It’s the anniversary of 9⧸11. Does anyone even remember it？
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On the anniversary of 9/11, Ezra Levant gives his thoughts on the events of that day, including a speech he gave at Ground Zero on September 11th, 2001. He also asks if we are better or worse than we were 19 years ago.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I give you my thoughts on 9-11, including a speech I gave nine years ago
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at Ground Zero at a 9-11 remembrance. I was glad to watch that again. And in many ways,
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I don't know if we're better than we were nine years ago or 19 years ago. I'm worried that we're
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worse. Before I let you hear that, let me invite you to see it as well. To do that, you just need
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Tonight, it's the anniversary of 9-11. Does anyone even remember it? It's September 11th,
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and this is the Ezra Levant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon
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consumer I know? There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have
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to say to the government of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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I can't believe it's been 19 years since that terrible day, September 11th, 2001. It was such
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a beautiful morning, so clear and crisp and sunny, and then murder on a horrific scale,
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and then murder again, and then again and again. A black swan, they called it, something people
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couldn't imagine before, so it was never contemplated. I mean, there had been airplanes
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hijacked before, for sure. It was the go-to terrorist move by Muslim extremists, but it was
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usually as a threat to get some prisoners released, or else they'd blow up the plane, or get a cash
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payment. Sometimes the planes were blown up, but using a full passenger plane as a massive weapon
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itself, well, that was new. Thousands of lives were lost that day, thousands more in the wars to come
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in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and then ripple wars, so many other places. America is almost completely
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out of the Middle East now. Has that much changed? Is Afghanistan free now? Is Iraq a blossoming
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democracy now? What came of all that blood and treasure spent in those countries, including
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Canadians in Afghanistan? Iraq is a plaything of Iran. Syria is run by Russia and Iran. Libya is a failed
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state with open air slave markets and millions of migrants, including hundreds, maybe thousands of
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terrorists amongst them, have just simply walked into Europe. Was it all worth it? I don't know.
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The West had to flatten the terrorist groups attacking us. Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS, other
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offshoots, Muslim Brotherhood. I'm not sure if a land war and occupation was the right prescription.
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Afghanistan is not like Italy or Greece, with histories and traditions and cultures of liberal
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democracy. Did we think there was some Thomas Jefferson or George Washington or Sir John A.
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McDonald just waiting in the wings? And to me, the craziest part is that while we sent so many young
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men and women over there to die, the theory being it's better to fight the bad guys over there than
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at home, well, we opened up the borders to mass immigration from those very same terrorist-infested
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countries. Now, of course, there are peaceful people fleeing from those places. I mentioned already the
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Christian minority in Iraq that has almost completely fled, but neither Canada nor America, and certainly
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not Europe, distinguish between the wolves and the lambs. It would be like taking millions of refugees
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from Germany in 1942. Okay, refugees, fine. Migrants, are you taking Jews and others fleeing the Holocaust
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where they would be victims? Or are you taking Nazis, too? Are you taking the wolves or are you taking the lambs?
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You might recall that I went to Germany a few years ago and I interviewed a Yazidi woman,
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a refugee from Iraq who was a rape slave to ISIS terrorists. She fled to Germany as a refugee,
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but so did her ISIS tormentors. In fact, once she was in Germany in an absorption center,
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she had to flee and go to a nunnery to get away from the terrorists in Germany who had come with her
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as refugees. This was common. I met another guy on the street, just on the street in Cologne, Germany,
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a Yazidi refugee. When I asked him a question, he said he didn't want to answer with other men around.
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They were Muslim. He actually was not. He was Yazidi. He wanted to move away from the Muslim men
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because if his friends knew he was a Yazidi, they would hurt him in Germany.
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There are Kurdish Yazidi. All Kurdish Yazidi. You're Yazidi. Yes.
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We can't directly say, we are Yazidi. It's very bad when we say, we are Yazidi.
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When an Islamist hears, they say, we are Yazidi. They say, we are kafir. We are very, very bad.
