Rebel News Podcast - Let me show you what they're doing at Canada's journalism schools (it's bad)

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. There's nothing worse than a journalism school.

00:00:04.820 I mean, it's terrible. But don't take it from me. I'm going to quote to you from the Ryersonian.

00:00:10.460 That's the official newspaper, the Ryerson School of Journalism.

00:00:14.020 I can barely read it without getting exhausted and cranky. Imagine living it. I'll take you

00:00:19.200 through that because I want to show you the next crop of official journalists that are just ready

00:00:24.440 to take up a perch at the CBC or the Globe and Mail. It's incredible. But before I do, let me

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00:01:12.660 Tonight, let me show you what they're doing at Canada's journalism schools. It's bad.

00:01:18.980 It's March 26th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:23.460 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:27.360 Look, there's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:31.660 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my

00:01:36.300 bloody right to do so.

00:01:37.560 You know, I think the only person in our whole company who has a journalism degree is David

00:01:46.440 Menzies, but of course his real talents and skills are not taught in schools. It's street smarts and

00:01:52.440 intuition and a friendly way with people never losing his cool, a stubbornness that you don't

00:01:57.840 even really realize is happening because it's done with a smile. It's a clever approach.

00:02:02.600 Reminds me a bit of Columbo.

00:02:04.900 Oh, uh, one other thing. In regard to your practice of recording people's comments after

00:02:10.740 the screening, what is that, like a question and answer period? I mean, the people in the

00:02:14.040 audience, they raise their hands and they ask questions and you stand up there on the stage

00:02:17.740 and you answer them?

00:02:18.460 No, usually we meet in the lobby. Um, we discuss the film there and I record their comments.

00:02:24.120 That's, uh, that's all.

00:02:25.020 Oh, you do it in the lobby?

00:02:26.420 Yes.

00:02:26.920 Oh, fine.

00:02:33.180 Gee, now that's peculiar.

00:02:35.520 What is peculiar?

00:02:38.000 No, it's peculiar that you would walk into the lobby. I see a man that was lying on the

00:02:43.020 floor. He just got shot in the middle of all that excitement. Turn on a tape recorder.

00:02:47.920 Alberta Premier Ralph Klein had the same style. The journalist Joe Warmington does too.

00:02:53.340 My point is, David's our only J school grad and his strengths as a journalist didn't come

00:03:01.820 from there. And even then, it was a quarter century ago. Oh boy, are journalism schools

00:03:06.940 different today. You know, we're hiring here at Rebel News looking for a few journalists

00:03:11.360 and I wouldn't discriminate against someone who went to journalism school, but if they

00:03:15.100 had a journalism degree, I'd sure check them out to make sure they weren't just brainwashed

00:03:20.080 from it. Because that's what it's like these days. If you doubt me, think back to the insane

00:03:25.260 struggle session the National Post had where dozens of their own young woke staff tried

00:03:31.540 to get Rex Murphy fired for the sin of writing a column saying that most Canadians are not

00:03:36.220 racist. I mean, seriously, why would you have a paid subscription to such a newspaper if

00:03:41.340 you call yourself a conservative? Anyways, I've just got to show you the news today out

00:03:47.440 of Ryerson's School of Journalism. It's incredible. But I want to show you just one more thing first,

00:03:52.640 just a reminder of the state of the journalism industry in Canada today. And by industry, I mean

00:03:58.520 the jobs. If you're going to journalism school, presumably it's because you want a journalism job.

00:04:04.460 Not sure why you'd want that. Well, look at this. Just in the past few months,

00:04:10.000 closing of Huffington Post Canada, abrupt and devastating, editor says. Midday announcement

00:04:17.000 and decision to immediately stop publishing caught staff off guard. Yeah, I bet it did. I don't know

00:04:22.500 if you saw that, but the entire Huffington Post organization in Canada, which had been around

00:04:27.560 for years, had published thousands, tens of thousands of stories. It was just deleted by their

00:04:34.140 owners. The site literally was erased. Everyone was fired in Canada. And the staff, it's not funny,

00:04:42.260 it's sad. They learned about it by going on the internet and seeing literally nothing where their

00:04:47.220 website once stood. Their own owners did that to them. That's amazing to me. And this is just from

00:04:53.780 a few weeks before that. Bell Media lays off 210 employees in Toronto area, half from newsrooms,

00:04:59.860 says Union. The union representing some Bell Media workers says a total of 210 employees in the Toronto

00:05:04.900 area are being laid off, with most of the notifications taking place today. So that's

00:05:09.900 just from the last month, those two stories. Here's more. This is a story about the Vancouver Sun and

00:05:14.820 Vancouver Province newspapers, the layoffs. And here's more. This is a headline that George Orwell would

00:05:19.860 love. I'm serious. Take a look at this. I don't even understand this headline.

