Rebel News Podcast - January 04, 2020


Rebel Roundup： Abagail Hamman and Sheila Gunn Reid


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Sheila Gunn-Reed and Abigail Hammond join host David Menzies to discuss the government's plan for a $600 million bailout for Canadian media outlets. They also discuss the latest in the Samuel Opoku case, and the reaction to it.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, Rebels. You're listening to a free audio-only recording of my show, Rebel Roundup.
00:00:06.920 Tonight, my guests are Sheila Gunn-Reed and Abigail Hammond.
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00:01:13.920 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you.
00:01:32.680 The show in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels.
00:01:37.920 I'm your host, David Menzies.
00:01:39.680 Remember that $600 million newspaper bailout announced last year by the Trudeau Liberals?
00:01:46.260 Well, shockers!
00:01:48.140 There are apparently some strings attached.
00:01:51.600 Namely, those papers now getting taxpayer-funded welfare better say nice things about the Liberals or else.
00:01:59.180 Sheila Gunn-Reed will have all the news that is unfit to broadcast. 1.00
00:02:03.240 And did you catch the most recent Democratic Party debate from Lotusland?
00:02:10.080 If not, I'm sorry to say you might have missed the most unintentionally funny GabFest of 2019.
00:02:15.960 But not to worry, Abigail Hammond has all the knee-slapping highlights. 1.00
00:02:21.320 And finally, letters.
00:02:22.680 We get your letters.
00:02:23.460 We get them every minute of every day.
00:02:25.180 And I'll share some of your responses regarding my encounter with Samuel Opoku outside the courthouse of Toronto's Old City Hall.
00:02:33.780 Opoku is the individual who stands accused of pouring buckets of liquefied human feces over the heads of five individuals on three separate occasions.
00:02:44.940 But as you'll see, when he's confronted by a camera and microphone, Opoku, he's not so brazen.
00:02:51.360 Those are your rebels.
00:02:52.480 Now let's round them up.
00:02:55.180 The media, all over, is overwhelmingly liberal.
00:03:02.460 And people are force-fed liberalism every night on their TVs.
00:03:06.580 And LeBoutelier, unfortunately, she ran into people in her riding who rejected it.
00:03:11.100 And it appears she was startled by these free thinkers in Quebec who reject Ottawa's paternalism.
00:03:17.940 I mean, think about the last time you saw a balanced panel on the state broadcaster that reflected you or your community.
00:03:24.140 Or that didn't treat generally mainstream ideas supported by the majority of Canadians.
00:03:30.080 Ideas like reduced immigration rates or freedom of speech like some sort of white supremacist plot.
00:03:36.700 Yeah, exactly.
00:03:37.720 It's basically never, right?
00:03:39.000 And who could forget how Unifor, the National Media Party Union, declared themselves the resistance to the Conservatives, with little or nearly no pushback from their own membership.
00:03:52.500 Gosh, what a surly-looking bunch, by the way.
00:03:55.340 But LeBoutelier is implying the media was not liberal-friendly enough to her?
00:04:00.020 Well, not to worry.
00:04:01.520 LeBoutelier has a plan for this.
00:04:04.320 Guess what liberal minister is picking the recipients of the $600 million media party bailout?
00:04:10.900 The revenue minister, LeBoutelier herself.
00:04:14.240 Blackflocs has the details.
00:04:15.800 And just like us, Blackflocs says they won't take any of that bailout cash either.
00:04:21.160 It reads,
00:04:21.820 Tax officials in a document called Guidance on the Income Tax Measures to Support Journalism said Minister LeBoutelier would have final veto over which newspapers would qualify for aid.
00:04:35.240 So how does that old saying go again?
00:04:37.640 If you make a deal with the devil, it's probably a good idea to read the fine print.
00:04:41.900 Because when it comes to those print outlets accepting filthy lucre from the federal liberals,
00:04:48.440 well, what if the fine print basically suggests that if your newspaper is critical of the feds,
00:04:54.640 space must be provided so that the libs can spin their fibs to the readership?
00:05:00.640 Oh my.
00:05:01.320 With more on this story is the host of The Gun Show, Sheila Gunn-Reed,
00:05:05.000 a journalist that could never be bought and paid for.
00:05:08.380 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.
00:05:09.800 Hey, David. Happy New Year.
00:05:12.200 Happy New Year to you, Sheila.
00:05:14.000 So, my friend, can any media outlet right now in Canada claim to be objective
00:05:20.200 when they are accepting this sort of bailout dough given all these inherent strings attached?
00:05:28.000 Well, no. I mean, but what's the difference?
00:05:30.740 I mean, for so many of these journalistic outlets,
00:05:35.220 normally they would be shouting from the rooftops
00:05:39.040 if conservatives had attached this sort of caveat to their funding.
00:05:45.620 But you're not hearing any outrage about the fact that the liberals are requiring
00:05:50.920 journalistic outlets, be they print or broadcast,
00:05:55.100 to allow the government space for rebuttal if you write an article critical of the government
00:06:04.160 or do a broadcast critical of the government.
00:06:07.300 You're not hearing anything from the journalists.
00:06:09.080 You'd think that there would be extreme pushback because, you know,
00:06:14.300 they basically are required to publish liberal propaganda in the form of a balanced rebuttal.
00:06:21.520 Well, but the journalists are all but quiet.
00:06:25.120 I mean, I think I'm the only person talking about this.
00:06:27.160 You know, you're absolutely right, Sheila.
00:06:28.660 And I can tell you, I remember once going to a journalism seminar in the 80s,
00:06:33.020 and there was this example.
00:06:34.720 It was about, remember the Exxon Valdez tragedy where there was the oil spill in Alaska?
00:06:40.660 And it was about how there was a Toronto Star journalism photographer.
00:06:44.540 They had to get to the scene.
00:06:46.040 And the only way to get to it was by Exxon's corporate helicopter.
00:06:50.040 And the star actually, to their credit, in the aftermath,
00:06:55.340 worked out how much that would have cost and sent a check to Exxon
00:06:59.840 because they didn't want any freebies.
00:07:02.520 There was this absolute separation of church and state, you know,
00:07:06.160 and we're not going to be bought for.
00:07:07.520 Now they can hardly get their mitts on this taxpayer grub.
00:07:12.580 They must be desperate, Sheila.
00:07:15.440 Well, of course they're desperate.
00:07:16.620 Every week is another round of layoffs.
00:07:18.320 I mean, we've been hearing about the demise of the rebel for, well, pretty close to five years now.
00:07:24.340 And in the meantime, we watch everybody else get laid off.
00:07:28.300 The most astounding thing, and you and I were talking about this off air,
00:07:32.160 is the Alberta government under, they called him Bible Bill Eberhardt.
