Rebel News Podcast - Media Party wants Trudeau to crack down on non-bailout media — like Rebel News

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you through a very strange and fairly private letter sent by Canada's media organizations, the big newspapers and the CBC, to the Trudeau government asking for them to bring in more regulations to determine who is and isn't a trusted media source.

00:00:21.880 Hang on, I thought Stephen Gilbeau sort of walked those comments back. No, no, no, no, no. Not only did he not walk them back, but the newspapers are demanding that sort of licensing. I'll prove it to you.

00:00:34.520 Can I invite you to become a premium subscriber? Go to premium.rebelnews.com. It's eight bucks a month. You get the video version of this podcast, which I recommend. All right, here's the podcast.

00:00:51.880 Tonight, it's official. The media that are taking Trudeau's bailout money are asking him to crack down on non-bailout media, saying we can't be trusted. It's February 22nd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:13.600 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:19.500 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:23.560 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:34.540 You know where you're not likely to see any bad news about the billionaire media tycoon Michael Bloomberg?

00:01:40.920 The guy who's just trying to buy the presidency through the Democratic Party?

00:01:45.940 You won't see any bad news about him, no critical news about Bloomberg on Bloomberg.

00:01:51.220 Bloomberg is actually a pretty big media company named after him, Bloomberg News.

00:01:55.920 Pretty reputable. Of course, it tilts left, as all media do, but it's a real company.

00:02:01.100 Not anymore, though.

00:02:02.200 Ever since Michael Bloomberg, the man, threw his pint-sized hat into the ring, Bloomberg, the media empire, hasn't criticized him.

00:02:11.820 Of course not. They're not allowed to. He's the boss.

00:02:14.120 And he's made it crystal clear, only attack Trump.

00:02:18.840 I suppose in many ways that's completely fair.

00:02:22.500 Bloomberg, the man, built his own media company called Bloomberg News.

00:02:26.520 Why can't he toot his own horn?

00:02:29.180 There are so many other media companies in America, it probably won't make a real difference,

00:02:33.420 other than people won't be able to trust Bloomberg, the company, quite as much anymore.

00:02:37.760 In fact, Bloomberg has now made his company the issue.

00:02:42.040 Maybe other media will start doing stories about just how deeply in bed with communist China

00:02:48.420 this supposedly capitalist tycoon has gotten.

00:02:51.980 I mean, just watch this.

00:02:53.220 The guy makes Justin Trudeau look like a Sinophobe.

00:02:56.260 I have literally never even seen a Chinese diplomat say something this crazy.

00:03:02.500 The Communist Party wants to stay in power in China, and they listen to the public.

00:03:08.160 When the public says, I can't breathe the air, Xi Jinping is not a dictator.

00:03:12.940 He has to satisfy his constituents, or he's not going to survive.

00:03:16.640 He's not a dictator?

00:03:17.280 No, he has to.

00:03:19.100 He has a constituency to answer to.

00:03:25.340 He doesn't have a vote.

00:03:26.520 He doesn't have a democracy.

00:03:28.020 He's not held accountable by voters.

00:03:30.840 If his advisors gave him...

00:03:32.240 Is they check on him just a revolution?

00:03:34.740 You're not going to have a revolution.

00:03:36.680 No government survives without the will of the majority of its people.

00:03:40.260 Oh, holy cow.

00:03:43.640 I mean, when Trudeau says that, he sounds dumb and naive.

00:03:48.120 When Bloomberg says that, it sounds terrifying, because we know he's not dumb and naive.

00:03:54.080 But my point is, Bloomberg the man says, trust Bloomberg, the company, which says, trust Bloomberg

00:03:59.760 the man.

00:04:00.460 And while it's all a bit much, and Bloomberg has more than $60 billion he can throw at other

00:04:04.860 media companies too, by the way.

00:04:06.020 He could pretty much just buy every single TV station and newspaper in America.

00:04:10.280 If he really wanted to, he's got enough money, though there are antitrust rules that would

00:04:14.580 stop that.

00:04:16.280 I'm not so sure it would work, because people would resist.

00:04:19.320 It'll be fascinating to watch in any event.

00:04:21.540 But my obvious point is, if you want bad news about Bloomberg the man, you'll have to look

00:04:26.300 somewhere else besides Bloomberg the media company.

00:04:28.960 So what about in Canada, where 99% of all newspapers are now on Justin Trudeau's payroll?

00:04:37.620 I don't mean 50% or even 90%.

00:04:40.540 I mean, almost all of them.

00:04:44.680 Name me a single newspaper, and I'll answer, because it's easy.

00:04:48.840 Because there was already an oligopoly of a few big companies controlling everything.

00:04:53.300 So if you name the Calgary Herald, or the Edmonton Journal, or the Ottawa Citizen, or Vancouver

00:04:58.140 Sun, Vancouver Province, Montreal Gazette, Regina Leader Post, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, National

00:05:02.860 Post, Toronto Sun, Edmonton, Ottawa Sun, Calgary Sun, they're all just one company, right?

00:05:08.660 It's called PostMedia.

00:05:09.720 And that company gets $140,000 a week from Justin Trudeau.

00:05:14.700 Those are just the daily newspapers.

00:05:17.040 I don't have time to read out all the names of the weekly newspapers or specialty newspapers

00:05:21.220 owned by PostMedia, and that's just one company.

00:05:25.580 But there are only a handful of companies that cover, seriously, 99% of all the media.

00:05:32.180 I'm not exaggerating.

