Rebel News Podcast - Jason Kenney wants to strengthen campus free speech — and a newspaper comes out against it

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. I got a story for you about free speech. I know that's no surprise.

00:00:03.740 But today, the enemy of free speech is a columnist for the Edmonton Journal.

00:00:07.180 Now, you might think that's no surprise. Well, the Edmonton Journal, back in 1938,

00:00:11.080 won a special Pulitzer Prize for standing up for free speech,

00:00:14.660 actually against the government of the day, which was bringing in their own fake news law.

00:00:18.880 Now, the crazy thing is, it's 2019, and the Edmonton Journal has switched sides.

00:00:23.900 Anyways, I go through it in some detail.

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00:00:53.220 Tonight, Jason Kenney says he wants to strengthen freedom of speech on universities,

00:00:58.320 and he won't believe who comes out guns blazing against that.

00:01:02.060 It's May 6th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:06.560 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:10.300 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:13.940 The only thing I have to say to the government of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:25.540 I used to live in Edmonton, and from time to time,

00:01:28.880 I visited the luxurious offices of the Edmonton Journal right downtown.

00:01:33.580 What a holdover from an era when newspapers actually used to make money,

00:01:37.720 and when they were the center of a city in so many ways,

00:01:40.820 and right there in the lobby of the Edmonton Journal, before you got on the elevator,

00:01:45.580 was the honorary Pulitzer Prize won by that newspaper way back in 1938.

00:01:51.600 In fact, they have the editorial written on the walls.

00:01:55.040 It was for the Edmonton Journal's resistance to a series of laws introduced by a socialist premier named Bill Eberhardt.

00:02:00.980 He hated the media, and with good reason, they hated him,

00:02:05.240 but I think he let it get to him mentally.

00:02:07.660 Really? I mean, the Social Credit Party was started from scratch in 1934,

00:02:13.520 and in its very first election in 1935, it got more than 50% of the vote.

00:02:20.260 It won 56 out of 63 seats a year after they started the party.

00:02:23.900 Voter turnout was a staggering 82%.

00:02:26.000 But this guy, who just won everything in his field of vision,

00:02:30.520 couldn't stand his critics, and for some reason he cared about his critics.

00:02:34.240 And so he passed a series of laws, including one of them that would require,

00:02:39.220 it would mandate, it would force newspapers to run editorial content written by Eberhardt's government

00:02:46.520 to correct the wrong ideas in the newspapers,

00:02:49.560 as in what Eberhardt considered to be fake news back in the 30s.

00:02:55.100 I mean, look, he could always write a letter to the editor or submit other points of view,

00:02:59.600 but this was different. This would be to command newspapers to run government propaganda.

00:03:06.400 The Edmonton Journal, which back then had some self-respect, refused to do this and railed against this,

00:03:12.260 and the laws were soon struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada.

00:03:16.040 By the way, that was all done before the Charter of Rights and Freedoms,

00:03:20.260 which, as you know, wasn't enacted until the 1980s.

00:03:22.680 And it was done even before Diefenbaker's Bill of Rights, from the 60s.

00:03:26.800 So there's a point there that our free speech heritage, free press heritage,

00:03:31.580 goes back earlier and deeper than modern liberals might think or know.

00:03:37.040 Anyways, it was a great moment for press freedom, 1938,

00:03:40.320 and I think, like the early days of the Nobel Peace Prize,

00:03:44.160 that Pulitzer Prize actually meant something back then,

00:03:46.880 more than a political approval by a group of liberal journalists in New York,

00:03:50.300 which is all it means today. As you may know, Bill Eberhardt died in 1943,

00:03:55.180 and Ernest Manning, Preston's dad, took over and normalized the party,

00:03:59.560 kicked out the more extremist elements, and won for 25 more years as premier.

00:04:04.280 He got rid of the crazy socialism part.

00:04:06.000 I guess a point there is that even without the Press Act,

00:04:11.720 Eberhardt won re-election with a majority government, which just goes to show you.

00:04:15.300 Now, I tell you all this, and the Edmonton Journal's commendable historic record,

00:04:22.400 and that little quirk about government regulation of fake news in the 30s,

00:04:26.240 because it's all coming back again.

00:04:28.240 But look at this. Look at this headline. Look at this byline. Look at this.

00:04:32.000 The Edmonton Journal is talking about free speech again,

00:04:34.380 but this time they're on the side of censorship.

00:04:37.040 Or at least it's an attempt to strengthen, it's an against an attempt to strengthen free speech.

00:04:43.600 Take a look at this.

00:04:45.540 UCP prepares to roll out Ford-flavored post-secondary changes in Alberta by Emma Graney.

00:04:53.780 So, of course, UCP is the new United Conservative Party, government in Alberta.

00:04:58.200 But right away, they're denormalizing free speech, aren't they?

00:05:01.560 They're otherizing it.

00:05:02.900 They're implying it's not natural or Albertan.

00:05:05.520 They're saying it's something that only Doug Ford is all about,

00:05:08.240 which is weird because, first of all, that's to Doug Ford's credit.

00:05:11.180 If it's true, it's not an insult.

00:05:13.000 But second of all, how many people who pick up the Edmonton Journal in that city,

00:05:16.240 and granted, that's not a very large number anymore,

00:05:18.460 how many would see the word Ford and think,

00:05:21.460 oh, they're talking about Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario?

00:05:23.180 That's so weird.

00:05:23.740 How many Edmontonians would assume free speech is something that only outsiders care about and not them?

00:05:28.020 And that headline is obviously written by an activist,

00:05:30.760 someone who has a version of Trump derangement syndrome.

00:05:34.600 Goes without saying, if they hate Doug Ford, if they have Doug Ford derangement syndrome in Alberta.

00:05:40.720 No real Albertan would have that point of view unless they were an activist,

00:05:44.800 which is pretty much what's left in the media party these days.

00:05:47.080 Ain't you?

00:05:48.240 Here, I'm going to read some from this story because I want you to,

00:05:51.520 I want to let you know how far the Edmonton Journal,

00:05:53.200 the Pulitzer Prize winning Edmonton Journal,

00:05:55.960 and indeed all Canadian media have fallen since 1938

00:05:59.460 when they actually fought back against the charge of fake news,

00:06:03.120 fought back against government control.

00:06:06.300 Ready?

00:06:07.540 The UCP government will require Alberta post-secondary institutions

00:06:12.060 to adopt controversial free speech policies based on U.S. principles

00:06:17.860 that allow speakers, no matter how unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive,

00:06:23.740 say what they like on campuses.

00:06:26.220 Is free speech a U.S. principle?

00:06:30.900 Is it controversial, really?

00:06:34.320 Is that what our Supreme Court of Canada said in the case of the Press Act

00:06:38.200 and Bill Aberhart in 1938?

