Rebel News Podcast - The Media Party’s corrosive role in the COVID pandemic

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I tell you how the media is conducting itself during this pandemic.

00:00:07.120 A tale of two media outbursts, one on Twitter and one on the CBC website. I won't give away

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00:01:09.560 Tonight, two stories illustrate the media party's corrosive role in this pandemic.

00:01:23.500 It's November 23rd, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:29.040 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:32.660 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:36.720 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my

00:01:41.340 bloody right to do so.

00:01:42.580 Have you seen any member of the media party who's opposed to the lockdown?

00:01:52.060 I haven't. They're ecstatic about it. It's almost erotic, the joy they seem to get from reporting on deaths

00:01:58.460 and punishments, except there really aren't a lot of deaths, but there sure are a lot of punishments.

00:02:04.260 Yes, I acknowledge that there are now more than 11,000 deaths from the virus in Canada,

00:02:09.820 and each death is a tragedy.

00:02:12.060 But I also know that in any given year, there's between 6,500 and 8,500 deaths from the common flu.

00:02:18.640 So this isn't exactly the black plague.

00:02:21.280 I also know that the average age of the deceased is actually higher than the average life expectancy of Canadians.

00:02:27.680 It's in the mid-80s, and that doesn't make me feel better.

00:02:32.280 Every life is valuable.

00:02:34.000 Someone who is 85 wants to live to be 86.

00:02:37.360 I'm just saying that knowing who is at risk means we can focus our attention and care on them,

00:02:43.040 rather than locking down schools or businesses.

00:02:47.020 It's the seniors' homes that are the great risk, and Quebec seniors' homes in particular.

00:02:51.980 Now, there's nothing in the water out there.

00:02:53.960 There's nothing genetically different about people in Quebec.

00:02:57.840 There's nothing in the air.

00:02:59.220 I suspect it's the obvious.

00:03:00.820 They are Canada's most pro-euthanasia province,

00:03:03.820 and I think these seniors' homes are very leftist, do-not-revive policies in place.

00:03:09.320 I think the government is enjoying getting rid of people who are a financial burden on the health care system,

00:03:14.800 just like New York's Governor Cuomo did.

00:03:17.980 Alberta's virus statistics are the most useful in getting to the root of this.

00:03:21.620 They show that only 2.3% of people who died from the virus were otherwise healthy.

00:03:29.220 A grand total of 10 people out of 4.5 million citizens have died over the last seven months who were otherwise healthy.

00:03:38.300 What's so interesting is that the average person in Alberta who died from the virus had massive pre-existing health problems.

00:03:45.380 76% had three or more big problems, the most common being high blood pressure, dementia, and heart disease.

00:03:53.100 So yeah, it is a deadly disease if you're over 80 and have multiple serious health problems,

00:03:58.760 even riskier if you have a do-not-revive order attached to your bed in the Quebec nursing home.

00:04:03.760 So don't let that happen to you.

00:04:05.160 Other than that, I think you'll probably be okay.

00:04:09.880 So the lockdowns aren't about science or medicine.

00:04:12.220 They're about power.

00:04:13.940 Here's Jane Fonda, former actress, lifelong leftist.

00:04:18.660 Remember, she literally went to Vietnam in the middle of the war to pose with Viet Cong soldiers looking to shoot down American pilots.

00:04:25.880 She posed against Americans.

00:04:27.860 She was a former concubine of Ted Turner, the inventor of CNN.

00:04:32.500 Here she is talking about how amazing COVID-19 is.

00:04:36.540 It's a blessing.

00:04:37.620 This is a crossroads.

00:04:40.020 It's an existential crossroads.

00:04:42.680 And we are people who can help determine which way humanity goes.

00:04:48.300 What a great gift.

00:04:51.660 What a tremendous opportunity.

00:04:53.520 We're just so lucky.

00:04:54.340 We have to use it with every ounce of intelligence and courage and wherewithal we have.

00:05:01.300 Because you're absolutely right.

00:05:03.320 This is it.

00:05:05.280 This is it.

00:05:06.420 And, you know, I just think COVID is God's gift to the left.

00:05:17.560 Now, Jane Fonda herself is in amazing health.

00:05:20.800 She's turning 83 next month and is fitter than me.

00:05:23.860 And COVID won't hurt her, which is why she's so excited to use it as an excuse to reform the world, which is what our media party does, too.

00:05:32.640 They want lockdowns and taxes and regulations and, as Mark Morano called them, vaccine passports. 0.89

00:05:39.580 They want to build back better and reset things.

00:05:42.580 They love working from home, if they have to work at all and getting paid.

00:05:47.400 It's the little people who can suffer the lockdowns.

00:05:49.800 Right now, the entire public school system of New York is shut down.

00:05:53.700 Parents are being thrown for a loop.

00:05:55.000 Those who still have jobs now have to stay home to take care of the kids.

00:05:59.080 Total mess for public school parents.

00:06:01.920 Private schools are still running, though.

00:06:03.360 But public school teachers, they're still getting paid. 0.99

00:06:09.040 They're catching up on their Netflix and ordering in food from DoorDash.

00:06:14.400 So look at this.

00:06:16.220 Manitoba's bully of a premier, Brian Pallister.

