The Candice Malcolm Show - March 04, 2022


Everyone who disagrees with me is a KGB propagandist


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In this episode, Harrison Faulkner and Candice discuss the controversy surrounding Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland's photo with a Bandera flag and whether or not she should have been allowed to have the flag.

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00:00:00.000 Everyone who disagrees with me is a pro-Putin shill and probably a KGB agent. 0.61
00:00:05.020 It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:12.020 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in. It's Friday, it's our favorite episode of the week
00:00:16.080 where we go through the legacy media and we point out all of the fake news and there's so much to
00:00:21.020 get to on this show. We definitely want to cover a lot of the propaganda, the propaganda from both
00:00:25.600 sides, from the pro-Russian side and the pro-Ukrainian side, just running wild, running
00:00:30.060 rampant on social media. So many legacy media journalists in Canada are falling for what is
00:00:35.580 so blatantly, obviously, propaganda. Joining me to help break it all down and make sense of it all
00:00:40.380 is Harrison Faulkner. Harrison is a producer here at The Candice Malcolm Show and he is a journalist
00:00:44.560 at True North. Harrison, thank you so much for joining us. Happy to be here, Candice.
00:00:49.020 Okay, so this is a big story and I know I covered it in quite some depth yesterday on my show.
00:00:53.920 Christia Freeland posts a picture on her own social media account with a Bandera movement
00:00:58.960 scarf. That Bandera movement represents the Nazi movement in Ukraine. Bandera was a Nazi in Ukraine 0.79
00:01:05.680 during the Second World War. He had his hand in the Holocaust. He had a hand in murdering upwards of 0.97
00:01:10.900 100,000 people, Poles and Jews during the Holocaust, during the Second World War. Christia Freeland just
00:01:16.480 sort of recklessly, in my opinion, is posing with this symbol. Not only posing with it, but she took a
00:01:22.920 picture with it and then she posted it on her own social media and then when she realized what it
00:01:27.560 was, she took it down, which is a tacit acknowledgement that she should not have been
00:01:31.180 posting that picture in the first place. True North was the first one to cover it. I didn't
00:01:35.380 think anyone in legacy media would follow suit. I was wrong. But rather than covering it,
00:01:41.560 the National Post did cover it. iPolitics did cover it. iPolitics' piece, by the way, was much more fair,
00:01:46.180 much more neutral, much less pro-Freeland than the National Post piece, which is a little bit
00:01:51.260 surprising. National Post is supposed to be the conservative news outlet in Canada. It's certainly
00:01:56.440 not anymore. But the National Post piece featured four people who all defended Christia Freeland and
00:02:03.880 who criticized True North. So the minister is the one posing with this banner. And yet the people who
00:02:10.540 are at fault, Harrison, are True North for promoting it. We're the ones supposedly pushing
00:02:15.400 Russian disinformation. What did you think of this story? Well, I mean, I think it's, as you said,
00:02:20.400 it's disappointing that the National Post is carrying water for the minister when they were quite fair
00:02:27.180 and reasonable when the government was leveling the attacks against the truckers who were being
00:02:33.400 basically blamed by the government as standing with people who wave swastikas. That's what Trudeau
00:02:37.500 famously said to Melissa Lantzman. And so it's clearly a shift in the way this is being covered.
00:02:45.220 But Candace, after you published your article, it got picked up on social media. It became a serious
00:02:51.520 talking point because Freeland has been in the news quite a bit over the past couple of weeks.
00:02:56.920 And the Post Millennial did an article about it. And as you said, iPolitics wrote a very fair
00:03:01.660 article about what was going on. But I want to read some of the social media response to
00:03:06.100 this story and your reporting on this. So Jack Posobiec, who many of you probably know,
00:03:11.800 he has a huge following on Twitter, over one and a half million followers. He wrote,
00:03:16.940 Hi, Christopher Freeland. Why did you delete this tweet of you holding a red and black banner?
00:03:20.800 Which is a great question. As you said, the deleting of that photo is, as you said,
00:03:25.960 this is an endorsement of a mistake that she shouldn't have been seen with this flag. And
00:03:30.980 then he writes again, is this true, Christopher Freeland? How many Nazi relatives do you have?
00:03:37.340 Please respond in response to someone calling out her grandfather, Michael Chomiak, who was involved
00:03:44.640 as a publisher of a Nazi newspaper in Poland. And so Maxime Bernier, who also got in on this,
00:03:53.480 he wrote, Will MPs vote unanimously to denounce the vile display of neo-Nazi symbols at that
00:03:59.140 demonstration, as they did when an agitator showed up with a Nazi flag at the Freedom Convoy? Or are
00:04:04.100 they just a bunch of hypocrites? And I have to say, that is a fair reading of this situation.
