Rebel News Podcast - Progress Report on the Lockdown Battle

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I look at a little diner in Toronto called Fran's Restaurant that shut down.

00:00:06.700 I didn't go there a lot, maybe five times in my life. I wouldn't say it was a great restaurant.

00:00:11.120 It was good enough. It was a diner. But I feel a small hole in me now that it's gone because a

00:00:17.060 restaurant, a diner, a place in the neighborhood, it's not just a building. It's the backdrop to

00:00:23.260 your life, really. 10,000 of these places have been killed, not by the virus, but by the

00:00:29.520 politicians, they're going to talk about that today. Let me invite you to get a video subscription,

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00:00:59.260 here's today's show.

00:01:00.020 Tonight, a progress report on the lockdown battle. It's December 17th,

00:01:19.460 and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:23.260 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:26.660 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the

00:01:32.520 government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:36.860 I'm watching with despair places that I know and love that are part of my life are being closed down

00:01:48.500 forever because of the lockdown, not because of the virus. The virus has hit seniors' homes,

00:01:54.660 hit them hard, but it has left pretty much most other people unscathed. Most provinces make it hard

00:02:03.140 to find statistics like these. You can see why. Here's Alberta's statistics to show that literally

00:02:09.680 only 20 people out of the 760 deaths in Alberta were for people who didn't have serious comorbidities.

00:02:21.200 It's a fancy way of saying they were already very, very sick with heart disease, liver disease,

00:02:26.580 diabetes, dementia, whatever. The average victim had three or more such serious diseases before the

00:02:35.500 virus killed them. Average age, 82. I am not minimizing or downplaying the meaning of those who died at that

00:02:45.820 age or with those comorbidities. I'm just saying it is a narrow sliver of the population. Protect them,

00:02:52.880 how about? Let the rest of the world be free. Since when did we ever quarantine the healthy?

00:03:00.500 Never. I saw this today. Fran's Restaurant closes at Young and Front Streets. I live in Toronto. I like

00:03:10.540 France. So just a couple months ago, it's a local institution, comfort food, fairly inexpensive.

00:03:17.220 That diner feeling, they went for that old timey feeling. Everybody knows the place. It's part of the

00:03:22.580 landscape. It's part of the neighborhood and it's gone. Of course it is. Can you imagine the rent

00:03:28.220 they're paying downtown Toronto and they can't survive without letting people in? Like there's

00:03:33.780 such a large space that they're not allowed to let people into the tables. They're not built for

00:03:38.600 takeout and delivery. They're built for 100, 150 customers in the restaurant at a time. They're done.

00:03:45.360 They're gone. They're gone forever. They survived a lot of things over the years, recessions,

00:03:50.320 ups and downs. They survived past viruses, SARS, if you remember that one. But they actually weren't

00:03:57.400 done in by the virus. They were done in by the politicians' lockdown. 55 jobs lost and the

00:04:04.700 dreams of the owners and the neighborhood is lessened. What is it about a city that gives it

00:04:10.740 character? The residential neighborhoods? Sure, I guess. But those are places where families

00:04:16.660 nest with themselves. But when people want to go out to be in the city to feel like they're

00:04:22.040 part of the larger place, the geography, they go to places with other people. They socialize. They

00:04:27.400 make memories that are rooted to the geography. Restaurants are a big part of that. Your favorite

00:04:33.280 place isn't necessarily the best place. Fran's Restaurant is not the best restaurant in Toronto.

00:04:40.240 Frankly, it wasn't even that good. But it was a place that you knew and you loved because it was a

00:04:45.220 symbol of where you lived and a mnemonic for all the good times you had there, all the people you

00:04:50.640 went there with. There used to be a popular radio host named Dick Clark who used to say the pretty

00:04:56.620 phrase, music is the soundtrack of our lives. I like that. It's true. When you hear a song that you

00:05:02.920 love, often it's because of you thinking of something that happened to you where you were when you heard

00:05:08.980 it, when you heard it first, or maybe it reminds you of what happened once when you heard it.

00:05:13.460 Music is the soundtrack of our lives. Well, a city's restaurants and other places like that are the

00:05:20.440 set of our lives, like a movie set, where things happen to us. Celebrations, victories, defeats,

00:05:28.440 plans, hopes, lonely nights, lovely nights. It doesn't happen in a restaurant. It happened in a

00:05:35.920 particular restaurant, in that restaurant. That's where you lived your life. That's where you

00:05:41.300 yourself merged with the geography. A city is not a hotel. We're not transient tourists. We're rooted

00:05:48.660 to the ground. Some institutions have been in the city for centuries. Old churches, bridges, schools.