00:07:36.440 He was the premier of Alberta, social credit premier.
00:07:38.700 He passed a law that basically said that newspapers had to publish a rebuttal from the government
00:07:48.360 if they were critical of the government.
00:07:51.740 And that law was ruled unconstitutional because the Edmonton Journal challenged it.
00:07:58.220 And the Edmonton Journal was the first foreign newspaper to ever win a Pulitzer Prize
00:08:02.960 because they challenged this law, had it ruled unconstitutional,
00:08:08.240 and defended their own journalistic independence and integrity.
00:08:11.880 And yet, I've heard nothing from former Edmonton Journal columnist,
00:08:17.760 now so-called independent, liberal-appointed Senator Paula Simons about this.
00:08:23.140 And you'd think that she would be somebody who is shouting about this from the rooftops again,
00:08:28.180 complete and utter silence from the journalists,
00:08:30.560 and now the former journalists who call themselves independent senators.
00:08:35.480 No, you're absolutely right, Sheila.
00:08:39.480 What's the term?
00:08:41.020 They've gone native, I guess, when it comes to getting some payola on the side.
00:08:47.580 And, I mean, listen, I understand their business model,
00:08:50.980 which was conceived before the internet, it doesn't work anymore.
00:08:55.760 Newspapers that were, you know, weekend editions that were once the size of a town's phone book
00:09:00.720 are now the size of pamphlets.
00:09:02.580 But still, A, it is not the government's mandate to bail out media outlets
00:09:10.160 or any corporations as far as I'm concerned in the auto sector,
00:09:14.040 Chrysler, GM, which are always coming up to the trough.
00:09:17.140 And B, I don't see how any journalist, how any publisher or newspaper owner
00:09:22.500 can say we are completely independent and unbiased
00:09:27.820 when you've got a political party, essentially, paying for your existence?
00:09:34.980 What are your thoughts on that, Sheila?
00:09:36.840 Well, I think this does something else, too.
00:09:41.200 It actually makes journalism far worse,
00:09:44.420 because we've figured out that there's a different way to do it,
00:09:48.700 that you need to innovate, you need to be ahead of technology
00:09:52.520 and embrace technology and embrace new ways of doing things.
00:09:56.480 But the other legacy media outlets and the mainstream media,
00:10:01.880 they aren't doing any of that.
00:10:03.480 They aren't changing their business model.
00:10:05.220 They aren't adapting to what their readership or viewership wants.
00:10:09.700 They aren't responsive to the consumer at all.
00:10:13.060 And the liberals are giving them money under the guise of protecting journalism
00:10:19.060 because they value journalism, but actually they're making it worse.
00:10:22.660 And it's only going to get worse.
00:10:24.740 And there will come a time where they, even the liberals, I think,
00:10:28.800 are going to come to a realization that they're throwing good money after bad.
00:10:32.800 And all these news outlets who failed to innovate
00:10:35.760 and failed to respond to the consumer,
00:10:37.620 I think they are in for a very rude awakening.
00:10:39.960 And this bailout, I think, will play a part
00:10:42.660 in completely collapsing the news industry in Canada at some point
00:10:45.960 because it will be a bubble that will eventually burst.
00:10:48.940 No, you know, I think you're absolutely right, Sheila.
00:10:51.520 And, you know, most of my life in the journalism business, I was in print.
00:10:55.600 And I can tell you this, you know,
00:10:57.520 sometimes I'd work for an organization
00:11:00.360 which the publisher was somewhat delusional
00:11:03.680 in terms of putting out content
00:11:06.120 in order to fool or mislead the reader.
00:11:09.240 And what I've always said, Sheila,
00:11:11.760 is the reader is a lot smarter
00:11:13.300 than you're giving him or her credit for.
00:11:15.980 They can smell it when something stinks
00:11:18.740 or something's being covered up
00:11:20.400 or something's being spun a certain way.
00:11:22.940 And certainly in your piece,
00:11:24.660 you exposed the numbers
00:11:28.060 in terms of the sheer volume of readers out there
00:11:31.400 that simply aren't buying
00:11:33.680 what a lot of the mainstream media is selling.
00:11:36.120 Yeah, CBC's viewership, I think, is at the lowest ever.
00:11:40.740 And, you know, even they have layoffs.
00:11:44.740 Now, think about CBC for a second.
00:11:46.740 A billion and a half in taxpayer subsidy.
00:11:49.600 Mandatory carriage on cable and satellite.
00:11:52.600 They get to sell ads.
00:11:54.980 So they compete with the private sector news organizations
00:11:58.740 and entertainment organizations for ads.
00:12:02.000 And yet they still can't make a go of it.
00:12:04.080 They have layoffs.
00:12:05.400 And now everybody's outraged down at the CBC
00:12:07.980 because they aren't insulated from reality anymore.
00:12:11.600 And the thing is, I think,
00:12:13.820 with a lot of these news agencies,
00:12:15.040 and you just pointed it out,
00:12:16.960 back when it was just print and just news,
00:12:20.260 the consumer was smart enough to figure out
00:12:22.560 when they were being sold a line.
00:12:24.260 But it's even worse now
00:12:25.860 with the advent of the internet.
00:12:28.520 People can fact check
00:12:30.160 what's being reported to them in real time
00:12:33.720 by going on the internet,
00:12:34.820 by going on Twitter,
00:12:35.720 by going on Facebook
00:12:36.620 and seeing the posts themselves.
00:12:38.760 And every time the media takes for granted
00:12:42.900 just how smart their readership is
00:12:45.160 and the consumer is,
00:12:46.220 they hurt their own credibility
00:12:47.480 and it just leads to more and more layoffs.
00:12:50.180 Oh, 100%, Sheila.
00:12:51.040 And I can tell our viewers,
00:12:52.320 if you're ever in downtown Toronto,
00:12:53.580 please go visit the CBC headquarters.
00:12:58.240 It's right across the street
00:12:59.200 from the convention center in the Sky Dome.
00:13:01.580 It is a Taj Mahal broadcast temple.
00:13:04.940 It is obscene,
00:13:06.880 the amount of money that's being spent.
00:13:08.200 In fact, given the footprint of that building,
00:13:10.360 the best thing, Sheila,
00:13:11.560 the CBC could do for the Canadian public
00:13:13.460 would be to raise that studio
00:13:16.000 and have a 90-story condo office tower go up
00:13:20.760 because that land is priceless.
00:13:23.240 But they're too entitled to do that.
00:13:25.660 One last question, Sheila.
00:13:27.600 And it's this.
