Rebel News Podcast - UK Court Pushes Back on a Transgender Bully

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today I've got two things for you that I think you'll like. The first is

00:00:03.600 a very interesting court case out of the United Kingdom. It's a setback for woke censorship. I

00:00:10.600 enjoyed reading this one. You don't see a lot of good news, so I'll take you through the court case.

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00:01:17.880 Tonight, a UK court pushes back on a transgender bully. It's December 18th, and this is the Ezra 0.99

00:01:25.420 LeVant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:31.800 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:35.880 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:40.760 right to do so.

00:01:41.740 Hey, do you remember this video from a while back?

00:01:50.200 Excuse me, sir. There's a young man in here.

00:01:54.300 Excuse me, it's ma'am. It is ma'am.

00:01:57.500 I can call the police if you'd like me to. You need to settle down.

00:02:00.120 You need to settle down and mind your business. Okay?

00:02:02.880 Ma'am, once again, ma'am.

00:02:05.080 I said both of you.

00:02:06.280 No, you said sir. Once again, it's ma'am.

00:02:08.740 I actually said both of you guys. It was a general...

00:02:10.920 Right beforehand, you said sir.

00:02:13.220 Sir? Okay, sir.

00:02:14.760 Take it outside. If you want to call me sir again, I will show you sir.

00:02:19.560 Wow. Yeah, a bit of rage there.

00:02:22.260 Some people might call that toxic masculinity, but I'm not sure if you can say that about

00:02:26.980 someone raging that he should be called ma'am.

00:02:30.700 That's some kook in the United States. He reminds me a little bit of Jonathan Yaniv, 0.89

00:02:34.840 a kook in Canada who insists that he's a girl. 0.79

00:02:38.740 You need... Will you be pleading guilty? What?

00:02:42.120 Go. No, don't touch me. Don't touch me.

00:02:44.200 Hey! Hey! 0.97

00:02:46.360 I'm really hoping for the cops to come...

00:02:48.200 No, no, no. Go left. Go in the house.

00:02:50.760 Go in the house.

00:02:51.200 Okay, that's good. Give me a bruise. Give me another bruise. 0.99

00:02:53.920 Call the police.

00:02:55.840 Hello.

00:02:56.420 That you're using your transgender identity. 0.98

00:02:58.620 Can I get police assistance again, please?

00:03:00.880 970 Homer.

00:03:03.160 I have...

00:03:03.860 Are you calling the police?

00:03:04.780 Yeah.

00:03:06.840 We agreed to do an interview.

00:03:10.140 Yeah, but I...

00:03:11.420 Can you just stop following me, please?

00:03:13.180 I just had a couple other questions for you.

00:03:15.600 What is it about some of these trans men that makes them so hyper-masculine in their rage, 1.00

00:03:21.360 at least?

00:03:22.160 Not all trans people, of course. 0.70

00:03:23.680 There have been men who have dressed as women for a very long time, but only, I think, in

00:03:29.820 the past few years has it become such a hyper-aggressive political weapon, the rage, especially if you

00:03:36.440 misgender them. 0.95

00:03:38.160 You know, you have the human right to call yourself whatever.

00:03:42.120 If you want to call yourself a man or a woman or an attack helicopter, as the joke goes,

00:03:46.960 call yourself the king of Spain for all I care.

00:03:49.140 I mean, whatever floats your boat, but you don't have the power to tell me that I have

00:03:54.540 to say the same thing.

00:03:56.620 I might choose to call you whatever you call yourself for my own reasons, if I want to

00:04:01.700 be polite.

00:04:02.720 Maybe you really do pass as a woman. 1.00

00:04:05.500 Maybe I wouldn't notice.

00:04:06.940 Maybe I just don't care, but you don't have the right to command me to call you anything.

00:04:12.380 That's not a right.

00:04:13.280 That's a counterfeit human right that violates my real human right, freedom of speech, freedom

00:04:20.180 of thought, freedom of belief.

00:04:21.900 You can't compel me to say or think or believe something.

00:04:25.720 That's not a thing.

00:04:27.600 Except it is.

00:04:29.240 On Twitter, for example, if you deadname or misgender a trans activist, you'll be suspended.

00:04:35.700 Talk about words that didn't exist until a moment ago.

00:04:38.280 So a deadname is a made-up word to describe the name a mother gave her little boy when

00:04:43.800 he was born before he decided to become a she.

00:04:47.380 So like Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali.

00:04:50.240 So if you call Jonathan Yaniv Jonathan Yaniv on Twitter, that's a thought crime and you'll

00:04:55.040 be suspended.

00:04:55.740 If you call him a him instead of a her, same thing. 0.91

00:04:59.320 That's called misgendering.

00:05:01.380 I'm sorry.

00:05:01.920 These are made-up words.

00:05:02.880 So that's the madness of Silicon Valley and Twitter and tech companies and things like

00:05:08.100 that.

00:05:09.720 These are companies that only exist because of freedom of expression, but they have taken

00:05:14.620 that same freedom of expression away from you.

00:05:17.220 But look at this case out of the United Kingdom.

00:05:20.740 Victory in the war on woke judges landmark ruling in case of mother who called trans woman

00:05:27.120 he on Twitter means freedom of speech does include the right to offend.

00:05:32.880 Two judges have ruled that free speech encompasses offensive language.

00:05:37.280 Lord Justice Bean and Mr. Justice Warby presiding over a case in court of appeal.

00:05:42.420 Actually, it wasn't the court of appeal.

00:05:44.200 Ruling came in successful appeal decided last week in favor of Kate Scotto, feminist prosecutor 0.96

00:05:51.980 for calling a transgender woman a man and pig in a wig.

00:05:57.260 She had been found guilty under the 2003 Communications Act this year.