00:06:40.120 Is it true that free speech isn't even Canadian,

00:06:43.280 and to say so is controversial?

00:06:44.700 Have you ever, you know, read the chart of rights?

00:06:49.800 It's right there in section 2B.

00:06:53.680 Or the Bill of Rights from Deef the Chief.

00:06:56.640 It's right there in section 1.

00:06:58.980 1D and F.

00:07:00.580 Free speech, free press.

00:07:01.560 It's in the very first section of our Bill of Rights,

00:07:04.160 neither of which is necessary to know that we have freedom of the press up here,

00:07:08.440 free speech, because like I say,

00:07:09.900 Aberhart's fake news censorship law was struck down 81 years ago

00:07:12.740 before we had those modern iterations of the Bill of Rights or Charter Rights.

00:07:16.660 We have had free speech going back centuries in our country.

00:07:21.300 One of the greatest free speech cases and free press cases goes back to the 1830s

00:07:26.300 when a journalist and activist named Joseph Howe

00:07:30.480 named and shamed corrupt city aldermen in Halifax.

00:07:34.280 Do you know this story?

00:07:35.680 He was charged with seditious libel.

00:07:38.040 That's what it was called.

00:07:38.760 There was a trial.

00:07:40.760 He was embarrassing aldermen because he showed their corruption.

00:07:43.720 The judge ordered the jury to convict Joseph Howe.

00:07:48.140 But Howe gave such a passionate speech.

00:07:51.080 He was his own lawyer, which is generally a bad idea,

00:07:53.860 but in this case it was a great idea.

00:07:55.600 He gave such a speech about free speech

00:07:57.660 that he was acquitted despite the judge instructing a guilty verdict.

00:08:01.920 And wouldn't you know it,

00:08:02.940 Joseph Howe went on to become the first premier of that province.

00:08:08.060 And let me quote, if I may, from Howe on free speech.

00:08:10.680 He particularly talked about America versus Canada.

00:08:13.800 And remember, Canada wasn't even officially a country yet.

00:08:17.900 It was British North America, right?

00:08:19.700 And this was just not even a century after America was born.

00:08:22.840 Here, I'm quoting from the Nova Scotia government's official transcript

00:08:27.440 of Joseph Howe's speech defending himself on March 2nd, 1835.

00:08:32.920 Now, this was a huge, hours-long defense

00:08:35.980 that really established freedom of the press in Canada,

00:08:39.160 at least when it came to controversial speech.

00:08:42.300 And Joseph Howe specifically challenged the jury and the judge

00:08:45.160 to prove and decide and agree with him

00:08:48.200 that free speech was as much for loyal British subjects

00:08:53.140 as it was for American rebels, as he called them. 0.83

00:08:57.200 Let me quote, and then I'll go back to the losers

00:08:59.160 at the Edmonton Journal who should study a bit of Canadian history

00:09:02.240 before deciding that freedom of speech is a foreign concept,

00:09:05.520 a controversial concept.

00:09:06.900 Let me quote Joseph Howe's speech

00:09:08.760 before getting back to today's news, okay?

00:09:11.440 I do not ask for the impunity

00:09:13.980 which the American press enjoys,

00:09:16.080 though its greater latitude is defended

00:09:17.840 by the opinions of Chancellor Kent.

00:09:20.480 That's obviously a Brit. 0.97

00:09:21.420 But give me what a British subject has a right to claim, 1.00

00:09:26.060 impartial justice,

00:09:27.600 administered by those principles of the English law

00:09:30.040 that our forefathers fixed and have bequeathed.

00:09:33.360 Let not the sons of the rebels

00:09:35.500 look across the border to the sons of the loyalists

00:09:38.920 and reproach them that their press is not free.

00:09:44.620 He was saying, don't let those Americans laugh at us

00:09:47.620 for not being free.

00:09:49.020 Yeah, exactly.

00:09:49.660 And you know what?

00:09:51.000 He was acquitted.

00:09:51.920 Sons of loyalists are allowed to have a free press.

00:09:55.520 Pretty important case.

00:09:57.160 And that's why we are free today.

00:09:59.620 So, okay.

00:10:01.060 What is the Edmonton Journal in 2019,

00:10:04.280 almost 200 years later on about?

00:10:06.360 Well, I'll read some more from this goofy story.

00:10:09.720 Quote,

00:10:09.960 Well, they are called the Chicago Principals,

00:10:13.020 hailed by Advanced Education Minister Dimitrios Nikolaidis

00:10:16.300 and others as the gold standard.

00:10:18.920 They were developed by the University of Chicago in 2014

00:10:20.920 to demonstrate a commitment to free speech on U.S. college campuses.

00:10:24.900 But some worry.

00:10:27.560 Whenever you see a journalist saying that,

00:10:29.360 that means I worry,

00:10:30.540 but I want to pretend someone else does.

00:10:32.440 But some worry.

00:10:34.100 They don't allow universities to distinguish between groups or individuals

00:10:36.760 who want to speak on campus,

00:10:38.380 be it a flat earth society,

00:10:39.740 racists,

00:10:40.280 or a celebrity.

00:10:41.940 The UCP did not grant Post Media

00:10:44.240 an interview with Nikolaidis.

00:10:46.040 However, in an emailed statement,

00:10:49.900 he said applying the Principals

00:10:50.980 would ensure Alberta post-secondary institutions

00:10:53.180 are competitive with those in the United States.

00:10:57.080 Now, in fairness,

00:10:58.300 it is called the Chicago Principals,

00:11:00.380 but that's only because

00:11:01.360 it happened to be the University of Chicago

00:11:03.640 that wrote them down clearly

00:11:05.760 in such a way that everyone wants to copy them.

00:11:07.640 They apply identically throughout universities

00:11:09.800 all around the world, really.

00:11:11.300 I mean, what's so American-only about this?

00:11:14.480 Let me quote from the Chicago Principals.

00:11:17.040 In a word,

00:11:18.160 the university's fundamental commitment

00:11:19.620 is to the principle

00:11:20.420 that debate or deliberation

00:11:21.840 may not be suppressed

00:11:22.700 because the ideas put forth

00:11:24.120 are thought by some,

00:11:25.480 or even by most members

00:11:26.700 of the university community,

00:11:27.940 to be offensive,

00:11:29.240 unwise,

00:11:29.880 immoral,

00:11:30.320 or wrong-headed.

00:11:32.380 There's nothing about America there.

00:11:34.380 It says universities.

00:11:35.420 I mean, America lives up to freedom

00:11:37.280 better than most countries

00:11:38.380 because of its love for free speech,

00:11:40.500 but how's that different

00:11:42.320 from what we believe

00:11:43.140 at the University of Toronto

00:11:44.120 or the University of Calgary,

00:11:45.040 or UBC or any place up here.