00:06:19.440 He boasted to Trudeau's CBC that he has the harshest lockdown in all of Canada.

00:06:25.000 He's proud of that.

00:06:25.940 Premier, did you wait too long to put in new restrictions?

00:06:30.960 I don't think so, Rosemary, but there's always room for hindsight.

00:06:35.000 I think probably we're not at Monday morning yet, so we won't be starting with Monday morning quarterbacking for a while.

00:06:41.280 What we've done is we've stepped up our restrictions, which were already more strict than most jurisdictions in the country,

00:06:47.920 to be the most strict in the country.

00:06:49.680 Yeah, when a premier is boasting to Trudeau's CBC about bullying citizens, he isn't a conservative.

00:06:56.640 I don't care what he calls himself.

00:06:59.140 Weirdly, he's ordering stores not to sell certain things.

00:07:03.460 You can buy some things in a store, but not other things, because science.

00:07:08.140 Apparently, the virus knows what you're buying before it decides to attack you.

00:07:12.220 So one of the things that was blocked off was magazines.

00:07:15.160 Oh, finally, the reporters got mad.

00:07:19.680 Look at this from the Canadian Association of Journalists.

00:07:23.300 The government of Manitoba has declared news non-essential during the pandemic.

00:07:28.340 We're concerned, and looking into this, as we've said many times this year,

00:07:32.180 governments cannot use the pandemic as an excuse to restrict information and undermine democracy.

00:07:37.560 Actually, I haven't heard them say that, including when Kian Bexte was frog-marched away from Rideau Cottage

00:07:43.500 at a Trudeau press conference, I actually didn't hear anything from the Canadian Association of Journalists.

00:07:48.880 But let's put that aside for a second.

00:07:50.480 By the way, if you'll look at those magazines in the rack there, most of them are junk.

00:07:54.380 Most of the rest are American.

00:07:55.780 Now, I'm not for censorship at all, and I'm not for lockdowns, but sorry,

00:07:59.760 there actually isn't any news on that display.

00:08:02.600 Just the physical version of clickbait, I suppose.

00:08:05.140 But fair enough.

00:08:06.740 Who the hell is Brian Pallister to ban the sale of books or magazines or anything?

00:08:10.600 The Canadian Association of Journalists was furious.

00:08:14.880 And then just five hours later, Brian Pallister knew what to do.

00:08:18.980 He had to protect his base.

00:08:20.300 His base being the media party.

00:08:22.000 So this is the new tweet from the Canadian Association of Journalists.

00:08:26.480 Update.

00:08:27.640 We've learned this decision was an oversight, and we'll be corrected.

00:08:31.420 We thank the government of Manitoba for and many reporters for their efforts.

00:08:37.220 Oh, phew.

00:08:39.380 So the reporters got themselves exempted.

00:08:42.600 Just themselves, though.

00:08:44.480 So now they can get back to promoting the lockdown for everyone else.

00:08:48.960 I mean, you didn't actually think they wanted the lockdown to apply to them, did you?

00:08:56.060 They're part of the ruling class.

00:08:58.520 That's the first exhibit today.

00:09:00.200 How the media party loves, loves the lockdown, as long as it's for someone else.

00:09:04.360 Here's exhibit two, a lie.

00:09:08.120 Completely overwhelming.

00:09:10.080 Steinbeck emergency room at capacity treating COVID-19 patients, nurse says.

00:09:15.820 Patient at Bethesda Regional Health Center, ER, being triaged in their cars, union says.

00:09:23.140 Okay, hang on.

00:09:23.860 Is it a nurse who said it or the union?

00:09:25.900 The story's already changed, and we're not even past the headline.

00:09:29.000 I'll read a bit.

00:09:29.520 A Manitoba emergency room nurse says her hospital is drowning and desperate for help in the face

00:09:36.640 of a flood of COVID-19 patients that is pushing staff and capacity to the brink.

00:09:42.300 It has been completely and absolutely overwhelming, says Sarah Neufeld, who works at Bethesda Regional

00:09:48.180 Health Center in Steinbeck, Manitoba.

00:09:50.380 We don't just have a full waiting room.

00:09:52.100 We have a full waiting room and a full emergency room of very sick and sometimes rapidly declining

00:09:57.480 patients that require a lot of one-to-one care.

00:10:00.440 Nursing that we can't give, we cannot safely give.

00:10:03.420 Oh my God, it really is time to panic.

00:10:06.120 I'll read some more.

00:10:07.420 COVID-19 patients rushed to the hospital by ambulance are sometimes forced to wait for

00:10:11.800 hours in the ambulance bay with EMS care before a bed is available for them, she said.

00:10:17.540 More stable patients are asked to come in, get triaged, and return to their vehicles to

00:10:22.200 wait, sometimes for hours, Neufeld added.

00:10:25.460 That looks like every single bed being full.

00:10:28.300 That looks like both of our negative pressure rooms being full.

00:10:31.900 Sometimes even our trauma rooms are full.

00:10:34.260 We have patients in the hallway, she said.

00:10:36.980 Oh my God.

00:10:39.300 Hey, I just have one question.

00:10:40.920 Is any of that true?

00:10:42.380 Like even the word the?

00:10:43.620 I mean, that would be crazy if that story was true, but is it true?

