Rebel News Podcast - October 19, 2019


Rebel Roundup： David Menzies and Keean Bexte (Guest host： Sheila Gunn Reid)


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David Menzies and Kian Bextie join host Sheila Gunn-Reed to talk about their thoughts on the first Democratic primary debate, Greta Thunberg's climate scold, and Ezra Levant's live stream of the debate.

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00:00:00.000 Hello Rebels, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're listening to a free audio-only recording of David Menzies' Friday Night Show Rebel Roundup.
00:00:08.180 Tonight, my guests are the regular hosts, David Menzies and Kian Bextie.
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00:01:10.260 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back on the very best commentaries of the last week from some of our favorite rebels.
00:01:28.060 I'm your host, Sheila Gunn-Reed, filling in for the intrepid, as always, David Menzies, as he's out on the road,
00:01:34.720 chasing all that election news wherever he might find it.
00:01:38.960 Now, as you know, our rebel team went to federal court to get access to the leadership debates.
00:01:46.980 But our access doesn't mean the mainstream media journalists were happy to have our scrappy little organization outworking them in the post-debate scrums.
00:01:57.140 David Menzies joins me tonight to talk about how his fellow journalists tried to keep him from asking questions at the French-language debate.
00:02:07.040 Then, Kian Bexty has been on Greta Thunberg watch ever since the impish Swedish climate scold announced on the Thanksgiving weekend
00:02:17.180 that she would be bringing her hectoring environmentalist roadshow up here to oil country.
00:02:22.760 Kian joins us to talk about his face-to-face meeting with Greta in an Edmonton hotel.
00:02:29.360 Then, finally, your comments on Ezra's live stream from outside the Plaza Theatre in Calgary
00:02:36.420 after they refused to open the doors and honor their contract for our Libranos book signing.
00:02:42.880 Those are your rebels. Let's round them up. 0.57
00:02:52.760 Five CPC questions, since there's many, many medias.
00:02:57.260 I think your colleague here...
00:02:58.940 That's my colleague, Kian, right?
00:03:00.320 Yeah, so...
00:03:01.980 I mean, just to make sure that every media gets a sense to ask questions.
00:03:06.120 Well, you're first in line, right?
00:03:08.120 Yeah, not for me. I'm just asking for everyone else.
00:03:10.540 I think you're good to ask.
00:03:12.120 I'm not talking about me. I'm just talking about, like, yeah, yeah.
00:03:15.360 What I'm saying is that everyone can ask questions.
00:03:17.800 But you only want us to ask one question.
00:03:19.820 Sorry? I'm just saying that there's a lot of medias.
00:03:23.500 The two of you will have one question before I have mine.
00:03:26.340 That's his point.
00:03:27.340 Maybe every media could have one before you have two.
00:03:31.360 Sure, well, we're just all in line, right?
00:03:33.120 It's one at a time, right?
00:03:34.880 Yeah, but I'm saying that some medias won't have questions, and you'll have two.
00:03:40.760 Usually we have none.
00:03:41.720 We have to get a court order, sir, to get in here.
00:03:43.980 I understand everything.
00:03:44.500 I'm just saying that, I mean, we're all here.
00:03:47.440 Oh, yeah, but we were never here.
00:03:48.640 That's the thing.
00:03:49.580 Are you here?
00:03:50.560 We are here now.
00:03:51.260 We are here, too.
00:03:51.740 But you're telling me not to ask a question because there's two of us.
00:03:54.520 I'm not telling you not to ask a question.
00:03:55.600 I'm telling you we can all play in a team.
00:03:58.340 Oh, 100%.
00:03:59.120 No, it's not 100% since you're not playing in a team right now.
00:04:02.980 Well.
00:04:03.320 Because some medias won't have questions. 0.67
00:04:04.920 That's what I'm saying.
00:04:05.540 You're too ahead of me in the line.
00:04:07.340 I'm not talking about me.
00:04:08.280 I'm talking about people here.
00:04:10.600 TVO.
00:04:11.260 Okay.
00:04:11.940 Yeah.
00:04:12.200 Talking about other medias?
00:04:13.440 But we have been excluded, sir, from the entire campaign until...
00:04:17.620 You're here?
00:04:18.220 Is that right?
00:04:18.780 I am planning to ask a question.
00:04:20.020 Two questions.
00:04:21.400 Well, I don't know.
00:04:22.280 I mean, it depends.