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So I don't think we built Afghanistan and Iraq into liberal democracies and I don't think we did a good job
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of keeping Islamic extremism out of our countries. In fact, in Canada at least, the Muslim population
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has tripled through immigration since 9-11. But if that were liberal, progressive, democratic Muslims
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who want to live with the separation of mosque and state, well, that could be a good thing,
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a good building block for Canada. But we simply didn't and don't distinguish between moderate
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Muslims and Islamists. We don't even ask. In fact, most immigrants to Canada don't even have an
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in-person interview. So we didn't lift up the drawbridge. That battle I showed you in Germany,
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it's here in Canada too. Former rape slaves, refugees to Canada have encountered
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their ISIS rapists on the bus here in Canada. So I don't think we're safer, certainly not from our
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open borders immigration, neither from the fetishization of Islamophobia, which has turned
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one religion and one religion only, exempt from scrutiny or criticism. When I published the Danish
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cartoons of Mohammed back in 2006, most media, even the CBC, supported my freedom to do it. Today,
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most media would not only oppose it, they wouldn't feel the need to debate it, they would just simply
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call for my arrest. Ironically, it has been Trump who has brought the first twinkle of peace to the
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Middle East, not through wars, and not through pressuring Israel into making ridiculous concessions
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to terrorist groups who surely have no interest in keeping a peace deal, but making a real peace deal,
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peace for peace, starting with the most moderate Arab countries, the UAE last month, and now Bahrain
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just today. Real peace deals, not giving terrorist groups a veto. No wonder the media is so silent on
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it. It is a Trump success and a repudiation of the peace process over the past 50 years.
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I see the generals are all out to get Trump, claiming he hates the troops. I think it's pretty
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clear he doesn't. But the troops and the generals aren't the same thing. It's like police versus police
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brass. You know, rank and file versus the bosses. The generals love wars. Trump hasn't given them any.
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First president in decades to do that. Trump's bringing home troops. Maybe that's not good for
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the arms business, although Trump has built up the military again. But back to 9-11. I think we've
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already forgotten its lessons. We've forgotten the day. We've forgotten the price we paid for freedoms.
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We see that again as we so easily give up our freedom because of a pandemic panic. Giving up freedoms
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that we wouldn't if some foreign tyrant demanded we do so. But we're happy to give up all freedoms because
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some domestic politician says it's for our health or for the children or whatever.
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You know, I was invited to give a speech at Ground Zero nine years ago.
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I found a video of it. Pamela Geller had invited me. It's a big rally right there.
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Lower Manhattan. Here, take a look at this video. I was younger then, obviously. My message still
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stands. What do you think of this? Thank you, Pamela. Hello. It's an honor to be in New York,
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standing in solidarity with this city and its resilient and courageous people. I'm a Canadian,
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so permit me to explain why I'm here. 9-11 was an attack on New York and other American places,
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but among the murder victims that day were 24 Canadians. But the real target of the terrorists
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was the culture of freedom that America symbolizes and America's leading role in the world.
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That culture of freedom is shared and loved by people in every country and is a lighthouse of hope
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to millions living in the darkness of tyranny. The terrorists wanted to extinguish that light,
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and they still do. So Canadians stand with you, not merely because we're friends and neighbors,
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but because when you were attacked for your love of freedom, so were we. We're an independent country,
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but we thank you and love you for being the world's lighthouse.
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I observed this morning's official ceremonies at Ground Zero, and in many ways,
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it was beautiful and appropriate. The fountains at the plaza are visually powerful, and the
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rebuilding of the towers finally is a sign of hope. Reading the names of the murder victims was touching,
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and a powerful moment for their families and friends, I'm sure. But it's not enough
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merely to remember the dead and to grieve. We must remember why these men and women were killed,
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why it was so profoundly evil that they were, why we cannot let this stand, and what we're going to do
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about it. The central characteristic of 9-11 was not the loss of life. It was that the loss of life
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was the result of a human purpose. It was not a tragic accident or a natural disaster, nor was it just a crime.
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It was a horrendous act of terror motivated by evil ideas. Peaceful fountains and a list of names
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is not enough for the victims of a global terrorist war against freedom. It belittles their sacrifice merely
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to note their passing. We must remember why it happened, and remembering why compels us to keep
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fighting the war in which 9-11 was just one battle. Ten years later, that war is still not one. Our work
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is still not done. The world is not safe enough yet. Al-Qaeda itself may be weakened, but the forces of
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Islamic terrorism are on the march. From Iran to Egypt and in attacks that continue against freedom-loving
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people from London to Madrid to Bali to Mumbai to Jerusalem. Instead of calling for victory,
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for a war for victory, though, today's official memorial aimed for a tone of closure. New York's
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mayor has said that we should no longer even say the words ground zero because that's in the past.