00:10:50.360 In the entire province of Manitoba, and I'm going from the government website here, quote,

00:10:54.940 there are 296 people in hospital with 52 people in intensive care.

00:11:00.860 That's across the entire province for COVID.

00:11:03.760 So there's about 1.4 million people in all of Manitoba.

00:11:07.580 And there's 67 hospitals in Manitoba.

00:11:11.260 So it sounds like there's about four COVID patients per hospital, 52 of them in intensive

00:11:19.020 care.

00:11:19.620 So not even one per hospital.

00:11:23.580 I mean, it's not great.

00:11:25.160 It's like a bad flu season.

00:11:27.600 But is anything in that CBC story true?

00:11:31.700 I just showed you my source of information for the hospital statistics.

00:11:35.020 It's the Manitoba government's own pages.

00:11:37.540 I presume they're not lying.

00:11:39.080 They say there's only 52 people in intensive care in the entire province, less than one

00:11:44.160 per hospital on average.

00:11:46.480 But the CBC says there are people literally being triaged in the parking lot.

00:11:52.660 That would be terrible if it was true.

00:11:54.560 I wonder, I wonder, though, why the CBC didn't, you know, go there with, what's that word again?

00:12:00.700 Oh, that's right.

00:12:01.180 A camera.

00:12:01.780 I mean, it sounds like a spectacle.

00:12:04.400 It sounds like a war zone, really.

00:12:06.700 It sounds perfect for the largest newsgathering organization in Canada with thousands of staff.

00:12:11.500 I mean, why not, you know, go to report it rather than just quote a union leader or something?

00:12:18.540 Well, here's why.

00:12:19.200 Watch this video by a citizen journalist.

00:12:24.160 It goes on for a bit.

00:12:26.260 And some language is salty.

00:12:27.980 But here's someone actually in Steinbeck who actually knows what's going on no matter what

00:12:33.480 the CBC says is going on.

00:12:35.620 Here, it takes a couple of minutes, but just watch.

00:12:37.380 Here, it takes a couple of minutes.

00:13:07.380 Here.

00:13:10.380 Oh, sorry.

00:13:11.780 Excuse.

00:13:15.040 Do you have a mouth that you can play?

00:13:16.920 I have an extension.

00:13:18.080 Sorry.

00:13:18.460 Okay.

00:13:19.140 Thank you.

00:13:20.680 Now, we're walking in an emergency room that's overflowing.

00:13:25.500 It's overflowing.

00:13:26.560 They're having to take people into the parking lot.

00:13:29.380 I work on them right in their cars, and this emergency has stopped.

00:13:33.280 You get the slides.

00:13:34.500 We're just going to take a footage or some pictures.

00:13:36.940 We thought we should do live so we can get to write the time, the day, and then we can keep up bringing them.

00:13:43.300 There's absolutely nobody in here. There's one person.

00:13:59.000 Oh, we're just checking if you're overflowing with you.

00:14:02.160 Yeah, no, it's okay. We're leaving.

00:14:03.840 We should not see how it was before you were.

00:14:05.720 Thank you.

00:14:07.940 This way out.

00:14:10.380 You need a camera?

00:14:11.680 Yeah.

00:14:14.400 Debunking the lies. Where is the overflowing?

00:14:17.220 Good thing.

00:14:18.820 There's no... It's empty. There's nothing.

00:14:20.560 There's one person sitting, signing in.

00:14:23.040 Look at the portal.

00:14:24.720 There's nobody.

00:14:26.860 This is the overflowing packed hospital in Steinbach, guys.

00:14:32.800 Wake up.

00:14:33.760 I might look like a crazy person,

00:14:35.720 but I'm exposing the lies.

00:14:39.720 Yeah, that's real footage from Steinbach, the CBC.

00:14:45.680 I know it's going to shock you here.

00:14:47.440 They're lying.

00:14:48.280 Fake news, disinformation designed to whip you up and demand a lockdown.

00:14:54.600 Now, I'm sorry that 52 people really are in intensive care in the whole province.

00:15:00.880 That's almost one per hospital.

00:15:02.380 I think that given all we've known about the pandemic for, you know, seven, eight months

00:15:07.520 now, I think they're probably prepared for it, medically speaking.

00:15:11.400 And I think the media party is prepared for it, politically speaking, aren't they?

00:15:17.960 They're the source of the misinformation now.

00:15:20.720 They're the source of the risk now.

00:15:23.200 They're the ones actively lobbying to shut down the economy now.

00:15:27.560 Oh, except for the five hours that the lockdown affected them.

00:15:31.480 You have to admit the reality that there's certain behavior that people are saying you have to engage in to deal with climate change.

00:15:43.240 You have to admit the reality that there's certain behavior that people are saying you have to engage in to deal with climate change.

00:15:56.640 And I think one of the great mistakes of the climate movement, the environment movement, is that it has allowed this to be too much of a behavioral debate and not a sufficiently scientific debate.

00:16:10.200 So there are things we know about coronavirus, but there's a lot we don't know about it, and yet we're doing things.

00:16:17.340 We tell people to change, you know, wash their hands, to wear a mask, to shelter at home, to, you know, their whole series of social distancing and so forth.

00:16:31.880 But we haven't turned it into a behavioral debate.

