Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup： Guests Kurt Schlichter, Martina Markota & Ezra Levant!

00:00:00.000 Welcome to a special year-end episode of Rebel Roundup with some of your favourite rebels.

00:00:04.860 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:00:08.220 So much left-wing lunacy, so little time. 0.86

00:00:11.860 Kurt Schlichter drops by to give us his top ten list of liberal nitwits for 2018.

00:00:18.880 And thanks to ongoing protests in Paris, the city of light has turned into the city of fright

00:00:25.720 as the common folk tell the ruling elites, enough is enough.

00:00:30.860 Martina Mercota will give us an idea of where the Yellow Vest movement is headed in 2019.

00:00:37.880 And speaking of 2019, Rebel Commander Ezra Levent will give us his State of the Union address

00:00:43.860 as Rebel Media heads into our fifth Action Pack year.

00:00:49.340 And finally, instead of reading your letters, I'll end the year with some final thoughts.

00:00:55.720 Those are your rebels, now let's round them up. 1.00

00:01:05.820 The top ten biggest liberal idiots of 2018. 1.00

00:01:10.920 I'm going down, here's the countdown. 1.00

00:01:12.980 Let's start at number ten.

00:01:14.920 My very own congressman, the congressman representing all you see here.

00:01:19.200 Ted Lieu. 0.99

00:01:21.000 If he was any dumber, he'd be a mineral. 0.99

00:01:23.380 This is the guy who recently went on CNN and said, you know, I'd like to, I'd like to be 1.00

00:01:27.800 able to control people's speech, but that darn First Amendment. 0.99

00:01:30.980 And then he kind of said, wait a minute, I said that out loud? 0.99

00:01:36.480 Ted Lieu, number ten.

00:01:38.180 Number nine, the looming doofus, James Comey.

00:01:44.920 Really?

00:01:46.280 Really?

00:01:47.560 This guy?

00:01:48.820 This is the paragon of integrity?

00:01:52.040 This is the towering bastion of honesty and goodness and, oh, I already said integrity,

00:01:58.820 but heck, more integrity? 1.00

00:02:01.340 He's a clown. 1.00

00:02:02.360 He's a liar. 1.00

00:02:03.120 He's a doofus. 1.00

00:02:03.920 He's a dork. 1.00

00:02:05.520 And every time he talks, more and more people go, wait a minute, wait a minute. 1.00

00:02:09.240 This is our ruling class? 0.98

00:02:10.560 Time out.

00:02:13.360 Ah, so many liberal loonies, so little time.

00:02:16.860 Indeed, 2018 was truly a bumper crop year when it came to left-wing Idisi being spewed

00:02:23.080 south of the border.

00:02:24.400 And our U.S.-based rebel, Kurt Schlichter, well, he's compiled his annual top ten list of biggest 0.85

00:02:31.040 liberal nitwits.

00:02:32.720 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Kurt. 0.90

00:02:34.680 Hey, thanks for having me.

00:02:36.420 You know, I got to apologize, though, I was very cis-United States.

00:02:41.260 No, that-

00:02:41.660 Because I didn't include any Canadians.

00:02:44.300 And you guys have been working overtime up there, starting with your boy premier or prime

00:02:51.860 minister or whatever the hell you call him.

00:02:53.640 Well, I'm sure he thinks of himself as a boy wonder.

00:02:56.300 But, you know, believe me, we've had a bumper crop, too.

00:02:59.260 And unlike you, the head honcho in charge is indeed one of these liberal loons.

00:03:04.480 But, Kurt, I imagine it was a challenge simply confining your list to just ten candidates in

00:03:11.720 this day and age of Trump derangement syndrome.

00:03:14.700 But in addition to Ted Lieu, how about we look at a few of the candidates on your checklist

00:03:21.760 who deserve extra special recognition?

00:03:25.880 Well, you know, Ted Lieu is actually my congressman.

00:03:28.660 Yes.

00:03:29.120 And his office is not far from where I'm sitting right now. 1.00

00:03:32.640 You can almost smell the stupid. 1.00

00:03:35.360 But, boy, it was a challenge, just narrowing it down to ten idiots. 1.00

00:03:40.760 I mean, that was a lot of effort. 1.00

00:03:43.220 I mean, I had to leave out some real contenders.

00:03:47.200 But I think I got a good list, you know?

00:03:49.300 Oh, indeed.

00:03:50.480 And, you know, Kurt, we don't have time to go through all ten, you know, so maybe I'll

00:03:53.860 cherry pick a few of my favorites.

00:03:55.300 I look at leading the hit parade for me is Pocahontas herself. 1.00

00:04:00.720 I mean, only Elizabeth Warren could fail a DNA test and somehow spin that defeat into 1.00

00:04:07.600 a victory when it comes to making her case for her alleged Native American roots. 0.96

00:04:13.280 How is this even possible?

00:04:16.120 Yes, I'm a Native American because I'm one 1024th Native American.

00:04:23.440 I am a rounding, I am, keep big rounding error.

00:04:28.720 You know, you look at that and remember, the thing about these intellectual lips, and she 0.94

00:04:33.740 taught at Harvard, so she's special, is they're supposed to be so much smarter and better and

00:04:38.520 more, you know, equipped to govern than the rest of us.

00:04:42.540 And then they come out with something like this, and you have to wonder, you know, there

00:04:46.260 are people staggering around on the street with half-empty beer cans, you know, smelling

00:04:51.780 a Budweiser who have, you know, who make better decisions.

00:04:56.800 Looking at this, you know, what the hell's wrong with you?