00:05:33.780 The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the regional BC papers, the Atlantic papers.

00:05:39.080 99% of the newspapers in this country are part of the bailout.

00:05:43.400 So I'm not so worried about Bloomberg.

00:05:45.220 He's huge, but he's just one guy with one company.

00:05:48.180 If he buries bad news about himself, you'll probably hear it from someone else.

00:05:53.680 But what about in Canada, where I swear I do not exaggerate, 99% of the media are in

00:05:59.260 league with each other now.

00:06:00.720 They're all in it together now.

00:06:02.260 And by that, I mean they have all taken the plunge and taken Justin Trudeau's government

00:06:07.580 bailout.

00:06:09.180 They're all in it together now.

00:06:10.560 It's exactly what I said would be impossible for Bloomberg, even though he's so rich, because

00:06:14.660 he literally would not be allowed to buy 90% of American media, because it would be an

00:06:19.480 illegal trust, an illegal monopoly.

00:06:22.040 He would be stopped.

00:06:22.700 Well, we have that in Canada, but it's 99%.

00:06:27.460 Oh, and they have a lobby group, as you would expect.

00:06:31.640 They got their $600 million newspaper bailout.

00:06:34.100 That's the newspaper side.

00:06:36.140 The CBC gets another $1.5 billion direct from Trudeau.

00:06:39.980 All these groups want to keep the party going.

00:06:42.280 It's your money, so they're adverse to your interests, and they lobby Trudeau to get it.

00:06:47.760 And look at the main story on the front page, as it were, of their lobby group's website.

00:06:53.100 This is their main story today.

00:06:55.440 Media companies call on Parliament to support policies that favor trusted sources of original

00:07:03.460 news.

00:07:06.120 So they just said it.

00:07:07.720 Not to you.

00:07:09.460 Like Bloomberg, they don't report embarrassing things about Bloomberg.

00:07:13.620 When Canada's media cartel announces their plans that are adverse to consumer choice, or

00:07:19.460 to freedom, or to competition, they're not going to shout it out to you.

00:07:23.000 They'll put it on their lobbyist website and target it to Parliament.

00:07:26.740 Not on the front page of the newspapers that, you know, go to mere citizens.

00:07:31.820 I'm sorry, but the newspapers don't value you anymore.

00:07:34.720 The TV stations don't value you anymore.

00:07:37.480 You used to be the center of things in the media.

00:07:40.580 You paid a subscription fee for a newspaper.

00:07:43.340 You bought it at a newsstand.

00:07:45.000 Your eyeballs were valued to advertisers.

00:07:48.380 But neither of those things are really true anymore.

00:07:52.580 You probably get your news for free, probably on the internet.

00:07:55.600 And sure, your eyes are still worth something to advertisers, very much so, but probably not

00:08:00.860 to companies buying half a page of ads in a printed newspaper.

00:08:06.320 Probably do a Facebook ad or a Google ad or something like that.

00:08:10.020 So you aren't really even part of this discussion anymore, other than the source for tax dollars

00:08:16.200 that Trudeau will extract from you and give to newspapers that you don't even read anymore.

00:08:20.420 Scroll down the page a little bit.

00:08:23.200 Look at who signed this begging letter.

00:08:26.720 It's everyone.

00:08:28.040 La Presse and Le Divoire.

00:08:30.260 Those are two left-wing Montreal newspapers.

00:08:33.200 National Observer.

00:08:34.100 That's the far left news website in Vancouver.

00:08:37.040 But it's actually a propaganda site.

00:08:38.460 It was started by the sister of Joel Solomon, the creator of the Tides Foundation.

00:08:43.480 Post Media is on there.

00:08:44.500 Toronto Star is on there.

00:08:45.680 The CBC is on there.

00:08:46.680 These companies used to actually compete against each other once upon a time.

00:08:51.060 They used to compete against each other, hammer and tong.

00:08:53.320 But now they're partners.

00:08:55.120 They're allies because they have the identical self-interest now, working together to pressure

00:09:00.280 Justin Trudeau's government to give them more of your money.

00:09:05.480 They're allies now.

00:09:06.560 They're not competitors now.

00:09:07.660 They're allied to press Trudeau to give them things that they can't convince you to give

00:09:12.660 them directly as a customer.

00:09:13.740 And what will they do in return for Trudeau?

00:09:18.060 Well, they just said, didn't they?

00:09:20.060 They want Trudeau to favor them and they'll return the favor like Bloomberg to Bloomberg.

00:09:26.460 Favor them over the handful of holdouts who don't take the bailout.

00:09:31.160 I can think of four in the whole country.

00:09:33.580 Us here at Rebel News.

00:09:34.820 I think we're the biggest.

00:09:36.800 True North.

00:09:37.500 That's Candace Malcolm and Andrew Lawton and friends.

00:09:40.700 Great people.

00:09:41.180 The Post Millennial.

00:09:43.280 Have you been to that website?

00:09:44.340 Good stuff.

00:09:44.960 Good work.

00:09:46.280 And Black Locks.

00:09:47.420 I've mentioned them before.

00:09:48.400 They're a small Ottawa-based news website.

00:09:51.240 The total number of staff at all four of these independent media I just named, including us,

00:09:57.460 it's got to be less than 50 people.

00:09:59.780 In the whole country, we're the 1%, but not the richest 1% as that term is often used.

00:10:06.840 We're the independent 1%.

00:10:09.600 We're the 1% who aren't on the take.

00:10:13.860 And that's what the media party wants to change.

