Rebel News Podcast - Why the Media Party loves Trudeau's plan to monitor political editorials in the next election campaign

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00:00:18.600 who's going to be involved in monitoring Canadian journalism, including newspaper editorials.

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00:01:52.960 Tonight, Justin Trudeau announces a government plan to monitor political editorials in the next election campaign.

00:02:00.240 And the media party is fine with it because they know he's not coming for them.

00:02:03.680 It's January 31st, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:02:09.140 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:02:12.920 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:02:16.980 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:02:22.840 You know, this whole foreign meddling in our elections thing, it really is an American conspiracy theory,

00:02:34.300 a pathetic attempt to excuse why Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election. 0.96

00:02:40.220 But now that same conspiracy theory is being imported to Canada by Justin Trudeau

00:02:44.880 as an excuse to crack down on illegal campaigning by Russians or whomever.

00:02:49.400 Now, obviously, I'm against foreign meddling in Canadian elections, but Trudeau really isn't.

00:02:54.780 In fact, Trudeau and the Liberals collect foreign spending in Canada.

00:03:00.240 They welcome it.

00:03:01.660 They scoop it up, just like Hillary Clinton scooped up donations for the Clinton Foundation 1.00

00:03:05.700 from all sorts of foreign dictatorships.

00:03:08.680 Here's a report in the National Post from a few years ago showing that foreign donations

00:03:13.880 to the Trudeau Foundation skyrocketed right after Justin Trudeau was elected.

00:03:20.340 Foreign donations, foreigners. 1.00

00:03:23.760 And the Trudeau Foundation cashed the checks.

00:03:26.220 Trudeau's in-house think tank called Canada 2020

00:03:29.520 boasted about the fact that it was sponsored by Huawei, the Chinese cell phone company.

00:03:36.960 Well, until last month, when suddenly they scrubbed their website.

00:03:42.380 Here's an archived screenshot of the main page of Canada 2020.

00:03:47.380 Just a reminder, this is a private lobby group run by Justin Trudeau's longtime friend, Tom Pitfield.

00:03:52.640 It's where Trudeau's policy ideas are worked out in secret, as in away from Parliament,

00:03:57.720 and then they're pushed onto Parliament.

00:03:59.360 So look right at the bottom of the main page.

00:04:03.360 Lobbyists absolutely love Canada 2020.

00:04:07.500 Look at all those different companies lobbying, dumping huge buckets of cash into Trudeau's think tank

00:04:13.320 because it's a backdoor way to give money to Trudeau and his party without having to disclose it,

00:04:17.400 without being limited by the rule against corporate donations or foreign donations.

00:04:21.700 But you see there, you see Huawei in that middle line there,

00:04:25.140 almost right in the middle of the page, two over from Google.

00:04:30.220 That's Huawei.

00:04:31.120 That's a Chinese telecom company that has basically put Canada and China into a diplomatic war.

00:04:36.140 So that was a screenshot of the front page of Canada 2020's website last month.

00:04:41.900 And now look this month.

00:04:44.020 Scroll down and it's a miracle.

00:04:47.220 Folks, we got ourselves a miracle here.

00:04:49.340 Huawei is no longer on the front page of Canada 2020, but the Internet is forever.

00:04:54.740 I showed you what it was like just last month.

00:04:56.620 I mean, come on.

00:04:57.240 Do you think they actually gave the money back to Huawei?

00:04:59.780 Yeah, liberals.

00:05:00.760 The money only goes one way and that's to the liberals.

00:05:03.440 It never goes out.

00:05:05.080 So yeah, foreign meddling.

00:05:07.160 Or remember this, the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation and their multi-million dollar tar sands campaign

00:05:12.260 from a decade ago to destroy the oil patch by cutting off pipelines.

00:05:15.340 It worked, as you know.

00:05:17.000 And look inside this campaign plan.

00:05:19.340 Look at all the different front groups that were being paid for by the Rockefellers out 1.00

00:05:23.560 of New York, including the World Wildlife Fund.

00:05:26.260 You can see their logo in the top right.

00:05:28.480 And you can also see the Pembina Institute near the bottom right.

00:05:33.360 The former president of the Pembina Institute, Marlo Reynolds, he's now Catherine McKenna's

00:05:37.880 chief of staff.

00:05:38.380 And the former president of the World Wildlife Fund is Gerald Butts, who's Justin Trudeau's

00:05:42.860 principal secretary.

00:05:43.500 There really is a straight line between foreign meddling in our politics right into the prime 0.78

00:05:49.380 minister's office.

00:05:50.100 So yeah, they're not against foreign meddling.

00:05:52.320 I've shown you this list here before of over 100 so-called third-party lobby groups who

00:05:56.820 campaigned for Justin Trudeau in the 2015 election.

00:06:00.020 Only one campaigned for Harper out of this more than 100.

00:06:04.240 Including a George Soros front group called Avaz.

00:06:07.780 And they literally list their New York City address in their filings.

00:06:14.520 Imagine how brazen you are.

00:06:16.640 Imagine how confident you have to be that the system is so rigged that you literally disclose

00:06:21.360 that you're a foreign lobby group breaking the law.

00:06:23.600 You're illegally campaigning in a Canadian election.

00:06:26.280 And you actually have the chutzpah to tell that to Elections Canada.

00:06:30.140 And they publish it.

00:06:32.460 And you know you're just going to be just fine because that's how the liberals roll.

00:06:36.240 So yeah, we have foreign meddling in Canada every day for Trudeau against the oil patch,

00:06:42.040 against Stephen Harper.

00:06:43.300 And yeah, it's not from Russia.

00:06:45.180 It's from lobby groups.

00:06:46.720 It's from companies.

00:06:47.920 And frankly, it's from China or at least Huawei.

00:06:51.280 So all this was the excuse that Justin Trudeau used yesterday to announce that he's setting

00:06:56.560 up an emergency committee, including with our defense minister, if you can believe it,

00:07:01.180 to stand on guard for our Canadian election to make sure that no Russians meddle with it.

00:07:05.080 Here, take a look.

00:07:06.240 Nothing is more important to this government than protecting our democracy and ensuring

00:07:12.000 that our next election is fair and free.

00:07:15.720 That is why we have a government-wide plan to prepare and respond to threats.

00:07:22.160 As Minister Gould has announced, our plan includes four areas of actions, the first of which is

00:07:28.400 combating foreign interference.

00:07:29.900 The front line of our efforts to fight foreign interference is made up of Canada's three security

00:07:35.560 agencies, including the communications security establishment, for which I am responsible.

00:07:40.620 And together with the RCMP and CSIS, these three security agencies work every day to protect Canada's national security,

00:07:48.960 the safety of Canadians, and the integrity of our elections.

00:07:52.200 Okay, now if that's all there were, if that's all it was, that's fine.

00:07:58.620 I don't want Russia, or more likely China, hacking our election.