00:16:36.220 Why?

00:16:37.060 Because it is so visibly dangerous.

00:16:39.020 It's killing people now.

00:16:41.140 And climate change is sort of still out there for people so that the debate is centered more on the behavior, oh, you can't eat meat, or you can't, you know, you've got to close your window, you've got to change your heat.

00:16:52.980 You can't do this or that.

00:16:54.080 Rather than focusing on the scientific choices and the expertise that is staring us in the face that says, this is even more dangerous than coronavirus.

00:17:06.760 Climate crisis is more dangerous than coronavirus because it will create more pandemics.

00:17:12.120 Well, that was John Kerry, the failed presidential candidate and the disastrous secretary of state for Obama, the unaccomplished senator, who was speaking at an MIT video call earlier this fall.

00:17:28.420 Well, back then he was just a harmless academic, but now he's being tipped as the climate czar by Joe Biden, if, as increasingly looks likely, Biden does become the next president of the United States.

00:17:44.380 What does it mean to have such an ideologue as climates are, especially after four years of pro-energy administration under Donald Trump?

00:17:54.740 Joining us now is the man who would know our friend Mark Marano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com.

00:17:59.540 Mark, great to see you again.

00:18:01.560 Thank you.

00:18:02.120 Happy to be here, Ezra.

00:18:03.120 You know what, we're both rooting for Donald Trump.

00:18:06.340 You're an American.

00:18:07.220 I'm a friend of America from up north here.

00:18:09.680 We both, amongst other things, admire his approach to the global warming scheme.

00:18:15.560 You know, I'll never forget, he said, I represent Pittsburgh, not Paris.

00:18:18.800 Well, John Kerry was the U.S. negotiator who went to Paris to sell out American industry to China.

00:18:28.200 Looks like he's going to be back in charge of that file.

00:18:31.740 Yes, it does.

00:18:32.280 As one of Biden's first acts is to announce this, John Kerry is going to be as the presidential climate envoy.

00:18:41.560 And what's interesting is Kerry, as Secretary of State, of course, was heavily involved in climate during the Obama administration.

00:18:48.220 In fact, he went so far as to bring his granddaughter out when they signed the U.N.-Paris agreement.

00:18:54.840 They agreed to it in 2015, December.

00:18:57.200 But a couple of months later, in 2016, Kerry brought out his granddaughter to sign the historic agreement to show how important it was.

00:19:05.920 And then, of course, a few years later, they declared the U.N.-Paris agreement would not save the planet after all.

00:19:11.120 All of these leaders, including top U.N. officials, all admitted it wasn't enough, it was inadequate, and we need a lot more.

00:19:18.300 But John Kerry has been at this climate hustle, if you will, for decades.

00:19:23.400 And now he's going to have his highest profile role yet in the upcoming Biden administration, assuming the election fraud doesn't pan out.

00:19:31.480 And by the way, I think election fraud is going to be very difficult to prove.

00:19:35.620 I don't expect President Trump to be successful.

00:19:38.780 Sorry if I disappointed some of your listeners there.

00:19:40.600 No, you know what, I'm of the same view.

00:19:42.460 I believe in my bones that the Tammany Hall Democratic Party machine in the big cities stole the vote, as they often do. 0.99

00:19:52.340 I think, as Joel Pollack says, most of the stealing was approved in advance by the courts when they changed the voting rules just a few months before Election Day in the name of the pandemic.

00:20:03.920 So the pandemic allowed the Democrats to harvest votes and mail-in votes.

00:20:08.880 I think that's what stole the election, not so much shenanigans on the day of.

00:20:13.320 But you know what, there's a flicker of hope left, but I think we have to be rational and assume that Biden will be the next president.

00:20:23.480 I think he'll be president largely in name only.

00:20:27.360 He is the least vigorous president to be elected, at least in the television age.

00:20:32.360 He's distracted. He mumbles. I think he's losing his cognitive sharpness.

00:20:38.800 So who he appoints is doubly important.

00:20:41.480 With Trump, you know, there was all his cabinet was constantly on edge.

00:20:45.320 He would sack someone like he did on The Apprentice.

00:20:48.220 With Biden, I don't know who the real power will be, but if John Kerry is given this position, I think he might have some power.

00:20:56.800 He will. In fact, this is in many ways the progressive left ideal president, Joe Biden, because he's a guy who puts up a gentle, unthreatening, grandfatherly, old man image.

00:21:10.240 At the same time, he's not vigorous. He's not engaged.

00:21:13.320 He's not strong leader at all in any shape or form.

00:21:16.220 But they get to run the show behind the scenes.

00:21:19.440 And if you look back at his climate, particularly on climate, we had AOC, the Sunrise Movement, Bernie Sanders, John Kerry, all of them heavily involved in writing Biden's proposals, you know, for as candidate Biden.

00:21:32.920 So it makes perfect sense that they're going to be now in charge as he's president.

00:21:37.240 And don't be fooled. Don't think, oh, well, Biden is not that radical.

00:21:41.080 Biden's not going to be the one calling the shots here.

00:21:43.600 He might be able to stop one or two extreme things if it catches his attention or if some interest group, particularly labor unions when it comes to energy policy, scream loud enough.

00:21:54.660 But in general, they're going to run roughshod.