00:04:09.780 MPs came out and flatly condemned the Nazi flag at the Freedom Convoy protest. It's been very, 0.92
00:04:17.580 very quiet about this incident. Not to compare the two necessarily, but the fact is,
00:04:23.620 the silence is deafening on this issue. There should be, should be reasonable response from
00:04:29.240 this. And Max Blumenthal, an American journalist, I think is a, is usually considered to be a left-wing
00:04:34.440 journalist. He wrote that only days ago, Christopher Freeland was denigrating Canadian truckers as Nazis
00:04:39.680 and imposing emergency law to crush their protest movement. But when Russian forces entered her
00:04:44.500 family's native Ukraine, she reached for the flag of the Nazi allied UPA. She's since deleted this
00:04:50.620 image. So I think there is fair conversation to be had here. The hypocrisy from Freeland is quite
00:04:55.860 obvious. And I think that it's clearly catching the ire of a lot of people who are paying close
00:05:00.340 attention. Well, to me, it's just reckless. And here's the thing that bothers me the most,
00:05:06.080 Harrison, about this, is that Chrissy Freeland was the one being reckless. She was being callous.
00:05:10.400 She was cozying up with a very sketchy group in Ukraine. We're in this weird scenario in our,
00:05:14.760 in our civil discourse, where you can't really say anything bad about the Ukrainians, or you get
00:05:19.180 criticized of being a Putin shill, part of the KGB. That was one of the lines from Tristan Hopper,
00:05:24.800 the National Post piece, that True North was basically sharing, unwittingly sharing KGB propaganda.
00:05:30.480 And what I've seen is like, you know, Chrissy Freeland is the most powerful woman in Canadian
00:05:34.660 politics. She is an incredibly bright person. She understands the nuances and the politics of Ukraine,
00:05:41.220 Russia, probably better than anybody in the Trudeau government, including the civil service and the
00:05:45.580 diplomats who have spent time over there. She spent a lot of her career, a lot of her life
00:05:49.240 between Moscow and Kiev. She understands this stuff really, really, really well. And yet she's not the
00:05:54.380 one being held to account. True North is being held to account and other people for sharing this image.
00:05:59.900 It's so tiresome. And also just the line of attack, right? It's like, in a normal world,
00:06:04.720 in a normal scenario, if you disagree with a journalistic outlet, if you disagree with something
00:06:09.160 that a pundit is saying or a journalist is saying, you criticize them by saying, this is unfair,
00:06:14.800 this is biased, this is slanted, you're pushing, you know, a conservative or a liberal worldview.
00:06:21.160 Suddenly, over the last two weeks, anytime you do anything that might shed some negative light on
00:06:26.480 Ukraine, or in this case, on Chrissy Freeland, they instantly go to, you're a propagandist,
00:06:31.500 you're sharing Russian propagandists, you're part of the KGB, you're a pro-Russian show, which are
00:06:36.380 things that we have been accused of here at True North over the last few days. It's so patently
00:06:40.200 tiresome. It's so divisive. It's so untrue, Harrison. And again, we're just letting the fog
00:06:45.860 of war and the chaos and the propaganda kind of spill into our country. It's really unfortunate.
00:06:51.280 We covered this on the show earlier this week, you did a great job helping me dig through some
00:06:55.920 of the propaganda. And look, you know, we can share propaganda and say that this is propaganda
00:07:02.100 without picking a side. And when it comes to what's going on in Russia, I think that it's almost
00:07:06.420 unanimous that people are condemning Putin. We here at True North condemn Putin. I condemn Putin. I
00:07:11.700 think that he is a tyrant. I think that he is a bully. He is acting in a way that is completely
00:07:16.920 counter to international norms and human rights. If he's abuse, he's abusing human rights. He's
00:07:22.580 probably committing war crimes, killing civilians, killing children is absolutely reprehensible.
00:07:27.620 We can do it full stop. Okay. With that said, there's also a lot of troubling elements within
00:07:33.580 Ukraine, within the Ukrainian government. And there's a lot of propaganda being pushed on social
00:07:37.760 media. We went through on the show on Tuesday, where we talked about some of this propaganda.
