Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup： Guests Sheila Gunn Reid, Ben Davies & Keean Bexte!

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at

00:00:04.780 some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels. I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:00:10.720 Well, it looks like Justin Trudeau is building himself quite the swank summer residence,

00:00:16.300 including a treehouse with its very own zip line and maybe even a helicopter landing pad to boot.

00:00:23.560 And guess what, folks? You are funding this extravagance. Sheila Gunn-Reed shall explain all.

00:00:31.340 And a new Abacus poll indicates that only 25% of Albertans give the Justin Trudeau Liberals an approval rating,

00:00:38.720 whereas a whopping 57% disapprove. Yet some media outlets are claiming that those who disapprove of

00:00:46.400 Justin are motivated by racism, misogyny, and homophobia? What the heck?

00:00:54.060 Kian Bexte will try to make sense of it all. And Ben Davies drops by to explain how network TV coverage

00:01:01.320 of New Year's Eve celebrations devolved into a truly vulgar affair rife with talking heads

00:01:08.260 still afflicted with Trump derangement syndrome. Oh, Dick Clark, we miss you dearly.

00:01:15.260 And finally, we get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day. And I'll share

00:01:19.720 some of the letters we received regarding my commentary about a progressive Toronto neighbourhood

00:01:25.180 that is absolutely aghast at the prospect of a daycare operation setting up. Yep, suddenly the

00:01:32.760 same people who condemn NIMBYism are now subscribing to it. Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up. 0.74

00:01:40.320 But some of the demands are sort of petty and a little ridiculous. For example, look at this line

00:01:55.640 item here. Potable water. To improve the quality of the drinking water, Canadians paid $3.5,000. Now,

00:02:03.580 if the drinking water was bad and undrinkable, of course, we want that fixed. But that's not what

00:02:10.240 the problem was. If you go up to page 47, you can see that the problem was that the water was

00:02:15.420 quote unquote, too soft for the Trudeaus. So taxpayers spent $3.5,000 so that the drinking water

00:02:22.740 was hard enough for the likings of delicate Mr. Trudeau. But in all of this, I see that Trudeau has

00:02:30.680 aspirations of live action role playing as a farmer, but he doesn't want to actually do any

00:02:36.460 of the hard work. The first inkling I get that Trudeau might want to be a farmer is here on page

00:02:41.640 48, where bureaucrats are looking into regulations regarding livestock on the property. God help the 0.98

00:02:49.240 livestock. Now, right here on page 49, you can see that Trudeau insisted on becoming a bee farmer.

00:02:56.160 Now, to get the bees, two hives actually all set up, it costs $9,000. And then it's going to cost

00:03:03.200 $3,000 every single year going forward to keep Trudeau's novelty dreams of running an apiary alive

00:03:09.920 because the work is now being contracted out. Further to Trudeau's agricultural dreams,

00:03:16.380 taxpayers spent $4,000 to build him an organic garden. And then we get to pay $2,000 every single

00:03:22.740 year going forward to pay someone else to garden the garden for him because we can't have his nails

00:03:28.900 getting dirty, even though we made the water harder for him so that it's a lot more fun for him to wash

00:03:34.900 his hands. Oh, and then taxpayers spent a total of $13,500 to repair the garden fence, which will be

00:03:42.920 used to keep the deer from eating Trudeau's expensive organic garden. And then we get into some of the more

00:03:50.160 ridiculous demands, if that were even possible, of Canada's man-child prime minister. Trudeau wants

00:03:56.800 a treehouse, but not just any treehouse. He wants one with a zip line. To be fair, it's unclear who

00:04:03.620 ended up paying for the treehouse in the end. But the email discussing the construction of the treehouse

00:04:10.180 reads,

00:04:10.600 So even if Justin Trudeau actually sprung for the treehouse himself, now we've got government safety

00:04:26.340 and civil engineers examining the plans. And I can't imagine that that runs cheap.

00:04:32.120 Hey folks, it ain't easy being a trust fund baby come prime minister. I mean, one gets quickly

00:04:38.980 accustomed to a particular lifestyle, as in the lifestyles of the rich and infamous. For example,

00:04:45.760 when it comes to the PM's summer residence, there are numerous watercrafts Justin has taken a fancy

00:04:51.920 to. And there's that pressing need for an organic garden. Oh, and there's that treehouse with its own

00:04:59.500 zip line, of course. And while Trudeau has taken a dim view of President Trump wanting to build a wall

00:05:05.000 along the U.S.-Mexico border, Justin has absolutely no reservations about building a $13,000 plus fence

00:05:13.140 on his property. All the better to keep the riffraff out of that organic garden. And best of all, 1.00

00:05:20.540 as far as the Trudeau clan is concerned, all of this whiz-bang groovy stuff is being paid

00:05:26.760 for, by you, the hapless taxpayer. Because apparently, when it comes to being an ever-entitled

00:05:33.620 Trudeau, to quote the American Express tagline, membership has its privileges. And with more on

00:05:40.760 the PM's summer home spending spree is the host of The Gun Show, Sheila Gunn-Reed. Welcome to Rebel

00:05:46.760 Roundup and a happy new year to you, my friend. Thank you, David. Thank you for having me.