00:05:22.860 Niagara newspaper offices to be shuttered as commitment to local journalism continues. What?

00:05:32.020 You know, that would be like saying, you know, after World War II, the Axis powers came in second

00:05:37.920 place while the Allies came in next to last. That's just quite a headline about a newspaper shutting down

00:05:45.720 to serve you better. My point is journalism, as an industry, is in a terrible crisis in Canada.

00:05:53.780 Although there's never been more demand for news, there's never been a bigger supply of news,

00:05:58.840 there's never been more ways to get news, something's not a fit. And let me now take you

00:06:05.140 for a walk through Ryerson's Journalism School, which is truly like taking a walk through an insane

00:06:09.920 asylum 100 years ago before those things were shut down. It's sheer madness. I think 1.00

00:06:15.640 my insane asylum analogy is strong. It feels like they're cooking up mental illness in these places.

00:06:22.340 This is from the Ryersonian, which is the official in-house news publication of the journalism school

00:06:28.200 there. So this is where they practice being who they want to be. This is where they show what they

00:06:33.040 think leading journalism is. This is the best of the next crop of journalists. Ryerson School of

00:06:39.100 Journalism's new leaders say there's a lot of work to be done. All right, I agree. But it's not what you

00:06:44.520 think. Ryerson School of Journalism's newly appointed interim co-chairs, Asma Malik and Gavin

00:06:51.260 Adamson, have released a list of five measurements to guide the school's renewed commitment to meeting

00:06:57.020 students' needs. Okay? I'm getting a little nervous. I think student needs at a journalism school are,

00:07:03.180 you know, they need to be taught. Maybe I'm wrong. Here's what they have to say.

00:07:06.340 In an email sent to the program's faculty and students last Wednesday, Malik and Adamson

00:07:13.080 outlined five measures intended to rebuild trust among students. With the support of Ryerson School

00:07:19.900 of Journalism's newly appointed transformation lead, Professor Kamal Al-Soleli, the school will focus

00:07:27.300 on the fundamental role of equity and inclusion in the future of journalism education.

00:07:32.580 I see the transformation plan is a lot more than just a curriculum change, but where students don't

00:07:39.200 have to advocate for their humanity or their worth to the administration, says Al-Soleli.

00:07:44.520 That seems a little bit odd to me. I haven't got any to the learning journalism part yet.

00:07:49.480 Let's go a little deeper. These five measures have been introduced in response to outcry from students

00:07:56.460 and alumni expressing concerns with the school's leadership. In particular, they say the school has not

00:08:00.780 provided effective support for black, indigenous, people of color, and the LGBTQ2IA plus community.

00:08:11.580 I'm XXL, if you're wondering. Following the resignation of former chair Janice Neal and associate

00:08:17.740 chair Lisa Taylor, a call to action was made through an open letter by Ryerson journalism students

00:08:22.880 addressing concerns that the school has contributed to an unsafe learning environment.

00:08:28.160 Unsafe. They don't mean like an open manhole cover or asbestos or no fire alarms. They mean

00:08:36.920 unsafe words and feelings. The school of journalism is not yet a safe place for paper-thin-skinned political

00:08:46.320 powders who think and talk of nothing else other than their grievances and their race and their gender 1.00

00:08:54.020 and their sexuality and just being quarrelsome orcs. Who cares about your skin color and their sexuality? 0.99

00:09:02.780 Do you want to learn how to do journalism or not?

00:09:04.780 The first priority on the list of commitments provided by Malik and Adamson is a permanent student equity task force.

00:09:13.540 This course will consist of four elected members from both undergraduate and graduate students.

00:09:18.300 Members will be collaborating with students and faculty on initiatives to address critical

00:09:22.300 equity concerns inside and outside the classroom.

