Ezra LeVant on why the left loved John McCain so much and why it s so hard to understand why the right loves him so much. He was a war hero. He stood up for human rights and stood up against repression and torture. And at the same time, one of America s largest arms manufacturers put out a tweet saying goodbye to their best friend.
00:05:59.000And then immediately came hundreds of cookie cutter complaints that Trump didn't lower the flag at the White House long enough.
00:06:06.000That story of the flags actually led all the TV networks and our own Canadian media thought that piece of U.S. vexillology was newsworthy.
00:06:20.000Here's the National Post about the White House flag.
00:06:25.000The CBC was furious about the White House flag.
00:06:29.000It's funny because the media party doesn't like the flag most of the time.
00:06:36.000In the U.S. and at the CBC, they're clearly on the side of the anti-American NFL football millionaires who take a knee rather than salute the flag.
00:07:39.000And just in case you don't, watch this amazing clip from CNN.
00:07:44.000So, Governor, what do you think about President Trump rejecting the practice of putting out an official White House statement about John McCain's service and sacrifice?
00:07:56.000Look, that was printed in the Washington Post, and I have to be honest with you, I don't give much credence to what I read.
00:08:04.000Yeah, well, same thing applies, Alice.
00:08:07.000Governor, you come on CNN, and we appreciate you coming on CNN, and we appreciate your take on it, but I don't appreciate you denigrating our reporting.
00:08:21.000I think that you know we have excellent reporters here, but are you saying that you don't want to believe that?
00:08:26.000You don't want to believe that President Trump would do that about John McCain.
00:08:30.000I'm saying that I don't want to comment on a report that I haven't satisfied myself as correct.
00:09:52.000And there was a lot to hit him on, including, by the way, enormous corruption in U.S. banks, first with the savings and loan crisis in the 1980s, and then again with the bank meltdown in the 2008 recession.
00:10:07.000John McCain was at the center of both financial meltdowns.
00:20:10.000But now we learned he has actually been frustrated about it all this time, perhaps pushing us to the direction we find ourselves in now.
00:20:18.000And when she goes into his backyard, you know the phrase, digging up his backyard, giving a speech to his American, Washington, foreign policy elite.
00:20:28.000And that comment about multilateralism and globalism, that's basically saying stop having your own opinion, Donald Trump.
00:20:35.000You have to obey the United Nations, whether it's global warming or trade.
00:20:40.000It's basically saying we reject the entire philosophy of Donald Trump.
00:20:44.000Well, that's fine to say, like you said, if you're a pundit.
00:20:47.000But if you are in the middle of the most important trade negotiation in your term, maybe you should just cork it.
00:20:54.000What's so interesting, Anthony, is that she gave a repeat, like the speech she gave yesterday in Berlin that she boasted about on Twitter when she was doing it, was the same theme.
00:21:06.000I bet it was very, very similar in its wording.
00:21:09.000It was on multilateralism and how that's the better way, not Trump's way.
00:21:13.000I have to think that that's on purpose.
00:21:17.000I can't believe that that's accidental or just, you know, carelessness.
00:21:22.000I think it lends credence to the conservative accusation that maybe Justin Trudeau actually wants a fight with Trump so he can run against Trump in the next Canadian election because Canadians hate Trump and Trudeau can run against Trump.
00:21:38.000I think maybe they want to throw the game.
00:21:41.000Well, and why wouldn't they want that?
00:21:43.000Because polling numbers have shown that a lot of Canadians, immaterial of their politics, they see Trump getting a little tough on Canada and they're turning around and they're saying,
00:22:01.000But I mean, wowzers, Ezra, the idea that you would exploit basically people's jobs, which is what NAFTA is, particularly for the manufacturing sector, to just keep yourself a few percentage points in the polls.
00:22:12.000I got to say, that is a really troubling thing to think that they would do that.
00:22:15.000And I must say, I was previously rather complimentary to the prime minister's office on this issue.
00:22:21.000But I thought, well, since the inauguration period, since before the inauguration from November 8th to January 17th or so back then in 2016 when heads were exploding,
00:22:30.000Trudeau actually sent some of his people down to meet with people like Jared Kushner and, of course, Donald Trump.
00:22:35.000And I thought, oh, good, this is quite reasonable progress.
00:22:38.000But the wheels came off the bus about a year ago when Christie Freeland was putting out those videos saying feminism and environmentalism and First Nations rights.