00:11:46.700 I'll read more.

00:11:47.420 This talks about how to handle

00:11:48.680 deeply offensive ideas.

00:11:50.000 This is from the Chicago Principals.

00:11:50.980 It is not the proper role

00:11:52.500 of the university

00:11:53.100 to attempt to shield individuals

00:11:54.660 from ideas and opinions

00:11:55.780 they find unwelcome,

00:11:57.200 disagreeable,

00:11:57.880 or even deeply offensive.

00:11:59.820 Although the university

00:12:00.660 greatly values civility,

00:12:02.260 and although members

00:12:02.820 of the university community

00:12:03.700 share in the responsibility

00:12:04.660 for maintaining

00:12:05.360 a climate of mutual respect,

00:12:07.360 concerns about civility

00:12:08.360 and mutual respect

00:12:09.220 can never be used

00:12:11.340 as a justification

00:12:12.000 for closing off discussion

00:12:13.480 of ideas.

00:12:14.260 However offensive

00:12:15.100 or disagreeable

00:12:15.960 those ideas may be

00:12:17.060 to some members

00:12:17.660 of our community.

00:12:20.640 Can you disagree with that?

00:12:23.020 Maybe you can,

00:12:23.780 but if so,

00:12:24.180 you don't belong

00:12:24.700 in a university.

00:12:27.060 Well, the Edmonton Journal

00:12:28.280 disagrees with that,

00:12:29.160 or at least one reporter

00:12:30.360 calls it deeply controversial,

00:12:32.520 or at least says,

00:12:33.060 some say it's controversial,

00:12:34.220 but let me read

00:12:34.660 just one more line.

00:12:35.560 Just one more line

00:12:36.140 from the Chicago Principals.

00:12:37.100 The whole thing

00:12:37.620 is only a few pages long.

00:12:38.800 Google it.

00:12:39.280 It's great.

00:12:39.740 It's worth reading.

00:12:40.480 Ready?

00:12:40.940 Last quote.

00:12:41.380 Although members

00:12:43.280 of the university community

00:12:44.280 are free to criticize

00:12:45.520 and contest the views

00:12:47.240 expressed on campus,

00:12:48.420 and to criticize

00:12:49.180 and contest speakers

00:12:50.460 who are invited

00:12:51.200 to express their views

00:12:51.980 on campus,

00:12:52.600 they may not obstruct

00:12:53.720 or otherwise interfere

00:12:55.800 with the freedom

00:12:56.940 of others to express views

00:12:58.080 they reject

00:12:58.820 or even loathe.

00:13:00.660 To this end,

00:13:01.200 the university

00:13:01.600 has a solemn responsibility

00:13:02.840 not only to promote

00:13:03.960 a lively and fearless

00:13:04.820 freedom of debate

00:13:05.540 and deliberation,

00:13:06.540 but also to protect

00:13:07.600 that freedom

00:13:08.360 when others attempt

00:13:09.660 to restrict it.

00:13:11.380 That's great.

00:13:14.920 Isn't it?

00:13:16.080 There's nothing American 0.95

00:13:17.080 about that.

00:13:17.960 That's a human idea.

00:13:19.440 That's a freedom idea.

00:13:21.060 The only American thing 0.97

00:13:22.020 is that with,

00:13:22.840 as with so many other things,

00:13:23.940 Americans are amazing

00:13:24.980 and wonderful,

00:13:25.900 and thank God

00:13:26.340 we live in their neighborhood

00:13:27.520 when they're fighting

00:13:28.360 for freedom

00:13:28.780 and say not in

00:13:29.860 a different neighborhood

00:13:30.940 like Arabia 0.98

00:13:31.640 where censorship

00:13:32.720 and suppression

00:13:33.400 is the norm.

00:13:34.300 That is a great

00:13:35.320 set of principles.

00:13:37.180 But back to

00:13:37.780 the Edmonton Journal

00:13:38.420 that has in the

00:13:39.360 short space

00:13:40.540 of a few sentences

00:13:41.320 started by saying

00:13:42.320 these ideas

00:13:42.880 are a Doug Ford thing

00:13:44.540 that was right

00:13:45.080 in the headline

00:13:45.500 and now they're saying

00:13:46.760 they're a Chicago thing

00:13:49.020 because someone

00:13:50.040 put pen to paper

00:13:50.760 in Chicago

00:13:51.260 and obviously

00:13:51.980 we don't share

00:13:52.440 those ideas in Canada.

00:13:54.220 Let me read some more.

00:13:56.280 The move echoes

00:13:57.460 a recent edict

00:13:58.560 by Doug Ford's

00:13:59.540 Ontario government.

00:14:01.480 Professor Sigal Ben Porath,

00:14:03.720 a University of Pennsylvania

00:14:04.800 free speech scholar,

00:14:06.620 helped Ontario institutions

00:14:07.780 develop Ford-mandated policies.

00:14:09.980 Mendy ended up

00:14:12.280 simply penning a policy

00:14:13.400 saying they supported

00:14:14.360 the Chicago principles,

00:14:15.640 Ben Porath said,

00:14:16.920 despite the fact

00:14:17.720 the policy

00:14:18.380 cannot apply in Canada

00:14:19.760 as it does in the States

00:14:21.300 because of our

00:14:22.040 hate speech laws.

00:14:24.080 What?

00:14:25.980 So the Edmonton Journal

00:14:27.300 which just mocked

00:14:28.200 free speech

00:14:28.740 as something un-Albertan,

00:14:30.520 it's Ontarian people,

00:14:32.200 or Chicagoan,

00:14:34.140 they quote some

00:14:34.920 American left-wing

00:14:36.240 Democratic Party

00:14:37.360 activist,

00:14:37.860 Google her,

00:14:38.220 seriously,

00:14:39.480 to tell us

00:14:40.840 in Canada

00:14:41.340 that we can't

00:14:41.860 have free speech here

00:14:42.700 because of our

00:14:43.440 hate speech laws?

00:14:44.400 That's,

00:14:45.060 what?

00:14:46.500 Now it is true

00:14:47.240 there is a specific

00:14:48.440 hate speech crime

00:14:49.540 in our criminal code.

00:14:50.740 It shouldn't be there.

00:14:51.500 It's odious.

00:14:52.700 But it's very specific.

00:14:54.300 There are very specific

00:14:55.120 legal defenses to it

00:14:56.240 and everyone acknowledges

00:14:57.720 that it's such

00:14:58.220 an obnoxious law

00:14:59.360 that for it to be prosecuted

00:15:01.660 it must be

00:15:02.280 personally approved

00:15:03.300 by the Attorney General

00:15:04.800 himself

00:15:05.300 before a prosecution

00:15:06.180 can be done under it.