00:06:00.840 Um, I remember Justice Warby.

00:06:07.300 He was one of the judges presiding over one of Tommy Robinson's many trials that I attended,

00:06:13.740 and he was decidedly less free speechy last time.

00:06:17.620 He was one of the judges who sent Tommy Robinson back to prison a second time for contempt of

00:06:25.320 court simply for reporting outside a rape gang trial.

00:06:28.320 So yeah, I remember Justice Warby.

00:06:30.100 Maybe he's had a change of heart, or maybe he just hated Tommy Robinson.

00:06:33.900 I don't know.

00:06:34.300 But let me read a little bit more from the Daily Mail.

00:06:38.780 Judges have insisted that freedom of speech includes the right to offend in a landmark ruling,

00:06:43.560 which could help to turn the tide on woke intolerance.

00:06:47.120 After a feminist who called a transgender woman a pig in a wig, and a man, man, was cleared.

00:06:56.480 Presiding over a case in the court of appeal, again, I don't think it was the court of appeal,

00:07:01.220 Lord Justice Bean and Mr. Justice Warby said,

00:07:04.280 freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.

00:07:07.460 They added that free speech encompasses the right to offend and, indeed, to abuse another.

00:07:13.840 The judgment from two senior members of the judiciary will set a precedent for future cases involving freedom of speech.

00:07:22.120 Just look at the photo there.

00:07:23.560 The Daily Mail is great with photos.

00:07:25.200 Look at the two people at the center of this fight.

00:07:27.820 Let me read the caption.

00:07:28.780 The ruling has emerged only now, but came in the successful appeal decided last week in favor of mother of two,

00:07:34.820 Miss Scotto Wright, from Hitchin in Hertfordshire.

00:07:39.540 She was accused of describing a Stephanie Hayden, pictured left, a transgender woman, 0.82

00:07:44.160 as a pig in a wig, alongside a number of offensive and upsetting tweets.

00:07:49.680 Now, a pig in a wig is rude, I think. 0.99

00:07:56.160 I think.

00:07:56.840 You know, I mean, if someone called me a pig in a wig, I'd probably not a compliment, although it could be.

00:08:03.440 I think some people would find it funny.

00:08:05.600 I think some would find it fair in the case of this Stephanie.

00:08:09.480 Some people would find it very, very mean.

00:08:11.600 But let's be honest, it's pretty much a schoolyard insult.

00:08:15.120 It's not a swear.

00:08:16.400 It's not a racial derogatory term.

00:08:20.500 Calling someone a pig on the hierarchy of insults,

00:08:23.340 I'm going to give that maybe like a three out of ten.

00:08:25.680 Calling people a pig, it means you're fat, really, right?

00:08:30.660 I mean, we use animal insults a lot, calling someone a dog or a rat.

00:08:35.760 I suppose they're technically dehumanizing because you're calling someone an animal, not a person.

00:08:40.180 I don't like it when people are dehumanized, like calling someone a louse, that's not a good one.

00:08:44.360 But, you know, calling someone a pig, it's not devastating.

00:08:49.440 Remember, this is the United Kingdom.

00:08:50.780 They practically invented swearing over there. 0.73

00:08:54.000 And they invent new swears all the time.

00:08:56.800 They throw the C word around like confetti over there.

00:09:01.640 It's shocking to Canadian ears.

00:09:03.560 And no, by the C word, I don't mean confetti.

00:09:06.840 It's another word that rhymes with blunt.

00:09:09.920 They're so sweary over in the UK.

00:09:13.060 I don't think pig in a wig is that hurtful by comparison.

00:09:15.520 Pig in a wig! 1.00

00:09:16.360 I'm going to chuckle at that because I happen to know from reading the article

00:09:21.580 and then reading the entire court judgment that the trans activist, the man calling himself a woman now,

00:09:28.400 isn't just a little bit chubby.

00:09:30.160 I mean, I know it takes one to know one.

00:09:32.940 But I think he sort of does act like a pig.

00:09:35.400 Or more like a bull.

00:09:37.080 He's a bully.

00:09:38.840 Let me read more from the Daily Mail and then I'll quote from the ruling itself.

00:09:41.800 Ms. Scotto was arrested in 2018. 0.91

00:09:46.260 Arrested.

00:09:47.280 Arrested.

00:09:48.620 And taken from her children and into custody after referring to trans woman Stephanie Hayden as a man, 0.99

00:09:55.840 a racist, and a pig in a wig. 0.79

00:09:59.600 Ms. Hayden, 47, reported the online remarks to police.

00:10:03.380 She, and I'm just quoting the Daily Mail here.

00:10:06.840 Okay, she, sorry, this is the mum of two.

00:10:08.860 The mum of two, she, had been arrested by three police officers in 2019 at her home in

00:10:14.220 Purton, near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in front of her daughter, 10, and son, 20 months.

00:10:22.560 Boris Johnson later called it an abuse of power.

00:10:25.700 In February this year, radical feminist Ms. Scotto, 40, was handed a two-year conditional discharge 1.00

00:10:31.860 in order to pay a thousand pounds compensation with District Judge Margaret Dodds telling her,

00:10:37.000 your comments contributed nothing to a debate.

00:10:41.000 We teach children to be kind to each other and not to call each other names in the playground.

00:10:45.200 So this mum of two was literally arrested in front of her kids, taken into custody. 0.98

00:10:50.680 For some mean tweets that aren't that mean, I think I might have said worse in my day.

00:10:57.880 And look at the lower judge.

00:10:59.060 We teach children not to be mean.

00:11:03.100 That's true, we do.

00:11:05.380 Because they're children, so we can tell them what to do.

00:11:07.680 And we want them to be polite.