00:04:59.280 No, it's appalling, and I think it's insulting to Natives too. 1.00

00:05:02.760 I mean, I could make the argument because I once had a ride in a Jeep Grand Cherokee, I'm

00:05:07.840 more Cherokee than Elizabeth Warren is, for goodness sake. 0.98

00:05:11.780 But I mean, you know, the sad thing here, or the scary thing, is that in addition to Elizabeth

00:05:18.040 Warren, there's others on your list, these might be, Kurt, in the months to come, the

00:05:23.580 new face of the Democratic Party leadership as we head into 2020.

00:05:28.940 Well, you know, the new face is definitely one of the new faces, is the buck-toothed 0.98

00:05:33.580 moron from Brooklyn, Alexandra Ocelain-Al-Khapaz, who never, you know, who never meant a 0.99

00:05:40.700 misstatement she didn't make. 0.97

00:05:44.880 It's just, you know, you look at her, and I actually like the idea that a working-class 0.94

00:05:50.340 person, sort of, you know, gets elected to come represent Connors, an unexpected person.

00:05:57.980 I think that part's good.

00:05:59.340 That's kind of refreshing.

00:06:00.220 But she, she makes the mistake a lot of millennials do, and, you know, she went to, you know, she 1.00

00:06:07.540 went to a liberal college, so she's well indoctrinated.

00:06:11.360 She doesn't know what she doesn't know.

00:06:15.840 And she, and she confuses a valid and important outsider perspective with insights.

00:06:23.800 And those are very two different things.

00:06:26.140 You know, just because you're coming into something, and you're seeing what happens, and you can say,

00:06:29.400 okay, I see this is happening, I think that's unusual and strange, but here it is with, well,

00:06:34.960 I've got, you know, I've got some judgments to make based on my, you know, 25 years of experience

00:06:39.340 as a waitress.

00:06:43.180 And I think everybody should be a waiter or a waitress, by the way.

00:06:46.180 I think that's a good background, a good starting point, but it's a starting point.

00:06:50.940 And she seems to think, well, I'm done, I'm ready to rule.

00:06:54.240 Yeah, no, and she seems totally out in left field and misinformed, even on those subjects 0.99

00:07:03.240 that she ostensibly went to college to learn.

00:07:07.260 And, you know, also on your list, Kurt, we can't help but talk about Hillary Clinton.

00:07:13.980 And I think, you know, the worst thing I can say about the state of the Democratic Party

00:07:19.440 right now is she might be their best candidate for 2020. 0.99

00:07:24.460 What do you say, my friend?

00:07:26.520 I think it could be.

00:07:27.940 I mean, she, you know, obviously she's got health problems. 1.00

00:07:31.120 Obviously she's a staggering drunk. 1.00

00:07:34.480 Obviously she's a moo-moo wearing moron who can't keep herself from saying idiotic things. 1.00

00:07:39.720 She's just a terrible politician. 1.00

00:07:41.000 She always was, and I'm glad she was because that helped bring us Trump. 0.97

00:07:47.100 Can you imagine the combination of malignancy, lack of wisdom, and just ineptitude that she 1.00

00:07:56.500 would have brought to the White House?

00:07:57.740 I mean, she would make, she would have caused something that makes what Marcon's going through

00:08:02.480 in France look like a tea party.

00:08:04.840 No, indeed, and you know, Kurt, last month, for work reasons, I attended the Bill and Hillary

00:08:13.440 speaking tour here in Toronto, as I call it, the Billery Show.

00:08:18.640 And I got to tell you, I was overjoyed that for the first time in my life when I went to a scalper,

00:08:25.960 scalping was a reverse process.

00:08:28.940 Namely...

00:08:29.240 The scalper was, like, less than face value.

00:08:32.060 Oh, much less.

00:08:33.220 I'll give you $10 for the 75 tickets.

00:08:35.560 He's like, please.

00:08:36.660 And according to one source, I mean, it was hard to get a count because they kept the lights

00:08:40.580 off and they put a lot of draping around the arena where the Leafs play.

00:08:44.640 But one source estimated the attendance at the Scotiabank arena was 16.6%.

00:08:51.520 So, I guess the thing is...

00:08:55.340 So, basically, they couldn't draw fog hats on us.

00:08:59.180 No, no, they couldn't.

00:09:01.120 You know, if you said, hey, I got fog hat and, you know, sticks is opening for them,

00:09:06.900 that would have been, like, considerably more people.

00:09:09.280 Oh, I think so.

00:09:10.100 I would love to do the same experiment, even in a place like Toronto, if Trump was having

00:09:15.540 a speaking engagement.

00:09:16.460 I think it would be standing room only.

00:09:18.400 But the, you know, watching her speak and watching the, you know, the Clintons recite

00:09:24.280 their self-written history of righteousness, it was a little much, I have to tell you, Kurt.

00:09:31.300 And, but I mean, you know, on the theme of who might head up, you know, the Democratic

00:09:37.140 Party in 2020, who do you see emerging out of the weeds?

00:09:41.600 And, well, look, I think Biden's going to be a player, and I think he's dangerous, because

00:09:47.720 he is, I think, actually, he has more common sense than a lot of these people.

00:09:53.720 There's Beto, who I just, you know, I think he's, Beto is the Gary Hart or the John Kennedy

00:10:02.040 or, you know, whoever's relatively good-looking, you know, he fills that role for the Democrats.

00:10:08.840 They, they love that guy.

00:10:12.660 The problem is, when Democrats go to the polls, they're looking for a savior.

00:10:17.260 When Republicans go to the polls, they're looking for a protector.