00:04:23.200 So that's a...
00:04:23.860 You are planning to ask two questions.
00:04:25.100 Well, as you know, the Prime Minister has a penchant for not answering questions.
00:04:29.180 One and a follow-up.
00:04:29.860 It's a question and follow-up, right?
00:04:30.920 That's the rule.
00:04:32.100 That's what's going to happen?
00:04:33.020 Yes.
00:04:34.040 Question and follow-up.
00:04:34.740 All right.
00:04:34.940 We'll look for that.
00:04:35.700 Okay.
00:04:37.360 Why?
00:04:37.680 Is that a problem?
00:04:39.400 Well, it's not great.
00:04:40.820 It's my understanding, actually, from what I was hearing from the gentleman, that you've
00:04:43.560 got two people here, and so you are.
00:04:45.140 I'm planning to ask two questions, which makes it four.
00:04:47.140 Yeah.
00:04:48.100 Oh, sorry.
00:04:48.500 What was that?
00:04:49.940 I'm done here.
00:04:50.920 Thanks.
00:04:51.280 Okay.
00:04:51.520 Now, Rebel News went to court to get a court order to get our reporters access to the leaders'
00:04:57.000 debate, and thus, the scrums after the fact.
00:05:00.780 And after the first debate, it was pretty clear that it was worth every penny to get
00:05:05.980 our reporters in, and after the first debate, it became evident.
00:05:09.820 Our journalists were going to ask the questions of politicians.
00:05:13.480 The mainstream media just refuses to ask.
00:05:16.640 So by the time the second debate rolled around, the mainstream media had a solution to their
00:05:23.360 little problem of rebel reporters eating their lunches and exposing their intellectual
00:05:28.300 incuriosity.
00:05:29.980 They were going to stop us from asking questions in the interest of some newfound journalistic
00:05:35.560 solidarity.
00:05:36.940 Joining me now from somewhere on the campaign trail in Ontario is the regular host of the
00:05:43.720 show, David Menzies.
00:05:45.040 David, I've got to ask you, why aren't you a team player?
00:05:49.380 Huh?
00:05:49.520 You know, what is perversely ironic about that question, Sheila, is he's saying, be a
00:05:57.780 team player by quitting the team, stepping down from the team, getting off the bench and
00:06:03.580 going back into the parking lot.
00:06:05.160 Because what he meant by that, you know, I'll frame the, you know, the event as it happened
00:06:11.760 last Thursday in Ottawa.
00:06:14.540 Both Kian and I and Andrew Lawton of True North came in and I would assume they lumped the
00:06:22.340 three of us together, kind of like the three musketeers.
00:06:27.420 Although they, although the mainstream media certainly doesn't subscribe to, you know, the
00:06:31.660 slogan, one for all, all for one, one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.
00:06:37.940 To them, I think the three musketeers is the name of a chocolate bar.
00:06:41.640 Anyway, um, we, this fellow comes up to me and at first I thought, because it was absolutely
00:06:49.820 precedent setting this federal court decision, Sheila, to get us in the door, um, call me
00:06:56.240 a, uh, you know, a delusional optimist, but I thought he was going to say something, you
00:07:01.640 know, Hey man, that was fantastic.
00:07:03.900 What a, what a win for, for freedom of the press.
00:07:07.780 Instead, the fact that the rebel had two reporters there, um, the temerity of our organization
00:07:16.380 having two reporters asking questions to them, this was double coverage.
00:07:23.340 This was an unfair advantage.
00:07:25.560 Um, he said, there's two of you there.
00:07:28.140 And to which I think I said something along the lines, yeah, well, the problem is we were
00:07:33.140 never there.
00:07:34.380 We were, it took a court order to get us here.
00:07:38.420 We're kind of making up for lost time.
00:07:41.340 And, um, the, uh, uh, uh, but sure enough.
00:07:45.460 And then another, uh, journalist, a fellow with the, uh, the Paisley shirt chipped in and,
00:07:51.040 um, you know, he was also, you know, badgering us that, you know, we shouldn't be, uh, you
00:07:58.200 know, having two representatives of the same, uh, media organization there.
00:08:02.440 And, and somebody told me, I don't know if this is true or not, Sheila, maybe, you know,
00:08:05.840 for sure the CBC had altogether something like 80 people.
00:08:09.880 And I know they're all not all on camera people, but my goodness, talk about the, the
00:08:16.040 part calling the kettle black.
