The Candice Malcolm Show - As Trudeau destroys his reputation, the legacy media destroy their credibility

00:00:00.000 The police move to break up the Freedom Convoy, the legacy media spin into overdrive to cover for

00:00:05.900 Trudeau during his time of need, and they remind us who the real heroes of the protests are

00:00:10.860 themselves. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:19.020 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in. So it's Fake News Friday, and we are going to get

00:00:22.900 to all of our reactions and break down the biggest fake news stories of the week. But because there's

00:00:27.320 so much news going on, and there's so much going on right now on the ground in Ottawa,

00:00:31.120 I wanted to give you a quick news update. So there's sort of three big things that are going on

00:00:36.120 right now. First of all, it's Friday. They were supposed to do an emergency meeting in the House

00:00:41.240 of Commons to discuss the Emergency Act. So the debate on the Emergency Act, we learned,

00:00:46.460 was canceled. Why? Well, because of the Emergency Act. It's so ridiculous. So here is a story from

00:00:52.420 Global News. Parliament acts as Friday plans to meet over Emergencies Act amid police operations.

00:00:58.040 So Speaker of the House, Anthony Rota, the Liberal, wrote, the House of Commons will not sit today,

00:01:02.420 Friday, February 18th. A police operation is expected in the downtown core of Ottawa. Given

00:01:07.320 these exceptional circumstances and following discussion with all recognized party leadership,

00:01:12.220 the sitting today is canceled. So again, they cannot meet to discuss the Emergency Act,

00:01:17.760 because they've already executed the Emergency Act, and there is a police operation going on. This is

00:01:22.460 a total suspension of our democracy, of the rule of law, of liberalism in Canada. And the legacy media

00:01:28.660 just sort of shrug it off. This was written into the global media piece. They write,

00:01:32.620 while the House of Commons has been in hybrid format for much of the past two years,

00:01:36.680 holding the session virtually only likely would have raised questions about whether it broke

00:01:41.080 parliamentary rules, wrote Global. So they're covering for the liberals, saying they can't even do this

00:01:45.240 even though we've been doing parliament virtually for most of the last two years. Somehow they can't

00:01:50.460 even do that. So no, we've canceled democracy, we've canceled the rule of law, and the legacy media

00:01:56.940 is doing what they do best, which is cover for the liberals. So on the same vein, the second news story

00:02:02.240 I want to talk about is sad news out of Ottawa that Tamara Litch was arrested on Thursday evening.

00:02:07.940 You'll remember that she was the original organizer of the GoFundMe campaign. She's also become sort of

00:02:12.800 a spokesperson for the campaign. She recorded sort of a teary message on Wednesday evening,

00:02:18.840 sort of predicting that she was going to get arrested. She seemed really distraught about it,

00:02:22.600 but she was prepared to do it. And so I guess the inevitability happened. Joe Warmington tweeted this

00:02:28.360 out Thursday evening at about 8.40 local time in Ottawa. Breaking Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Litch

00:02:34.380 has been arrested. And there she is. You can see a picture of her earlier that day. I believe that's

00:02:39.800 with her daughter that was tweeted out by the Freedom Convoy. But this is just sort of a sad

00:02:46.060 moment for the Freedom Convoy. We know that Tamara has been a fighter and a warrior all the way 1.00

00:02:50.240 through. She seems like a tremendous person and seeing her get arrested signifies that this is

00:02:55.500 all just coming to an end. And again, probably inevitable that they were going to break this up,

00:03:00.060 but it is finally happening right now in Ottawa. We'll keep bringing you updates from the ground of

00:03:05.180 how that plays out and how that police operation plays out, how this thing finally ends. Third story

00:03:10.300 I want to quickly touch on before we get into Fake News Friday here is that there was an actual terrorist

00:03:14.880 attack in Canada yesterday. Yes, there was a terrorist attack. No, it had nothing to do with the Freedom

00:03:20.660 Convoy. It wasn't in Ottawa. It had nothing to do with the thing that the Trudeau government was

