Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup： Guests Katie Hopkins, Ezra Levant, & Sheila Gunn Reid!

00:00:00.080 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels.

00:00:08.720 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:00:11.120 Well, next time you make a booking at a Canadian hotel, you might want to ask if it's housing refugees, because if the answer is yes, chances are you're not going to have a very pleasant stay. 1.00

00:00:23.340 Today, Sheila Gunn-Reed will unpack the goods on this story, and talk about the inmates running the asylum. 0.94

00:00:31.160 Katie Hopkins will weigh in on the dangerous mess that is the UK prison system. 0.79

00:00:37.480 And Rebel Commander Ezra Levent drops by to talk about how the mainstream media in the UK are taking fake news to an all-new level in their slanderous depiction of Tommy Robinson.

00:00:50.760 And finally, letters, we get your letters, we get your letters every minute of every day.

00:00:56.320 I'll share some of your responses to my commentary on how the progressives are demanding that a black actor should be Superman in the next movie, even though Supes has been white for, oh, 80 years now.

00:01:10.200 Those are your rebels, now let's round them up.

00:01:12.800 Now, the next couple of reviews are honestly pretty frightening.

00:01:24.480 Jack from Ottawa writes,

00:01:26.120 Beware the hotel is full of Syrian refugees. 1.00

00:01:29.520 They were loitering everywhere, teenage boys in halls and hanging out at elevators, which made women and kids uncomfortable.

00:01:37.740 They were also taking pictures of the young girls in their bathing suits at the pool and or walking to the pool in hallway.

00:01:46.580 Toddlers, kids half-naked playing in the hallways all day and all night unsupervised and will knock on your room door for toys and food.

00:01:54.160 The Syrian men also gather at doorways, entrances and stairwells in the hotel and not one hotel door entrance was locked.

00:02:02.840 The final straw was when a domestic dispute between a refugee man and a woman broke out in the lobby while the hotel staff ignored them.

00:02:11.960 We packed up the kids and left.

00:02:13.920 There are major security safety violations and no one should be charged a penny to stay there, nor should any children or families be there.

00:02:22.700 The public should be made aware that the hotel is housing Syrian refugees, even though they are trying to hide them in the basement. 0.96

00:02:31.640 Stay away.

00:02:32.700 Do you remember the old ad slogan for Holiday Inn?

00:02:36.260 You know, the best surprise is no surprise.

00:02:39.680 Well, if you check into those hotels in Canada that are housing Justin Trudeau's refugees, you're in for a surprise, all right. 1.00

00:02:49.320 And unless you're a fan of, oh, I don't know, chaos, loud noise and things that go bump in the night,

00:02:55.640 you aren't going to like the surprises being served up by these so-called special guests.

00:03:01.500 And with more on this story, I'm joined now by the host of The Gun Show, Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:03:06.700 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Sheila.

00:03:09.580 Hey, David.

00:03:10.120 Thanks for having me on.

00:03:11.160 Always a pleasure, my friend.

00:03:12.520 Now, Sheila, as you stated in your commentary, you're not trying to hurt anyone's business by outing the hotels that you came across.

00:03:20.920 But the thing is, guests paying for these rooms at these hotels with their own hard-earned money are not being informed about what's going on here.

00:03:31.780 So, first of all, Sheila, why the secrecy?

00:03:35.780 You know what?

00:03:36.600 I wish I could tell you.

00:03:38.420 I've been emailing corporate offices of these hotels all week long looking for comment.

00:03:45.280 I'm asking them all the very same questions.

00:03:47.380 I want to know if there is a policy in place to not divulge this information to guests while they're booking.

00:03:54.900 And if there is such a policy, why is there such a policy?

00:03:58.900 I'm sort of convinced that this is part of their government contract with the corporate head offices to not let the guests know ahead of time.

00:04:08.440 But I can't confirm that.

00:04:10.340 No one will even come close to getting back to me and returning any of my emails.

00:04:14.520 And like you said, I'm not interested in ruining anybody's business, especially in a Trudeau economy.

00:04:20.880 But I think consumers deserve to have this information.

00:04:23.580 And you know, Sheila, we should point out, and I found this to be a very fascinating sidebar of your superb reports on this issue,

00:04:31.400 that TripAdvisor, which is all about being a consumer portail, you know, giving praise where it's warranted, raising red flags where that is due,

00:04:42.120 they are now taking it upon themselves to censor reviews.

00:04:48.180 The one hotel in the Toronto area I speak of that falls into this category was the Toronto Radisson East.

00:04:54.580 And they said something in their language that because of the problems being flagged in the media, we are not, you know, posting any reviews of this.

00:05:05.820 Well, first of all, isn't that germane to being a consumer website, a warning of problems at hotels?

00:05:14.440 And so what if there's chatter in the media?

00:05:18.080 I think that's all the more reason to post these reviews.

00:05:21.400 What is prompting TripAdvisor to censor these reviews, Sheila?

00:05:26.380 Well, according to TripAdvisor, they use that sort of corporate PC culture speak.

00:05:32.980 Due to the extraordinary circumstances or something to that effect highlighted in the media,

00:05:38.000 they're not taking any new reviews for the Toronto Radisson East.

00:05:42.200 Isn't that what TripAdvisor is all about, though?

00:05:45.340 Aren't they supposed to be this place where instead of my family going and looking at some slick marketing materials about a hotel produced by the hotel itself,

00:05:55.860 TripAdvisor allows me the ability to actually find out the opinions of people who've actually stayed there.

00:06:00.820 And now TripAdvisor is telling people, and we got this from a tipster, that if you have a review of that hotel,

00:06:09.040 you need to post it at a later date because they're not posting any reviews right now.

00:06:12.960 So, and like I said in my video, I understand why TripAdvisor would do something like this, but I completely disagree with it.

00:06:20.520 We all know that Yelp and TripAdvisor, sometimes they can be weaponized by disgruntled employees or people with an agenda.

00:06:27.460 But that's on TripAdvisor then to make sure the reviews are real as opposed to fake ones like the ones we've caught the government planting.