00:15:08.220 But the Chicago principles

00:15:09.800 say that criminal acts

00:15:11.000 are obviously not

00:15:12.060 protected by the

00:15:13.620 Chicago principles.

00:15:14.560 So it doesn't even

00:15:15.560 make any sense.

00:15:16.180 What this kooky professor

00:15:17.120 from Pennsylvania

00:15:18.180 is telling the kooky

00:15:19.480 reporter from Edmonton

00:15:20.620 is that in advance

00:15:21.940 we can't protect

00:15:22.980 campus free speech

00:15:23.920 and you shouldn't

00:15:24.700 even try

00:15:25.280 because some speech

00:15:26.480 somewhere somehow

00:15:27.300 might be criminal

00:15:28.700 after a trial

00:15:29.620 or something.

00:15:30.260 I don't know.

00:15:31.160 I don't even understand it.

00:15:32.620 That's the newspaper

00:15:34.840 that won the

00:15:35.860 Free Speech Pulitzer

00:15:36.800 in 1938.

00:15:38.300 Yeah, time to ship

00:15:39.680 the medal back

00:15:40.660 I think, guys.

00:15:42.400 Let me read a little more.

00:15:44.240 We are serving

00:15:44.740 more and more

00:15:45.200 diverse students

00:15:46.240 and we need to be

00:15:47.620 thoughtful in the ways

00:15:48.720 in which we organize

00:15:49.860 the environment

00:15:50.560 in which they are learning,

00:15:51.720 she said.

00:15:52.320 This is the Pennsylvania

00:15:53.360 expert on Canadian law.

00:15:56.120 Hey, can you do me a favor?

00:15:57.200 Can we all stop

00:15:58.900 interviewing racists

00:16:01.320 like that?

00:16:02.020 I mean,

00:16:02.660 here's a professor saying

00:16:04.080 there's only one

00:16:06.040 in plain meaning here

00:16:07.300 that minorities

00:16:08.500 and new immigrants

00:16:09.520 can't handle freedom

00:16:11.240 like regular people.

00:16:14.280 I think that's

00:16:14.840 what she's saying.

00:16:15.960 Sorry, that's called

00:16:16.840 the soft bigotry

00:16:17.820 of low expectations.

00:16:20.620 And then the journal

00:16:21.400 quotes another

00:16:21.980 out-of-province expert.

00:16:23.480 Why not, eh?

00:16:24.620 Jillian Phillips,

00:16:25.580 Ontario Confederation

00:16:26.780 of University

00:16:27.680 Faculty Association's

00:16:28.900 president,

00:16:29.240 so she's a union activist, 0.99

00:16:30.980 watched the Ford policy

00:16:32.480 roll out in her province. 0.99

00:16:33.960 She calls it

00:16:34.520 an unnecessary,

00:16:36.040 crass political gesture.

00:16:38.040 Yeah, hey,

00:16:39.120 Google Lindsay Shepard,

00:16:40.480 Google Jordan Peterson

00:16:41.300 if you don't think

00:16:41.900 it's necessary.

00:16:42.500 Imagine being a professor

00:16:43.680 and arguing against

00:16:47.800 free speech protection

00:16:48.980 just because you hate

00:16:51.400 the politician who's for it.

00:16:52.940 This is the lifeblood

00:16:54.140 of your profession.

00:16:55.520 This is the lifeblood

00:16:56.420 of the concept

00:16:57.020 of a university.

00:16:58.860 But you're against

00:16:59.820 free speech

00:17:00.480 because it was

00:17:01.160 Doug Ford

00:17:01.700 or Jason Kenney

00:17:03.280 or Donald Trump

00:17:04.440 or anyone who supports it. 0.71

00:17:05.740 Sorry, that's deranged.

00:17:08.720 But that's the entire

00:17:09.740 argument here.

00:17:10.320 People don't like,

00:17:11.960 people we don't like

00:17:13.180 are doing the right thing

00:17:14.940 so we're going to

00:17:16.020 change our own point of view

00:17:17.260 on something as core

00:17:18.020 as free speech

00:17:18.820 because we care more

00:17:20.560 about hating conservatives

00:17:21.900 than standing up

00:17:22.840 for the once liberal value

00:17:23.820 of universities

00:17:24.440 as places of debate.

00:17:25.480 Let me read some more.

00:17:26.120 Ford's government

00:17:28.120 decreed that any

00:17:28.960 post-secondary institution

00:17:30.100 failing to implement

00:17:31.060 free speech policies

00:17:31.880 could be fiscally punished.

00:17:34.860 Similarly,

00:17:35.560 U.S. President Donald Trump

00:17:36.820 signed an executive order

00:17:38.020 in March to bar

00:17:38.880 post-secondary institutions

00:17:40.160 from federal funds

00:17:40.960 if they restrict free speech.

00:17:44.040 Seriously.

00:17:45.680 What a lame column.

00:17:47.300 I think that's what it is

00:17:48.020 because it's not really

00:17:48.480 a news report.

00:17:49.880 And forgive me for finding

00:17:50.880 it so remarkable.

00:17:51.560 Of course this article

00:17:52.940 in the Edmonton Journal

00:17:54.620 is not actually remarkable.

00:17:57.080 Of course that's how

00:17:58.140 things are now

00:17:58.900 throughout the media

00:18:00.340 and the academy.

00:18:01.320 Free speech and free

00:18:02.060 protests and drama

00:18:03.380 are all fine

00:18:04.880 when you're a leftist

00:18:06.800 protesting against the right.

00:18:08.520 Like just the other day

00:18:09.160 the media loved

00:18:10.140 this actual

00:18:11.640 replica guillotine

00:18:13.980 with replica blood

00:18:15.560 blood on it

00:18:16.860 put on the lawn

00:18:18.820 of the Ontario legislature

00:18:20.940 because it was

00:18:23.680 Doug Ford inside

00:18:24.540 who would be getting

00:18:25.500 the chop.

00:18:26.180 But someone,

00:18:26.880 I don't know if you remember

00:18:27.380 this,

00:18:27.600 someone had a poster

00:18:28.360 of Rachel Notley

00:18:29.840 on a golf course

00:18:30.920 and that promoted

00:18:32.820 violence

00:18:33.660 because you could

00:18:34.200 hit the golf ball

00:18:35.040 and hit the poster

00:18:36.280 and that's violence. 0.59

00:18:38.660 But the guillotine,

00:18:40.080 that's A-OK guys

00:18:41.360 because it was Doug Ford.

00:18:42.440 Look,

00:18:43.480 none of these leftists

00:18:44.780 mean it.

00:18:46.420 They all say

00:18:47.160 they're for free speech

00:18:47.920 for themselves

00:18:48.880 against their enemies.