00:13:28.720 You know, maybe, you know,
00:13:30.560 you alluded to this,
00:13:31.520 that, you know,
00:13:32.060 the liberals probably didn't even have to do this
00:13:34.900 in the first place
00:13:35.660 because we see time and time again
00:13:39.180 self-censorship happening.
00:13:41.380 And I've always said, Sheila,
00:13:42.740 if there's anything worse
00:13:43.600 than government-mandated censorship,
00:13:46.520 it's when a journalist self-censors him or herself.
00:13:50.600 And we see it all the time
00:13:53.300 because they realize that, you know,
00:13:55.880 rattling the cage,
00:13:57.520 stirring the pot
00:13:58.340 might not be in their financial best interest,
00:14:01.560 especially given the media landscape
00:14:03.960 because there's so few opportunities out there.
00:14:07.200 What do you have to say, my friend?
00:14:08.520 Well, like I said off the top,
00:14:11.560 I don't understand what difference this makes.
00:14:15.300 The media outlets are going to print government spin
00:14:18.520 as though it were fact anyway.
00:14:20.180 I mean, during the NDP time in office,
00:14:23.900 I, of course, got their press releases.
00:14:26.460 And I would see those about four hours later
00:14:30.440 printed verbatim,
00:14:33.340 almost precisely by the CBC
00:14:36.160 or the Edmonton Journal or Global News,
00:14:38.700 just as though it were fact,
00:14:41.340 as though it were, you know,
00:14:42.500 first-person journalism,
00:14:44.020 that they went out there
00:14:44.940 and gathered the news themselves
00:14:46.480 when all they did was just rework,
00:14:49.200 nearly word for word,
00:14:51.180 an NDP press release.
00:14:52.640 And we see it all the time.
00:14:54.080 So, you know,
00:14:54.880 and I know the same thing happens
00:14:57.260 at the federal level.
00:14:58.180 So this requirement
00:15:00.000 that news outlets have to allow space
00:15:04.760 for the liberals
00:15:05.400 to write their own rebuttal,
00:15:07.620 I think it's redundant.
00:15:08.700 They would and do do it anyway.
00:15:11.980 And, you know,
00:15:12.620 they're not even shy about it.
00:15:13.860 I mean, as you alluded to
00:15:14.660 in your commentary, Sheila,
00:15:16.440 that Unifor,
00:15:18.020 you know,
00:15:19.080 press release
00:15:20.000 of We Are The Resistance,
00:15:21.400 We Are The Resistance,
00:15:21.960 I mean,
00:15:22.520 they're blamed about it.
00:15:23.840 And Unifor, of course,
00:15:24.780 for the viewers
00:15:25.540 who might not know,
00:15:26.440 that they represent
00:15:27.380 so many of the unionized journalists
00:15:28.840 in Canada.
00:15:29.700 Unbelievable.
00:15:30.420 Well, let's see where this goes.
00:15:33.100 And I think this is something
00:15:35.740 whoever the next leader
00:15:37.220 of the Conservative Party is
00:15:39.000 must stand against
00:15:41.240 because it's not right
00:15:42.840 in terms of a moral,
00:15:44.960 ethical,
00:15:45.640 and physical point of view.
00:15:47.340 Sheila, thank you once again
00:15:48.420 for another superb commentary
00:15:50.100 and all the best to you in 2020.
00:15:52.580 You too, David.
00:15:53.300 Have a great weekend.
00:15:54.080 Thank you so much.
00:15:54.900 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed
00:15:56.960 somewhere in Alberta.
00:15:59.100 Keep it here, folks.
00:16:00.000 More of Rebel Roundup
00:16:00.900 to come right after this.
00:16:07.240 But my favorite part of the night
00:16:08.980 was when Mayor Pete Buttigieg
00:16:10.580 called the Elizabeth Warren out
00:16:12.260 after she went after him
00:16:13.720 for his Crystal Cave fundraiser.
00:16:16.000 You know,
00:16:16.780 according to Forest Magazine,
00:16:18.480 I am literally the only person
00:16:20.060 on this stage
00:16:20.840 who's not a millionaire
00:16:22.140 or a billionaire.
00:16:23.080 So if...
00:16:25.140 This is important.
00:16:27.300 This is the problem
00:16:28.600 with issuing purity tests
00:16:30.340 you cannot yourself pass.
00:16:34.140 If I pledged...
00:16:35.140 If I pledged never to be
00:16:38.600 in the company
00:16:39.460 of a progressive,
00:16:41.200 Democratic donor,
00:16:42.180 I couldn't be up here.
00:16:43.840 Senator, your net worth
00:16:44.760 is 100 times mine.
00:16:46.160 Remember, Elizabeth Warren
00:16:48.220 used to get her campaign funds 0.94
00:16:49.680 from big-ticket fundraisers.
00:16:51.380 And she made millions 0.93
00:16:52.740 from defending large corporations
00:16:54.500 whom she now despises.
00:16:56.720 Your presidential campaign
00:16:58.520 right now,
00:16:59.560 as we speak,
00:17:00.800 is funded in part
00:17:01.840 by money you transferred,
00:17:03.960 having raised it
00:17:04.780 at those exact same
00:17:06.200 big-ticket fundraisers
00:17:07.680 you now denounce.
00:17:08.520 At least we got
00:17:09.900 to close the night,
00:17:11.140 knowing the candidates
00:17:11.940 completely understand
00:17:13.740 what the greatest threat
00:17:14.820 is to the United States.
00:17:16.580 People of colour,
00:17:18.340 in fact,
00:17:18.980 are going to be
00:17:19.580 the people
00:17:20.280 suffering most
00:17:21.640 if we do not deal
00:17:22.840 with climate change.
00:17:24.140 I'm the only one
00:17:24.860 on this stage
00:17:25.320 who said
00:17:25.700 climate is my
00:17:26.740 number one priority.
00:17:28.880 That climate change
00:17:29.880 threatens every living thing
00:17:31.780 on this planet.
00:17:33.540 If I'm still here,
00:17:34.620 I'll see you next time.
00:17:35.640 Well, those were just
00:17:36.820 some of the highlights,
00:17:38.120 or is the proper term
00:17:39.340 lowlights,
00:17:40.340 at the most recent
00:17:41.460 Democratic debate
00:17:42.480 in Los Angeles.
00:17:43.780 Oh my,
00:17:44.600 so many Democrats
00:17:45.740 on stage espousing
00:17:46.980 so much hypocrisy,
00:17:49.040 so much imaginary
00:17:50.060 fear-mongering.
00:17:51.620 Indeed,
00:17:52.140 at certain points,
00:17:53.200 it began to resemble
00:17:54.220 a Saturday Night Live sketch,
00:17:56.480 assuming the writers
00:17:57.380 at SNL
00:17:58.340 would ever dare
00:17:59.240 skewer the Dems
00:18:00.340 as much as they
00:18:01.060 skewer President Trump.