00:08:03.260 I feel good that we have paper ballots in Canada that can't be hacked online.

00:08:06.620 I'm still quite worried about our election integrity.

00:08:08.520 As you know, the liberals have abolished the requirement for photo ID to vote.

00:08:13.520 I'm far more worried about that than Vladimir Putin, frankly.

00:08:16.680 But fine.

00:08:18.040 If you want to guard against the Russkies, I'm cool with that.

00:08:20.600 It would have been nice to have some of this Russophobia a bit more during the Cold War when we actually needed it. 0.68

00:08:26.540 But Pierre Trudeau loved the Soviet communists almost as much as he loved the Cuban communists.

00:08:32.380 So far, so okay.

00:08:34.080 But then we heard this.

00:08:36.600 We are dedicating $7 million towards digital, news, and civic literacy programming

00:08:43.280 that will help Canadians critically assess news reporting and editorials,

00:08:49.060 know how and when malicious actors exploit online platforms,

00:08:52.620 and acquire skills on how to avoid being susceptible to online manipulation by malicious actors.

00:08:58.980 Oh, really?

00:09:01.320 So Trudeau's liberals are going to monitor the media?

00:09:05.780 Did media monitor journalism monitor editorials in an election?

00:09:11.240 The government is.

00:09:12.600 And if you're passing that off as standing on guard against Soviet tanks or something,

00:09:17.300 the liberals won't lift a finger to Huawei other than to cash the check.

00:09:21.780 The liberals won't stand up to our real enemies like Cuba and Iran. 0.90

00:09:24.320 But the liberals are using our real enemies as an excuse to regulate the Canadian media?

00:09:31.920 Really?

00:09:32.880 And we're supposed to trust the liberal party to appoint journalism monitors during an election campaign

00:09:38.840 where the liberal party is a party in the campaign.

00:09:41.820 So it's like a hockey game where one team gets to choose the referees.

00:09:45.640 Yeah, that sounds fair.

00:09:46.280 Of course, this is Canada, and we don't believe in referees for free speech.

00:09:50.740 It's not a hockey game.

00:09:51.940 The only rule for the game of campaigns is listed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

00:09:56.240 We have free speech.

00:09:57.260 That's it.

00:09:57.840 There is no provision in the charter saying subject to Justin Trudeau's hand-picked media monitors

00:10:03.080 and their budget and police officers and the defense minister.

00:10:08.820 Of course, they're not actually going to monitor for election meddling.

00:10:13.100 They're going to commit election meddling.

00:10:16.660 You just saw the meddlers.

00:10:18.800 It's Robert Conquest's third law.

00:10:20.660 He's a historian who said, and I'm going to quote him here, he said,

00:10:23.940 the behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood

00:10:27.000 by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

00:10:32.220 As in, this liberal committee isn't about ensuring that journalism is free.

00:10:36.600 It's about ensuring that it is not free.

00:10:39.940 Let me read to you from an astounding document released by Trudeau yesterday

00:10:44.760 called Enhancing Citizen Preparedness.

00:10:47.940 I can't even read that with a straight face.

00:10:49.780 Now, they started off by talking about cyberterrorism or whatever,

00:10:52.760 but again, that's not really what this is about.

00:10:55.680 You'll recall that just a couple of months ago, Ralph Goodale, our public security minister,

00:10:58.780 said he was going to order Canada's spy agencies to stop saying that Muslims and Sikh extremists are a risk. 0.82

00:11:04.660 That they are a risk. 0.95

00:11:05.520 That's what the police say.

00:11:06.700 They just are.

00:11:08.280 But Ralph Goodale is putting the Liberal Party's ethnic politics ahead of safety,

00:11:12.040 so he literally instructed, he ordered police to rewrite their briefing notes

00:11:19.720 to say that Muslim terrorism and Sikh extremism are not a threat. 1.00

00:11:23.680 So yeah, stop pretending that the real essence here is to keep us safe from terrorism or foreigners. 1.00

00:11:28.400 It's about keeping Canadians safe from political commentaries the Liberals don't like,

00:11:33.540 including commentaries from us here at The Rebel.

00:11:36.460 Here, take a read of this.

00:11:37.600 I'm going to read two paragraphs.

00:11:38.980 In addition, the government is dedicating $7 million towards digital, news, and civic literacy programming,

00:11:47.800 helping Canadians better understand online deceptive practices

00:11:51.460 that can reduce the impact of efforts by malicious actors.

00:11:55.140 Okay, hang on.

00:11:57.400 So Justin Trudeau is going to tell us, with $7 million worth of money in the course of an election campaign,

00:12:02.920 which is a huge addition to what his own Liberal Party has as a war chest.

00:12:08.040 And of course, it's going to be his political allies on this committee,

00:12:11.160 so it's really just an auxiliary Liberal war room.

00:12:13.900 So, Trudeau's going to tell us what news to believe and what news not to believe?

00:12:20.040 What's deceptive and what's not?

00:12:22.040 What if he's the deceiver?

00:12:24.220 So when Justin Trudeau lied to the public and lied to the media about taking a secret vacation

00:12:30.240 on a billionaire's island in the Bahamas, and he kept that secret from the public,

00:12:34.560 kept it secret even from the Ethics Office of Parliament, 0.97

00:12:37.060 when that story broke, he denied it at first because he's a liar.

00:12:40.300 Would Trudeau's new election deception war room have told you not to believe the rumors

00:12:47.560 and not to believe the conspiracy theories and not to believe the malicious actors,

00:12:51.900 but to believe the Liberal experts, to believe the government, to believe him?

00:12:55.320 Is that how they would have covered that if it had broken in an election campaign?

00:12:59.480 Of course Trudeau and his whole team were lying.

00:13:02.700 In fact, Trudeau was later convicted of breaking the law four times for his lying.

00:13:07.320 He was convicted of four counts under the Conflict of Interest Act.

00:13:09.720 First time any prime minister has been convicted of that act while they were sitting prime minister.

00:13:14.260 It's crazy.

00:13:15.420 Or remember when Bill Morneau, Trudeau's finance minister, lied about his French villa?

00:13:20.280 He refused to disclose it publicly, and then he claimed,

00:13:22.600 well, I just forgot about it.

00:13:23.900 You know, I just got so many French villas, I just forgot about this one.

00:13:26.760 And it was only a determined journalist who reported.

00:13:29.340 So would that determined journalist have been condemned and discredited

00:13:33.180 by this new state-run media regulator?

00:13:36.320 I mean, of course Trudeau and his Liberal War Room are going to lie about these things,

00:13:39.360 and that's to be expected.

00:13:40.700 And all the parties have their competing war rooms,

00:13:42.820 and we take all of them with a grain of salt.

00:13:44.580 But that's not what Trudeau's doing here.

00:13:45.980 He's proposing a government-run war room.