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The great heroes of 9-11, the police and firemen, were not allowed to participate today.
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They are symbols of courage and vigilance and strength, but they were pushed aside.
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No clergy were permitted either. Perhaps they talked too much about good and evil.
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The dead must be buried and we must grieve, and that has happened. But erasing from the public narrative any
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trace of the war on terror would be like holding memorial at Pearl Harbor just one year later in
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December of 1942 and remembering the dead and their families, but not talking about the infamous
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attack, not calling for courage in the fight ahead, and not promising that the dead will be avenged and
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that freedom and peace will be won on our terms and not naming imperial Japan. It just doesn't make sense.
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I'm not here to talk about partisan politics. The instinct to avert one's eyes from evil is a universal human
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condition. It's not a republican or a democratic thing. Ten years of vigilance and war is tiring,
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but the fight is not done. It is a fight. It can't be compromised. Free people can't split the difference
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with al-Qaeda or the Taliban. You can't triangulate this. We've got to fight until we win, and that fight
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will have costs, and sometimes that cost will be high. The policemen or firemen who rushed into the
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burning towers knew that. Without a second thought, they were willing to sacrifice to save their fellow
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Americans. Thank God to this day, millions of Americans continue to fight with marvelous courage
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and ingenuity to defeat al-Qaeda and the Taliban and their other terrorist allies, either in the armed
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forces or in security and intelligence services, and even in the diplomatic corps. I'm proud to tell
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you that Canada has been a key ally in that fight, punching above our weight in Afghanistan and being
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a clear voice against terrorism and its excusers in the United Nations. But there are other ways that we
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must fight too, not just to honor the memory of those murdered on 9-11, but to protect ourselves
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and our families and communities and our freedom that's under attack. And the first way for those
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of us not in uniform to fight back is to fight for control over the language, including the language of
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9-11. Today, in each anniversary, ought to be not a day of service and volunteerism. Those are noble things,
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but that's not what 9-11 is about. So we must make sure it is a day of proper and accurate memory.
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And that memory compels us to take action until we win, until 9-11 becomes a day to mark the beginning
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of our successful counterattack that started on Flight United 93, when freedom went, reluctantly as it
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always does, to war. And in that case, to a victory. We're not done yet. We haven't won yet. The other
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side knows that, and we ought to as well. Unlike many New Yorkers, I don't know anyone who was killed on
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9-11. But just as much as you, I have an obligation to those who were killed not to walk away from the
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fight for freedom, not to get tired or just numb. I'm not a soldier, and most of you aren't either. But
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we can fight in the battle of ideas. That's our front line. Let's today promise each other we will not
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forget why these 3,000 souls were murdered. And we will not rest until their lives and the freedom they
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died for are avenged. Thank you, and God protect America and her allies.
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I was very sad that day. I remember how hard it was to read that speech without tearing up.
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I don't think it actually showed, but in my mind, I remember that day, and I thought I was actually
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crying a bit in my speech. That's how I remember it in my mind, at least. Today, I sent out our young
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reporter, Andrew Chapados, to the streets of Toronto to ask people, do they even know what 9-11 is?
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We're just asking people if they know what today is.
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Friday. And any significance to the date at all?
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Today, special day today? It's Friday. It's Friday?
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No significance to the day today? Oh, I'm a Muslim, so you know, it's Juma, Juma prayer,
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Friday prayer today. What day it is today? Today's Friday.
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Any significance to the date of today? 9-11? Yes, sir.
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It's Friday. Any significance to the date today?
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The 11th? The 11th. See, it's corona, man. It's been Saturday all summer, man,
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Do they know the significance of today? Significance of today? The coronavirus has gone up.
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The coronavirus is going up? Yeah. Today they are over 200.
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No significance to the date at all? Not that I know of.
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Do you know what the date is today? Yes, the 11th of September.
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No significance? Okay, you're going to want to look that up.
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Okay, thank you. Have a good day. Significance?
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Okay, nothing about it? Nothing special about it? No.
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All right. Remember what happened that day? Remember what year it was?
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2011. Yeah, I remember. The World Trade Center, the ground zero, all that stuff.
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Terrible thing happened. We're just asking people if they know the significance of today?
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19 years ago. Yes, sir. What do we think about it? Where were we?
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Who were the good guys? Who were the bad guys? No comment on that.
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Who do we think was the perpetrators? Who were the good guys? Who were the bad guys?