00:05:54.880 It's almost impossible to even imagine of France without the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. Imagine

00:06:00.880 it without that. That's why the torching of the Notre Dame church felt like such a grievous wound. It wasn't

00:06:06.460 a building that was being burnt. It was the city itself. Nearly a thousand years of weddings and

00:06:12.040 funerals and coronations and crusades. A restaurant is not as grand as a church, but to the people who

00:06:19.340 work there, it is just as meaningful for the neighborhood that sees it as a touchstone, a local

00:06:24.060 icon, a local landmark. It's what makes a neighborhood a neighborhood. And to have them die, well, things live and

00:06:31.260 die. But this was not a natural death or even a death from a sickness. This was a killing.

00:06:37.400 France, not anymore it's not. What's your favorite restaurant? How's it doing? Not even your favorite

00:06:43.800 one. Just one that was the backdrop to your life. The set upon which you lived your life that marks

00:06:50.100 your place. Look at this. Look at this story. Picture life without restaurants, industry asks Canadians for 0.73

00:06:56.720 support, with more than 10,000 already closed. 10,000. 10,000 neighborhoods with a boarded up store,

00:07:06.260 unemployed people, dashed dreams, lost life savings. And for everyone else, what's left in the neighborhood

00:07:12.580 when the places are gone? Oh, go to a drive-thru like McDonald's. They'll always be open.

00:07:18.740 Don't worry about them. And Costco and Walmart, I'm sure Amazon will be in the food delivery business in

00:07:24.340 the next year or so to pick up the pieces. Just the local people are having trouble. People who

00:07:29.560 live in the neighborhood too. People who build the neighborhood with you, who see your kids.

00:07:34.400 And those kids grow up into teens. And they grow into adults who then have their own kids and take

00:07:40.020 their own kids to their old favorite places. How much fun is that? Taking your own kids to the places

00:07:45.620 you loved as a kid. That's gone. In 10,000 neighborhoods. And for what?

00:07:50.940 Here's part of that story in the paper. A restaurant industry group is asking Canadians

00:07:57.020 to imagine life without local restaurants after it says the country lost more than 10,000 eateries

00:08:01.960 since the introduction of pandemic lockdowns. In an effort to help them survive, Restaurants Canada

00:08:07.660 is calling on customers to support their local food and drink establishments this holiday season

00:08:12.100 by buying gift cards, ordering takeout or delivery, and dining in where possible.

00:08:15.980 Yeah, sorry, that's not going to do it, Restaurants Canada. That's not going to save them. Only

00:08:23.340 ending the political lockdown will save them. Sorry, don't worry about it. I mean, you're not going

00:08:28.800 to make anyone sick. People are getting sick at home or in private gatherings. Here's the stats

00:08:35.900 posted by one American restaurateur. No one's getting sick in restaurants. Restaurants are where young

00:08:43.120 people go. And families. Yeah, some seniors too. Okay, let them stay away if they're worried.

00:08:49.180 Waiters and waitresses and bartenders are usually young. Very little risk of the virus. Why are we

00:08:54.160 punishing them again? There's no sense to it. How many mayors and premiers and public health officers

00:09:00.480 have shut down restaurants just as a show of force, just to show that they're doing something, anything?

00:09:06.080 Let me know in the political class, the ruling class shuts themselves down. Without pay, I mean.

00:09:12.320 Without pay, I mean. I mean, the ruling class has had a six-month staycation, but they've been paid.

00:09:17.440 They're loving this. Hey, do you think Brian Pallister, the premier of Manitoba who's locked down his

00:09:23.100 province, do you think he's going to spend a miserable Christmas in snowy Winnipeg with no restaurants

00:09:28.340 allowed? Or do you think he just might jet down to his Costa Rican getaway, as he has done so many

00:09:36.020 times before, while he was lying about it so many times before? Great restaurants down there, I hear.

00:09:42.080 They're not closed. Here's the elite billionaire's gated compound in Palm Beach, Florida, where John

00:09:49.500 Torrey, Toronto's mayor, has a winter home. All the restaurants are open there. Florida's great.

00:09:55.180 Weather's gorgeous. John Torrey has sneaks away to his place here too, in the past not telling anyone,

00:10:00.720 pretending he was up in Toronto by tweeting as if he was. Do you really think John Torrey,

00:10:05.180 the Toronto mayor's going to stay in the miserable city he made miserable, along with the rest of us?