00:05:51.520 Always a pleasure. So, Sheila, for starters, I'm scratching my head here. Justin is spending

00:05:57.060 taxpayers' money on himself at a rate that would make a drunken sailor blush. Yet, this is the same

00:06:03.940 guy who last year claimed that injured military veterans are asking for too much money? What the

00:06:10.100 hell gives here? Well, and it's all novelty stuff, too. It's crazy things. Like, he has these dreams of

00:06:16.760 being a farmer. When I was reading through the access to information documents, at one point,

00:06:23.180 I saw bureaucrats nattering back and forth the way government bureaucrats do, talking about having

00:06:28.860 livestock on the property, and that scared me. So, I kept reading, and he had them install an apiary.

00:06:37.880 He wants to be a bee farmer. The taxpayers paid several thousand dollars for him to have two hives

00:06:47.440 installed on the property, which is over and above what bees cost, because you can get them down at the

00:06:54.900 Peavey Mart if you order them in March. And then, we're also contracting a beekeeper to take care of them

00:07:01.660 in, I guess, perpetuity. We also paid to install an organic garden for him. Again, several thousand

00:07:09.080 dollars, and then several thousand dollars every single year, because heaven forbid, the Lady Trudeau 1.00

00:07:15.500 run out there and yank some weeds away from her organic onions. And then, thirteen and a half 0.99

00:07:21.260 thousand dollars to build a fence to keep the deer away from the organic garden that the Trudeaus aren't 0.95

00:07:29.240 even tending. And then, you know, you talked about the treehouse. He's having a treehouse installed.

00:07:35.120 It's not clear from the documents who paid for the treehouse. But I know that Canadian taxpayers did

00:07:41.300 pay for the environmental assessment around the treehouse, and then the hazard risk assessment

00:07:48.380 from civil engineers regarding the zip line that he wants installed on his mega treehouse. One of the

00:07:56.120 funny things I found, though, in the documents was that he wanted a tree swing installed somewhere

00:08:02.440 on the property. But you could see the bureaucrats nattering back and forth because they wanted to

00:08:08.600 find a tree strong enough, which leads me to believe that it's not the Trudeau kids using the tree swing.

00:08:16.700 It's probably Trudeau himself.

00:08:19.660 Oh, my God. You know, Sheila, a couple of things from what you just said. First of all, when you refer to

00:08:24.860 Lady Trudeau removing the weeds from the organic garden, are we talking about weeds such as thistles

00:08:31.340 and dandelions or weeds such as the base product for the wacky tobacco that is now legal in Canada?

00:08:38.020 And secondly, who in blue hell is having beehives on their property unless you're a beekeeper,

00:08:43.900 a professional beekeeper? Forgive my ignorance, Sheila, but is there a honey shortage in the greater

00:08:49.940 Ottawa area right now?

00:08:52.140 You know, I'm from the honey capital of Canada. So if they want honey, they can get it from Alberta.

00:09:00.280 We would love to give the rest of the country honey the way we would love to give them oil and gas.

00:09:06.120 You know, I don't know what's in the organic garden. It wasn't clear.

00:09:10.780 But I did express some concern for Justin Trudeau's brain cells in my video because we did pay a pretty

00:09:20.340 hefty cost to repaint one of the garden sheds that's on the property at Harrington Lake because

00:09:27.680 they were removing the lead paint. And I think it cost about $5,000 to remove the lead paint.

00:09:34.160 But Trudeau's a guy who cannot spare a single brain cell. So, you know, I would spare no cost to

00:09:41.720 remove lead paint at Harrington Lake. That's one of the things I think that we should do for

00:09:45.580 the good of the country.

00:09:47.060 You know, Sheila, since you mentioned that Alberta is the honey capital of Canada, I'm just wondering if

00:09:52.900 if we proposed a pipeline for honey to be transported, if that would get through all the

00:09:59.540 regulatory hurdles other than that, you know, demonic oil that always seems to be stymied.

00:10:06.380 But I digress. You know, just breaking today, I'll hold up this paper. It's Justin Trudeau on the

00:10:13.620 front page of The Sun wearing a beanie cap with a propeller on top of it. And the story is about

00:10:19.740 heavily redacted pages in an FOI search that The Sun did, indicating that it looks like there might be

00:10:31.120 a helipad being installed on this increasingly palatial cottage, even though the airport is a

00:10:41.400 mere 25-minute drive away from this cottage. He's hardly in the hinterland of Tatayatak.