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You want to give your opinion on that? No, I don't want to give my opinion on that.
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I mean, there's a lot of difference. There's a lot of conspiracy theories that come with it.
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I personally believe it was like an inside job. I don't think it was like a terrorist action, but
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who knows? You know, I don't know. It's a mixed bag, isn't it?
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It's the 19th anniversary of the day. Generation Z grew up without even a memory at the moment.
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I fear that they have not been taught that day's meaning or the importance of believing in freedom
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and fighting for it. They're even afraid to say who the bad guys are. They're afraid to say that our
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enemies are real and they hate us and that our enemies are at war with us, even if we don't
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admit they're our enemies, even if we convince ourselves that our enemies love us and that
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maybe we should love them too. I think things are worse now on average. This isn't about Trump,
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but I fear that without him, we'll make many more mistakes again and worse.
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Welcome back. Well, you may not know this and our next guest may not know this,
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but he is responsible in some ways for the success of Rebel News because when I was at Sun News Network,
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I watched Felham McAleer, our next guest, and his wife, Ann McElhenney, crowdfund an entire
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Hollywood quality $2 million production for a movie called God's Nail, the untold story of America's most
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prolific serial killer. I had seen Felham and Ann make the great movie Frack Nation through crowdfunding,
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but to see that an independent conservative leaning filmmaker could ignore the establishment and
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raise $2 million online to make such a high quality production, I didn't think it was possible,
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but that was the role model, the template upon which Rebel News was born. Crowdfunding based on
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passionate supporters ignoring the establishment. I don't think he knows that, but through his
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inspiration, Felham McAleer helped give birth to Rebel News in a way. Well, Felham has another great
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initiative about, and we always like to talk about them, and we always like to encourage our Canadian
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viewers to support them. This one is very timely, and I'll let Felham himself tell us about it. It's
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called Obamagate the movie, and he joins us now via Skype from Hollywood. Felham, great to see you again.
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You really are a role model for independent journalists like ourselves. Tell us about your next project.
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Well, yeah. Well, thank you for those kind words, Ezra. I mean, the rebel media has really... I'm
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constantly amazed at your journalism. It's wonderful, and I'm glad that I paid a small part in it. So our
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project is the Obamagate movie. So as you know, we did FBI Lovebirds, which was a verbatim play about
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the text messages of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the FBI Lovebirds, who were plotting to destroy the
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Trump candidacy and the Trump presidency. Well, it's since emerged that so was everyone else.
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So was James Comey. So was James Brennan. And they were going to destroy it by any means necessary,
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by prosecuting Flynn, by producing fake warrants, fake information, fraudulent information,
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to investigate the Trump campaign team. And this is all there in the documents. And some of the,
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it's so pompous and so illegal, it is almost funny. And it is funny. And when you've got these great
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actors reading the, you know, acting out what was going on behind closed doors, it's a tragic comedy.
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Huh. Now, you've really popularized what you call verbatim theater. I know you've done that,
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if I'm not mistaken, with the Trayvon controversy, people just reading court testimony. And I remember
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in one case, the actors themselves rebelled because they couldn't even believe the facts that they were
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reading. But when you read primary documents, there's no, he said, she said, that's not how it
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was. You are reading the historical record. The fact that your verbatim theater is so successful
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tells me that the world has been lied to by the mainstream media, since it should not be shocking
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to read the text messages between these FBI lovebirds. It should not be shocking to read the
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memos by James Comey and James Brennan, but it is simply because we haven't been shown it by the
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mainstream media. Is that, is that right? Yeah. Yeah. I always say, thank God,
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the mainstream media is so biased and so bad because I would be out of work. I mean,
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I'm looking forward to the day I'm out of work. I'm back where I was in a newsroom writing stories,
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but they will not cover the truth. I mean, nine of the actors, it was, it was the Ferguson shooting.
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So I took the grand jury testimony from Ferguson and, and, and had actors reenact what the witness
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said. Nine of the actors walked out. In some ways it's not their fault. They were told a lie
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and the truth hit them. They couldn't handle it. And this is what's wrong. This is, this is,
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the truth is shocking. When you see, and I, Peter Strzok has a new book out now,
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the FBI lovebird, Peter Strzok. And in it, you know, every time it's, it's reviewed favorably,
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they talk about his anti-Trump texts. These are not anti-Trump texts. These are not
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Trump orange man bad. These are plans and conspiracies by the upper echelons of the FBI
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to under investigate and undermine the Trump candidacy and the Trump presidency on fake
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dossiers and on fake information to get FISA warrants. The warrants that are supposed to be so
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hard to get. They just simply made it up because they didn't want Trump to be elected.