00:21:57.480 And the fact that John Kerry is in here is a good indication of that.

00:22:01.320 And the big thing here is, of course, the COVID climate connection of John Kerry.

00:22:05.340 Well, yeah, I mean, I'm just reading an essay in Market Watch that is on your website, Climate Depot.

00:22:11.320 Here's John Kerry. He said you could just as easily replace the words climate change with COVID-19.

00:22:16.940 It is truly the tale of two pandemics, deferred, denied and distorted, one with catastrophic consequences, the other with even greater risk if we don't reverse course.

00:22:26.520 The long term parallels between this pandemic and tomorrow's gathering storm of climate crisis are more clear.

00:22:31.920 I think that this pandemic is exactly that.

00:22:36.660 They were never really able to scare people about climate.

00:22:40.760 Sure, they scared kids and they scared Greta into depression over it. 0.78

00:22:45.460 But grownups weren't scared enough to change their lives and how they lived.

00:22:50.260 But this pandemic has absolutely scared, I don't know, half the people into wearing masks and staying home and lockdowns.

00:22:56.920 And it's the same junk science, junk economics.

00:23:00.120 But it seems to work.

00:23:01.500 So Kerry's no dummy.

00:23:03.280 He's going to use the pandemic argument to get all his other errands done.

00:23:08.540 Yeah.

00:23:08.960 In fact, he goes even beyond just the solutions.

00:23:11.580 He is talking about the zoonogical affections, the idea that animals, the animal world, by humans encroaching on the animal world, we are allowing these virus mutations to happen.

00:23:29.280 And that's how we end up with COVID zoonogical.

00:23:32.160 That's how we end up with COVID breakdown.

00:23:34.500 So he's basically going to turn climate policy into a subset of COVID policy.

00:23:40.140 In other words, if we tackle climate change, we'll have less viruses, less fear.

00:23:44.440 And what's interesting about this is I'm writing a book, Ezra, on the Green New Deal.

00:23:47.680 I'm just finishing it up.

00:23:48.600 It'll be out next year.

00:23:49.600 But the book is being rewritten as I'm writing it.

00:23:52.780 Because if you look back a year ago, oh, the Green New Deal could cost $93 trillion. 0.85

00:23:57.220 It's going to centrally plan our lives.

00:23:58.740 It's going to affect it.

00:24:00.860 All of that is now out the window.

00:24:02.900 We have COVID lockdowns, which have done more destruction to our society.

00:24:07.300 One estimate in South Africa, I think, was 29 people die for every life allegedly saved during a lockdown.

00:24:13.780 And the economic, it's like bombing one's own economy, was in the report that I wrote, quoting experts on this.

00:24:20.060 So the idea that climate change is the number one issue is gone out the window.

00:24:24.820 They are going to now have climate as a subservient to their master of COVID.

00:24:30.060 And it's for the exact reason you said, you can't scare people about hurricanes or floods or future sea level rise when you can tell them that their grandmother or their parent or they're going to end up on a ventilator or die unless you wear a mask.

00:24:44.740 We're talking about immunity passports, mandatory vaccines.

00:24:48.140 Now, Qantas Airline announced that you can't fly without a COVID passport.

00:24:51.640 This is the dream of the regulatory state.

00:24:55.180 COVID is.

00:24:55.900 In fact, the quote, Jane Fonda, COVID is God's gift to the left.

00:25:00.580 That's what you need to know about this.

00:25:02.360 And that's a direct exact quote from actress Jane Fonda speaking about the COVID restrictions and how much she loves it.

00:25:08.400 You know, I remember in the last presidential debate, what I thought was a very powerful moment where Trump got Biden to say, yes, we would phase out the oil industry.

00:25:21.920 It was shocking.

00:25:23.040 It gave energy and momentum to Trump in the last weeks of the campaign.

00:25:27.220 It was a big reason he really got out huge crowds in Pennsylvania, a fracking state.

00:25:33.840 In the end, it wasn't enough, it looks like.

00:25:36.120 But what will happen?

00:25:37.920 You've got the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

00:25:40.280 You've got Gulf of Mexico offshore drilling.

00:25:42.460 You've got fracking at full tail.

00:25:44.240 You've got America net energy exporter.

00:25:48.140 Source of jobs, source of wealth, source of economic independence from OPEC countries.

00:25:54.340 Is Biden going to undo that?

00:25:57.360 He is going to undo everything you just mentioned.

00:26:00.540 That's what he's about.

00:26:01.600 That's what he's campaigned on.

00:26:02.700 Even mainstream Democrats.

00:26:04.140 We don't want to talk about the progressive lefts who may or may not hijack Biden.

00:26:08.120 That's what mainstream Democrats want.

00:26:10.020 Just so people understand, Harry Truman was last president in, I guess, January or March, depending on how it inaugurated, 1953.

00:26:18.960 Donald Trump, in terms of America's energy dominance, we reached exports that we haven't achieved in dominance since Harry Truman was president.

00:26:28.200 And so what Joe Biden is going to do is come in.

00:26:31.680 And keep in mind, there's a huge swath of land.

00:26:33.680 Places like California, I think I can't remember the number now, 70 percent may be federally owned.

00:26:38.420 Biden on other states is going to ban fracking, ban drilling, ban energy exploration just on federal lands.