00:10:48.080 You know, Sheila, I mean, it's yet more excess, as far as I can tell. And I'm just wondering why

00:10:55.700 this isn't getting picked up by the mainstream media. I hearken back to the days when the media

00:11:02.120 lost their minds about the Mike Duffy scandal, which totaled, what, $92,000. And yet he gets a pass on

00:11:11.020 this. What's your take on that? It is absolutely the mainstream media bias that allows Trudeau to

00:11:17.740 get away with the excesses at Harrington Lake and really anywhere else in his life. Let's look at one

00:11:24.240 of the other prime ministerial residences. The main residence at 24 Sussex, excuse me, Harper couldn't

00:11:33.500 even change the wallpaper there because someone would be scrutinizing his expenses. And it would

00:11:41.120 seem as though Trudeau or Harper at the time was trying to enrich himself and and turn it into a palace

00:11:47.760 for his family. He realized that there were very serious negative optics for a conservative to

00:11:54.940 upgrade these prime ministerial residences to the point that that place is a little bit dilapidated

00:12:01.140 now, whereas Trudeau knows that he can absolutely get away with anything he wants to at the prime

00:12:08.180 ministerial residences. I found an email where Trudeau himself was there for the original meeting with

00:12:14.560 the groundskeepers and the people in charge of official residences. These were demands that he

00:12:20.600 was making, specifically him, for his family at this official residence. I found an email where they

00:12:27.880 talk on and on about upgrading the ice surface at Harrington Lake. It cost taxpayers $2,000 to upgrade

00:12:35.920 the ice surface, but that ice surface was used so infrequently they didn't have skates for anybody

00:12:43.440 at Harrington Lake. They were running around trying to borrow them because I guess when you're the

00:12:48.480 prime minister, you can pay bureaucrats to borrow skates and find free skates for your family while

00:12:54.800 at the same time you're in the House of Commons repealing the child fitness tax credit to help the

00:13:00.400 rest of us offset the cost of skates for our kids. Great point. And I know you made that point in your

00:13:05.860 commentary too, Sheila. And I think what really rubs people the wrong way is that this is not a family

00:13:13.140 lacking in resources. They're millionaires. They can afford all of this and they should pay for it.

00:13:19.300 These are entitlements to improve their summer getaways. And I'm just wondering, Sheila, if this

00:13:26.520 has legs as the year moves on. I know October is an eternity away being 10 months from now, but do you

00:13:33.360 think this sort of stuff is going to get more coverage and it's going to stick to them or is this

00:13:37.300 just going to, you know, deflect off the prime minister and it'll be forgotten by next week?

00:13:43.180 Well, I guess the difference would be whether or not the opposition conservatives bother to run with

00:13:51.580 this. I mean, when we have Justin Trudeau saying that he's an advocate for the middle class and those

00:13:57.500 trying to become middle class all the time, that's his major talking point. It sure makes him look like 0.58

00:14:05.060 a hypocrite and a bald faced liar when he does these sorts of things. So I guess it remains,

00:14:11.020 you know, it remains to be seen, but $600 million in a subsidy from Justin Trudeau for the mainstream

00:14:21.720 media sure buys a lot of silence. Oh, it sure does, Sheila. And it's only going to get worse as the

00:14:28.640 election cycle kicks in full time. Listen, we have to wrap it here. I go back to what I said

00:14:34.360 in my opening preamble, the audacity of this individual when he claims that people that put

00:14:41.300 their lives on the line, true patriots fighting for Canada, asking for too much to cover medical

00:14:47.900 expenses while he, you know, lives high on the hog at a summer residence using our money. It is

00:14:54.280 absolutely egregious. So great work on covering all those documents, Sheila. I know you'll have

00:14:59.100 more for us in the weeks and months ahead. I will. There's so much more to this access to

00:15:04.920 information document. Indeed. Thank you so much. Folks, that was Sheila Gunn-Reed from Alberta and keep

00:15:10.540 it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:15:17.900 Abacus Data just released a poll and the results were from the end of 2018 and they summarized

00:15:26.520 Canadians' opinions of Justin Trudeau and his government. Not to most people's surprise,

00:15:30.880 only a quarter of Albertans approve of the Trudeau government. That is, of course, contrasted

00:15:35.620 by the much higher support in eastern Canada. But what was perhaps the most interesting was that

00:15:39.920 57% of Albertans outright disapprove of the Trudeau Liberals. Of course, this didn't make the

00:15:46.160 mainstream media very happy. The star Metro Edmonton reported on these numbers and made

00:15:50.580 sure to characterize Albertans who didn't support Justin Trudeau as, well, racists.

00:15:56.020 Not only that, according to star Metro Edmonton, Albertans who didn't, don't approve of Justin

00:16:01.100 Trudeau and his government think women's issues are a joke and ran some mental gymnastics to connect 0.71

00:16:06.420 a vague question about homosexuality being a choice to people's opinions on the performance

00:16:11.240 of the government. I wonder how big the check is that Justin Trudeau cut to the star Metro

00:16:16.260 Edmonton because this was some real hard-hitting journalism right there.