00:11:09.320 But it's not a crime to be rude.

00:11:12.300 And adults are not children.

00:11:13.980 And we don't arrest adults or children for calling people a pig in a wig.

00:11:19.300 In fact, that sounds like it could be a really fun kid's book.

00:11:22.820 And contributing to a debate.

00:11:24.640 That's what the lower court judge said was the test.

00:11:27.060 Is that really the test for freedom of speech now?

00:11:29.540 If your conversation meets the approval of some judge, only then can you have your conversation?

00:11:36.560 That's not a real law, is it?

00:11:39.200 Now the Daily Mail does a pretty good job.

00:11:41.300 They usually do.

00:11:42.760 But there are a few errors in here that I detected because I read the ruling for myself.

00:11:47.560 I wanted to see what Justice Warby had to say because I saw him in action in Tommy Robinson's case.

00:11:52.780 You can find the whole ruling pretty quickly online.

00:11:57.600 The British courts are pretty good that way.

00:12:00.500 I read the ruling.

00:12:01.620 I read the whole thing.

00:12:02.940 And I sort of wish I didn't.

00:12:04.540 It's 22 pages of he said, she said bickering on Twitter.

00:12:11.680 And this Stephanie Hayden isn't some little lamb who was being attacked by a big bully mum of two. 1.00

00:12:18.260 It's actually sort of the opposite.

00:12:20.520 This Hayden, I'm sorry, I'm not going to call him a girl.

00:12:24.360 He's a full-time bully and provocateur himself.

00:12:27.680 He's a Twitter warrior full of insults himself towards others.

00:12:32.120 Some of his tweets could even be called racist, which is why the mum said so.

00:12:37.340 But the first whiff of anyone resisting him, like he dishes it out.

00:12:42.400 But you speak back to him and deadname him and misgender him, he runs to court.

00:12:48.380 He runs to the police.

00:12:50.540 He runs to get injunctions and fines.

00:12:53.000 He really does remind me of Jonathan Yaniv that way, a bully, a cry bully.

00:12:58.040 You know what I mean?

00:12:59.540 Let me read to you a few lines from the judgment about this.

00:13:02.360 So these two were having some Twitter quarrel, you know?

00:13:05.940 So both sides are dishing it out.

00:13:07.780 But then get this, I'm reading from the judgment.

00:13:09.240 The 2019 messages did not do any of the things Hayden identified in her evidence as unacceptable.

00:13:20.560 The record shows that she did not regard what was said as in any way offensive or objectionable

00:13:25.440 until she discovered that Ms. Scotto was the pseudonymous author. 0.98

00:13:30.420 At that point, Ms. Hayden was angered to the point of contacting the police again. 0.76

00:13:34.680 Okay, I'm sorry it's confusing because they're calling both people she.

00:13:39.240 Let me put it in normal language.

00:13:41.700 So the mum was writing a bunch of things on Twitter in 2019, all right?

00:13:46.600 But she was writing them under a pseudonym, like a made-up internet name.

00:13:52.400 So the mum was saying a bunch of things in 2019,

00:13:55.080 and this trans activist, Ms. Hayden, saw them,

00:13:59.440 but didn't find them upsetting at all.

00:14:02.620 Didn't find them unacceptable.

00:14:04.020 She said so.

00:14:06.320 He said so.

00:14:08.680 Until he discovered they were written by the mum.

00:14:11.160 And then he was filled with a mighty rage and called the cops and had her arrest.

00:14:15.160 Did you see what I mean?

00:14:17.340 Who was picking on whom here?

00:14:19.960 And who did the police arrest and charge and convict?

00:14:23.560 Look, there are kooks everywhere. 0.97

00:14:25.620 I mean, welcome to Twitter.

00:14:26.420 But this, Hayden is an angry kook, okay? 1.00

00:14:31.520 But police went along with it.

00:14:33.560 Let me read some more.

00:14:36.060 On the 1st of December 2018, at the instigation of the West Yorkshire Police,

00:14:41.720 Police Constable Kitchen of the Hertfordshire Police,

00:14:45.820 arrested Ms. Scotto on suspicion of harassment and malicious communication.

00:14:51.200 Ms. Scotto was interviewed.

00:14:52.360 She admitted the two Twitter accounts were hers and that she had posted the six tweets.

00:14:58.860 She did not accept posting message seven.

00:15:01.440 She denied committing any offense.

00:15:04.140 At the time of arrest, the officer seized Ms. Scotto's Samsung mobile phone and her Asus laptop.

00:15:12.300 The police, apparently expecting a guilty plea,

00:15:14.800 decided later on that downloading data from the phone or computer would be disproportionate and unnecessary.

00:15:20.900 Oh, so you were actually thinking of just literally downloading everything on her phone and her laptop

00:15:28.340 because she called someone a pig in a wig? 0.78

00:15:33.520 But if you think these cops are bad, look at this judge.

00:15:38.420 There's a lot of judges involved here.

00:15:39.680 Here's one of them.

00:15:40.220 In early December 2018, Ms. Hayden, that's the transgender man,

00:15:46.500 issued proceedings, that means sued,

00:15:48.980 against Ms. Scotto in the high court under action number QB, whatever.

00:15:53.840 On the 18th of December 2018, Ms. Hayden, that's the transgender man,

00:15:58.600 appeared before Jason Koppel, QC, sitting as a deputy judge,

00:16:02.680 and obtained an interim injunction prohibiting Ms. Scotto until trial or further order

00:16:10.320 from publishing, quote, any personal information relating to Ms. Hayden

00:16:15.060 on any social media platform,

00:16:17.820 as well as, more specifically, misgendering her on any social media platform,

00:16:23.040 publishing anything linking her to current,

00:16:25.560 her current female identity to her former male identity,

00:16:28.780 and anything stating or implying that she is a racist

00:16:32.980 or has published anything racist on any form of social media.