00:07:43.500 I want to go through it in a little more depth, because I didn't go through them all in depth. But
00:07:47.520 I will just say that, you know, a lot of these images were being shared here in Canada by
00:07:52.520 blue check elites, by legacy media journalists, by bureaucrats, by pundits and public policy experts
00:07:59.460 at think tanks. And they were making the rounds and no one was really calling it out, which is what it
00:08:04.000 was propaganda. There was this one image that I saw getting shared hundreds of thousands of times,
00:08:08.660 they were being promoted by bots, but they were getting retweeted in the mainstream. Harrison,
00:08:13.540 we saw these soldiers that were supposedly saying goodbye to their wives and girlfriends. But it all
00:08:18.480 looked, I mentioned at the time, like, it looks like it's on a Hollywood set. It looks so fake. And
00:08:22.980 yet people were sharing this as if it was real. You did some digging. And what did you find about
00:08:26.600 this, these images? Yeah. So as you said, that video of the of the Ukrainian soldiers hugging their
00:08:33.000 girlfriends saying goodbye, it looked like it was from a Hollywood set in a movie set, because it
00:08:38.340 actually was. So it was from a 2017 Ukrainian movie. And people were kind of quick to pick up on that
00:08:45.220 the chatter on social media kind of got around to that. But not before the video had been shared
00:08:50.940 around and seen hundreds of thousands of times, really painting a an image of courageous soldiers
00:08:56.880 going to fight for their country and saying goodbye to their wives and girlfriends. That imagery
00:09:03.100 kind of that imagery sticks with people. And it's powerful. And people know that. And so
00:09:08.280 we were able to figure out through our kind of quick little digging that this was straight from a movie.
00:09:13.680 movie. And our footage of it and our all the footage has this sort of Ukrainian music behind
00:09:19.720 it. And that kind of lens that makes it look also like it was from a movie. So it quickly turned out
00:09:25.500 that that was fake. But like you said, Candice, not before it had been seen hundreds of thousands of
00:09:30.040 times. And it had really left an impact on on the audiences on social media. And that's just like
00:09:36.620 those photographs, Harrison, that were making the rounds of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
00:09:41.260 wearing military garb. And everyone was saying, look at this brave president. He is not sitting
00:09:46.260 in some back office somewhere. He's on the front lines fighting. Well, it turned out as reported in
00:09:51.200 the mainstream media in Europe and routers and other networks, that those pictures were staged.
00:09:56.080 They were taken several months ago. They were not, in fact, of Zelensky fighting on the on the front
00:10:00.360 lines. But again, that didn't stop lots and lots of journalists from promoting it. There was another
00:10:04.640 one. This one was viewed over 10 million times. Harrison, I had so many people sending this to me,
00:10:09.180 people were just horrified for what they were calling a Russian tank driving over a car. Well,
00:10:15.120 thanks to France 24, who really did a deep dive in investigative journalism, geotagging the kind
00:10:21.180 of reporting that you expect from top tier journalists to expose looking at the make and the
00:10:27.780 model of this tank to expose it. No, in fact, this was not a Russian tank. It was actually a Ukrainian
00:10:32.780 tank. So everyone sharing this saying, look at how horrific the look at the just horrific disregard for
00:10:38.540 human life of these reckless Russians in Kiev at a time where the Russians weren't even in Kiev at 0.95
00:10:43.440 that point. They were carrying out an air campaign, a bombing campaign. But but but nonetheless, this
00:10:49.520 was not a Russian tank. This was a Ukrainian tank driving over a car. And USA Today also did that fact
00:10:56.920 check. Another story making rounds, you were the one that brought this one to my attention. Harrison was
00:11:01.540 the one I guess one of the news days. This was a big story that there were these martyrs over on
00:11:07.220 Snake Island, who apparently died fighting against Putin. Well, it turned out that wasn't true. So why
00:11:13.720 don't you walk us through that story? Yeah, so there was this great story that had emerged about a day or
00:11:18.700 so after the first after the invasion of Ukraine, of Ukrainian soldiers basically fighting to the death
00:11:26.640 and defending this island called Snake Island. And the footage that was first published was an aerial
00:11:33.800 shot of the island. And then it was audio being overlaid of a conversation happening between a
00:11:39.880 Russian warship, telling them that you need to surrender or we will we will basically open fire on 0.79
00:11:45.080 this island. And then Ukrainian soldiers and basically responding. And there was this famous line
00:11:50.380 that was pushed by pushed and said by this Ukrainian soldier, which said, Russian warship,
00:11:57.080 go F yourself. And that was sort of the last, the last communication in this audio piece. And the 0.66
00:12:03.280 story went that they were essentially, they were all killed defending this island. The president,
00:12:08.700 President Zelenskyy wrote that these people, these soldiers had died defending their, defending their
00:12:13.220 country. And this sort of this, this rallying cry, Russian warship, go F yourself. That had become
00:12:18.960 basically the rallying cry of a lot of people on social media. And you can't deny that. It's great.
00:12:23.020 It's great propaganda, right? Yeah, you can't deny it is a great story. However, a couple days later,
00:12:28.600 it turned out, and I believe it was first published by the Russian side that these soldiers were captured
00:12:34.640 and taken prisoners of war. And then it was backed up by the Ukrainian side saying that these,
00:12:39.900 these soldiers were in fact still alive. So after the story had made its way through social media,
00:12:45.400 after it had really boosted the spirits of people watching from around the world and the Ukrainian
00:12:50.020 people fighting, it turned out that they were actually still alive. It's just another example of,
00:12:55.240 of a story being spun in a way to really ramp up the emotions. But as you said, this is a great piece
00:13:00.680 of propaganda. It really kind of, it brought that, that martyrdom and that imagery of a group of people
00:13:06.860 really fighting to the end for their country. So it's, it's powerful stuff, but just not, not accurate.
