Rebel News Podcast - One media outlet is more hated by the government than Rebel News.

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I tell you something that you might not know about. There's a media

00:00:04.920 company in Canada that might be even more censored than us and might fight back even harder than we

00:00:11.520 do. I like to think we're both of those things, but let me introduce you to Schwa FM, a radio

00:00:17.640 station in Quebec City, and tell you the latest attack on their editorial independence by the

00:00:24.320 government. I think it's going to blow you away. By the way, I want to invite you to become a

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00:00:45.720 You're listening to Rebel News Podcast.

00:00:48.000 Tonight, there is one media outlet more hated by the government than Rebel News. And maybe

00:01:02.280 they're more courageous too. It's September 29th and you're watching the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:07.320 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:12.880 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:16.940 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:21.820 right to do so.

00:01:27.680 I've often said that Rebel News is the most censored news network in Canada. It's partly because of me

00:01:33.520 personally. I've been the target of government censorship for more than a dozen years.

00:01:38.060 Ever since the Alberta Human Rights Commission prosecuted me for publishing the Danish cartoons

00:01:42.740 of Mohammed. I really didn't mean to make my life about freedom of speech. I had other plans. 0.98

00:01:48.460 But sometimes things happen to you. The government investigated me for publishing some cartoons.

00:01:53.520 That's what happened to me. And I just didn't go quietly.

00:01:57.380 We published those cartoons for the intention and purpose of exercising our inalienable rights

00:02:07.920 as free-born Albertans to publish whatever the hell we want, no matter what the hell you think.

00:02:14.060 So that's what I've been doing ever since, really. But it's happening a lot more frequently these days.

00:02:19.080 Not just to me, but to our reporters. Justin Trudeau banned our reporters from the leaders' debates

00:02:24.360 in the last election. We won that fight in court.

00:02:27.940 Rachel Notley sued us for a billboard we put up in Alberta. 0.85

00:02:31.060 And bizarrely, the new provincial government continues to fight us in court

00:02:34.840 even though Notley was thrown out.

00:02:37.620 Trudeau has weaponized the police, turning the RCMP into his errand boys,

00:02:42.820 seen here escorting Kian Bexty away from a press scrum

00:02:46.640 just because he's conservative.

00:02:48.020 Here are a couple of 30-year RCMP veterans interrogating me for an hour

00:02:55.040 about my best-selling book, The Libranos.

00:02:58.220 And not to be outdone, the disgraced mayor of Brampton, Ontario

00:03:01.940 actually had David Menzies put in the back of a police car

00:03:06.020 because David caught that mayor sneaking into a hockey arena

00:03:09.940 that he had closed to the city's children. What a creep.

00:03:12.500 So you see why I call us Canada's most banned media company.

00:03:17.880 And it's not just the Liberals and NDP.

00:03:20.000 Even the federal Conservatives, under the erratic leadership

00:03:23.220 and poor judgment of Andrew Scheer, got in on the game,

00:03:26.960 literally arresting our reporters too.

00:03:29.440 It's true that we're censored all the time.

00:03:32.940 And Trudeau hates us personally because he can't control us.

00:03:37.780 Mr. Speaker, when it comes to civil discourse,

00:03:40.420 when it comes to the kinds of back-and-forth that happens in this House,

00:03:43.640 it's a real shame to see the Conservatives using lines

00:03:46.720 straight out of Rebel magazine and Rebel webcast.

00:03:50.560 The Rebel should not be writing commentary and questions

00:03:54.340 for the members opposite.

00:03:55.760 They should know to disassociate themselves from that kind of politics

00:03:59.560 and those kinds of personal attacks.

00:04:02.140 But I think honesty compels me to tell you

00:04:05.560 that I think there's actually a media company in Canada

00:04:08.880 that may be more censored than us

00:04:12.240 and may be more hated than us by Trudeau

00:04:15.960 and just as beloved as us by the people.

00:04:19.700 Now, the reason you might not know about it

00:04:21.940 is because it's a French-language radio station

00:04:24.920 in Quebec City called Chois FM or Radio X.

00:04:28.780 They've been getting in trouble for 20 years.

00:04:32.700 Sort of like me, I guess.

00:04:34.500 Look at this CRTC ruling from back in 2004,

00:04:38.700 officially shutting down the radio station

00:04:41.560 like we were in the Soviet Union or something.

00:04:44.640 Why?

00:04:45.080 Let me quote.

00:04:47.460 These findings were based, notably,

00:04:50.240 on the commission's analysis of 47 complaints

00:04:53.620 it had received since Chois FM was acquired

00:04:56.200 by GeneX in February 1997.

00:04:59.800 These complaints concerned the broadcast of abusive comment,

00:05:03.380 offensive on-air contests,

00:05:05.620 personal attacks and harassment

00:05:06.900 on a daily program aired by Chois FM

00:05:09.380 during peak morning hours.

00:05:12.960 So you've got half a million listeners,

00:05:14.380 but over the course of seven years,

00:05:18.500 47 little snitches didn't like it, 1.00

00:05:22.220 but instead of ignoring it,

00:05:24.080 switching the channel,

00:05:25.160 or, I don't know,

00:05:25.900 calling into the talk shows

00:05:27.080 to argue with the host online,

00:05:28.600 which is half the fun.

00:05:29.900 I don't know.

00:05:30.820 Setting up your own radio station?

00:05:32.920 47 losers over seven years

00:05:36.240 went to the government,

00:05:38.200 the CRTC regulator,

00:05:39.640 and asked them to ban

00:05:40.980 the biggest radio station in Quebec City,

00:05:43.480 and the government said,

00:05:44.640 oh, sure, we'll shut it down.

00:05:46.920 Yeah.

00:05:47.680 So when word got out

00:05:48.860 that the government was going to shut down the station,

00:05:52.080 the city was outraged.

00:05:53.600 Look at this.

00:05:54.360 The commission received 9,468 interventions

00:06:01.040 concerning Chois FM's license for renewal application.

00:06:04.840 9,417 were in favor of the application,

00:06:08.800 38 were opposed,

00:06:10.260 and 13 were comments.