00:10:21.400 And it's a very different, a very different vibe. 1.00

00:10:25.840 Beto is another guy who is stupid and unwise, and those are different things. 1.00

00:10:31.640 Um, and, and, and, and by being those things, he's going to provoke a backlash, you know. 1.00

00:10:38.720 Hillary, look, Hillary gave us Trump, because she's stupid and evil and unwise. 1.00

00:10:45.640 If Hillary was smart, she wouldn't have made every, would not have made everybody hate us, 1.00

00:10:50.480 but she can't do that, because she's dumb. 1.00

00:10:53.580 And she doesn't understand that if you make people hate you, they're going to treat you 0.99

00:10:58.660 like you treat them.

00:10:59.700 Well, Kurt, you know, we have to wrap it here. 0.99

00:11:02.700 Um, I guess the silver lining in all this liberal idiocy is that they're going to make it easy 0.97

00:11:08.180 for Trump to get a, a second mandate come 2020. 0.98

00:11:11.780 So, uh, an early, uh, Christmas present for all of us indeed, right?

00:11:16.460 I, I, I, I sure hope so, but, uh, I don't want to get overconfident.

00:11:20.560 Okay, then.

00:11:21.640 Thank you so much, uh, Kurt.

00:11:23.040 All the best.

00:11:24.180 Thank you.

00:11:24.940 Merry Christmas.

00:11:25.740 You too.

00:11:26.100 Keep it here, folks.

00:11:27.540 More of Bravo Roundup to come, right after this.

00:11:41.780 We're going to get hit.

00:11:42.540 We can't, we got to get over.

00:12:12.520 I don't know where we're going to get, where we're going to actually go.

00:12:15.240 But wait, with the, we're with the protesters.

00:12:17.840 We can't. 0.99

00:12:18.280 Where the fuck did we go? 0.99

00:12:19.080 With the police. 1.00

00:12:20.360 With the police.

00:12:28.020 Just, let's get beyond the barriers.

00:12:29.660 Tell them, because they're going to hit us.

00:12:31.340 We got to just tell them we're pressed.

00:12:32.880 We got to, we, we can't do, I can't do the smoke anymore.

00:12:41.120 Just, excuse me.

00:12:43.020 We're, we're with the press.

00:12:44.080 We got out.

00:12:44.440 We're like, I can't handle the smoke anymore.

00:12:46.360 This way.

00:12:46.740 Well, tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets, just another de rigueur weekend in Paris,

00:13:02.580 it would seem, as the city of light descends into the city of fright.

00:13:07.040 And as you saw, our UK rebels, Jack Buckby and Martina Mercotta, were right in the thick

00:13:13.340 of things covering the yellow vest movement, a grassroots movement that originally erupted

00:13:18.720 due to an incoming gas tax in France, but has now evolved into something more.

00:13:25.120 Indeed, those yellow vests are popping up all over the world these days, including right

00:13:30.200 here in Canada.

00:13:31.020 And to discuss the future of this ongoing protest movement that seems to be all about

00:13:37.260 the common man and the common woman telling the ruling elites that enough is enough, I

00:13:43.300 am joined now by Ms. Mercotta herself.

00:13:45.620 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Martina.

00:13:47.760 Thank you for having me.

00:13:49.360 Always a pleasure.

00:13:50.160 Now, listen, for starters, you and Jack captured some incredible video footage during one of

00:13:56.500 the Paris protests earlier this month.

00:13:58.360 Martina, first of all, what was it like to be embedded in that crowd in the first place?

00:14:04.120 Well, thank you.

00:14:05.900 Yeah, it was exciting, you know, where you're sent off.

00:14:09.600 You're like, okay, there's going to be some exciting things happening.

00:14:12.700 It's a protest, and I'm no stranger to protests.

00:14:15.580 So I went and I was excited, but it was something that I've never seen before.

00:14:21.280 There's smoke everywhere.

00:14:23.020 There was booming and popping.

00:14:24.860 A lot of that's captured on the footage.

00:14:26.540 And it seriously, it started to get serious pretty quickly.

00:14:32.720 I mean, there was police in riot gear.

00:14:35.460 They were shooting water cannons and the tear gas.

00:14:39.620 And we didn't really have anything on our face for the tear gas.

00:14:44.140 So at first it was like, okay, it's a little bit of stinging, you know, my mouth is, my nose

00:14:49.820 is running, my face is burning, the face burns.

00:14:53.960 My eyes were okay because I wear corrective lenses, so I wasn't having too much of a problem.

00:14:58.740 Jack was crying.

00:15:00.440 But it was manageable.

00:15:01.600 But it just got to the point where they really, there was all sorts of people, first of all,

00:15:08.600 involved in this protest.

00:15:10.280 You know, the media will claim that it's far right and all sorts of stuff.

00:15:14.500 But there was everyone.

00:15:15.560 I mean, we saw Antifa.

00:15:16.500 We uncovered footage of Antifa doing graffiti.

00:15:20.600 A lot of people attacking the police were Antifa.

00:15:25.420 They tend to do that.

00:15:27.260 There's regular people there that aren't even political at all.

00:15:30.320 They just, they were fed up.

00:15:31.820 They're fed up with the government and what's going on.

00:15:35.240 So there was all sorts of people there.

00:15:36.760 So it was definitely a mix of things.

00:15:38.840 And once there was like heated back and forth with some of the protesters and the police,

00:15:43.680 they started firing all sorts of stuff.

00:15:46.140 There was rubber bullets, which were quite scary.

00:15:48.340 And that's what you see people being injured about.

00:15:51.880 I mean, even the tear gas canisters, when they fly up into the air, they can hit you.

00:15:56.400 And there's people that were seriously injured.

00:15:58.840 So it was really insane.