00:18:50.000 None of them want

00:18:50.500 free speech

00:18:50.900 for their opponents

00:18:51.820 except for that's

00:18:53.020 how it works.

00:18:54.080 Free speech is the gift

00:18:55.160 you have to give

00:18:56.000 your opponents

00:18:56.460 if you want it

00:18:57.220 for yourself.

00:18:57.800 It's a paradox,

00:18:58.660 I know.

00:19:00.260 But this isn't news,

00:19:01.300 it's old.

00:19:01.880 I remember a dozen years ago

00:19:03.160 how few journalists

00:19:04.140 in Canada

00:19:04.800 published the Danish

00:19:05.900 cartoons of Mohammed.

00:19:07.060 I mean it was pretty much

00:19:07.840 just me

00:19:09.080 at the Western Standard Magazine

00:19:10.680 but the rest of the journalists

00:19:12.360 were sort of jealous

00:19:13.400 of me,

00:19:13.920 I'll be honest,

00:19:14.360 I talked to so many.

00:19:15.560 Most said it was

00:19:16.320 about a freedom.

00:19:17.240 You know,

00:19:18.160 70% of working journalists

00:19:19.940 surveyed at the time

00:19:21.140 by Compass,

00:19:21.920 the pollster,

00:19:23.520 answered that their own

00:19:24.620 media outlets

00:19:25.260 should have published

00:19:26.140 them too.

00:19:26.920 70%.

00:19:27.360 It's been a dozen years

00:19:29.640 and I doubt

00:19:30.580 10% of working journalists

00:19:32.740 would believe that today.

00:19:33.800 I doubt 10% of professors

00:19:35.260 would believe in free speech

00:19:36.360 today too.

00:19:38.060 Now I found the story

00:19:38.900 in the Edmonton Journal

00:19:39.580 newsworthy

00:19:40.420 because I used to live

00:19:41.200 in Edmonton

00:19:41.580 and I have seen

00:19:42.140 with my own eyes

00:19:42.940 that Pulitzer Prize plaque

00:19:44.620 and the engraved editorials

00:19:46.700 on the walls there.

00:19:48.720 I've seen with my own eyes

00:19:49.580 and I know how

00:19:50.260 a premier in Alberta

00:19:51.800 tried to shut down

00:19:53.280 the free press

00:19:54.020 by calling it fake news

00:19:55.220 and I loved my Alberta history.

00:19:57.580 I loved my pride

00:19:58.980 as a born-in-Alberta boy

00:20:00.280 knowing that someone

00:20:01.460 fought back

00:20:02.200 and lived up

00:20:02.960 to the province's motto

00:20:04.140 Fortis et liber

00:20:05.500 which is Latin

00:20:06.480 for strong and free.

00:20:09.840 Now that same newspaper

00:20:11.440 is ridiculing free speech

00:20:12.900 as a foreign idea,

00:20:14.480 a wacky idea,

00:20:15.660 even an illegal idea.

00:20:18.680 The story,

00:20:19.140 that is an utter disgrace

00:20:20.700 and I think you ought

00:20:21.840 to know about it.

00:20:23.340 Stay with us for more.

00:20:25.220 As Bijan 0.94

00:20:34.360 aik 0.88

00:20:38.760 Allahu akbar

00:20:39.540 Allahu akbar

00:20:40.080 Allahu akbar

00:20:43.340 Allahu akbar

00:20:52.020 Allahu akbar

00:20:53.040 that is shocking footage of hundreds close to 700 rockets fired from gaza deliberately into

00:21:11.400 civilian neighborhoods in israel just in some cases hundreds of feet away some cases a dozen

00:21:18.820 miles away killing various civilians which is their purpose many people think that hamas 0.97

00:21:24.420 is of course acting as a shock troop a surrogate for iran israel has deployed its iron dome anti-rocket

00:21:34.640 system but i think the strategic attempt here was to overwhelm that by sending hundreds and

00:21:40.800 hundreds of rockets low-tech rockets that might actually only cost a few hundred dollars to make

00:21:46.020 the iron dome system costing a hundred thousand dollars to stop them but it couldn't be clearer

00:21:54.320 who the bad guys are so clear that even canada issued a an unusually one-sided tweet normally

00:22:04.320 they condemn the israeli victims as much as they condemn the palestinian terrorists but in this

00:22:09.620 case they put on a tweet only criticizing the terrorists baby steps of course donald trump

00:22:15.600 showed the way let me show you his very dramatic tweet he said once again israel faces a barrage of

00:22:21.640 deadly rockets by terrorist groups hamas and islamic jihad we support israel 100 in its defense

00:22:28.060 of its citizens and trump goes on to say to the gazan people these terrorist acts against israel will

00:22:34.340 bring you nothing but more misery end the violence and work towards peace it can happen so that is

00:22:40.400 donald trump who the left portrays bizarrely as anti-semitic or even a nazi of sorts even though

00:22:48.600 of course his daughter and son-in-law are not just jewish but they're religious jews so here's my

00:22:54.500 question what about the 20 or so democrats seeking the nomination for that party's 2020 presidential

00:23:04.600 primary as of when i checked about an hour ago not one of them had even uttered a word

00:23:12.600 against these rockets why not well joining us now via skype from the los angeles area is our friend

00:23:18.820 joel pollack senior editor at large at breitbart.com joel did i properly sum up what's going on have you

00:23:24.280 seen any democratic presidential candidates even say the obvious terrorism is bad

00:23:30.340 no not one and it's quite striking because in the past democrats would have at least said

00:23:40.760 something about the terrorism they might have also added israel should act with restraint and so forth

00:23:46.320 but they didn't say anything at all and it continues to amaze me how given the near or total unanimity of

00:23:54.820 opinion on the democratic side how there's not one person who would raise his or her hand and stand

00:24:01.400 out from the crowd it seemed they would reap instant dividends from doing so i mean it would be great to

00:24:06.600 be the one democrat who defended israel but nobody's done it just like there was not one single democrat

00:24:12.280 who attended the opening of the u.s embassy in jerusalem or even the party that israel threw in

00:24:17.600 washington dc to celebrate that opening so uh democrats just seem to be in lockstep they're terrified of

00:24:24.080 their base on this issue the campus left is very anti-israel that's where all the action is right 1.00

00:24:29.020 now and democrats just don't want to step out of line that's incredible to me here's a tweet from

00:24:34.760 ilhan omar uh and like alexandra ocasio-cortez she's a freshman congresswoman she's from minnesota 1.00

00:24:41.960 obviously uh a muslim activist here's what she wrote and i think you're right even though she's just

00:24:48.020 a freshman and and she's not i wouldn't say she has a lot of allies in congress necessarily

00:24:54.300 i think she's setting the tone let me put that back up just for a sec i'll read it um i'll read