00:13:11.340 Not true. And thank, and thank God that they're still alive and hopefully they still are. And
00:13:15.400 they'll be returned safely to their families. You shouldn't wish that they were, they were dead,
00:13:19.080 but, but what, what, what a great example of, of a frontline front page headline story that turned
00:13:24.660 out not to be true. There's so many though. Another example I found, I saw a lot of people sharing this
00:13:28.600 one on social media of this little girl allegedly chasing after and punching a Russian soldier. Well,
00:13:34.620 one minute of Googling later, we learned that the BBC quickly debunked this one. It says,
00:13:40.520 a blurry video claiming to show Ukrainian girl confronting a Russian soldier has generated 12
00:13:45.260 million views on TikTok and nearly 1 million views on Twitter, but it actually shows a Palestinian
00:13:50.540 girl aged 11 at the time confronting an Israeli soldier after her older brother was arrested in 2012.
00:13:57.680 So again, just verify what you're sharing before you share it, because just because something
00:14:01.440 looks good, maybe it's even too good to be true. And, and as soon as I saw this image of a,
00:14:06.700 what we were told was a little Ukrainian girl chasing after a Russian soldier, I was incredibly
00:14:12.320 skeptical. And I'm glad that I was because it turned out not to be true. Well, Twitter has since
00:14:16.820 put a label out of context every time that someone does share it. I usually oppose Twitter getting
00:14:22.420 involved with these kinds of things and Facebook's, you know, manipulated media claims. However, it's good
00:14:28.820 to see at least that they are trying to do it fair. Let's talk about this last one. Tell us,
00:14:34.400 Harrison, about, uh, Samuel Hyde, the, the, the supposed ghost of Ukraine that people were sharing this
00:14:41.100 story. Well, this, this one is probably the best example of propaganda or spin being taken, uh, out of
00:14:49.300 context and, and jokes being, being believed to be true. Memes, uh, a, a comedian making memes, uh, turned
00:14:56.540 into what was taken as fact by people. Yeah. I mean that, that story, uh, is basically this guy,
00:15:03.320 Sam Hyde is a YouTube personality and his whole shtick apparently is to basically Photoshop himself
00:15:10.600 and his face onto these, these people that are committing actions of, of terror or, or, uh, you
00:15:18.540 know, it's just, it's ongoing meme. Like they, he's made himself, um, you know, a, uh, put himself on
00:15:24.400 the news as being supposedly a school shooter when it was just a meme. Um, he gets himself on TV as,
00:15:30.660 as a person of interest when it's just all planted. Anyway, he jumped on this, Photoshopped his face of,
00:15:36.860 uh, onto a fighter pilot in a, in a, in a fighter jet and a U S Congressman, Adam Kinzinger, um,
00:15:44.020 retweeted this picture and said, the ghost of Kiev has a name, Samuel Hyde. And he's, and he's,
00:15:51.680 and, and he's basically destroying these Russian warships. So this congressman fell for this
00:15:57.640 internet meme and it really, it's so obviously phototropped. Like if you just look at the
00:16:02.060 picture, it's the worst, it's the worst cropping, uh, possible on it. And, and he falls hook, line
00:16:07.940 and sinker for this, but the ghost of Kiev story actually was one of the biggest pieces of, of
00:16:12.740 propaganda that was circulating during this past week. And the footage supposedly of the ghost of
00:16:18.660 Kiev in the sky, shooting down Russian, uh, a Russian aircraft. Um, the biggest piece of
00:16:24.940 footage was actually taken from a flight simulator was taken from a video game. And you can, if you
00:16:29.540 look at it, hear the audio, you can kind of see that it looks a little weird, but it just goes to
00:16:34.100 show you that video games are, which are now becoming very realistic and the, the graphics are
00:16:39.520 becoming very powerful. They're, they're now being used and shopped around as actual footage. So
00:16:44.680 like you said, Candice, it's really important to just, I think the best way to approach this is
00:16:49.400 to take your time. Uh, you don't need to be the first person to share a video. Um, you can let it,
00:16:54.620 you can let it have that emotion that it does and you can let that sink in, but you don't want to be
00:16:58.740 the person who's publishing video game footage as fact. And I just want to say something about
00:17:03.100 all of these pieces of propaganda we've just gone through. These have all been fact checked and
00:17:09.200 rebuked or called out by mainstream outlets. So, you know, like you said, France 24, USA Today,
00:17:16.000 BBC, these are mainstream outlets that are calling this stuff out. This is not just, um, this is not
00:17:21.600 just someone, someone on the internet's opinion about these pieces of propaganda. They are being
00:17:26.440 called out by mainstream outlets, but yeah, it's important to just take the, take the time. You don't
00:17:30.720 need to be the first person to share the story. If it turns out to be fake, you definitely don't want
00:17:34.680 to be the first person to do that. Well, and also almost like kind of glorifying gamify war. Like
00:17:40.640 you're a, you're a Republican congressman. This is Adam Kinzinger, uh, talking about a war, like it's