00:13:49.720 It will still attack his enemies, but it'll use government money,

00:13:52.700 and government resources, and government police,

00:13:55.060 and government soldiers, I guess?

00:13:57.620 And government authority, and the reputation of the government?

00:14:00.360 And he's going to pretend that somehow it's about politics when they're reviewing politics?

00:14:04.920 It's not about politics.

00:14:06.380 And look what they plan to do.

00:14:07.420 Let me read some more.

00:14:09.540 The government plans on teaching you how to think and what to believe.

00:14:13.620 Let me quote.

00:14:15.500 The government will support skills development, awareness sessions.

00:14:19.740 That sounds like something right out of Chairman Mao.

00:14:22.520 Are you going to your awareness session tonight?

00:14:24.120 Don't be late to your awareness session.

00:14:25.860 Come to the awareness session.

00:14:26.840 And by the way, they're taking notes of who's the first to stop clapping.

00:14:30.580 So you better clap really hard when they say Trudeau at the awareness session.

00:14:34.440 See the awareness session tonight?

00:14:37.260 So they're having awareness sessions, workshops, and learning material for Canadians.

00:14:43.380 These activities would help citizens to critically assess online news reporting and editorials.

00:14:50.520 I'm serious.

00:14:51.400 I'm serious.

00:14:52.120 This is what they're saying.

00:14:52.800 Recognize how and when malicious actors exploit online platforms.

00:14:57.180 And acquire skills on how to avoid being susceptible to online manipulation.

00:15:02.440 How about manipulation at these awareness sessions?

00:15:05.820 Can I get a session on how to be aware of manipulation at the session?

00:15:11.540 This is real.

00:15:12.820 So Trudeau is using your tax dollars to hire hand-picked liberal allies who will tell you the right way and the wrong way to read the news.

00:15:19.100 And the right people and the wrong people to listen to and to believe who is malicious and who, like Trudeau, is only motivated by good things.

00:15:29.240 And online manipulation, I love that part.

00:15:31.660 You see, when Trudeau does that, he persuades.

00:15:36.920 It's his opponents who manipulate.

00:15:40.440 Trudeau's foreign donors, they're global citizens, including Huawei.

00:15:45.080 Now, I don't know of any foreign donors on the right, but if they were, they would be a national security emergency.

00:15:51.940 Left-wing newspapers, they're reputable.

00:15:54.960 Critics like us?

00:15:56.100 Well, he's going to throw $7 million at us to denounce us.

00:15:59.040 And he'll surely do much more behind the scenes to tell YouTube and Facebook and Twitter to cut us off.

00:16:03.200 Do you doubt it?

00:16:03.960 He has said as much himself.

00:16:05.680 Remember this?

00:16:06.540 It is disappointing to see the conservatives engage in peddling rebel media conspiracy theories.

00:16:23.940 It is disappointing to see the conservatives engage in peddling rebel media conspiracy theories.

00:16:30.340 You know, I'd normally end things here, but this is just part of Trudeau's efforts.

00:16:39.320 Bashing the media he doesn't like, demonizing the media he doesn't like, denormalizing it, having soldiers involved.

00:16:46.500 The Minister of Defense is involved in this.

00:16:48.420 But, look, that might not go over so well in a country that loves a free press.

00:16:54.680 I mean, there might be some other journalists, not a lot of them these days, but there might be a few who would, you know, say,

00:17:00.500 hey, this whole monitoring journalists thing, this whole awareness session thing led by the government,

00:17:08.100 it's a bit more Venezuela-style, Iran-style, than Canada-style.

00:17:12.240 We don't believe in governments hitting the media or news consumers with a stick.

00:17:20.560 Awareness sessions, wouldn't it be crazy?

00:17:23.520 Well, you see, that's where the carrot comes in.

00:17:26.020 So there's the stick, but there's a carrot.

00:17:30.360 Because if Trudeau can buy off the rest of the media with, oh, I don't know, $595 million in bailout money,

00:17:37.980 maybe they'll be docile and compliant, and voila.

00:17:42.880 Here's CTV, how they reported on yesterday.

00:17:44.980 They're probably going to be the largest recipient or second-largest recipient of Trudeau's bailout funds.

00:17:49.380 They're already heavily regulated by Trudeau.

00:17:51.600 In some ways, they're even more compliant than the CBC because they're more vulnerable.

00:17:55.640 And look at their headline on this story.

00:17:58.180 Fed's unveiled plan to tackle fake news interference in 2019 election.

00:18:03.580 Is that what they're doing, really?

00:18:04.840 If Stephen Harper had announced on the eve of his election in 2015 that he was going to handpick a media monitor

00:18:12.240 and give that media monitor $7 million to weigh into journalism during a political campaign

00:18:17.880 and have awareness sessions, do you really think that excited news burst would be the headline?

00:18:24.040 Now, this is a very long report by CTV, the one I just mentioned.

00:18:28.620 It's really a love letter.

00:18:29.680 But let me read to you, in its totality, the entire reference to the media interference provisions that I read to you.

00:18:36.500 So this is all CTV has to say about it.

00:18:38.240 It's a very long article.

00:18:39.320 This is all they have to say.

00:18:40.040 They say, educating citizen literacy on fake news.

00:18:44.380 Lastly, the government is launching a new campaign for citizen literacy about misinformation online.

00:18:50.200 This will encourage Canadians to read a diversity of sources, think before they share information.

00:18:55.680 I'm so glad the government told me to think.

00:18:57.980 I wasn't going to ask them to think critically about what they see.

00:19:01.960 Questionative messages are trying to influence them and encourage them to rely on trusted sources for news.

00:19:07.640 I love you guys.

00:19:08.920 As part of this effort, the government is spending $7 million on digital news and civic literacy programming.

00:19:14.060 Our democracy is strongest.

00:19:15.960 When all our citizens can vote without the threat of interference, said Sajan.

00:19:20.020 That's it.

00:19:20.880 That's all they have to say.

00:19:22.420 That's the totality of it.

00:19:23.920 So you have a minister of defense, a minister of defense, saying he's going to fight against

00:19:30.480 the threat, his words, posed by Canadians choosing news that Justin Trudeau doesn't approve of.

00:19:37.780 And that's it.

00:19:38.940 That's how CTV reports that.

00:19:41.920 But of course, because they're paid off.

00:19:44.000 They're bought off.

00:19:44.860 They're all bought off.

00:19:46.000 $595 million.

00:19:47.160 You'd do it too for $595 million?

00:19:50.300 Well, maybe you wouldn't.

00:19:51.380 I mean, we're not.

00:19:51.920 Now, you might say, Ezra, this is an exaggeration.

00:19:55.980 Don't say bought off.

00:19:57.820 That's fake news.

00:20:00.900 Well, actually, and I just learned this today, the media party has been having secret meetings.