00:24:59.220 the tweet from ilhan omar she says how many more protesters must be shot rockets must be fired and 0.56

00:25:05.060 little kids must be killed until the endless cycle of violence ends the status quo of occupation and

00:25:10.100 humanitarian crisis in gaza is unsustainable only real justice can bring about security and lasting

00:25:15.240 peace um that that stops about half a step short of saying i'm on the side of the terrorists but

00:25:23.880 but that is i mean there used to be a foreign policy general agreement between democrats and republicans

00:25:31.740 during the cold war at least is that gone is the bipartisan consensus that that islamic terrorism is

00:25:39.060 bad is that actually gone joel well the bipartisan consensus has eroded in that democrats won't call

00:25:48.420 it islamic terrorism remember that was the big fight that we had when barack obama was president

00:25:54.180 and even now they don't really want to acknowledge christians or victims of islamic terrorism

00:25:58.580 with the bombings in sri lanka last month on easter there was that curious phrase they used easter

00:26:05.700 worshipers there weren't any democrats who actually said christians were attacked so the democrats like

00:26:10.420 to frame this entire thing differently it's not that they are uh in favor of terrorism but they

00:26:14.580 want to frame it differently with israel and the palestinians things get a little different there you

00:26:19.940 do find some democrats who favor palestinian terrorism we have some of them in congress right 0.99

00:26:24.580 now rashina talib who's a first year representative from michigan said a bunch of things like what you

00:26:31.700 just heard from ilan omar and she ended her tweet with hashtag free palestine which as you and i

00:26:36.100 know means getting rid of israel ilan omar i'll give her credit before i take it away again i'll 0.77

00:26:42.100 give her credit for at least acknowledging the rockets are a problem but there isn't a cycle of

00:26:46.660 violence there are episodes of violence that are caused by hamas israel never initiates the violence

00:26:53.220 this was caused by the terrorist group hamas which runs the gaza strip and takes orders and money

00:26:58.020 from iran among other people and she also referred to gaza as occupied gaza has not been occupied by

00:27:05.220 anybody except maybe the hamas terrorist group since 2005 israel pulled its soldiers and settlers out

00:27:13.300 every last one in 2005 with considerable debate and protest within israel itself over that decision

00:27:20.660 but there's nobody left who is israeli in gaza nobody's occupying gaza so she is basically

00:27:28.340 presenting a lie and using it as you point out to take the side of the terrorists she's casting it as

00:27:34.420 kind of we all want peace but she favors boycotting israel she sides with the world view at least of 0.66

00:27:42.260 hamas and others and this tweet was again an attempt to justify through immoral equivalence the actions of

00:27:51.140 the palestinian terror groups and you see that openly now in congress you know um the jews like 1.00

00:27:57.620 blacks and gays and hispanics have traditionally voted democrat and um in canada stephen harper's

00:28:06.660 pro-israel activism for pro-israel politics for 10 years finally broke that away and i think in the

00:28:13.620 last election the jewish community here probably voted about 60 percent uh for conservatives but in the

00:28:19.140 united states i'd say the jews for the democrats are still probably 70 80 percent uh in the last

00:28:26.660 election you probably know those exit polls better than me um i think i mean jews are only a couple 1.00

00:28:32.500 percent of the u.s population but they're disproportionate in terms of political activism

00:28:37.940 they're greatly disproportionate in terms of donations and of course they live in major cities that are key

00:28:43.540 uh whether it's in the media cities of la and new york or in political i mean miami large jewish

00:28:51.460 community there that's a really uh that's a state that that is a majority maker or a president maker

00:28:58.020 i just don't understand how jews can be fine with the party basically saying yeah we're going to stand by 0.95

00:29:06.500 as as israel is rocketed and not just jews i'm a jew you're a jew we care about israel perhaps for

00:29:12.500 regions of religious or ethnic uh connection but a lot of americans love israel and they're not jews

00:29:19.460 they're the christians who have an affection for israel or they're just democrats who believe in

00:29:24.820 free countries and democracies i mean the same way i love taiwan i have no ethnic or religious

00:29:29.460 connection i just love the little country standing up to the big bully china i can't believe that jews 1.00

00:29:35.380 would stick around a party that is becoming jeremy corbyn-ified like i i look at the labor party in the uk

00:29:41.780 it's explicitly anti-semitic right into the leader's office now i fear that's happening in america

00:29:48.500 and i don't see a lot of jews pulling out well that's for two reasons number one this is the

00:29:55.540 pre-existing reason which is that israel is very far down the list of priorities for jewish voters on

00:30:02.340 the left number one or number two is abortion health care i mean they're basically democrats and

00:30:08.260 in fact their religious observance is often defined by their party allegiance if you go into many of

00:30:14.260 the more liberal synagogues or temples much of what they do and say in their services is defined

00:30:20.660 by its proximity to the democratic party platform so there is almost a canonization of left-wing

00:30:27.460 policies that's gone on in jewish communities now more observant jews tend not to be affected by that

00:30:33.060 and they are moving in a more conservative direction in terms of voting behavior but there's

00:30:39.220 a definite emphasis on the priorities of the democratic party over and above issues like israel

00:30:44.900 or even anti-semitism it's not unique to american jews i i spoke when i was in poland to a young woman

00:30:52.820 from the labor party in the uk who refused to leave even though she didn't criticize those who did leave

00:30:59.380 she refused to leave over corbin's anti-semitism because she said the things she still cares about

00:31:04.740 most are the things labor represents and so she wants to vote with labor and hope that they will

00:31:09.860 change their leadership i think that's how many jewish democrats feel about it that the things that

00:31:14.020 are most important to them are still the things on the democratic party agenda at least for them

00:31:18.660 and they will wait until the party turns itself around on israel which is not that urgent to them

00:31:23.940 the other thing that's happened is the media have toxicity have toxified donald trump for many jewish

00:31:29.700 voters that has unraveled a bit with some of the debunking that has gone on and especially with the

00:31:35.860 outstanding performance of rabbi goldstein from the poe synagogue the victim of the shooting

00:31:42.340 last saturday i mean he's been absolutely superb in terms of his poise his principal stands about

00:31:49.940 a moment of silence in public schools and so forth but he also turned to donald trump at the white house

00:31:54.980 late last week and called him a healer and thanked him for his personal intervention in helping the

00:32:00.580 community and i think that actually went a long way to see this rabbi with a traditional black hat

00:32:07.780 black coat long white beard turning to donald trump and essentially blessing him not just as a great

00:32:13.460 president but as a person with empathy for the community i think that went a long way so you're seeing

00:32:18.100 that unravel a little bit but there are democratic activists in the jewish community who are

00:32:22.580 absolutely determined to make sure that jewish voters go into the voting booth believing that donald trump