00:10:16.360 And you bet Justin Trudeau does too.

00:10:18.720 Here, let's go through this weird lobbying letter.

00:10:21.900 And it was published just two days ago.

00:10:23.880 It's sort of strange.

00:10:26.220 I fancy that.

00:10:26.840 I don't think it was on the front page of your newspaper that you might have read.

00:10:33.240 It was just on the front page of their lobbying website, although they were talking about you

00:10:37.660 and what you'd be allowed to read and what you wouldn't.

00:10:41.580 Here, let me go through this letter that was sent to Parliament.

00:10:45.000 Media companies call on Parliament to support policies that favor trusted sources of original

00:10:50.760 news.

00:10:51.180 That makes me laugh.

00:10:52.580 Really.

00:10:52.980 And this is going to shock you.

00:10:55.900 Sorry to ruin the suspense.

00:10:57.560 Spoiler alert.

00:10:58.320 They think that they're the only trustworthy ones.

00:11:03.520 And I suppose they are.

00:11:06.000 They're the only ones that Justin Trudeau can trust to give them his money, your money.

00:11:14.340 So if that's what they mean by trust, the only newspapers that Trudeau can trust, they're

00:11:20.140 right.

00:11:21.840 Trudeau doesn't trust us, that's for sure.

00:11:23.840 Remember, he keeps trying to censor us, either by calling the cops on me for writing a book

00:11:30.420 about him or banning us at the Rebel and our friends at True North from the leaders debates.

00:11:35.620 Remember, that happened in October.

00:11:37.880 So it's, I suppose, true that the media party are the only trustworthy media if it's Trudeau's

00:11:44.280 trust that counts as opposed to your trust that counts.

00:11:48.160 I put it to you that it's the opposite.

00:11:49.580 That we, the 1%, the tiny band of rebels and our allies, we're the only trustworthy ones

00:11:54.320 that you can trust not to be paid off by the people we're supposed to be holding to account.

00:11:58.940 Justin Trudeau and his government.

00:12:00.400 How can you take money from someone you're covering?

00:12:03.220 They keep talking about who's trustworthy, and they have decided who will decide.

00:12:06.920 They will.

00:12:07.960 Get this.

00:12:08.400 I'll read some more from their letter.

00:12:09.480 As a result of those discussions, CBC Radio Canada and the Winnipeg Free Press launched

00:12:15.640 a pilot project in Winnipeg, sharing resources on weekends and cross-linking trusted news content

00:12:21.600 on their websites to better serve that community.

00:12:24.240 The group is continuing to explore other areas of possible collaboration.

00:12:28.620 Oh, okay.

00:12:29.960 So it's Trudeau's CBC, the official state broadcaster with government journalists.

00:12:36.480 They'll decide who's trustworthy?

00:12:39.660 They just said so.

00:12:41.060 And they'll promote those voices using government money?

00:12:44.580 They just said so.

00:12:46.660 Let me read some more.

00:12:48.060 The journalism being produced every day by people in your community is important.

00:12:52.640 Now more than ever, we encourage you to support Canadian media in your community.

00:12:57.060 The letter says,

00:12:58.700 A strong democracy depends on diverse sources of trusted news.

00:13:03.100 We all have a role to play.

00:13:06.480 What does that mean?

00:13:07.800 I'm in the community.

00:13:09.140 We're all in the community.

00:13:09.900 I'm Canadian.

00:13:12.020 We at the Rebel meet the term diverse.

00:13:13.700 If by that you mean different points of view, we're different than the other guys.

00:13:18.680 But what's that trusted part again?

00:13:20.720 Trusted by whom?

00:13:21.580 I don't trust the CBC or the Toronto Star or many of the other media on the bailout now.

00:13:27.360 Maybe they don't trust me in return.

00:13:29.400 Many Americans don't trust Bloomberg media's reporting anymore.

00:13:33.220 But at least in America, they have other choices.

00:13:35.960 And in America, Bloomberg hasn't asked the government to favor his personal company.

00:13:41.060 And that's what these Canadian grifters just did. 0.88

00:13:43.540 They already command 99% of the market.

00:13:46.540 Now they're trying to decide who is or isn't trustworthy.

00:13:49.860 And they want Trudeau to enforce their definition.

00:13:53.320 They said so.

00:13:54.200 They want to change the laws and the policies of Trudeau's government to favor them.

00:13:59.740 This letter is written to the government.

00:14:02.900 Who pays them? 0.96

00:14:05.480 Earlier this month, the Heritage Minister, Stephen Gilboa, a longtime Trudeau ally, a convicted criminal, by the way, radical environmental activist for years.

00:14:14.260 Here he is being arrested a little while back.

00:14:17.780 He went to CTV to talk about government licenses to prove you're trustworthy.

00:14:23.080 Remember this?

00:14:23.620 To be fair, you've got an agency that wants to enhance its scope of powers to determine what's a trusted news source.

00:14:31.660 So the first question will be, who's to define that?

00:14:33.620 You've got a lot of these groups.

00:14:36.200 This is a recommendation, Evan.

00:14:37.760 The CRTC hasn't decided anything.

00:14:40.920 Okay, but they're recommending that.

00:14:42.380 They're recommending that content providers have to register and get a license.

00:14:47.620 So how will this work?

00:14:49.400 How are you going to regulate websites?

00:14:51.220 How are you going to register all that?

00:14:52.660 Do you buy these recommendations?