00:26:45.640 What's the biggie?

00:26:46.400 And this is going to have a huge impact, that alone.

00:26:49.720 And then that's also going to go.

00:26:50.980 They're also going to put all sorts of new regulations on private fracking.

00:26:55.460 Pennsylvania is doing its best now to shoot itself in the foot.

00:26:59.340 They are now their governors joining the regional greenhouse gas initiative.

00:27:03.700 All they're going to do, they're not going to change the climate, but they're going to destroy Pennsylvania fracking, raise energy costs, destroy the economy.

00:27:11.380 This is happening because of their Democratic governor.

00:27:14.040 This is happening across the board.

00:27:15.900 Joe Biden can come in and within probably 18 months or less, undo 90 percent of all the great things President Trump has done.

00:27:24.060 There's just no way around it.

00:27:25.520 My faulting of President Trump, he had an opportunity to change the narrative.

00:27:30.060 That can't be undone as easily.

00:27:32.220 He had a scientist on.

00:27:33.580 They could have done a presidential climate committee.

00:27:35.320 They could have done an official report to push back on the United Nations, the National Climate Assessment,

00:27:40.220 to have alternative scientists with the stamp of the U.S. federal government.

00:27:43.840 They never got around to it.

00:27:45.040 Trump was for it.

00:27:45.880 He okayed it.

00:27:46.680 The staff deep-sixed it.

00:27:48.000 And by the time Trump realized it, it was too close to the election.

00:27:50.820 But that's where Trump failed.

00:27:52.660 He never went after the narrative of climate.

00:27:55.000 The policies can be reversed in 18 months or less.

00:27:57.780 Sadly, that's where we're headed.

00:27:59.380 Forget about American energy dominance.

00:28:01.240 Forget about all of this.

00:28:02.860 I can't imagine this changing unless the Republican, you know, Senate can somehow stop a lot of this.

00:28:08.260 But a lot of this is done through the cabinets and executive order, the same way Obama did it, the same way President Trump undid it.

00:28:15.880 So we're going to go back, yin-yang, America's like this when it comes to climate and energy policy.

00:28:20.400 Well, I'm very depressed.

00:28:23.220 I want to ask you, let's put aside climate.

00:28:25.240 You're an expert on the subject.

00:28:26.400 I really recommend your website, climatedepot.com.

00:28:29.000 I've been a personal fan of that website for many years now.

00:28:32.380 You've been back at Sun News where you and I first got to know each other.

00:28:35.940 Let's put climate aside for a second.

00:28:39.280 Let's talk about politics because, you know, I want to hold out hope.

00:28:45.220 I'm a real stubborn, lost causes kind of guy.

00:28:48.780 But let us indulge the hypothetical situation, which most people think is overwhelmingly likely,

00:28:56.380 that Trump finishes his term in January and Biden is sworn in and the things you described come to pass.

00:29:02.820 And I ask you this not just because you're an expert in climate, because you used to work on Capitol Hill.

00:29:09.780 You know the politics and you follow it for the partisan excitement as well as for the substance of your expert file.

00:29:18.720 Who do you see as hopeful leaders of the future in the Republican Party?

00:29:26.140 Who do you see as people who could motivate the motivated base of the party?

00:29:32.500 Trump certainly did that and be able to take on the media party, which Trump fought ferociously.

00:29:39.380 Who?

00:29:41.240 I know this is a very preliminary question, a premature question, and it's off your area of expertise, which is climate.

00:29:47.800 But I'm just curious, who do you see as the future face and voice of the Republicans?

00:29:52.980 Well, first of all, let me start out.

00:29:54.200 I'm disappointed in Mike Pence.

00:29:55.640 Mike Pence shows up at the White House briefings, accepts the COVID lockdown premise, wears the mask, does all that, never speaks out, doesn't seek any.

00:30:03.540 Now, maybe he's doing a yin yang, but I don't see him being the leader.

00:30:07.000 I'm disappointed in Rand Paul when he had one on one with Fauci.

00:30:10.380 I'm disappointed even in Ted Cruz and others.

00:30:12.380 They just don't challenge what I see as the greatest threat to liberty, freedom, economy is this COVID lockdown.

00:30:20.060 So the one person having asked what you asked me, my dark horse hope is Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota.

00:30:27.300 She not only gets it, her opening statement about why she didn't lock down, issue mask mandates in South Dakota,

00:30:33.260 was she said her first thing was to look at the Constitution and she couldn't find the authority to do any of that.

00:30:38.600 She's given speeches. She's outspoken on this. She's strong.

00:30:43.060 She hasn't wavered, unlike the Texas governor, unlike even the Florida governor, DeSantis,

00:30:47.340 who's actually very good on the issue now, but he was very wobbly earlier on.

00:30:51.340 Georgia, the same way.

00:30:53.000 So I would say my favorite candidate right now, but it's a dark horse because she has never been in national politics, 0.98

00:30:58.600 is Governor Kristi Noem, South Dakota, because that's how important I think the COVID lockdowns, to me,

00:31:04.640 are the litmus test, if you will, to run for president in 2024.

00:31:10.840 It's funny you say that because I'm a super fan of Kristi Noem,

00:31:16.620 and I started to follow her when she introduced a bill called Riot Boosting.