00:08:17.760 I mean, it wasn't double coverage by the, uh, CBC was quintuple coverage.
00:08:23.440 So, um, yeah, it's depressing, Sheila, because if you believe in freedom of speech and freedom
00:08:30.220 of the press and freedom of expression, there's no such thing as being a little bit pregnant.
00:08:35.880 And if they, even if our point of view, um, discuss them or bothers them or upsets them,
00:08:44.900 that's irrelevant because I'll tell you, Sheila, and I think the same would go for you and
00:08:49.380 it would go for Kian and Andrew Lawn.
00:08:51.460 If any other media organization, including the CBC was excluded for something, we would
00:08:57.620 stand up, even though we don't like the CBC would like to see it privatized, but still
00:09:03.000 we would stand up, you know, on the basis of journalistic ethics and say, let them in.
00:09:09.780 But it's clearly not a two way street, my friend.
00:09:12.380 Yeah.
00:09:13.040 I mean, these people, while we were engaged in a court battle to get you guys in, and
00:09:19.780 while Andrew Lawton is being turfed from liberal events, while you were handcuffed at a conservative
00:09:25.540 event, these people never opened their mouths.
00:09:28.520 They shut their mouths.
00:09:29.460 There was no such thing as the team back then.
00:09:32.440 And not a single one of them offered their spot at a conservative event or a liberal event
00:09:38.340 for Andrew Lawton or you.
00:09:41.400 There's no team unless it means hampering our ability to ask questions that they won't.
00:09:46.520 In fact, it was the Parliamentary Press Gallery who have, they've denied you credentials to
00:09:54.320 cover things in the past.
00:09:56.160 So it's actually these people, these other journalists who are going about their business
00:10:01.600 excluding us.
00:10:02.560 And yet when we show up to ask questions after winning a court battle, they say, oh, you guys,
00:10:07.120 you got to be on the team.
00:10:09.060 Well, we shouldn't have had to get a court order to get on their team.
00:10:13.860 Now, I will make a caveat.
00:10:18.060 When I was at the Media Freedom Conference, the other journalists refused to go to a press
00:10:25.220 conference if Andrew Lawton and I were excluded from Freeland's conference.
00:10:31.340 But those weren't Parliamentary Press Gallery journalists.
00:10:33.940 They weren't this clique of mean girls in Ottawa who have exclusive access to politicians. 1.00
00:10:40.440 These were foreign bureau people, people who are just interested in journalism.
00:10:45.040 And, you know, they're just trying to report the news as it happens without a particular
00:10:50.600 lens and without protecting politicians.
00:10:52.840 And it's so funny to see the difference between journalists who work nearly exclusively in Ottawa
00:10:59.140 tagging along behind the Liberals and journalists who are actually doing journalism everywhere
00:11:03.680 but Ottawa.
00:11:05.260 Oh, yeah, Sheila.
00:11:06.180 I mean, I remember that footage very well.
00:11:09.840 And, A, it was incredible to see some other journalists stand up for us.
00:11:14.200 But as you point out, rightly, these aren't the Canadian bought and paid for state stenographer
00:11:22.200 journalists.
00:11:22.760 These were members of the foreign press and which I guess they'll have still subscribe to
00:11:30.740 ethics.
00:11:32.220 And and they stood up for for you guys.
00:11:34.740 And it must have felt like an out of body experience because you mentioned the the handcuffing
00:11:41.840 incident.
00:11:43.200 What I'll never forget about that is that I was asking, you know, the people recording the
00:11:48.800 incident, I'm glad they actually recorded it, because obviously I was unable to do so with
00:11:54.160 my hands behind my back.
00:11:56.400 But I was saying things like, hey, how about a little solidarity here?
00:12:01.000 And what really bothered me was just like there was no answer.
00:12:04.400 It was almost as though they were, you know, they drank the Kool-Aid so much that we dare
00:12:11.640 not show disrespect to our our monetary masters who are cutting the checks, be it the six hundred
00:12:20.560 million dollar bailout for the print media in Canada, Sheila, or the one point six billion
00:12:25.860 in taxpayer welfare that the CBC gets every year.
00:12:31.080 And so, you know, I'm not so much upset as I am sad that this is what the profession has
00:12:38.640 been reduced to.
00:12:39.640 Yeah, and I watched with great fascination the online confusion of the other journalists
00:12:47.140 after Kian got those very powerful questions in the first debate in the scrum there.