00:16:20.820 Astonishing. Not the fact that the Trudeau Liberals have a woeful 57% disapproval rating in

00:16:28.480 Wildrose Country, but the fact that some Alberta media are chastising Albertans for having the

00:16:35.620 temerity to express such a negative opinion. Again, absolutely astonishing. And joining me now

00:16:43.480 with more on these poll results and the media spin job is Kian Bexte. Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Kian.

00:16:52.360 Thanks for having me.

00:16:53.760 Always a pleasure. Now, Kian, for starters, being disapproving of the Trudeau Liberals

00:16:59.980 is apparently an act of racism. Can you kindly explain to us how the star Metro Edmonton came

00:17:09.260 to such an inexplicable conclusion in the first place? Well, it was a bunch of mental gymnastics

00:17:15.420 from what I could see. They threw around a bunch of numbers and a bunch of weird questions that

00:17:22.100 they asked, like, do you think being gay is a choice? And then somehow they connected that question

00:17:28.920 to do you approve of Justin Trudeau and his government? And they, it's hard to explain

00:17:37.440 their methodology in figuring this out because it was so confusing. But they said because more

00:17:42.340 Albertans said, answered one question positively than, and answered the Justin Trudeau question

00:17:49.380 more positively, that somehow correlated, indicating that for sure, 100% Albertans are racist,

00:17:56.760 Albertans are misogynist, Albertans are homophobic. It was, it was ludicrous.

00:18:01.900 You know, that's amazing. And it's unethical. It's the kind of flawed logic, Kian, that, I mean, 1.00

00:18:08.120 this is the kind of, you know, flawed, disingenuous, logical process that they're coming to when they,

00:18:15.160 you know, cherry pick certain facts and, you know, present that as a newsworthy conclusion.

00:18:21.640 But what I found amazing is that later in your video, and I urge our viewers to go see it in its

00:18:29.020 entirety, you went out onto the streets and asked Albertans, you know, what do you think of these

00:18:36.040 approval and disapproval ratings? And the most common answers that I heard every day working

00:18:43.400 Albertans say they're, they're upset with the higher taxes, the lower Canadian dollar, and the fact that

00:18:49.880 the Alberta economy is being stymied by pipeline paralysis. So what I'm saying, Kian, didn't sound

00:18:58.100 like a whole bunch of misogynists and homophobes and racists attending a KKK convention. At least it 0.99

00:19:05.620 didn't to me.

00:19:07.100 It sure isn't. You know, Alberta, in Alberta, we're upset about a few things, right? We're upset that we

00:19:12.360 can't get our natural resources to Tidewater to sell them to international markets. We're upset that

00:19:18.900 the federal government is taxing us with a carbon tax that doesn't do anything environmentally. It's

00:19:26.680 just economic pain. Those are the things that we're upset about. It has nothing to do with,

00:19:32.200 I'll read out one of their questions. They said, are you fed up with all of the emphasis on promoting

00:19:38.480 women's interests? And they said, would you feel better if there were no Muslims here? That's not 0.99

00:19:45.080 something that crosses Albertans' minds. You see, we care about pipelines. We care about our economy.

00:19:51.740 And Justin Trudeau is just failing on that. And that's why you see those poll numbers. Frankly,

00:19:56.460 a lot of the people that I talked to were surprised that they were as good as they were. They said that

00:20:01.460 25 percent was too high. So Abacus Data might have some explaining to do. Personally, I'm surprised by

00:20:07.960 that figure, Kian, to tell you the truth. It's a 25 percent approval rating. But you know, the Star

00:20:14.420 Metro Edmonton, I don't know anything about the people there. Obviously, this is part of the

00:20:20.780 Torstar Corporation that's centered in Toronto. I'm just wondering, what kind of influence does it have?

00:20:28.600 Because I just find, you know, their coverage of this poll so condescending and downright insulting

00:20:36.340 to Joe and Jane Albertan by saying, because you don't adore the Trudeau liberals, therefore there's

00:20:44.580 a undercurrent of racism or homophobia or misogyny here. I mean, does this newspaper have any currency

00:20:52.640 in Alberta? Well, I don't know about Alberta, but when you have an Albertan newspaper, the Star

00:20:59.880 Edmonton, capital city of Alberta, and someone reads an article like this in BC, perhaps, or Ontario

00:21:08.500 or Quebec, then it stereotypes Albertans. And it seems to have some sort of credibility because

00:21:13.640 it's actually from Alberta. So when we're trying to get pipelines built, when we're complaining about

00:21:19.480 the carbon tax, it's easier for them to brush us off as redneck Albertans who hate Muslims, hate

00:21:24.600 women, hate gays. So it's bad for Alberta in that other people can read it and that stereotypes us. 1.00