00:14:57.100 Well, I mean, one of the recommendations, so you're talking about a couple of different things here,

00:15:02.140 but as far as the licensing is concerned, is if you're a distributor of content in Canada,

00:15:07.580 and obviously, you know, if you're a very small media organization,

00:15:13.040 the requirement probably wouldn't be the same as if you're Facebook or Google.

00:15:17.560 So there would have to be some proportionality embedded into this.

00:15:24.720 But we would ask that they have a license.

00:15:26.920 Yes.

00:15:27.160 Do you really think that was a gaffe, a mistake?

00:15:33.660 Of course it wasn't.

00:15:35.140 The second item on Gilboa's official to-do list, his mandate letters sent to him from Trudeau,

00:15:41.100 is to censor the internet.

00:15:43.500 It's his job description, according to Trudeau.

00:15:45.940 Still, it was a bit startling to hear it spoken that way.

00:15:48.640 Like I say, normally this sort of weird lobbying and censorship isn't published to the population at large.

00:15:54.440 Like I say, Bloomberg, the company, doesn't report bad things about Bloomberg, the man.

00:15:59.060 And this was a case of the media actually reporting bad things about the plans for the media.

00:16:05.080 What a PR mistake.

00:16:06.100 So Gilboa was sent back out the next day to try to clean up the damage.

00:16:12.440 What we are saying is that we will not ask news organizations to have license.

00:16:22.820 And I refer people to the report, which does make an independent panel that makes a recommendation

00:16:29.700 that on the issue of discoverability, media organization would need to have a license.

00:16:36.660 But that, we're not, and media can be confusing.

00:16:40.480 I recognize that because the report talks about media,

00:16:43.260 but not necessarily in the sense necessarily of news agencies.

00:16:47.020 And maybe the confusion comes from there.

00:16:48.880 Thank you very much.

00:16:52.980 But he didn't really walk it back, did he?

00:16:54.840 You heard him at the end.

00:16:55.740 They're going to license media companies.

00:16:57.660 And maybe you saw the odd pundit squawk about what Gilboa was saying.

00:17:03.700 Here's Robin Urbach.

00:17:05.960 Yeah, they were very, very mad.

00:17:07.500 Here's Andrew Coyne, of course.

00:17:09.420 They were mad at Gilboa.

00:17:11.820 And they said so.

00:17:13.320 Here's Chris Selle of Post Media.

00:17:15.760 They said so in their government-trusted, government-funded, controlled opposition kind of way.

00:17:22.620 All those pundits I showed you there who were saying, this is outrageous.

00:17:28.780 Yeah, well, two days ago, their bosses all wrote to Trudeau asking for exactly what Gilboa had proved.

00:17:39.040 What he had suggested, new policies to favor them, the trustworthy ones.

00:17:48.060 I've said it before, 99% is not enough for Trudeau.

00:17:50.540 He wants the last of us 1%ers, the 1% independent media.

00:17:55.140 He wants us dead, arrested.

00:17:57.700 He sent the cops after me.

00:18:00.500 Soon there will be only two kinds of journalists in Canada.

00:18:03.300 Those working for Trudeau, like Urbach, Selle, and Coyne there.

00:18:09.300 And those banned by Trudeau.

00:18:12.640 Stay with us for more.

00:18:25.460 For another four years, and we can't stand that.

00:18:29.120 So I'd like to talk about who we're running against.

00:18:31.980 A billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians.

00:18:38.400 And no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump.

00:18:40.540 I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg.

00:18:42.480 Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns,

00:18:51.640 of harassing women, and of supporting racist policies like redlining and stop and frisk.

00:18:58.880 Holy moly, that's Elizabeth Warren taking off the gloves this week in a Democratic presidential primary debate. 1.00

00:19:07.680 That just got started.

00:19:09.200 It was even more brutal.

00:19:11.180 After that, joining us now via Skype to talk about it is our friend Joel Pollack,

00:19:16.180 the senior editor-at-large at Breitbart.com.

00:19:18.920 Joel, you were there.

00:19:20.180 It was shocking on TV.

00:19:22.860 I see that had the highest debate ratings of any Democratic debate, I think, ever.

00:19:29.480 Not hard to see why.

00:19:31.000 It was truly gloves off.

00:19:33.720 It was.

00:19:34.480 I think the ratings were high because people wanted to see Mike Bloomberg.

00:19:37.760 They wanted to see the new entrant into the field.

00:19:39.720 And I also think they were anticipating this kind of a fight.

00:19:44.380 Bernie Sanders had been hinting at it for days that this was a billionaire trying to come in and take control of the party.

00:19:51.120 And if there was one thing you knew about Bernie Sanders, it's that he would not stand for a billionaire buying out the presidential election.

00:19:59.000 So I think this was a highly anticipated fight virtually on the eve of the Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder heavyweight boxing championship in Las Vegas,

00:20:08.880 which happens on Saturday evening.

00:20:10.540 And very much in that style, right out of the gate, Elizabeth Warren jabbed Michael Bloomberg right between the eyes. 1.00

00:20:16.860 And to his credit, he stayed on his feet.

00:20:18.480 He got in a few good punches of his own, particularly at the expense of Sanders,

00:20:21.880 noting later on that what a wonderful country America is because the best-known socialist in America has three houses and is a millionaire.

00:20:30.480 I think we've got a clip of that.

00:20:31.480 Let's play that right now.

00:20:32.920 It's quite something.

00:20:34.080 Obviously, he had been keeping that powder dry, but he really delivered it well.

00:20:38.600 Here, let's take a look.