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They're anti-democratic. And this is what annoys people so much. This is what, and you should,
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I mean, when we did FBI lovebirds in DC, you should have seen the response of the audience.
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They, they were, they couldn't believe the truth was there in front of them and they loved it. They
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added up. Well, I'm very excited about this. Dean Cain. I first watched him when he was
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playing Superman. That was years ago. Um, he's an A-list actor. I'm very impressed with the actors
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you've been able to put together because it's hard to have anything close to pro-Trump,
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let alone, I mean, even just being fair to Trump gets you blacklisted in Hollywood,
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let alone doing anything supportive of him between you, Mel Gibson and Clint Eastwood. I think I've
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just named the three working directors in Hollywood that aren't Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden campaign
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staffers. It's got to be tough for a guy like Dean Cain to hang out with you and hang out with a
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project like this. Well, Dean, Dean's a very special person and, uh, he, you know, he, he loves playing
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Peter Strzok and he loves telling the truth. And, uh, you know, actually we just released a video of
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Dean explaining why he, why he's taking part in this and you can see it at obamagatemovie.com,
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but you know, he, he, he just feels it's important. Uh, and we have, I mean, some people may remember
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John, uh, Jeff Colby, the character, Jeff Colby from dynasty, um, back in the eighties. Uh, he's,
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he's going to play James Comey, uh, at his most pretentious and pompous best. And, uh, you know,
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it's great that there are courageous actors there. Of course there are cowardly actors too. Nine of them
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walked out during Ferguson. And when we had Ferguson on in New York, one of them decided to give a speech
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from the stage. I mean, these are, these are misled people are bad people. Uh, there are some great
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people as well, but it's important that this truth gets out there. It's, and you know, mainstream,
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so the mainstream media there, Peter Strzok has a book out spending millions, uh, marketing it.
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The Comey rule, a Showtime mini series is coming out at the end of September. They spent 40 million
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making it for zero and they're spending another 40 million, uh, marketing it. And you know, we're
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going to make this movie for 150,000. Uh, we're going to do it. We're going to do it Hamilton style.
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Hamilton, you know, they, uh, they performed Hamilton over a day, a couple of days and filmed
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different versions of it and released it. And it's going to be a stage, uh, you know, a stage,
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a film play, but it's going to be closeups with action and that. So it's going to be a hybrid of
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the two. It's going to be very entertaining way of getting the truth out. And don't forget,
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it's all verbatim. That's very exciting. You know, when you, I have seen, uh, trailers,
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promotional videos for this movie, um, or the mini series, the Comey rule, it's beautifully done,
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extremely high production values, 40 million to make it 40 million to produce it. That's the
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kind of budget you'd expect for a 007 movie, uh, you know, for a Harry Potter movie. Um,
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the fact that they're spending it on political propaganda in the weeks before, uh, us presidential
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election tells you all you need to know. So there's that. And then there's the, you know,
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the Netflix deal with the Obamas, the entire Hollywood media establishment. We're not even
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talking millions anymore. We're into the billions being thrown against Trump. And there you are.
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Let's talk about how you're going to get your dough. I mean, Dean Cain, I'm sure he's not charging
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his full rate, but he's got to be paid and the technical staff have to be paid and they have to edit the
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thing. How much money are you looking to crowdfund to go up against the $80 million HBO propaganda?
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How much money are you looking for? Well, we're looking for 150,000, which is a lot less. And,
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uh, you know, it's been great. Not million. Yes. Yes. You know, if we were talking about Obama
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or, uh, you know, um, Megan Markle, we'd be in millions, but it's $155,000. That sounds doable.
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You're crowdfunding that at, let me just make sure I got this right. Obamagatemovie.com.
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Yeah. And I mean, we only announced it yesterday and we're already 18% funded.
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Oh, wow. So, yeah, you know, so there is a hunger out there for the truth. But as you say,
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if you were, uh, Harry and Megan promising to produce woke material or the Obamas, I mean,
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the Obama's got something like, uh, you know, 112,000 from 112 million from Spotify and
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for their podcasts and, and so much from the, for their, for their, uh, documentaries
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that are propaganda. I mean, this is the thing, uh, liberals spend billions every year producing
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propaganda. Conservatives spend 500 million every year, every four years in election ads and thinking,
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think they're winning, you know, it's not a fair match. They, they, they are competing every day.