00:12:54.400 They were saying stuff like, well, how did Rebel and True North get all those questions?
00:13:00.700 How did they get to the front of the line?
00:13:02.400 Hustle, hard work, foresight, planning, all those things that you're supposed to have
00:13:09.220 as a journalist.
00:13:10.440 And it just shows how, I guess, complacent the mainstream media is and how entitled they
00:13:16.680 feel to that spot in line and how offended they are that somebody from outside could outwork
00:13:23.120 them.
00:13:23.460 I'm trying to get inside the head of people I truly don't understand.
00:13:27.480 But it was interesting to see just how, and again, in the exchange with you, and I think
00:13:32.700 his name was Philippe Vincent Foisy or Foisy, like you, I'm unilingual, and I like it that
00:13:40.940 way, but he was so entitled to his spot in line, a spot in line that you guys worked for.
00:13:50.300 Indeed, and Sheila, on the second debate, you know, on Thursday, we left the debate,
00:13:55.420 that was the French debate, so we were in a room watching the translated version.
00:13:59.900 We left a good half hour early so that we would be the first in line.
00:14:05.580 So one, two, three in line was Kian, myself, and Andrew Lawton, and I can tell you, when
00:14:12.840 the other media came, there were two that butted in, in front of Andrew and I.
00:14:19.580 Kian still maintained his first spot, but, you know, you're right, even though we showed
00:14:23.780 some initiative and hustle and waited a solid half hour to be led into the scrum area, these
00:14:31.840 people still felt that they weren't going to follow the protocol of a Q, you know, and
00:14:37.840 also, I want to say something, you know, you alluded to it earlier, Sheila, this whole idea
00:14:42.240 of, you know, whether it's the liberals or the conservatives, as I discovered a couple
00:14:47.240 of weeks ago in Whitby with that infamous incident, they say, well, you know, they're
00:14:51.920 not accredited journalists, and I just want to tell the people out there, you know, who,
00:14:56.220 you know, might not be as familiar with the journalistic world as you and I, that this
00:15:03.840 sounds almost as though, oh, well, they didn't have their accreditation, they didn't have their
00:15:08.280 license, their papers.
00:15:10.620 There's, you know, folks, what accreditation means is a piece of paper that you sign in,
00:15:16.660 right?
00:15:17.120 It's like RSVPing to a party.
00:15:19.620 There's no ministry of journalists and broadcasters that you apply to, and some bureaucrat goes,
00:15:26.020 hmm, yes, that one's okay, no, I don't like that one.
00:15:29.820 So, they're creating, I think, Sheila, this falsified milieu that there is some kind of
00:15:41.160 ultra-formal, regimented way of getting these so-called credentials when, I'm sorry, folks,
00:15:48.580 journalists, unlike, say, doctors, unlike lawyers, there's no governing body.
00:15:53.980 Anyone can call themselves a journalist.
00:15:56.080 So, don't believe this red herring about, oh, they weren't accredited, because it means
00:16:01.640 nothing.
00:16:02.560 Yeah, it's literally a sign-in sheet where you write your name, the time, sorry, the time,
00:16:08.380 your name, and the organization that you're with.
00:16:10.580 Yes.
00:16:10.940 And it is, it's a piece of paper that you'll see at a conservative event, a liberal event,
00:16:16.140 a government event, that's literally what it is.
00:16:18.360 It's just a sign-in sheet, and this idea that you need to have RSVP'd and have had security
00:16:24.580 clearance, I mean, it's just garbage.
00:16:27.340 And I really resent the fact that both parties are just allowing this sort of foggy lie to linger
00:16:36.360 out there.
00:16:37.940 And so are the journalists, because they know what accreditation means, too.
00:16:42.320 It's a sign-in sheet on a loosely piece of paper at the door.
00:16:46.260 And even if you haven't emailed ahead, if you haven't called ahead, you can still sign into
00:16:50.560 that sheet, and they say, come on in.
00:16:52.900 I mean, that's literally what accreditation is.
00:16:56.560 And both parties involved are not bothering to clear this up, because they benefit from
00:17:01.200 this fog of confusion from laypeople.
00:17:04.940 Well, you know, Sheila, obviously the liberals, you know, detest us.
00:17:10.700 I mean, our rebel media, rebel news has been mentioned in the House of Commons by Trudeau
00:17:16.060 a couple of times, sometimes referred to as Rebel Magazine.
00:17:19.220 Yeah, Rebel Magazine.