00:16:00.280 I've never witnessed anything like that before.

00:16:03.060 Well, thanks for taking one for the team.

00:16:04.980 That's for sure.

00:16:06.000 But, you know, Martina, as I said in the preamble, this originally began about a gas tax.

00:16:10.580 I think it's evolved into something more.

00:16:12.860 And it's spreading worldwide.

00:16:14.320 Looking ahead to 2019, what is your take on this?

00:16:19.640 Do you think this will be, you know, sort of a flash in the pan of how, you know, the tumultuous year of 2018 ended?

00:16:25.880 Or is this just the beginning that we're witnessing right now in terms of a common person protest right across the planet?

00:16:34.340 I mean, I think it's the beginning.

00:16:37.880 They're not stopping anytime soon.

00:16:40.900 The French people we spoke to, they're dedicated to going out there and protesting until there is significant change.

00:16:49.200 And like you said, it's spreading.

00:16:50.860 It started to spread through Belgium and in Canada there and the U.K.

00:16:55.260 So it's really taking on a life of its own.

00:16:58.900 And, yeah, what started was one thing about tax in a particular issue with France has turned into, yeah, we're all fed up with this globalism, with you guys abusing your power, taking extreme pay to go out to dinner and spend tens of thousands on champagne.

00:17:17.280 Well, you know, all of us are working really hard and paying a lot of taxes and can barely get by.

00:17:22.480 So everyone's really taking no and it's really turning into something.

00:17:26.220 It's just the beginning.

00:17:27.260 And tell me, Martina, since you were on the ground with Jack in Paris a few weeks ago, when it came to those causing trouble, you know, the graffiti, the vandalism, the looting, you know, because you mentioned earlier that Antifa came along.

00:17:42.280 And that's kind of typical whenever there's a mass gathering, even if it's a celebration of a sports team winning a championship, you know, you get the jackals and the hyenas joining in to cause trouble.

00:17:53.260 But who did you see causing the lawlessness and the troublemaking?

00:17:59.100 Well, you know, it's interesting because there was a bit of instigation and bottles being thrown at police.

00:18:05.740 There was one instance where someone came up and started manhandling the police and took his shield.

00:18:11.720 And I and I have some footage of it.

00:18:13.340 I think I reported on that where he was waving it up as like a trophy of I took the police's shield.

00:18:20.120 And that was like, oh, you know, OK, can who's the good guy and who are the bad guys?

00:18:27.000 I'm trying to figure it out, you know, and the French guy that we were with that was pro protesting said, oh, no, that's leftist.

00:18:34.940 That's leftist. That's Antifa. And I'm like, well, how can you how can I just say that that's Antifa?

00:18:40.960 I don't know. That's just someone saying, oh, no, that's the leftist doing the bad stuff.

00:18:45.560 So I'm like, OK, I don't know if I can say that.

00:18:48.520 But when it came to nighttime and we came back out and saw Paris burning, cars flipped over.

00:18:56.040 The first thing we saw was looting, a shop looted.

00:18:59.040 And there was a local store owner, a lady really upset. 1.00

00:19:02.700 She's out there on the streets, upset and kicking around all the all the looted stuff on the ground. 1.00

00:19:08.720 And and immediately I was like, this is not good.

00:19:11.740 This is really bad, you know, and I was like, I don't know what to make of all this.

00:19:17.200 But then we noticed all and this is on camera.

00:19:20.880 You see the footage. There's the anarchy symbol painted.

00:19:25.940 They said free bikes and there was the bike shops looted, like very expensive Triumph motorcycles, all the cars that were flipped over and burned.

00:19:34.100 They have this. What is it?

00:19:36.000 All all cops are something.

00:19:38.540 It's a a a a c a b or something. 1.00

00:19:41.620 And which is something that that Antifa uses.

00:19:45.580 They were saying a yellow vest or the new black block, which is an Antifa thing and the Arc the Triumph literally had Antifa graffitied on it, which was so sad to me because I love arts and culture and something so beautiful.

00:19:58.420 I mean, it was my first time seeing it.

00:19:59.800 I was like, wow, this monument is crazy.

00:20:01.600 It, you know, represents Napoleon and his victories, Arc the Triumph and to have just graffiti on it.

00:20:08.040 It was so disrespectful.

00:20:09.540 So that to me was the proof.

00:20:12.160 It was like, wow, every car that's overturned and burned has its marking on it.

00:20:17.360 Every store that's looted, they put their marking on it.

00:20:20.660 So that was like, aha, OK, the guy was right.

00:20:23.660 There is leftists in here and they claimed it.

00:20:26.660 You know, it doesn't come as a surprise to me, Martina, that the leftist element, especially Antifa, is causing a disproportionate number of amount of anarchy, I should say, given their numbers.

00:20:39.880 But one last thing before we go, in case those who haven't been following this story are unaware of the whole origin of the yellow vest.

00:20:52.720 How did that come to be representative of this outcry in the first place?

00:20:59.940 Yeah, well, that's another interesting thing is that in France, they have certain laws and it's required if you're a driver, you drive a vehicle, along with having a license and getting your insurance and whatever, there's certain things that are required for you to have in your vehicle.

00:21:16.660 One of them is a breathalyzer.

00:21:18.280 Everyone has to have one in their car.

00:21:19.700 And the other one is having a yellow vest. 0.61

00:21:23.660 And a lot of people just think it's ridiculous.

00:21:25.540 There's all these little things that you have to purchase to have in your car.

00:21:28.760 And it was just something they took on, which I think is kind of funny.

00:21:31.480 And they're like, OK, now let's make use of these yellow vests that we have to have in our car.

