The Candice Malcolm Show - October 07, 2022


Fake News Friday ｜ Legacy media oppose the opposition leader


Episode Stats

Length

30 minutes

Words per Minute

172.68527

Word Count

5,257

Sentence Count

327

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

The CBC has a new variety show called Lido TV, and it's all about feminism and colonialism. And it's hosted by Rupa Subramanian, a woman of colour who happens to be the host of the show's host, Harrison Faulkner.


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Welcome to Fake News Friday, the show that keeps Canada's failing, fake, and always very biased legacy media in check.
00:00:51.080 My name is Harrison Faulkner, filling in for Andrew Lawton as the lead of the show today, as the host of the show.
00:00:57.260 So, occupying the seat I usually sit in is the very talented Rupa Subramanian.
00:01:01.420 We've done this a few times, so we're doing it again.
00:01:03.760 Rupa, it's good to have you on the show.
00:01:05.640 It's great to be here with you, Harrison.
00:01:07.920 So, it seems like another week goes by, and we're always talking about the CBC.
00:01:12.000 They seem to have this real commitment, Rupa, of making documentaries or programs that are kind of just rooted in hating Canada or really, you know, casting shade on this country.
00:01:25.660 And I want to show you this first story we found, which is just really perfect for this program, and it's totally insane.
00:01:32.360 So, it turns out that the CBC is introducing a new variety show on CBC Gem.
00:01:38.980 You have to pay for this one, because, of course, the money we pay to the CBC isn't enough.
00:01:43.080 You have to pay about $5 a month to access this show.
00:01:46.940 And when I read it out to you, maybe you'll start to think about other places you could probably put your $5 to that are far better than this, because this is really something.
00:01:55.960 So, there's a new program out on the CBC called Lido TV, and it's a variety show.
00:02:00.400 And I just want to read to you the show description, because it really just kind of, I think, shows us all where the CBC is at this current time.
00:02:09.560 So, there's a new program. It's called Lido TV, and this is how the CBC describes it.
00:02:13.860 Lido TV is a variety show with a mission to help people cope with life in a world that sometimes feels like it's falling apart,
00:02:20.380 filled with hilarious sketches, inspiring interviews, immersive documentaries, surreal animations, and puppets.
00:02:25.480 How fun.
00:02:26.400 At the center of it is our host, Lido Pimienta, the award-winning Colombian-Canadian musician, artist, and mother,
00:02:32.800 whose hilarious, curious, and tender personality drives the action.
00:02:35.480 The series tackles themes ranging from feminism and privilege to colonialism and success,
00:02:42.200 and features appearances by Nelly Furtado, musicians Shad and Kitty, writer Sarah Haggy,
00:02:48.400 nor black, nor white co-founder Mariga Capadia,
00:02:52.040 and artists Jess Satchesee and Jessica Kurahanga.
00:02:57.100 So, anyway, it's going to be all about feminism, Rupa.
00:03:00.160 It's going to be all about tackling the privileges of colonialism and success.
00:03:05.200 Wow, I'm just really chomping at the bit to get this Lido TV program.
00:03:09.960 Well, that's not me.
00:03:15.920 I saw a clip.
00:03:18.260 Someone shared a clip from the show.
00:03:20.640 I'm not quite sure what to make of this,
00:03:22.980 except that I'm really angry that our tax dollars are going towards funding this kind of thing.
00:03:30.040 Well, for one thing, the talking tomato totally creeped me out.
00:03:35.800 I thought it was a rock at first, but then it turns out it's a tomato,
00:03:40.660 which talks to you about colonialism and racism and that sort of thing.
00:03:47.540 But, you know, none of this should surprise us, really, right,
00:03:51.740 because this is very much in line with all of the woke nonsense that the CBC has been promoting over the years.
00:03:59.540 And, unfortunately, these are our tax dollars funding this.
00:04:04.680 I'm a little confused, Harrison, because I thought this was a children's show,
00:04:08.820 but is it a variety show?
00:04:10.420 It's a children's show.
00:04:11.240 It's a children's variety show.