00:21:32.760 But I don't think Albertans give it much credibility because they know what they think. So they're not

00:21:38.220 too worried what the Star thinks of them. I'm just astonishing. I mean, astonished by this,

00:21:42.620 Kian, in terms of not knowing your audience. I mean, I think Albertans are quite used to being

00:21:47.940 preached to by the media mavens based in Toronto. But when it's coming out of Edmonton, that's a bit

00:21:55.280 rich. But the other point I want to make on this spin cycle, I think this is yet another piece of

00:22:00.700 tangible proof that with that $595 million government taxpayer funded bailout of media companies,

00:22:09.720 it's a different kind of narrative that's going to emerge this year with the election coming up,

00:22:15.540 isn't it, Kian, where you even have an Alberta-based paper lecturing Albertans about their negative

00:22:22.520 attitude to Mr. Trudeau? Because, hey, he's the one signing our checks for our bailout, isn't he?

00:22:29.740 Oh, that's absolutely true. I'm scrolling through the article right now, and this is staged completely

00:22:35.020 as a news article. Actually, if you scroll to the top of the page, I'm going to screenshot this and

00:22:39.540 send it to you because it says, subscribe now for complete progressive coverage of local, national

00:22:45.260 and global news. This is stunning. How did I not notice this? Well, the quote aligned from Jerry

00:22:54.120 Maguire, you had me at progressive. And when I say you had me at progressive, I mean, you had me at

00:22:59.160 cancelling my subscription to the Star Metro Edmonton. Kian, we have to wrap it here. Good job and good 1.00

00:23:06.820 for you for going out and interviewing the common man and woman in the streets of Alberta to show that

00:23:14.500 they're not a bunch of racist and xenophobes and all sorts of other negative isps and phobes that the

00:23:21.280 Star Metro Edmonton is painting these people as. So thank you, my friend.

00:23:25.920 No problem. Thanks for having me. Oh, right. And folks, keep it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come

00:23:30.600 right after this.

00:23:38.580 You don't really know someone until you have a few drinks with them. Well, the moral arbiters of the

00:23:43.120 mainstream media and their guests showed us exactly who they were and confirmed all of our suspicions

00:23:48.620 at the New Year's celebration. Let's kick things off with your boy, Anderson Cooper, who threw back

00:23:53.760 shots of tequila while millions watched on. Now, I'd be tempted to give Anderson a pass if he didn't

00:23:59.680 take down the shot like a 12-year-old girl choking on a box of movie theater Sour Patch. But what's

00:24:04.820 even better is a few moments separated CNN contributor Randy Kaye bonged champagne while

00:24:10.180 millions watched. Now, it's not the fact that Randy completely shows up Anderson live on TV or the fact

00:24:15.380 that CNN and its host look like a college frat house bringing in the New Year. It's the fact that

00:24:19.360 these are the same people who decried Brett Kavanaugh an alcoholic unhinged monster for

00:24:23.720 liking beer. Yeah, wait, do you remember that? I remember that. Pepperidge Farm remembers that.

00:24:28.360 But not to be outdone, Anderson goes on to talk about his mother's sex life live on TV. I mean,

00:24:33.560 who doesn't want to hear about that, right? Right? Can the ball please drop now? But just when you think

00:24:37.280 you couldn't be more ready for 2018 to end live on TV, Chrissy Teigen goes out to throw more lighter

00:24:43.020 fluid on the dumpster fire by going on a tangent about steaming her vagina. Now, gather around, 1.00

00:24:48.660 kids. Let's talk about appropriate conversations on TV. And bonus fail just to, you know, get ready

00:24:53.640 for the New Year. Actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish vowed to wear fur every day until, quote,

00:24:58.820 police stopped killing black people. Wait, how does that work? Are there no crimes ever? Anyway,

00:25:03.300 well, maybe she didn't think that through, but she definitely didn't think through her comedy set

00:25:06.640 on New Year's. That she bombed so hard her fans actually walked out after paying and she had to 0.93

00:25:12.340 publicly apologize afterwards. Ah, what a great year, Rebels.

00:25:16.580 Well, judging by the TV coverage ushering in the New Year on the eve of December 31st,

00:25:22.980 2019 is certainly off to a perfect start. Um, actually, no, it's not. Because what was served

00:25:30.960 up by the mainstream media on New Year's Eve was essentially a vulgar wine fest by those nattering

00:25:37.340 nabobs of negativity still suffering from Trump derangement syndrome. I guess some things never change,

00:25:45.380 regardless of the date, on the calendar. And with more on a cringeworthy start to 2019

00:25:51.480 is our Tinseltown-based rebel, Ben Davies. Hey, keeping with the spirit of the progressives,

00:25:57.540 happy effing New Year to you, Ben.

00:25:59.960 Oh, right. Thanks, man. I really appreciate it. I can't think of a better way to bring in the New 0.99

00:26:04.840 Year, right?