00:20:09.280 Secret meetings to talk about how to divide up the $595 million bailout.

00:20:14.540 It's like crooks after a bank heist.

00:20:16.020 They sit around the table, count the money, and figure out who gets what.

00:20:18.800 Now, you couldn't make this stuff up.

00:20:20.120 It sounds like fake news.

00:20:21.400 Well, let me ask you.

00:20:23.800 If the media party were meeting in secret with a Trudeau-approved political activist running the meeting,

00:20:31.960 do you think those media companies would tell you, 0.77

00:20:34.060 now I know you're thinking, Ezra, it's crazy, conspiracy theory, shut up?

00:20:37.400 Well, weirdly, one of the journalists in the meeting blabbed about it.

00:20:44.960 A left-wing activist journalist named Jesse Brown, who runs an all-left clickbait site called Canada Land.

00:20:51.320 Someone told me that Brown was invited to one of these bailout meetings and that he talked about it on his podcast.

00:20:57.620 So I listened.

00:20:59.480 And he was invited, and he did blab about it.

00:21:03.100 Oh, I don't think he's going to be invited back.

00:21:04.980 See, this is the other half of the censorship story, because Trudeau would not dare to have the Minister of Defense

00:21:11.360 warning Canadians about reading the wrong editorials and demanding you go to your awareness sessions.

00:21:16.680 Trudeau couldn't get away with threatening Facebook with penalties if they don't delete his enemy's comments.

00:21:22.280 Trudeau couldn't do that if he didn't pay off the mainstream media to look the other way.

00:21:26.380 And he has, and they are.

00:21:28.580 And Jesse Brown blabbed about it.

00:21:31.680 He did a podcast here.

00:21:32.620 I'm going to play a few clips from his podcast.

00:21:34.320 Take a listen.

00:21:35.560 It's the second meeting like this that I've gone to as this news bailout process.

00:21:39.860 I was invited very similarly in the very early stages to come.

00:21:43.460 And they said, you can come and have a seat at the table as we discuss a possible federal government news subsidy.

00:21:50.340 But you cannot say who was there.

00:21:52.380 And you cannot say who said what.

00:21:54.160 But you can say that it happened and that you went.

00:21:56.020 And you can kind of talk in broad strokes about it.

00:21:57.400 And this was like a tricky decision for me because I cover the media.

00:22:00.220 So I don't like agreeing to gag orders of any kind.

00:22:03.280 And I have this kind of like internal discussion with myself like, well, am I better knowing this stuff or not knowing it?

00:22:09.720 Is that how we make laws and policy and budgets in Canada?

00:22:14.180 In secret elite invitation only meetings?

00:22:18.100 So not in parliament, not in committees, not even in public forums.

00:22:22.700 In secret?

00:22:23.800 Oh, you better believe it.

00:22:26.400 And if you can believe it, Trudeau apparently hired an American to facilitate the meeting.

00:22:33.720 An American who worked for Hillary Clinton's campaign.

00:22:39.000 Pierre Omidyar, the guy behind The Intercept.

00:22:41.800 So he throws this thing, a very sexy title, Public Investment in Journalism, a Collaborative Policy Development Workshop.

00:22:49.860 As titles go, that's a good one.

00:22:51.300 Yeah, rolls off the tongue.

00:22:53.080 And it was held like in, you know, kind of unlisted in some room at this democracy exchange, democracy summit.

00:23:00.320 The whole thing is kind of from the democracy exchange summit, which I think like one of the guys behind it is like a guy, a navigator.

00:23:05.680 I don't know.

00:23:06.240 Like untangle this stuff.

00:23:07.540 So this is at Ryerson University.

00:23:09.360 Anyhow, what can I tell you?

00:23:10.840 We sat around, the idea was getting stakeholders together.

00:23:13.880 And I can't tell you who was there, but I can tell you that like if you think about who are stakeholders in a media bailout, you know, the unions, the media organizations themselves, governments, a stakeholder, whoever organizationally you might think of as a stakeholder was represented.

00:23:27.200 I guess with one exception, the public.

00:23:29.220 There was nobody there representing the public. 0.99

00:23:30.700 But I was not there to be a pain in the ass, necessarily. 0.98

00:23:36.860 Hey, guys, I think we found some foreign meddling in our election. 0.99

00:23:45.040 I think we found it.

00:23:47.840 Yeah.

00:23:48.540 Now, obviously, these being leftists, all they care about is milking you and your tax dollars.

00:23:53.960 Take a listen to this.

00:23:55.300 A big company that had a big audience, they said, well, this should be determined by how big your audience is.

00:24:00.860 And then other people who are from companies where they felt like, well, we have the best values.

00:24:03.480 They said it should be values based.

00:24:04.780 And other people said, well, it should be about innovation, startups.

00:24:07.460 And no, it should be innovation based as to who gets.

00:24:09.800 So everybody had their own idea that was like a thinly disguised version of like me.

00:24:13.420 I get the money, my thing.

00:24:14.480 I don't want to be left out.

00:24:16.000 And I chimed in to say, dudes, it doesn't matter.

00:24:19.560 Like however you define what a journalist is.

00:24:23.240 Sounds like the Unifor Journalism Union was there.

00:24:26.660 I think that's what it sounded like to me.

00:24:28.960 It makes sense.

00:24:29.340 I mean, Unifor, the largest journalist union, they publicly declared war on the conservatives

00:24:33.980 in the upcoming campaign.

00:24:35.520 If you remember this tweet, they're spending their members' union dues on that campaign.

00:24:39.260 So obviously Trudeau and the Clinton staff for running this thing are going to richly, richly reward them.

00:24:43.900 Now, I obviously wasn't invited to this, but it sure sounds like they talked about me.

00:24:51.420 I mean, not me, myself as a person, but me as the personification of the rebel is in me,

00:24:57.760 a stand-in for our other journalists, our independent journalism, and me as a stand-in for you.

00:25:03.400 You, the people who were excluded.

00:25:05.340 You, the people who need to be re-educated at awareness sessions.

00:25:09.140 Oh, my God, awareness.

00:25:10.940 Did you, I didn't see you at the awareness session last week.

00:25:13.880 I'm going to need a doctor's note for that.

00:25:17.060 You and me were mocked at this meeting by the elites, led by some Hillary Clinton staffer brought in by Trudeau to tell us how it's going to be.

00:25:23.640 I think that Jesse Brown has a few drops of genuine journalist left in him.

00:25:28.580 He says this is his second secret meeting, but obviously he's broken the secret, the first person to do so.

00:25:35.300 I don't think he's going to be invited back.

00:25:37.020 I think there's a small part of Jesse Brown that realizes that when you're paid by the government to be a journalist, you're not a journalist anymore. 0.96

00:25:47.240 To be crude, it's like sex. 1.00

00:25:49.020 When you're paid for sex, you become a prostitute. 1.00

00:25:53.820 I think Jesse Brown knows that, and he also knows that the rest of us know that, 0.99

00:25:57.620 and I think he has a tiny part of his brain saying, don't do it.