00:21:35.300 And it's for if, you know, you break down and you have to get out of your car and you're on the side of the road, you have the yellow vest.

00:21:40.680 So, I mean, that's what it's for.

00:21:42.860 But most people don't really use it.

00:21:44.560 So when it came to this protest, it was like, well, let's use the yellow vests.

00:21:50.260 Well, what a fascinating story.

00:21:52.240 And we'll just wrap it here.

00:21:53.360 Martino, just coming into Rebel headquarters today, I saw a guy in a yellow vest.

00:21:57.380 I went, oh, my goodness, where's this protest happening?

00:21:59.460 And then I saw him get into a school bus and drive it away.

00:22:01.820 So he's actually using it for what it's meant to be.

00:22:04.660 Yeah, you know, it's kind of funny because there's sort of a bit of a joke that says that there's a silent protest with people.

00:22:11.120 And so every time we travel or go anywhere, we see someone legitimately, like, wearing a yellow vest, a police officer.

00:22:16.020 We're like, oh, it's a protester.

00:22:18.200 It's kind of funny to see that.

00:22:20.180 But, yeah, I mean, like I said, with the Antifa stuff and the leftists and who's involved and what's really going on in there,

00:22:26.300 I haven't seen any other media outlet at all report on this.

00:22:30.580 I haven't seen anyone show these Antifa graffiti signs or anything.

00:22:35.060 So it's only at the Rebel.

00:22:36.960 Well, knock me down with a feather on that last point.

00:22:39.620 Anyways, Martina, thank you so much and continue to stay safe in 2019, okay?

00:22:45.260 Thank you so much.

00:22:46.160 All right, thank you.

00:22:47.160 That was Martina Marcota in London.

00:22:49.180 And keep it here, folks.

00:22:49.900 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:23:00.580 As the clock ticks down to the end of 2018, what a tumultuous year it has been.

00:23:07.200 But to paraphrase a line from an Elton John song, when it comes to Rebel Media, we're still standing better than we've ever been.

00:23:15.680 And joining me now to give his year-end State of the Union address regarding Rebel Media is our Rebel commander himself, Ezra Levent.

00:23:22.580 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Ezra.

00:23:24.060 Well, thanks very much.

00:23:25.080 I'm still putting together my thoughts.

00:23:27.540 I'm going to have a formal year-end review sort of report to donors that I'll put online.

00:23:33.740 But I've been reviewing a lot of things, and we've had some—there's different ways to measure the year.

00:23:41.900 Quantitatively, we're coming up on 2 billion minutes worth of videos viewed.

00:23:47.480 That is so big, we have more than 1.1 million YouTube subscribers.

00:23:51.320 That's more than the White House.

00:23:52.860 Donald Trump's White House has fewer YouTube subscribers than us, obviously.

00:23:57.000 They don't know that.

00:23:57.980 He's strong on Twitter, though.

00:23:59.240 He beats us there.

00:24:00.720 A hundred to one.

00:24:01.620 So that you can do it by the numbers, or you could do it by geography.

00:24:10.020 You, for example, covered the migrant caravan in Mexico.

00:24:13.980 Yes.

00:24:14.280 You just came back recently from Morocco, the UN Compact on Migration.

00:24:20.340 Sheila Gunn-Reed, at the same time as you were in that UN conference, she was in Poland covering the Global Warming Conference.

00:24:26.400 We covered—I guess it was more than a year ago, we went to Iraq.

00:24:32.080 We went to Israel.

00:24:33.320 You were on that one as well.

00:24:34.500 Yes.

00:24:34.680 We sent Jack Buckby and Martina Marcotta to Paris, and they were right in the middle of the protests.

00:24:42.780 They, by accident, really, they just thought, well, the Arc de Triomphe is a good place to do a video because it's a great backdrop.

00:24:50.060 Well, the protests broke out around them.

00:24:51.520 We've sent people to a variety of countries, and one of the places that I visited this year a lot was London, England, because one of the things that I'm proud of that we did this year is we helped free Tommy Robinson from prison.

00:25:07.020 And it was a strange thing because he was a former employee, like I fired him.

00:25:13.440 Sorry, that's just how it was.

00:25:15.340 I mean, Tommy's a great guy, but you don't want to be his boss.

00:25:18.260 He's not really built for a boss.

00:25:20.640 And, I mean, he does great TV, but it's no fun to be his boss.

00:25:25.240 So I fired him in the spring, and he had a few great months of just being like a wild horse without a harness on it.

00:25:31.380 And then he was arrested and thrown in the back of a truck, and within five hours, he was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and he was quickly transferred to a dangerous prison on purpose.

00:25:43.720 Like, he was in a safe prison.

00:25:45.000 He was, I'm not going to say he was enjoying it, but he was safe.

00:25:47.380 He was fine.

00:25:48.300 Then they deliberately transferred him to a prison that was run by Muslim prison gangs, and the governor of the prison, what we call a warden, said, well, for your own safety, mate, we've got to put you in solitary confinement,

00:25:59.320 and we've got to take away your privileges because that's what happens when you're in solitary confinement.

00:26:03.760 And he was in solitary for two and a half months, and you go a little bit mad in solitary.

00:26:08.980 Absolutely.

00:26:09.640 And he couldn't eat anything because it was all cooked by the prison gangs, and so he just had a tin of tuna and a piece of fruit a day.

00:26:17.660 He lost more than 40 pounds in prison.

00:26:20.080 We managed to crowdfund a legal team, and as you know, we managed to help get him out of prison.

00:26:26.460 And since then, we've become a little bit friendlier, Tommy and I.

00:26:30.060 I mean, not that we were ever unfriendly, but it's better to be Tommy's friend than his boss, I think.