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And, you know, I've got my, you know, but I need this 150,000 to try and level the playing field.
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And by the way, the truth is much more compelling than their fiction.
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Yeah. You know, um, the late Andrew Breitbart, who really started dissident journalism more than a
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decade ago, he always said politics is downstream from culture. And I think one of the meanings of that
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is you can't lose the battle every single night on Netflix, HBO showcase, crave, whatever the
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channels are, YouTube, and then expect to win it in, you know, a few months right before an election.
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Culture has shaped people's minds on these issues for four years, Saturday night live. I mean,
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I don't think they do a good job, but every, every Saturday for four years, they've been beating up
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Trump. That's the culture. You can't beat that with a quick campaign ad. Movies, plays, documentaries,
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the work you do Felham is part of the fight back. We have helped before we promoted. I remember the
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Gosnell film, your film Frack Nation was a real inspiration to me too. I would like to, I mean,
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we're Canadian. So, you know, we're not Canadians don't make donations to presidential campaigns,
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but Canadians can help produce a movie that counters the propaganda. And I know we ask our
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people to crowdfund a lot, but I would like to encourage our Canadians to go to ObamagateMovie.com,
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not just for that movie, but for Felham McAleer and Anne McElhinney, who I say again,
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you can count on one hand's fingers, the number of people in Hollywood on our side. And I can only
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imagine the peer pressure and the shunning and the cancel culture and the deep platforming. I mean,
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we heard that nine of the actors in their Ferguson play just simply mutinied. So just out of moral
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support for Felham and Anne, I'm going to go, as soon as I'm out of the studio here, I'm going to go to
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my laptop and make a personal donation, Felham. I wish you good luck. Thank you. When's the movie coming
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out and it's on YouTube? Is that what you're doing? Yeah, we're going to release it free on YouTube
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so everyone can see it. It's going to come out at around the same time as the Comey rule. The
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Comey rule is coming out the 27th and 28th of September. By the way, I've seen it. It's awful,
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but it's propaganda. And it's coming out at the end of the month and our film is going to be coming
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out at the end of the month too. We're going to ride on the same advertising, try and piggyback on
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their publicity. Well, that's great. I tell you, Felham, if we had 10 Felhams,
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we could really turn things around. We have one and that's still pretty great.
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Well, thank you, Ezra. You know, I'm a great admirer of everything Rebel News does. You've
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had more reporters arrested than I've had hot dinners and that's a good thing.
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Well, these days, these days, that is a feather in our cap. I wouldn't have said so five years ago,
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but these days. All right, Felham, we'll let you go. You got a lot of work going on. You're
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producing stuff all the time. I'm going to go and I'm going to make a personal donation
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this very moment. Thanks, Ezra. I really appreciate it.
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All right. Take care, my friends. Once again, that's obamagatemovie.com.
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I know we asked you to support a lot of things in Canada, but would you agree with me that supporting
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Felham and Ann in their Hollywood campaigns for the truth is very important? Stay with us. More ahead.
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Hey, welcome back. On my monologue last night, Robert writes,
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Trudeau is openly flaunting his dictatorship to the Canadian citizens as he feels he is invincible.
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I stopped being a proud Canadian the day that Justin Trudeau took power. I don't think that's
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the right approach. Canada is bigger than just who the prime minister is. I don't think you should be
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unproud of Canada because you despise Justin Trudeau. I just think that's the wrong stance.
00:32:44.980
Bruce writes, the whole pack of Libranos are more crooked than a strand of DNA.
1.00
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And like the crime bosses, they act like they want competition like True North and Rebel News
00:32:54.660
eliminated. Oh, I think so. And I think it's smarter for them to do it through deals with Facebook,
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YouTube, Google, Twitter than through prosecutions. On the UK's rule of six, HKM writes,
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so what do they do if you've got six kids? Three kids get kicked to the curb. Oh,
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it doesn't even, if you have six kids, you're not even allowed to meet your grandparents.
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You're just not even allowed to, because that's what science says. It's ridiculous.
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Well, that's the show for you today. What a busy week it's been. I can tell you in advance,
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next week is going to be just as busy. I know a few stories we're going to break,
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we're working on over the weekend. Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World
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headquarters to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.