00:16:37.460 Ms. Scotto was neither present nor represented at the hearing when this order was made.

00:16:43.200 So literally banned by a judge on pain of prison, I guess, if Tommy's any precedent,

00:16:50.840 of calling a man a man, of referring to the fact that the man used to be a man

00:16:55.620 before calling himself a woman, of anything about the person,

00:17:00.720 of using the man's name his mother gave him,

00:17:03.180 of calling him a racist, even though she believes it were true.

00:17:05.520 And I saw some tweets in this judgment that suggested

00:17:09.040 maybe the transgender man is a bit of a racist, 0.98

00:17:12.600 but she's not even allowed to have that opinion.

00:17:16.340 Is this Iran or China or is this the UK?

00:17:19.100 And this pig in a wig, and I refer to his size, 0.98

00:17:21.900 but also his approach to dealing with his enemies,

00:17:25.660 which is a little bit piggish,

00:17:28.200 he took to Twitter himself to brag about this victory in court.

00:17:31.220 Let me read.

00:17:33.260 Later the same day, Ms. Hayden posted four tweets

00:17:35.860 containing news of the injunction,

00:17:37.800 giving a summary, and tweeted a photo of the order,

00:17:41.060 but with Ms. Scotto's name redacted,

00:17:43.080 asking others to retweet.

00:17:46.020 So this trans activist isn't just someone private,

00:17:48.860 looking for privacy.

00:17:51.760 He's doing a victory lap here.

00:17:54.400 He's suing and taunting and banning

00:17:56.400 anyone who disagrees with him or even insults him.

00:17:59.400 You know, I read this whole judgment,

00:18:01.500 and the whole time I was thinking,

00:18:02.980 Twitter has a block button, you know what I mean?

00:18:04.880 It's got a mute button,

00:18:06.140 and a computer has an off button.

00:18:09.320 No one's actually harassed online

00:18:10.760 without their permission and cooperation.

00:18:12.820 I mean, I probably block five different people a day

00:18:16.760 on Twitter who are mean to me.

00:18:19.540 I do it without a second's thought.

00:18:21.020 I just, you know,

00:18:21.980 I don't need the shouting in my ears, so to speak.

00:18:24.560 It's like walking down an alley,

00:18:26.180 and if some hobo heckles you, 0.77

00:18:28.140 I mean, I suppose you could stop

00:18:29.780 and engage in a lengthy conversation,

00:18:31.960 or you could just walk on by.

00:18:33.100 In Twitter, you don't even have to walk on by.

00:18:34.500 You just push a mute button,

00:18:36.020 and you never hear from them again,

00:18:37.460 and they're blocked from hearing about you

00:18:39.500 if you block them.

00:18:40.260 But this pig in a wig wouldn't just push that block button 1.00

00:18:43.980 because he wanted to fight.

00:18:46.260 He wasn't being bullied.

00:18:49.380 He is the bully.

00:18:51.240 He's gamed the system.

00:18:53.700 Gamed it on Twitter.

00:18:55.240 He got the police and the judges to bully his enemy,

00:18:58.140 who, by the way, is a feminist woman. 1.00

00:18:59.860 Feminist women are women who say that only women are women. 1.00

00:19:03.400 Let's speak of feminists these days. 1.00

00:19:04.760 Feminist women are women who say it's unfair for men 1.00

00:19:07.400 to, let's say, compete against women in women's sports, 1.00

00:19:10.780 on women's teams, for example.

00:19:12.860 It's dangerous at worst and unfair at best

00:19:14.840 to let men play on women's sports teams, 0.99

00:19:17.260 or to put men in women's prisons, 1.00

00:19:19.680 which is happening now, too.

00:19:21.240 So far, the trans men are winning these battles. 1.00

00:19:25.500 Maybe this court case is a small setback for them

00:19:27.700 and a small win for common sense,

00:19:29.880 but really, just barely.

00:19:34.180 Stay with us for more.

00:19:35.120 Hi, everybody.

00:19:48.400 It's Friday, and you know normally we interview a guest every show,

00:19:51.340 but last night here at our world headquarters,

00:19:54.240 we had a staff meeting,

00:19:56.280 and we invited some of our talent from Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver

00:20:00.280 to join us.

00:20:02.360 So it was like a staff meeting plus a couple of our talent in the field,

00:20:05.940 and we had what I hope becomes an annual affair,

00:20:10.860 the Rebel Awards.

00:20:12.260 We call them the Reddies.

00:20:13.600 So it was awards for different people in our team who did a great job.

00:20:18.280 I selected most of the awards,

00:20:21.380 but we also had a Viewer's Choice Award,

00:20:24.300 and more than 10,000 people voted.

00:20:28.380 And it was very exciting.

00:20:29.740 We only revealed the result last night to the whole team.

00:20:32.800 It was a really nice night.

00:20:33.800 And just as a fun little thing,

00:20:37.680 I invited different personalities to give little video shout-outs

00:20:44.600 to Rebel News and to the winners of some of the prizes.

00:20:49.060 I'm not going to play all of these little video shout-outs to you

00:20:52.440 because I think in total there were about 11 videos.

00:20:55.900 But there are a few ones I want to show you

00:20:58.240 that are fun and quirky,

00:21:01.660 and some are a little bit hilarious.

00:21:03.780 Some are people who know us personally.

00:21:05.960 Others are just celebrities that you can, you know,

00:21:08.280 ask them to do a birthday greeting or whatever,

00:21:10.760 and they do it as part of, you know, their job, I guess.

00:21:13.940 I want to start off with a very friendly video

00:21:19.260 from, well, Don Cherry.