00:18:02.800 But in the final analysis,
00:18:04.360 the takeaway
00:18:04.880 of this debate
00:18:05.680 was simply this.
00:18:07.140 Regardless of who wins
00:18:08.300 the Democratic nomination,
00:18:10.260 let's be honest, folks,
00:18:11.320 we're probably looking
00:18:12.440 at four more years
00:18:13.680 of Donald Trump
00:18:14.380 in the White House
00:18:15.100 come November.
00:18:16.680 And with more
00:18:17.660 on this debacle
00:18:18.960 of a debate
00:18:19.580 is our Hawaii-based
00:18:21.060 correspondent,
00:18:21.920 Abigail Hammond.
00:18:22.880 Welcome to Rebel Roundup
00:18:24.040 for the first time,
00:18:25.120 Abigail.
00:18:26.360 Hey,
00:18:26.960 thanks for having me.
00:18:28.020 It is a pleasure.
00:18:29.060 So, you know,
00:18:29.480 Abigail,
00:18:30.100 there are many types
00:18:31.380 of comedy out there
00:18:32.480 in the world.
00:18:33.040 Black humor,
00:18:33.760 slapstick,
00:18:34.920 double entendres,
00:18:36.180 the list goes on.
00:18:37.020 But I think
00:18:37.420 my favorite kind
00:18:38.300 of comedy
00:18:38.800 is unintentional humor.
00:18:41.020 And I found
00:18:41.820 this debate
00:18:42.560 to be so
00:18:44.300 unintentionally funny
00:18:45.640 on so many occasions,
00:18:47.240 like Bernie Saunders
00:18:48.700 fretting that
00:18:49.660 people of color,
00:18:50.860 for whatever reason,
00:18:52.060 stand to be
00:18:52.540 the most victimized
00:18:53.580 group due to
00:18:54.460 climate change.
00:18:55.820 What was your
00:18:56.840 overall assessment
00:18:57.780 of this debate?
00:18:58.560 It was hilarious.
00:19:02.280 I mean,
00:19:03.100 first of all,
00:19:03.860 you come into this debate
00:19:05.080 and you're looking
00:19:06.020 on stage
00:19:07.060 and you go,
00:19:07.800 for the party
00:19:08.380 that's supposed
00:19:08.880 to be representing
00:19:09.600 diversity,
00:19:10.940 and really,
00:19:11.480 in their eyes,
00:19:12.020 diversity should be
00:19:13.020 just of color
00:19:13.860 and not of thought.
00:19:15.160 All the people
00:19:15.820 on stage,
00:19:16.560 you know,
00:19:16.820 besides Andrew Yang,
00:19:18.500 are white.
00:19:19.160 And, you know,
00:19:19.640 you have these
00:19:20.080 old white men 0.52
00:19:20.940 who are,
00:19:21.680 you know,
00:19:22.040 definitely,
00:19:22.940 that's what's
00:19:23.520 despised by,
00:19:24.720 supposedly despised
00:19:25.720 by the Democrats,
00:19:26.500 but they're up there
00:19:27.260 representing the
00:19:28.000 Democratic Party
00:19:28.800 and they're high
00:19:29.400 up there in the polls.
00:19:30.880 And it's just
00:19:32.080 so hypocritical.
00:19:33.120 It's hilarious.
00:19:35.620 That was one of my
00:19:36.700 favorite highlights
00:19:37.420 of it,
00:19:37.740 to be honest,
00:19:38.380 just from the start.
00:19:40.120 Oh, no,
00:19:40.500 there were so many
00:19:41.240 and my goodness,
00:19:42.240 we are,
00:19:42.580 this is going to be
00:19:43.280 the year of identity
00:19:45.320 politics for sure.
00:19:46.560 You know,
00:19:46.700 Abigail,
00:19:47.140 I was,
00:19:48.420 I wondered about
00:19:49.320 that quote
00:19:49.920 that was given
00:19:50.560 by the moderator
00:19:51.360 attributed to Barack Obama
00:19:53.680 and he said,
00:19:54.980 quote,
00:19:55.200 if women were in charge, 1.00
00:19:56.760 you'd see a significant
00:19:58.160 improvement on just
00:19:59.600 about everything.
00:20:00.940 Two questions for you,
00:20:01.960 Abigail.
00:20:02.380 One,
00:20:02.700 as a woman yourself,
00:20:04.620 do you feel like
00:20:05.860 these kind of statements
00:20:06.980 is just so much
00:20:08.080 unnecessary pandering?
00:20:09.740 And two,
00:20:10.680 if Mr. Obama
00:20:11.720 really believed that,
00:20:13.280 then why did he get
00:20:14.340 in Hillary Clinton's way 0.98
00:20:15.660 in 2008?
00:20:18.400 Yeah,
00:20:19.260 well,
00:20:19.560 it's definitely pandering.
00:20:21.020 What actually is funny
00:20:22.000 about that quote,
00:20:22.660 to be honest,
00:20:23.860 first of all,
00:20:24.320 if that's true,
00:20:25.700 then the person
00:20:26.260 who really should be
00:20:27.300 up on stage right now
00:20:28.460 and the person
00:20:28.900 who should win
00:20:29.840 the nominee,
00:20:31.180 nomination,
00:20:32.160 is going to be
00:20:32.920 Tulsi Gabbard
00:20:33.620 because she is the only
00:20:34.940 one who is a woman
00:20:35.820 of color
00:20:36.360 who's left in the race,
00:20:37.780 if I'm correct about that.
00:20:39.380 You know,
00:20:39.600 and so,
00:20:40.380 what's funny about that,
00:20:41.560 so that's,
00:20:42.160 you know,
00:20:42.500 that's where that stands
00:20:43.580 right there
00:20:44.200 and it's definitely pandering
00:20:47.640 and it's definitely,
00:20:48.200 it's not helpful
00:20:49.040 because it goes,
00:20:50.120 it's not looking
00:20:50.840 at the policies,
00:20:51.560 it's not looking
00:20:52.180 at who they are
00:20:53.260 and what they've done,
00:20:54.240 it's just another example
00:20:55.800 of identity politics.