00:10:11.420 And you think that either of those two men, just to name two of hundreds, do you think the travel

00:10:17.740 quarantine rules would apply to them? Yeah, no. People are fed up. Here's a restaurant workers revolt

00:10:24.040 in California. They're not asking for coupons or takeout or whatever their timid Canadian counterparts 0.56

00:10:29.960 are doing. They want to work. They want to open. We're helping people in Canada who want to

00:10:35.160 open. I don't know if you've been to our website, iwillopen.com, where we tell their stories,

00:10:40.460 try and get them customers. And if they get lockdown fines, we fight the fines for them

00:10:44.880 at fightthefines.com. Today, I asked our team to count up how many cases we've taken or are

00:10:52.560 intaking right now. Do you remember when I said I wanted to take 1,000 cases? Well, between our legal

00:11:01.680 cases in Canada, Australia, and the UK, we now have exactly 334 cases we've taken or are intaking.

00:11:11.660 334. We're one-third of the way to 1,000 cases. I think it's important. Do not pay the fines. Do not

00:11:17.220 submit. Do not comply. Do not go quietly. If you're going to go, go down fighting. We'll help you.

00:11:22.360 Don't be a victim. Don't be a casualty. Don't be the next Fran's restaurant. And hey, it's not just

00:11:29.780 on the shoulders of the hardworking restauranteurs and waiters and waitresses and bartenders. What

00:11:34.840 about you, my friends? What about you? You who have lived your life in these places. Why are you

00:11:42.820 so silent? Stay with us for a moment.

00:11:58.340 Well, I am on a lot of political party lists. I swear I don't sign up to them. People put me on

00:12:04.120 those lists as some sort of prank, I assume. But I actually enjoy seeing what the different political

00:12:08.500 parties have to say, and especially when the Liberal Party writes to me using my first name.

00:12:13.780 It feels so personal. But let me show you an email I received just yesterday, and it was marked

00:12:19.980 Far Right Politics. So I thought, oh, they got something to say. The Conservative Party hasn't

00:12:28.980 changed, Ezra. Wow, they know, they really know me. In his parting words as Conservative leader

00:12:35.740 just four months ago, this was Andrew Scheer's message to his successor, challenge the mainstream

00:12:41.700 media. Don't take the left-wing media narrative as a fact. Please check out smart, independent,

00:12:46.360 objective organizations like the Postmillennial or True North. And I would agree with that advice.

00:12:54.020 But then look at this. Aaron O'Toole has taken him up on that divisive call to promote Far Right

00:13:00.660 politics. And then look, I'm just skipping ahead. Just this week, O'Toole granted an exclusive

00:13:08.880 end-of-year interview to the Far Right True North Initiative, which now Toronto has described as an

00:13:17.540 anti-immigration right-wing think tank. It goes on to rant and rave conspiracy theories, and then

00:13:25.360 naturally, ask for your money. And I was tempted to donate, but I already am a donor to the True

00:13:32.780 North. So no need to try and persuade me. I'm in. But putting aside my joking, since when do party

00:13:42.180 leaders and political parties demonize and attack journalists? Just, I mean, I thought that was

00:13:50.080 something only the evil Donald Trump did. And I thought the rest of the media was just mortified

00:13:55.240 that he would call the media the enemy of the people. Here we have a sitting prime minister's

00:14:00.500 political party targeting his demonization on any, I'm not even going to call True North Far Right.

00:14:06.980 They're not. They're slightly to my left. I regard myself as conservative. I think True North are

00:14:13.160 conservative. Frankly, their views on immigration are in line with 90% of Canadians who think

00:14:19.760 immigration levels are high enough. But the demonization for profit of True North, 0.56

00:14:26.860 post-millennial, and of us is something stunning to see. And the either passive reaction or the

00:14:33.940 celebration of this by the rest of the media is even more amazing. Joining us now is the man who scored

00:14:40.660 that end of the year exclusive interview with Aaron O'Toole. The far right, Andrew Lotney joins me now.

00:14:48.680 Andrew, I don't think you're far right. I think you're conservative. You have had a storied

00:14:54.620 journalistic career. You've been with the Sun Chain. You've been a radio host on a mainstream

00:14:59.500 radio station. You're with True North. Like you've done a lot of journalism. To call you far right,

00:15:07.720 I don't even take that as an insult really. But to demonize you and to say you're beyond the pale,

00:15:13.300 that's a little creepy coming from the government.