00:26:34.380 But I think that we had an important role to play in freeing him.

00:26:38.180 And Desiree, on that point, though, if it, you know, and I'm not trying to blow our own horn. 0.59

00:26:43.360 Well, what the hell?

00:26:44.000 I will blow our own horn because it's the end of the year, and we so seldom do it.

00:26:47.540 If we hadn't, and if you hadn't personally gone to bat for Tommy, who was his champion over in the UK?

00:26:53.380 Well, I didn't, I mean, I don't want to blame or point fingers, but it wasn't happening.

00:26:58.680 Yeah.

00:26:58.820 I mean, one of the things we do a lot of is crowdfunding, and we try and be very specific.

00:27:03.460 We say, all right, this is to get David to Morocco.

00:27:07.300 This is to get Sheila to Poland.

00:27:08.920 Like, we try to be specific.

00:27:10.520 If there's any surplus, our terms of service for our website, you can see it at the rebel.media slash trust.

00:27:16.360 Say, if there's any extra, we'll apply it to similar projects.

00:27:19.560 Sometimes we don't make the goal, but we love to crowdfund, and our people obviously seem to like it since they do it.

00:27:27.820 And with Tommy, no one, and so I reached out, and I spoke to the family, and I spoke to the lawyers, and I said, come on, don't let him rot in prison.

00:27:36.040 Don't, don't, don't.

00:27:37.240 And I didn't know how bad he was in there because I couldn't talk to him.

00:27:40.320 He was only allowed, I think, two phone calls a week, obviously one for his lawyer, one for his wife.

00:27:45.260 And no one was going to bat for him.

00:27:47.680 They were going to let him rot.

00:27:48.840 And I'm not blaming the family.

00:27:49.860 They didn't have the tools.

00:27:51.640 His wife is a mom and busy, and she's not built for public fighting. 1.00

00:27:56.940 Yeah.

00:27:57.760 So we helped him there, and I believe we made a difference.

00:28:00.000 Yeah.

00:28:00.900 And, but we've done a lot of things.

00:28:03.740 I mean, you just came back from Calgary where you dropped off 15,000 bucks at a veterans charity.

00:28:10.200 It's another example of crowdfunding closer to home.

00:28:12.120 Sometimes people say, Ezra, you're helping those Brits out, because we did a lot for the Tommy Project, and I was really glad we did.

00:28:18.420 Sometimes people say, well, what about the battles at home?

00:28:20.220 Well, we're fighting, and you're part of that fight.

00:28:22.280 Sheila Gunn-Reed's part of that fight, and we got a new fella in Calgary who joined the team, Kian Bexty.

00:28:28.200 Yep.

00:28:28.500 And he's fighting hard.

00:28:29.800 He's a young buck, and he's just giving her. 0.88

00:28:32.340 A hundred percent.

00:28:32.800 And we've got some American talent.

00:28:35.860 One of the people that I know your viewers are familiar with is Rob Shimshock.

00:28:39.860 He's got that website, Campus Unmask.

00:28:41.460 Fantastic.

00:28:42.140 Yeah, and he just focuses on the campus beat.

00:28:44.640 And I should tell you, I don't want to announce anything before it's done, but we're always, we're constantly on the hunt for talent.

00:28:51.260 For a couple reasons.

00:28:52.260 First of all, because I like to find people who are undiscovered and say, oh, my God, he'd be great.

00:28:56.920 Let's get him on TV.

00:28:57.740 So there's three people we're looking at right now who, if it works out, hopefully we'll have some news in the new year.

00:29:05.380 Three or four people.

00:29:06.560 And even if only one of them works out, that'd be great, because I think we need more people on deck.

00:29:10.440 Well, it's always great to be on the hunt for talent, unless, of course, you're going to replace me.

00:29:15.040 David, you're irreplaceable.

00:29:16.480 You're one of a kind.

00:29:17.480 Thank God.

00:29:18.780 But as I've got to tell you, looking ahead to 2019, and I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer here, but I think there's two compelling things.

00:29:26.600 First of all, we know the Justin Trudeau media Bombardier-style bailout fund is going ahead to the tune of almost $600 million.

00:29:34.400 So if you thought Trudeau got an easy ride for calendar year 2018, well, you ain't seen nothing yet in terms of what happens when it comes to journalists self-censoring themselves to not bite the hen that feeds.

00:29:46.920 And also, in terms of social media, the big buzzword for people like us is deplatforming.

00:29:54.540 We saw what happened to Alex Jones with Infowars.

00:29:57.020 Is that, would you say, a sort of Damocles hanging over our heads, or maybe have we dodged that bullet?

00:30:04.760 No, it's absolutely our number one risk, because I mentioned earlier 1.1 million people voluntarily sign up for our stuff on YouTube.

00:30:13.280 Now, don't think that means $1.1 million.

00:30:16.220 No, no, no, no.

00:30:17.660 If it did, we'd be doing fine.

00:30:19.800 No, I mean, we've been semi-deplatformed.

00:30:22.780 We've been demonetized is the word.

00:30:25.220 So YouTube gives us, whereas actually for a brief period from 2015 and 2016, we were actually making money on YouTube enough to pay most of our salaries, they cut us off in January, February 2017.

00:30:38.240 And when I met with them here in Toronto, and I had video meetings with them in Texas and California, they said, yeah, yeah, we did.

00:30:45.900 And they don't dispute it, and they don't deny it, and they don't apologize for it.

00:30:49.280 They just have demonetized conservative commentary sites, and they don't care.

00:30:54.120 And they really don't even want our business.