00:21:22.940 Take a look.

00:21:23.780 Well, I'm here to thank Ezra and Dennis

00:21:27.380 and all the gang at Rebel News.

00:21:30.260 They're great people.

00:21:31.560 You're great people.

00:21:33.220 You give the right side of the story.

00:21:36.180 You give the silent majority.

00:21:39.680 And the people, the real people of Canada,

00:21:42.780 you give the news to.

00:21:44.780 I'm so happy to be at your,

00:21:46.400 well, I'm sort of at your awards thing.

00:21:48.940 Dennis, Ezra, and all the gang,

00:21:51.120 great job.

00:21:52.260 Keep up the good work.

00:21:54.320 That's pretty friendly.

00:21:55.360 Now, I think that Don meant David Menzies,

00:21:58.840 but it was still super fun to have Don give us a shout-out.

00:22:01.420 That was great.

00:22:02.240 Now, one of the awards was for our VP of Operations here,

00:22:07.020 and he didn't know he was going to get the prize,

00:22:09.960 and we had two videos for him.

00:22:11.620 A one, can you believe it?

00:22:14.240 Voiced by the former president of Mexico,

00:22:17.780 Vicente Fox.

00:22:18.640 Take a look.

00:22:20.300 Aitan, you got the Rebel News Problem Solver Award.

00:22:26.720 Congratulations.

00:22:28.560 Good for you.

00:22:29.980 Fantastic for your company and for the community.

00:22:33.880 I know you solve one problem at a time,

00:22:37.440 but you have made your company,

00:22:40.340 your community,

00:22:41.220 your family better,

00:22:43.320 stronger.

00:22:44.160 You have brought in systems

00:22:46.200 to make us,

00:22:47.840 all of us,

00:22:48.720 more like a real company

00:22:50.460 and like a real community

00:22:52.880 and a real world.

00:22:55.080 Be patient,

00:22:56.580 and you,

00:22:58.000 as you use to do it,

00:23:00.160 in a stressful situation.

00:23:02.460 That's one of the characteristics of leadership,

00:23:05.180 and it always helps,

00:23:07.540 certainly.

00:23:08.840 Keep being a leader.

00:23:10.640 Keep doing your work.

00:23:12.720 Keep moving the world ahead.

00:23:15.380 You have a friend here in Guanajuato,

00:23:17.580 your friend,

00:23:18.120 President Fox,

00:23:19.460 and you have the Presidential Library,

00:23:21.660 Central Fox,

00:23:22.460 right here.

00:23:23.700 Whenever you're around,

00:23:24.880 please pay us a visit.

00:23:26.620 Bye-bye.

00:23:27.680 Aitan.

00:23:29.320 Well,

00:23:29.840 if Mexican politics isn't your thing,

00:23:32.100 we also had Danny Green,

00:23:33.740 the former NBA Raptors champion,

00:23:37.100 making another video shout-out too.

00:23:39.480 Aiden,

00:23:39.780 what's up,

00:23:40.200 man?

00:23:40.380 Danny Green here,

00:23:41.220 man.

00:23:41.560 I just want to spread some positive loves and vibes

00:23:43.360 from your people.

00:23:45.060 Ezra reached out to me,

00:23:46.520 said that you've been amazing,

00:23:47.420 man.

00:23:48.260 You win the Rebel News Problem Solver Award.

00:23:51.040 One problem at a time,

00:23:52.160 you've made their company better,

00:23:53.240 stronger,

00:23:53.620 and brought in systems

00:23:54.420 to make them more

00:23:55.440 like a real company.

00:23:57.720 So it's a very patient

00:23:58.820 and stressful situation.

00:24:00.200 It's always helpful.

00:24:01.280 So I just want to thank you.

00:24:02.220 They want to thank you

00:24:02.840 and tell you how much proud of you.

00:24:04.180 Happy holidays.

00:24:04.840 Merry Christmas,

00:24:05.420 man.

00:24:06.020 Be sure to thank Ezra

00:24:06.860 and the rest of the company.

00:24:08.360 And keep at it,

00:24:09.040 man.

00:24:09.220 Much success.

00:24:10.060 And I'm looking forward to,

00:24:11.360 you know,

00:24:11.620 what the future holds for you.

00:24:13.040 Take it easy.

00:24:13.680 Well,

00:24:14.380 one of our prizes last night

00:24:16.100 was for best pandemic reporting.

00:24:19.200 Who do you think should earn that? 0.99

00:24:21.100 Well,

00:24:21.520 I think our friend David Menzies

00:24:23.200 just nailed it.

00:24:24.460 And here's a crazy comedian,

00:24:27.560 Gilbert Gottfried.

00:24:28.520 Maybe you recognize him.

00:24:29.440 You'll certainly recognize his voice.

00:24:31.300 Giving the award to David last night.

00:24:34.120 Hi,

00:24:34.740 this is Gilbert Gottfried.

00:24:36.660 And this is for David.

00:24:37.900 And it's being sent by Ezra Levant.

00:24:41.620 And David wins the Rebel News Award

00:24:47.580 for best pandemic reporting.

00:24:51.600 He's hardworking and stands up for the little people

00:24:57.560 who got lockdown fines.

00:25:01.980 Trouble is,

00:25:03.960 David's off-color jokes get him into trouble,

00:25:09.240 especially when he's co-hosting this show with Sheila.

00:25:14.760 I wouldn't know about off-color jokes.

00:25:18.080 I tend to work very clean.

00:25:21.820 I work very clean and very tastefully.

00:25:25.520 Yes.

00:25:25.960 In case you're looking for someone to take David's place.

00:25:30.700 I mean,

00:25:31.060 I'm not saying you have to fire David,

00:25:34.880 but think about it.