00:15:16.560 Yeah, and I must apologize, Ezra. Sorry if I'm a little bit out of sorts today. I started a drinking

00:15:20.920 game when I saw that email yesterday. I took a shot every time the email said far right, and I had

00:15:25.840 passed out by like 8.32 p.m. So I'm still sleeping off the hangover this morning from that. It is a

00:15:32.140 demonization. You're right to point that out because what the liberals are saying here is that the

00:15:36.900 audience that I have, the audience that you have, the audience that Postmillennial have,

00:15:41.120 they don't deserve to hear what politicians are doing. They don't deserve to hear from political

00:15:46.860 leaders. They're saying to Aaron O'Toole, you should just ignore a portion of Canadians. And 0.52

00:15:51.800 that's very telling because that's revealing that the liberals have decided to ignore a portion of

00:15:57.100 Canadians. We saw this during the last federal election when the liberals had banned me from

00:16:01.860 covering their press conferences and campaign stops. At one point, police even pulled me over

00:16:06.840 because I was trying to figure out where the campaign was going because they weren't sending

00:16:10.740 me their press releases. So the liberals are now upset that the conservatives aren't taking their

00:16:15.400 approach, which is to just marginalize huge chunks of the Canadian population and say,

00:16:20.680 you don't have a place in civil society. You know, that's a very thoughtful way of looking at it.

00:16:25.440 I'm thinking, you know, who has the message? Who has the message to tell Aaron O'Toole? Who's the

00:16:33.040 filter, the journalist? Who's the audience? So you talked about this press release, this fundraiser

00:16:38.860 really, denying a huge swath of Canadians. So that's a very good point. But look at the other two parts to 0.99

00:16:44.380 that, the filter. The liberals are saying Aaron O'Toole has the right to speak. They're not yet saying he

00:16:51.380 doesn't. But he only can speak to our approved middlemen, our approved filters, the CBC, if they'll

00:16:59.320 have him, CTV Global, some mainstream newspapers, and that's it. So they're not just marginalizing

00:17:05.640 the audience. That's a very good point you make. But they're telling Aaron O'Toole he's only allowed

00:17:11.700 to send his message to people who the liberals know will treat it a certain way. And finally,

00:17:16.920 they're in their own way trying to bully Aaron O'Toole. This is an attack on him. The whole purpose

00:17:23.580 of this is to attack him. So Aaron O'Toole, you can't talk to who you want to as an audience. You

00:17:29.620 have to talk to the journalists, we tell you to, and you cannot have your message go to

00:17:34.080 conservative grassroots. Every layer of this is illiberal, isn't it?

00:17:39.340 It is. And you and I talked a few weeks back when the Global Conference for Media Freedom took place,

00:17:46.340 the virtual version of it, about how, on one hand, the liberals talk this big game about press freedom,

00:17:51.860 but in practice, they don't actually respect the diversity of voices. It's the only form of

00:17:56.300 diversity Justin Trudeau doesn't like, diversity of opinion. So what's happening here is the liberals,

00:18:02.000 who, by the way, are still fighting Rebel and True North and me in court. It's important to note this.

00:18:07.760 Our case against the Leaders Debates Commission is still ongoing. They're still spending tens of

00:18:12.360 thousands of dollars to deny our press freedom, to cover future election debates and other events.

00:18:18.360 And what the liberals are doing is, you're right, saying that we only regard as legitimate media

00:18:23.020 the people that we've approved. And the timing of this fundraising email from the liberals is quite

00:18:28.340 unique because this week there was actually a draft policy sent out to members of the Parliamentary

00:18:34.740 Press Gallery, which is this Ottawa clique that the Trudeau government has basically outsourced media

00:18:40.140 accreditation to. And this draft policy would exclude True North and Rebel and Post Millennial and other

00:18:47.160 independent media outlets from covering any government events. And what they say in this draft policy is,

00:18:54.220 quote, accreditation is a privilege, not a right, unquote. Now, what they're actually doing

00:18:58.940 is limiting and curtailing press freedom in a way that the liberal government very much approves of,

00:19:05.280 because the liberal government thinks that press freedom is something that's actually a privilege

00:19:09.600 and not a right. So it is timely that this now comes, this fundraising email from the liberals,

00:19:14.960 the same week as we are institutionalizing this very idea that certain people don't have a right

00:19:21.520 to be journalists in Ottawa. Wow. Again, you nailed it. That's exactly the point. But it is a right.