00:06:12.420 What's that, like 99% in support of the station?

00:06:15.020 Anyways, the CRTC goes on for 37 pages

00:06:18.040 debating, analyzing what the radio host said

00:06:21.620 over seven years,

00:06:22.620 and concluded by saying that,

00:06:25.760 yeah, they're going to shut down the radio station,

00:06:28.380 China style, Soviet style, Iran style. 0.68

00:06:32.360 You know what?

00:06:33.800 Eight days after that ruling,

00:06:36.260 50,000 citizens

00:06:39.460 marched through the streets of Quebec City,

00:06:41.880 the largest protest in that town since the 1960s.

00:06:46.260 They also had a massive protest on Parliament Hill, too.

00:06:50.060 Not quite as large.

00:06:51.560 That's a four and a half hour drive away from Quebec City,

00:06:54.280 but nearly 10,000 people showed up

00:06:57.320 to defend a radio station.

00:06:59.100 Imagine 50,000 people marching in Quebec City.

00:07:02.100 So, of course, the cowards at the CRTC backed down.

00:07:06.820 And far from killing Chois FM,

00:07:08.660 it propelled them to new heights.

00:07:09.960 And, in fact, one of the radio hosts, Andre Arthur,

00:07:12.940 he was propelled into Parliament.

00:07:15.560 He was literally elected as a local MP

00:07:17.520 over the whole censorship scandal.

00:07:19.700 He declared his candidacy just three weeks before the vote.

00:07:23.520 He spent less than $1,000 campaigning,

00:07:25.840 and he crushed all the other parties.

00:07:27.760 That's how outraged people in Quebec City were

00:07:29.980 about Ottawa's censorship.

00:07:32.200 So, do you see what I mean about Chois FM?

00:07:34.540 They're sort of like us,

00:07:35.800 always fighting for freedom,

00:07:37.460 always tweaking the powers that be.

00:07:39.180 They mock Justin Trudeau.

00:07:40.760 Trudeau hates them because he can't control them.

00:07:43.300 I mean, of course, the CRTC could always try to shut them down again,

00:07:46.340 but how did that work out last time?

00:07:49.140 Chois FM fights hard.

00:07:50.320 They're beloved by their people.

00:07:51.920 But because it's all in French,

00:07:54.160 because the rest of the media hate them,

00:07:56.460 we don't hear about them in the rest of Canada,

00:07:58.400 here in English Canada.

00:07:59.180 Which brings me to today's story.

00:08:02.340 Look at this.

00:08:04.640 La ville de Québec cesse toute publicité à Radio X.

00:08:09.140 X.

00:08:09.580 How's my French?

00:08:10.500 Terrible, right?

00:08:11.200 Sorry.

00:08:11.980 That means, in English,

00:08:12.980 the city of Quebec ceases all advertising on Radio X.

00:08:16.860 That's Chois FM.

00:08:17.980 Now, the story's in French, of course.

00:08:20.000 In the left-wing, La Presse.

00:08:21.620 I'm not going to punish you

00:08:23.260 by trying to read any more French at you.

00:08:25.060 Sorry.

00:08:25.600 So, I'm going to put it through the Google Translate machine,

00:08:28.200 and I'm going to read the translation.

00:08:29.580 So, forgive the choppy language.

00:08:31.460 That's just Google.

00:08:32.860 So, here's what this La Presse article says on Anglais.

00:08:38.260 The city of Quebec is putting an end

00:08:40.740 to its advertising purchases on Chois Radio X,

00:08:44.560 considering that the station, quote,

00:08:46.660 constitutes a danger to public health.

00:08:50.100 Just stop here for a moment.

00:08:51.640 So, ideas, debating, different points of view,

00:08:55.500 that's now a danger to public health.

00:08:57.880 That's a new one.

00:08:58.560 They tried to take Chois FM off the radio

00:09:00.840 because they were rude, you know, 15 years ago.

00:09:03.840 Quebecers laughed at that.

00:09:05.120 So, now they're trying.

00:09:06.280 They're a danger to your health,

00:09:07.820 like you can get sick from listening to them or something.

00:09:10.680 You know, that's what they said in the Soviet Union, too.

00:09:12.760 If you disagreed with the state, you were mentally ill.

00:09:16.520 You had to go to an insane asylum

00:09:18.180 because only crazy people wouldn't love Stalin.

00:09:21.560 I'll read some more.

00:09:23.040 By their choice to promote opposition to health measures,

00:09:26.660 the owners of this radio station are endangering the health

00:09:29.340 and potentially the lives of the citizens of Quebec and elsewhere.

00:09:33.220 Reads a press release from the city, Monday morning.

00:09:37.820 Under the guise of the idea of freedom of opinion,

00:09:41.140 this organization promotes ideas opposing health measures,

00:09:44.000 adds the city.

00:09:45.820 Hang on.

00:09:46.460 So, opposing government measures is now dangerous?

00:09:51.960 Don't we actually believe in opposing the government and a democracy?

00:09:55.540 In fact, don't we take the biggest complainer in the whole place,

00:09:58.660 give him a full-time job,

00:10:00.220 give him a big office and a staff,

00:10:01.780 and call him, what's the leader again?

00:10:03.460 What's the word again?

00:10:04.360 The leader of the opposition.

00:10:07.020 Don't we actually believe in opposing so much we have a permanent job?

00:10:10.400 Isn't that part of the checks and balances to power?

00:10:12.780 And isn't that the role of the media, too, to report the news?

00:10:15.300 Yes.

00:10:16.040 But to be skeptical of governments,

00:10:17.900 especially in the time of crisis,

00:10:19.140 to challenge them,

00:10:20.200 especially when parliaments are prorogued or canceled

00:10:22.860 and courts are shut down and everyone's acting like sheep,

00:10:25.740 isn't that exactly the time

00:10:27.200 when a different point of view is most valuable?