00:04:12.460 I'm not quite sure who this is geared towards, because some people said this is not necessarily geared towards kids.
00:04:19.780 But, you know, if this is geared towards kids, obviously this is a form of indoctrination.
00:04:25.760 Look, I think kids should be taught about colonialism, the evils of colonialism.
00:04:31.480 No sensible person is going to deny that, you know, colonialism was not good.
00:04:38.160 But, and it had some bad, you know, bad consequences for the people it colonized.
00:04:45.000 But I think we have to approach this very carefully when it comes to teaching children this sort of thing.
00:04:50.540 I think teaching history has to be balanced.
00:04:55.420 And where I disagree is that, you know, we're in this constant state of self-flagellation when it comes to our history,
00:05:02.280 where, you know, we're constantly blaming the white colonizer for everything that's gone wrong with society.
00:05:10.920 And that's not a good direction to go in.
00:05:14.620 So, by all means, teach children about history and colonialism and racism and so on and so forth.
00:05:21.520 But I don't agree with the approach that the CBC is taking as far as this show is concerned.
00:05:27.420 No, exactly.
00:05:28.080 And so, you're exactly right about this confusion when we first see it.
00:05:31.420 And we're going to play this trailer for you because you really have to see it for yourself.
00:05:36.340 When you first see it, your first instinct surely is, of course, this is a kids' show.
00:05:40.860 This is meant for kids.
00:05:42.060 But nowhere in the show description does it say that.
00:05:44.520 It's just on the CBC Gem streaming platform.
00:05:47.400 So, we're going to play the trailer for you.
00:05:49.340 You tell us what you think.
00:05:50.620 First of all, if you think this is for kids, okay, this is what you probably think, right?
00:05:54.580 You probably think it is for kids.
00:05:56.160 Apparently, it's not.
00:05:57.000 Check out this trailer.
00:05:58.300 This is where your tax dollars are going, guys.
00:06:00.300 This is where it's going.
00:06:01.120 Check this out.
00:06:11.100 Hi.
00:06:12.580 And welcome.
00:06:14.360 Get it!
00:06:15.460 Hey, girl.
00:06:17.220 Happy to be here.
00:06:18.180 Good for you.
00:06:18.620 What a beautiful day to talk about colonialism.
00:06:31.800 Juicy.
00:06:32.920 How does it feel to be responsible for night 11?
00:06:43.920 A knee, Lido.
00:06:45.400 We are giving your family's land back to the local Anishinaabe people.
00:06:49.980 Sounds like freedom to me.
00:06:52.280 Isn't it true that feminists don't like boys?
00:06:55.420 I think we're really going to need this episode.
00:06:58.300 I had to be this delicate flower when all I wanted to do was scream.
00:07:09.600 You didn't give a f***.
00:07:11.060 Yeah?
00:07:11.200 Yeah.
00:07:11.380 Like my wise, indigenous grandmother always says.
00:07:16.680 You're not ugly, you're just poor.
00:07:19.240 You're not ugly, you're just poor.
00:07:21.680 You're not ugly, you're just poor.
00:07:24.580 You're not ugly, you're just poor.
00:07:26.880 Where am I?
00:07:31.060 And Rupa, you bring up the whole point about the fact that our taxpayer dollars are going
00:07:35.240 to this and really many Canadians shouldn't be happy about this, but it gets even worse
00:07:39.220 actually because not only, of course, are our tax dollars going to these CBC programs,
00:07:43.760 which of course are kind of rooted in Canada bashing, rooted in painting this country out
00:07:47.620 to be some evil place, but it gets even worse.
00:07:50.420 This production company, Lido TV, get this.
00:07:54.760 They actually received $70,000 of taxpayer money from Factor, which I guess is part of
00:08:03.320 the government funding.
00:08:04.780 They got $70,000 to, I guess, help promote these programs.
00:08:09.140 $25,000 of those $70,000 is under the guise of emergency support.
00:08:14.580 So really, the government clearly, desperately didn't want this Lido TV program to go under
00:08:19.940 during COVID.
00:08:20.620 So they pump it up with taxpayer money and then, of course, on comes the CBC to
00:08:24.740 promote this program, which is clearly rooted in, I guess, Canada bashing.
00:08:29.000 And before we move on, it's probably worth also just pulling up the episode list.