00:03:25.100 engaging this Emergencies Act and pushing our country into wartime measures to confront a couple 0.91

00:03:30.640 hundred truckers in Ottawa. Meanwhile, actual terrorists in northern British Columbia attacking

00:03:35.480 a oil and gas site, a natural pipeline work site near Houston, British Columbia. So Stuart Marr tweeted

00:03:42.080 this out. He said, disturbing news of domestic terrorism in northern BC. 20 axe-wielding attackers

00:03:48.060 set upon security guards early on Thursday at a natural gas pipeline work site. One Mountie injured

00:03:54.280 in an arson attack. Unbelievable stuff. The pictures here are really, really shocking. I'll read from the

00:03:59.560 news release here with the RCMP out in Houston, British Columbia, which is up in northern BC.

00:04:05.300 Police respond to acts of violence on the Martin Forest Service Road near Houston. And so it says

00:04:10.660 this, it was reported approximately 20 people, some armed with axes, were attacking security guards,

00:04:17.500 smashing their vehicle windows. It was initially reported that some coastal gas link employees were

00:04:22.060 trapped inside, but all managed to leave the area safely. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Truly acts of

00:04:28.820 violence. You can see they set the site on fire to try to stop the police from getting them. They flipped

00:04:34.000 over large vehicles, completely violent, with axes, destroying private property, setting arson,

00:04:43.280 setting fire, which was endangering security guards and the police. And basically not a peep from the

00:04:50.480 media, not a peep from the Trudeau government. I wonder whether Chrystia Freeland is going to be freezing 1.00

00:04:57.000 these 20 individuals' bank accounts. Will she be freezing their bank accounts? Will she be treating

00:05:00.860 them like terrorists? Will she be freezing the bank accounts of anyone who donated to this cause that

00:05:05.560 are paying for these eco-radicals to be wreaking havoc up in northern BC? Well, probably not. Probably 1.00

00:05:11.120 not because this is happening in a working class blue collar area. So no one in Ottawa cares at all when

00:05:16.660 it's happening over there. Unbelievable stuff. And I think that's a good segue into our regular episode of

00:05:22.500 Fake News Friday. So for that, I am joined as usual by my producer and True North journalist,

00:05:27.940 Harrison Faulkner. Harrison, hey, thanks for joining the show today. Yeah, Candace. Well, as you know,

00:05:32.700 we've been covering this for 25 days or so, 26 days, I believe it is, our count. And every single day,

00:05:39.660 the legacy media continue to provide us with just as many examples as possible as to how they are so

00:05:46.260 opposed to this movement and their rants, which they just put out on Twitter every day. And we have a lot

00:05:52.020 to get through. So I'm just going to read to you a couple of these, a couple of these takes from

00:05:57.000 legacy media journalists that show just how opposed they really are to all of this. The first one that

00:06:03.440 we have is from Rachel Gilmore. And she was so shocked to see that these protesters were having a

00:06:10.840 pig roast. Although that like as if that was the worst thing she had seen here, she wrote in all caps,

00:06:16.220 a pig roast. Jesus Christ. She couldn't believe that these protesters were enjoying a pig roast

00:06:24.380 because they've been there for so long. So it just shows you.

00:06:27.540 I think this is like a cultural divide, Harrison.

00:06:29.960 Absolutely.

00:06:30.620 I know that a lot of people have pig roasts as part of like, you know, maybe a Sunday barbecue,

00:06:36.340 watching football or something. It's sort of like a cultural, I wouldn't even say like a working

00:06:40.200 class thing, but maybe a more of like suburban rural thing. And the fact that she was just

00:06:44.260 beside herself. And the great thing about Twitter is it gives us a window into the minds of these

00:06:49.960 elitist legacy media journalists. So they're sort of stream of consciousness. They can't help it.

00:06:54.860 They put it out there. And it just shows exactly to your point, like how, how culturally opposed they

00:07:00.440 are to these people. It's much more of a cultural issue than it is a political issue in my mind.