00:17:19.980 But, you know, so there is a bit of obsession about the fact that we are these, you know,
00:17:27.040 untamed broncos that are reporting stuff that isn't supposed to be reported.
00:17:33.180 But on the flip side, I just continue to scratch my head.
00:17:38.620 And I wish Andrew Scheer would give his head a shake that, you know, considering us, you know,
00:17:44.380 postile, when we have almost 1.3 million YouTube subscribers, the vast majority of which I would
00:17:51.280 assume lean right of center and would be voters of the Conservative Party, why we are being
00:17:58.800 treated so shabbily and with such disrespect in order to, what, earn the approval of the
00:18:05.620 mean girls out there, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the CBC, which will forever,
00:18:11.200 you know, hate Conservatives and Andrew Scheer.
00:18:16.480 But it seems that it doesn't matter.
00:18:19.420 I mean, I just find that strategy, Sheila, so self-defeating to the point that, you know,
00:18:24.820 when, hey, a couple of days ago when I was in Calgary at Ezra's book signing, the people
00:18:30.260 who were voting Conservative, almost every one of them said, I'm diverting my eyes, holding
00:18:36.300 my nose.
00:18:37.280 Gee, that's not a ringing endorsement of a leader or a party.
00:18:41.340 I mean, it's like, are you guys purposely trying to blow this?
00:18:45.760 It is staggering.
00:18:47.700 Well, yeah.
00:18:48.040 And a lot of those people were saying, like, look, we just want Andrew Scheer to say it
00:18:52.060 was a mistake and it's not going to happen again.
00:18:54.840 That's all they want to hear.
00:18:55.680 I think that's all we want to hear.
00:18:56.820 You know, actually, I don't even need to hear that it was a mistake.
00:19:03.400 I just would like to know that it is not going to happen again and that the Conservatives
00:19:06.940 are at least better on press freedom, freedom of speech than the Liberals.
00:19:12.040 That's all I want to hear.
00:19:14.220 David, I know that you are very busy on the campaign trail.
00:19:17.700 I want to give you a chance to let everybody know where they can find your coverage from
00:19:23.160 the campaign trail and how they can support your work and Kian's work out there on the
00:19:28.520 road.
00:19:29.540 Well, I guess I would be right here on the Rebel News channel, I would hope.
00:19:34.780 And of course, campaign2019.com.
00:19:38.520 You know, if you want to go there, folks.
00:19:41.540 And by the way, if you're able to, I mentioned the $600 million and the $1.6 billion.
00:19:49.080 We get none of that, nor would we take it if it were offered.
00:19:53.140 We depend on our subscribers.
00:19:55.480 We depend on donations.
00:19:56.780 So if anyone likes the kind of journalism that Ezra and Kian and Sheila and myself that
00:20:02.520 we're trying to deliver on this campaign trail, and Jessica too, of course, please, if you
00:20:08.720 have it in you, make a donation because that's what keeps us alive.
00:20:14.180 That's what keeps the lights on.
00:20:15.860 And we're going to continue covering this election to the bitter end on Monday.
00:20:21.900 And we're trying our best to bring you what we like to say is the other side of the story
00:20:30.020 because nobody else out there, folks, is bringing you that other side of the story.
00:20:35.080 Amen, David.
00:20:35.820 I think this election is going to kill us all as long as we collapse on the other side of
00:20:41.320 the finish line on Monday.
00:20:42.740 I think that's going to be great.
00:20:44.100 David, thanks for calling into your own show.
00:20:46.940 Good luck out there on the road.
00:20:49.280 Stay with us more up next after the break.
00:20:56.200 I'm curious, you know, Cowrie's in Iowa City.
00:20:58.680 Why don't you guys go to China or Saudi Arabia?
00:21:02.900 Protest them.
00:21:04.140 Because right now I'm here and I stopped flying.
00:21:06.980 So to go there, that would help too.
00:21:09.440 But I mean, I went here because I received an invitation to go here.
00:21:13.020 Will you be disclosing your finances?
00:21:14.680 Will you be telling us who is paying for your trip, your Tesla, and bringing you to our country
00:21:19.940 in the middle of an election?
00:21:21.400 Thank you very much.
00:21:23.020 I'm paying.
00:21:24.120 You're paying for everything.
00:21:25.260 You pay for the Tesla?
00:21:26.580 You pay for the Tesla.
00:21:27.260 You borrow the Tesla for free.