00:08:33.800 So if any of you guys, I don't imagine you are, but if any of you are planning to watch
00:08:37.140 this program on CBC Gem, remember, it costs you extra money on top of it.
00:08:41.320 Here are the episodes you can expect.
00:08:42.880 The first one, colonialism.
00:08:44.780 How great.
00:08:45.580 The next one, beauty.
00:08:47.220 The next one after that, hate.
00:08:49.120 And feminism, privilege, and success.
00:08:51.340 I can only imagine, Rupa, what that is all about.
00:08:54.180 It's just another classic CBC thing, which clearly doesn't deserve our taxpayer money,
00:08:58.100 but for some reason, they keep getting it.
00:09:00.560 Honestly, Harrison, I think your show or my show should get $70,000.
00:09:05.000 Exactly.
00:09:05.500 Where's our aid?
00:09:07.140 Exactly.
00:09:09.260 Well, all of that comes from you guys, of course.
00:09:11.520 But unlike the CBC, we can't rely on taxpayer dollars.
00:09:14.400 We have to rely on donations.
00:09:16.020 Well, there's another story that comes in.
00:09:18.060 There's another theme that we're constantly seeing.
00:09:19.780 It's about, what is it?
00:09:20.720 Really, ever since, Polly, I've kind of bursted onto the scene of the CBC leadership.
00:09:24.580 What we've seen from the legacy media has been this commitment.
00:09:28.400 This real, like, they're very loyal at holding the opposition leader, at opposing the opposition leader, Rupa.
00:09:34.820 They're not very clear, they're not really determined, it appears, to hold the government to account,
00:09:39.420 especially now with Pierre Polyev as the officially new leader.
00:09:43.660 The legacy media are committed to opposing him at all potential stops, right?
00:09:49.020 So here comes this National Observer article,
00:09:50.940 which we found that we just thought really deserved some attention on Fake News Friday.
00:09:55.260 This one was written by Max Fawcett over at the National Observer.
00:09:57.860 The headline reads,
00:09:58.880 Investigation Reveals Polyev Populist and Pro-Natural Gas Groups Spread Fertilizer Disinformation to Whip Up Outrage Against Trudeau.
00:10:07.180 Disinformation, we've never heard that before, Rupa.
00:10:09.900 So, in this article, the National Observer basically tries to say that
00:10:14.140 not only is Pierre Polyev promoting this disinformation about the Fertilizer Reduction Scheme,
00:10:19.860 which we know is true, which we know is the case,
00:10:22.080 apparently, also, groups like Ontario Proud, the Facebook group,
00:10:27.040 and us, True North Rupa, we are apparently pushing out disinformation regarding the Fertilizer Emissions Reduction Scheme.
00:10:35.080 If this is not providing cover for the government,
00:10:37.640 if this is not providing cover for Justin Trudeau, then I don't know what is, Rupa.
00:10:40.860 Well, I, yeah, absolutely, I agree with you, Harrison, but we know this is a classic tactic of the left.
00:10:49.300 Anybody who disagrees with them or anybody who criticizes the Trudeau government are agents of disinformation
00:10:56.660 and, you know, and that they're not worth listening to.
00:11:01.460 These are just classic smear tactics,
00:11:03.820 and they refuse to engage with the arguments,
00:11:08.940 because that's completely missing from the discourse, right?
00:11:12.920 It's always jumping to label your opponent as a bad person or a racist or far-right,
00:11:21.560 and none of this is helpful, but then again, we should expect this from these folks,
00:11:28.460 because this is their MO.
00:11:30.580 This is how they operate.
00:11:34.220 But, you know, the unfortunate thing is that the real issue is getting lost in all of this.
00:11:39.540 There's a real problem here.
00:11:40.780 Do you really want to push these issues in the context of an economy that is slowing down
00:11:47.200 and inflation is on the rise?
00:11:49.420 Those are the real debates that we should be having,
00:11:52.100 but that's just a deflection, right?
00:11:54.900 Calling your opponents' names is just a deflection.
00:11:59.860 That's what it comes down to.
00:12:01.880 And I always struggle with this concept of these left-wing news outlets covering disinformation.
00:12:09.300 In my opinion, if it's disinformation and it's not true,