00:07:05.080 Oh, absolutely. And they're just so shocked. It's like they've never been, they've never been

00:07:10.080 faced with, faced with the opposing cultural, uh, the opposing culture like this. So really it's

00:07:16.420 quite, it's quite humorous to see them all do this. And, um, I know on your show yesterday,

00:07:20.280 you taught, you touched on this tweet. This is from Graham Richardson, a CTV anchorman who basically

00:07:26.500 went out and publicly stated that he was really enjoying the process of doxing, uh, people who

00:07:31.180 had donated to the, to the give, send, go. He wrote, have spent the last two days calling local

00:07:35.460 people who have donated to the trucker convoy, including a former MP, several business owners,

00:07:40.840 healthcare professionals, and a property developer trying to understand why they support this very

00:07:45.400 few calls back, which, uh, I'm not at all surprised, but clearly he was. And then he responded saying,

00:07:50.760 Oh, it appears as though some of you don't agree with what I'm doing. Well, no, no, Graham. Uh, a lot

00:07:55.780 of people don't really like when journalists go and dox, uh, citizens do the government's dirty work

00:08:01.360 for them. What, what a surprise there. And this, well, and also just like this idea that journalists

00:08:06.340 are harassing citizens for a private donation. A lot of these donations, Harrison, were very small

00:08:11.820 dollar amounts. So you're talking about $50, a hundred dollars. And in, in return, these people

00:08:17.200 are getting shamed. Look, I've gotten lots of messages from people, both firsthand and secondhand,

00:08:21.880 uh, like, like someone will show me a message that someone sent them or someone sent me to rest.

00:08:26.000 People are afraid. People are really, really afraid that the government is criminalizing

00:08:30.780 their dissent, that, that a donation that they made a month ago will somehow retroactively make

00:08:36.160 them a terrorist today. And, you know, you and I can kind of laugh and joke about how silly that is

00:08:40.960 and how overreaching the government is. But I, I know from, from messages that I'm receiving that

00:08:45.900 some people are very scared. This is putting a chill, um, in the hearts of Canadians. They don't

00:08:50.780 want to be treated like terrorists. They don't want to get their bank accounts froze. They don't want

00:08:53.560 their credit cards or their mortgages cut up. And this is a very real threat and, and a very

00:08:58.260 dangerous situation. And the fact that the, that the media is out there doing the Trudeau's

00:09:03.400 dirty work, it, to me, it's exposed how corrupted the media are, how these journalists are. And

00:09:10.400 they're, and they're so out of touch, Harrison, they don't even realize what they're doing. They're

00:09:14.060 so naive about it. They're like, oh, oh, some of you don't agree with me doing this. It's like,

00:09:18.160 it's like, do you understand the severity here? The government is telling you, if you donated to

00:09:23.780 this campaign, you could be treated like a terrorist. They're equating peaceful protesters and

00:09:28.080 Ottawa with terrorists. And the, the, the idea of what terror, like what we do to terrorists in

00:09:33.460 society, like, like we unperson them, right? Like they could go to jail, they could lose everything.

00:09:37.980 And I, to me, the fact that the journalists are out there, I'm happy again, that they're putting

00:09:42.220 it out there on Twitter because they're being exposed. And you can see a lot of these tweets

00:09:45.520 really get ratioed, not just by the sort of usual suspects here in Canada, but by big international

00:09:51.140 accounts, big accounts from the UK, Australia, and the US. Maybe some of these journalists are getting a

00:09:56.980 little bit of a wake up call, like, wow, these practices and this behavior that I'm carrying on

00:10:01.420 isn't, isn't, isn't acceptable and it's not okay in a free society. Well, it's, it's really maddening

00:10:06.940 because in journalism school, the fundamental, one of the fundamentals that they always tell us

00:10:12.060 is that journalists are supposed to speak truth to power. They're not supposed to wield the 0.64