00:06:39.820 But they're not doing that.

00:06:41.040 Instead, they're just censoring everything right across the board.

00:06:43.360 And Sheila, let's talk about that.

00:06:45.200 This is a very important point that you came across.

00:06:47.540 Government bureaucrats trying to gin the good reviews by planting essentially fake positive experience reviews on TripAdvisor.

00:06:57.700 What in the world is going on with that one?

00:07:00.740 Yeah, we found that one out a couple weeks ago when I did my first refugee investigation into their behaviors in the hotels.

00:07:06.880 The hotel management were emailing their contacts in the federal government complaining about the bad TripAdvisor reviews they were getting because of all the mayhem being caused in their hotels by the refugees. 1.00

00:07:18.360 So, the bureaucrats, their solution to this wasn't send in more monitors into the hotel to get a handle on the refugees, send in increased security, whatever they needed to do.

00:07:29.040 Instead, what they were doing is planting fake good reviews on TripAdvisor to offset the bad reviews.

00:07:37.880 So, the solution from the federal government was basically to mislead the Canadian public before they spent their hard-earned money in these hotels.

00:07:46.880 And you, when you're going through these TripAdvisor reviews, you can see like a million bad reviews.

00:07:52.200 And then all of a sudden, in the middle of it all, there's this one glowing review about the service.

00:07:56.440 And you know, you just know that's a fake one.

00:07:59.040 You know, it's astounding.

00:08:00.860 And meanwhile, the bureaucrats are on the taxpayer dime too.

00:08:04.320 So, we're paying for fake news.

00:08:07.400 Sheila, and by the way, in case people haven't seen some of your superb reports, the problems at these hotels, they're not insignificant.

00:08:17.720 You came across reports of people urinating in the hallways, vandalizing Bibles for whatever reason, assaulting or harassing female maid staff, instilling Sharia swimming time. 0.99

00:08:36.880 So, the men are separate from the women. 1.00

00:08:41.200 This is really disturbing to me, Sheila.

00:08:43.820 And I'm not trying to malign everyone from Syria.

00:08:46.760 But is there really a cultural divide here?

00:08:50.820 Or did we just really have bad luck in terms of importing some really bad apples into this country?

00:08:58.220 I think it's six of one, half a dozen of another with a little bit of government ineptitude thrown into the mix.

00:09:04.080 I did find some hotels where there were pretty well-behaved refugees, as in there were no bad trip advisor reviews related to the refugees.

00:09:13.700 There were bad trip advisor reviews, don't get me wrong.

00:09:15.820 But they weren't related to the refugees.

00:09:18.160 So, I would hope that those refugees in those hotels had really good government monitors looking out for them, helping them with the cultural divide and the culture shock.

00:09:30.040 But a lot of these hotels had some really terrible, poorly behaved people showing up in them and causing absolute mayhem.

00:09:38.780 And a lot of the things that I saw in those other reports, those government documents, are being bolstered in these trip advisor reviews.

00:09:47.220 For example, I found people complaining about the Sharia swim times and how the pools were closed to non-refugee guests when they had paid extra to use a hotel water park.

00:10:00.040 And I found two separate complaints from parents on trip advisor complaining that refugee men were photographing their daughters on their way to the swimming pool in their bathing suits.

00:10:14.000 And one girl was as young as 10.

00:10:15.540 So, some of this is cultural, some of this is just bad behavior, and some of this is the government not doing their job to make sure that these refugees are appropriately acclimated to Canadian culture.

00:10:28.800 And, you know, Sheila, here's what I think is a big question on this whole issue, and it's this.

00:10:34.620 What is in it for the hotels to sign on to such a program?

00:10:39.240 I mean, are they getting overcompensated by the government for the rooms to put up with the aggravation, if you will?

00:10:47.400 Or do you think, you know, they were trying to do, I don't know, maybe virtue signaling, they were trying to give back, and they simply didn't realize what they were getting into?

00:10:56.380 I think a lot of this is consistent income into the hotels.

00:11:03.480 I don't know the rates that they were charging.

00:11:06.080 We're going to file access to information requests to try to find out what some of these contract rates were, especially for hotels that normally sit half empty.

00:11:15.580 If they can fill half of them up with committed government-contracted refugees, it makes economic sense for some of these hotels that are in decline to do that, to basically turn themselves into a hostel.

00:11:30.060 My problem with that is that paying customers, paying Canadians, saving their hard-earned money, their after-tax dollars that the government didn't take from them,

00:11:37.600 to spend on these hotels to have themselves be completely blindsided by the fact that they're staying in a refugee camp. 1.00

00:11:45.080 So I'll try to find out that information.

00:11:47.140 The information from the federal government sort of trickles in towards us.

00:11:50.420 But we'll try to find out the motivations for all of this.

00:11:54.280 Fantastic.

00:11:54.940 And one last question, Sheila.

00:11:57.000 Moving forward, you're still on this file.

00:11:59.140 Can you give us a sneak peek about what your future report, in addition to the rates being paid to these hotels,

00:12:07.440 what the direction of your next report will be on this whole business of these hotels housing refugees?

00:12:14.920 Right now, my focus is on the hotels in Ontario.

00:12:18.820 But we know that these refugees ended up in hotels all across the country.

00:12:22.660 And so my next mission is to find out the other parts of the country where the refugees went,

00:12:30.660 Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, and see if we can bring some transparency to the consumer there.

00:12:39.420 Fantastic.

00:12:40.220 Well, Sheila, I urge our viewers to check out your reports thus far.

00:12:45.080 They've all been fantastic.

00:12:46.700 Tons of great information there.

00:12:48.160 And thank you for staying on top of this file.

00:12:50.500 It's very important.

00:12:51.180 Thanks, David.

00:12:53.380 You got it.

00:12:53.920 That was Sheila Gunn-Reed from Alberta, folks.

00:12:56.020 And keep it here.

00:12:57.120 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:13:08.260 In the last 24 hours in HMP Long Lartin, known as Paranoia City, by the prison community,

00:13:15.720 a battle has been raging between inmates and officers.