00:25:37.520 I thought that was pretty funny.

00:25:39.880 Now,

00:25:40.160 we had an award last night called the Team Player Award.

00:25:44.460 Who do you think is the best team player here at Rebel News?

00:25:47.480 Well,

00:25:47.880 to tell us about it and to announce it to our team last night

00:25:50.260 was a professional wrestler,

00:25:52.740 Hacksaw Jim Duggan.

00:25:54.340 What do you think of that?

00:25:54.900 Take a look.

00:25:57.300 Hey,

00:25:57.900 folks.

00:25:59.060 I'm WWE Hall of Famer Hacksaw Jim Duggan

00:26:04.280 from the golden age of wrestling.

00:26:07.880 But I hope you all know that being some wrestling,

00:26:09.920 folks.

00:26:10.820 Anyway,

00:26:11.480 I've been talking to Ezra,

00:26:12.720 so I got a special announcement coming.

00:26:15.140 So pull up the chairs,

00:26:16.500 everybody.

00:26:17.000 Because here it comes.

00:26:19.480 Sheila is the winner of the Rebel News Team Player Award.

00:26:23.740 All right.

00:26:25.380 Congratulations,

00:26:26.420 Sheila.

00:26:27.000 I understand not only you're a great journalist yourself,

00:26:30.520 but you help everyone else out in the team,

00:26:33.460 especially the new hires.

00:26:35.920 Congratulations on that.

00:26:37.500 It seems like you got a lot of people that care a lot about you,

00:26:40.700 man.

00:26:40.940 And I guess you love the company,

00:26:43.420 and the company wants to know that they love you back,

00:26:45.940 Sheila.

00:26:46.140 I'm so very cool,

00:26:47.960 kid.

00:26:48.600 And I guess you're a wrestling fan,

00:26:50.100 too.

00:26:50.260 That's great.

00:26:51.460 Well,

00:26:51.680 hopefully,

00:26:52.120 after all the excitement of winning the award,

00:26:54.700 you can sit everybody down and maybe check out Legend House,

00:26:57.700 the reality show we did where Piper's my roommate,

00:27:00.400 right?

00:27:00.620 So the company was expecting a drama.

00:27:03.480 They got a comedy.

00:27:04.500 I could pull off any practical joke I wanted to and blame it on Piper.

00:27:09.320 We had a great relationship.

00:27:11.240 Sounds like the kind of relationship you have,

00:27:13.320 Sheila,

00:27:13.620 with the whole company,

00:27:15.220 man.

00:27:15.860 And way to help everybody out.

00:27:17.260 You know,

00:27:17.560 it's always hard being a new hire and to have someone like yourself come help them out.

00:27:22.300 That's a big plus.

00:27:23.980 Anyway,

00:27:24.500 I want to say congratulations,

00:27:26.120 too.

00:27:26.800 And this hoes for you. 1.00

00:27:28.900 Ho! 1.00

00:27:33.160 Congratulations,

00:27:34.040 Sheila.

00:27:34.580 Rebel News Team Player Award.

00:27:36.440 Let's go,

00:27:37.220 everybody.

00:27:38.320 Ho! 1.00

00:27:40.920 All right.

00:27:41.740 And Merry Christmas.

00:27:44.640 I love that.

00:27:46.060 You know what?

00:27:46.500 I was a little bit into wrestling when I was a kid,

00:27:49.160 but I know Sheila loved Hacksaw Jim,

00:27:50.880 and it was really fun to watch her eyes light up when she saw he was giving the award.

00:27:55.700 Now,

00:27:56.100 we had an award for Best Builder.

00:28:00.800 What do I mean by builder?

00:28:01.980 Construction,

00:28:02.420 building the company,

00:28:03.380 expanding it,

00:28:04.480 making us strong.

00:28:05.360 And the prize for that went to Avi Yamini in Australia.

00:28:10.700 And you know,

00:28:11.200 I don't know a lot about Australian celebrities or whatever,

00:28:13.960 but I knew everyone down there would know Monty Python.

00:28:17.440 So here's John Cleese,

00:28:19.520 who we hired to say a little shout out to Avi about winning the Best Builder Award.

00:28:26.180 Hello.

00:28:27.280 Now,

00:28:28.020 this is a special message from Ezra Levant.

00:28:35.060 And it is for Avi.

00:28:36.900 Avi Yemeni. 0.93

00:28:38.900 And Ezra says,

00:28:41.580 Avi,

00:28:42.020 that you win the Rebel News Award for Best Builder.

00:28:48.060 And that's terrific.

00:28:50.400 But I don't understand because later on Ezra says you're a reporter, editor, advocate, and friend.

00:28:57.900 So I don't know what building has got to do with being a reporter,

00:29:02.280 but sometimes I'm not given all the information that I might need.

00:29:06.620 But what Ezra says,

00:29:08.180 and I've got to say it's extraordinarily impressive.

00:29:12.080 He says that you single-handedly change the political discussion in Australia.

00:29:18.560 It really sounds extraordinary,

00:29:20.580 particularly with Uncle Rupert and his stranglehold,

00:29:24.820 and that you gave hope to the little people punished by the lockdown.

00:29:30.140 So that's terrific.

00:29:32.220 And then Ezra says he's a great reporter, a great editor, a great advocate, and a great friend,

00:29:37.860 which is a lovely thing to say.

00:29:39.540 So, Avi Yemeni, it seems to me that you're a rather remarkable person.

00:29:46.840 And you have a good, loyal, and splendid friend in Ezra Levant.

00:29:52.280 So I wish I knew a little bit more about this,

00:29:55.140 but it sounds terrific.

00:29:56.840 And I just want to say, Avi, thank you.