00:21:30.640 You borrow the Tesla for free from New York.
00:21:33.800 Yeah, from common Schwarzenegger.
00:21:35.400 Have you registered as a third-party advertiser coming to this country in the middle of an
00:21:39.480 election period?
00:21:41.420 It's the middle of an election.
00:21:42.700 You understand that?
00:21:43.520 Have you registered as a third-party advertiser?
00:21:46.240 I'm sure she will not talk about the elections.
00:21:48.400 I have never mentioned the election period.
00:21:50.940 You understand that climate change is a pivotal policy.
00:21:54.420 It is a ballot box question in this election.
00:21:56.320 This is a ballot box question in this election, and you're rallying, you're engaging in our
00:22:02.540 political discourse as a foreigner.
00:22:04.660 I'm not talking about politics.
00:22:06.120 Climate change is politics, is it not?
00:22:07.740 I'm not science.
00:22:09.500 So is science going to solve it?
00:22:11.380 Would you like a technical solution to climate change, or would you like politicians to solve
00:22:14.900 it?
00:22:14.920 I'd really appreciate it if you stopped talking to us right now.
00:22:17.160 We have a meeting, and this is business.
00:22:19.180 So you're engaging in political discourse in a foreign country, as a foreign system.
00:22:23.380 No, thank you very much.
00:22:24.780 Will you be disclosing your finances, and will you be registering as a third-party operative?
00:22:37.160 Will you be registering as a third-party operative?
00:22:39.920 Thank you very much.
00:22:41.200 Thank you.
00:22:41.760 Thank you.
00:23:11.760 Kian Bexty from some airport somewhere out on the campaign trail.
00:23:24.680 Kian, tell me, is Greta as inspirational and Joan of Arc-like in person?
00:23:30.700 Not so much, and this maybe is an aside.
00:23:34.480 She's incredibly short.
00:23:35.940 I was very surprised.
00:23:37.800 They say she's 16.
00:23:39.560 I think she's – maybe we should start like a birther movement.
00:23:43.760 I don't think she's actually 16.
00:23:44.860 She's so short.
00:23:46.000 I think they're just saying that so they don't feel so bad parading her around North
00:23:49.740 America and letting her go on a dangerous yacht across the Atlantic Ocean. 0.84
00:23:55.360 She wasn't the St. Greta that she's been made out to be.
00:23:58.460 She was kind.
00:23:59.840 She was gentle.
00:24:01.460 And she was polite.
00:24:03.300 Her handlers, however, were very upset that I was asking questions outside of a press conference-style
00:24:10.380 event.
00:24:11.380 And I asked a few questions regarding, well, why isn't she in China?
00:24:15.920 Why isn't she in India?
00:24:17.660 Why doesn't she go to Saudi Arabia? 1.00
00:24:19.720 And then I continued to ask questions about their registration with Elections Canada, whether
00:24:24.640 or not they were – whether or not they were going to disclose their finances because, of
00:24:29.620 course, we're in the middle of an election and they just decide to come to Canada twice,
00:24:33.640 first in Montreal and now to Alberta, to stage major political rallies in the middle of a
00:24:40.560 general election.
00:24:41.620 Something's a little fishy there.
00:24:42.880 So I wanted to ask some questions.
00:24:44.140 And right when I did, their handlers kind of lost it.
00:24:48.760 We should play that clip of when I asked, are you registered as a third-party advertiser?
00:24:55.240 And listen to this girl's response.
00:24:56.380 So you're engaging in political discourse in a foreign country as a foreigner.
00:25:01.280 Thank you very much.
00:25:02.400 Now, there's more to the story than just your incredible confrontation with Greta and her
00:25:12.540 handlers, who were pretty prickly with you about you asking questions.
00:25:18.980 I think a big part of this story is just how we came about the scoop, because it was real
00:25:26.140 old-fashioned journalism.
00:25:28.980 You know, we got a tip.
00:25:31.100 We chased the tip.
00:25:32.400 From an anonymous tipster who trusted us, unlike the mainstream media.
00:25:39.380 They trusted that if they gave this information to us, we would do the right thing with it.
00:25:43.680 And it was really shoe leather journalism.
00:25:46.380 We found the Tesla 3 that Greta has been driving in her slow travel movement.
00:25:53.960 And she's got that thing filled up like a couple of raccoons are driving around in it. 1.00
00:25:59.140 Oh, my gosh, Sheila.