00:13:19.180 Six officers have serious injuries.

00:13:22.860 Two have fractured jaws.

00:13:25.300 One has a broken arm.

00:13:27.160 And authorities initially reported there were minor injuries dealt with at scene.

00:13:32.640 And this failure to be honest about the reality of our prisons is part of the problem.

00:13:37.240 In January 2018, inspectors considered the prison stable and well-controlled.

00:13:44.320 Were they visually impaired?

00:13:47.060 Earlier this year, the female governor of HMP Long Lartin was smashed in the face in an unprovoked attack.

00:13:55.180 A year ago, 81 prisoners attacked officers, forcing them to retreat.

00:14:00.440 I'm told by a former inmate, I genuinely feel sorry for any prison officer now.

00:14:07.700 They can't win.

00:14:09.220 The ratios are against them.

00:14:10.900 In my prison, there were 30 of us to one of them.

00:14:14.240 And we knew it.

00:14:16.060 Prison staff have been cut by about 20%.

00:14:19.300 Key frontline roles are down by more than 6,000 officers in the UK.

00:14:25.100 And meanwhile, the number of prisoners has rocketed.

00:14:28.040 In England and Wales, the number's at nearly 90,000 inmates.

00:14:32.140 We're headed for another strange ways.

00:14:35.080 An almighty riot where prisoners take complete control of a prison, destroy the place,

00:14:41.520 and prison officers pay the ultimate price.

00:14:44.260 The prison's minister promised a £10 million spend to curb the violence in jails

00:14:50.440 and says he will quit if things don't improve,

00:14:53.720 as if that's going to make a difference or his tiny political career matters.

00:14:59.240 Our prisons need a military-grade intervention.

00:15:03.320 American-style prison labour, drugs out, religious nutters quarantined,

00:15:09.560 and staff firmly back in control.

00:15:11.840 If we can waste half a million pounds on the fraudsters of the Grenfell fire,

00:15:18.740 or $14 billion on foreign aid,

00:15:21.140 we can afford to spend to save our prison officers.

00:15:25.580 Well, talk about the inmates running the asylum.

00:15:28.880 British prisons are becoming ever more overcrowded,

00:15:32.520 while prisoners are becoming ever more emboldened to act out violently.

00:15:37.000 Yet the politicians and the bureaucrats pretend there's nothing to see here, folks.

00:15:42.800 Meanwhile, those prison guards who have to oversee society's worst of the worst

00:15:48.700 are being thrown under the penal system bus.

00:15:52.780 What a crime indeed.

00:15:55.120 And with more on this story, I'm joined now by Katie Hopkins,

00:15:58.140 the host of the always fascinating Hopkins World.

00:16:00.940 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Katie.

00:16:02.420 Thank you so much, David.

00:16:05.100 I appreciate it.

00:16:05.980 And yes, what you say is absolutely correct.

00:16:08.140 The British prison system is effectively falling apart.

00:16:12.040 And what I've had today off the back of the reporting I've been doing on the British prison system

00:16:16.680 is a lot of prison officers emailing me saying they know they can't speak out,

00:16:22.480 they know they can't say anything because they'll lose their jobs,

00:16:24.820 but they feel that they need to do something, say something, before someone gets killed.

00:16:30.600 And essentially, there's been a huge rise in our prison populations,

00:16:34.780 about 90,000 now people in prison.

00:16:37.680 And there's been huge cuts in the prison officers.

00:16:40.700 And drugs are essentially the main currency now.

00:16:44.080 And the gangs are in control.

00:16:45.660 And Katie, as you stated in your commentary, the prison staff has been cut by a whopping 20%,

00:16:54.240 and yet the prison population continues to increase.

00:16:57.820 You don't have to be a Harvard MBA grad to connect the dots here.

00:17:02.260 What are they thinking in cutting back?

00:17:05.280 Because this literally is a matter of life and death for the people on the front lines, is it not?

00:17:11.440 It absolutely is.

00:17:12.580 And I think one of the most alarming things that you would recognise, you know, I recognise,

00:17:16.540 is when you hear the authorities failing to acknowledge when things are going wrong.

00:17:21.300 So just this week, we had an incident where three prison officers were attacked.

00:17:25.860 They were set upon in a prison where there has been an attack in the past.

00:17:30.460 And the authorities said there were minor injuries that were dealt with at the scene, you know, dismissing it.

00:17:37.760 Oh, nothing much happened.

00:17:39.060 And actually what happened was there was a huge riot.

00:17:42.940 Two prison officers had their jaws broken and one prison officer had their arm broken.

00:17:48.040 So very different to what the authorities were reporting.

00:17:51.300 And this is what prison officers face on a daily basis when they go on shift.

00:17:55.000 More and more prisoners spending more and more time locked in their cells, frustrations growing.

00:18:00.640 And of course, they become the victims and the targets of attack.

00:18:04.040 And it seems very different to the American system where I think prison officers are much more in control.

00:18:09.680 Oh, indeed. And, you know, when we look at what is going to be done, you mentioned, Katie, the prisons minister in the UK, he pledged 10 million pounds.

00:18:20.600 I don't know where that 10 million pounds is going.

00:18:23.960 And so what is that money going to solve in this case?

00:18:28.140 Well, you know, he just plucked a figure from the sky that might sound like a press release, if you ask me.

00:18:34.300 I mean, I said plucked from the sky.

00:18:35.980 I could have chosen another orifice that he plucked that from.

00:18:39.740 Essentially, what he's going to be doing is a kind of pilot scheme in some prisons to try and control the amount of violence.

00:18:45.880 And so what he said was, if I don't get prison violence down, I'm going to resign from my job.

00:18:52.040 You know, and I can tell you prison officers working inside those prisons couldn't give a stop what some bureaucrat in a suit says about resigning his job.

00:19:01.440 You know, these guys face a battering on a daily basis.

00:19:04.700 I had a mum email me earlier.

00:19:06.840 Sarah, her name is.