00:19:28.860 Of course, I'm familiar with our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section 2B, which includes freedom of

00:19:34.580 expression, freedom of the press. It was also in Diefenbaker's Bill of Rights. And of course,

00:19:40.000 the idea of free speech did not start in the 60s. It goes back centuries to the United Kingdom,

00:19:46.600 to John Milton, Areopagitica. Freedom of Speech has, I mean, and he wrote his great pamphlet

00:19:53.120 against the licensing. The idea in London back then was you needed a license in advance before

00:20:00.000 publishing a pamphlet. And John Milton... Yeah, and if I may, sorry to interrupt there, Ezra,

00:20:03.600 but people need to understand that government does not grant rights. Government can protect them.

00:20:08.860 Government can prevent against the abridgment of them. But government itself does not give these

00:20:13.860 rights. These rights are enumerated, not because government has decided they're important,

00:20:18.140 but they're enumerated because government has agreed to recognize that they are important. But

00:20:23.140 our government is falling short of that. Yeah, you're right. I was simply trying to make the

00:20:26.880 point that these rights are ancient, centuries, maybe even older. But it's funny you mentioned

00:20:32.840 the Parliamentary Press Gallery. They get their power from the Liberal Speaker of the House. So

00:20:37.420 this isn't just their... I mean, I don't care what my rivals at the Globe and Mail have to say,

00:20:42.540 or the CBC have to say. I do my own thing. But their only power over me comes from the Speaker of

00:20:48.880 the Parliament, of the House, who's a Liberal. But you know what I did? Andrew, I saw your piece on

00:20:54.820 this. I saw what you guys at True North have been writing about this. So I looked up. Take a look at

00:20:58.700 this. This is the membership of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. There's hundreds of people on here

00:21:04.960 actually. Tons from the CBC, tons from CTV. You can see that. But look here. There's the People's

00:21:12.980 Daily. That's controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. There's someone from Ittar Tass. That's 0.98

00:21:20.840 controlled by Vladimir Putin. There's the Ukrainian National News Agency, which is also state-run.

00:21:29.020 There's several reporters from Vietnam's state agency. So the so-called keepers of journalistic

00:21:38.360 ethics say you and me, independent Canadian citizens, are not allowed to go to our own

00:21:46.340 parliament to report on the goings-on. But literally foreign government agents from Russia,

00:21:52.900 China, Ukraine, and Vietnam are absolutely accredited. Step right in. They meet the free

00:22:01.420 speech ethical standard. That is crooked, my friend.

00:22:04.980 Yeah, and I remember you telling me a while ago that you had to, in order to cover something

00:22:09.040 happening in Canada, do an end run around the Canadian accreditation regime and go through the

00:22:14.040 U.S. State Department, which was part of the event that was going on. And it's actually quite shameful

00:22:19.160 that that's what this has had to come to. It's quite shameful that when the Canadian government

00:22:25.240 and the British government were doing that initial global conference for media freedom,

00:22:29.320 our accreditation came from the British government. And next year, when the Canadian government is

00:22:33.760 co-hosting it with Estonia, you better believe I'm going to hope that the Estonian government

00:22:37.660 accredits me because I don't have faith that the Canadian government will. And there's something

00:22:42.120 very insidious about this, which is that on one hand, people are saying, well, you know,

00:22:46.640 the government's not denying you the right to say whatever you want. It's they're denying you

00:22:50.640 access to certain things. But the whole point is that the government can't use the idea of a free

00:22:56.120 and independent press as being a counterbalance against bad government if they're going to

00:23:01.480 themselves restrict access to covering that government. You know, when we went through the

00:23:07.180 ordeal at the Leaders Debates Commission, it wasn't that we expected to be moderators. It wasn't we

00:23:11.940 expected to have our own questions asked in the debate. We wanted a chance to stand there with

00:23:16.620 our colleagues across the industry, get in line and ask a question or two. And we did,

00:23:21.580 but it took a court order to make that happen. And I don't want to rehash something that's older

00:23:26.560 because this is still ongoing. And that's why I think it's very much still relevant. So when the

00:23:31.600 Liberals are fundraising and trying to score a few bucks off saying, you know, how dare Aaron O'Toole

00:23:35.560 talk to the far right, true north or whatever the case may be, what this is actually a symptom of

00:23:41.340 is a longer standing process of delegitimizing anyone that doesn't view the world the way the