00:26:00.780 I don't know if you must decide.
00:26:03.020 It was full of baked bean cans.
00:26:08.880 Like, it looked like a dumpster.
00:26:10.260 Baked bean cans.
00:26:10.980 Plastic garbage bags as well.
00:26:12.560 There are tons of single-use plastics in there.
00:26:15.480 And, of course, the bright yellow New York plate.
00:26:18.880 So it was pretty obvious.
00:26:20.500 When I got pulled into the parking lot, I see this Tesla.
00:26:23.580 Very expensive, state-of-the-art Tesla with New York plates.
00:26:26.120 I thought, hmm, I wonder who could be driving that around Alberta.
00:26:30.420 And the funny story about the Tesla, before they realized who I was, I was kind of just
00:26:34.620 sitting next to Greta and her handlers while they were plotting their next moves.
00:26:40.120 After they leave Edmonton, after they stage a major political rally in Alberta's capital,
00:26:45.160 their next plans, and you heard it here first, is to go to Jasper.
00:26:48.920 They're going to go to Jasper.
00:26:49.820 And they're extremely concerned about whether or not the Tesla will actually be able to manage
00:26:55.800 in Jasper, whether or not the battery will die.
00:26:58.400 Of course, Greta wants everyone to switch to electric vehicles, battery-operated cars.
00:27:04.500 But deep down, they know that Canada isn't suited for it.
00:27:08.600 So much so that they're planning on contingency plans in case the Tesla doesn't work out in Jasper
00:27:18.480 in those high, low-temperature mountain regions.
00:27:21.820 You know, I think it's funny.
00:27:22.620 I think they'd better clean up that car before they go to Jasper or the bears are going to get them.
00:27:26.380 By the time people see this video, because we're recording it Thursday because I fill in for David
00:27:31.820 and I have to sort of work around everybody's schedule who's on the road.
00:27:36.180 But by the time this goes to air, Greta will have, like you say, staged a major political rally 1.00
00:27:41.060 in Edmonton in the final hours of our federal election campaign.
00:27:46.560 And I'm going to take umbrage with some of the tone from the pro-oil groups out there.
00:27:54.600 And I'm not saying the grassroots groups.
00:27:56.640 I'm saying the guys like Canada Action and, to some extent, the Alberta government.
00:28:01.120 They welcome Greta to the province because they hope she's here to learn.
00:28:05.780 Well, give me a break.
00:28:07.160 She's not here to learn.
00:28:08.440 This is just the social license argument over again.
00:28:13.920 If we entertain these people, maybe they'll like us.
00:28:16.840 She's not here to learn from us.
00:28:18.500 And if she wanted to learn about oil and gas in the world, there are a lot of places that
00:28:24.820 were closer to home for her to visit, like Norway.
00:28:28.320 Norway.
00:28:29.000 Like Russia. 0.86
00:28:29.860 But she didn't go to Norway or Russia.
00:28:31.880 She took a boat across the ocean to plague us with her scolding. 1.00
00:28:37.200 By the way, I would love to know what the inside of that boat looked like when she was 0.98
00:28:42.320 done with it.
00:28:42.860 I bet she garbaged it right up, too. 0.55
00:28:44.880 To answer your question, Sheila, about her trash in the boat, there's some pictures, actually,
00:28:48.760 which are kind of funny.
00:28:49.900 She, St. Greta I'm talking about, has a bunch of single-use plastics in her boat, plastic water 1.00
00:28:56.600 bottles.
00:28:57.720 And, you know, here's the thing.
00:28:59.880 I use plastic water bottles.
00:29:01.140 Everyone I know uses plastic water bottles, uses Tupperware containers, and I'm not criticizing
00:29:07.060 them for that.
00:29:07.720 What I'm criticizing is Greta telling everyone that we need to get off petroleum products 0.99
00:29:13.300 and then being a hypocrite and using them herself. 1.00
00:29:16.300 I think it's kind of pathetic.
00:29:18.180 Now, you might notice the audio switched a little bit here.
00:29:21.080 My headphones just crashed and my plane's about to board, so I should probably get going.
00:29:26.520 Yes.
00:29:26.880 Thank you, Kian.
00:29:27.680 Thanks for always making the time for the show.
00:29:29.220 Stay with us more up next after the break.
00:29:32.080 I do believe there are people inside there probably peeking out because that's what it was like in Edmonton.
00:29:48.420 And the thing is, we had a great crowd like we had here, and it was sort of chilly like here.