00:20:39.740 Mary Bloomberg, would you like to admit that the question was about socialism?

00:20:43.100 What a wonderful country we have.

00:20:44.560 The best-known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses.

00:20:48.360 What did I miss here?

00:20:49.080 Well, you'll miss that I work in Washington, House 1.

00:20:53.400 That's the first problem.

00:20:54.440 Live in Burlington, House 2.

00:20:56.180 That's good.

00:20:56.780 And like thousands of other Vermonters, I do have a summer camp.

00:21:00.000 Forgive me for that.

00:21:01.020 Where is your home?

00:21:02.100 Which tax haven do you have your home?

00:21:04.800 New York City, thank you very much.

00:21:06.720 And I pay all my taxes.

00:21:10.900 You know what?

00:21:11.600 I think a lot of Democrats, pundits, Democrat pundits, thought Michael Bloomberg was not

00:21:17.740 quite prepared, not ready for obvious questions that were coming his way.

00:21:22.960 My theory is that when you're worth $60 billion and the president of a company that's named

00:21:28.740 after you, you don't have a lot of skeptics or dissidents in your world.

00:21:34.060 Everyone's sort of a yes man.

00:21:35.920 It's been a while since he's been mayor of New York, where everyone's a critic.

00:21:38.960 I think maybe he just wasn't ready for the rough and tumble.

00:21:41.560 What am I overstating how poorly he did?

00:21:44.040 There's another argument, which is that he actually did exactly what he needed to do.

00:21:50.260 Now, this is not a view I share, but it is a pretty good argument, which is that all he

00:21:54.740 needed to do is draw out the worst in the other candidates and survive.

00:21:58.620 The only person who he did not manage to draw into a confrontation was Pete Buttigieg.

00:22:03.700 Pete Buttigieg remained focused on Bernie Sanders.

00:22:07.840 And I thought that showed some smart thinking on his part, because Bloomberg is not on the ballot

00:22:13.040 on Saturday when the people of Nevada, in the Democratic Party at least, go to vote in their

00:22:18.540 caucuses.

00:22:19.340 He's also not on the ballot in South Carolina.

00:22:21.740 Now, you might think it's kind of dumb for Bloomberg to go on stage before a caucus or

00:22:27.800 a primary where the result is going to be he loses with 0% of the vote.

00:22:32.920 That was my thinking.

00:22:34.400 But Buttigieg understands that Bloomberg may be around for a while, and his real challenge

00:22:38.880 is actually Bernie Sanders.

00:22:40.340 Sanders is the frontrunner, and Buttigieg is trying to say, look, I'm the real alternative

00:22:44.900 to Sanders.

00:22:46.320 I'm not going to waste my time attacking Michael Bloomberg.

00:22:48.560 I'll leave that to the others, but I'm going to go after the frontrunner.

00:22:51.620 All the other candidates spent their time attacking Michael Bloomberg, and he was able, in a sense,

00:22:57.800 to make them all look angry.

00:22:59.940 So perhaps this is the argument.

00:23:01.940 Perhaps he actually did win the debate because he will be around again next week.

00:23:06.160 Then he's around on Super Tuesday when all the other candidates have essentially punched

00:23:10.320 themselves out, all of them except Pete Buttigieg, who, despite whatever other flaws he has as

00:23:15.040 a candidate, is running a very polished campaign.

00:23:18.340 He is running all over the state of Nevada.

00:23:21.580 He's appearing in communities everywhere.

00:23:23.120 He's doing everything you would need to do to win the state.

00:23:25.300 Not polling very well, though, because I don't think people are warming to his message,

00:23:28.440 which is rather elusive.

00:23:30.180 It's almost an Obama-type, hopey-changing message 12 years after the fact.

00:23:35.040 So it's not really clear what he stands for, and I think that's fundamentally his problem.

00:23:40.340 But he is running an incredibly well-organized and disciplined campaign, and you saw that

00:23:44.640 there in the debate.

00:23:45.660 But Sanders and Bloomberg came to fight, and Sanders especially.

00:23:49.540 And you can see he really let Bloomberg get under his skin very early on, as well as Buttigieg.

00:23:55.400 When Buttigieg was attacking Sanders, Sanders almost flew into a rage on stage.

00:23:59.700 And I think that was Bloomberg's goal.

00:24:01.760 He was trying to get everybody to look angry, unhinged, lacking the leadership temperament.

00:24:06.960 And he kept his cool.

00:24:08.720 He knew that a lot of this was coming.

00:24:09.980 He didn't dispute some of it.

00:24:11.100 Some of it, by the way, I don't think was actually correct.

00:24:13.700 Some of the attacks against him weren't 100% factually correct.

00:24:16.780 He just withstood it and delivered his message.

00:24:19.080 There was one thing he did very poorly, which was on the issue of women making accusations

00:24:24.200 inside of his company and the non-disclosure agreements he made them sign.

00:24:28.240 And that was very poorly handled.

00:24:30.880 You know, Trump would have handled that very differently.

00:24:33.180 And Bloomberg...

00:24:33.860 I agree.

00:24:34.720 I thought that was...

00:24:35.940 He looked so bad.

00:24:37.700 Here, let's play a clip of it just so our viewers know what you're talking about.

00:24:40.300 For sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace.

00:24:44.860 So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those non-disclosure agreements

00:24:51.040 so we can hear their side of the story?

00:24:53.740 We have a very few non-disclosure agreements.

00:25:05.020 How many is there?

00:25:05.780 Let me finish.