00:10:29.860 And really,

00:10:30.820 if you're worried about people contradicting official advice

00:10:33.580 because that's dangerous to public health,

00:10:36.000 what do you say about Canada's health authorities

00:10:37.860 who first said it was a bad idea to stop flights from China

00:10:40.960 and then said it was a good idea to stop flights from China,

00:10:44.620 who first said that masks don't work

00:10:46.860 and now say that masks do work?

00:10:49.760 I mean, we're supposed to take such clowns at face value.

00:10:52.860 We're not allowed to laugh and mock Teresa Tam

00:10:55.240 when she tells us to have sex with masks on.

00:10:58.580 We're not allowed to oppose a little tyrant like this.

00:11:01.700 I think the public has to know

00:11:03.260 this is one of the worst-case scenarios

00:11:05.800 in terms of an infectious disease outbreak

00:11:08.160 in that their cooperation is sought.

00:11:11.460 If there are people who are non-compliant,

00:11:13.640 there are definitely laws and public health powers

00:11:18.640 that can quarantine people in mandatory settings.

00:11:23.980 It's potential you could track people,

00:11:25.960 put bracelets on their arms,

00:11:28.940 have police and other setups

00:11:30.900 to ensure quarantine is undertaken.

00:11:33.920 Yeah, I'm with Chois FM on this one.

00:11:35.840 Let me read some more.

00:11:36.440 Two columns published in quick succession

00:11:39.700 in the Journal de Québec last week

00:11:42.080 accused the station of sustaining conspiracy

00:11:45.080 and anti-mask discourse.

00:11:48.900 The hosts defended themselves on the air from doing so,

00:11:51.300 assuring that they had their right to be critical

00:11:53.140 of the government's management of the pandemic.

00:11:55.820 Okay, great.

00:11:56.320 That's called a debate, you know.

00:11:57.560 You can be pro-mask and you can be anti-mask.

00:12:00.760 Say, what is the Centers for Disease Control?

00:12:03.000 You know, the non-partisan U.S. health agency, the CDC?

00:12:07.560 What do they say about masks?

00:12:09.360 They're the largest and most respected

00:12:11.180 public health agency in the world.

00:12:13.920 What do they say about masks?

00:12:17.140 Well, here's their big study on masks.

00:12:19.480 You can see it was published in May

00:12:20.800 at the height of the pandemic.

00:12:22.640 They checked and checked and checked.

00:12:24.140 They reviewed 14 scientific studies.

00:12:28.580 Evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials

00:12:32.180 of these measures did not support a substantial effect

00:12:36.400 on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.

00:12:40.360 Oh, they didn't?

00:12:43.000 I'll do another show on this report.

00:12:45.180 It's so important.

00:12:45.820 But let me just give you some details.

00:12:47.600 I'm just going to read a paragraph from it, okay?

00:12:49.100 This is from the CDC.

00:12:50.740 One study evaluated the use of masks

00:12:53.700 among pilgrims from Australia

00:12:55.800 during the Hajj pilgrimage

00:12:58.320 and reported no major difference

00:13:00.340 in the risk for laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infection

00:13:04.060 in the control or mask group.

00:13:07.480 Two studies in the university settings

00:13:09.460 assessed the effectiveness of face masks

00:13:11.780 for primary protection

00:13:13.460 by monitoring the incidence of laboratory-confirmed influenza

00:13:16.680 among student hall residents for five months.

00:13:20.060 The overall reduction in ILI or laboratory-confirmed influenza

00:13:24.600 cases in the face mask group

00:13:26.940 was not significant in either studies.

00:13:30.580 Study designs in the seven household studies

00:13:33.300 were slightly different.

00:13:34.820 One study provided face masks

00:13:36.420 and P2 respirators for household contacts only.

00:13:39.460 Another study evaluated face mask use

00:13:41.440 as a source control for infected persons only.

00:13:43.980 And the remaining studies provided masks

00:13:45.620 for the infected persons as well as their close contacts.

00:13:47.660 None of the household studies

00:13:49.940 reported a significant reduction

00:13:52.320 in secondary laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections

00:13:56.180 in the face mask group.

00:13:57.700 I'm sorry, I'm going to stop there.

00:13:59.460 It goes on and on and on.

00:14:01.640 14 studies they reviewed.

00:14:04.300 None of them show masks work.

00:14:06.140 So yeah, what's that censorship phrase

00:14:08.040 from the city of Quebec again?

00:14:09.820 Anti-mask discourse.

00:14:11.940 Better shut down the centers for disease control.

00:14:14.580 The politicians won't like their anti-mask discourse.

00:14:17.440 Let me read someone from the La Presse.

00:14:21.780 The city of Quebec considers that Radio X is dangerous,

00:14:26.760 especially in a context where the Capitol

00:14:28.560 is heading towards the red zone, red zone.

00:14:31.480 Oh, the red zone.

00:14:33.040 That sounds like a schlocky horror movie,

00:14:35.700 maybe a zombie apocalypse.

00:14:37.340 You're in the red zone.

00:14:38.520 It's almost like the politician is trying to be as dramatic

00:14:41.620 and self-important as they can be

00:14:43.280 and to scare citizens as much as they can.

00:14:45.560 I wonder what the mental health effects

00:14:47.560 of this panic attack are.

00:14:49.720 Forget the virus.

00:14:50.760 What about the paranoia?

00:14:52.040 I'll read some more.

00:14:53.280 The city of Quebec can absolutely not endorse,

00:14:56.580 through its advertising and financial participation,

00:14:59.060 the behavior of the owners of Schwab.

00:15:01.260 This behavior is likely to increase

00:15:02.860 the current level of contamination,

00:15:05.820 which has a major impact on public health

00:15:07.840 and on the local economy,

00:15:09.440 explains the press release.

00:15:10.780 Oh, is that what ads from the government means?

00:15:16.060 That you're endorsing the editorial content of a show?

00:15:20.480 I thought advertising money was spent to advertise things.

00:15:24.300 You're buying eyeballs, really.

00:15:26.100 You're trying to sell cars,

00:15:27.820 or you're trying to sell a cellular phone or something.