00:30:56.840 I like being on YouTube because it makes us searchable and browsable and discoverable, but YouTube doesn't like us.

00:31:03.360 Yeah, and you know, I think, especially in the United States, I see this as one of the biggest stories to emerge.

00:31:08.740 It'll be who gets to control the town square in terms of freedom of expression, especially with this being, in the U.S., a First Amendment issue.

00:31:16.600 And, you know, Ezra, I think you've said this story before, but, you know, ironically, the Brexit vote, and then, of course, which was kind of like something that happened across the pond, something over there,

00:31:29.900 but certainly Donald Trump winning in 2016, that was kind of the turning point, wasn't it, for the social media Silicon Valley lefties saying, how did this happen?

00:31:39.660 Is it because these right-wing people have a platform?

00:31:43.080 Well, that's exactly why it did happen.

00:31:44.720 That's how Trump managed to win with a fraction of the budget of Hillary Clinton and none of the establishment support he won on social media through Facebook and Twitter and email and things like that.

00:31:55.820 That's why we were demonetized because, and that's why the timing, I said it was the end, basically January, February 2017.

00:32:03.140 It took Silicon Valley a couple months to say, whoa, we did that. We have to make sure that never happens again.

00:32:09.040 And shortly thereafter, they shut down 30,000 Facebook pages that were supportive of Marine Le Pen in France.

00:32:14.980 They wanted to stop the third country from the domino effect. 0.97

00:32:18.560 But it's not just America. We've just been talking about America.

00:32:21.620 Justin Trudeau has had a personal meeting with Sheryl Sandberg, the senior officer, only number two to Zuckerberg at Facebook.

00:32:30.100 And the Toronto Star reported this, of all places.

00:32:34.600 Justin Trudeau said to Facebook, if you don't crack down on fake news, that's his word for news he doesn't like.

00:32:42.280 And he specifically said in advance of the 2019 federal election, we'll do it for you.

00:32:47.840 So he basically threatened Facebook that if they don't censor us, who else could he be talking about?

00:32:53.620 I mean, Justin Trudeau disparages us by name in Parliament.

00:32:58.380 I think that's a great badge of honor.

00:33:00.600 But when he then goes further than just expressing his opinion and pressures Facebook to censor us, of course it's a threat.

00:33:07.460 And I should say that we have a number of, we were joking around about Tommy Robinson earlier.

00:33:11.500 There's other Rebel alumni out there, Gavin McInnes, Lauren Southern.

00:33:15.780 Some people we fired, some people were hired away.

00:33:18.120 You know, there's Faith Goldie, there's Laura Loomer.

00:33:22.120 I'm just listing a lot of our, we've had some controversial personalities at the Rebel.

00:33:26.060 A number of them have been deplatformed from Twitter, PayPal, Patreon, Facebook.

00:33:33.860 A number of places, once they've left us, and part of me thinks, well, maybe because they got wilder once they left us.

00:33:42.020 Or maybe because Facebook and all these other places are building, okay, first they went for Alex Jones.

00:33:48.660 Then they took him out.

00:33:49.900 Then they went for Gavin McInnes.

00:33:51.400 Maybe they're inching their way towards the center.

00:33:54.460 So if they can shut down, I mean, Gavin McInnes is really a right-wing version of Bill Maher, the leftist comedian.

00:34:01.220 Or, you know, he's funny and he's rambunctious and he's political, but he's no more radical than Howard Stern.

00:34:09.100 But they shut him down because he, for whatever reason, I, that is my worry.

00:34:13.360 I'm not worried that we're not connecting with our 1.1 million viewers.

00:34:16.320 Obviously we are.

00:34:17.400 I'm not worried that we're going to make mistakes on our own that destroy us.

00:34:22.160 I mean, we make mistakes every day, but we're almost four years old, we're alive.

00:34:25.380 But I'm worried that Justin Trudeau is going to finally get through to Sheryl Sandberg or Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey of Twitter or, I forget the name of the new executive at Google, and just shut us down.

00:34:40.600 Not through a debate, not through a government act, but through a private phone call saying, hey, I'm sick of the rebel.

00:34:47.040 They said something mean about me.

00:34:48.420 Take them down.

00:34:49.820 Unbelievable.

00:34:50.500 Well, you know, Ezra, we're going to have to wrap it there.

00:34:53.260 So many other things I wanted to talk to you about, but we just ran out of time.

00:34:57.160 So thanks again for giving the assessment.

00:34:59.880 And I got to tell you, folks, the difference between now and then, I think, and speaking as a journalist, this is what I find really disturbing.

00:35:06.200 Once upon a time, and not too long ago, I'm talking 15 years ago when Ezra was publisher of the Western Standard,

00:35:11.320 you would have others in the media, you know, who didn't agree with us, who had a different philosophical bent.

00:35:17.700 They would go to bat for any media outlet being censored, and now they cheer on the censorship.

00:35:24.460 Yeah, that's true.

00:35:24.860 That's how terribly it's changed in recent times.

00:35:28.280 But we're not for sale.

00:35:29.660 We're going to keep fighting for you.

00:35:31.820 And like I said, you ain't seen nothing yet.

00:35:34.620 Keep it here.

00:35:35.100 More of Rebel Roundup to come.

00:35:36.280 Bye, Dr. Best.

00:35:37.040 Well, that's a wrap for Rebel Roundup for calendar year 2018, and what a year it was.

00:35:51.320 I fully expect 2019 to be a similar rollercoaster ride, especially as we get closer to that federal election.

00:35:59.340 Hey, can't wait.

00:36:00.660 You know, one of the reasons I love working for Rebel Media is the symbiotic relationship we have with you, our audience.