00:09:26.300 Just to be clear, this isn't about how they learn. This is about how they quarrel.

00:09:29.860 It's like an internal human rights commission, a perpetual internal struggle session, a permanent war of all against all.

00:09:37.380 L-G-B-T-2-Q-I-A-7-B-63-minus versus aboriginals folks versus black folks, whatever. 0.99

00:09:45.820 I'm not sure if they even allow straight white men in at all anymore. I'd have to check.

00:09:50.960 But then they quote one of the new bosses of the school, that Kamal Al-Soleli guy.

00:09:56.280 He says the administration needs to focus on conversations that are being had between faculty and students.

00:10:02.160 Journalism schools need to do a better job of making sure students are understanding the way free speech is not applied equally,

00:10:10.780 Al-Soleli says.

00:10:11.680 And the ways in which some students' words are seen as acceptable, while others are not, based on their race or sexual orientation.

00:10:20.200 What?

00:10:21.680 Now this isn't even good journalism that I'm reading you, is it?

00:10:26.460 They don't actually quote the man.

00:10:28.680 They don't explain what that means.

00:10:30.900 Did Al-Soleli actually say that about free speech?

00:10:34.540 Did they just interpret that that way?

00:10:36.900 I don't know.

00:10:37.440 Well, good journalism would probably put his words in quotes, what he actually said, and explain it.

00:10:42.180 Now, I'm not going to go through it all.

00:10:43.360 It's just so fuzzy and weird.

00:10:45.400 And none of it, as you may have noticed, has anything to do with the world and reporting and getting a job.

00:10:54.680 It's all just a big psychotherapy session for people who live in one of the freest, best countries in the world, Canada.

00:11:00.700 And many of these folks, frankly, just came here, but they prefer to demonize the country that's just given them freedom and prosperity.

00:11:08.160 Pretty gross, if you ask me.

00:11:09.660 But let me read to you those five things that the School of Journalism is going to focus on now.

00:11:14.780 Just to tell you, spelling, grammar, that's not what we're talking about.

00:11:18.400 Let me quickly go through the five of them.

00:11:21.740 Number one, supporting establishment of a permanent student equity task force.

00:11:25.380 I mentioned that already.

00:11:26.140 Number two, re-examining and redesigning our curriculum to incorporate critical content that draws from experiences of historically marginalized communities, including but not limited to queer, indigenous, and black communities, as well as faith communities who may be historically marginalized.

00:11:43.600 What's that got to do with, can you cover City Hall?

00:11:47.500 Can you scrutinize government documents?

00:11:51.380 You just, you're navel-gazing.

00:11:53.020 Point four, providing journalism-focused equity training to faculty, staff, and instructors so that the teachers have to learn more.

00:12:04.180 Are the kids learning anything here?

00:12:06.340 And point five, offering more frequently existing Ryerson School of Journalism courses that take critical approaches to these issues, reporting on race, reporting on indigenous issues, reporting on religion and queer media.

00:12:19.000 Additions, alternatives to these courses will also be explored.

00:12:23.020 I'm exhausted just reading this.

00:12:25.860 And I didn't even read all five of them.

00:12:27.900 These students are not learning journalism.

00:12:30.460 They're not learning how to research, how to write, how to think critically, how to physically go and get the news and report it, how to challenge political authority, challenge corporate authority, how to use modern tools like social media, how to make a living in a changing industry, how to survive when hundreds of working journalists are being laid off.

00:12:52.220 They're being taught how to grouse and gripe and bitch and complain and moan and think of themselves not based on talent or merit or character, but based on race and sex and sexuality and other irrelevant criteria that have nothing to do with reporting the news.

00:13:09.100 And they're a laugh and they're a joke and it's pitiful and most of them won't find work.

00:13:15.040 But they'll have debts and they'll be taught that that was someone else's fault.

00:13:20.920 But some of them actually will get hired by the CBC mainly because there's never a recession there.

00:13:27.320 But it's CTV and Global TV and Post Media and the Global Mail and the Toronto Star too.

00:13:33.540 And you're going to start seeing more and more of the world through their angry, racist, sexist eyes.

00:13:40.420 It's already happening.