00:15:30.980 You're not officially endorsing whatever someone just said

00:15:34.100 on TV or radio or in a newspaper next to the ad.

00:15:37.320 Except that's exactly what the government of Quebec

00:15:40.860 just said it was doing, the city of Quebec City.

00:15:43.700 That when they give money,

00:15:45.600 they're endorsing and supporting a point of view.

00:15:47.860 They're admitting what we've accused governments of doing,

00:15:51.280 of using their money to effectively bribe news media.

00:15:54.960 They're just coming right out and saying it.

00:15:56.340 They use tax dollars to reward media who are compliant,

00:16:00.440 and they take tax dollars away to punish media

00:16:03.320 who aren't compliant.

00:16:04.800 Justin Trudeau does the same thing,

00:16:06.700 with $600 million a year for the newspapers

00:16:08.900 and $1.5 billion a year for the CBC.

00:16:11.700 He's just not quite as stupid

00:16:13.360 as these local Quebec City politicians are.

00:16:15.840 He doesn't say the quiet part out loud.

00:16:18.420 I'll read some more from La Presse.

00:16:20.980 Quebec City was not in a position on Monday

00:16:23.120 to say how much money had spent on advertising

00:16:26.080 on this station in recent years,

00:16:27.920 but she has at least two advertising campaigns

00:16:30.320 on Radio X at the moment,

00:16:31.780 which focus on road safety.

00:16:34.800 And the Structuring Public Transport next work.

00:16:38.280 Their broadcast cost the city $9,000,

00:16:40.660 said a spokesperson.

00:16:43.080 Oh, so they're going to actually cancel road safety ads.

00:16:47.520 They're seriously not going to run those ads?

00:16:51.200 Those sound like real public health ads, actually.

00:16:55.220 Although, come on, whoever listened to a radio ad

00:16:57.400 and said, gee, that ad just made me decide

00:17:00.000 to drive more safely.

00:17:00.960 But someone must think that ad works.

00:17:03.080 But they're literally cancelling

00:17:05.140 real public health ads about safety

00:17:07.700 to punish someone who disagrees with them

00:17:11.600 about masks, about public health theater.

00:17:15.460 But get this.

00:17:16.300 This takes the cake.

00:17:18.280 Politicians boycott Radio X, Schwa FM.

00:17:21.120 Same reason they boycott us.

00:17:24.120 Because they can't control us.

00:17:27.080 But they made a special radio ad

00:17:29.100 attacking Schwa FM listeners.

00:17:32.380 I haven't heard it, but it sounds like

00:17:34.240 they just called Schwa FM listeners stupid.

00:17:36.880 You know, yahoos, as Doug Ford would say.

00:17:39.900 Covidiots, whatever.

00:17:40.840 And so they made this special ad.

00:17:44.280 The Quebec City made a special ad

00:17:46.960 that they wanted Schwa FM to play for their listeners

00:17:50.480 that insulted their listeners.

00:17:53.440 And so Schwa FM just refused to air the ad.

00:17:55.460 Here, let me read from the press.

00:17:58.260 Last week, the station declined to broadcast

00:18:00.180 a government advertisement

00:18:01.680 tailored to Radio X listeners.

00:18:05.220 The anti-conspiracy message was delivered

00:18:07.360 by two former station hosts.

00:18:08.940 The management of Radio X judged

00:18:11.460 the government advertisement,

00:18:13.760 painted a cartoonish portrait of its listeners,

00:18:16.640 and established a link between the station

00:18:18.120 and the conspiracy.

00:18:20.120 Host Dominic Moray defended this decision

00:18:21.960 Monday morning.

00:18:22.660 Quote, we invited Arruda.

00:18:24.540 That's no.

00:18:25.260 We invited Legault.

00:18:26.220 That's no, said Moray.

00:18:28.080 Just to explain, Legault is the premier in Quebec.

00:18:30.760 Arruda is the public health official.

00:18:32.820 So Dominic Moray, a host of Schwa FM,

00:18:35.980 said he invited them to come and talk,

00:18:37.520 but they refuse to go on the show

00:18:39.160 to talk about these things.

00:18:41.820 But they'll try and run an ad

00:18:43.640 to insult the station and its listeners.

00:18:45.800 Let me read some more.

00:18:47.660 They say that we are biased,

00:18:49.160 but we invite for free.

00:18:50.420 And that's no.

00:18:51.900 And you're going to take our tax money

00:18:53.240 to advertise that we are biased

00:18:54.640 while you refuse interviews?

00:18:57.040 He said in the microphone of his morning show.

00:18:59.040 What do you think of Schwa FM, Radio X?

00:19:02.720 I've been on the station a few times over the years.

00:19:05.360 Their host interviews me in English

00:19:06.640 and then he translated it into French.

00:19:08.260 It's a bit choppy,

00:19:09.260 but you can tell they have a lot of fun

00:19:10.900 and they love to take on sacred cows.

00:19:13.940 They really are like rebels.

00:19:15.700 They use pirate imagery, not rebel imagery.

00:19:19.580 They're being punished now

00:19:20.720 for daring to criticize the government,

00:19:22.820 just like we are.

00:19:23.600 Hey, can you do me a favor?

00:19:28.000 Can you let me know if you see anyone

00:19:29.580 in English Canada?

00:19:30.740 You know, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression,

00:19:33.600 Canadian Association of Journalists,

00:19:35.840 Pan-Canada, Reporters Without Borders,

00:19:38.860 the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

00:19:41.140 If you see any of them or any politician

00:19:43.240 or really any journalist,

00:19:45.420 can you let me know if a single person

00:19:48.640 in the whole country

00:19:51.420 stands up for their freedom of the press

00:19:54.060 and their freedom to dissent

00:19:56.720 and to criticize the government?

00:20:00.800 Anyone?

00:20:02.720 Anyone?

00:20:04.920 Stay with us for more.

00:20:17.560 Great.

00:20:18.400 Tell me a little bit about what your message is.

00:20:20.120 Uh, no thanks.

00:20:21.920 Don't want to talk to Rebel.