00:10:16.960 government's power for them and to use the government's power to crush dissent on behalf of

00:10:21.420 the government. It's, it's really something I've never seen before. And I'm surprised these

00:10:25.600 journalists are so, are so proud to be doing that work. It's, it's frankly disgusting. 0.79

00:10:30.580 And, and speaking about that, as you said, Candace, they are, the government is using this terrorist

00:10:35.520 language to paint these protests, which is very, very dangerous. These are Canadian citizens who are 0.99

00:10:41.100 just exercising their right to peacefully protest. But to, to go with that, these journalists, this,

00:10:46.660 a Quebec journalist wrote in, in Quebecor, which is a, which is a French language newspaper.

00:10:52.980 Uh, she, she, she's writing these tabloid style headlines in a newspaper calling the protesters

00:10:59.400 of the freedom convoy COVID talibans. So basically going as far as she can to paint these, paint these

00:11:07.380 freedom protesters, many of whom I had the opportunity to speak to when I was in Ottawa,

00:11:11.660 uh, who were our true, uh, salt of the earth Canadians that are fighting for their freedoms.

00:11:17.280 Well, the, the journalists are now doing the government's dirty work and labeling them as

00:11:21.080 terrorists. And, and Candace, before we move on, there's another tweet that I, I found to be very,

00:11:26.700 uh, very enlightening as to where these legacy media journalists are coming from and, and where

00:11:32.760 their coverage is coming from. Mackenzie Gray, who's a part of the, uh, parliamentary press gallery,

00:11:37.480 um, was covering one of the freedom convoy organizers, press conferences. And he wrote,

00:11:44.620 the convoy leadership also reiterates, they have no intentions of acting outside of the democratic

00:11:49.940 process to get any of their goals. And he says, after that, I would wager that it's never a great

00:11:55.580 sign when you need to add that asterisk to your remarks. So, so I wonder then, uh, I wonder then

00:12:01.160 Mackenzie Gray, what, what should they say? Because you are the, they are the ones, the journalists are

00:12:05.960 the ones that are painting these organizers as people who are trying to overthrow the government

00:12:11.320 as terrorists. So what are they supposed to say? Are they just supposed to say nothing? Are they

00:12:15.600 supposed to say that in fact, no, they're not going to, uh, they're not going to make, make claims

00:12:20.780 about how they're not trying to act as a democratic process. It's, it's unbelievable, Candace. And

00:12:25.400 really it just shows you how far our media has fallen. And, and it's like, it's like a trap,

00:12:31.620 right? They set it up. So it's like, it's like, Hey, these guys are here to overthrow the government.

00:12:35.800 And then they go, no, we're not. We're not here to overthrow the government. We're here to act

00:12:39.340 within the democratic process. And they go, well, the fact that you even needed to say that

00:12:43.840 begs a question of whether it's true. It's like, I'm only saying that because you keep saying the

00:12:48.120 opposite. And, and it's like, no matter what they do, these journalists won't give them a fair shake,

00:12:52.440 won't paint the honest truth. This is why everyone knows this is why no one trusts the media. Like

00:12:58.040 this, this journalist is a snake. He's transparently showing us what he truly believes going into overdrive,

00:13:05.260 doing everything they can to smear these truckers. Thankfully, many Canadians are seeing through that.

00:13:10.360 Unfortunately, many are not. Trudeau is using their rhetoric and their language to justify this

00:13:15.620 emergencies act and this assault on our democracy. It's, it's, it's a cycle. And yes, it's transparent

00:13:21.280 for us to see, but it's happening. And the fact that it's allowed to happen is not a good sign for our,

00:13:27.600 our country, Harrison.