00:26:01.480 They're going to call me that forever if I take the dough.

00:26:05.580 The amount of discredit that that is heaping upon any journalist and journalism itself is as big a crisis, I think, as the financial crisis that journalism is facing.

00:26:15.240 Like, there is an effort that we are inheriting from the states to just discredit.

00:26:19.340 Like, even if we get journalists in all those legislatures, we're getting to a point where, like, we're so hated.

00:26:24.520 We're so out of touch with how hated we are.

00:26:26.320 We really are.

00:26:26.940 I don't think we're out of touch with how hated we are.

00:26:29.400 I don't think I am, anyway.

00:26:30.800 The public, we work so hard, we're working overtime, we're doing this for you. 1.00

00:26:33.640 And the public's like, you're a f***ing liar, and you're, you know, learn to code. 0.99

00:26:36.960 That's the new hashtag for all the laid-off journalists. 1.00

00:26:38.680 Learn to code.

00:26:40.900 You know, he talks a little bit about how Donald Trump invented the phrase fake news and how it's an American thing coming up from the states.

00:26:48.340 No, no, Donald Trump just popularized the term fake news.

00:26:52.000 And like all good nicknames, of which Trump is the master, nicknames only stick if there's some truth to it.

00:26:58.360 Low-energy Jeb Bush.

00:27:00.420 Crooked Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:27:01.800 Those only worked because people said, yeah, I see that.

00:27:04.220 Yeah, that's a good one.

00:27:05.460 People don't say a nickname if it's not a good one.

00:27:07.520 We know that the mainstream media is partisan and biased, and we know they're not neutral.

00:27:13.600 We know that they're going to be much, much worse after the bailout goes through.

00:27:17.820 We see that already.

00:27:19.640 We know that they're fine with voices like ours being silenced because they're on the inside with the $595 million already asking for more money.

00:27:28.940 The fact that these other journalists were part of this secret meeting and kept it a secret shows you that it's true.

00:27:37.120 They really are bought and paid for because if they were real journalists, they would have reported on the newsworthy meeting they attended.

00:27:43.400 They were bought and paid for, but not us.

00:27:47.280 They will never buy us.

00:27:50.300 And it will take Harjeet Sajjan and a tank to shut us up.

00:27:57.660 Stay with us for more.

00:28:07.120 All around you, Rome burns.

00:28:17.680 Literally.

00:28:21.580 Yeah, I've got your attention now.

00:28:23.460 Be afraid.

00:28:25.860 No, no, no.

00:28:28.200 What don't you understand?

00:28:29.940 We've got to secure our borders.

00:28:31.500 Our cultures and identities are under threat.

00:28:33.800 You're obsessed with Agenda Agenda.

00:28:41.040 Please, we women don't need special treatment. 1.00

00:28:46.560 The populace are winning elections, kicking out the old guard. 0.99

00:28:49.560 Oh, my God.

00:29:06.760 How exciting is that?

00:29:08.340 I am ready to sign up for the battle.

00:29:11.800 That is Janice Atkinson.

00:29:14.400 She's a member of the European Parliament for the United Kingdom.

00:29:17.560 She's a Brexiteer, and as you can see, she is a fighter. 0.99

00:29:22.340 Oh, I have watched that ad three times, and I will watch it three more.

00:29:28.040 And joining us now is Janice Atkinson.

00:29:31.180 Great to see you, and welcome to the Rebel.

00:29:33.900 Oh, hi, Ezra.

00:29:35.260 I'm so excited.

00:29:36.760 I've followed you for a number of years now,

00:29:38.720 and you and I have stood on stages for the Freedom Marches in London,

00:29:42.440 and I'm really, really delighted I'm joining you.

00:29:45.320 It's very exciting.

00:29:46.320 Well, we're excited, too.

00:29:47.660 I remember we met at the Royal Courts of Justice, if I recall,

00:29:51.480 when Tommy was making his appeal,

00:29:54.300 and I saw you on the street outside the Old Bailey,

00:29:56.900 and our friend Jack Buckby interviewed you at length.

00:29:59.480 So we sort of know each other, and I thought, you know,

00:30:03.280 Janice, you are a heck of a fighter.

00:30:06.000 Tell our viewers, who might not be familiar with you,

00:30:09.240 including our viewers in North America,

00:30:10.940 tell us a little bit about yourself.

00:30:12.980 You're a member of the European Parliament.

00:30:15.120 Some folks here on this side of the pond probably are not familiar with that.

00:30:19.900 Can you give us a one-minute background on that?

00:30:23.100 Yeah.

00:30:23.760 The European Parliament is a supranational body that is accountable to no one.

00:30:28.680 We might be elected, but we don't actually,

00:30:31.460 we can't propose any legislation, and we can't repeal any legislation.

00:30:35.800 So this supranational body, who are unelected, who are called the EU commissioners,

00:30:41.260 sit above us, and then they propose legislation.

00:30:46.100 And they come to committee, we discuss that.

00:30:49.560 Generally, it's not rejected.

00:30:51.360 And the European Parliament is made up by liberal leftists.

00:30:54.580 There's even communists in the Parliament,

00:30:57.120 but because we're elected under a proportional representation system.

00:31:00.720 So it doesn't matter how many times the Brexiteers,

00:31:04.000 the people like me, going to the Parliament,

00:31:06.580 we argue our case against migration, open borders, higher taxes,

00:31:11.800 assaults against the family,

00:31:12.900 because all this legislation comes straight down from the commission.

00:31:17.500 It's voted for in Parliament.

00:31:19.100 It goes straight on to our Statue of Books.

00:31:20.660 I mean, can you imagine North America and Canada

00:31:23.580 not being able to amend any legislation?

00:31:26.240 It goes straight on to your Statue of Books.

00:31:28.320 Anyway, I'm really pleased.

00:31:31.240 I've campaigned for Brexit for 20 years, and we're nearly there.

00:31:35.500 And I shall no longer be NMEP, and I shall be truly happy.

00:31:40.460 Well, that's the thing, because, I mean,

00:31:42.300 there's a lot of shenanigans and intrigues,

00:31:46.780 and I'm doing my best to understand it from here in Canada.

00:31:49.780 But the fact is, in just a couple months,

00:31:53.980 the UK will be out of the European Union,

00:31:57.700 whether or not there's a deal or no deal.

00:32:00.180 It's out, and you will no longer be a member of the European Parliament,

00:32:04.340 because the UK will be out of it, right?

00:32:07.480 Yes, absolutely.

00:32:09.000 It's actually written into our Statue of Books

00:32:11.380 that in 60 days' time, as we're recording this,

00:32:14.080 we will leave on the 29th of March, 2019.

