really worried.

00:26:30.600 And they're going mad.

00:26:32.580 They're doing crazy things to stop this.

00:26:34.540 Like, I think they're going to get worse.

00:26:36.040 I think they're going to manufacture accusations of racism the same way they just finished manufacturing accusation of rape against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

00:26:46.040 But look, bullying so far hasn't worked on Kanye West or Jim Brown.

00:26:51.620 This is going to be interesting to watch as we head into the U.S. midterms, won't it?

00:26:55.840 Stay with us for more.

00:26:56.800 Have you read the U.N. report this week, a warning about climate change requiring drastic action?

00:27:19.240 It was given to me.

00:27:20.520 It was given to me.

00:27:21.660 And I want to look at who drew it, you know, which group drew it.

00:27:25.340 Because I can give you reports that are fabulous and I can give you reports that aren't so good.

00:27:30.340 But I will be looking at it, absolutely.

00:27:33.020 Donald Trump asked by reporters about the new report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

00:27:39.880 He very wisely says, yes, he's received it, but he wants to know a little bit more about who wrote it.

00:27:46.860 Of course, Donald Trump has been a major skeptic of the theory of man-made global warming.

00:27:51.080 Even before he was president, it was something he would tweet about constantly, calling global warming a scam.

00:27:56.880 He would use that language and laughing at the fact that it was trying to be rebranded by the left as climate change.

00:28:04.360 Remember Donald Trump, when he pulled the United States out of the U.N. scheme for global warming,

00:28:09.120 he said this, and I thought it was very pithy.

00:28:12.080 Take a listen.

00:28:14.240 I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.

00:28:22.820 That's a reference to the U.N. convention in Paris, where the world got together and said they were going to reduce carbon.

00:28:30.040 Well, maybe not so much, but they were going to certainly scare us.

00:28:33.900 Joining us now to talk about Donald Trump's reaction to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

00:28:39.540 Here's our friend Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com.

00:28:42.860 Mark, great to see you again.

00:28:43.660 Thanks for joining us from the streets of Washington, D.C., not too far away from the White House.

00:28:48.660 Donald Trump a little less combative than he has been in the past about global warming,

00:28:53.280 but still having a healthy dose of skepticism that former presidents, both Republican and Democrat, never showed.

00:28:59.960 What President Trump did, and those reporters asking him, was just a phenomenal development here in Washington.

00:29:08.540 No previous president would have said what he did.

00:29:11.840 And I mean no even potential previous president.

00:29:14.380 No President Romney, no President McCain, no President Bush, no President Dole, no President Obama.

00:29:19.520 It was a profound statement.

00:29:22.220 And following up on that, the House Republicans all basically shrugged their shoulders and paid no attention to it.

00:29:29.120 This is making the climate activists and the media just get shriller and shriller.

00:29:33.800 The New York Times, the Washington Post, they're beside themselves that we have a president who just doesn't care.

00:29:39.720 And what Donald Trump said is scientifically accurate.

00:29:43.140 He can show you reports that show the Earth is fabulous.

00:29:45.220 What he means by that is that there's nothing unusual going on.

00:29:48.600 And it's not just reports that skeptics would gather.

00:29:51.620 We're talking about the peer-reviewed literature shows that sea level's not accelerating, that polar bears aren't in danger,

00:29:57.180 that there's no increase in extreme storms despite the most recent hurricanes, that global temperature is not unusual.

00:30:03.600 So Donald Trump is scientifically accurate, and he's politically accurate by just completely dismissing the U.N. and being skeptical.

00:30:10.100 And he has great reason to be skeptical.

00:30:12.460 One of the lead authors quoted was Barbara Streisand, funded by Barbara Streisand for a quarter million dollars.

00:30:17.820 Michael Oppenheimer, he's also an activist with the Environmental Defense Fund.

00:30:23.040 These are activist scientists.

00:30:24.600 The U.N. is in charge of the problem, and they're in charge of the solution.

00:30:28.480 So Donald Trump gets it, doesn't even spend a lot of time getting it.

00:30:31.720 He just dismisses it.