00:19:08.520 You know, she has fecal matter, human waste thrown at her on a daily basis. 1.00

00:19:13.820 Her husband was just came home.

00:19:15.420 He was just beaten up.

00:19:16.600 They both work as prison officers.

00:19:18.860 You know, if that's not right, and when our prisoners go into prison, they don't just receive, you know, a new outfit and a new cell.

00:19:25.280 They also receive guidelines, advice.

00:19:28.140 I have it printed somewhere.

00:19:29.220 I'll get it for you.

00:19:30.320 That tells them how to take drugs.

00:19:37.920 Whilst inside the prison.

00:19:40.260 Oh, Katie, can you repeat that sentence?

00:19:47.700 We just lost you for about 30 seconds there.

00:19:51.940 Yeah, no worries.

00:19:52.940 I thought we had.

00:19:53.520 Okay, no worries.

00:19:54.040 So here we go.

00:19:54.600 And when our prisoners go inside the prison, they don't just receive, you know, their prison outfit, their cell and their bag, their kit bag.

00:20:02.360 They also receive printed instructions on how to take drugs safely whilst inside jail.

00:20:10.340 You know, it doesn't sound like much of an incarceration facility, but Katie, when you point out that disgusting anecdote of prisoners throwing fecal matter at people, when they do something like that, are they not thrown in the hole, put into solitary?

00:20:28.600 I mean, what is the crime and punishment angle here once they are in jail?

00:20:34.560 It's almost as if, David, you know, that idea that we have to kind of empathize with victim.

00:20:39.800 You know, we have to feel sorry for those who are criminals.

00:20:44.600 You know, we have to empathize that they may have had a tough life.

00:20:47.260 It's very much that attitude seems to be pervasive in terms of the leadership of these prisons.

00:20:52.120 So there's this idea that we have to be respectful of these criminals and they've had a difficult time.

00:20:56.840 That's why they're throwing human feces at prison officers. 1.00

00:21:00.720 You know, there was an example I was just given of a gentleman in a prison and he was told that he was going to have to share his cell because there were two beds in that cell.

00:21:09.220 He said, if you put someone in here with me, I will kill them within 24 hours.

00:21:14.460 And of course, rather than make that happen, they changed him across and moved him to a single cell.

00:21:19.900 So it's very much the case that in prison, the gangs are in charge, drugs are commonplace, and prison officers are really taking a battering.

00:21:28.620 And I think it has to be said that I imagine very soon we will face another catastrophic prison riot.

00:21:35.900 And I believe this time police officers will be killed.

00:21:39.340 Well, I'll tell you something, Katie.

00:21:40.400 The madness of Hug-A-Thug is spreading to this country.

00:21:44.180 This week, it's been front page news.

00:21:46.640 We've had a serial killer move to a psychiatric facility that isn't even secure.

00:21:51.620 It's not a prison at all.

00:21:52.780 And we've had a child killer move to a native healing lodge, which resembles a Motel 6 more than it does, you know, a prison complete with kitchenette and a lounge.

00:22:05.320 It's absolutely disgraceful.

00:22:06.680 But to show our viewers how incredibly off the charts things have gone insane in the U.K. prison system, we were mentioning off-air that story from a couple months ago that there are actually drones flying into prisons to deliver drugs and cell phones to the prisoners.

00:22:25.660 And it's like a regular postal delivery almost.

00:22:30.880 And the authorities are shrugging, oh, well, we know what you're going to do about it.

00:22:34.500 Well, they have guns, don't they?

00:22:36.480 Can't they shoot these things out of the sky?

00:22:38.740 No, you have a very kind of American attitude, David.

00:22:44.280 Remember, I'm an NRA member as well, so I'm all about guns.

00:22:48.160 But in the U.K., of course, we're the opposite of that.

00:22:51.500 So we don't believe anyone should be touched with anything more than maybe a fly swat.

00:22:55.660 We equip our prison officers and our police with nothing more than a can of Clorex and some antiseptic wipes and tell them to get on with their job.

00:23:05.100 You know, these drones are flying into prisons, carrying the drug loads.

00:23:09.140 The drugs are ordered by cell phones, mobile phones, which the prisoners have.

00:23:13.780 There's a special brand of cell phone that is particularly designed so that it can't be seen passing through prison scanners.

00:23:20.600 I mean, prisoners really have got the whole thing sewn up.

00:23:24.640 They've got this down to a T, and it's an industry inside of there.

00:23:29.380 And really, prison officers are incapable of doing anything about it, but also prison officers are very much under attack.

00:23:37.060 And I think that's the really worrying thing is not only are they under attack, but they feel that they can't speak out about it.

00:23:43.800 And that's the big silencing that's happening everywhere.

00:23:47.120 And it's what we all see, I think, and what your viewers will totally understand,

00:23:51.760 and this sense that people can no longer say anything because they will lose their job.

00:23:56.300 It's astonishing.

00:23:57.200 You'll have prisoners breaking prison guards' jaws, throwing fecal matter, and we turn a blind eye to that.

00:24:03.640 You have an employee raise the alarm.

00:24:05.900 You're going to be fired.

00:24:07.060 Katie, one last question.

00:24:08.360 You come up with a three-pronged solution to restoring order, namely, have American-style prison labor put into effect,

00:24:17.300 get the drugs out of these facilities, and, of course, put the religious nutters, as you adroitly call them, into quarantine.

00:24:27.000 I think that's a hat trick in my book.

00:24:30.000 Here's the question, though.

00:24:30.980 Is there any political will to bring that kind of common sense into the British penal system?

00:24:37.920 There isn't a political will to bring common sense just yet.

00:24:42.060 But I think when we do have – I think it will take a riot.

00:24:45.040 So it will take what we would say is the next Strange Ways.

00:24:47.980 The Strange Ways riot was this kind of thing of folklore where prisoners went absolutely crazy and vandalized the whole prison.

00:24:55.600 It will take another Strange Ways.

00:24:57.480 It will take the death of prison officers, probably multiple prison officers, and then we will see something happen.