00:17:46.420 a video game. Like, look at this guy, he owned the Russians, look at him, kill people. Like it's like, 1.00
00:17:51.320 what, you know, war is a horrible, horrible thing that, that is, is become a reality for the poor
00:17:56.160 people of Ukraine. Uh, they don't really need a bunch of Canadians and Americans, like treating it 0.98
00:18:01.740 like it's some kind of a, you know, a boxing match, cheering it on and sharing stuff that isn't even
00:18:06.680 true. Like, I, I think that we all need to just keep, keep, keep, keep control of ourselves. Like
00:18:12.620 cooler heads prevail and not get caught up in the frenzy of like the march towards war. We should
00:18:18.340 all be incredibly cautious about just how horrific it is and, and not be out here, uh, cheerleading
00:18:24.180 for war. And instead, that's what we see from so many of these people. I want to talk about this
00:18:28.840 next one. Um, a journalist was again, lauded all over social media for standing up to Boris Johnson,
00:18:35.460 uh, to, to me, when I see this video and, and again, people were sharing it all over,
00:18:39.860 you know, again, legacy media journalists and people saying like, look at this brave woman.
00:18:43.920 Uh, first of all, why is she questioning Boris Johnson? It isn't Boris Johnson's fault
00:18:48.340 that Putin marched and invaded in Ukraine. It isn't Boris Johnson, um, who's making the call,
00:18:54.620 uh, as to whether or not, you know, the U S or NATO gets involved in this crisis, uh, nor
00:19:00.540 would, nor should anybody be cheering, uh, for that outcome. We should all be cheering for
00:19:04.200 deescalation and some kind of a off ramp, some kind of a, uh, ceasefire here. But instead we
00:19:10.480 were told that this passionate journalist is out there making the case to Boris Johnson as
00:19:15.060 to why we should declare a no fly zone over Russia, which, uh, you know, if, if you want
00:19:20.020 to properly comprehend what that would mean, it would mean NATO forces, i.e. American forces
00:19:24.660 shooting down Russian planes who are flying over Ukraine that would turn a Ukrainian civil 0.90
00:19:30.220 proxy war into a world war. So, so, so what this woman is actually declaring and calling
00:19:34.500 for is world war three, um, uh, between Russian forces and American forces, two sides that have
00:19:40.960 nuclear power. So she's calling for a potential escalation into a hot war, into a world war between 0.69
00:19:46.620 two nuclear powers. Uh, no, that's not a good idea. No, it's not a good idea. Let's, let's play
00:19:51.020 that clip. So you can see just what people were cheering for. Again, this isn't journalism. This
00:19:54.980 is activism. This is a woman making a political statement using emotion, using, um, kind of hysteria 0.99
00:20:01.100 to try to push and march us all towards a world war. Uh, a woman, uh, from, uh, my team is now in 0.81
00:20:08.840 Bila Tserkva and she is there with two kids and, uh, Russian military is over there and she's so much
00:20:17.020 afraid that she will be shot. Harkiv, the city where I was studying was bombarded today, fully the
00:20:23.620 downtown square. So you're talking about the stoicism of Ukrainian people, but Ukrainian women and 1.00
00:20:29.660 Ukrainian children are in deep fear because of bombs and missiles, which are going from the sky.
00:20:35.180 And Ukrainian people are desperately asking for the best to protect our sky. We are asking for the
00:20:41.600 no-fly zone. We are saying response that it will trigger world war three, but what is the alternative
00:20:46.100 Mr. Prime Minister to observe how our children are instead of instead of, uh, planes are protecting NATO
00:20:54.560 from their missiles and bombs. What's the alternative for the no-fly zone? We have planes here. We have air
00:21:01.340 defense system in Poland, in Romania. NATO has this air defense. At least this air defense could shield the
00:21:07.760 western Ukraine. So this, these children with women could come to the border. It's impossible now to cross 1.00
00:21:14.200 the border. There are 30 kilometers of lines. Imagine crossing the border with a baby or with two children. I'm so
00:21:22.120 glad that Samantha Power is coming here to the border from the Polish side. Let her come to the border from the 1.00
00:21:27.800 Ukrainian side and see that. Britain guaranteed our security under Budapest memorandum. So you're coming
00:21:34.640 to Poland. You're not coming to Kiev, Prime Minister. You're not coming to Lviv because you are afraid,
00:21:40.220 because NATO is not willing to defend, because NATO is afraid of the World War Three. But it is already
00:21:46.100 started. And these are Ukrainian children who are there taking the heat. You're talking about more sanctions,
00:21:52.100 Prime Minister. But Roman Abramovich is not sanctioned. He's in London. His children are not in the
00:21:57.680 bombardments. His children are there in London. Putin's children are in Netherlands, in Germany,
00:22:05.660 in mansions. Where are all these mansions seized? I don't see that. I see that my family members,
00:22:13.160 that my team members are saying that we are crying. We don't have a word to rob. This is what is happening,
00:22:20.540 Prime Minister.