00:20:23.460 F*** off and go away. 0.76

00:20:24.600 Don't touch me.

00:20:25.220 F*** off and go away with that f***ing bullshit. 0.99

00:20:27.220 Get the f*** out of here.

00:20:28.780 I just want to know what you think

00:20:30.160 about how hypocritical you appear

00:20:31.940 with these plastic tarps.

00:20:34.280 Wow.

00:20:35.260 They're made out of plastic?

00:20:36.680 I had no idea.

00:20:38.840 Oh my God.

00:20:40.060 Oh my God.

00:20:40.600 They're made out of plastic.

00:20:41.620 I didn't know that.

00:20:43.500 F*** off and go away. 0.76

00:20:44.760 Are you actually not aware

00:20:45.620 or are you just joking around, I guess?

00:20:48.080 Do I look stupid?

00:20:48.820 No, I think...

00:20:49.420 Well, you kind of do

00:20:50.200 because you're protesting the oil sands.

00:20:51.700 You're protesting...

00:20:52.860 Well, actually, I'm not too sure

00:20:53.820 what you're protesting.

00:20:55.400 Obviously...

00:20:56.000 We're protesting s*** like you.

00:20:57.620 Obviously, you're not a fan of plastic.

00:20:59.900 You threatened women at a camp last year.

00:21:01.880 What?

00:21:02.380 You threatened women at a camp last year.

00:21:03.880 No, I didn't.

00:21:04.500 No, I didn't.

00:21:04.980 You're absolutely crazy.

00:21:05.880 You're a group.

00:21:06.960 You're a group.

00:21:07.880 Yeah, I didn't do that at all.

00:21:09.660 Get the hell out of here! 0.92

00:21:11.020 You're a group.

00:21:12.800 You're a group.

00:21:14.020 You're a group.

00:21:14.900 You're a group.

00:21:18.260 F*** off! 1.00

00:21:20.780 John is his name.

00:21:24.240 That's our own Kian Bexty

00:21:25.980 talking to a group of protesters,

00:21:28.660 including a grown-up

00:21:30.420 who should know better,

00:21:32.720 who, when asked why he was using

00:21:35.220 a plastic tarp

00:21:36.900 made from petrochemicals,

00:21:39.300 after a torrent of profanity,

00:21:43.080 hit Kian,

00:21:44.900 causing his microphone to break

00:21:46.500 and smash on the pavement.

00:21:49.600 What a strange, violent,

00:21:51.760 and cowardly reaction.

00:21:53.920 We didn't know who he was,

00:21:56.000 but there was a moment

00:21:56.920 that he didn't have his mask on.

00:22:00.080 We published his face to the internet,

00:22:02.200 offered a $500 reward,

00:22:04.360 and, in fact,

00:22:05.900 John O'Brien was identified,

00:22:09.840 and today our lawyers

00:22:11.100 fired off a letter

00:22:13.320 to the Ottawa police

00:22:14.780 asking them to investigate.

00:22:17.320 Joining us now via Skype

00:22:18.360 from Calgary

00:22:19.020 is Kian Bexty.

00:22:20.860 Kian, great to see you.

00:22:23.000 Hey, great to be here.

00:22:25.500 It happens too often

00:22:26.940 that our people are attacked.

00:22:29.380 You, Sheila, David Menzies,

00:22:32.500 it happens too often,

00:22:34.720 and I don't think that

00:22:36.080 it's anything we're doing wrong.

00:22:38.080 Your questions may have annoyed

00:22:39.940 John O'Brien,

00:22:41.660 but that's not an excuse

00:22:43.800 for him to immediately snap

00:22:45.340 and become violent.

00:22:46.360 He was on Parliament Hill

00:22:49.480 for a public protest

00:22:51.260 designed to communicate

00:22:52.140 a message.

00:22:53.200 You were simply asking him

00:22:54.160 questions about it.

00:22:55.780 Why do you think the left

00:22:57.560 now has,

00:22:59.580 as one of their chief tactics,

00:23:02.420 physically attacking

00:23:03.500 conservative-leaning reporters?

00:23:05.000 Because, I mean,

00:23:08.540 they have nowhere else to go.

00:23:09.860 John O'Brien is the typical

00:23:11.460 case of these radicals

00:23:12.640 who have been,

00:23:14.020 these extremists

00:23:15.100 who have been radicalized

00:23:16.500 by the likes of

00:23:17.700 Catherine McKenna.

00:23:19.180 Catherine McKenna,

00:23:20.160 and I was saying this

00:23:20.980 in my story

00:23:21.440 that I published earlier today,

00:23:22.720 Ezra,

00:23:23.040 is that in her rhetoric

00:23:25.820 she acts like

00:23:26.800 the world will end,

00:23:29.280 and people who are opposed

00:23:30.540 to this sort of

00:23:31.880 radical brand

00:23:33.480 of climate justice

00:23:34.480 are deniers

00:23:36.060 akin to Holocaust deniers.

00:23:37.980 They are evil,

00:23:39.160 they are vile people,

00:23:40.140 and they deserve

00:23:40.620 what's coming to them.

00:23:42.020 And then John O'Brien,

00:23:42.960 well, he takes that message

00:23:43.860 and takes it to the streets.

00:23:45.800 So I think we're probably

00:23:47.380 going to be seeing

00:23:48.160 more of this.

00:23:49.440 You know,

00:23:50.040 this isn't the first time

00:23:51.380 that people have been

00:23:52.420 hopped up

00:23:53.180 on an ideological propaganda

00:23:56.080 we saw during the Cold War.

00:24:00.080 I think what's new

00:24:01.660 is that these propagandists,

00:24:03.480 these ideological extremists

00:24:05.140 who have been radicalized,

00:24:07.740 I think what's new

00:24:08.640 is that they see violence

00:24:10.620 as a default setting.

00:24:14.480 In the past,

00:24:15.340 they would nag you 0.99

00:24:16.540 or haggle you

00:24:18.180 or debate you.

00:24:19.760 I just don't think

00:24:21.140 violence was the first 0.62

00:24:23.600 on their list of to-do

00:24:25.580 when encountering a critic.