00:13:42.580 None of them have put together the thought that maybe their insane ideology is one reason why so many media of the left are dying.

00:13:53.620 And that alternative media like ours are growing.

00:13:58.660 But I want to let you know the future of our government journalists coming out of our government schools.

00:14:04.660 And it's bleak.

00:14:06.280 Stay with us for more.

00:14:07.180 Thank you.

00:14:19.760 Yamiche.

00:14:20.240 Thanks so much, Mr. President.

00:14:25.720 You've said over and over again that immigrants shouldn't come to this country right now.

00:14:30.200 This isn't the time to come.

00:14:31.440 That message is not being received.

00:14:33.020 Instead, the perception of you that got you elected as a moral, decent man is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and entrusting you with unaccompanied minors. 1.00

00:14:41.860 How do you resolve that tension and how are you choosing which families can stay and which can go, given the fact that even though with Title 42, there are some families that are staying?

00:14:52.640 And is there a timeline for when we won't be seeing these overcrowded facilities run by CPB when it comes to unaccompanied minors?

00:15:00.820 Well, look, I guess I should be flattered people are coming because I'm the nice guy.

00:15:05.940 That's the reason why it's happening, that I'm a decent man or however it's phrased.

00:15:10.140 You know, that's why they're coming, because no, Biden's a good guy.

00:15:12.720 That, my friends, is called accountability journalism in the era of Joe Biden.

00:15:18.860 Mr.

00:15:19.240 President, people say you're amazing.

00:15:20.980 I just say you're terrific.

00:15:23.140 And these foreign migrants, they think you're the bee's knees.

00:15:27.640 What do you make of it?

00:15:28.940 I'm not even kidding.

00:15:30.260 It went on at some length that way.

00:15:32.620 Joe Biden's first press conference in over two months.

00:15:36.100 There were a few other moments where he seemed to have forgot where he was or what he was saying.

00:15:42.760 Here's a taste of that.

00:15:44.220 The best way to get something done, if you hold near and dear to you that you like to be able to...

00:15:53.420 Anyway, we're going to get a lot done.

00:15:59.300 Yeah, I'm not sure if this guy's ready for prime time.

00:16:02.200 Joining us now via Skype is our friend Joel Pollack, senior editor-at-large at Breitbart.com.

00:16:07.360 Joel, what did you make of Joe Biden's first press conference in two months?

00:16:14.220 I have to say it was unimpressive.

00:16:16.660 I don't think that he inspired a lot of confidence in his leadership.

00:16:20.700 He was rambling at times.

00:16:22.240 He went off on tangents.

00:16:24.300 He was brittle, irascible.

00:16:26.840 He doesn't like questions and never has.

00:16:29.280 And he said a lot of things that were simply untrue.

00:16:32.800 He claimed that Trump never stood up to China on human rights, for example, which is complete nonsense.

00:16:37.960 If anything, it's the reverse.

00:16:39.380 Joe Biden was pushing for China's inclusion in the WTO, regardless of its human rights record.

00:16:44.580 He has family business interests in China and all of that.

00:16:48.060 So I don't think it was good on substance.

00:16:51.400 He exceeded expectations only in that expectations for Joe Biden are so low because he really is not fully capable of being president, running the country.

00:17:02.740 So the fact that he could read from his notes and speak in more or less complete sentences, at least some of the time, meant that he surpassed expectations.

00:17:11.040 He didn't have a meltdown on camera, at least not too many of them.

00:17:14.600 There were a couple of hiccups where he lost his train of thought.

00:17:17.380 But I think the most disturbing part was when he said that the media ought to be satisfied with his promise that they could have access to the migrant detention facilities when his policies are in place, when he's satisfied with conditions.

00:17:32.920 In other words, you have to wait for Joe Biden to set up a Potemkin village. 0.55

00:17:37.520 And then you can visit the Potemkin village and write about that as if that is what happened on the border.

00:17:43.320 And the media seem OK with this.

00:17:45.800 There was one question about it, but for the most part, we're not seeing any kind of pushback.

00:17:51.440 There's a couple of murmurs from journalists saying this isn't real transparency, but we're not seeing anything like the collective action that the White House press corps frequently took against President Trump when he used a phrase they didn't like, for example.