00:22:22.100 So, Harrison, you did a little bit of digging into this quote-unquote journalist that everyone was
00:22:27.400 telling us was so brave. So tell us a little bit more about this so-called journalist.
00:22:32.580 Well, so this so-called journalist, Daria Kaleniuk, is in fact not a journalist at all.
00:22:38.600 She is an activist. And all you have to do to verify that is to go look at her Twitter bio. 0.86
00:22:43.540 She is actually the executive director of the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Action Center. So she's not a
00:22:49.860 journalist and self-admittedly, or, and admittedly she is not a journalist. It took very, it was very
00:22:55.860 quick. Once this, once this clip went viral, a lot of people were skeptical of this. And it appeared as
00:23:01.520 though some of them had recognized this woman's face as well. Because this woman, Daria Kaleniuk,
00:23:06.760 even the, going as far as though she's not a journalist, she's actually a world economic forum,
00:23:12.380 global young leader, just like Justin Trudeau, just like Chrystia Freeland and other, and other
00:23:19.320 cabinet ministers in this country. So she's a part of the world economic forum. She's a global young
00:23:23.680 leader, not a journalist. It's very important to clarify that. On top of that, Kaleniuk also appeared
00:23:30.140 as a Joe Biden supporter in an ABC news story. And she appeared in a pro Biden campaign ad. And we
00:23:38.000 have the clips to show that. Why don't we take a look quickly at her, at her cameo in this Biden ad.
00:23:43.460 Donald Trump was caught red-handed. And I'm going to give you the facts.
00:23:56.340 He was being protested in the streets.
00:23:58.900 We will not allow him, actually, to maintain the Soviet system of prosecution,
00:24:03.880 which intimidates people.
00:24:05.540 All right. So as you can see, Candace, this woman is an activist. And her demand to Boris Johnson
00:24:13.060 was basically to escalate this conflict to another level. And to, like you said, push these countries
00:24:21.660 into a full-scale war. It's very dangerous and very unfortunate. But ABC News, Reuters, and CNN
00:24:30.460 all labeled this woman as a Ukrainian journalist. So what else can be said other than that? It's just
00:24:36.980 crazy.
00:24:38.880 Well, they're all beating the drums of war. And again, we should just be very skeptical of all
00:24:44.060 these kinds of things. Even when I first saw that video, Harrison, I thought to myself, that's not
00:24:47.520 how a journalist, you know, aside from we do have a couple of activist journalists like that here in
00:24:51.920 Canada that parade around like journalists. They're members of the parliamentary press gallery,
00:24:55.680 but they don't ask questions. They try to interrogate. They try to steal the spotlight.
00:24:59.600 They act like political activists. And most people can see through that. Most people don't
00:25:03.500 take them seriously. But here we have a woman, again, crying for war. And she's held up as some
00:25:10.320 kind of hero. It is totally wrong. Well, let's shift gears a little bit here, Harrison, because I
00:25:14.520 would like to talk about a couple of Canadian stories that get honorary mention here on Fake News
00:25:19.180 Friday. The first one comes from the CBC, which now publishes opinion pieces. I don't understand why
00:25:24.160 the state broadcaster who has, you know, if anything, if you're being completely generous
00:25:28.320 of the CBC, it's that their role is to inform Canadians of the news and to, you know, help
00:25:34.880 counteract the news space that's dominated by American news. However, they've gone into opinion
00:25:41.560 pieces, which is sort of just weird to have like almost like a state-sponsored opinion. And of course,
00:25:46.180 the opinions are always far left and deranged and sort of like anti-conservative, anti-West,
00:25:52.080 anti-Canada, you name it, woke derangement. Here we had the CBC publishing an opinion article
00:25:58.620 by a nurse in Saskatchewan who claims that she can no longer work in the province of Saskatchewan
00:26:04.000 because it is led by a government that is anti-science. There's just too much freedom
00:26:08.960 in Saskatchewan for this nurse to handle. Why don't you tell us a little bit about this piece,
00:26:13.560 Harrison? Yeah, so this is one of those CBC first-person stories that basically tell the story
00:26:19.160 of a far-left Canadian who's trying to basically push a specific narrative. So I want to read some
00:26:25.680 of this because really it becomes really clear at the very top that this is just about taking shots
00:26:30.760 at Premier Mo and taking shots at Saskatchewan for being too pro-freedom. So this is what the article
00:26:37.160 reads. Throughout the Delta wave, it became clear to me the Saskatchewan government wasn't respecting
00:26:42.740 the work my colleagues and I had done throughout the pandemic. At every turn, they seemed to be
00:26:48.180 downplaying the severity of the problem despite rising hospitalizations. Experts were begging to
00:26:53.160 be heard and were ignored. Therapies and treatments were being canceled and delayed. Premier Scott Mo's