00:32:17.200 It's our Freedom Day, our Brexit Day. 0.94

00:32:19.860 We get our sovereignty back.

00:32:21.300 We get our borders back.

00:32:22.860 And we leave.

00:32:24.280 There's a whole load of shenanigans going on in the British Parliament

00:32:27.400 at the moment because there's some ultra-remainers,

00:32:29.580 because actually, you know, they're just Social Democrats.

00:32:32.120 They've never actually run anything in their lives.

00:32:34.440 They've never run a business.

00:32:35.680 They've only ever been in politics.

00:32:37.680 They've gone to elite schools, elite universities.

00:32:39.900 And then there's a fast track into Parliament.

00:32:43.560 This started under David Cameron.

00:32:45.280 It started under Blair.

00:32:46.820 And so, therefore, they don't actually know how to run a country.

00:32:49.880 So we are taking back control.

00:32:52.100 I don't know what we're actually giving it to.

00:32:53.920 So the next battle is to get into the British Parliament.

00:32:57.120 Now, what kind of subjects do you propose to report on

00:33:02.280 and provide commentary for us here at The Rebel?

00:33:05.700 Because, obviously, as a member of the European Parliament,

00:33:08.420 you've covered everything.

00:33:09.900 It really is sort of like being an MP,

00:33:12.040 but like you say, without the democratic legitimacy

00:33:14.900 and without the power.

00:33:16.280 But you've, I mean, you've surely met

00:33:18.460 some very interesting characters.

00:33:20.800 You've probably seen where the, quote,

00:33:22.120 the bodies are buried at the EU.

00:33:24.140 Like, you know more about that institution than 99.9% of people.

00:33:28.920 Tell us some of the things that you are going to focus on

00:33:31.940 in the months ahead for your reportage.

00:33:35.040 Okay, well, the battle for migration

00:33:37.340 and closing out orders hasn't ended.

00:33:40.240 You know, it's just the beginning.

00:33:41.620 The EU Parliament goes into elections in May of this year.

00:33:45.080 So I'll be covering what's going on there

00:33:47.460 because this is about the battle of our continent.

00:33:50.520 This is the biggest battle that our continent has faced.

00:33:53.300 It's 1945.

00:33:55.040 And I don't say that lightly

00:33:56.240 because we've got the battle of the populists.

00:33:58.360 We've got the chief populist in power in the US.

00:34:01.380 And like you with Trudeau,

00:34:02.860 we have to put up with these liberal lefties

00:34:05.080 sitting in the European Parliament.

00:34:06.560 And they've had it their own way for a number of years now.

00:34:09.720 And with the likes of Mattiel Salvini,

00:34:11.960 Girt Wilders and Stracker,

00:34:13.300 all my friends who are now either in opposition

00:34:15.980 or running governments and Marine Le Pen,

00:34:18.080 I'll be interviewing those main players

00:34:20.580 and saying about what do they want,

00:34:22.700 what do their voters want,

00:34:24.060 because they're now in government.

00:34:25.900 How do you want to shape our continent?

00:34:27.740 Because we're at this tipping point, basically, in Europe.

00:34:31.080 And Europe isn't just about the EU.

00:34:32.820 It's a wider continent as well.

00:34:34.860 And so, therefore, it's important that we get...

00:34:37.520 Salvini's party, Labour Nord,

00:34:40.360 is likely to be the largest party in Italy coming through.

00:34:43.680 And also, Marine Le Pen is likely to be, again,

00:34:46.560 the largest party.

00:34:47.800 And also, Girt Wilders.

00:34:49.440 So let's go into their parliaments.

00:34:52.080 Let's interview their people.

00:34:53.840 Go to the EU Parliament, interview them,

00:34:55.780 follow them on the campaign trail.

00:34:57.680 And also, we're talking about immigration.

00:34:59.460 I wrote a book earlier this year

00:35:01.480 using all EU statistics,

00:35:03.560 which covered the migrant crime wave.

00:35:05.860 We've seen this unprecedented crime wave

00:35:08.640 from the migrants that have been forced upon us 1.00

00:35:11.060 by the liberal left.

00:35:11.940 And, again, I'll be uncovering those stories,

00:35:15.440 popping over to France,

00:35:16.480 having to see what's going on,

00:35:18.300 just not Macron's gilets jaunes, the yellow vest,

00:35:22.140 but actually what's happening on the ground.

00:35:24.880 This man and successive governments,

00:35:27.320 previous governments before him,

00:35:29.280 have just allowed this march of people

00:35:31.780 that sit on our borders,

00:35:33.600 waiting to break into my country. 0.85

00:35:35.360 And many of them are very, very successful.

00:35:37.360 So I'll be covering those areas.

00:35:40.200 Unmasking the EU.

00:35:41.940 Ahead of the elections.

00:35:43.820 Let's expose it for what it is.

00:35:45.780 When I arrived there,

00:35:47.300 I thought I knew this pretty awful body

00:35:52.160 that cost millions and millions and millions of pounds a year

00:35:56.900 for the 500 million people across Europe.

00:35:59.560 But when you actually get in there,

00:36:01.620 you don't realise,

00:36:02.620 it's only then that you realise the length of the legislation

00:36:08.880 that's gone on to our statute books,

00:36:10.660 and also the waste,

00:36:12.680 the cars,

00:36:14.080 just the amount of money.

00:36:15.780 I'm not going to give you too much information at the moment,

00:36:18.360 but we'll take the cameras in and we'll expose this,

00:36:20.780 and we'll play this to the peoples across Europe and North America.

00:36:24.620 When Trump got elected,

00:36:27.360 he reiterated what Kissinger said basically a few years ago,

00:36:31.740 who do I pick up the phone to and call in Europe?

00:36:34.480 But what Trump said,

00:36:36.340 as a supplement to that,

00:36:37.600 is he knows if he wants to talk to France,

00:36:39.500 he talks to Macron.

00:36:40.360 If he wants to talk to my country,

00:36:42.220 he talks to me.

00:36:42.920 If he wants to talk to Italina,

00:36:45.760 he talks to Salvini.

00:36:46.820 You don't pick up the phone to anybody in Europe.

00:36:50.080 Europe doesn't exist.

00:36:51.300 You might pretend it's this great foreign international body.

00:36:55.960 It doesn't.

00:36:56.820 He downgraded them a few weeks ago

00:36:59.220 with the ambassador status,

00:37:00.960 because Obama had elevated them.

00:37:03.880 So it's going in and exposing what they are

00:37:06.860 and how we reshape Europe

00:37:08.860 and how we work with Canada,

00:37:11.580 U.S., the Commonwealth,

00:37:13.760 across the world,

00:37:14.840 and we shut down these supranational bodies

00:37:17.060 that are run by the global elite.

00:37:19.340 Davos man.