00:30:33.240 And this is making them get just pound their heads there in Washington once again.

00:30:37.440 Another great moment for President Donald Trump.

00:30:40.740 You know what?

00:30:41.380 You've really clarified it for me there, because the opposite of love is not hate.

00:30:46.660 The opposite of love is complete disinterest.

00:30:49.040 And so these passionate reporters who deeply believe in global warming, even the question, if you heard it by the reporter, oh, it's catastrophic.

00:30:58.160 Trump just sort of said, well, I got a report, and yeah, I could show you reports either way.

00:31:02.240 So it's not like he fought back ferociously, because then you would meet fire with fire, meet passion with passion.

00:31:08.420 He doesn't even care.

00:31:09.320 And I think not only is that the healthier, normal answer, but you're so right.

00:31:14.880 That infuriates the other side.

00:31:17.020 Trump doesn't even feel the drive to rebut it, because he's pulled America out of the global warming circuit.

00:31:22.420 And if these reporters have some hobby horse, well, he'd rather talk about jobs and drill baby drill and digging coal.

00:31:29.200 I love the fact that he actually doesn't care, because he's the president.

00:31:33.360 He doesn't need to care about what they care about.

00:31:34.980 Yeah, in fact, when the report came out, it was actually the day that he was doing the ceremonial swearing in of Brett Kavanaugh.

00:31:42.540 He had sworn to him the day before.

00:31:44.320 He actually, with the White House, was asked for an official comment, and they said, we have no comment today.

00:31:49.640 We're focusing on the Supreme Court.

00:31:51.640 And that was their official comment.

00:31:53.280 I mean, that was amazing.

00:31:54.600 You had this U.N. report coming out with all this bluster, all this just utter nonsense, tipping points,

00:32:00.580 and just boring nonsense about how we're all doomed and we have 10 years to act.

00:32:04.480 And they literally just didn't care.

00:32:06.400 So the media, since that time, they're now saying that anyone who voted for Donald Trump,

00:32:11.300 anyone who voted for the Florida governor, Rick Scott, any climate skeptic there,

00:32:15.860 is in deep trouble with Mother Nature, because they are now facing the wrath of Mother Nature.

00:32:24.680 And we have actual professors and scientists coming out and saying that they are going to,

00:32:32.200 that people, by voting for Republicans, that more hurricanes are going to come.

00:32:36.380 That's how bad it's going to get.

00:32:37.740 Yeah, that kind of anthropomorphism.

00:32:39.920 It's much closer to superstition than to any science I know.

00:32:46.180 You know, it's funny down there because you're in the United States and Donald Trump is so focused on jobs

00:32:52.660 and economic growth and the stock market.

00:32:55.220 I mean, he talks about it every single day.

00:32:58.420 I think it's, I don't think it's unfair to say Donald Trump is obsessed by jobs and economic growth.

00:33:03.740 I think he would take that as a compliment.

00:33:05.640 It's such a contrast, Mark, because up here in Canada, our environment minister is the opposite.

00:33:11.800 She's obsessed with this global warming report, and so is the Canadian media party.

00:33:18.240 They're doubling down on the carbon taxes.

00:33:21.020 We live in an alternate universe up here in Canada, but I suppose at the end of the day, it's sort of impotent.

00:33:27.640 One thing that caught my eye, Mark, is that Donald Trump just casually introduced a major new program

00:33:33.640 to clean up actual, real pollution in the oceans.

00:33:38.600 So not harmless, colorless, odorless carbon dioxide that, you know, you and I are exhaling,

00:33:44.600 but actually cleaning up junk in the sea.

00:33:47.000 Trump's all about cleaning up actual pollution.

00:33:49.400 He's not going to waste time talking about how many puffs of CO2 dance on the head of a pin.

00:33:54.320 Yes, in fact, right before President Trump famously met with Kanye West and the former

00:34:00.820 NFL great Jim Brown in the White House, he had, of all people, Democrat Senator Sheldon

00:34:06.620 Whitehouse at the signing ceremony for this cleaning up the ocean campaign that President

00:34:11.500 Trump had been championing.