00:25:04.840 But I think we really need much more of a military-scale intervention.

00:25:08.960 We need these prisoners out there grafting like the Americans do with their prisoners. 0.99

00:25:13.940 And we need an ability to isolate the Islamic extremists, which are running those prisons. 0.98

00:25:19.400 I don't see that coming yet.

00:25:20.880 We are much more in a stage where we are respecting people's rights, you know, respecting the right of the prisoner to be absolutely abhorrent.

00:25:29.500 But in my dream world, of course, all of these things would happen overnight.

00:25:32.700 But you imagine after the riot, after prison officers are killed, then we will see change happen.

00:25:39.520 Ah, so it's the Islamists who are the religious nutters. 1.00

00:25:42.660 I thought you were talking about radicalized Mormons or something, Katie.

00:25:46.380 Thank you so much.

00:25:48.820 Thank you so much for clearing up that point.

00:25:52.040 Katie, great commentary.

00:25:54.040 Sorry, go ahead.

00:25:55.780 Oh, no, no problem at all.

00:25:56.960 Yeah, it is always those lovely, you know, Mormons.

00:26:00.220 It's always the Sikhs or the Hindus. 1.00

00:26:02.140 It's never the Islamic extremists.

00:26:04.220 Oh, no, they just want to chop my head off. 0.98

00:26:05.900 But they're really good guys underneath it all.

00:26:08.340 You got it.

00:26:09.660 Katie, a great commentary.

00:26:11.060 And thank you so much for joining me on Rebel Roundup.

00:26:13.820 Thank you very much, David.

00:26:15.080 Have a great show.

00:26:15.820 You got it.

00:26:16.440 And that was Katie Hopkins, ladies and gentlemen.

00:26:18.900 Keep it here at Rebel Roundup.

00:26:20.160 More to come right after this.

00:26:29.780 Did you see what Sky News did to Tommy Robinson last week?

00:26:32.800 They interviewed him and then they edited the clip unethically to make it look like he said something that he didn't.

00:26:39.460 And then they put their lie, their fake news, right in their headline.

00:26:43.860 Here's what Tommy actually said.

00:26:45.500 This was filmed by Tommy's friend who was standing there in the studio with him.

00:26:49.620 They were talking about how to teach young kids to be street smart, not to be caught by these child rape gangs.

00:26:57.040 Watch for 30 seconds.

00:26:58.180 Now, if you go to Holland, they actually created an educational video to be shown in schools to warn children about these crimes.

00:27:06.500 When they tried to show that in Britain in 2007, the British establishment would not allow that video to be shown because, like you, just go, ooh, it would incite racial hatred.

00:27:16.240 So because of people...

00:27:17.240 It is going to incite fear to suggest that when you also know that there are, like the group in Bristol, white paedophiles, there's the...

00:27:26.520 Do you know what?

00:27:26.980 Do you know what?

00:27:27.300 I'll be honest with you.

00:27:28.280 I don't care if it incites fear so long as it educates the children and prevents them being raped.

00:27:35.320 So Tommy says he's not concerned if that Dutch movie designed to scare young girls away from sex traffickers, you know, scares them.

00:27:44.720 He's not afraid of that.

00:27:46.060 That's sort of the point of the movie.

00:27:48.000 But here's what Sky News actually broadcast.

00:27:51.260 But I put it to him that as with terrorism, his opinions on grooming gangs risks demonizing an entire community.

00:27:58.300 Do you know what?

00:27:59.280 Do you know what?

00:27:59.600 I'll be honest with you.

00:28:00.580 I don't care if it incites fear so long as it educates the children and prevents them being raped.

00:28:08.080 Okay?

00:28:08.400 Do you really want to leave this interview with the thought that you're happy to instill fear of a community of 3.8 million people?

00:28:19.100 Did you see that?

00:28:20.040 They cut and pasted two different comments by Tommy together and they deleted the part about the Dutch film.

00:28:26.020 And look at their headline.

00:28:27.480 They say, Tommy Robinson, I don't care if I incite fear of Muslims.

00:28:32.680 But he didn't say that.

00:28:33.940 His mouth did not make those words.

00:28:35.700 He said he didn't care if the Dutch educational film to scare girls scared girls.

00:28:41.060 Well, they say the camera never lies.

00:28:43.380 But as you just saw, folks, that old chestnut, it's not entirely true now, is it?

00:28:48.240 Because with some selective slicing and dicing in the editing room,

00:28:51.760 a journalist with a not-so-hidden agenda can indeed make an interview subject seemingly say something that he never actually said.

00:29:01.380 And joining me now with more on this disgraceful smear job on Tommy Robinson by Sky News

00:29:07.440 and others in the UK Media Party is our very own Rebel Commander, Ezra Levant.

00:29:12.120 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Ezra.

00:29:13.540 Oh, my pleasure. Thank you.

00:29:14.980 Now, Ezra, I think what Sky News did goes beyond fake news.

00:29:21.120 I think what they did is actually actionable.

00:29:24.900 Yeah.

00:29:25.020 Put on your lawyer hat.

00:29:26.780 Tell me, does Tommy have a case for slander or defamation or libel here?

00:29:31.820 I think he does.

00:29:32.920 And the reason is they put forward a false fact about him.

00:29:38.840 They attributed words to him that he did not say.

00:29:43.260 And they did so deceptively through editing trickery.

00:29:48.200 It wasn't inadvertent.

00:29:49.660 It wasn't accidental.

00:29:50.640 They edited out what he meant, rearranged it, and put a false headline to change what he meant.

00:29:59.500 So it looks like Tommy said, I love making people afraid of Muslims.

00:30:04.020 No.

00:30:04.560 He said, in specific reference to a film that was trying to scare young Dutch girls into being street smart.

00:30:12.680 Yes.

00:30:13.120 The whole point of this movie was to scare teenage girls in Holland away from sex traffickers.

00:30:19.400 Yes.

00:30:19.740 And child exploiters.

00:30:21.720 So the purpose is to scare these girls.