00:13:28.460 No, absolutely not. And the, the government is really playing into this with the media,

00:13:34.060 the legacy media. They are, they have now made a move. And we found this out through a Blacklocks 1.00

00:13:38.380 report, which basically stated that the speaker of the house of commons, Anthony Rhoda is now

00:13:44.120 offering reporters armed guards at taxpayers expense. Um, after the parliamentary press gallery

00:13:50.660 complained, it was troubled by freedom convoy truck drivers. So parliament Hill guards are now going

00:13:57.120 to be accompanying these legacy media journalists as they, as they, as they basically spew this biased

00:14:04.700 reporting about this trucker convoy from inside. Now, um, and this is a quote, this is a quote from

00:14:11.200 Elizabeth Thompson, a CBC reporter who said, personally, I felt a little uncomfortable because

00:14:16.540 there were all of these guys roaming around the street. Um, and there was, and she had to wait for

00:14:22.860 the commissioner each time to actually open the door. Um, some were quick, some were quite quick,

00:14:28.440 others, not so quick. If there was ever a situation where a member was being threatened and had to get

00:14:32.440 into that building quickly, uh, you know, so they're really playing into this, that these, these truckers,

00:14:38.440 these protesters are dangerous and that the press need to be shielded from these protesters. Now I was

00:14:43.520 in Ottawa. Like I said, I had the, I had the opportunity to go down and see for myself what it was like.

00:14:48.460 And that is just not at all the case, Candace. I freely roamed through the trucks. I talked with

00:14:54.280 truckers. I was welcomed inside some of their trucks to speak with these people. These are not

00:14:59.440 at all people who would, who would threaten journalists. And the very idea that, that the,

00:15:04.080 that the government is now playing into this is really, really disheartening.

00:15:08.900 Well, it's so true. Like let's, let's just go back. The truckers have been there for 22 days.

00:15:12.760 How many assaults have there been? How many attacks have there been? How many people have been

00:15:16.540 assaulted or attacked in, in any way, shape or form? How many journalists have been attacked?

00:15:21.660 The answer is zero. The answer is zero. Sure. There has been some arrests. There's been some

00:15:25.740 people who have acted out, but, but as far as, as, as violence and assaults, there just haven't been

00:15:30.760 any. And you know, the fact that you walked around freely, uh, Rupa Supriyama, who writes for the

00:15:36.400 national post. She's also, she lives in Ottawa. She's been walking around. She's a person of color.

00:15:40.680 She, she, she's a woman. She's had no problems whatsoever. So this whole like moral panic that,

00:15:46.340 that the journalists are promoting the fact that they're unsafe. Again, this goes back to culture.

00:15:50.520 In my mind, Harrison, I think that the, that there's a cultural divide, these, uh, you know,

00:15:54.880 very frail upper middle class, um, like T totling pro clutching journalists, uh, are, are just very 0.97

00:16:02.120 afraid of, of like working class blue collar men in, in their town. And, and it's so, it's so patently

00:16:07.940 obvious. Well, here is Sean O'Shea, a global news reporter who is doing a report on the ground,

00:16:15.020 taking advantage of his layers and layers of taxpayer funded security. You can see he's with

00:16:20.000 the RCMP and with his private security. I don't understand how it's necessary. Like 10 feet

00:16:26.220 over, you see, uh, turn off Andrew Lawton and he doesn't have any security and he is just fine.

00:16:31.120 So there's this whole idea that he needs it, um, is, is kind of laughable, but I want to play this

00:16:35.400 clip Harrison, because, um, he, he also talks about how the protesters are wrong and the beliefs that

00:16:41.900 they hold are incorrect. So let's play that clip. Well, uh, Tracy, to give you some perspective

00:16:47.020 here, we're surrounded by, we have private security. We have the police around us because

00:16:51.860 many of the protesters have been blaming us, complaining that we're telling them not wrong

00:16:56.240 story, which is not true. So he's, he's saying that the protesters believe that the media are at

00:17:02.180 fault for saying for the narrative about the truckers. And he's just says like blatantly,

00:17:07.360 like as fact, that's not true. And it's like, what do you mean? Of course it's true. The fact

00:17:11.260 that the, that the police are there right now, the fact that there is a emergencies act, the fact

00:17:16.160 that they're treating this like an insurrection is because the media have spent the last three,

00:17:20.200 four weeks now calling us an insurrection, calling us an occupation, calling this a siege.