00:37:20.460 Those are just a few things

00:37:22.320 that I'll be doing for you.

00:37:23.880 Yeah.

00:37:24.360 You know,

00:37:24.940 I want to ask you a question

00:37:27.640 because I've enjoyed my visits

00:37:29.680 to the United Kingdom over the last year,

00:37:31.760 even though I went there for tough reasons.

00:37:33.740 I really reconnected with the mother country,

00:37:37.680 speaking as a Canadian,

00:37:38.920 and I can imagine that,

00:37:42.820 you know,

00:37:43.280 explaining to ordinary Brits

00:37:45.360 why they should care about the EU,

00:37:48.620 it's an important job

00:37:49.900 because normal people say,

00:37:50.980 well, what about my,

00:37:52.220 you know,

00:37:52.400 I care about my home,

00:37:53.760 my city,

00:37:54.680 my country.

00:37:55.520 To care about things

00:37:56.700 that happen in a faraway place,

00:37:58.820 you have to really sort of make an effort

00:38:00.940 because it's not in front of your face all the time.

00:38:03.000 And I suppose here in North America

00:38:04.680 where the rebel is based,

00:38:06.080 people would say,

00:38:06.560 well, why should we even care about the UK?

00:38:08.840 But my theory has always been,

00:38:10.760 and I've said this, Janice,

00:38:12.160 is that what happens in Europe today

00:38:14.400 happens in the United Kingdom tomorrow,

00:38:17.740 then in Canada,

00:38:19.000 and then in the United States.

00:38:20.280 So all the bad trends,

00:38:22.900 whether it's open borders migration,

00:38:25.740 the Islamification of society,

00:38:28.220 the control by these global elites,

00:38:30.040 this UN style European Union,

00:38:31.840 and the reason we'd rather study it

00:38:34.120 in France and Germany and Italy

00:38:37.620 is because if we can learn about it there,

00:38:39.820 we don't have to go through

00:38:40.780 their bad experiences here.

00:38:42.220 They can be the warning to us.

00:38:44.300 That's the case I would make

00:38:46.200 to any Canadians and Americans

00:38:48.160 following what's going on in the continent.

00:38:50.980 Do you make that case to Brits also?

00:38:53.240 Yeah, I mean,

00:38:55.260 the Brits are pretty switched on.

00:38:58.320 We do look at global issues.

00:39:01.460 We do read global news.

00:39:03.060 We watch very closely

00:39:03.940 what happens in the US

00:39:05.040 because basically what happens

00:39:06.600 in the US affects us all.

00:39:08.640 We keep a good eye on Russia

00:39:10.640 and what's happening there as well.

00:39:13.100 And because we do have a global outlook,

00:39:16.160 look, we are global Britain.

00:39:17.800 We do have the Commonwealth

00:39:18.920 and we do have the big ties with Canada.

00:39:23.320 So therefore,

00:39:23.840 and also we've been building a case

00:39:25.860 on the Brexit side of the debate

00:39:29.400 to uncover what's been going on

00:39:31.360 in the European Parliament.

00:39:32.640 And absolutely,

00:39:33.320 I mean, the European Parliament

00:39:34.600 is no different from the UN.

00:39:36.640 I mean, there's some shocking things

00:39:38.040 coming out of the UN at the moment,

00:39:39.540 the people that are being so-called elected

00:39:41.140 onto their bodies. 0.63

00:39:42.560 It's a very leftist organisation.

00:39:45.840 They've got ethnic minorities

00:39:47.780 from tin pot countries from Africa 0.99

00:39:50.280 sitting on their balls. 0.99

00:39:52.180 And those people are coming to my country 1.00

00:39:54.420 and from South America,

00:39:56.180 from despot countries in South America,

00:39:58.300 and they are assessing us on our poverty,

00:40:01.800 on our equality,

00:40:03.200 on our racial politics.

00:40:05.360 And we say, no, no more.

00:40:06.600 The UN has to be disbanded.

00:40:08.260 The European Union has to be disbanded.

00:40:11.800 And because it does have this profound effect,

00:40:13.880 because up until recently,

00:40:15.500 they've had it all their own way.

00:40:18.480 You know, take the gender agenda. 1.00

00:40:20.280 Another book that I'm writing at the moment,

00:40:23.520 this notion that just because you pump yourself

00:40:26.820 full of a few hormones 0.78

00:40:28.880 and you chop off your private parts, 0.98

00:40:31.360 you can be a man or a woman. 0.97

00:40:33.180 You can't.

00:40:34.140 It's basic sex. 0.94

00:40:36.020 It's basic understanding of biology.

00:40:38.740 But out of nowhere, suddenly,

00:40:41.440 you know, this is put onto our statute books.

00:40:45.420 It is going into our schools.

00:40:46.560 We've got drag queens in the UK, 1.00

00:40:48.280 which actually has been imported from California,

00:40:50.880 going in to teach five-year-olds story time.

00:40:53.660 It's got to stop.

00:40:54.520 We've got mental illness amongst a lot of people

00:40:56.580 who think they are one sex 0.96

00:40:58.200 because it's being promoted by the governments.

00:41:01.760 And again, I'm going to be unwrapping this sort of thing.

00:41:04.180 And this racial identity politics.

00:41:07.040 And again, where has it come from?

00:41:08.480 It's crept up before behind us.

00:41:10.080 Nobody's voted for any of this.

00:41:12.060 So I say to my North American cousins,

00:41:14.660 be afraid, be very, very afraid,

00:41:16.580 because these laws are thought up by people

00:41:20.040 on enormous salaries.

00:41:22.580 They've got enormous degrees.

00:41:24.540 And they're sitting there with their computers saying,

00:41:27.000 oh, let's do trans stuff.

00:41:28.120 Let's do gender stuff. 1.00

00:41:29.100 Let's do racial politics. 0.78

00:41:30.960 And then before we know it,

00:41:32.420 it's on our statute of books

00:41:33.360 and it's coming to you and via the UN.

00:41:35.760 Very interesting.

00:41:37.480 Well, I tell you this,

00:41:38.360 you live in a target rich environment

00:41:40.380 and I accept your points that Brits

00:41:42.060 are probably more switched on to this

00:41:44.000 because of course your country

00:41:45.200 has just gone through the entire Brexit campaign

00:41:47.940 and then the two years of dilly-dallying.

00:41:49.880 So yeah, actually come to think of it,

00:41:51.400 I bet Brits think about the EU a lot more

00:41:53.740 than Canadians or Americans think about the UN.

00:41:56.640 If we ever had a referendum on the United Nations,

00:41:59.400 boy, that would be a fascinating vote.

00:42:01.120 I don't think our politicians would trust us with that.

00:42:04.020 Janice, it's great to talk with you.

00:42:05.960 I look forward to your work with The Rebel,

00:42:07.840 both based in the UK and around the world.

00:42:11.160 Welcome aboard and keep up the fight.