00:22:45.000That's the whole point of a NAFTA deal.
00:22:47.000I thought, well, you can support those issues.
00:22:49.000But that is not the point of a NAFTA deal.
00:22:52.000So, Ezra, we're finding ourselves in very bizarre terrain where the liberals are pushing in odd directions where you'd think,
00:22:58.000come on, guys, you've got to know this won't read well.
00:24:58.000Because I do think it was initially going okay.
00:25:01.000And if they wanted to do a charm offensive, they could.
00:25:03.000I mean, you always hear people lie about that fact.
00:25:05.000Oh, Trump said every single Mexican is this and that.
00:25:08.000Well, of course, we know in the tape he did not.
00:25:09.000He just said that there are people from Mexico who have committed those crimes.
00:25:13.000And clearly, the Mexican foreign minister is able to overlook that and is clearly aware that Trump is not maligning, you know, every single person from Mexico.
00:25:20.000And he's able to come and sit down and have these discussions and put all of that sort of anti-Trump derangement syndrome aside to get a deal.
00:25:28.000I would assume that Canada should be able to do that, too, particularly because on the outset, we were not being maligned by Donald Trump.
00:25:35.000He didn't have anything to say about us, really.
00:26:02.000I mean, again, I can't think of a more important file for Canada's foreign minister, especially if you care about the auto industry, which is right in liberal turf of Ontario.
00:26:12.000I mean, the oil patch, we understand they don't care about oil and gas pipelines.
00:26:16.000But Trump has specifically threatened a 20% tariff on Canada's auto industry.
00:26:44.000That's a good place for me to learn it.
00:26:46.000We, I think so much of the background here, I think the media party, the mainstream media, the CBC in particular, which has the most resources,
00:27:00.000I don't think they've asked questions like, why haven't you met with them in months?
00:27:05.000Why, like to, if it were Stephen Harper that was fiddling when NAFTA was burning, if Stephen Harper, like right now, as we're recording this,
00:27:16.000Justin Trudeau is meeting with a youth council in Papineau.
00:27:20.000Christia Freeland yesterday was in Germany.
00:27:22.000If this were melting down under Harper, and Harper was meeting with some, you know, 4-H club in Alberta,
00:27:29.000and Harper's foreign minister was off on the other side of the world,
00:27:32.000our entire Canadian media party would be digging up every fact and shaming him.
00:27:38.000I think Canada's media party let Trudeau get away with this because they don't like Trump either,
00:27:44.000and they don't want Christia Freeland to have 55 meetings with Trump because they don't want them to be friends.
00:27:52.000And perhaps people don't want her to fail, so they want to hold her up and bolster her up.
00:27:57.000I've been pointing out that it's bizarre that she emphasized this feminism issue, this environmentalism issue.
00:28:03.000Stephen Harper talking to people on the ground says that they're baffled by that in the U.S. as well.
00:28:07.000And we've heard that from one or two other sources.
00:28:09.000But I suspect if people really worked on their U.S. sources as opposed to just calling up the person they knew in the PMO
00:28:16.000and asking for what the message there is in the Canada response, which is going to be a spin just as much as anything else is going to be a spin,
00:28:23.000you might hear that, yes, people are saying, what on earth is this going on about feminism during a trade deal?
00:28:28.000That's what really destroyed the signing of the TPP deal, Trudeau showing up last minute and stressing those issues.
00:28:34.000And then the PMO tried to say, oh, that was false, that was bogus.
00:28:37.000And a lot of people bought that hook, line and sinker, the PMO just doing a denial.
00:28:41.000Were it not for the fact that one of my colleagues at Post Media, she was actually on a visit in an Asian country a few weeks later,
00:28:47.000and she met with some people there, some government officials, and they reaffirmed, yes, that was the case.
00:28:52.000It was Trudeau going on about thinking a trade deal somehow has to be a feminist trade deal.
00:31:29.000Well, one of the themes of our news coverage over the last year or two has been how censorship is the new central principle of the left.
00:31:40.000Where once they would debate you and argue things, now they want to de-platform you.
00:31:46.000It's coming through social media, but that's not quick enough or hard enough for some of the alt-left environmental extremists.
00:31:54.000There's an interesting story in the Daily Caller about how 60 global warming campaigners are now insisting that media formally ban climate skeptics.
00:32:46.000They're saying if you talk to the wrong people, even for a rebuttal, even if you're disparaging or criticizing them, if you even talk to the other side, we will blacklist you.