00:30:23.420 Tommy said, yeah, well, that's the purpose of that.

00:30:25.460 And they twisted that to make it say, like, Tommy himself personally tries to make people afraid of Muslims,

00:30:31.800 which is a defamatory twist.

00:30:36.180 And I don't know why, frankly, Tommy gave Sky News a sit-down interview.

00:30:42.420 They have been abusive to him.

00:30:44.220 They've lied about him forever.

00:30:46.160 And, yes, we have one more instance of proof of it now.

00:30:49.980 But I think this has done damage to him.

00:30:52.460 I think Tommy's base now knows of this trickery because Tommy did a video about it himself.

00:30:58.760 But I think that, I don't think that Sky News should be able to get away with that.

00:31:03.780 That's my own view.

00:31:05.000 This was not an accident.

00:31:07.040 This was not a mistake.

00:31:08.240 You don't go in and cut and paste and splice film together and then write a false headline by accident.

00:31:15.760 You know, a spelling error happens by accident.

00:31:20.140 Audio being muffled is an accident.

00:31:24.420 Rearranging what someone says, someone you hate, to make them look bad, this is not an accident.

00:31:29.480 That's a stitch-up, as they say in London.

00:31:31.420 I love that term.

00:31:32.620 And as the old saying goes, Ezra, you're entitled to your own opinions.

00:31:36.220 You're not entitled to your own facts.

00:31:37.800 I mean, this strikes me really personally.

00:31:39.940 And I'll tell you why.

00:31:40.540 When I went to the Ryerson School of Journalism for three years in the early 80s, if we, in a lab assignment, tried to pull this on anybody, our professors, they would have taken us to the woodshed.

00:31:53.780 You'd get a failing grade.

00:31:55.600 You'd get a stern lecture.

00:31:56.780 Most of them were ex-journalists themselves.

00:31:59.440 It's appalling to me to think that there are people in the mainstream media that are actually on this kind of a propaganda witch hunt where they're not.

00:32:09.760 This is not journalism anymore.

00:32:12.040 Well, you know, I was at Tommy's last trial on September 27th, I think it was, in London.

00:32:20.080 And it was a very brief hearing.

00:32:22.540 I was there.

00:32:23.940 Gavin McInnes, our alumnus, was there.

00:32:26.020 Yes, yes.

00:32:26.500 And eight journalists from the British Media Party, from the mainstream media there.

00:32:30.380 And I thought, wow, eight of them.

00:32:32.100 That's a lot.

00:32:32.680 And they were all there.

00:32:33.860 And then the hearing was very brief.

00:32:35.880 And then we all went outside, and Tommy sort of held court in the hallway of the court and talked to them for about 15 minutes, really briefed them carefully on things.

00:32:44.740 And then I was so surprised, he gave all of these newspapers his personal cell phone, which, I mean, maybe that's not dramatic, but I was quite surprised he did.

00:32:53.940 And he answered their questions, and he was not mean-spirited or rude or any way.

00:32:58.440 He was so earnest.

00:32:59.420 And I just knew, I thought, look at Tommy trying so hard to tell the truth, and every one of them walked out of there, ignored everything he said, and stuck a knife in and twisted.

00:33:13.020 And I thought, they're not even journalists.

00:33:14.480 Why pretend they're journalists?

00:33:15.780 They are activists embedded in the press corps.

00:33:18.620 And that's why I cooked up the idea.

00:33:21.720 I was talking to Tommy about this.

00:33:22.900 And I said, well, we've got to bring in some real journalists to London, because I don't know any real journalists in London.

00:33:28.280 There's some good people in, I mean, there's Breitbart, London, but for some reason they haven't covered this trial.

00:33:32.860 There's a handful of others.

00:33:34.320 But, so I was talking to Tommy.

00:33:35.800 I said, look, I've been crowdfunding my trips to go out to London.

00:33:38.480 We have a website called TommyTrial.com, and folks have paid for me to go out four times.

00:33:42.540 They like the reportage.

00:33:43.840 I said, well, it's just me against, it's like eight to one, right?

00:33:46.820 So we set up a website called realreporters.uk, and what I said to our viewers is, I can't do this by myself.

00:33:56.740 I mean, I'm going to keep going, but let's get reporters from Washington, from California, from anywhere around the world.

00:34:02.840 So we have talked to six different reporters who have expressed interest, and four of them have signed up already, to go to London to cover Tommy's trial.

00:34:13.700 And I'm not paying them a fee, I'm just paying their flight, their hotel accommodation, cab fare, and $100 in, like, lunch money.

00:34:23.380 And those four that we speak of, Ezra, Cassandra Fairbanks, Andrew Lawton, Tarek Fatah, Candace Malcolm, these are all excellent journalists.

00:34:34.540 And, you know, how is the campaign coming along?

00:34:37.220 Because I think, you know, it is amazing that a Canadian media outlet like ourselves has to, you know, ferry over some reporters, some journalists, commentators,

00:34:48.100 that are going to actually deliver the truth.

00:34:50.320 Because the UK, which I thought had a very vibrant, competitive journalistic industry,

00:34:57.000 they're all simpatico on going after Tommy, inexplicably.

00:35:02.220 Yeah. Before I knew about this Tommy case, I would have said the most competitive media in the English language is in London.

00:35:10.660 You have the broadsheets, you have the tabloids, you have the Fleet Street gutter press, you've got the wilds, you know, they're very competitive.

00:35:18.220 I would have thought. And there's, unlike our Canadian media party where everyone's so very friendly, they hate each other over there.

00:35:26.980 Well, not on the case of Tommy Robinson. They're all in it together.

00:35:30.460 And even the newspapers that claim to have a working class background, they despise Tommy and his working class supporters.

00:35:37.100 So this is a blind spot for them.

00:35:39.320 So some of the names you mentioned, I mean, Cassandra Fairbanks, a young lady in Washington, D.C. for Gateway Pundit, covers Capitol Hill for them.

00:35:48.280 That's an example of someone.

00:35:50.180 And I said to Cassandra and all the others, I said, you've got to get your editors to prove this, obviously, because we're raising the money and we're giving the money.