00:20:57.780 So,
00:20:58.200 to me,
00:20:58.600 that's where that stands,
00:21:00.120 it's just,
00:21:00.560 it's not useful
00:21:01.380 and,
00:21:02.040 you know,
00:21:02.240 it's just another sign,
00:21:03.260 I love the part
00:21:03.900 when Joe Biden said,
00:21:05.360 well,
00:21:05.760 you know,
00:21:06.320 when he was talking
00:21:06.860 about answering
00:21:08.700 Barack Obama
00:21:09.420 and he goes,
00:21:10.060 well,
00:21:10.160 I don't think
00:21:10.460 he was talking
00:21:10.880 about me
00:21:11.380 and he goes,
00:21:12.160 I thought to myself,
00:21:12.920 well,
00:21:13.080 what about the time
00:21:13.700 where he told you,
00:21:14.820 Joe,
00:21:15.040 you don't have to do this,
00:21:16.060 you know,
00:21:16.320 you can step out
00:21:17.240 of the way essentially
00:21:17.940 and this is just
00:21:18.600 another reinforcement
00:21:19.900 of that.
00:21:20.880 Oh,
00:21:21.080 you know,
00:21:21.280 that was hilarious
00:21:21.960 too,
00:21:22.300 Abigail,
00:21:22.660 because I think,
00:21:23.580 no,
00:21:23.860 Joe,
00:21:24.240 he's especially
00:21:24.900 talking about you,
00:21:26.140 he spent eight years
00:21:27.480 with you in the White House,
00:21:29.540 he knows you better
00:21:30.340 than anyone.
00:21:31.460 Talk about such a damning
00:21:33.260 non-endorsement,
00:21:34.020 but I'm just tired
00:21:35.480 of this narrative,
00:21:36.760 Abigail,
00:21:37.560 of,
00:21:38.360 yeah,
00:21:38.480 what we need
00:21:39.140 is a,
00:21:39.780 you know,
00:21:40.100 a woman of color 0.61
00:21:41.280 who is perhaps
00:21:42.720 a lesbian
00:21:43.360 and disabled,
00:21:44.360 I mean,
00:21:44.760 what about merit?
00:21:45.960 I don't care
00:21:47.260 who you are
00:21:48.220 as an individual,
00:21:49.100 I care about
00:21:50.300 your brain power,
00:21:51.860 I care about
00:21:52.460 the ideas
00:21:53.180 you represent
00:21:53.940 and I just see
00:21:55.820 this idea
00:21:56.540 of bringing
00:21:57.420 affirmative action
00:21:58.520 and employment equity
00:21:59.560 to the White House
00:22:00.380 to be the wrong course
00:22:01.700 to go down
00:22:02.460 in the first place.
00:22:04.300 Yeah,
00:22:04.880 and it's pretty,
00:22:05.520 I mean,
00:22:06.140 it's pretty sexist
00:22:07.260 as well because,
00:22:08.000 I mean,
00:22:08.360 so you're just saying
00:22:09.320 we need some woman 1.00
00:22:10.800 to come in
00:22:11.520 and,
00:22:12.240 you know,
00:22:12.440 take the role.
00:22:13.020 Okay,
00:22:13.220 so what is,
00:22:14.420 you know,
00:22:14.760 what is Elizabeth Warren
00:22:15.700 really done,
00:22:16.480 you know,
00:22:16.820 and what is
00:22:17.440 Amy Klobuchar
00:22:18.260 really done,
00:22:18.900 what are these,
00:22:19.540 are these women 1.00
00:22:20.580 really successful?
00:22:21.980 So it's just,
00:22:23.060 they're always playing
00:22:23.760 the part of the identity
00:22:25.920 rather than who
00:22:26.760 these people are
00:22:27.720 and their accomplishments
00:22:28.520 and I look at
00:22:29.980 Elizabeth Warren
00:22:30.800 and she's somebody
00:22:31.740 who's lied
00:22:32.300 countless times
00:22:33.200 about her ancestry
00:22:34.380 and she's used that
00:22:35.420 for affirmative action
00:22:36.480 purposes
00:22:37.000 in order to,
00:22:38.500 you know,
00:22:39.520 progress
00:22:40.060 and so she's done
00:22:41.560 that on the
00:22:42.160 Texas State Bar,
00:22:43.600 she did that
00:22:44.080 for the University
00:22:44.740 of Pennsylvania
00:22:45.600 and she won
00:22:46.580 a minority status reward
00:22:48.040 and of course
00:22:48.660 she's apologized
00:22:49.320 to the Cherokee
00:22:50.200 Indian community
00:22:51.540 for lying
00:22:52.660 because she believes
00:22:53.380 that they get to decide
00:22:54.400 who is,
00:22:55.060 you know,
00:22:55.880 of Native American descent
00:22:57.000 but she never apologized
00:22:58.380 for benefiting
00:22:59.220 from those claims
00:23:00.740 and,
00:23:01.960 you know,
00:23:02.280 also,
00:23:03.260 you know,
00:23:03.560 so she's lied,
00:23:05.640 you know,
00:23:06.000 she's done exactly
00:23:06.940 what goes against,
00:23:08.460 supposedly against the left,
00:23:09.800 she's lied
00:23:10.360 and claimed this minority
00:23:11.300 status,
00:23:12.420 you know,
00:23:12.640 how many of these
00:23:13.280 individuals,
00:23:14.440 you know,
00:23:14.740 it's just funny in politics,
00:23:15.760 all of the leftists
00:23:16.640 who either,
00:23:17.460 you know,
00:23:17.760 dressed up in blackface 0.66
00:23:18.920 or,
00:23:19.700 you know,
00:23:20.080 lied about their status
00:23:21.540 as a minority
00:23:22.820 and took benefits
00:23:24.280 from that,
00:23:25.100 yet they're still praised,
00:23:26.940 they're still praised
00:23:27.980 by the left,
00:23:29.040 you know,
00:23:29.400 and so she's just
00:23:30.960 not effective at all,
00:23:32.240 you know,
00:23:32.460 she hasn't really worked
00:23:33.460 in a business,
00:23:34.040 she doesn't,
00:23:35.040 you know,
00:23:35.280 she worked as a corporate
00:23:36.420 lawyer defending
00:23:37.340 big corporations
00:23:38.540 who were not helping
00:23:40.180 innocent victims,
00:23:41.800 you know,
00:23:42.040 they were standing,
00:23:42.620 like Dow,
00:23:43.980 there was a company,
00:23:45.380 Dow Chemical,
00:23:46.380 that was,
00:23:47.620 had poisoned women 0.92
00:23:48.740 with these
00:23:49.420 faulty breast implants
00:23:50.780 and she was trying
00:23:51.780 to limit their liability
00:23:52.920 and she lied later on
00:23:54.400 about that,
00:23:54.860 trying to say she was there
00:23:55.800 helping protect the victims,
00:23:57.700 so,
00:23:58.060 you know,
00:23:58.420 these are ineffective
00:23:59.400 politicians
00:24:00.900 and they're also
00:24:03.000 just liars,
00:24:03.880 most of them on stage,
00:24:04.860 they all have,
00:24:05.660 you know,
00:24:06.000 countless lies there,
00:24:06.820 they've told to
00:24:07.760 the American public
00:24:08.640 in trying to paint
00:24:09.700 themselves in,
00:24:11.180 in trying to paint
00:24:12.340 themselves as individuals
00:24:14.340 who are for the people
00:24:15.180 when they really have
00:24:16.080 stood against the people 0.80
00:24:17.180 in many ways.