00:24:29.020 I think that's new.

00:24:30.620 I don't think it's new

00:24:31.580 that you've got a wacko,

00:24:34.300 you know,

00:24:34.760 hardcore ideologue

00:24:36.020 hanging out on Parliament Hill

00:24:37.600 talking to anyone

00:24:38.800 who'll listen.

00:24:39.300 I think that's as old as time.

00:24:41.080 I think what's new

00:24:42.240 is the violence.

00:24:43.840 Yeah, I mean,

00:24:47.240 you've been around

00:24:48.580 longer than me.

00:24:49.680 I certainly,

00:24:50.660 I feel like I was born

00:24:52.140 into this,

00:24:52.980 having just graduated

00:24:54.700 university

00:24:55.200 and starting at Rebel News.

00:24:56.400 It seems like

00:24:56.940 violence was always

00:24:58.520 the default to me.

00:25:00.580 But like I said,

00:25:01.820 I haven't been

00:25:02.400 playing the game

00:25:03.740 for as long.

00:25:04.500 Since I started

00:25:05.500 at Rebel News

00:25:06.100 when I was at Ottawa,

00:25:06.940 my first interaction

00:25:10.380 with these violent extremists

00:25:11.700 was with Antipa

00:25:12.500 when they took my camera

00:25:14.400 and threw it on the ground

00:25:15.680 after punching me

00:25:16.660 when I was covering

00:25:18.220 the United We Roll convoy

00:25:19.580 in Ottawa.

00:25:21.120 It seems like

00:25:22.440 it's second nature

00:25:23.100 to these people

00:25:23.760 and I'll take your word

00:25:24.540 for it

00:25:24.860 that it's not something

00:25:26.220 that has been going on

00:25:27.520 for a long time.

00:25:28.920 I mean,

00:25:29.380 there's been violent eras

00:25:30.900 before.

00:25:31.480 I was just reading

00:25:32.080 an essay

00:25:33.080 in the magazine

00:25:33.720 First Things

00:25:34.560 about how violence

00:25:36.440 was commonplace.

00:25:38.360 There were literally

00:25:38.880 thousands of assassinations,

00:25:41.800 bomb attacks,

00:25:42.420 stabbings in Russia

00:25:44.200 during the revolution

00:25:46.380 by all parties

00:25:48.160 and it became normalized

00:25:49.440 and accepted

00:25:50.840 and the intelligentsia

00:25:52.620 thought that violence

00:25:54.220 was the noblest ideal.

00:25:56.780 I think one of the differences

00:25:58.100 is that,

00:25:59.940 I mean,

00:26:00.100 I can't help but notice

00:26:01.280 that when Justin Trudeau himself

00:26:04.080 and Catherine McKenna herself

00:26:06.040 object to Rebel News reporters

00:26:08.000 and you in particular,

00:26:10.000 they,

00:26:10.680 I mean,

00:26:10.960 you talked about

00:26:11.860 the rhetoric they use,

00:26:13.900 but Trudeau

00:26:14.660 has turned

00:26:17.260 the neutral

00:26:18.060 non-partisan police

00:26:19.540 into his

00:26:20.840 nightclub style

00:26:21.840 bouncers

00:26:22.500 and I recall

00:26:23.540 when you went

00:26:24.300 to Rideau Cottage

00:26:25.800 to ask him questions

00:26:27.760 in the morning scrum,

00:26:29.640 he had the RCMP

00:26:30.920 and he forcibly

00:26:31.960 frog-marts you

00:26:33.400 off the property.

00:26:34.960 Frankly,

00:26:35.660 it probably counts

00:26:37.000 as a legal assault

00:26:39.000 on you.

00:26:40.460 I think maybe,

00:26:41.480 you know,

00:26:41.760 there's a saying

00:26:42.220 that fish rots

00:26:42.940 from the head down.

00:26:44.140 If people see

00:26:44.880 Justin Trudeau

00:26:46.020 using police

00:26:47.640 to physically

00:26:48.380 shut up

00:26:49.040 critics,

00:26:50.300 even Andrew Scheer,

00:26:52.640 the low-energy,

00:26:54.340 poor-judgment

00:26:55.020 interim leader

00:26:55.940 of the Conservative Party

00:26:57.200 who's thankfully

00:26:57.840 relegated to a footnote

00:26:59.740 in history,

00:27:00.320 even he

00:27:00.960 called police

00:27:02.940 to handcuff

00:27:04.100 David Menzies.

00:27:05.660 So I guess

00:27:06.160 when the political

00:27:07.740 bosses resort

00:27:08.840 to physicality,

00:27:10.800 why shouldn't

00:27:11.560 some loser

00:27:12.100 named John O'Brien

00:27:13.240 on the street

00:27:14.320 punch a microphone?

00:27:15.380 I mean,

00:27:15.540 why not?

00:27:15.900 Everyone else

00:27:16.320 is doing it.

00:27:18.060 Yeah,

00:27:18.340 you're right

00:27:19.180 and I think

00:27:19.720 it's worth noting

00:27:20.340 that it wasn't,

00:27:22.240 when I was

00:27:22.620 at Justin Trudeau's

00:27:23.380 residence

00:27:23.740 at that press conference,

00:27:25.240 it was Justin Trudeau's

00:27:26.580 media boss,

00:27:27.880 Terry Guion,

00:27:28.620 who directed

00:27:29.760 the RCMP

00:27:30.600 to do what they did.

00:27:31.840 This is standard

00:27:32.980 practice for them,

00:27:34.280 for liberals,

00:27:34.960 for leftists,

00:27:36.080 against journalists

00:27:37.580 who share

00:27:38.620 the other side

00:27:39.180 of the story.

00:27:39.940 This is their

00:27:40.980 marching orders.

00:27:42.440 You're right about that.

00:27:43.100 They take it

00:27:43.580 from the leader,

00:27:45.140 Catherine McKenna,

00:27:45.840 Justin Trudeau,

00:27:46.580 and his henchmen,

00:27:48.200 and they're just

00:27:48.940 following the leader.