00:31:24.020 And I don't know if you know what I mentioned, but of course there's a lot of,

00:31:27.200 remember the Dakota Access Pipeline and all the protesters,

00:31:32.840 and of course there's the Keystone Access Pipeline.

00:31:34.900 So North Dakota is where a lot of the fracking, the Bakken geological formation is,

00:31:40.760 but there's oil and gas in South Dakota.

00:31:42.720 It's along the route.

00:31:44.780 So Kristi Noem introduced a bill against riot boosting,

00:31:48.800 which meant anyone who would foment physical harm to a pipeline project

00:31:56.020 could be pursued not only by the government, but by private actors.

00:32:00.340 And they could sue for a multiple of damages.

00:32:04.540 They could even sue people out of state.

00:32:07.020 This was so remarkable to me.

00:32:09.000 I did a show on it saying, hey, Alberta, Canada should copy this riot boosting law

00:32:15.420 because it basically says if you're whipping up,

00:32:18.560 if you're Greenpeace in another jurisdiction,

00:32:21.380 whipping up violence, trespass, sabotage,

00:32:24.480 get ready to be prosecuted and to pay a multiple of the damages.

00:32:28.020 And I thought, wow, this woman really defends the rule of law and oil and gas without shame. 1.00

00:32:34.340 She was amazing on COVID-19.

00:32:36.700 She looks great, very telegenic. 1.00

00:32:40.300 I mean, I agree with you.

00:32:42.640 My one worry is it's such a small state.

00:32:46.400 She's not like a big state presence from Florida or Texas or something,

00:32:51.040 but she sure looks good. 0.99

00:32:52.340 She sure sounds good. 1.00

00:32:53.480 And she's young.

00:32:57.000 She's a new generation.

00:32:59.000 She is.

00:32:59.560 And I think coming in 2024,

00:33:02.100 I think we're going to have maybe some of the same candidates that ran in 2020.

00:33:05.940 And there's talk of even President Trump coming back.

00:33:08.540 I don't see Trump coming back at all.

00:33:11.160 I just don't think, you know,

00:33:13.060 it wouldn't be unprecedented.

00:33:14.940 I think it would be unprecedented actually for,

00:33:16.780 well, it'd be like Teddy Roosevelt was the last one I could think that maybe did that.

00:33:19.700 But I think this is going to be a younger generation.

00:33:23.180 The big question with Kristi Noem, of course, is going to be,

00:33:25.880 we don't want what happened to Sarah Palin to happen to her.

00:33:29.500 And so she has to make sure that she's savvy of the ways of the Washington media.

00:33:33.360 But I think she is.

00:33:34.260 She's been on Face the Nation.

00:33:36.080 She's been on, because COVID is a national issue.

00:33:38.240 She's been on a lot of these shows.

00:33:39.840 CNN, she's held her own.

00:33:41.160 So I'm very optimistic.

00:33:43.700 And I think it's going to be a huge challenge,

00:33:47.460 because you're going to have the establishment Republicans

00:33:49.580 trying to crush any of the so-called Trump wing of the Republican Party.

00:33:55.320 And they're going to try to restore it back to the McCain-Romney wing.

00:33:58.560 Remember, those were our two previous nominees before Trump came.

00:34:01.660 And it's still a very powerful part of the party.

00:34:03.920 So I expect a huge fight for the soul of the Republican Party the next four years.

00:34:08.840 And I'm not sure where it's going to end up.

00:34:11.160 You know, that's a very good point.

00:34:12.320 The last two nominees, of course, John McCain's widow came out and endorsed Joe Biden.

00:34:18.100 Mitt Romney couldn't have been a bigger underminer, including in recent weeks.

00:34:22.780 It's incredible to me that the loser wing, I mean, listen, they have their moral strengths.

00:34:28.400 They have their political strengths, both Romney and the late McCain.

00:34:31.960 But there is no denying the fact that they were as much sore losers as Hillary Clinton was. 0.99

00:34:37.640 And they undermined Trump from the beginning.

00:34:39.760 I suppose that party has to find its identity.

00:34:43.780 I mean, there's the Lincoln Project, the never-Trumpers.

00:34:46.880 And then there's the energy of the party to make America great again once.

00:34:50.340 It'll be very interesting.

00:34:51.480 Well, I'm sad about what's likely going to happen to oil and gas.

00:34:55.160 Your predictions are often accurate.

00:34:58.040 And listen, he said so in the debate.

00:35:00.140 He's going to phase out oil and gas.

00:35:01.740 Oil and gas won't go without kicking and fighting the whole way.

00:35:04.720 There's just too many jobs there and too much money there.

00:35:08.260 But I don't think the Democrats care.

00:35:11.380 I mean, they don't care.

00:35:12.360 It's about ideology for them now.

00:35:13.900 Last word to you.

00:35:14.580 No, they don't.

00:35:15.080 In fact, if you look at what's happening, AOC came out and is calling for a shutting of all these restaurants.

00:35:21.740 And she said, don't worry about it because we can just pay them.

00:35:23.940 The federal government can do a stimulus two, three, and we'll pay all these businesses.

00:35:28.720 And that's the same thing they're going to look at.