00:17:24.660 The media ramped up the language. The Trudeau government took advantage of that. This is,

00:17:28.740 this has all been coordinated. And yet we're supposed to believe, um, that, that again,

00:17:33.200 the journalists are the true heroes. Just, just ask them because they will tell you they are,

00:17:36.800 they are the true heroes of this freedom convoy, Harrison. And this, this is sort of speaks to a

00:17:42.300 broader point. I want to pull up this, this, uh, story from CTV Atlantic, because I think it's,

00:17:47.560 it's a great parallel of how the media, again, work in lockstep with the woke left and the Trudeau

00:17:53.760 liberals to try to demonize and, uh, just put beyond the pale, any sort of conservative or anti

00:18:01.100 government, like broadly people who want smaller government, they jumped to equate that to being

00:18:06.480 racist, anti-semit, anti-semitic and far right. So here, here's a story out of New Brunswick.

00:18:12.220 It says a commissioner says Fredericton COVID-19 protests include racist symbolism and imagery.

00:18:17.660 So apparently the New Brunswick government has something called a commissioner on systemic

00:18:21.880 racism. This individual's name is Manju Varma. And she issued a statement Tuesday stating that she

00:18:28.700 reviewed materials from social media from an event held outside the provincial legislator and found

00:18:33.240 racist symbolism referencing white supremacy, anti-semitism and far right extremism. So

00:18:39.280 Harrison, you might be, uh, wondering what, what was this racist, uh, imagery? What was this white

00:18:44.080 supremacist, far right extremism symbolism? Um, it was a don't tread on me flag. It was,

00:18:50.620 it was a very common, uh, libertarian. I think I used to have one of these flags, um, on my office desk

00:18:56.300 when I was like 22 years old. Don't tread on me. Very common, uh, message that people like to say to

00:19:02.600 the government. It just basically means limited government, leave me alone, get out of my life.

00:19:07.500 It, it, it is a widely held sentiment across society, but apparently according to this commissioner

00:19:13.520 who's, who gets paid, um, to try to find examples of systemic racism, um, she has to reach pretty far

00:19:20.540 to say that a don't tread on me flag is somehow an example of that. But again, I think this just goes

00:19:26.200 to the broader cultural, uh, idea, the, the idea that the media drum this up, that, um, they're

00:19:31.720 trying to demonize any kind of conservative thought or conservative protest as being something

00:19:37.480 nefarious, something beyond the pale, something that's not acceptable, and basically trying to

00:19:41.760 equate all conservatives or all people who just want like small government, responsible,

00:19:45.740 limited government, um, equating them with some kind of a scary far-right racist movement. It's,

00:19:51.520 it's, it's, it's a sad sign of, of what's happening in our society, Harrison.

00:19:55.900 Well, I just think that because they, they've seen the don't tread on me flag at Trump rallies,

00:20:01.280 that automatically, uh, that, that automatically makes that flag a racist flag. And, and of course,

00:20:07.620 at a freedom rally in Canada, the expectation is that people are going to fly flags that are all about

00:20:14.440 having their freedoms, all about making sure that the government gives them what they promise to

00:20:20.160 give them, which is freedom in this country. And it goes so far, Candace, uh, that even the state

00:20:25.780 broadcaster has been putting out articles which say the word freedom itself is, is becoming a common,

00:20:33.060 a common term among the far right, and that it's a useful rallying cry for protesters. Well,

00:20:38.800 it is a useful rallying cry because freedom is what everybody wants. Freedom is the goal of most people

00:20:44.160 in the world. That's why they come to Canada in the first place, because they're promised 0.93

00:20:48.420 in this country that they'll get freedom. But I want to read part of this article because

00:20:51.940 I can just read quotes out of it because it's so absurd. So the article begins by saying the word

00:20:57.980 has become common among far right groups, experts say. And then the article just goes on to say,