00:26:58.060 letter to support the trucker rallies in late January was insulting to me. I've never heard him
00:27:02.920 rave about healthcare workers like that. He also made the false claim that vaccination doesn't reduce
00:27:07.480 transmission and pledged to remove proof of vaccine requirements. But basically like every
00:27:13.100 province except for BC. So I guess this nurse is kind of basically, you know, whittling down her 1.00
00:27:19.900 potential locations to move to down to BC because Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, all these provinces that had
00:27:27.600 imposed vaccine systems, proof of vaccine systems, they're all dropping them. So I'm not exactly sure
00:27:32.000 where she's going with this, but it's obvious that it was just a political narrative trying to be
00:27:36.860 pushed by the broadcaster. And then just to quickly wrap up, she writes, we feel spurned by a government
00:27:42.380 whose vision of healthcare seems bent, seems bent on capturing the style of failures we've seen in
00:27:47.520 America. The same America in which the president proclaimed the end of the virus and are dropping
00:27:53.300 vaccine, dropping mask mandates and vaccine mandates. So I'm not really sure what she wants.
00:27:58.380 Does she want to be in a state of COVID all the time? Is that, is that what this nurse really wants? 1.00
00:28:03.260 It doesn't seem that would be the best situation for a nurse, but nonetheless, she finishes off by 0.99
00:28:08.660 saying the future undoubtedly holds many crises for Saskatchewan. I firmly, I firmly believe that
00:28:14.640 facing them with the government that is anti-science will drive away the professionals needed to solve
00:28:19.240 them. So there we go. Anti-science Candace peddling that same line. But as we know, science seems to be
00:28:25.540 changing on either side of the border. There's a different science in America. There's a different
00:28:29.220 science in Great Britain than there is here. So a little, a little not surprising, to be honest,
00:28:35.060 from the CBC. Well, it's like, you know, this woman couldn't hold back and her inner tyrant is 0.56
00:28:40.660 letting out, right? It's like the world is finally moving away from COVID. We're moving away from the
00:28:44.420 draconian rules that are known. They're not based on science. Like just accusing the side of being
00:28:48.180 anti-science because you don't agree with their public policy is really reckless, really, really dimwitted
00:28:53.540 and not a good way to analyze public policy. But she's just so firmly attached to the idea of lockdowns
00:29:01.620 and limitations that she's, that she's lashing out and now leaving Saskatchewan because she doesn't like 0.94
00:29:08.280 the premier. Well, good luck. Good luck with that because you're going to learn if you go to Ontario or
00:29:12.640 Quebec, also led by more conservative governments. Everyone's dropping this COVID regime. We're going to
00:29:18.520 learn to live with this thing. Whether you like it or not, if you just can't deal with it, then yeah, I guess it's
00:29:23.160 probably better that you're not working in healthcare in the province of Saskatchewan anymore.
00:29:26.940 There's one other piece in the CBC, Harrison, that I want to talk about because this might be my
00:29:31.440 favorite piece that I have ever seen on the CBC. And that's saying something because there have been
00:29:36.900 some truly ridiculous and absurd ones recently. But the piece that they published last weekend,
00:29:42.540 the trucks have left Ottawa, but the phantom honking lingers for many downtown. According to the CBC,
00:29:48.920 they've created a new word for a lexicon, phantom honking everybody. That is just when you can't get
00:29:54.180 the truckers out of your head, they're living rent-free in your head. You can't get them to
00:29:57.920 leave. So let me just read a little bit from this piece. Literally, there was trucks right underneath
00:30:04.180 me, said Kevin. Literally. This is a pet peeve when people use the word literally when they mean
00:30:08.640 figuratively because I don't think this Kevin guy was literally sitting on top of a truck. But here he
00:30:13.440 says nonetheless that the trucks were literally right underneath me. But he said, Kevin, who did
00:30:19.880 not want to provide his name to the CBC out of fear of reprisal. So we're supposed to already right
00:30:25.620 off the bat feel sorry for Kevin, not just because he has these truckers living in his head rent-free,
00:30:31.120 but also somehow that his life would be in danger if the truckers knew his last name, which is pretty
00:30:37.280 silly. He goes on to say, it's one thing for me, but I've got animals. I've got three cats and two
00:30:43.320 dogs. So yeah, it was torture. Look, I'm not trying to downplay how tough it probably would have been
00:30:49.060 with all those truckers and all that noise. And yes, especially with animals, it probably was pretty
00:30:53.560 tough. Equating it with torture, though, I mean, this is the kind of thing that the CBC uses as
00:30:59.080 hyperbole, ramping things up, making it seem like these truckers were insurrectionists, that they were