00:27:51.600 Yeah.

00:27:52.580 You know,

00:27:53.420 it's remarkable.

00:27:54.120 there's a gag,

00:27:57.060 a practical joke,

00:27:58.020 a prank,

00:27:58.720 a meme.

00:27:59.720 It's very profane.

00:28:01.960 It started as an ironic joke

00:28:03.740 and it caught on

00:28:05.180 where people,

00:28:06.820 usually men,

00:28:08.700 see a live reporter,

00:28:10.700 usually a woman, 0.99

00:28:12.060 and they walk by

00:28:13.120 and they shout

00:28:13.880 into the microphone,

00:28:15.600 F-U-C-K, 1.00

00:28:17.940 her,

00:28:18.360 right in the,

00:28:19.160 and I'm not going to

00:28:19.800 spell out the second word,

00:28:21.840 and they holler that

00:28:23.240 in the microphone

00:28:23.740 and they dash away

00:28:24.760 and it's a profane prank.

00:28:27.600 I've seen it done

00:28:28.340 by women as well.

00:28:30.240 I've seen it done

00:28:30.720 by women to men,

00:28:32.040 but it's usually a man

00:28:33.520 passing by quickly,

00:28:35.540 shouting this string

00:28:36.480 of profanities

00:28:37.240 to get onto a live broadcast,

00:28:40.540 often at a sporting event.

00:28:42.080 This happens in Canada

00:28:43.920 once every few months

00:28:45.960 and whenever it does,

00:28:48.400 the reporter becomes

00:28:49.880 national news.

00:28:50.880 Are you okay?

00:28:52.240 Do you need a grief counselor?

00:28:54.360 The police more often

00:28:55.640 than not get involved.

00:28:57.180 Track down the offender.

00:28:58.540 And what's the offense?

00:28:59.720 Swearing?

00:29:00.320 That's not actually

00:29:01.380 in the criminal code.

00:29:02.800 I remember in Ontario

00:29:03.760 that one of the people

00:29:05.500 who did it

00:29:06.140 was working

00:29:07.440 for the power company.

00:29:08.440 He lost his job.

00:29:09.520 He later got it back.

00:29:10.740 So swearing

00:29:11.960 in passing

00:29:13.620 at a reporter

00:29:15.240 just to get in their live feed,

00:29:16.660 that is a five-alarm fire.

00:29:19.500 Let's have a national

00:29:20.520 day of mourning.

00:29:22.460 Get the police involved.

00:29:24.200 It's terrible.

00:29:26.180 But an actual reporter

00:29:27.380 on Parliament Hill

00:29:29.600 gets the microphone

00:29:31.040 smashed out of his hands

00:29:32.400 by a left-wing activist.

00:29:36.180 Complete silence

00:29:37.140 from the media.

00:29:38.360 Same thing whenever

00:29:39.100 any of our reporters

00:29:39.980 get hit.

00:29:40.600 Complete silence

00:29:41.600 from the media.

00:29:42.480 Sometimes the media says,

00:29:43.600 oh, it didn't even happen.

00:29:44.960 Or you were asking for it.

00:29:46.880 So I think

00:29:47.840 that's part of the problem too.

00:29:49.420 Not just that

00:29:50.020 the Justin Trudeaus

00:29:51.000 and the Andrew Shears

00:29:52.220 and the Catherine McKennans

00:29:53.180 of the world

00:29:53.660 have fomented this.

00:29:55.640 But the rest of the media

00:29:56.920 says,

00:29:57.280 oh, no, no, that's fine.

00:29:58.660 You can physically

00:29:59.520 assault conservative journalists.

00:30:01.320 Just don't dare.

00:30:02.660 You know,

00:30:02.900 oh, my virgin ears.

00:30:03.840 I've never heard a swear before.

00:30:05.480 So police officer

00:30:06.360 arrest that guy

00:30:06.980 for swearing.

00:30:07.760 But Kian had a microphone 1.00

00:30:08.740 smashed out of his hands.

00:30:09.820 Who cares?

00:30:10.220 No, it is worth noting

00:30:12.460 that Justin Trudeau's

00:30:13.340 parliamentary security

00:30:14.460 watched the whole thing happen.

00:30:17.600 There was three of them

00:30:18.880 that were standing

00:30:19.760 by the south doors

00:30:22.000 of the West Block

00:30:23.660 just a little bit above us.

00:30:26.260 And they did nothing.

00:30:27.380 They watched the whole thing happen.

00:30:28.700 Even the dude who came 1.00

00:30:29.780 from his car from the road

00:30:31.480 shouted at the officers

00:30:32.920 and asked them

00:30:33.500 why they were doing nothing.

00:30:35.460 And I think that

00:30:36.380 that goes to show

00:30:37.280 this is a coordinated effort

00:30:41.920 with the people in power,

00:30:43.360 Justin Trudeau

00:30:44.100 and his thugs,

00:30:47.140 whether they're the RCMP

00:30:48.300 or the parliamentary security.

00:30:49.760 They will do his bidding

00:30:50.520 and arrest the people

00:30:51.720 they want to arrest

00:30:52.540 and ignore the people

00:30:53.500 who need help

00:30:54.100 that Justin Trudeau

00:30:55.160 wants them to ignore.

00:30:56.180 Yeah.

00:30:56.660 Well,

00:30:57.340 if they have a political approach

00:30:59.540 to the small stuff,

00:31:01.100 like a microphone

00:31:01.840 being slapped on your hand,

00:31:03.200 you can imagine

00:31:04.200 they have a political approach

00:31:05.320 to the big stuff,

00:31:07.220 like Justin Trudeau

00:31:08.340 interfering in the corruption trial

00:31:11.000 of SNC-Lavalin,

00:31:13.080 the various ethics breaches

00:31:15.560 and all sorts of other

00:31:17.320 criminal allegations.

00:31:19.500 We charity.

00:31:21.380 If the RCMP will become political

00:31:23.400 about the trivia,

00:31:25.100 you can imagine

00:31:25.740 how political they are

00:31:26.920 about the graver matters.