00:21:04.360 the concept of freedom can be used to reject equality. To see the word freedom bandied about

00:21:09.900 as part of these protests points to a broader circulation of what Elizabeth Anker calls

00:21:14.840 violent forms of freedom. Freedom is a slippery concept, said Anker, an associate professor of

00:21:21.920 political science at George Washington University. And then, and then she goes on to say,

00:21:27.160 on the far right, individual freedom is often translated into somebody who refuses to be bound

00:21:32.100 by norms of equality, treating all people equally or norms to remedy inequality, whether that's trying

00:21:38.200 to remedy racial discrimination or gender discrimination. So that's just a classic

00:21:42.620 leftist word salad article there from the CBC. But Candace, they are now basically saying that those

00:21:49.640 who use the word freedom, those who want freedom, like most people in this country, I think, are

00:21:54.840 actually just parroting a far right talking point, which is, well, that's just absolutely absurd.

00:22:02.540 Yeah, no, I saw, I saw a headline, I can't remember exactly where it is, I'll try to find it.

00:22:07.960 But it said that someone had spray painted the word freedom on a wall. And the headline said,

00:22:13.980 anti-vax protesters, something about how it was like an anti-vax slogan. And it's like,

00:22:21.960 how is freedom, anti-vax, how is, how is the concept freedom of violent, of something violent? Like,

00:22:28.040 this is, this is, this is, you know, it's not funny. It's like Orwellian, like concept creeped

00:22:33.700 here that that something so basic and so universal as freedom, you know, a word that appears throughout

00:22:41.620 our national anthem, you know, throughout our constitution, throughout even the, the guide

00:22:49.160 that we give to newcomers to Canada, like freedom is so core to the Canadian identity, that it's

00:22:53.580 synonymous with Canada. And yet here we have the CBC telling us that experts, there's experts out

00:22:58.480 there, who say that freedom is a slippery concept, like, it's, it's, it's such a parody of itself.

00:23:04.520 And I think, I think maybe this is a silver lining, Harrison, throughout this, this is the way that

00:23:08.720 the media have covered this is that there's been so many stories like that, that go viral, like in

00:23:12.820 a negative way, where, where are, you know, English speaking cousins around the world, are sort of

00:23:18.480 perplexed as to what's happening in Canada. And you start to get people from the UK,

00:23:22.560 Australia, the US, throughout the world, even India, sort of asking, like, what, what's going

00:23:30.040 on? Are you guys okay up there in Canada? And really, the over the top wokeness is being exposed.

00:23:37.600 And I think I think that is part of the silver lining. We've seen that a little bit with,

00:23:41.160 I'll give you an example, Ilhan Omar, who is one of the most left wing, sort of woke, I find her to 0.96

00:23:48.040 be unpalatable and despicable. And most of her views, she's, she's out and out anti Semite. 0.76

00:23:54.300 And regardless, she, you know, she's part of the squad, she hangs out with AOC, she's one of these

00:23:58.520 like, cool, fresh faced, new Democrats. And even she was showing her total dismay and, and, and

00:24:08.040 you're shocked at the way that the Canadian journalists were covering this whole freedom

00:24:12.060 convoy. So, so she responded to a journalist from the Ottawa citizen who had put out one of those

00:24:17.160 doxing stories about how this store owner in Ottawa had to shut down because she donated $250

00:24:22.760 to the freedom convoy. So Ilhan Omar wrote this on Twitter, she said, I fail to see why any

00:24:28.240 journalists felt the need to report on a shop owner making such an insignificant donation,

00:24:32.940 rather than to get them harassed. It's unconscionable. And journalists need to do better. So wow,

00:24:38.420 I'm really surprised that I agree with Ilhan Omar, but good for her for jumping in and not just taking

00:24:43.380 the knee jerk leftist reaction, like every journalist in Canada's done, but actually sort

00:24:47.580 of looking at the situation critically and saying, wait a minute, why is a journalist trying to do

00:24:51.820 this? There's no reason other than to get them harassed. Likewise, another Democrat, high profile

00:24:57.060 Democrat, Marianne Williamson, who's a former presidential nominee, she wrote Canada, are you

00:25:02.120 okay? So we're starting to see not just the usual suspects. I know we've had like big high profile

00:25:08.380 Americans like Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, they're all commenting,

00:25:14.000 and they're all helping us understand sort of the absurdity of what's happening in Canada.