00:36:08.240 It is the sort of relationship I've never experienced working for any other media outlet in the 35 years I've been in this game.

00:36:16.320 And it is a symbiotic relationship in that we need you, and, well, you need us.

00:36:22.320 By way of explanation, without your support, we are nothing.

00:36:25.880 So, to all of you who pay that $8 a month subscription fee and make donations to our various crowdfunding missions,

00:36:33.940 I thank you all sincerely.

00:36:36.580 Now, what's in it for you?

00:36:37.960 Well, how about unfiltered coverage of the important issues that those in the media party increasingly veer away from?

00:36:45.660 And come 2019, thanks to Justin Trudeau's $600 million media bailout fund,

00:36:52.780 expect the media to be even more self-censoring as they demonstrate an outright aversion to, well, biting the hand that feeds.

00:37:02.420 We know that's going to happen by just looking at how the CBC currently operates,

00:37:07.540 which is dependent on more than $1 billion of taxpayer welfare each year.

00:37:12.760 And what do you get for that cash outlay, folks?

00:37:16.080 Well, you get ideology masquerading as journalism.

00:37:20.860 Just look at how the CBC covered, or decided not to cover, certain news items this year.

00:37:27.340 Remember that woman in Vancouver who had coffee tossed on her by another woman clad in a hijab? 0.98

00:37:33.600 It was all caught on camera, and the CBC was there.

00:37:36.080 You can even see their mic flash.

00:37:38.400 But did the CBC report this?

00:37:41.120 Nope.

00:37:42.260 It just didn't fit with their so-called narrative.

00:37:45.640 I wonder how the CBC would have reacted if the roles had been reversed.

00:37:49.080 You know, if the woman in the hijab had been doused with coffee. 0.95

00:37:52.940 Well, actually, I don't have to wonder.

00:37:54.760 The CBC was front and centre when it came to covering the story about that little Toronto girl

00:38:00.120 who had her hijab shredded by an Asian man wielding scissors.

00:38:05.140 Just one hitch, though.

00:38:06.300 It was a hoax, a scam, a con, a heaping helping of Takiyah. 1.00

00:38:10.260 And did the CBC even bother to cover protests by the Asian community regarding the libel that community endured thanks to the hijab hoax? 0.98

00:38:19.660 Nope.

00:38:20.500 Nothing to see here, folks.

00:38:22.000 And how about the Jordan Hunt story?

00:38:25.800 He's the thug who allegedly delivered a roundhouse kick to the torso of Marie Claire Bissonette,

00:38:31.520 who was peacefully demonstrating against abortion at a Toronto street corner.

00:38:36.280 It was all caught on video, and Miss Bissonette actually sent that video to the CBC, offering them an exclusive.

00:38:45.120 And amazingly, the CBC said they just weren't interested.

00:38:49.700 The story was picked up worldwide.

00:38:51.860 The video has since gone viral.

00:38:54.160 But there was no story here for the CBC.

00:38:55.940 And yet, you know, I wonder if Miss Bissonette was a radical feminist who was protesting in favor of abortion, 1.00

00:39:03.680 only to be kicked by a man.

00:39:05.240 I wonder if that would have been a story for the CBC.

00:39:09.000 I think that story would probably be the lead item on The National that evening.

00:39:15.460 Misogyny running wild in the mean streets of Toronto.

00:39:18.600 And finally, how about the CBC's coverage of the migrant caravan from Central America?

00:39:26.060 When the caravan numbered about 5,000 people, the CBC's Susan Ormiston reported that 2,300 people, or almost half, were children.

00:39:36.360 This was a bold-faced lie.

00:39:39.020 We were down in southern Mexico when this nonsense was being reported.

00:39:42.840 And we discovered that 90% of the migrants were young, able-bodied males, not children.

00:39:50.000 What gives?

00:39:51.260 Well, what gives is this.

00:39:53.600 As Sean Hannity famously proclaimed in 2016,

00:39:57.580 Journalism is dead.

00:39:59.500 Forget about all the old chestnuts like the public has the right to know and all the news that's fit to print.

00:40:06.320 There are fewer and fewer ethical and unbiased journalists in the journalism business today.

00:40:11.600 They have been replaced by ideologues and spin doctors and political hacks.

00:40:18.440 And now that many of these so-called journalists will essentially be on the payroll of the Liberal Party of Canada starting next year,

00:40:25.820 you can fully expect the propaganda to get worse,

00:40:30.240 as many media outlets will now devolve into a legion of CBC mini-bureaus,

00:40:35.420 outlets that won't want to report anything that might be, you know,

00:40:40.060 potentially embarrassing for the Liberals, or for that matter, Liberal ideology.

00:40:45.880 Conversely, we at The Rebel are not for sale.

00:40:49.340 We are not beholden to any political party.

00:40:52.380 We are only accountable to you, our viewers.

00:40:54.800 So, as we head into 2019, we shall continue to exist as the proverbial skunk to the Garden Party

00:41:02.820 when it comes to the Liberal elites.

00:41:05.460 We will continue to be that umpire at home plate, culling them as we seize them.

00:41:10.920 And what's more, we wouldn't want it any other way.

00:41:14.940 Happy New Year.

00:41:15.760 Happy New Year.

00:41:36.140 Happy New Year.

00:41:37.060 Happy New Year.

00:41:44.260 Happy New Year.

00:41:44.480 Happy New Year.

00:41:44.600 Happy New Year.

00:41:45.060 Happy New Year.

00:41:45.680 So, here we are.

Rebel News Podcast - December 29, 2018

Rebel Roundup： Guests Kurt Schlichter, Martina Markota & Ezra Levant!

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