00:35:30.600 They're going to try to bail out all the fracking and the oil and what's left of the coal industry.

00:35:35.060 They're just going to say, well, we'll pay you.

00:35:36.160 Or in Biden's zone, we'll retool you to be computer programmers or something.

00:35:40.320 It's just this sort of this fantasy that government can just take care of it like that.

00:35:44.860 The problem here is in 1972, George McGovern ran as the universal basic income, a guaranteed income for all Americans.

00:35:51.840 And now, 48 years later, we're at the doorstep of that happening.

00:35:56.980 That's how great COVID has been.

00:35:58.720 That's why Jane Fonda said it's God's gift to the left.

00:36:01.840 Because now, businesses through lockdowns and then add the Green New Deal can crush not only the energy economy, but mom-and-pop restaurants, mom-and-pop businesses, gyms.

00:36:12.120 Just crush everything down.

00:36:14.060 And then they're going to say, don't worry.

00:36:15.640 They're going to love it, by the way, the progressive left, because they want to do this.

00:36:18.380 And then they're going to pay paychecks and government direct assistance.

00:36:21.840 And they're finally going to get what they want.

00:36:24.360 This is how you lose your freedom.

00:36:28.520 You're going to have only corporate chains, big business surviving.

00:36:31.800 They're all woke.

00:36:32.880 They're all on board with the mandated vaccines and the COVID passports. 0.59

00:36:36.620 And this is where we're headed.

00:36:38.400 And I don't see many Republicans.

00:36:39.940 A few Republican congressmen get it.

00:36:42.080 But even the main ones, I mentioned Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, I don't hear them being leaders on these issues.

00:36:47.760 This is our fight for freedom in the next couple of years.

00:36:51.320 COVID's not going away anytime soon.

00:36:53.540 It's just everything they hope for in an issue.

00:36:56.880 And they're going to use it to crush energy, small business, freedom. 0.99

00:37:01.340 And they're going to empower the state like America has never.

00:37:04.680 Not just America, but you've seen it in Canada.

00:37:06.700 You're seeing it in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.

00:37:10.380 And sadly, places like Israel.

00:37:12.320 I didn't expect Israel to jump in this. 0.71

00:37:14.160 I always thought they were more pro-science than this, but they've been engaging in the lockdowns.

00:37:18.820 And all throughout Europe and South America.

00:37:21.840 I mean, my favorite leader right now after Trump departs is going to be Bolsonaro in Brazil.

00:37:26.340 Now, people think you're a three-headed monster by saying that, that Bolsonaro is one of your favorite leaders.

00:37:31.040 But he truly is after Trump's departure.

00:37:34.980 Amazing.

00:37:35.820 Mark, great to talk to you.

00:37:36.640 Thanks for your time today.

00:37:38.200 Thank you, Ezra.

00:37:39.080 I appreciate it.

00:37:39.520 All right.

00:37:39.840 Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com.

00:37:42.120 Stay with us.

00:37:42.940 More ahead.

00:37:44.160 Hey, welcome back to my monologue, Friday.

00:37:56.640 Jair writes, this story made me sick to my stomach.

00:37:59.120 Was this poor elderly woman needlessly euthanized? 1.00

00:38:02.280 I believe we are going to learn the truth about this pandemic one day soon, and we are not going to like it.

00:38:06.960 Well, you can learn the truth about this pandemic every day.

00:38:09.720 The truth is lying right out there.

00:38:11.360 I don't think it's particularly hidden, is it?

00:38:13.540 Leeds writes, this is appalling.

00:38:17.020 Doctors are supposed to save lives and not take them. 0.97

00:38:19.880 Yeah, I think that's an old-fashioned attitude.

00:38:22.260 That whole Hippocratic oath business, do no harm. 0.90

00:38:24.800 That's so 20th century.

00:38:27.340 Ricky writes, they are killing a whole generation of seniors, the real men and women that built this country.

00:38:32.680 You know, they're killing them.

00:38:34.260 I mean, I truly believe there's something going on in seniors' homes, especially in Quebec. 1.00

00:38:37.600 It makes no sense.

00:38:38.980 How come 60% of all the deaths in Canada are in Quebec, and the vast majority of those in Quebec's seniors' homes?

00:38:46.520 I mean, it's as if they're the only places in...

00:38:50.320 It would be like Chernobyl.

00:38:51.960 Something happened in Chernobyl, radiation, but there's no endemic excuse.

00:38:56.820 There's nothing in the air, nothing in the water.

00:38:59.040 There's no radiation.

00:38:59.860 What is it about Quebec?

00:39:01.620 Are they genetically different?

00:39:02.820 No.

00:39:03.740 They just really, really love euthanasia there.

00:39:08.000 But it's more fun to talk about a pandemic, isn't it?

00:39:11.480 Well, my friends, that's our news for today.

00:39:13.660 That's our show for today.

00:39:15.180 We've got such a busy week.

00:39:16.460 We have so much in the days ahead.

00:39:18.120 I can hardly wait to bring the news to you.

00:39:20.580 Keep watching the stories on our YouTube pages, too, that's for sure.

00:39:24.020 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:39:26.760 to you at home, good night.

00:39:29.400 Keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - November 24, 2020

The Media Party’s corrosive role in the COVID pandemic

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