00:31:28.480 All right, Kean,

00:31:28.920 we'll let you go there.

00:31:29.620 I'm glad we found John O'Brien.

00:31:31.620 Let's see if the Ottawa Palouse

00:31:33.100 do anything.

00:31:33.720 I wonder if there's some

00:31:34.700 honest cops there

00:31:35.540 who put partisanship aside.

00:31:38.240 Thanks for joining us today.

00:31:40.180 No problem.

00:31:40.780 All right,

00:31:41.020 there you have it.

00:31:41.540 Kean Bexte.

00:31:43.360 He's been assaulted several times,

00:31:45.160 included by Jonathan Yaniv,

00:31:47.540 who we are pursuing in court.

00:31:49.760 Stay with us.

00:31:50.620 More ahead.

00:31:50.980 On my monologue last night,

00:32:04.040 David writes,

00:32:05.040 we already know the liberals

00:32:06.120 hate Alberta oil.

00:32:08.300 You know,

00:32:08.760 they love Alberta oil

00:32:10.180 in so much as

00:32:11.320 the money it gives them

00:32:12.920 and in so much

00:32:13.820 it gives them a punching bag.

00:32:16.080 But oil,

00:32:16.860 they're all for the Saudi oil

00:32:18.000 and it looks like

00:32:19.180 they're all for subsidizing oil

00:32:20.440 off the Atlantic coast.

00:32:22.660 Grace writes,

00:32:24.140 as regards to gender analysis,

00:32:25.620 the women and families

00:32:26.360 who would benefit

00:32:26.940 from a real employment opportunity

00:32:28.420 would far outweigh

00:32:29.600 any perceived negative impacts.

00:32:31.780 Think of how often

00:32:32.400 we have heard of women 1.00

00:32:33.160 who have had to do

00:32:33.720 whatever they could

00:32:34.260 to feed their children

00:32:35.000 because their men

00:32:36.040 were unable to find real work.

00:32:37.420 Well,

00:32:38.860 I don't know if you remember

00:32:39.580 when Catherine McKenna

00:32:40.740 brought in that insane

00:32:41.760 gender-based analysis

00:32:43.720 for pipelines.

00:32:44.840 Don Martin,

00:32:45.460 who's a real liberal

00:32:46.220 of CTV,

00:32:47.360 he couldn't,

00:32:48.180 he just couldn't even believe it

00:32:49.280 so he asked McKenna

00:32:50.180 what she meant.

00:32:51.280 She meant,

00:32:52.300 she literally said on air

00:32:53.760 that having groups of men

00:32:56.160 come in to build a pipeline

00:32:57.460 or a railway

00:32:58.380 or anything like that,

00:33:00.260 she implied that

00:33:01.260 that would cause rapes 1.00

00:33:02.820 to go up in the community

00:33:04.860 and they would literally

00:33:06.540 weigh that

00:33:07.780 against building

00:33:08.940 the pipeline

00:33:10.580 or she would,

00:33:11.240 she in advance

00:33:12.460 accused working men

00:33:14.300 of being rapists

00:33:15.260 just cause.

00:33:17.720 That's kooky Catherine McKenna. 1.00

00:33:19.900 Hey,

00:33:20.120 I don't think I ever showed you this

00:33:21.200 but I saw this

00:33:22.720 on the Post Millennial

00:33:23.520 the other day.

00:33:24.620 They dug up an old video

00:33:26.000 of Catherine McKenna

00:33:28.160 eating dog meat

00:33:31.780 and going to a cock fight 0.61

00:33:34.820 that's when birds

00:33:36.240 kill each other.

00:33:38.060 You take a quick look

00:33:38.820 at this dog meat video.

00:33:40.500 I found out

00:33:41.280 one of the most popular dishes

00:33:42.900 in Flores was dog.

00:33:44.980 Guess what we had for lunch?

00:33:58.000 That's from the Post Millennial.

00:33:59.760 Take a quick look

00:34:00.700 at this video.

00:34:02.620 You know what a cock fight is? 0.99

00:34:03.580 They put razors on birds

00:34:05.580 and make them kill each other. 0.94

00:34:07.140 Take a look at this.

00:34:07.960 Like this,

00:34:08.500 you won't see the cock fighting.

00:34:10.040 Ah, it's a secret code.

00:34:12.160 Ah.

00:34:13.280 Before we entered the fight,

00:34:14.680 BMO explained

00:34:15.340 that everyone who watched

00:34:16.260 had to donate

00:34:16.820 5,000 Indonesian rupiah

00:34:18.580 or 3 US dollars

00:34:19.880 as a bribe to the police.

00:34:22.000 Apparently the police

00:34:22.680 would show up

00:34:23.280 and threaten arrest

00:34:24.080 if they didn't receive

00:34:24.800 any money.

00:34:25.220 The dirt makeshift arena

00:34:39.960 was filled with

00:34:40.720 strained expressions

00:34:41.540 of anxiety.

00:34:42.880 These men were

00:34:43.520 definitely serious gamblers.

00:34:47.600 You're going to choose

00:34:48.480 the winning one?

00:34:49.220 Yeah.

00:34:49.460 And you're going to test

00:34:53.160 for it's like

00:34:53.880 the strongest bird?

00:34:55.520 Yeah, yeah.

00:34:55.960 And look more muscle,

00:34:58.700 you know?

00:34:59.260 Yeah, I think that is

00:35:00.700 one messed up woman. 1.00

00:35:02.460 And I'm not sure

00:35:03.180 if I'm going to take

00:35:03.740 morality lessons from her

00:35:05.080 about whether or not

00:35:06.460 a pipeline is a good idea

00:35:07.920 ethically.

00:35:08.900 What a kook.

00:35:10.240 That's our show for today.

00:35:11.340 Until tomorrow,

00:35:12.100 on behalf of all of us

00:35:12.960 here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:35:14.600 good night.

00:35:14.920 and keep fighting for free.

Rebel News Podcast - September 30, 2020

One media outlet is more hated by the government than Rebel News.

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