00:23:47.140 Liberals do. And they do this not just through maligning people, but actually trying to close

00:23:52.500 off the walls of government. Yeah. Well, they're trying to un-person you and me. Instead of saying,

00:23:58.040 I disagree with you, or we have, we're journalists from a different perspective. They're saying, no,

00:24:02.400 no, no, no, no. You're not even a journalist. You're barely a citizen. In fact, propagandists

00:24:07.880 who are not citizens have more rights than you. It's deeply disturbing. The worst part of it is no

00:24:13.800 one in the establishment seems to care. Other than that federal court judge, that federal court judge

00:24:19.940 that ordered you and David Menzies and Kian Bexte into that leader's debate. By the way,

00:24:25.580 there was no other interveners in the room that day. There was no civil liberties association

00:24:29.400 in the room. There was no, you know, no lawyer from the CBC or CTV or Global Mail. It was your

00:24:35.660 lawyers and our lawyers. Silence from all the people who normally claim to stand up for civil

00:24:42.060 liberties. That's the depressing part. It's not that the Liberals are behaving like Liberals. We know

00:24:45.160 that. Where's everybody else? Last point to you. Yeah. And just when I talk about this parliamentary

00:24:51.120 press gallery, a draft policy going around, it's important to know that this

00:24:55.300 policy which says media accreditation is a privilege and not a right, this isn't written

00:25:00.020 by bureaucrats. This isn't written by the Trudeau government. This is written by journalists

00:25:04.680 who are in the club and want to lock the door behind them. There is a protectionism that's

00:25:10.160 taking place here, which is why a lot of mainstream media journalists, I think, aren't standing up

00:25:14.020 because they don't want to share the space in line. They don't want to allow competitors

00:25:17.500 in the room to lose their comparative advantage. Yeah. Well, we'll keep up the fight. I know

00:25:22.920 you will too. Hopefully we'll have more victories. It's embarrassing to Canada that we need to go to 0.97

00:25:27.900 court to get a judge to tell our government the freedom of speech is the law. But if necessary,

00:25:34.560 we'll keep going back. Great to see you, my friend. Keep up the fight.

00:25:37.940 And you too. Merry Christmas to all of your listeners. Thank you. And to you too. There you

00:25:41.400 have it. Andrew Lawton, one of the good guys, that's for sure. He got a year-end interview with

00:25:45.580 Aaron O'Toole and the liberals say he should not have had that opportunity. I don't think Trump

00:25:53.480 ever said such a thing. And if he did, he would have been excoriated. Trudeau does it? Yeah,

00:25:58.580 no problem. Stay with us. More ahead. Hey, welcome back on my show last night. Bruce writes,

00:26:15.280 real journalism only happens in rebel news and the few outlets haven't sold their soul to Trudeau.

00:26:21.440 CBC is also boring. So fewer people listen or watch it. Well, that's the thing. I've always said my main

00:26:27.920 criticism of the CBC and the media party in general. It's not even that it's liberal. It's

00:26:33.040 the sameness of it all. You know, you're literally flipping global, CTV, Toronto Star. And is there

00:26:40.600 any different? It's all the same message track. No diversity of opinion. Diversity of every race and

00:26:46.180 sexuality and gender and all that. But is there any diversity of thought? Gilly writes, trust the CBC

00:26:53.780 to take a story that would make a great thriller and turn it into a nothing burger. The China Files

00:26:58.760 should be the headline. And the MSM has a chronic case of willful ignorance. Shameful. Yeah. And I'm

00:27:04.800 not even looking for credit. I mean, we know we broke the story. Our viewers know it. And the other

00:27:11.400 journalists writing about it know it. What was funny there, first of all, the appalling interview by

00:27:15.860 Vazia Kapilos, who let her boss, Francois Philippe Champagne, get away with a bunch of fibs. But 1.00

00:27:21.380 it's the tweet that says it was broken first by the Globe and Mail, not by the Globe and Mail and

00:27:27.460 others that they claimed that the Globe and Mail was first. They knew that's a lie. And my main takeaway

00:27:34.500 was we can see they're lying. We know they're lying. And so what else are they lying about? You have to

00:27:43.260 assume that they're lying about everything. Since whenever we catch them, they show no compunction.

00:27:49.800 That's our stories for today, our show for tonight. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at

00:27:56.520 Rebel World Headquarters, do you at home? Good night. Keep fighting for freedom.

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Rebel News Podcast - December 18, 2020

Progress Report on the Lockdown Battle

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