00:12:11.800 the last thing that these left-wing news outlets would want to do, Rupa,
00:12:15.080 is to amplify that disinformation, to write a whole story about it,
00:12:18.760 instead of actually just telling us what appears to them to be the truth about this.
00:12:23.420 If it is true that the fertilizer emissions reduction scheme is not what we're making it out to be,
00:12:28.800 write a story about it.
00:12:30.140 But if you're writing a story about the disinformation itself,
00:12:32.600 you're just amplifying it and then you're not even actually doing your job of basically telling the truth.
00:12:37.660 It's very bizarre to me.
00:12:38.780 And I want to pull in some of the quotes from this article,
00:12:41.100 because, again, it just makes me laugh, all these stories about disinformation.
00:12:45.300 They're just amplifying the disinformation.
00:12:47.400 They write here that 30 of the top-performing posts were made by right-wing populist groups or media outlets,
00:12:53.740 many with a track record of attacking the Trudeau government.
00:12:56.460 Oh, like holding the government to account, Rupa.
00:12:58.120 Maybe that makes me laugh.
00:13:00.180 It just, it really does.
00:13:01.520 And then it goes on, it writes,
00:13:02.740 this list includes groups like Ontario Proud,
00:13:05.080 which hold itself out as a grassroots community group but operates anonymously
00:13:08.220 and is part of a family of similar pages linked to conservative operatives
00:13:11.900 and right-wing media outlets like True North.
00:13:15.120 And then it goes on to say at the end here,
00:13:16.960 right-wing populism works by politicians finding groups that are allegedly victimized by those in power
00:13:22.800 and claiming to stand up for them.
00:13:24.700 Politicians spreading inaccurate information about the federal fertilizer plan,
00:13:28.580 then saying they will stand up for farmers against it,
00:13:30.840 is emblematic of this process.
00:13:32.760 How convenient, right?
00:13:34.040 How convenient.
00:13:34.760 It's disinformation, Rupa, for a conservative politician to say they stand up with farmers
00:13:39.600 and to criticize a Trudeau policy.
00:13:41.940 Again, this is just blatantly covering for the government under the guise of what?
00:13:46.960 Are we really going to call this journalism?
00:13:48.920 It's crazy.
00:13:50.260 I wouldn't even call it, forget journalism, what is the analytical component here?
00:13:55.440 Like, why is it disinformation?
00:13:58.320 You know, if you just keep saying disinformation, disinformation, disinformation,
00:14:03.120 you're not really saying anything, right?
00:14:04.780 It's just, it's not really saying anything to me.
00:14:07.880 It's not really helping me understand why this is disinformation.
00:14:11.360 So, I think that piece itself is disinformation.
00:14:15.740 Of course.
00:14:15.980 Yeah, exactly.
00:14:17.340 But again, we're not the ones jumping out trying to highlight disinformation like these people are,
00:14:22.620 which I find is to be, you know, using the word emblematic.
00:14:26.140 They use that word in their article.
00:14:27.500 This is, to me, is emblematic of the problem we're seeing on the other side of the debate
00:14:30.560 with these outlets that are basically writing news stories about other news programs,
00:14:34.880 about outlets like us.
00:14:36.120 We talked about it last week on Fake News Friday,
00:14:38.020 where, once again, True North was the subject of a story.
00:14:40.880 It's just, it's a weird phenomenon.
00:14:42.340 Anyway, sticking with Pierre Polyev, this one came in on Thursday, so just yesterday.
00:14:47.800 And when I saw it, I couldn't believe it, actually.
00:14:50.080 I thought it was a, I thought it was a joke from a parody account.
00:14:52.500 Turns out it's a real global news story.
00:14:54.520 And this one is, this one is a special one.
00:14:56.940 This is the headline.
00:14:58.180 Pierre Polyev's YouTube channel included hidden misogynistic tag to promote videos.
00:15:03.580 So, in the story, this is how it works.
00:15:07.380 This is how the story is written.
00:15:09.640 Pierre Polyev's official YouTube videos included a hidden tag appealing to misogynistic online movements
00:15:14.480 that Canada's intelligence agencies view as a danger.