00:25:06.500 How many is there?

00:25:07.160 None of them accused me of doing anything other than maybe they didn't like the joke I told.

00:25:13.820 And let me just put...

00:25:14.920 And let me put...

00:25:15.780 There's agreements between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet, and that's up to them.

00:25:20.980 They signed those agreements, and we'll live with it.

00:25:23.740 So, wait.

00:25:24.260 When you say it is...

00:25:25.340 I just want to be clear.

00:25:27.160 Some is how many?

00:25:30.040 And when you say they signed them, and they wanted them, if they wish now to speak out and

00:25:37.880 tell their side of the story about what it is they allege, that's now okay with you?

00:25:42.820 You're releasing them on television tonight?

00:25:45.260 Senator, no. 0.86

00:25:46.140 Is that right?

00:25:48.540 I thought that looked...

00:25:50.500 I thought that was pretty bad.

00:25:52.360 I mean, it looked bad.

00:25:53.320 I don't know what the truth beneath it is, but it looks bad.

00:25:56.580 What do you think, Joel?

00:25:58.840 I thought it was very poor debating form for him to be drawn into that subject.

00:26:04.120 He ought to have said, there's nothing here.

00:26:07.300 I'd like to know the truth about Elizabeth Warren's investments in the fossil fuel industry, 0.67

00:26:12.140 or I'd like to know about how she flipped houses and took advantage of people who went 1.00

00:26:15.680 bankrupt.

00:26:16.040 You know, he had to counter with something, instead of which he gave them more information

00:26:21.960 that they could use in subsequent attacks.

00:26:24.840 And watching all that and being right there in Las Vegas, my eyes kind of glazed over because

00:26:30.780 I don't think there's anything of real public interest in that discussion, but it does make

00:26:36.140 him look vulnerable.

00:26:37.000 And so I don't think that it was that interesting a point in terms of policy debate, but it was

00:26:43.140 certainly interesting in terms of the political struggle.

00:26:45.680 And polls since the debate have shown that the only real change was that Bloomberg's favorability

00:26:50.500 went down dramatically.

00:26:52.100 And I think that exchange was part of it.

00:26:53.860 Yeah.

00:26:54.680 I remember back four years ago when Donald Trump was amongst a dozen plus contenders.

00:27:02.240 And after a while, they all turned their guns on him.

00:27:04.380 And just simply being the subject of their attention, he, it was like, he was the only

00:27:11.160 one who stood out after a while.

00:27:13.520 He was such a character.

00:27:14.760 He had so much charisma, so much style, so entertaining, so outrageous that he took up

00:27:20.560 all the oxygen in the room.

00:27:21.840 I'm not sure if Bloomberg has, has that.

00:27:25.100 He has all the money in the room, but I don't know if he has, if being the center of attention

00:27:31.020 is enough for him.

00:27:31.600 What do you think?

00:27:32.080 I think Bloomberg is pitching himself as a safe alternative to Trump, and it helps him

00:27:37.840 that Sanders is doing so well, because I think Democrats who don't like Sanders will eventually

00:27:42.100 have to pick a candidate.

00:27:43.600 And it's not that he's the best candidate.

00:27:45.760 He just has the most independent staying power.

00:27:48.600 I think, surely on the merits, Amy Klobuchar is probably the best non-Sanders candidate. 0.99

00:27:54.240 The problem is she has very little money, and she's peaking too late. 1.00

00:27:58.540 She did very well in New Hampshire, but she came to Nevada a few days later and had to

00:28:02.900 basically start from scratch.

00:28:04.500 She had to open two new offices. 0.99

00:28:06.080 She didn't have offices there before, I don't think.

00:28:08.020 And she hired 50 staff.

00:28:09.340 That's all well and good, but it's a bit late in the game.

00:28:11.060 Elizabeth Warren had five offices there back in September. 1.00

00:28:13.620 And by the way, you might see Elizabeth Warren do quite well in Nevada, not just because of

00:28:17.640 that organization, but because, as we mentioned earlier, she came out fighting in the early 0.99

00:28:21.740 part of the debate.

00:28:22.340 And I think that's what Democrats want to see.

00:28:24.440 The media pundits decided that Donald Trump was the winner of the debate.

00:28:28.580 And sometimes I agree, the Democrats do so poorly that Donald Trump's the real winner.

00:28:33.140 I think the Democratic Party as a whole won that debate, because I think if I were a Democratic

00:28:36.840 voter watching that debate, I would feel that finally the candidates were showing some energy,

00:28:43.080 some pluck, some willingness to fight.

00:28:45.880 And that's what Democratic voters want to see most.

00:28:47.760 They want to see that their leaders are willing to fight.

00:28:49.300 So I actually think the debate was good for the Democrats, even though they spent all

00:28:52.940 their time attacking each other.

00:28:54.660 Those attacks will help Trump, there's no doubt.

00:28:56.940 And the candidates said things that will appear in Trump campaign ads also, no doubt of that.

00:29:00.940 But I think that since the Democratic Party is simply trying to convince itself that it

00:29:05.400 can fight in this election after the debacle of impeachment, after the good economic numbers,

00:29:10.420 you know, they almost didn't talk about the economy at all.

00:29:12.420 They didn't talk about foreign policy at all in this debate.

00:29:14.680 Trump is winning on those fundamental issues.

00:29:16.480 And so Democrats are just trying to convince themselves they have the staying power.

00:29:20.080 In that regard, I think the debate was a big win for Democrats, because Warren and the

00:29:24.300 rest, they were willing to get scrappy.