00:34:13.140 And as you mentioned, this is a real environmental problem that government can actually do something

00:34:17.040 that's going to be putting sanctions and pressure on the governments, particularly in Asia,

00:34:21.080 that are responsible for most of the ocean pollution and plastics and all the issues that

00:34:25.680 we're having.

00:34:26.040 In other words, not using plastic in Starbucks is going to do nothing for the ocean, but actually

00:34:31.480 using U.S. international force to pressure these countries in Asia to clean up their act

00:34:36.780 is.

00:34:37.680 So you had Senator Whitehouse, the number one global warming alarmist in the Senate, praising

00:34:42.440 Donald Trump for an environmental issue.

00:34:44.760 It was an amazing sight to see yesterday.

00:34:46.600 You know, it's funny because, of course, and again, I just want to tell you our Canadian

00:34:50.660 story because it's such a contrast.

00:34:53.240 Our environment minister just did a TV interview where she brags that at her house, they don't

00:34:58.460 have plastic straws, they have metal straws, which, of course, need to be washed in detergent

00:35:03.600 unlike plastic straws.

00:35:04.700 So she's so boastful about banning straws and plastic straws and she's on this jihad against 1.00

00:35:10.240 straws.

00:35:11.240 But of the 10 worst polluting plastic dumping rivers in the world, eight are in Asia, two

00:35:18.660 are in Africa.

00:35:19.460 So the cabinet minister in Canada, who's virtue signaling about her metal straws, it's just 0.94

00:35:24.940 so laughable.

00:35:27.000 Trump's taken the fight to these actual polluters.

00:35:30.220 I can't, it's so funny that he's actually doing the real ocean cleanup, but she's the one

00:35:35.180 virtue signaling.

00:35:36.220 Have you been following our Canadian environment minister at all?

00:35:39.000 I'd love your thoughts on her if you have, or maybe she's just one of a thousand squawkers

00:35:44.040 that you tune out.

00:35:47.040 Well, I think, you know, this is when you mentioned virtue signaling, that's what everyone is into

00:35:50.920 on these issues.

00:35:51.800 I will give Senator Whitehouse credit, though, for actually saying and praising Donald Trump

00:35:57.080 and being there, shaking his hand, giving Donald Trump that photo op.

00:36:00.860 A lot of climate alarmists wouldn't do that.

00:36:03.540 And, you know, at least Selden Whitehouse was actually there and was able to swallow hard

00:36:08.380 because he obviously despises President Trump.

00:36:10.620 But most of when you're talking about these other environmental issues, it's all virtue

00:36:14.260 signaling.

00:36:14.800 This is what they're all into.

00:36:16.240 And the Canadian prime minister, the environmental minister that you're mentioning, you know,

00:36:20.680 I don't think she would have had, would have been willing to ever stand on a podium with

00:36:24.180 Donald Trump to actually do something about real reduction in environmental waste.

00:36:28.420 And I think this is where, in my book, I actually talk about that, where scientists lament the

00:36:33.180 fact that real environmental problems are going by the wayside because the environmental

00:36:37.220 movement has been hijacked by global warming concerns.

00:36:40.460 And Donald Trump, by the signing ceremony yesterday with Senator Whitehouse, the lead

00:36:44.680 global warming alarmist, is showing that America actually cares about real environmental

00:36:49.080 problems and we're doing something about it.

00:36:50.980 You know, that's such a wise point.

00:36:52.380 And other than this goofy new plastic straw obsession of our environment minister, I've

00:36:57.560 really never heard her talk about anything other than global warming.

00:37:00.220 And that's a shame because there are real environmental issues.

00:37:03.140 I mean, they're not top of mind for most Canadians.

00:37:05.320 We live in a beautiful, clean country.

00:37:07.500 But it's like 99% of what she talks about is global warming.

00:37:12.680 And I think most people tune it out.

00:37:14.760 And for those who don't tune it out, they probably think, well, wouldn't it be nice if we actually

00:37:17.920 had some real cleanup?

00:37:18.760 Very interesting times.