00:25:18.140 But you're also starting to see sort of other people who aren't on the sort of conservative

00:25:24.180 side of the aisle stepping in, and not only shining light on Trudeau and his terrible behavior,

00:25:30.420 Harrison, but shaming the journalists and saying, you guys just really aren't doing your job. This is

00:25:35.340 not fair. You even had, this was a surprise, the New York Times editorial board put out an editorial

00:25:42.420 backing the truckers and saying that they had the right to peaceful protest. So, you know, you didn't

00:25:49.100 even see that in Canada's top papers, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, they've kind of oddly been in

00:25:54.860 favor of this police military crackdown on peaceful protesters. And it takes outside observers, more

00:26:02.720 neutral, people who aren't tied up with the Trudeau liberals, and all the inside drama, the cultural

00:26:07.400 aspects of this, to have like a fair, sober minded look at the situation. And I really do think they're

00:26:14.380 shaming Canadian journalists, I think that you do start to see some journalists in Canada asking better

00:26:19.300 questions to the Trudeau government, kind of upping their game in terms of their role, which is to hold

00:26:24.440 these people to account and expose bad behavior. And I think that that, that we're starting to see

00:26:30.180 some movement in that direction. I don't think there'll be an overall shift at this point or big

00:26:35.560 win. But I do, I do see glimpses of positivity, just in the fact that the journalists are being

00:26:42.520 shamed from their international colleagues to do better.

00:26:46.040 Yeah. And one thing, Candace, that I've heard from American pundits is the idea that America

00:26:51.520 always is, you know, a couple months or a few months behind Europe or Canada when, when their news

00:26:58.780 happens. And I think there are enough people in the United States, uh, both on the left and the

00:27:02.800 right to recognize that, uh, the precedent that's being set by the Canadian government here and how

00:27:07.540 they respond to this is very dangerous because Ilhan Omar, as a, as a far left Democrat, her base

00:27:14.380 are the protest, her protest class. And she is watching, uh, the way that journalists are attacking 0.97

00:27:21.520 those who engage in peaceful protest. And I think she sees this as a dangerous precedent. And we're

00:27:26.800 seeing that on the right and the left in the U S and also in the UK as well. So I think, as you

00:27:32.400 said, there is, there, there are some glimpses of hope. I think, I think that Trudeau's credibility

00:27:37.240 has been destroyed across the world by his response to this. And I think there are more eyes on Canada

00:27:43.120 now than there have been in my lifetime because of the way that this government has responded. So

00:27:48.380 my hope is that the people learn, uh, that this government has overstepped considerably,

00:27:55.660 that the people, the people around the world, uh, look at this government as, as a government that

00:28:00.080 has lost its credibility. And I think that overall, um, that is, that is hopefully a positive sign

00:28:06.580 going forward that this country is not going to hopefully make these same mistakes again.

00:28:12.340 That's such a good point. All right, Harrison, let's leave it at that. Thank you so much for

00:28:15.780 joining the program. Yeah. Thank you for having me. All right. It's been fake news Friday. I'm

00:28:20.320 Candace Malcolm, and this is the Candace Malcolm show.

00:28:25.660 Yeah. Thank you.

00:28:29.380 Yeah.

00:28:29.720 Yeah.

00:28:30.520 Yeah.

00:28:30.540 Yeah.

00:28:30.680 LEIGH-ENDO-

00:28:35.040 Yeah.

The Candice Malcolm Show - February 18, 2022

As Trudeau destroys his reputation, the legacy media destroy their credibility

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