00:32:30.020 is an anti-semite and they will sell them whatever fiction they have to sell them including charlottesville

00:32:36.420 or whatever to to make sure that they think that again another way it's unraveling i mean i just

00:32:42.740 wrote a story about this donald trump has a delegation in israel right now they're a delegation of

00:32:47.620 ambassadors a very large delegation they are in israel they happen to be there during the rocket

00:32:52.420 attacks the reason they're there is they participated in this holocaust commemoration that i was covering

00:32:58.180 last week in poland where they march from auschwitz to birkenau it's called the march of the living

00:33:03.620 trump sent the first ever official u.s delegation to this event there's never been another u.s delegation

00:33:09.540 from the government anyway and it's amazing i mean trump is the first american president to send a

00:33:16.100 delegation to participate in this annual commemoration so that's a big deal and little things like that

00:33:21.460 over time chip away at the false impression that he's an anti-semite but you have the media and

00:33:27.940 activists within the jewish community on the democratic side who are definitely pushing that

00:33:31.540 idea will not relent will not stop no matter what the facts actually say so that is probably going to

00:33:37.700 keep jewish voter support for the republican candidate in this case donald trump at historic

00:33:44.180 levels it'll be about 30 for trump and 70 for whoever he's running against you know it goes up and down

00:33:52.100 it could reach 60 40 maybe as bad as 80 20 depending on what's in the news so i don't see donald trump

00:33:59.140 winning the jewish vote however if i am a jewish donor on the democratic side right now uh you know they've

00:34:06.660 got to be supporting joe biden because when you see what comes down the pipeline in terms of bernie

00:34:12.580 sanders and some of the other candidates and what they believe and say about israel beto o'rourke has

00:34:16.980 said some crazy things the democratic party that's coming into its own right now the younger democrats

00:34:24.660 are so viciously anti-israel to the point of borderline anti-semitism that those jews who still 1.00

00:34:30.820 are very active in the democratic party are probably uh very concerned about it and if i were

00:34:36.420 one of them i'd be telling joe biden he has to win the nomination because he is all that stands

00:34:42.100 between the democratic party and a complete capitulation to the far left on israel and he's

00:34:46.260 not that great on israel by the way i mean he has a very long record of mistakes and problems but

00:34:52.340 he at least is less crazy than the others and i think that's what he's going to try to convince

00:34:56.580 people and that's what they want to convince him to emphasize you know i mean i agree with you that

00:35:02.580 the same way that for many liberals israel is not their number one issue and i certainly wouldn't

00:35:07.060 call myself a single issue voter i care about so many things but if if and you don't even that's why

00:35:14.020 i said you don't even have to be jewish you don't even have to be christian you just i mean how can you

00:35:18.580 stay silent with terrorist attacks like that i suppose it's the same way so many of those democrats

00:35:24.180 stayed silent about the sri lanka massacre of christians on easter sunday but that's got to

00:35:29.380 be a shock to the party the historical home of jews and um and perhaps there is a validity to a 1.00

00:35:37.220 hardcore left winger saying that's my not my only issue but when the party has gone so insane like

00:35:42.980 that it it boggles my mind that that uh that there's no reaction let me ask you about tulsi gabbard

00:35:49.940 because she's a former uh air force uh vet who has some interesting foreign policy views she's

00:35:57.460 she's fought against terrorism i thought maybe she would come out against this what are your thoughts

00:36:02.100 on her well she's the anti-war candidate right now and you know it helps to have a military background

00:36:12.340 if you're going to be the anti-war candidate gives you more credibility and she's basically saying that

00:36:16.820 our entire foreign policy strategy is wrong not just this administration but the previous one as

00:36:21.300 well so she is opposed to the moves that trump is taking in venezuela and the moves he's taking

00:36:28.980 toward iran and so forth so she's trying to move us away from any kind of assertive posture on the

00:36:35.220 world stage there was an element of that in obama's foreign policy but even he got entangled in syria and

00:36:40.260 libya and libya and elsewhere so i think she is basically standing for the pacifist position if you

00:36:47.700 if you would um you know there's one other thing i wanted to point out about all of this um which is

00:36:54.340 that the democratic party um in terms of its orientation toward um israel and the peace process

00:37:03.780 is really reaching a point of no return that is to say the things they're saying and doing now are

00:37:10.260 going to have a serious effect on the relations between the two countries we've just learned that

00:37:14.740 israel supplied the united states with key intelligence on iran and threats by iran to

00:37:18.900 american interests or american allies i'm sure israel would continue to work with pentagon and cia and

00:37:24.820 things like that but democrats are doing and saying things right now that would rupture the relationship

00:37:30.900 with israel in a profound way when beto o'rourke for example says that benjamin netanyahu is a

00:37:35.700 racist i mean netanyahu if he doesn't call early elections will be prime minister unless he's indicted

00:37:41.220 you know convicted or whatever but he'll be prime minister when beto o'rourke takes office if he wins

00:37:47.140 the election how are you going to deal with someone you call the racist so it's a little concerning

00:37:52.660 yeah well i find it very sad because i i just think that the only reason not to condemn a terrorist

00:38:02.100 attack against israel is if you've got some deeper animus towards israel and we know that one of those 0.68

00:38:11.460 animosities is anti-semitism i do not want to say that 20 out of 20 of the democratic candidates are

00:38:18.740 anti-semitic i don't believe they are but i think they're all indulging it or humoring it

00:38:23.940 or staying silent in the face of it because i think that ilan omers and the rashida tlaibs and

00:38:28.980 a lot of the campus activists in the democratic party truly are anti-semitic and like jeremy

00:38:34.260 corbyn they can do the math there's one other thing happening here sorry i i meant to mention this

00:38:38.660 earlier uh they didn't tweet about the situation in israel and gaza but um more than half a dozen of

00:38:44.500 the candidates tweeted a happy ramadan uh to muslim americans which is fine there's nothing wrong

00:38:51.220 with wishing them that but it does tell you what they're thinking uh i mean the two voting blocks

00:38:56.580 are roughly similar in size probably the jewish voting block is still slightly larger but it just

00:39:00.980 tells you that democrats are thinking about making a conscious pitch to muslim voters and basically

00:39:07.300 ignoring jews as a voting category assuming uh in a sense that they're going to get that support no

00:39:12.180 matter what yeah well in canada i mean it was only 30 years ago that the total muslim population

00:39:17.780 of our country was i think under 100 000 and jews were about 300 000 today the jewish population in

00:39:24.340 canada is about 350 000 and the muslim population is 1.3 million so in a very short period of time

00:39:32.020 mainly through immigration the muslim community is now quadruple that of the jewish community or at least

00:39:39.060 triple and not all of them are citizens yet but they all will be in a few years justin trudeau did

00:39:45.540 the math and he said well i can't beat stephen harper on being pro israel so why not do a little