00:15:18.040 A global news analysis of 50 of Polyev's most recent YouTube videos
00:15:21.520 showed that they included a tag, hidden from viewers, but not from the video's publisher,
00:15:26.640 used by a misogynistic online movement.
00:15:28.600 The tag, hashtag MGTOW, is an acronym for Men Going Their Own Way,
00:15:34.460 a mostly online movement comprised of anti-feminists who attempt to cut women completely out of their lives.
00:15:40.020 According to the Southern Poverty Law Center,
00:15:41.800 this movement overlapped with more aggressive forms of male supremacy.
00:15:45.100 Anyway, essentially what goes on is that global news reached out to Polyev's campaign,
00:15:49.920 or Polyev's team, rather.
00:15:51.400 Polyev distanced and denounced and separated himself from it and apologized for it.
00:15:56.820 But I didn't really think that was, the whole point to me is the fact that global news,
00:16:01.140 really thinking they're doing hard-cutting journalism here,
00:16:03.960 they're really doing their Watergate special,
00:16:06.660 of deep diving over Polyev's 50 last YouTube videos to find a tag,
00:16:12.380 a hashtag of a YouTube video,
00:16:14.600 which I'm sure they probably put in 40 or 50 tags on each video.
00:16:18.560 This one, they found one,
00:16:20.060 and they're hyper-focusing in on it,
00:16:23.200 as though Pierre Polyev is, again,
00:16:25.100 they're trying to paint this image of a guy who's a dangerous populist,
00:16:27.780 who's appealing to dangerous misogynists.
00:16:30.020 It's embarrassing journalism.
00:16:31.520 I'd be embarrassed to put my name on an article like this, Rupa.
00:16:34.800 Yeah, well, first of all,
00:16:36.440 the hashtag,
00:16:37.400 men going their own way,
00:16:39.060 I know a little bit about this movement,
00:16:41.100 and I'm speaking as a woman,
00:16:46.460 and I'm not a biologist,
00:16:48.440 but I'm a woman.
00:16:51.380 But I'll tell you,
00:16:52.660 I mean, these are men who have just chosen to focus on their own self-development.
00:16:58.740 They're just doing their own thing.
00:17:00.260 They don't want anything to do with women.
00:17:03.380 They, you know,
00:17:04.340 the last time I checked,
00:17:05.300 I think these people were called bachelors,
00:17:07.460 and women who did that were called spinsters, right?
00:17:11.100 So I, yes,
00:17:12.680 I think there are certain elements in this movement
00:17:16.360 that are seen as misogynistic.
00:17:18.720 They're seen as men who just really, really hate women,
00:17:22.340 and some of them engage in harassing women online.
00:17:25.400 Obviously, you know, that's where I draw a line.
00:17:28.280 But hey, look, if men want to go their own way,
00:17:31.040 you know, who am I to stop them?
00:17:32.960 Like, you know, I respect personal autonomy.
00:17:36.500 You want to go your own way?
00:17:38.000 By all means.
00:17:38.740 By the way, there are women who are also going their own way.
00:17:42.620 I just discovered this morning,
00:17:44.460 there's a group on Reddit called Women Going Their Own Way,
00:17:47.420 and for similar reasons, they hate men.
00:17:50.420 And, you know, they just want to do their own thing.
00:17:53.180 And again, the last time I checked,
00:17:54.980 women going their own way were called spinsters.
00:17:57.420 So, you know, it's,
00:17:59.280 I think a lot is being made out of this hashtag,
00:18:02.960 and why on earth is CESIS obsessed with this group?
00:18:06.600 Do we not have more serious things to think about?
00:18:10.100 Like, you know, what's going on in Iran, for example,
00:18:14.180 or, you know, the Russia-Ukraine thing?
00:18:19.060 You know, I'm just a little baffled by why our intelligence services are,
00:18:25.940 you know, focused on this group.
00:18:27.920 Hopefully, it's not taking away from the other important stuff
00:18:31.120 that they should be focused on.
00:18:32.580 I think, you know, from a political point of view,
00:18:35.560 I think Pierre's team made the right call
00:18:38.720 in terms of removing this hashtag.
00:18:42.420 Think about the fact that they're under,
00:18:44.180 you know, a great deal of scrutiny.
00:18:48.060 And at this point, you know,
00:18:50.140 they really can't afford to, you know,
00:18:53.260 have this kind of thing, you know,
00:18:55.960 follow them wherever they go on the campaign.