00:26:05.260 Yeah, pardon my French. So, Ben, whatever happened to the good old days when, you know,

00:26:12.040 the New Year was ushered in with some mirth and merriment via Dick Clark?

00:26:17.080 Oh, yeah. Dick Clark just bringing it in. You can still hear the carols in the background.

00:26:20.580 Everything's looking great and beautiful. No, now we're subject to people binge drinking on TV and

00:26:25.260 doing all kinds of shenanigans, missing the ball drop, and having to tell your kids, uh, I'm sorry,

00:26:29.600 we're gonna have to talk about this tomorrow because we have to, to tell you what you just

00:26:33.720 witnessed and explain it to you. It was absolutely ridiculous. I can't wait to get into it.

00:26:38.780 Well, you know what? It, I just heard about this today. Um, but evidently there are some

00:26:45.120 websites you could visit if you had little children that fake the ball dropping on New Year's Eve.

00:26:52.300 So it's like 8 30 at night and you can say, there you go. You've stayed up to midnight. Now it's time

00:26:57.080 to go to bed. And I guess maybe that's a prudent parental guidance suggestion, given the kind of

00:27:02.880 vulgarity that you had to sit through on New Year's Eve, eh, Ben? That would be a great cheat code. I

00:27:08.920 never thought that I would miss Kathy Griffin taking her shirt off on New Year's, but somehow I did

00:27:14.900 watching this. It was absolutely unbelievable. I think it reached its high point when they brought

00:27:19.720 Chrissy Teigen out and she started talking about steaming vaginas and how she steams vaginal 1.00

00:27:25.560 steaming and steaming her vagina. And you see the host trying to divert, trying to end the 1.00

00:27:29.960 conversation. She keeps going into it to explain this. And I can just picture the producers,

00:27:34.520 one of two things are happening either. Oh my gosh, how do we cut away from this? Or yes,

00:27:38.720 more of this? Cause they're just so insane over there. I can't believe it. And now kids are going

00:27:43.020 to have to talk to their parents about what vaginal steaming is. Cause this family show or formerly of 0.99

00:27:47.820 is no longer there. Now it's just madness on TV. Ben, that sounds not that I have one,

00:27:54.700 but that sounds incredibly painful steaming that part of the female anatomy. For what purpose does 1.00

00:28:02.040 one steam a vagina? Makes you ask some questions, doesn't it? It also makes you question what CNN's 1.00

00:28:10.720 policy of public drinking is. What I loved about it is you have the same people that were just completely

00:28:15.680 destroying Brett Kavanaugh, calling him an unhinged alcoholic monster. And here you have their host

00:28:21.080 acting like they're at a college fraternity, new year's party, taking shots of tequila. And then

00:28:26.120 they have a Randy Kane, another contributor, bonging champagne in front of them. I mean, it was just,

00:28:31.080 it was just so great. It just sums up 2018 so perfectly. You know, isn't it amazing saying the,

00:28:38.060 the benchmark of a half a century of network TV, Ben, how far we've devolved in terms of

00:28:45.240 standards. I mean, uh, I did a commentary late last year about, uh, the 50th anniversary of the first

00:28:51.160 U S network interracial kiss between captain Kirk and a Lieutenant Ohura. Um, and that was a really big

00:28:58.840 deal. And just in case the fecal matter hit the fan, the NBC executives had an out, which was,

00:29:05.620 oh, they were both under mind control control. There's no way a white captain would ever kiss a 0.99

00:29:12.240 Negro, uh, subordinate. Um, you know, even though, uh, Kirk was going around the galaxy shagging every 1.00

00:29:18.720 female alien there was in the galaxy in the universe, but we've gone from that kind of sensitivity,

00:29:24.980 you know, and having, uh, you know, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, even though they're supposedly

00:29:30.720 a married couple sleeping in separate beds because sharing the same bed, that would be,

00:29:35.340 you know, too sorted to the stuff you talk about in your commentary where, you know, people are

00:29:41.560 talking about steaming their private parts for whatever reason. How, how low are we going to go

00:29:48.180 in the years ahead, Ben? It's weird. Like everything goes apparently on the left, as long as they are

00:29:53.560 the ones doing it. Like, as long as if a judge drinks in college, like, oh my gosh, he's the worst

00:29:58.300 person ever. We're going to slam shots on national TV in front of people when we should be keeping it

00:30:02.280 together and keeping it classy. Likewise, like you said, all that, the, the, the kiss and their

00:30:06.340 excuse and how racist that was on the left. Now it's like, okay, racism is totally bad. You're such

00:30:10.840 a bigot. Now all you white people get out of here. Like all you people of this color, you're in it. 0.99

00:30:15.060 You need to apologize. You have privilege. It's just like, they can be racist. They can be horrible

00:30:18.900 on TV. They can condescend and say terrible things. Even bringing Cain Curtin on to do her new 0.73