00:39:52.340 judo move let him go pro israel i'll go pro muslim brotherhood and there's four times as many fish in

00:39:58.260 that pond to catch i think that's the math jeremy corbin sees i think that's the math these 20 democrats

00:40:03.220 the last word to you joel well i think it's going to be interesting to watch but i do think this is

00:40:09.060 the first time that there's a really clear case that donald trump who supported israel 100 in this

00:40:15.220 rocket attack uh donald trump is is the pro-israel candidate and that democrats have yet to produce

00:40:21.460 any candidate who will say even the perfunctory things democrats used to say for generations

00:40:26.500 in support of israel and the jewish community it's it's amazing but we're finally at that point yeah

00:40:31.620 well it's very depressing and i say that as a jew but i say that as a canadian as a dem as a small

00:40:37.140 d democrat i say that as an ally of the democracies and i see that as someone who is concerned about

00:40:45.220 not just the hard jihad of terrorism but the soft jihad of islamification which has now touched the 0.94

00:40:52.340 democrat party joel it's great to have you thanks for spending so much time with us thank you good to

00:40:56.900 be with you all right there's joel pollack the senior editor at large of breitbart.com what do you

00:41:01.540 think of that i'm jewish so i have certain ideas that resonate with me that may not to gentile

00:41:07.780 viewers but i have to think i would feel the same way i think if it were a taiwan if it were a south

00:41:14.100 korea if it were some other small democracy next to bullies and if these insane rocket attacks how

00:41:20.260 could you not stand with the democracy you tell me send me an email to ezra at the rebel.media if you

00:41:26.020 disagree stay with us more ahead

00:41:39.700 on my monologue friday about world press freedom day a revelation writes every day is press freedom

00:41:45.940 day when you have to one have one day a year to point it out it's because it isn't free anymore

00:41:51.860 hey that is a very good point that is a very good point um yeah every day is press freedom day

00:41:58.580 you know i'm gonna borrow your line thank you keith writes tomorrow we may well be arrested for saying

00:42:05.300 anything that marxists do not like freedom of speech will soon be a thing of the past we are already 0.98

00:42:09.860 controlled by the double speak and censorship in our daily lives you are so right you are so right and

00:42:16.660 the fact that our devices we don't just look at our devices our devices look at us and they never

00:42:21.940 forget i mean my god you know i bought one of those little alexa um echoes plugged it in to test it out

00:42:29.860 oh my god i got that thing on the house so fast who would have something in your own home that listens

00:42:34.980 to you all the time and don't tell me it doesn't listen because it has to wake up when you say um hey

00:42:40.820 alexa so it's got to be listening to hear the words hey alexa imagine having a audio listening

00:42:45.940 device in your home all the time and as we showed you the other day super crazy amazon has a 600

00:42:53.540 million dollar contract with the cia i'm not a conspiracy theorist but if the cia said yeah

00:42:59.700 we'll put a little listening device in your home and you will pay us for it would you go along with it

00:43:04.500 and i know you're thinking answer you're sounding like alex jones wind force no i'm just talking about

00:43:09.140 the panopticon of how we used to watch tv but now tv watches us and it's not just it's it's not

00:43:16.580 just all about sports and weather and cooking it's about politics now too and it's about

00:43:21.300 de-platforming people who don't share their views i think these are dangerous days

00:43:26.420 dan writes alan buccari is always interesting and sometimes bloody scary yeah i really like him

00:43:34.340 and i i like everything about him i've had the chance to meet him a couple times i think he's

00:43:38.660 great really smart and someone said to me ezra he reminds me of a bond villain just that perfect

00:43:44.500 accent and the look and i thought oh my god you're right except for he's on our side scott writes i get

00:43:52.260 a little hot under the collar about the bad stuff or excited about the good news too but i noticed

00:43:56.500 particularly this week a number of times where you swore or used improper language and you give examples

00:44:03.060 when these things happen i won't forward links to um friends or colleagues i find i am reluctant to

00:44:11.220 watch the show when there are little ears around just in case something pops out and to be honest if

00:44:16.260 this pattern continues i may stop watching as much myself even when by myself scott that's a good point

00:44:24.100 i i think i have a big enough vocabulary that i can say things without cussing can i tell you a quick

00:44:29.700 story and i don't think i'm telling tales out of school you know who has the biggest vocabulary

00:44:34.820 in the world i haven't met everybody but of the people i know you're probably thinking conrad black

00:44:42.340 he's pretty good rex murphy i used to be chiming with him i regret that i've fallen out of touch with

00:44:49.140 him once i went over his place and he this was before the internet was really really big he had a seat

00:44:56.580 like a cd or dvd version of the extended full oxford english dictionary you know how big that is

00:45:04.340 like the full meal the if if it was in books it would be this wide because it shows you the etymology

00:45:11.460 the history of every word he had this at his home did you know he was the editor of a dictionary

00:45:19.220 himself the dictionary of newfoundland which has amazing words and where they come from rex murphy

00:45:27.940 edited a dictionary tell me that guy don't love his words the oxford scholar of course road scholar

00:45:33.700 and you're going to think this is super nerdy we we i know this i i'm embarrassed to say because

00:45:39.300 you're going to see how nerdy i was rex and i played a game where we tried to stump the other guy

00:45:44.980 with an obscure word do you know what it means um i don't think i stumped him i think i still

00:45:50.660 remember i tried to get him on infandus i think he knew that anyways besides telling you a rex murphy

00:46:00.980 story here's my point rex murphy perhaps has the largest vocabulary of any person in the english language

00:46:09.140 certainly in the top point oh one percent but he swears i'm not trying to embarrass him not trying

00:46:18.420 to tell tell us how to school why would a man who probably has 80 000 90 100 000 words in his

00:46:26.100 fingertips and i think the average person only has like 30 000 why would he swear it puzzled me

00:46:33.860 because you swear sometimes not because you can't articulate it but because you want an

00:46:39.460 exclamation point you want to show how passionate you are and probably because you're a newfoundlander

00:46:45.380 and that's my story about swearing sometimes you swear because you want to make a point by smashing

00:46:52.740 things a bit that you couldn't even if you had the most amazing description i think that's why i

00:47:00.500 swore a little bit last week so i'm not going to guarantee it'll never happen again but i take

00:47:06.900 your word your caution about not doing it too commonly and it also gave me a chance to tell you

00:47:14.500 my rex murphy challenged the other guy with a big word story and on that note if anyone's still watching

00:47:21.460 i bid you adieu until next time on behalf of all of us here rebel world headquarters to you at home

00:47:26.100 good night and keep fighting for freedom

Rebel News Podcast - May 07, 2019

Jason Kenney wants to strengthen campus free speech — and a newspaper comes out against it

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