00:33:03.000And they actually think that they're so valuable as news sources and news information that these journal editors and others will bow and be, oh, my gosh, we can't lose them.
00:33:15.000But they probably will bow, but not because they think they're valuable, but because it's the expected thing to do in our culture of political correctness, if you will.
00:33:24.000And so this now keep in mind, this isn't climate scientists signing this letter, although there might be a few sprinkled in there.
00:33:30.000These are people like Clive Lewis, George Monbiot, UK, European writers who are just general alarmist writers who this is their way to try to influence the climate debate.
00:33:41.000They literally have had it with the idea that there is a debate.
00:33:44.000They're so sure that they're right that they don't want to hear any dissenting opinion.
00:33:48.000And by golly, if they do, they take their ball and go home and they're going to take the media outlet with them.
00:33:53.000And we've seen this in the Climategate emails. We see it in the in the actual journals.
00:33:57.000If a journal editor dares publish a study that's threatening any aspect, they're threatened with their career.
00:34:04.000In many cases, they are ousted from that journal. So now they're making it more formal and they're going after it.
00:34:09.000Of course, this is in Europe. And I have a whole section in my book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change, that deals with this very issue happening in America as well.
00:34:19.000The Los Angeles Times, being one example, has already stated they won't even publish letters to the editors from Global Warming Skeptics.
00:34:26.000They've banned letters to the editors. That's how bad it's gotten.
00:34:29.000You know, and that's where that's the place where you really allow almost anything.
00:34:34.000That's so well, you can write a letter. That's almost like a put down to tell a career, well, write a little letter.
00:34:39.000Now they won't even let them have that. As you were talking, we were scrolling through some of the names.
00:34:43.000I'd like to put that up there again because what's so shocking about the signatories here is you're not just politicians or extremists.
00:34:50.000You can see a great many professors. You can see a great many members of Parliament or members of the European Parliament.
00:35:00.000That's what MEP stands for. So, I mean, it's one thing for Greenpeace to be on this list.
00:35:06.000And there are some lobbyists like that. I get it. But for people who run a class, like if you're in class,
00:35:15.000how could anyone have a fair hearing in university as a student if their own professor would ban them?
00:35:23.000How could anyone in the idea of a parliamentarian, Mark, saying they were going to ban things?
00:35:32.000It's crazy. And what we're finding is we have a branch of our organization, Collegiate CFACT,
00:35:37.000a collegiate organization that deals with on all the college campuses.
00:35:41.000And what we're finding is these kids from kindergarten all the way through college,
00:35:45.000even conservative libertarian kids have just punted on the climate.
00:35:49.000They just don't think there's any dissent anymore because they're told and it's reinforced.
00:35:54.000And it's not just told that there's a consensus.
00:35:56.000They're made to feel stupid if they question any aspect of the debate, of the climate claims.
00:36:03.000And that's what this is about. It's about intimidation, pure and simple.
00:36:08.000And you've got the members of parliament piling on. Why would they be piling on, Ezra?
00:36:12.000Very simply, they're going to be supporting fuel standards, legislation, the UN-Paris agreement.
00:36:18.000And they don't want to hear any of those pesky dissenting voices.
00:36:21.000And this is why in the U.S. we have the New York Times openly major writers like Tom Friedman
00:36:26.000praising China's one-party rule and how they handle environmental regulations.
00:36:31.000You're so right. You know, let me throw one thing at you. You just made me have a thought.
00:36:35.000I mean, I went to school a lot. I think you and I are about the same age.
00:36:39.000So we went to college about 25 years ago or so. And political correctness was getting going.
00:36:44.000But back then, I don't think it was that bad. Now it's just absolutely total.
00:36:49.000And the punishments for deviating from it are even more shocking.
00:36:55.000And I can imagine someone who's come up through the schools in the last 20 years has only heard one point of view.
00:37:01.000But you made me think of something about Dr. Jordan Peterson.
00:37:04.000Do you know who I'm talking about, the Canadian who's got the best-selling book, 12 Rules for Life?
00:37:10.000He's a free speech activist. I've heard of him, yeah. I've read the book.
00:37:13.000I mean, he's a huge name up here in Canada, Mark. And he's getting pretty big in the United States, Australia, the U.K. also.
00:37:20.000And he's an unlikely hero because he's a, I don't know exactly how old he is. I'm going to guess he's almost 60.