00:18:05.860 This is the media throwing itself at the feet of the new administration and undermining the public interest because we really ought to know what's going on at the border facilities and Biden doesn't want to let us see it.

00:18:19.300 So I think that it was overall a negative performance by Joe Biden.

00:18:25.120 He referred to his opponent as racist, even while claiming that he represents Republicans as well.

00:18:30.560 He even joked, if you can call it a joke, about the end of the Republican Party.

00:18:34.960 This is either a man who's not in full possession of his faculties or this is a man who is every bit as nasty as he has been at times in his career without the other qualities he has occasionally shown in his career, the iconoclasm, the willingness to work with people on the other side.

00:18:51.820 But he is performing poorly, and I don't think this was an inspiring press conference at all.

00:18:59.040 I think it actually hurt him more than it helped.

00:19:01.600 You know, it's fascinating that he says basically, guys, I can't show you what's going on at the border.

00:19:05.760 It's so bad. Let me fix it first.

00:19:08.640 Like you say, Potemkin Village, and the media say, OK, yeah.

00:19:12.180 I mean, it's I think Biden's performance was weak.

00:19:15.780 I think he looked like he was not all there.

00:19:17.820 But it's the journalist's performance that I think is the most stunning.

00:19:23.040 I think they failed worse than he did.

00:19:25.680 Let me show you a tweet by Ari Fleischer.

00:19:28.360 He's a Republican, but I'd call him a moderate Republican.

00:19:31.100 I think it was George W. Bush's press secretary for a while.

00:19:34.740 And he points out that he has never seen a president of either stripe bring sort of scripted answers in a briefing book and work through that.

00:19:45.400 I mean, it looked like he was following a script, calling on certain reporters.

00:19:50.700 He had their faces and their names written.

00:19:54.220 He looked like he was being helped through it.

00:19:57.460 Ari Fleischer, I think, is moderate enough that he would criticize Trump sometimes and praise Trump sometimes.

00:20:04.000 Like he's not a diehard.

00:20:05.220 And here he is saying this president was not actually there.

00:20:10.600 He's not actually able to answer questions in real time.

00:20:13.980 Not that he even allowed questions.

00:20:16.160 I mean, it implied that the questions were just as scripted as the answers.

00:20:20.900 What do you make of that?

00:20:23.360 I don't know if the questions were scripted.

00:20:25.520 And I do know that there has been reporting that the White House press office reviews the questions that are asked in some of these press briefings.

00:20:34.420 So it's entirely possible they knew what was coming.

00:20:37.800 And that's why he had to stick to the order of journalists.

00:20:41.040 But I do think some of it was impromptu.

00:20:43.500 Some of it was improvised and on the spot.

00:20:46.300 I don't think it's necessarily terrible for a president to have notes or something to refer to.

00:20:50.680 I do, however, think it's odd when he can't answer the question he is being asked and instead has to talk about whatever is in front of him.

00:20:59.720 That happened at one point.

00:21:00.660 I think it was a Bloomberg reporter asked Joe Biden a question about China.

00:21:04.900 And he responded by continuing to talk about the border.

00:21:08.480 It was strange.

00:21:10.540 And that happened because he is overcoached.

00:21:14.360 He is not fully in charge of himself or his administration.

00:21:19.120 And you're right.

00:21:19.960 The media were more embarrassing than the president.

00:21:22.600 Now, some of them did OK.

00:21:24.980 There was a reporter from ABC News who asked a very probing question about the migrants, basically saying that the crisis had reached proportions that were unacceptable.

00:21:38.980 And he got very upset about that.

00:21:41.320 He said he took umbrage at the suggestion that he found it acceptable.

00:21:45.780 But there were other reporters.

00:21:47.120 Yamiche is one of them.

00:21:47.960 There were others who simply flattered the president.

00:21:50.540 Some completely wasted the opportunity to ask him a question.

00:21:53.340 There were too many questions about the filibuster.

00:21:56.140 There were questions about whether he's running in 2024.

00:21:59.240 Not one question about the pandemic.

00:22:01.220 Not one question about schools.

00:22:02.680 There were no questions about Iran in the Middle East.

00:22:06.700 There were just I mean, if I'm looking at it from the left, there's no there were no questions about climate change.

00:22:11.860 He got into climate change a little bit.

00:22:13.420 There were no questions about it.