00:24:18.260 No,
00:24:18.400 no,
00:24:18.560 you're right,
00:24:18.940 Abigail,
00:24:19.220 when you say rhetorically
00:24:20.660 what does Elizabeth Warren 0.98
00:24:21.940 stand for,
00:24:22.620 I say she stands
00:24:23.500 for gaming the system
00:24:24.660 and given her resume,
00:24:26.460 her background,
00:24:27.600 I,
00:24:27.900 I simply can't believe
00:24:29.380 we,
00:24:30.040 we are taking this woman 1.00
00:24:31.500 seriously as a candidate
00:24:33.500 potentially for president
00:24:35.360 and sticking to the issue
00:24:36.800 of the day
00:24:37.360 here and now,
00:24:38.280 one of the moderators
00:24:39.460 asked her the question
00:24:40.680 that under her plan
00:24:42.780 of raising taxes
00:24:44.020 over the decade
00:24:44.960 of eight trillion,
00:24:47.520 trillion with a T,
00:24:48.900 folks,
00:24:49.600 eight trillion U.S.
00:24:50.720 dollars,
00:24:51.300 that would stifle
00:24:53.020 the economy
00:24:54.040 and discourage investment,
00:24:57.200 what do you have to say
00:24:58.420 about that,
00:24:59.040 Ms. Warren?
00:24:59.420 and she said,
00:25:00.980 well,
00:25:01.360 they,
00:25:01.760 meaning the top economists
00:25:02.920 in the world,
00:25:03.840 are simply wrong.
00:25:05.020 But she doesn't give up
00:25:06.000 any kind of factual background
00:25:08.240 why these economists
00:25:09.680 are wrong.
00:25:10.440 I mean,
00:25:10.700 Abigail,
00:25:11.240 I think this is staggering.
00:25:12.640 Yeah,
00:25:14.720 it's staggering
00:25:15.580 just every time she talks
00:25:17.360 and she does,
00:25:18.400 she talks about everything
00:25:19.180 she's going to do
00:25:19.960 and it's just millions
00:25:21.220 and billions of dollars
00:25:22.680 coming from the American people
00:25:24.060 all for her plans
00:25:25.520 for,
00:25:26.100 you know,
00:25:26.540 essentially wealth redistribution,
00:25:28.660 you know,
00:25:28.980 helping,
00:25:29.640 helping teachers,
00:25:30.580 helping all these people
00:25:31.360 and I look at it
00:25:32.060 and I go,
00:25:32.860 where,
00:25:33.240 you know,
00:25:33.760 how are you really going
00:25:34.660 to get all of this money?
00:25:35.720 I mean,
00:25:36.000 anybody who's,
00:25:37.000 anybody who's wealthy,
00:25:38.080 who's smart,
00:25:39.380 once the day that she comes,
00:25:40.900 the day she becomes president,
00:25:42.620 they're going to leave
00:25:43.280 this country.
00:25:44.320 You know,
00:25:44.540 they're going to leave
00:25:45.060 and she says
00:25:45.560 she's going to try
00:25:46.180 and do an exit wealth tax
00:25:47.660 or whatever,
00:25:48.120 but,
00:25:48.580 you know,
00:25:48.900 they're going to evade her
00:25:50.240 and really,
00:25:51.240 these are just all policies
00:25:52.600 that have never worked
00:25:54.060 and it is truly funny
00:25:55.480 that they praise
00:25:56.600 all of these socialist countries
00:25:58.380 and they want,
00:25:59.740 they want America 0.68
00:26:00.500 to be like that,
00:26:01.240 but they won't,
00:26:01.840 you know,
00:26:02.140 they won't live there.
00:26:03.020 I mean,
00:26:03.240 think of Bernie in general even.
00:26:05.100 Bernie went and praised
00:26:06.520 the Soviet Union.
00:26:07.760 He praised them
00:26:08.260 for their housing
00:26:09.040 and for how cheap
00:26:11.200 their housing was
00:26:12.220 and their health care.
00:26:13.240 This was back in 1989
00:26:14.300 and two years later,
00:26:16.400 the Soviet Union collapsed
00:26:17.800 and in large part
00:26:19.060 due to economic failings
00:26:20.720 and,
00:26:21.380 you know,
00:26:21.500 it's funny,
00:26:21.980 really,
00:26:22.300 it's truly funny
00:26:22.980 if you look at Bernie Sanders
00:26:23.900 because he also,
00:26:25.540 he praised Venezuela
00:26:26.340 as well
00:26:27.360 and I'm pretty sure
00:26:28.200 that during his first,
00:26:30.140 back in 2016
00:26:31.280 when he was running,
00:26:32.140 still on his campaign website,
00:26:33.700 he was promoting Venezuela
00:26:34.840 as a successful socialist country.
00:26:39.300 I'm pretty sure about that
00:26:40.260 and it was failing.
00:26:44.220 It's completely failing
00:26:45.200 and also his wife,
00:26:47.280 just another sign
00:26:48.620 of bad management
00:26:49.680 in that family,
00:26:50.940 she was the head of,
00:26:51.900 she was,
00:26:52.880 she was a leader
00:26:54.280 in Burlington College
00:26:55.560 and she was responsible
00:26:56.560 for them buying property
00:26:58.620 on Lake Champlain
00:26:59.820 and she was responsible
00:27:02.440 for that
00:27:02.940 and it was so expensive
00:27:04.860 that the school
00:27:06.300 and they couldn't afford it
00:27:07.420 so essentially,
00:27:08.340 they had to,
00:27:08.980 you know,
00:27:09.280 get her out of the way. 0.99
00:27:10.220 They paid her off $200,000
00:27:11.700 and by 2016,
00:27:13.720 they had to close down
00:27:14.540 from that bad investment
00:27:16.200 so this is a family
00:27:17.680 that is not,
00:27:18.700 you know,
00:27:18.980 they don't know
00:27:19.640 how to think business-wise.
00:27:21.340 You know,
00:27:21.540 they can buy big properties
00:27:22.740 and, you know,
00:27:23.900 sell books
00:27:24.540 but they,
00:27:25.880 you know,
00:27:26.240 they don't know
00:27:26.780 how to help people
00:27:27.580 and they don't know
00:27:28.620 what it means
00:27:29.260 to be a successful country.