00:29:58.860 We need good reporting, good editing now as we've never needed before.

00:30:03.940 And I don't know if you've ever seen my tweets.

00:30:06.800 I am appalled by the newspapers in England.

00:30:11.080 Rupert Murdoch was the first to take them down market,

00:30:13.920 and they all followed him meekly.

00:30:16.200 And now, apart from the Financial Times,

00:30:18.160 I do not have a single paper that I basically trust.

00:30:22.220 In my home country, it really does depress me.

00:30:26.720 Never mind.

00:30:27.420 You've done a great job, Avi.

00:30:29.140 Thank you for what you've done.

00:30:31.420 To single-mindedly change the political discussion,

00:30:34.340 Australia's extraordinary thing to have done.

00:30:35.940 So well done.

00:30:38.420 Thanks to Ezra Levant for asking me to send this message to Avi.

00:30:43.720 And I wish you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year,

00:30:47.500 and many, many years of your great reporting.

00:30:52.300 Bye.

00:30:52.860 We had a few more awards, but I want to show you just one of them.

00:30:59.500 Actually, I'll show you two more.

00:31:01.540 This is from, we had an award for Brave Adventurer.

00:31:06.620 Who's the bravest rebel?

00:31:08.720 Going to exotic places and asking tough questions.

00:31:12.500 Political questions, but still tough to ask someone a question right to their face that,

00:31:16.720 you know, is an uncomfortable investigative question.

00:31:19.900 Well, it won't surprise you that Kian Bextie won that award.

00:31:23.440 And here is an unusual talent delivering the prize.

00:31:26.880 This is a five-minute remark.

00:31:28.800 Five minutes.

00:31:29.540 But I invite you to watch it because I found it surprising, interesting, touching, charming, thoughtful.

00:31:39.920 Here's Rod Blagojevich.

00:31:42.020 Hi, Kian.

00:31:42.960 This is Rod Blagojevich.

00:31:43.540 And Ezra Levant asked me to send you this message to send, to extend his congratulations to you

00:31:49.140 on winning the Rebel News Brave Adventurer Award.

00:31:53.260 Congratulations.

00:31:54.160 I don't know what that is.

00:31:55.240 I don't know what Rebel News is.

00:31:57.580 And I don't know what Brave Adventurer, what the Brave Adventurer Award is,

00:32:01.360 but it sure does sound like it's a great award to be commended for your work

00:32:08.040 and to be acknowledged as a brave adventurer.

00:32:11.380 I don't know that there can be any higher praise.

00:32:14.280 So congratulations on that, my friend.

00:32:16.780 That seems to be a big deal and a meaningful award.

00:32:19.920 So on behalf of Ezra Levant, congratulations.

00:32:22.700 And on behalf of me, congratulations.

00:32:25.080 It seems like you're out there doing important work.

00:32:27.920 Ezra tells me that you've been investigating Greta Thunberg.

00:32:31.180 She's the young girl, apparently, from Scandinavia somewhere,

00:32:34.920 who's active in the environmental community, the climate change, things like that.

00:32:40.660 My young daughters are big fans of hers, actually.

00:32:43.220 I never heard of her until I came home about 11 months ago.

00:32:46.220 I was sheltering in place in prison for eight years.

00:32:50.240 By the way, key in for things that aren't crimes,

00:32:52.860 for things that are legal, routine, constitutionally protected,

00:32:55.160 and absolutely necessary in both politics and in government,

00:32:58.180 for conversations.

00:32:59.180 That's all it was.

00:33:00.520 Conversations initiated by then-President-elect Obama.

00:33:03.540 Now, he didn't do anything wrong, but either did I.

00:33:05.840 But I wouldn't say what they wanted me to say,

00:33:08.040 so they threw my ass in prison for 14 years.

00:33:10.600 And lo and behold, eight years into that wretched journey,

00:33:12.700 President Trump, a Republican president,

00:33:15.020 reached in to rescue me, a Democrat governor, restore my freedom,

00:33:18.200 and reunite me with my two daughters and my wife, Patty.

00:33:20.720 And as you can imagine, Kian,

00:33:22.300 the four of us will always be grateful to President Trump.

00:33:25.480 And I'm grateful to Ezra for giving me a chance to congratulate you on your success.

00:33:30.320 That award you won is a big deal.

00:33:31.840 Clearly, it shows that you're someone who's fearless, not afraid to go after it,

00:33:36.300 not afraid to dig beyond the surface and the superficial stuff,

00:33:40.020 or even the conventional thinking,

00:33:41.920 and to look for the real truth underneath it all.

00:33:44.860 We need more people like you in this country.

00:33:47.480 I fear for our country, and I know just how dishonest the media can be,

00:33:52.380 the mainstream corporate media,

00:33:54.200 how they buy into narratives and run with it,

00:33:56.460 irrespective of the truth.

00:33:57.520 That was a victim of it and have spent a long time away because of that in some part.

00:34:03.760 Not all, but to a significant degree.

00:34:08.060 You fully expect the media to look into outrageously fake dishonest allegations leveled against you.

00:34:14.000 And what do they do?

00:34:15.420 They don't.

00:34:16.320 They just go along with the narrative,

00:34:17.740 not even interested in what the truth is.

00:34:19.380 Instead, it sells newspapers,

00:34:21.780 gets advertising dollars to run with these sensational, super sensational stories

00:34:26.340 that are fake, like Russia collusion.

00:34:28.920 Fake.

00:34:29.520 The sale of the Senate seat.

00:34:30.720 Fake.

00:34:32.080 Appellate court reversed it.

00:34:33.380 I'm sitting in prison for three years.

00:34:34.620 They reversed that, calling it routine political log rolling.

00:34:37.220 It was never a crime.