00:30:23.980 year's resolution when she said she wants to kill the Republican party. That's okay. But if you say

00:30:29.800 anything negative, if you do anything, then you're a horrible person. We're going to call

00:30:33.060 you out constantly. It's just that classic double standard on the left. Indeed. The double standard

00:30:38.080 and the hypocrisy, I think is only going to get worse as we head towards the next U.S. federal

00:30:43.060 election. But you know, this business, Ben, of suddenly being very flamboyant about drinking alcohol

00:30:50.820 on camera, as you said, they crucified Brett Kavanaugh for his, his love for beer. And even something

00:30:58.080 you didn't mention, um, good old Pocahontas was doing a New Year's Eve address where she 1.00

00:31:04.040 said, you know, I, I've got to go get a beer now. And it was kind of like, uh, she was reaching

00:31:09.700 into her inner deplorable. You see, I'm just like one of you all, uh, you know, a good old

00:31:14.600 gal that likes a beer every once in a while. What's going on here? I don't, it's like, who

00:31:20.920 advises them to do this? Like Warren, Warren is just comedy gold. Like it's just kind of

00:31:27.600 be like, you know what? Yeah. I'm going to, I'm one of you kids. Let me just grab this

00:31:30.540 real quick. Absolutely ridiculous. But what's even the best, the best part of it. I hope

00:31:34.880 she keeps doing stuff like this because I don't know if you saw the meme today that

00:31:37.840 president Trump tweeted out, but it's like Warren born. And then underneath it, it's one

00:31:42.160 slash 2020, like 120, 2020th. It's so, it's like, it just like when she was trying to claim

00:31:47.980 Native American heritage, she was like one, one thousandth. Now it's like 120. It's so 1.00

00:31:52.880 great. I hope she just keeps, keeps putting herself in the mainstream so they can make 1.00

00:31:56.820 memes about her and see how ridiculous all this is. Oh, wait a minute, Ben. What do you

00:32:00.940 mean claim? She took the DNA test. She's 1,250th Cherokee. I guess I'm, I think I'm 0.99

00:32:09.200 Cherokee too. I once drove a grand Cherokee made by Jeep. I guess that makes me more of an

00:32:13.740 Indian than Elizabeth Warren, but. And the best, the best part of that is they don't 1.00

00:32:18.780 even, it could also be South American as well. You can't even like, it's, it's so

00:32:22.340 vague. I guess it's so perfect. Like it is so stupid. I can't believe she actually put

00:32:25.560 that out there for people to mock. Well, you know, Ben, I guess we'll have to wrap

00:32:28.960 it here. I, you know, in one, on one hand, I'm glad I watched zero network television

00:32:34.240 on New Year's Eve, but you know, now that I think about it after looking, you know, seeing

00:32:39.300 your commentary, I'm kind of looking forward to next New Year's Eve. You know, there's

00:32:43.620 a certain kind of movie. I'm sure you're familiar with it where it's so bad. It's

00:32:48.260 actually brilliant. And maybe for 2019 into 2020, they're going to reach that benchmark

00:32:54.980 where it actually is so bad. It is a work of art. What do you say, my friend?

00:33:01.560 I think we're definitely on that track. I don't see where else this train's going to

00:33:04.460 land except right there. Well, there you go. Well, Ben, thank you so much. Hopefully

00:33:10.000 we'll have you on in the new year. I understand you, you took in the, the film Aquaman. Let's

00:33:15.440 see if DC can get a superhero movie, right? And all the best to you in 2019, my friend.

00:33:22.640 You too, brother. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. And that was Ben Davies in Hollywood.

00:33:26.740 And folks, keep it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:33:34.460 You know, the left usually hates nimbyism. You know, this idea of not in my backyard resistance. 0.97

00:33:44.120 That's the sort of philosophy that deplorables embrace when it comes to, say, a safe injection

00:33:49.580 site or a halfway house. Because all citizens should be welcoming of such facilities into

00:33:55.400 their hoods. It's all about caring and compassion after all. Even if one's property value is about

00:34:01.740 to go into the dumpster. But here's the thing. What's good for the goose certainly isn't sauce

00:34:07.340 for the gander. Because just check out the ongoing controversy in the gentrified Toronto neighborhood

00:34:13.380 of Cabbage Town. Now, once upon a time, Cabbage Town was a rundown slummy part of the city.