00:22:14.800 There were no questions about the FDA not having an administrator.

00:22:19.840 I mean, there are so many things that the press just left out.

00:22:22.520 Now, they did ask, again, some good questions, but they missed opportunities for follow up when he said that the filibuster procedural rule in the Senate was a vestige of Jim Crow, the racist segregationist regime in the southern United States.

00:22:34.420 Nobody followed up and said, well, was it racist when you supported it?

00:22:39.720 Was it racist when Barack Obama supported it?

00:22:42.400 I mean, you can find the video footage of Obama and Biden defending the filibuster.

00:22:46.140 So are they Jim Crow racists?

00:22:48.380 These are obvious follow ups that were not asked.

00:22:50.620 And I think what's so difficult about this is that the press aren't doing their job and those journalists who might do their job, such as the Breitbart White House correspondent or the Fox News White House correspondent, they were not allowed into the room.

00:23:05.260 It was a select group of journalists who were allowed in there.

00:23:08.980 And Biden, I mean, some of the gaps he made were funny.

00:23:11.640 I was laughing when a reporter from Univision asked him about migrants and what he would tell them or how he would prevent them from coming.

00:23:21.380 And his answer was the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

00:23:25.480 Now, what he meant was we'll do it over the long term.

00:23:29.980 We want to fix these countries so people don't come right away. 1.00

00:23:33.200 But it was just so funny that he used that phrase because these migrants are literally taking a journey of a thousand miles on foot.

00:23:40.400 So, you know, there are just things he said and did that were that were hilarious and not in a good way.

00:23:45.940 It was interesting. Also, Donald Trump spoke to Laura Ingraham later in the evening, commenting on the press conference.

00:23:50.280 And Donald Trump said that the press had behaved entirely differently.

00:23:53.340 He's absolutely correct.

00:23:55.180 And Donald Trump actually criticized Joe Biden for the inhumane conditions in the migrant facilities.

00:24:00.540 And I think Joe Biden has given Trump that opportunity.

00:24:03.380 Trump can now turn that whole argument right around and say, you know what, Joe Biden, your policy is inhumane and your migrant facilities are inhumane.

00:24:10.400 And there's nothing Joe Biden can do because it's true.

00:24:13.200 And he won't allow the reporters to to get in there, whereas Trump did.

00:24:17.280 I went to one of the shelters that was open and other people went to the Border Patrol facilities themselves.

00:24:25.780 So, you know, this this administration is getting away with what no other administration could because the press are so happy it's not Donald Trump.

00:24:35.320 They're willing to help Joe Biden in almost any way possible.

00:24:38.240 Yeah. Up here in Canada, I use the phrase the media party because they work as a team.

00:24:43.780 They work as a clique. They're all in sync.

00:24:46.620 And I think they're much more effective than the Democratic Party or up here, the Liberal Party, because they call them they're the refs. 0.95

00:24:53.260 They're not the players, but they're the refs. 0.99

00:24:55.040 But they're players. I mean, they're the refs. 1.00

00:24:58.480 They're the refs who take one side like that NHL ref who had to get fired recently for saying he wanted to penalize. 1.00

00:25:05.140 I think it was the Nashville Predators. But anyway, they're actually participants.

00:25:09.620 They're no longer referees. Well, and that's why Donald Trump called them the opposition party.

00:25:13.820 They provide the intellectual coherence such as it is for the Democratic Party.

00:25:19.480 The Democrats actually could not exist without the media.

00:25:22.020 It's unclear who controls who, but who controls whom.

00:25:26.100 But I think the Democrats are given their marching orders essentially by journalists and they work very closely together.

00:25:33.200 And when journalists dare to question Democrats, Democrats act all insulted and betrayed.

00:25:38.220 But that's the reality.

00:25:40.020 You know, there's a Canadian named Daniel Dale who started in Toronto and he would come up with absurd lists.

00:25:48.300 He would say every time former mayor of Toronto Rob Ford lies, here's a hundred times, here's a thousand times.

00:25:55.620 And you'd look through it and 99% of it was just, you know, a different opinion or a different spin on things.

00:26:03.940 They weren't lies, but he made sort of a cottage industry of saying now it's up to 2,000 lies.

00:26:10.040 Now it's 3,000 lies.