00:18:58.280 But having said that, the movement itself, like I said,
00:19:02.660 I think there are men who just, in that movement,
00:19:06.940 who just, you know, have just chosen a life of celibacy,
00:19:12.120 and they want to lead life like they're monks,
00:19:16.040 and lead their lives like they're monks,
00:19:18.700 and they don't want anything to do with tradition,
00:19:21.680 social norms, and, you know,
00:19:24.700 which would require them to make women happy.
00:19:28.080 And they're just deviating from that.
00:19:31.140 And they just don't want to be on this traditional path.
00:19:34.200 What exactly is wrong with that?
00:19:35.880 No, exactly.
00:19:36.920 There's so much to get into here, Rupa.
00:19:38.480 I mean, of course,
00:19:39.380 you make the point that they're under more scrutiny.
00:19:42.340 Well, they seem to be,
00:19:43.340 Polly seems to be under more scrutiny
00:19:44.960 than Justin Trudeau these days.
00:19:46.640 It's crazy.
00:19:47.340 I don't believe that there is a news outlet right now
00:19:49.800 going through Justin Trudeau
00:19:51.100 or the Liberal Party's videos.
00:19:52.520 They might be doing it now, actually, right?
00:19:55.080 But it's just crazy to me
00:19:56.840 that this is considered to be journalism.
00:19:59.980 This is considered to be what Global News is doing.
00:20:01.940 Remember, they've been trying
00:20:03.560 a lot of these different things on Polyev.
00:20:05.620 We can go back to the Diagilon guy,
00:20:07.620 the handshake,
00:20:08.720 which obviously was a swing and a miss from Global News
00:20:12.320 and from, I guess,
00:20:13.540 from the opposition against Pierre Polyev.
00:20:15.400 They really wanted that one to stick.
00:20:16.700 That one didn't stick.
00:20:17.680 Then they did earlier this week,
00:20:19.020 they got Alex Jones to endorse Pierre Polyev,
00:20:21.500 and then they tried to make that a big deal.
00:20:23.520 Like, oh, this is it.
00:20:24.660 This is the one that's going to paint Polyev
00:20:26.000 as this dangerous far-right populist.
00:20:27.740 That one didn't stick.
00:20:29.060 And now they're doing this.
00:20:30.300 And it just seems as though
00:20:31.320 it's very, very coordinated.
00:20:33.720 And I'll tell you why I think that, actually,
00:20:35.320 because this story came out on Thursday morning.
00:20:38.440 By Thursday at 2 p.m. at question period,
00:20:41.240 Justin Trudeau comes up,
00:20:42.640 and instead of answering the question
00:20:43.900 Pierre Polyev addresses to him,
00:20:45.960 Justin Trudeau turns around
00:20:47.040 and basically uses this exact story
00:20:49.340 to say that Pierre Polyev is appealing
00:20:51.880 to dangerous far-right misogynists.
00:20:55.800 Yeah, unbelievable.
00:20:57.140 It's insane to me, Rupa.
00:20:58.100 It's so clearly,
00:20:59.660 Global News is so clearly trying to do
00:21:02.320 the government's bidding.
00:21:03.380 I don't think I've ever actually seen
00:21:04.680 something so obvious in the media space.
00:21:07.320 It's unbelievable.
00:21:08.440 Well, Harrison, you and I were at an event
00:21:12.000 in Toronto on September 26th,
00:21:14.220 the Democracy Fund event,
00:21:16.560 which featured a discussion
00:21:18.020 between Conrad Black and Rex Murphy.
00:21:20.220 And I recall what Rex Murphy said,
00:21:23.540 and I think that that was a quote
00:21:25.440 of the evening for me.
00:21:26.900 He said,
00:21:27.220 a good chunk of the Ottawa Press Gallery
00:21:28.940 functions as an opposition party
00:21:31.720 to the leader of the opposition.
00:21:33.660 And I think that's what's going on here.
00:21:35.540 where the Pierre and the Conservatives
00:21:39.740 are being held to account
00:21:41.400 much more so than Justin Trudeau.
00:21:46.840 Look, this is, again,
00:21:48.320 trying to deflect from some very big issues.
00:21:51.680 For example, on the weekend,
00:21:54.600 there was a big protest,
00:21:56.980 just outside of Toronto,
00:21:59.000 protesting for Masa Amini,
00:22:01.100 the 22-year-old Kurdish woman
00:22:03.360 who was beaten to death
00:22:04.740 in an Iranian prison a few weeks ago,
00:22:08.180 which has sparked protests all across Iran
00:22:11.620 with the women leading the protests.
00:22:16.140 And the group that organized the protest