00:34:19.620 Hence its dubious name. But that's not the case anymore. In the last few decades, Cabbage Town has been

00:34:26.820 revitalized and gentrified. And it tends to exist as a progressive haven chock full of government

00:34:33.760 workers and CBC types and hipsters. But now comes word that someone wants to convert her

00:34:40.440 Cabbage Town house into a much needed daycare facility. And whoa, hold those horses. Suddenly,

00:34:48.080 the enlightened and entitled people of Cabbage Town are really going to town in terms of derailing

00:34:53.760 this suddenly odious idea. Indeed, the same sort of chattering classes who clamor for more daycare, 0.83

00:35:01.320 especially publicly funded daycare, are now instantly appalled that such a daycare facility

00:35:07.880 might end up in their precious neighborhood. I mean, think of the traffic. Think of all those

00:35:14.340 snot-nosed, noisy kids. Oh, the horror. The horror. The trials and tribulations of the Cabbage Town

00:35:21.720 meltdown were recently chronicled in Hogtown's Bible for upscale progressives, Toronto Life,

00:35:28.080 which featured an article chock full of Cabbage Towners expressing dismay and disdain 1.00

00:35:33.280 for a proposed daycare in their corner of Emerald City. 50-year-old librarian Bill McCaskill had this

00:35:40.640 to say, quote, I'm not against the daycare, end quote. And yes, naturally, in the very next breath,

00:35:46.840 Billy goes on to explain why he is against the daycare, quote, I think the parking is a legitimate

00:35:53.000 concern. Even if they put in four parking spaces to drop people off, everyone knows that come drop-off

00:35:59.760 time, cars are going to block Sackville because to go around to Amelia is a bit of a pain, end quote.

00:36:06.620 Oh my God. I mean, think of the planet, folks. All that extra carbon, I guess. Meanwhile,

00:36:12.400 Christos Doulas is surely the runner-up for most jaw-dropping comment. He's a 47-year-old mining

00:36:20.520 executive. He had this to say, quote, this daycare is standard issue capitalism run amok, end quote.

00:36:29.780 Did I mention Doulas is a mining executive and he's averse to capitalism? Really? What does he mine?

00:36:39.660 And pixie dust and dilithium crystals? Well, knock me down with a feather. Once again,

00:36:45.320 the rank and file of Club Progressive just can't help themselves when it comes to being

00:36:50.180 shameless hypocrites, which is to say these cats are all about caring and compassion when it comes

00:36:57.220 to preaching about the need for various social services coming into our neighborhoods. But when

00:37:04.200 somebody has the temerity to propose a small daycare facility in their neighborhood, whoa,

00:37:10.660 Nellie, suddenly embracing nimbyism isn't such a bad idea now after all, is it? In any event, 1.00

00:37:18.460 here's what some of you had to say about the progressives yet again demonstrating that their

00:37:23.580 unofficial slogan seems to be, do as I say, not as I do. Reggie Reg writes,

00:37:30.820 liberals love diversity, just not in their neighborhood. Yeah, and don't forget, Reggie,

00:37:37.000 while they claim to be pro-diversity, that does not include diversity of thought.

00:37:43.500 121 Jones writes, how about instead of a daycare, the city puts in housing for irregular border

00:37:50.440 crossers and third world migrants into this neighborhood? They could stay there all the time 1.00

00:37:56.380 and would not need to be picked up and dropped off every day. That would be okay with the people

00:38:01.060 of Cabbage Town, right? Well, Jonesy, trust me, as much as those progressives love to preach that

00:38:07.660 diversity is our strength, if that sort of diversity happened in this particular Toronto neighborhood,

00:38:14.200 Cabbage Town would suddenly become ground zero for white flight. Jay Edwards writes,

00:38:20.480 how many kids would be allowed at this proposed daycare? 10, 12, 15? So there would be, what,

00:38:26.880 a dozen cars coming by in the morning and evening? Wow, what a traffic nightmare. Indeed. And who says

00:38:34.640 all the clients would be driving? This is an area well served by public transit. And of course,

00:38:39.760 I'm sure there are some people who live close enough who could walk to the daycare. But you're right,

00:38:45.400 Jay. By pitting the blame on real or imagined traffic congestion allows the progressives to

00:38:53.600 play the environment card when it comes to taking a stand against this daycare. After all, so many of

00:39:00.220 the people who live there worship upon the altar of David Suzuki and Al Gore. And Casey Houston writes,

00:39:08.360 this is exactly why we cannot take these loony leftist elite seriously. They want to appear

00:39:14.740 virtuous and enlightened, but only at the expense of those who are subservient to them by offering up

00:39:21.260 their tax dollars and neighborhoods. But if they actually have to make any sacrifices, then it is

00:39:27.240 excuses and fake platitudes. Wow, couldn't have said it better myself, Casey. I mean, really,

00:39:33.280 when you even have a mining executive referring to a small daycare operation as being akin to

00:39:41.460 capitalism running amok. Methinks we just splashed down on the bizarro planet. Well, that wraps up

00:39:49.280 another edition of Rebel Roundup. Thanks so much for joining us. See you next week. And hey,

00:39:53.320 folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory. Good night.

00:40:03.280 We'll see you next week.

Rebel News Podcast - January 05, 2019

Rebel Roundup： Guests Sheila Gunn Reid, Ben Davies & Keean Bexte!

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