00:37:19.720 Let me ask you, is there any truth to our government's contention, Justin Trudeau, our

00:37:30.360 prime minister, and the same Catherine McKenna, our environment minister, that there are still

00:37:36.680 powerful pockets of global warming activism in the United States at the state and city level?

00:37:44.080 I know there's lots of virtue signaling, to use that phrase again, by the likes of the governor

00:37:48.180 of California.

00:37:49.160 But does that actually mean anything?

00:37:51.140 Or is that just press releases?

00:37:52.860 Do the states and the cities have power in America to actually do the same craziness as

00:37:57.880 Canada's contemplating?

00:37:58.820 They have a lot of power to do a lot of bad things that have nothing to do with climate

00:38:03.420 but hurt their people.

00:38:04.880 Yesterday, I did an interview on Fox News about this.

00:38:07.780 Nevada, they're actually having a ballot measure pushed by none other than Tom Steyer, the climate

00:38:13.460 billionaire activist, in the state of Nevada, where they're going to have, I think it's 50%

00:38:18.080 of their energy renewable by 2040.

00:38:20.420 And they want to alter the state's constitution in order to do that.

00:38:23.760 So you have the state of Nevada stepping up, allegedly because Donald Trump won't, and

00:38:28.540 they're going to be hindering and radically restructuring Nevada's energy supply, all in

00:38:33.360 the name of virtue signaling about global warming.

00:38:35.820 Same thing's happening in California.

00:38:37.740 Hawaii has passed similar ones, 100% renewable energy by X date.

00:38:42.460 And it means nothing in the next couple of years.

00:38:44.840 But these are real things that are on the books now that are going to start basically cutting

00:38:49.760 down energy that's proven work, fossil fuel-based energy, and start mandating energy that doesn't

00:38:54.460 work or it's not ready to take over, renewable, so-called renewable solar and wind.

00:38:59.060 So yes, in terms of what the economic damage they can do around states, they're doing it,

00:39:03.700 and it's increasing around all the 50 states where Democrats are in control.

00:39:09.180 Wow, that's bad news.

00:39:11.440 You know what?

00:39:11.960 We know from the example of Detroit, that was once the leading industrial city in America,

00:39:16.580 highest wage, it was a magnet for workers, and we now look at its devastation, is that

00:39:21.960 America really is a laboratory of 50 competing jurisdictions.

00:39:26.740 And just as Detroit can rise, it can fall.

00:39:30.020 Nevada is a state, I think a lot of Canadians love it because we're familiar with its vacation

00:39:34.220 destinations, including Las Vegas.

00:39:35.900 It has that style and brio and over-the-top energy.

00:39:39.280 Wouldn't it be a shame if Nevada was the next Detroit and some other state was the new 0.76

00:39:47.080 champion?

00:39:48.080 But that's the miracle of the United States of America, 50 little jurisdictions, each with

00:39:52.400 a lot of autonomy.

00:39:53.840 I wish sometimes we had that provincial autonomy in Canada, too.

00:39:57.620 Last word to you, Mark.

00:39:59.260 Do you think, other than this brief puff of empty rhetoric from the left, do you think this

00:40:04.800 latest U.N. global warming report will go anywhere?

00:40:08.280 They say we're all going to die in the year, you know, 12 years from now or whatever.

00:40:12.780 Does anyone even believe that anymore other than a few pundits?

00:40:16.980 No.

00:40:17.400 In fact, you know, Michael Mann, the former, you know, the U.N. scientist, came out and said

00:40:21.260 that Donald Trump is the greatest threat we face.

00:40:23.740 They're just trying, they get more and more shrill.

00:40:25.880 And as they do that, it's becoming more and more irrelevant.

00:40:28.140 The problem is, because this report is out, if the next election in the United States

00:40:33.840 goes to a Democrat, they will take up this report and they will use it.

00:40:37.560 Just like I mentioned, Nevada, California, Hawaii, they use these reports in order to

00:40:42.340 start state intervention into the economy, which is what the socialist left always want

00:40:47.280 to do.

00:40:47.500 They want to intervene.

00:40:48.540 They want to regulate and control and tax.