00:26:12.340 Well, it wasn't long before he was hired away to the United States.

00:26:16.760 I think he went to CNN to count the number of lies that Donald Trump made.

00:26:23.180 And I say again, I mean, all politicians lie from time to time, but this was absolute infinitesimally nitpicking.

00:26:31.660 So Daniel Dale, a Canadian, would nitpick any trivial, phraseological inexactitude of Donald Trump and say,

00:26:41.340 oh, we're up to 10,000 lies now.

00:26:43.680 And I say all this because where is that nitpicky, total scrutiny approach to Joe Biden?

00:26:52.420 It's impossible because it would, everything he does is subject to, would be subject to such scrutiny, but it just hasn't been done by the media.

00:27:02.820 Maybe, actually, I can't name a single person who's done that to Joe Biden.

00:27:07.900 Yeah, Daniel Dale, Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post.

00:27:10.880 These are the fact checkers who built their reputations attacking Donald Trump.

00:27:14.180 And upon Biden's assent to the Oval Office, they declared that he was not going to be as error prone or as lie prone as Donald Trump.

00:27:27.660 They declared that in advance.

00:27:29.640 And that's really declaring their own bias in advance.

00:27:33.080 And yes, the Washington Post, I think, once fact checked Donald Trump saying that the Obamas had built a wall around their house.

00:27:39.260 They said, no, it's a fence on top of an existing wall.

00:27:42.500 That was the fact check.

00:27:43.400 And that went in their list of lies, you know.

00:27:46.260 So this fact checking enterprise, I don't think anybody takes it seriously, but because it's just become so blatant in its partisan bias.

00:27:54.160 But the fact checking is really opinionating on behalf of Democrats.

00:27:59.000 And Mr. Dale has a difficult task because he has to justify his continued employment at CNN.

00:28:04.460 So once in a while, he has to fact check Joe Biden, but it's clear he doesn't want to.

00:28:08.260 Yeah, incredible.

00:28:09.300 Hey, Joel, great to see you again.

00:28:10.400 Thanks for taking the time with us.

00:28:12.040 Thank you.

00:28:12.260 Have a great Passover holiday and keep up the fight down there. 0.71

00:28:16.860 Thank you.

00:28:17.300 All right.

00:28:17.580 There you have it.

00:28:17.980 Joel Pollack, senior editor at large of Breitbart.com.

00:28:21.180 He actually watched the whole Biden press conference and live tweeted it, which was quite a service to the rest of us who couldn't bear it.

00:28:29.440 Stay with us.

00:28:30.120 More ahead.

00:28:34.460 Hey, I want to tell you what's exciting right now.

00:28:44.740 We have seven rebels going from our headquarters to Montreal to meet up with Yankee Pollack, who's our Montreal-based reporter.

00:28:54.100 And they're going to spend the weekend reporting on Canada's toughest lockdown.

00:28:58.860 I used to think Toronto was the toughest lockdown, and it's pretty bad here.

00:29:01.800 But Montreal doesn't just have the lockdown.

00:29:03.920 They have a curfew, and their police is vicious.

00:29:08.140 The police don't wear body cams, and they take advantage of them.

00:29:11.620 Their police have been ticketing our people.

00:29:13.900 In fact, last weekend, I think our team got, I don't know, $6,000 or $10,000 worth of fines for being out reporting on the lockdown, even though we're exempt under the lockdown laws.

00:29:24.060 So we're sending—we had five people on the ground last weekend.

00:29:27.140 We're going to have eight people on the ground this weekend.

00:29:30.360 To learn more about it, go to lockdownreports.com.

00:29:33.340 I love these guys.

00:29:34.520 They're doing a great job.

00:29:35.860 It's our new generation of rebels, Mocha and Yankee and Lincoln and Sid and others.

00:29:41.740 So go to lockdownreports.com.

00:29:43.500 That's where we're going to put those videos.

00:29:44.880 And we've already done some, I think, great work out there in Montreal, so I hope you enjoy it.

00:29:50.820 That's it for today and for the week.

00:29:53.160 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:29:57.340 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:29:58.300 We'll be right back.

00:30:12.240 We'll be right back.

00:30:12.580 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - March 27, 2021

Let me show you what they're doing at Canada's journalism schools (it's bad)

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