00:35:58.740 It's an economy class flight and it's a three-star hotel, so nothing too fancy and cab fare.

00:36:05.520 And what's exciting is I've had other reporters, including as far away as South Africa and Australia, reach out and say, hey, can you bring me two?

00:36:17.320 The guy from Australia, I'm working with him right now.

00:36:19.840 I guess I'll just tell you, it's Avi Yamini, who's very active down there.

00:36:25.260 And it looks like we found a flight for less than $1,000 from Australia to London.

00:36:29.160 That's a steal.

00:36:29.920 You've got to be careful.

00:36:30.820 Australia is so expensive.

00:36:32.480 So if we can get this $1,000 flight for him, that'll add another guy.

00:36:36.480 The guy from South Africa, I want to check him out.

00:36:38.420 I mean, I want people who have a good following and a good audience and a real journalist.

00:36:42.500 And if we can crowdfund for them, I mean, I think we're going to wind up spending $10,000 or $15,000.

00:36:47.680 If we have six or seven people to fly him in, and the guy, if we bring him in from Australia, he's going to want to spend more than two nights.

00:36:55.260 Like, you've got to bring him in a day early so he can get over his time zone.

00:36:58.300 But I think it's worth it.

00:37:00.760 But it's not up to me, really.

00:37:02.560 It's up to our viewers.

00:37:04.340 If we crowdfund it, we'll do it.

00:37:05.700 If we can't crowdfund it, obviously we won't.

00:37:08.160 And Ezra, I think what proves your point that the mainstream media has been co-opted by activists as opposed to journalists

00:37:14.940 is that you would think that when you look at Tommy Robinson, what does he stand for?

00:37:19.980 Freedom of speech.

00:37:20.840 Freedom of expression.

00:37:22.520 This is the oxygen of journalism.

00:37:25.540 You would think all the UK media would have a, we stand with Tommy, kind of like, you know,

00:37:31.760 there was that solidarity that lasted all of 10 seconds for the Charlie Hebdo magazine when the massacre occurred there.

00:37:38.580 Yet, because they are not standing in solidarity with them, I have to assume you don't care about free speech, free expression.

00:37:46.780 Indeed, you really are on, you know, on side of limiting free speech and free expression.

00:37:52.820 You're not a journalist.

00:37:53.620 You know, free speech is a tough one.

00:37:55.620 And I say that as someone who's been on the receiving end of censorship.

00:37:59.300 Because the other free speech advocates out there are, by definition, people who are controversial.

00:38:04.340 If you're just, you know, sports or cooking or light features, no one's going to try and censor you.

00:38:11.800 But if you are being censored, odds are you've said something that hurt someone's feelings or it was prickly or it was offensive to somebody.

00:38:19.620 So it's tough.

00:38:20.940 It's tough to stand up for free speech for people you don't like.

00:38:24.300 But free speech is so unique.

00:38:26.540 It's the gift you have to give to your opponents if you want it for yourself.

00:38:30.100 And because that's what law is, it's precedent.

00:38:33.740 So if you set the precedent with Tommy Robinson that you can throw a guy in jail because he did some citizen journalism you don't like,

00:38:41.560 maybe you feel good because you hate Tommy Robinson.

00:38:43.700 But now you've just set a precedent.

00:38:45.700 And what happens when they apply that precedent to you?

00:38:48.400 That's why the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union, which is a left-wing group,

00:38:53.400 traditionally supported free speech for the Ku Klux Klan.

00:38:56.200 Now, they did something very interesting.

00:38:57.640 They would have these neo-Nazi.

00:38:58.620 Some of them literally had Nazi marches with the swastikas.

00:39:01.420 The ACLU always defended them, and they would make a point of sending either a black lawyer or a Jewish lawyer as a way of showing

00:39:09.500 they obviously don't support the views of their clients.

00:39:13.600 But as they say, it's easier to fight in the first ditch than the last ditch.

00:39:17.560 You have to defend the free speech for the odious Nazis. 0.93

00:39:21.420 And Tommy is not a Nazi, and Tommy is not odious in my view.

00:39:23.880 But if you're someone even who thinks he is, so what?

00:39:27.460 That's where you have to fight, or you'll be on the front line tomorrow.

00:39:31.460 A hundred percent.

00:39:32.300 Ezra, thank you so much, and good luck with the campaign.

00:39:35.160 And folks, please, if you do care about free speech, free expression,

00:39:39.740 and you're tired of the garbage that is being circulating around the world,

00:39:44.320 thanks to this cabal of eight UK journalists completely misrepresenting Tommy and what he's saying.

00:39:51.900 Please give whatever you can.

00:39:53.600 Every dollar is appreciated.

00:39:55.120 Thank you so much.

00:39:56.260 And folks, keep it here.

00:39:57.520 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:39:59.420 Well, because it's 2018, apparently it's time to racially rebrand the Man of Steel.

00:40:13.440 Holy schizophrenia.

00:40:15.220 Alas, Cavell is hanging up his cape, and now the hunt is on for a new actor to play Superman.

00:40:22.160 Enter the dastardly Lex Luthor, or I mean to say the despicable social justice warrior brigade.

00:40:29.420 Who are clamoring to have Superman portrayed by a black actor, 0.98

00:40:34.120 even though he's been portrayed by a Caucasian since his comic book debut in 1938.

00:40:40.480 Great Caesar's Ghost!

00:40:41.500 You know, I especially love the inflammatory headline in Vice,

00:40:45.240 quote, Superman shouldn't be white, end quote.

00:40:49.600 Still waiting for that follow-up story, you know, Black Panther shouldn't be black. 1.00

00:40:55.120 I won't hold my breath on that one.

00:40:56.840 Now, the deck to the Vice piece is especially ludicrous, namely,

00:41:01.500 quote,

00:41:02.000 because it never completely made sense to begin with, end quote.

00:41:05.840 Yeah, it never made sense for Superman to be white?

00:41:10.320 What the hell?