00:40:50.880 And they use these reports for that purpose.

00:40:53.040 So right now, it means nothing for the next couple of years in America as a whole.

00:40:58.160 But this could mean something in a few years if the White House shifts to another party.

00:41:03.100 Mark, we're really grateful to you for your information and your arguments, as always.

00:41:07.860 Thanks for joining us from the street.

00:41:09.200 I know you're actually holding the camera up as you're right.

00:41:12.320 You're actually very close to the White House, which I think is symbolic.

00:41:15.480 Appreciate you making the time for us.

00:41:16.760 The restaurant came over here and they took away my tripod stand at their table.

00:41:20.200 They didn't want me using it.

00:41:21.120 So, yeah, I'm holding it, hand-holding it.

00:41:22.840 Well, thank you for doing that.

00:41:24.060 Our viewers appreciate it.

00:41:25.340 And we look forward to talking to you again.

00:41:26.920 Thanks, my friend.

00:41:28.360 Thanks a lot, Ezra.

00:41:29.160 Appreciate it.

00:41:29.560 All right.

00:41:29.920 There you have it.

00:41:30.360 Mark Marano.

00:41:30.920 He's the boss of ClimateDepot.com.

00:41:34.160 Stay with us.

00:41:34.740 More ahead on the record.

00:41:46.460 Hey, welcome back.

00:41:47.320 What do you think of Kanye West?

00:41:49.640 I mean, I'm not a fan of everything he says or does. 0.99

00:41:52.400 I thought he was outrageous when he said, George W. Bush hates black people. 0.96

00:41:58.860 I don't know if you remember he said that back in Hurricane Katrina. 0.97

00:42:01.540 So I'm not saying everything he says is rational.

00:42:04.600 But he brainstorms in real time.

00:42:09.040 That's always odd, isn't it?

00:42:10.640 It's so risky just to try out ideas when you have millions of people parsing your every word.

00:42:17.200 He does that.

00:42:17.980 I think he does that because that's, in a way, what rap is.

00:42:20.720 You know, you don't sit down and write the perfect rap the first time through.

00:42:24.700 I think it's a work in progress.

00:42:26.440 You workshop it, as they'd say.

00:42:28.480 I think Kanye West is used to brainstorming and having a hundred ideas thrown at the wall and only one works.

00:42:35.080 It's interesting to watch.

00:42:36.400 It's interesting to watch.

00:42:37.240 If blacks can break out of the grip of the Democratic Party, not only do I think it will be better for their own communities,

00:42:45.240 because not only do I think Republicans actually are better for blacks,

00:42:48.560 but it'll make the Democrats actually pay attention to black community needs even more.

00:42:53.420 You know, it'll be competitive.

00:42:54.820 You'll have Republicans and Democrats both trying to woo black voters.

00:42:58.260 How's that not good?

00:42:59.200 You know, I'm a Jew and I'm a conservative, and for a long time that was a rarity in Canada, too.

00:43:05.900 I think the migration of the parties of the left to the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel side

00:43:10.700 has made more Jews in Canada wake up to the reality that the conservatives are the friends of the Jews, 0.78

00:43:16.380 both in terms of anti-Semitism and Israel.

00:43:19.880 In America, I think Jews still vote for the parties of the left,

00:43:22.840 but nothing like blacks vote for the Democrats. 0.61

00:43:26.300 Ninety-five percent?

00:43:27.380 That's almost impossible.

00:43:28.480 That's almost Saddam Hussein-type percentages. 0.71

00:43:32.100 He'd get 99 percent of the vote.

00:43:34.180 It's interesting.

00:43:35.140 I'm enjoying watching it, and who knows?

00:43:38.060 Maybe one day, maybe one day, Kim Kardashian might actually run and be the first female president of the United States. 1.00

00:43:46.180 Crazier things have happened.

00:43:47.840 That's our show for today.

00:43:48.840 Until Monday, on behalf of all of us here at the Rebel World Headquarters,

00:43:51.800 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:43:58.480 Yeah.

00:44:18.480 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - October 13, 2018

How the Liberal media reacts to popular black man supporting Donald Trump

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