00:37:28.000He's got sort of a professorial manner. Like, he talks a great length and he goes down tangents and he's a little bit obscure.
00:37:37.000He's slightly humorous in his style. Like, he's a great professor. I can only imagine how great he is to have in class.
00:37:45.000So he's not cool in the traditional, he's not charismatic, he's not hip and sexy. He's actually anti-charismatic in a way.
00:37:54.000I mean, he speaks with, anyway. I'm just telling you this because why has Professor Jordan Peterson got such a strong following on campus with kids who would normally say,
00:38:08.000Yeah, you're Squaresville, dude. And the reason I've heard it is because Professor Jordan Peterson is the first person who thoughtfully and at great length and with as much detail as you can handle will give you the other side of the story to the feminist postmodernist Marxist worldview that young people have never, ever actually heard before.
00:38:30.000So he's the first time any young person, especially young men, have heard the rebuttal, the antidote to cultural feminism, Marxism, and thank you for giving me that two-minute preamble.
00:38:42.000My question to you, Mark Morano, is that an analogy that young people have never actually heard the other side of the story?
00:38:52.000They've just accepted the talking points of the environmental extremist left.
00:38:56.000And if someone, especially someone anti-charismatic, a little bit old, maybe a little bit eccentric, were to hit the campus circuit now,
00:39:06.000maybe someone like our old friend Lord Moncton, who would be charming in the fact that he's old and uncool and unhip,
00:39:14.000and he would go on at great length and debate anyone, and all of a sudden thousands of young eyes would say,
00:39:20.000Oh my God, I didn't know there was another side of the story. I always had this feeling that I wasn't being told the whole story,
00:39:26.000and now I know the whole story. Maybe Jordan Peterson proves that you can never say never,
00:39:32.000and if Lord Moncton or someone like him went on tour, maybe he'd have a hit with young people who were craving the other side of the story.
00:42:11.000Well, that's the thing. It reminds me a little bit of Patrick Brown, the former Ontario leader, who campaigned for the leadership on the right.
00:42:26.000And as soon as he got all those conservative votes, he abandoned them and tacked to the left.
00:42:31.000Now, I don't think that Andrew Scheer has the personal skeletons in his closet that Patrick Brown does.
00:42:36.000But I think other than that, he's trying the Patrick Brown strategy of campaign right to get the leadership and then tack left.
00:42:42.000Because seriously, where's a true conservative gonna go?
00:44:29.000Well, Ian, I'll have to check out what your Twitter handle is because I don't know why I would have blocked you.
00:44:36.000I block people typically who come at the Rebel or me in bad faith.
00:44:41.000Your email here is obviously in good faith, so I'll have to check out what your Twitter handle is and let you see my super important tweets again.
00:44:50.000I hear what you're saying, and that is the cold-blooded argument which says, look, you know, Scheer may be pretty weak.
00:44:59.000He may be fairly unconservative, but surely he's preferable to Justin Trudeau.
00:45:06.000And I would absolutely agree with that.
00:45:08.000Obviously, Andrew Scheer would be better than Justin Trudeau.
00:45:14.000But I don't see today as ballot checkmark day.
00:45:19.000Obviously, I'm going to vote for the Conservatives.
00:45:21.000I see my job today and over the next course of the year is to do two things.
00:45:27.000To talk about things that Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives can't or won't and to exert pressure on Andrew Scheer to pull him to the right as a counterbalance to him being pulled to the left.
00:45:38.000You understand those two things are a little bit different.
00:45:40.000One is the CBC is always saying, come this way, come this way, come this way.
00:45:43.000And we're going to say, no, come that way.
00:45:48.000And the other is to talk about issues to shape the battlefield, as they would say, so that people can start talking about things that they didn't have the courage to or the information to before.
00:45:58.000I believe we played an important role to shape the battlefield when it came to the carbon tax.
00:46:03.000You may recall our big rallies in Alberta that were mocked by the media, but I believe we were part of the turning point on that issue.
00:46:10.000Same thing with M103, the anti-Islamophobia motion.
00:46:14.000I believe that we were the ones who really brought it to the attention of Canadians more than and certainly earlier than any other media did.
00:46:21.000I see our role is to talk about things that Andrew Scheer is still too timid to talk about.
00:46:26.000Most obviously, extreme multiculturalism and immigration.
00:46:29.000Maxime Bernier was starting to have that effect too, and I'm disappointed that he quit.