00:41:11.720 Let's follow the convoluted logic here.

00:41:14.280 The author notes that Superman's original creators, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel,

00:41:19.300 were both children of Jewish immigrants,

00:41:21.800 and they allegedly embraced a goal that was not to just create some pale, Christianized hero.

00:41:29.000 By the way, the writer spells Christianized with a lowercase c, which I find very revealing.

00:41:33.880 Anyway, according to this writer, the idea was to create a Hebrew-like Moses

00:41:37.980 that would have been labeled a foreigner in his time within an American context.

00:41:44.560 Superman's characterization was an ideal wrapped in a possibility

00:41:48.300 that anyone could become something great in America.

00:41:52.180 But given Schuster and Siegel's own experience with prejudice in the 1930s,

00:41:57.740 I mean, we're talking about a time frame here in which Nazi Germany was in power,

00:42:02.940 pursuing the goal of cleansing Jews from the planet. 1.00

00:42:07.280 Jews were indeed the persecuted underdogs some 80 years ago.

00:42:11.940 And as Caucasians themselves,

00:42:14.020 why wouldn't Schuster and Siegel depict their superhero creation in their own image?

00:42:19.160 It actually made perfect sense.

00:42:22.340 To parrot a phrase being repeated at an ever-increasing frequency these days,

00:42:27.260 why do the progressives always have to try to ruin everything?

00:42:31.100 As the usual suspects campaign for the next James Bond actor to be female,

00:42:36.760 they're also craving a black actor to play Superman.

00:42:40.900 Yet, why do iconic characters have to be reimagined along race and gender lines?

00:42:47.620 Why not introduce new black and female characters or revamp the good ones that already exist? 0.98

00:42:53.440 Yeah, I know. What a concept.

00:42:56.000 In any event, here's what some of you had to say about the idea of a black actor

00:43:00.400 playing the Man of Steel in the next cinematic outing.

00:43:04.620 Wendell writes,

00:43:05.360 Well, thanks, Wendell. Couldn't have said it better myself.

00:43:20.280 And how revealing.

00:43:21.780 I mean, if even some black people are against this rebranding idea,

00:43:26.400 why are we going down this racialized road to begin with? 0.56

00:43:29.820 And Bobby Jenkins writes,

00:43:32.280 Well, not a chance, Bobby.

00:43:37.020 Luther is a villain, and it is very PC to have white guys depict bad guys.

00:43:44.580 Big Nasty writes,

00:43:45.980 Ha! What a blast from the past.

00:43:51.200 You know, Big Nasty, back in 1976,

00:43:53.780 I actually wore a Howard the Duck for President badge.

00:43:56.460 Of course, Jimmy Carter got elected that year.

00:43:58.800 The worst thing I can say about his presidency is that Howard the Duck,

00:44:03.820 or a Canadian goose, would have made a better Commander-in-Chief.

00:44:08.140 And Scott Brose writes,

00:44:10.260 That's so stupid, Superman should be played by an actor no taller than three feet.

00:44:15.620 Don't be so close-minded.

00:44:17.220 Or it should be a chimpanzee as Superman,

00:44:19.920 as Superman is non-inclusive towards the other great apes of our planet.

00:44:24.720 Well, Scott, please don't ask me how I know this,

00:44:27.060 but there's already a super chimpanzee in the DC universe.

00:44:31.080 He's named Beppo.

00:44:32.160 His first appearance was in Superboy No. 76 in 1959.

00:44:37.720 He joined a cast of other Kryptonian super animals,

00:44:40.840 such as Crypto, the super dog,

00:44:42.880 and Streaky, the super cat,

00:44:44.720 and Comet, the super horse,

00:44:46.380 all of whom went on to form the Legion of Super Pets.

00:44:49.780 I know. I have no life.

00:44:51.260 And Plaid's writes,

00:44:52.780 Cultural appropriation.

00:44:54.680 Uh-uh-uh, Plaid's not so fast.

00:44:57.140 As we've seen so many times regarding other issues,

00:45:00.240 according to the SJW set,

00:45:02.080 whites borrowing from other races is cultural appropriation.

00:45:06.720 Other races borrowing from white culture is cultural appreciation.

00:45:11.560 Capisce?

00:45:12.000 And James Levesque writes,

00:45:14.900 It really did never make much sense.

00:45:16.880 I mean, what are the odds that an alien from another planet

00:45:19.900 looks exactly like a human being?

00:45:22.800 Yeah, it's a pretty big coincidence, James,

00:45:24.680 but I'll tell you what never made sense to me.

00:45:27.720 How was it that Superman was able to conceal his identity

00:45:31.080 simply by donning a pair of eyeglasses?

00:45:33.860 I mean, one moment it's,

00:45:35.480 Hi, Superman!

00:45:36.160 The next second it's,

00:45:39.060 Hey, where did Superman go?

00:45:41.140 Kent, how did you get here?

00:45:43.440 I mean, really?

00:45:45.580 And Vincius writes,

00:45:47.540 Correction, super person,

00:45:49.900 champion of People Kind starring Justin Trudeau,

00:45:53.320 a drama teacher disguising himself as Prime Minister of Canada.

00:45:57.820 Yes, Vincius, it sounds like a great script for a tragedy, 0.98

00:46:01.700 except for the fact that we're already living this comedy of errors every day.

00:46:07.180 And Euretha Grundle writes,

00:46:09.140 Won't sell, it will flop like the new Ghostbusters, remember?

00:46:13.180 Bingo!

00:46:13.880 But as the Tinseltown Twits love to virtue signal these days,

00:46:18.860 they'll do it, even if the movie tanks.

00:46:21.640 Talk about living in the bizarro world.

00:46:24.120 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup, folks.

00:46:27.160 Thanks so much for joining us,

00:46:28.520 and hey, see you next week.

00:46:29.920 And we can never forget,

00:46:31.560 without risk, there can be no glory.

00:46:34.360 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - October 05, 2018

Rebel Roundup： Guests Katie Hopkins, Ezra Levant, & Sheila Gunn Reid!

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