00:27:30.920 They don't know
00:27:31.220 what it looks like
00:27:31.740 to be successful.
00:27:32.360 And let's not forget,
00:27:33.440 Abigail,
00:27:34.100 socialism isn't
00:27:35.320 for the socialists.
00:27:36.620 We're almost out of time.
00:27:37.920 One very quick question
00:27:39.520 for you, Abigail.
00:27:40.160 When I look at the roster
00:27:41.320 of Democrats
00:27:41.940 vying for president,
00:27:43.380 I don't think
00:27:43.940 there's any there there
00:27:45.140 and I'm wondering
00:27:46.060 if in the 11th hour
00:27:47.560 somebody is going to
00:27:48.680 come out of the woodwork
00:27:49.660 and the name
00:27:50.320 that springs to mind,
00:27:51.100 believe it or not,
00:27:51.940 is Hillary Clinton.
00:27:52.940 I mean,
00:27:53.140 she's become more
00:27:54.720 into the media
00:27:55.500 in the last several weeks.
00:27:56.780 She did like
00:27:57.160 an almost two-hour long
00:27:58.280 interview with Howard Stern
00:27:59.360 last month.
00:28:00.300 You've got to wonder why.
00:28:01.380 She doesn't have a new book
00:28:02.220 to promote or anything.
00:28:03.880 Is it possible
00:28:05.140 that we might see her return
00:28:07.580 or do you have
00:28:08.300 any kind of
00:28:09.180 dark horse candidate
00:28:10.600 that might come in
00:28:12.400 and surprise us all
00:28:13.380 in the months ahead?
00:28:15.440 You know,
00:28:16.200 I don't think Hillary's
00:28:17.300 going to come back in.
00:28:18.520 I think she's doing this
00:28:19.820 all for the purpose
00:28:21.040 of fame
00:28:21.720 and, you know,
00:28:23.080 getting her voice in there,
00:28:24.340 trying to stir things,
00:28:25.380 you know,
00:28:25.760 stir the pot around,
00:28:26.860 distract us
00:28:27.700 from, you know,
00:28:28.720 what's really going on
00:28:29.940 and what's, you know,
00:28:31.120 what's really being
00:28:31.720 accomplished
00:28:32.220 under President Trump's
00:28:33.860 leadership.
00:28:35.640 But it's possible,
00:28:37.260 it's possible
00:28:37.880 that Michelle Obama
00:28:38.720 comes in.
00:28:39.340 Well, maybe not Michelle,
00:28:40.100 I should say.
00:28:40.640 But, you know,
00:28:41.700 I don't,
00:28:42.820 I don't know
00:28:43.640 of somebody
00:28:44.340 who could jump in
00:28:45.180 at the last minute.
00:28:46.120 It's definitely possible,
00:28:47.220 but it's hard
00:28:47.800 to make a prediction.
00:28:48.980 You know,
00:28:49.200 I am even wary
00:28:50.600 of predicting
00:28:51.640 who's going to drop
00:28:52.500 out of the race
00:28:53.200 at what point in time,
00:28:54.180 you know,
00:28:54.440 because people
00:28:55.460 can have turnarounds.
00:28:57.540 You know,
00:28:57.740 Julian Castro,
00:28:58.540 I think he dropped
00:28:59.280 out of the race
00:28:59.780 today or yesterday.
00:29:01.200 And so that's nice.
00:29:02.360 We got one more
00:29:02.960 out of the way.
00:29:03.960 But anything's possible.
00:29:05.600 Anything's definitely possible.
00:29:07.380 Well, you know,
00:29:08.340 11 months
00:29:09.760 is an eternity
00:29:10.540 in politics.
00:29:12.000 Abigail will obviously
00:29:13.360 be watching this file closely,
00:29:15.040 especially you
00:29:15.740 since you are stateside.
00:29:17.060 So thank you so much.
00:29:18.200 It was a wonderful commentary
00:29:19.360 and all the best
00:29:20.560 to you, Abigail,
00:29:21.200 in 2020.
00:29:23.000 Yeah,
00:29:23.460 thanks for talking to you.
00:29:24.600 Thanks for talking to me.
00:29:25.560 Thank you so much.
00:29:26.540 And that was Abigail Haman,
00:29:27.840 our newest rebel
00:29:28.600 from Hawaii.
00:29:30.260 Keep it here, folks.
00:29:31.040 More of Rebel Roundup
00:29:31.880 to come right after this.
00:29:38.420 Why did you pour
00:29:39.440 liquefied human feces
00:29:40.900 over people?
00:29:45.300 What was your agenda
00:29:46.340 in doing that, sir?
00:29:47.100 Mr. Opoku?
00:29:58.280 Mr. Opoku,
00:29:59.100 why would anyone
00:29:59.620 do something
00:30:00.140 so disgusting as that?
00:30:01.740 You won't please.
00:30:07.140 Mr. Opoku,
00:30:07.960 have you apologized
00:30:08.640 to the victims yet?
00:30:12.180 Mr. Opoku?
00:30:15.260 Mr. Opoku,
00:30:15.980 now that you're free
00:30:16.720 on bail,
00:30:17.720 what guarantee
00:30:18.620 do we have
00:30:19.260 that you won't
00:30:20.480 do this again, sir?
00:30:25.940 Mr. Opoku?
00:30:27.900 Well,
00:30:28.380 that was our attempt
00:30:29.320 to get Samuel Opoku
00:30:30.580 on the record
00:30:31.460 regarding his
00:30:32.280 alleged disgusting
00:30:33.540 and deplorable crimes.
00:30:35.560 Namely,
00:30:36.000 Opoku
00:30:36.400 is accused
00:30:37.040 of pouring
00:30:37.580 liquefied human feces
00:30:39.320 over the heads
00:30:40.480 of five individuals
00:30:41.480 on three
00:30:42.260 separate occasions.
00:30:43.320 The thing is,
00:30:44.640 folks,
00:30:44.880 a publication ban
00:30:46.040 severely hampers me
00:30:47.200 from reporting
00:30:47.960 what is actually
00:30:48.760 said in court.
00:30:50.480 But outside the courthouse,
00:30:51.800 well,
00:30:52.120 that's a different story.
00:30:53.880 Yet,
00:30:54.120 as you saw,
00:30:54.840 Opoku
00:30:55.240 gave us
00:30:55.820 a silent treatment
00:30:56.720 before he eventually
00:30:58.120 retreated
00:30:58.900 into the Eaton Center
00:31:00.420 with his legal eagles.