00:31:04.560 terrorists, that this was all insurrection, or sorry, that this was all what treason, that they
00:31:10.720 were going to try to overthrow the government. Now they're using really, really ramped up terms
00:31:15.120 saying that it was torture, that people who lived in order, Ottawa were literally the victims of what
00:31:20.340 war crimes. I mean, this is just so over the top and ridiculous. It goes on to say, the trucks have
00:31:26.140 since been removed with police pushing the majority of protesters outside the downtown core over the
00:31:30.560 family day long weekend. Even still, some downtown residents say they're haunted by the phantom honking,
00:31:36.220 which sounds like blaring horns, but there's no sounds that are actually there. So again, you know,
00:31:44.000 the CBC has found a couple people who are living in their own paranoid psychosis, and they're turning
00:31:50.000 it into a news story. Another person they've interviewed here named Sean Flynn. He says, when you hear that
00:31:55.420 noise, it's like, oh, are they back? Is there a road convoy coming right back? Says the Sean guy who
00:32:01.680 lives three kilometers from downtown, but could still hear the horns inside the home during his
00:32:06.560 protest. And apparently he still hears them inside his own head. You know, last week, we heard a story
00:32:10.940 about how people are constantly looking over their shoulder, paranoid that the truckers are going to
00:32:14.860 come back. Now the CBC has found two people who say that the honking is going on in their own heads,
00:32:20.800 I guess, three people, because the author of the CBC piece must feel it too, to come up with
00:32:25.280 such a ridiculous term here, phantom honking. What do you think about this piece, Harrison?
00:32:31.240 This is, this really is the greatest article ever written by the CBC. I fully believe that.
00:32:36.260 This is, this is, this is far better than any Babylon Bee headline also. Like I really,
00:32:41.800 I do think that even they would basically say, or they would basically be trying to figure out how
00:32:47.160 they can come up with all these quotes because it's, uh, it's incredible, it's incredible stuff.
00:32:52.400 And it got, it got absolutely mocked and destroyed all over social media, obviously. And I just,
00:33:00.720 there really isn't much, much other to say, other than this is just probably the best CBC article
00:33:06.460 ever written. I'm, I'm sure that the, uh, the journalists over there are very proud of, of this,
00:33:11.340 of this work and this journalism. And, you know, one thing I think about though, Candace is,
00:33:15.360 like the CBC has a whole level of, of people. I'm sure that there are, you know, writers at the,
00:33:21.240 at the CBC that are very radical, clearly enough, enough to write an article like this. But
00:33:25.020 I genuinely think that, uh, you know, the people at the top of the CBC aren't,
00:33:30.120 aren't totally, uh, totally crazy. They haven't totally lost their minds. So,
00:33:34.600 so this is something that they must've, they must've signed off on. Some editor must've basically
00:33:38.580 said, yeah, you know what, we're going to, we're going to run with this story because it really is in the
00:33:41.960 public interest. The, the, the ghost, the ghost honking, the phantom honking. Um, it's, it's
00:33:47.900 incredible. It's incredible stuff. Um, I, I just want to see this, this level of, of comedy from
00:33:53.560 our set, from our satire news. Uh, if they could get, if they could get to this level, that'd be
00:33:57.620 great. It's so true. So sometimes I think the CBC is kind of just trolling and they put out really
00:34:03.680 stupid headlines like this just to get page clicks because just like everyone else, you, I'm sure
00:34:07.820 that they want to hit a certain targets and they want to get the page glimpse. So they put out
00:34:11.660 pieces like, you know, the, uh, that story that we saw a couple of months ago about words that we
00:34:15.980 should banish from the English language. Um, now they put out phantom honking. I, I, I think it's
00:34:21.020 just all very sophisticated, uh, way for it to trick us into clicking on their stupid website, 0.59
00:34:26.000 giving them more hits so that they can go to the Trudeau government and be like, look at how influential
00:34:29.520 we have, uh, our phantom honking piece got millions of views, uh, you know, without acknowledging
00:34:34.820 the fact that everyone reading it, uh, is mocking them and no one takes the CBC seriously anymore.
00:34:40.560 Yeah. They don't get enough. They don't get enough money from the government. So they gotta,
00:34:43.280 they gotta run up their page click revenues and, uh, and make sure they get as many pages as possible.
00:34:49.440 Awesome. Well, thank you so much, Harrison, for joining us, uh, here on Fake News Friday. It's
00:34:53.040 always fun to have you on the show. Yeah, it was great to be on. Thanks for, uh, thanks for
00:34:56.220 inviting me, Candice. All right. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is the Candice Malcolm Show.
00:35:04.820 Thank you.