00:34:39.540 Anyway, that's the past.

00:34:42.000 Churchill said it.

00:34:42.760 If we open up a quarrel between the present and the past,

00:34:45.980 we risk losing the future.

00:34:47.520 So let's look ahead.

00:34:48.760 And let's, well, let's enthusiastically cheer you on and celebrate your success.

00:34:56.300 Because it seems to me you're doing really important work.

00:34:58.320 Scrumming Ilhan Omar.

00:34:59.760 That's the congresswoman from Minnesota. 0.97

00:35:02.040 She comes from Somalia.

00:35:02.980 She's part of those socialists in the Congress.

00:35:05.540 Kind of radical, anti-American socialists.

00:35:08.920 Chase that.

00:35:09.760 That's an important thing that you're doing.

00:35:11.360 And then, of all of them, the Dominion voting machine,

00:35:15.460 that, the Dominion voting company and how they operate,

00:35:20.620 that's fundamental.

00:35:22.520 Keep that up.

00:35:23.700 Because something is rotten in the state of Denmark,

00:35:26.660 to quote Shakespeare,

00:35:28.560 something's rotten in the state of Georgia,

00:35:30.540 Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona.

00:35:35.500 I said Wisconsin, didn't I?

00:35:37.140 There's six of them, six battleground states.

00:35:38.680 As a Democrat from a big city like Chicago,

00:35:41.360 as a Democrat who came out of Chicago politics at the same time as President Obama,

00:35:45.660 I know, and I know that he knows,

00:35:47.520 how Democratic big city machines operate.

00:35:50.040 And I know, and I know that he knows,

00:35:52.200 that Democrats are trying to steal this presidential election.

00:35:57.260 From Donald Trump, yes, but far more worse than that,

00:36:00.060 far worse than that,

00:36:01.220 from we the people of the United States,

00:36:03.220 stealing from us,

00:36:04.780 our right to vote.

00:36:07.140 This will choke the life out of our democracy if we don't do something about this.

00:36:11.000 So keep up the good work.

00:36:13.160 Expose the truth.

00:36:14.560 Expose the truth.

00:36:15.400 Because as Dr. Martin Luther King used to say,

00:36:17.320 truth crushed to earth will one day rise again,

00:36:19.900 because no lie can live forever.

00:36:22.540 So congratulations, Kian, on the great work that you're doing.

00:36:25.320 Give my best to Ezra Levant.

00:36:27.180 I wish both of you all the best.

00:36:29.120 Stay safe out there.

00:36:30.660 And I'll be looking forward to reading the work that you do

00:36:35.080 in the days, the weeks, months, seasons, and perhaps even years ahead.

00:36:39.120 You might remember him.

00:36:41.880 He was the Democrat.

00:36:42.580 He explained his situation.

00:36:44.200 And I'll leave you with the Lifetime Achievement Award

00:36:48.380 that we gave out last night to Kathy Shadle,

00:36:50.880 who's been an editor with us for so long.

00:36:53.760 And it was delivered by Roseanne Barr.

00:36:56.840 Take a look.

00:36:58.860 Hi, Kathy.

00:37:00.260 The winner of the Rebel News Lifetime Achievement Award.

00:37:04.120 This is from Ezra Levant, who I love.

00:37:08.100 That guy's a great reporter.

00:37:10.840 It says, you have been a loyal ally, trusted colleague,

00:37:13.880 a hard worker, and a teacher to us,

00:37:16.300 and a friend to everyone in your company.

00:37:19.040 It says, we love her, and we want her to know.

00:37:22.900 Well, isn't that nice to hear that?

00:37:25.280 And you know what?

00:37:26.060 I love you too, damn it.

00:37:28.320 Congrats.

00:37:30.240 Isn't that nice?

00:37:31.640 Most of those videos we hired on a website called cameo.com,

00:37:35.140 which lets you get celebrities to read fun things.

00:37:37.540 But it was sort of cool that Roseanne recognized us and knew our work.

00:37:42.280 So that was a fun added touch.

00:37:44.060 And of course, a couple of those videos.

00:37:45.600 And I won't show you any more.

00:37:47.280 We had a few more fun vids.

00:37:49.020 And of course, the whole evening was catered by Adam Skelly's Adamson Barbecue.

00:37:54.940 That's the restaurateur who's been fighting against the lockdown in Toronto.

00:37:58.240 It was a great night.

00:37:59.100 And hopefully, it'll be the first of many more Rebbe Awards here at Rebel News.

00:38:05.060 Listen, thank you for being such a part of our great year.

00:38:08.500 It's been a terrible year in the news.

00:38:11.360 But I think that was our opportunity to shine because we tell the other side of the story.

00:38:16.960 And the whole media party is totally on side for the paranoia and the lockdown

00:38:22.740 and the extremist approach that governments everywhere are taking.

00:38:27.640 In many ways, we've been alone as skeptics on that whole matter.

00:38:31.640 And as the pandemic is being stretched by politicians into a multi-year thing,

00:38:36.700 we'll be on guard next year too.

00:38:38.360 And of course, we led a major civil liberties project this year

00:38:41.320 that's only wrapping up as the Christmas lockdowns come.

00:38:44.020 So it's been an amazing year for Rebel News.

00:38:46.800 Our team has done so well.

00:38:48.720 And I thank you for supporting us every step of the way.

00:38:51.860 That's it for today.

00:38:52.620 We'll see you on Monday.

00:38:53.860 Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:38:57.140 see you at home.

00:38:57.700 Good night.

00:38:58.580 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:39:14.020 ken.

00:39:15.260 Good night.

00:39:15.740 Good night.

00:39:16.600 Good night.

00:39:16.820 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - December 19, 2020

UK Court Pushes Back on a Transgender Bully

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