00:31:03.100 Maybe he's shy,
00:31:04.480 maybe he's well-coached
00:31:05.860 by his lawyers,
00:31:06.780 or maybe he only likes
00:31:08.440 to do his communicating
00:31:09.740 by pouring a bucketful
00:31:11.620 of shite
00:31:12.220 over his victim's head.
00:31:14.200 If that's the case,
00:31:15.920 maybe I should be thankful
00:31:17.080 that the cat
00:31:18.100 got his tongue
00:31:19.000 on that day.
00:31:20.480 In any event,
00:31:21.660 here's what some of you
00:31:22.920 had to say.
00:31:23.940 Michael Creasa writes,
00:31:25.860 Not so brave
00:31:26.800 when confronted
00:31:27.440 by a camera
00:31:28.240 and a mic.
00:31:29.400 Indeed, Michael,
00:31:30.160 but then again,
00:31:31.100 how in the world
00:31:32.140 does one defend
00:31:33.240 the indefensible?
00:31:35.160 Just imagine, folks,
00:31:36.520 being doused
00:31:37.160 with human waste.
00:31:38.200 I saw one victim
00:31:39.820 endure that attack
00:31:40.820 thanks to surveillance video
00:31:42.300 that was presented
00:31:43.040 in court.
00:31:44.220 That footage was
00:31:45.180 unforgettable
00:31:45.960 in a truly horrific way.
00:31:49.300 Chimindo Seven writes,
00:31:51.420 Love how the Canadian
00:31:52.480 media covers this.
00:31:53.900 Oh, wait,
00:31:54.420 Rebel is the only media
00:31:55.520 with integrity
00:31:56.260 showing us the whole truth
00:31:58.120 of things going on
00:31:59.540 in Canada.
00:32:00.540 Well, I can tell you,
00:32:01.920 Chimindo Seven,
00:32:02.840 there were plenty
00:32:03.740 of other media types
00:32:04.840 at the courthouse
00:32:05.560 on that day.
00:32:06.800 They could have scrummed
00:32:07.860 Mopoku too.
00:32:08.920 After all,
00:32:09.480 given the publication ban,
00:32:11.300 they too were prevented
00:32:12.420 from reporting
00:32:13.140 most of what is presented
00:32:14.380 in court.
00:32:15.400 So why didn't they
00:32:17.200 try to scrum
00:32:17.860 Mopoku as we did?
00:32:19.500 Is it laziness?
00:32:21.220 Or is it considered
00:32:22.200 impolite to ask questions
00:32:23.800 to someone
00:32:24.300 who stands accused
00:32:25.740 of committing
00:32:26.760 absolutely disgusting
00:32:28.660 acts of terror?
00:32:30.320 Who knows?
00:32:32.020 Lou Winkler writes,
00:32:33.200 Amazing coverage.
00:32:34.240 Way to go after him.
00:32:35.160 He deserves
00:32:35.640 all the embarrassment
00:32:36.740 he gets.
00:32:38.460 I agree, Lou,
00:32:39.220 given that the justice system
00:32:40.740 is multicoddling
00:32:41.740 this individual
00:32:42.500 due to a publication ban.
00:32:44.100 And for the life of me,
00:32:45.520 I have no idea
00:32:46.840 why there is a publication ban
00:32:48.720 in effect
00:32:49.300 in the first place.
00:32:51.360 And Eugene Denny writes,
00:32:52.900 Who is paying
00:32:53.920 for his legal defense?
00:32:55.920 You know,
00:32:56.220 that's a great question, Eugene.
00:32:57.440 I believe there are
00:32:58.280 three lawyers on this file
00:32:59.820 and a couple of
00:33:00.660 social workers too.
00:33:02.120 I don't know
00:33:02.780 who's picking up the tab,
00:33:04.000 but how much
00:33:05.100 you want to bet
00:33:05.760 the taxpayer
00:33:06.520 is somehow on the hook
00:33:07.980 for this particular
00:33:09.220 shite show.
00:33:10.760 But folks,
00:33:11.460 it appears that
00:33:12.080 Samuel Opoku
00:33:12.940 does have some supporters
00:33:15.240 in his corner.
00:33:16.240 Just consider this
00:33:17.280 from Nick Loss
00:33:18.280 who writes,
00:33:19.000 What exactly
00:33:20.440 was this fake journalist
00:33:21.700 trying to accomplish?
00:33:23.000 If the guy answered,
00:33:24.340 he'd have to cut it
00:33:25.280 from this clip.
00:33:26.820 Either that
00:33:27.340 or he doesn't understand
00:33:28.440 the concept
00:33:29.040 of a publication ban.
00:33:30.320 Ooh,
00:33:31.480 he's just putting on
00:33:32.480 a show
00:33:32.900 for the hilariously
00:33:33.980 gullible
00:33:34.540 and just downright
00:33:35.900 adorable
00:33:36.400 Canadian version
00:33:37.480 of the alt-white 0.72
00:33:38.620 er,
00:33:39.120 I mean alt-right.
00:33:40.680 Yay,
00:33:41.240 rebel,
00:33:41.880 sometimes news.
00:33:43.340 Keep up the useless work,
00:33:45.240 SMH.
00:33:47.080 Gee,
00:33:47.500 where do I begin, Nick?
00:33:48.680 Because you disagree
00:33:49.660 with the video,
00:33:51.040 it had been made
00:33:51.980 by a fake journalist?
00:33:53.560 You know,
00:33:53.860 I went to university
00:33:55.040 for journalism
00:33:55.700 and I've been working
00:33:56.520 as a journalist
00:33:57.740 since 1985,
00:33:58.940 but who knows?
00:34:01.020 By the way,
00:34:01.500 I'm afraid
00:34:02.220 it is you
00:34:03.120 who doesn't understand
00:34:04.240 the concept
00:34:05.200 of a publication ban.
00:34:06.780 Then again,
00:34:07.460 you kind of strike me
00:34:08.860 as the kind of guy
00:34:10.100 who isn't too keen
00:34:11.660 on transparency
00:34:12.980 and as for the
00:34:15.080 alt-white reference,
00:34:16.680 why are you bringing
00:34:17.680 race into this story?
00:34:19.780 It has nothing
00:34:20.280 to do with it.
00:34:21.540 Talk about an SMH
00:34:23.640 that's shaken my head
00:34:25.500 moment.
00:34:26.200 Well,
00:34:27.640 that wraps up
00:34:28.480 another edition
00:34:29.120 of Rebel Roundup.
00:34:30.300 Thanks so much
00:34:30.820 for joining us.
00:34:31.660 See you next week.
00:34:32.680 And hey folks,
00:34:33.380 never forget,
00:34:34.440 without risk,
00:34:35.260 there can be no glory.
00:34:36.600 Good night.
00:34:37.000 We'll see you next week.