00:29:56.280 But all these tough guys online, none of them showed up except for the one village idiot named Rick Shaw Day.
00:30:05.340 He showed up to everything and just hollers.
00:30:08.440 There was a couple hundred of my friends.
00:30:12.560 There was two private security.
00:30:15.340 There was probably ten cops.
00:30:16.940 They were just excited.
00:30:18.200 What was going on?
00:30:19.500 What's the big crowd?
00:30:21.560 And Rick Shaw Day.
00:30:23.480 And we sort of were worried, so we had a plan B.
00:30:28.320 And we all walked two blocks over to Rosie's Pub, and we had, we got warm, and some folks had a beer or two.
00:30:37.040 I'm not saying how many.
00:30:38.580 And we had a book talk, and we signed a lot of books, and we had a great night.
00:30:43.200 But it was also a terrible night for free speech, because Mike Brar was bullied into deplatforming, not only me and my right to speak, but 200 people and their rights to hear.
00:31:00.280 They chose to hear, and I signed a contract, and I paid in advance, and I'm a good customer, because I've done it before.
00:31:12.620 And we were deplatforming.
00:31:15.560 That's the word the left uses.
00:31:18.540 I said to Mike, if you have any critics, invite them in.
00:31:22.940 We'll have a Q&A.
00:31:24.940 They can put their toughest question to me.
00:31:27.080 I'm used to it by now.
00:31:30.280 But that's not what the left is about.
00:31:32.040 They don't believe in debating anymore.
00:31:34.420 They believe in censorship and silencing.
00:31:37.760 That was the big boss, Ezra Levant, or rating from outside the Plaza Theatre in Calgary, after the theatre breached their contract with us,
00:31:45.740 after an NDP, Antifa-inspired internet outrage mob put pressure on the theatre's owner to cancel our book signing event.
00:31:53.520 Now, not to be deterred, we arranged for busing to take our folks down to the local Royal Canadian Legion,
00:31:59.400 who accommodated our Libranos book signing on some pretty short notice.
00:32:04.540 Now, Soylent Knight writes,
00:32:06.740 Yeah, you know, us Canadians like to get a little uppity about the fact that we don't have journalism licenses like they do in the UK.
00:32:27.880 But when our journalists have to take the federal government to court and spend tens of thousands of dollars just to get access to a political debate in a free country,
00:32:39.140 we're really not any better than the UK, are we?
00:32:41.840 We are different, but in the same bad sort of way.
00:32:45.140 M.D. Pruill writes,
00:32:47.400 I wasn't going to buy the book, Ezra, but now that the NDP thugs are trying to prevent folks from getting a copy,
00:32:54.380 I will now procure a copy and can't wait to see what they're so scared of and trying to hide.
00:33:00.580 Canada is a free speech country, and we need to keep it that way.
00:33:05.720 Yeah, it's a bit of the Streisand effect happening here.
00:33:09.380 The more these authoritarian wingnuts try to shut us up, the more ears get turned our way to find out exactly what it is they don't want you to be hearing.
00:33:20.000 J.S. writes,
00:33:21.360 Absolutely awesome that you booked at the Legion.
00:33:24.380 My father landed on Juneau Beach.
00:33:26.460 I have to say it has caused me pain in the last couple of years to know that his and his generation risked everything so we could be free.
00:33:35.860 My parents used to go to their local Legion, and they were proud people.
00:33:40.700 J.S., you know, we try to use the Legion as often as we can.
00:33:44.240 In fact, the very next night in Toronto, we use the Legion there as a venue for our book signing.
00:33:49.640 I'm a member of my local Legion, and I think it's my duty to support an organization that works to support our veterans and honor their proud legacies.
00:33:58.520 And you can learn more about Ezra's legal plan to fight for freedom of speech and against these deplatforming bullies who try to stop free speech at StopDeplatforming.com.
00:34:13.040 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
00:34:15.300 This is the last Rebel Roundup before the election, which means it's probably my last time hosting in the big chair.
00:34:22.760 I get to turn this job back over to its rightful owner again.
00:34:27.440 Thank you, everybody at home for tuning in, and thank you, David, for trusting me with your baby of a show.
00:34:33.740 Thank you, everybody in the office for creating a cinematic masterpiece out of the jumbled handful of clips and audio I send you every single week.
00:34:43.180 And remember, without risk, there can be no reward.
00:34:46.480 Thank you.