00:29:25.920 And I think that's what voters wanted to see.

00:29:27.860 I know you got it, Ron.

00:29:28.820 Let me ask one last question.

00:29:30.120 I see today that Bernie Sanders was asked about Michael Bloomberg.

00:29:35.320 And obviously, he wasn't going to give Bloomberg a positive review.

00:29:38.520 But he said something that I got to think is true.

00:29:41.560 He said Donald Trump would chew Bloomberg up and spit him out.

00:29:46.200 And I thought, I think that's right.

00:29:48.960 I think there's styles.

00:29:50.460 I mean, Bloomberg is a manager.

00:29:52.260 He's a he's sort of bland.

00:29:54.740 He's not particularly.

00:29:55.620 I mean, he's just Trump, as you mentioned earlier, would have parried and thrusted and

00:30:02.440 cut back against Elizabeth Warren, as he did with Hillary Clinton.

00:30:06.160 I think Trump would would demolish Bloomberg.

00:30:10.580 But maybe that's my desire, not not a true prognostication.

00:30:15.740 What do you think?

00:30:17.660 I think that's true.

00:30:19.020 And I think the only threat to Trump on the debate stage is Amy Klobuchar, because she has 0.90

00:30:23.540 a style that is so different that she could end up reframing the debate the way she wants

00:30:29.600 to.

00:30:29.940 And that changes everything completely.

00:30:32.100 None of the other candidates seems to understand how to do that.

00:30:35.080 Klobuchar didn't do very well in the last debate either, because she allowed Pete Buttigieg

00:30:39.620 to get under her skin.

00:30:40.840 And I think she had an unfortunate moment in a television interview in Nevada where she

00:30:44.360 was asked the name of the Mexican president and couldn't remember.

00:30:47.200 And I think that is bothering her.

00:30:49.780 I actually think it's really bothering her.

00:30:50.960 It also didn't help that one of the debate questions was about that.

00:30:54.280 And I think she was off her game.

00:30:56.040 But when she's on her game, she can change the debate.

00:30:58.780 And it's simply because she has such a different style to everybody else.

00:31:02.040 And it is a style.

00:31:02.860 It's not just a cop out.

00:31:03.700 It's not a weak personality.

00:31:05.040 It's a different way of approaching a debate.

00:31:06.860 And I think it's one that Trump would have trouble with.

00:31:08.620 The rest, they all want to play on his field.

00:31:11.260 Bernie Sanders going after Trump toe to toe doesn't make Bernie look better.

00:31:14.800 And you can see that every time he fights anyone on stage.

00:31:16.800 He looks flustered.

00:31:17.520 He gets angry.

00:31:18.500 He's also not in the best health.

00:31:20.000 And that's been a problem for the campaign.

00:31:21.580 They've really tried to dispel rumors that he's unhealthy.

00:31:25.880 And they haven't really succeeded.

00:31:27.060 They're not really being completely transparent about his medical problems.

00:31:29.700 So, Bernie versus Trump on stage, I think Bernie comes off worse.

00:31:35.120 But Bloomberg versus Trump, definitely worse.

00:31:37.620 I mean, Bernie would do better than Bloomberg.

00:31:40.180 Bloomberg, I think, was a deer caught in the headlights for most of the debate.

00:31:44.240 Again, his strategy, I think, was just to survive and draw out the other attacks.

00:31:46.880 And he did come back with a few zingers against Sanders.

00:31:49.520 But he did not look like a great debater.

00:31:51.720 Very interesting.

00:31:52.820 Well, hardly wait to see what's coming up.

00:31:54.940 Let us know one last time.

00:31:56.560 When is this Super Tuesday where so many of the states vote at once and it will really shake out the third, fourth, fifth place folks from the race?

00:32:06.300 So Super Tuesday is March 3rd.

00:32:08.360 March 3rd.

00:32:09.080 Tuesday, March 3rd.

00:32:10.300 And that's the big day.

00:32:11.560 There are a few other big primaries after that.

00:32:13.540 But California and Texas both vote on Super Tuesday.

00:32:17.060 So that's going to be very big.

00:32:18.840 After that, you've got Michigan and Florida, Arizona.

00:32:22.700 And I think the last big one is Pennsylvania at the end of April.

00:32:25.800 By that point, we should have.

00:32:27.440 Where are you going to be on Super Tuesday?

00:32:29.500 I will be in California.

00:32:30.680 I'll be home in California because that's where the state will be voting in Super Tuesday for the first time.

00:32:35.360 The California primary used to be in June.

00:32:37.000 They moved it earlier.

00:32:38.240 And so I'll be reporting on the ground in California.

00:32:41.220 Home sweet home.

00:32:41.860 That's when Super Tuesday is going to happen.

00:32:43.540 March 3rd.

00:32:44.120 That's going to be amazing.

00:32:44.700 That's coming up so soon.

00:32:46.400 Well, Joel, thanks so much for joining us and taking the time away from things over there.

00:32:49.880 We'll let you go.

00:32:50.900 Have a great weekend.

00:32:52.140 And we look forward to keeping in touch with you.

00:32:54.720 All right.

00:32:55.040 Thanks so much.

00:32:55.780 There you have it.

00:32:56.340 Joel Pollack, senior editor-at-large of Breitbart.com.

00:33:00.140 I can't believe how quick Super Tuesday is coming up.

00:33:02.500 I really think it's going to winnow the field.

00:33:04.320 Stay with us.