00:42:13.900 Thank you.

00:42:14.300 You too, Ezra.

00:42:15.080 Together, united in defiance, we'll win.

00:42:17.620 All right.

00:42:18.200 There you have it.

00:42:18.760 Well, that's Janice Atkinson,

00:42:20.280 the latest member of the Rebel team

00:42:23.920 and she's joining us

00:42:25.800 and she's going to be covering politics

00:42:27.560 from the UK and the continent of Europe

00:42:29.820 and anywhere she wants.

00:42:31.400 So much to say, I'm very excited to have her join us.

00:42:34.840 Stay with us.

00:42:35.640 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:42:36.260 Hey, welcome back.

00:42:47.800 On my monologue yesterday, Robert writes,

00:42:50.440 Junior's approval ratings say it all.

00:42:52.300 The election is only nine months away

00:42:53.540 and reality is starting to stare PM butts in the face.

00:42:56.680 The walls are closing in 0.98

00:42:57.600 and butts is acting more and more unhinged 0.90

00:42:59.040 as time goes by. 0.94

00:43:01.480 Yeah, you know what?

00:43:02.240 I remember when I got on Twitter,

00:43:04.680 I guess it's almost 10 years ago now.

00:43:07.960 What I liked about it,

00:43:09.340 the real insight for me,

00:43:10.460 I'm sort of hooked on it now,

00:43:11.320 it's a terrible habit,

00:43:12.720 is I could see the media party journalists

00:43:18.000 harmonizing in real time.

00:43:20.400 It was like birds,

00:43:22.220 how do they get in that flock formation?

00:43:24.940 Like, how?

00:43:26.160 Who taught them?

00:43:27.100 That's an instinct, right?

00:43:28.580 But they do still have to,

00:43:29.760 okay, you're there and I'm here

00:43:30.900 and we're all just going,

00:43:31.520 what's the message of,

00:43:32.740 like birds in a formation.

00:43:33.940 Watching Twitter in real time

00:43:35.640 is like watching the birds line up

00:43:39.160 and so it gives away too much.

00:43:43.620 Journalists like it

00:43:44.320 because it's like a dear diary.

00:43:45.640 Here's how I really feel

00:43:46.720 in a form that my editor would keep up

00:43:49.400 because it's too personal or emotional.

00:43:51.500 But we get to see the real thoughts

00:43:53.420 in real time,

00:43:54.860 usually uncensored and often unwise,

00:43:57.580 of journalists.

00:43:58.500 and Gerald Butts,

00:44:00.840 the principal secretary of the prime minister,

00:44:04.340 really the policy boss in this country.

00:44:07.340 He makes the same mistake.

00:44:09.640 He indulges his emotions,

00:44:11.640 he indulges his rage,

00:44:13.280 he indulges his fury,

00:44:15.160 he says personal insults,

00:44:17.300 he shows too much of who he is,

00:44:19.980 which is fascinating.

00:44:21.560 It's an insight into the liberals

00:44:23.060 we would never be able to get otherwise.

00:44:24.680 I recommend joining Twitter

00:44:26.760 just to watch what Gerald Butts tweets

00:44:29.760 because unlike Justin Trudeau

00:44:32.120 who just has like a staff of 24

00:44:33.920 writing tweets for him,

00:44:35.240 Gerald Butts does his own tweets.

00:44:36.640 It is a fascinating insight

00:44:38.060 not only into what this government does

00:44:39.980 but what this government thinks about you.

00:44:43.040 And I can sum it up in three words, 1.00

00:44:44.500 racist, Islamophobic, Nazis. 1.00

00:44:46.300 There you go. 1.00

00:44:47.920 Tammy writes,

00:44:48.540 Yes, the optics are horrible

00:44:50.460 and it certainly is offensive to veterans,

00:44:52.620 current members of the military

00:44:53.500 and all Canadians who are awake

00:44:54.660 and see Trudeau et al for what they are.

00:44:57.300 I think you're referring to the Omar Khadr

00:44:59.340 being listed as a Canadian soldier.

00:45:02.700 I think I'm almost persuaded

00:45:04.480 by the YouTube,

00:45:06.400 sorry, Google search boss

00:45:07.620 that this was an automatic machine thing

00:45:11.040 and they took something

00:45:12.160 and it was automatically compiled by machine.

00:45:15.040 I'm almost willing to believe him.

00:45:16.960 I mean, these guys lie all the time.

00:45:18.700 And there's no way we could ever check

00:45:20.040 and they know that.

00:45:22.040 But they didn't put up a fuss.

00:45:23.500 They changed it pretty quick.

00:45:26.080 That in itself, I don't think is news.

00:45:29.000 The news, the super weirdness

00:45:31.020 was how Gerald Butts was furious

00:45:33.580 with their decision.

00:45:35.760 That's crazy.

00:45:38.360 Elijah writes,

00:45:39.800 They don't even try to hide their contempt

00:45:41.220 and utter disrespect of Canadians anymore.

00:45:43.580 Yeah, that's what I mean.

00:45:44.460 Well, I think, I mean, I know

00:45:47.040 it's not just an I think.

00:45:48.060 I wrote a book about Omar Khadr.

00:45:50.260 We've done a ton of them.

00:45:51.500 I mean, I used to do more about it

00:45:52.740 back in the Sunday's Network

00:45:53.580 when the story was fresher.

00:45:56.660 Angus, we did a poll about Omar Khadr.

00:45:58.180 70 plus percent of Canadians didn't want the pay.

00:45:59.980 So it's not just me.

00:46:01.260 It's not me and it's not just you.

00:46:03.180 The whole country hates the Khadr deal.

00:46:05.780 They hate that it's been turned into a saint.

00:46:07.220 Not the whole country,

00:46:07.880 but the vast majority

00:46:08.780 and the majority of every party.

00:46:10.160 Why would the liberals embrace him

00:46:12.860 in a weird technical fight over a Google search

00:46:15.400 that they were losing?

00:46:16.400 But why would they want to stimulate

00:46:19.000 a public discussion about Omar Khadr 0.98

00:46:21.300 unless they are crazy, 0.97

00:46:23.260 true believers in Islamism 1.00

00:46:25.680 and rehabilitating unrepentant terrorists? 1.00

00:46:29.120 I think they are crazy. 1.00

00:46:30.700 I really think they are. 1.00

00:46:33.040 Oh, well.

00:46:34.280 We're here to give the other side of the story.

00:46:37.480 Folks, that's our show for today.

00:46:38.600 Until tomorrow,

00:46:39.480 on behalf of all of us here

00:46:40.560 at Rebel World Headquarters

00:46:41.680 and you at home,

00:46:42.280 good night.

00:46:43.480 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:46:44.440 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - February 01, 2019

Why the Media Party loves Trudeau's plan to monitor political editorials in the next election campaign

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