00:33:04.840 More Ahead on the Rebel.

00:33:05.440 Hey, welcome back.

00:33:15.780 On my monologue yesterday about the illegal blockades, Kaelin writes,

00:33:19.120 If the police don't enforce the law, is it not legal for people to do citizen's arrests?

00:33:25.180 Basically doing what the cops were supposed to do in the first place.

00:33:27.420 I didn't hear anybody suggesting this, so I was thinking that this might be the next legal step.

00:33:32.040 Well, that's true.

00:33:35.260 Ordinary citizens have many powers that we generally leave to the police. 0.99

00:33:40.040 For example, you can perform a citizen's arrest.

00:33:42.640 Now, you have to be careful, and I don't generally recommend it.

00:33:47.000 That's not what these lads did in Alberta.

00:33:49.840 They didn't perform a citizen's arrest.

00:33:51.940 They didn't perform any policing duties.

00:33:54.040 They just cleared the junk off the railway tracks that was a danger.

00:34:02.580 So this wasn't even policing on the part of private citizens.

00:34:08.440 I wouldn't recommend that you try and arrest someone for standing on railroad tracks,

00:34:13.320 because I just think that I don't think that that would stand a strong chance of being legally successful.

00:34:23.260 You have to be very careful when doing a citizen's arrest,

00:34:27.520 and I wouldn't want to give you legal advice.

00:34:29.240 I'm not in a position to do so.

00:34:31.720 Clearing blockades, though, in a nonviolent way, I say thumbs up.

00:34:37.160 And in fact, the rebel will provide legal advice, a lawyer,

00:34:41.280 to any Canadian who nonviolently clears off a blockade

00:34:46.660 and is later harassed by police or arrested.

00:34:49.840 Corey writes,

00:34:50.720 Personally, I hope the eastern Canada blockades increase.

00:34:54.080 What better way to send a message to easterners and people in big cities? 0.62

00:34:57.100 Wait a second, I can't get my Starbucks?

00:34:58.840 You mean coffee isn't grown in Toronto?

00:35:02.780 Late today, Justin Trudeau starts saying,

00:35:04.860 The blockades must come down.

00:35:07.040 The very things he condemned as unacceptable,

00:35:09.760 and Jagmeet Singh called racist a few days ago.

00:35:12.380 He still doesn't have any plans for making the blockades come down.

00:35:14.840 I think the reason Trudeau chose to act was, first of all,

00:35:18.800 you don't think he's going to work on the weekend, do you?

00:35:20.860 So he wanted to go skiing, so he had to solve it today.

00:35:23.300 Number two, certain critical things for eastern Canada,

00:35:28.180 like propane deliveries, were about to run out.

00:35:31.700 And it's cold across Canada right now.

00:35:33.900 I think there's some real problems starting to happen if these blockades continue.

00:35:37.480 I don't want people in Atlantic Canada to be freezing in the cold.

00:35:42.080 I don't want businesses to go out of business.

00:35:45.360 We've already seen more than a thousand layoffs.

00:35:48.240 But I will admit that it's sort of a karmic outcome, 0.98

00:35:52.920 that the parts of this country that voted so overwhelmingly

00:35:55.820 for the climate change parties, the liberals and the Bloc Kippur and the NDP,

00:36:01.060 are the ones who are squawking now,

00:36:03.040 I need my propane, let the diesel power trains go.

00:36:06.500 No, it's almost like they didn't mean it when they said

00:36:09.340 they wanted a climate action future.

00:36:12.760 It's almost like all they meant was Alberta can suffer

00:36:15.080 and they can just get the virtue signaling in.

00:36:18.660 Sean writes, I'm not sure if anyone is going to get this email,

00:36:21.360 but I want you to know I live in a small town in Ontario, northern Ontario,

00:36:24.660 and I'm more than willing to lend my services to clean up any blockade.

00:36:27.400 I'm willing to go to jail, let me know.

00:36:29.280 Well, Sean, I don't want you to go to jail.

00:36:31.380 And so my number one piece of advice, just as a friend,

00:36:33.900 is don't put hands on a protester.

00:36:37.900 Just don't get physical with the people.

00:36:41.820 I believe that it is, in my own amateur opinion,

00:36:46.560 that it's lawful to take junk off a railroad track and move it away.

00:36:51.960 In fact, I think it's not only legal,

00:36:53.600 I think you're doing a good thing because you're removing a danger.

00:36:57.700 What bugged me so much is that the police in the northern Alberta crossing there

00:37:03.860 were standing by and it fell to private citizens right in front of the police

00:37:07.720 to move the danger.

00:37:09.340 So don't touch anyone, don't fight anyone,

00:37:11.820 but absolutely clear the junk off railroad tracks.

00:37:15.460 You might actually be saving a life.

00:37:18.300 And if you get arrested or hassled, we will supply you with a lawyer.

00:37:21.460 I should recommend to you, in closing, a video that Sheila Gunn-Reed just published today.

00:37:26.880 She was in Alberta meeting with some of those lads that cleared the tracks in Alberta.

00:37:32.260 And we gave each of them a case of beer on us, a way of saying attaboy.

00:37:37.140 And if any of them has any legal troubles, we'll send them a lawyer as well.

00:37:41.020 All right, that's our show for the week.

00:37:43.100 We'll see you on Monday and we'll have YouTube videos on the weekend.

00:37:45.820 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:37:49.900 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - February 22, 2020

Media Party wants Trudeau to crack down on non-bailout media — like Rebel News

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