00:22:18.400 in Toronto reached out to Justin Trudeau
00:22:21.660 and the Foreign Affairs Minister,
00:22:24.660 Melanie Jolie,
00:22:25.560 and they didn't even acknowledge
00:22:27.040 the invite, apparently,
00:22:28.320 according to the organizers.
00:22:29.400 Meanwhile, so the protests
00:22:32.460 happened on Saturday,
00:22:33.960 and on Sunday,
00:22:35.560 Justin Trudeau goes bungee jumping.
00:22:37.820 Now, where is the scrutiny here, right?
00:22:40.300 If you're pointing to your opponent
00:22:43.540 and calling him a misogynist,
00:22:45.480 well, how serious are you
00:22:48.120 about feminist foreign policy
00:22:51.660 and all of that stuff
00:22:52.720 that you frequently talk about
00:22:54.240 and you can't even show up
00:22:55.380 to a protest
00:22:56.160 protest in honor of a woman
00:22:58.700 who was brutally murdered
00:23:00.260 by the theocratic regime in Iran.
00:23:06.000 I think it's just hypocrisy,
00:23:07.780 and I think this kind of thing
00:23:09.040 just deflects from
00:23:10.040 all of those bigger issues.
00:23:12.440 100%.
00:23:12.920 Well put.
00:23:13.620 Exactly.
00:23:14.200 It's just,
00:23:14.880 it's really,
00:23:15.980 you know,
00:23:17.160 one set of rules
00:23:18.280 for the Prime Minister
00:23:19.540 and one set of rules
00:23:20.420 for the opposition.
00:23:21.700 And anyone else,
00:23:22.660 anyone else gets Trudeau's set of rules
00:23:24.640 if they kind of show loyalty.
00:23:26.340 You don't see
00:23:26.920 really heavy criticism
00:23:28.580 from Global News
00:23:29.460 on Jagmeet Singh,
00:23:30.600 for example.
00:23:31.360 That's because he falls in line
00:23:32.860 behind Justin Trudeau.
00:23:34.160 And of course,
00:23:34.720 it all comes down
00:23:35.440 to how much money
00:23:36.840 you're willing to cough up.
00:23:37.840 How much money
00:23:38.380 are you willing to stuff
00:23:39.160 into the pockets of these guys?
00:23:40.460 It really does work.
00:23:41.960 And the truth is,
00:23:42.940 it kind of actually is a,
00:23:43.780 it's a bit of a problem
00:23:44.500 looking forward.
00:23:45.520 If Pierre Polyev becomes Prime Minister,
00:23:47.780 the media is going to,
00:23:49.300 they're going to be expecting
00:23:50.380 something from Pierre Polyev.
00:23:52.020 And part of my cynical mind
00:23:54.400 almost goes to the point of
00:23:55.520 why don't you just fund them
00:23:56.820 the money as well?
00:23:57.680 Like if Justin Trudeau
00:23:58.460 is going to do that
00:23:59.180 and he's going to get
00:23:59.760 all the coverage from it,
00:24:00.680 of course,
00:24:01.100 it's not conservative.
00:24:01.820 It's not actually good to do.
00:24:03.660 But you also want to at least
00:24:04.980 give the liberals back,
00:24:07.100 you know,
00:24:08.340 a taste of their own medicine,
00:24:10.180 you could say, right?
00:24:10.940 I mean,
00:24:11.240 it does ask,
00:24:12.380 you do have to ask the question,
00:24:13.800 what's going to happen
00:24:14.860 with the media bailouts
00:24:15.840 when the conservatives
00:24:17.040 get in power?
00:24:17.700 Hopefully it's gone forever
00:24:18.980 and they have to rely
00:24:19.700 on their own.
00:24:20.600 Oh yeah,
00:24:21.240 Yeah, absolutely.
00:24:22.140 I mean,
00:24:22.360 it's absolutely ridiculous
00:24:23.500 that we fund the media here.
00:24:27.440 The government funds the media,
00:24:28.760 which is ridiculous.
00:24:30.700 I can't think of any other country
00:24:32.480 that does that.
00:24:33.240 No, exactly.
00:24:34.260 Yeah,
00:24:34.760 no, no, no.
00:24:35.300 And, you know,
00:24:36.220 no matter what anybody tells you,
00:24:38.220 you know,
00:24:38.440 I have great respect
00:24:39.740 for a great deal of journalists
00:24:41.420 in the legacy media
00:24:42.400 and they'll say,
00:24:43.460 no,
00:24:43.760 this money is not affecting
00:24:44.840 the way we operate.
00:24:45.840 I call BS on that,
00:24:48.340 you know,
00:24:48.700 at some level
00:24:49.760 it is going to determine
00:24:51.820 the kinds of stories
00:24:53.200 you pursue,
00:24:54.260 the lines that you draw
00:24:55.740 when it comes to certain things
00:24:57.620 that you,
00:24:58.560 that you're not going
00:25:01.180 to be reporting on.
00:25:02.220 So I,
00:25:02.780 you know,
00:25:03.040 I do think that this money,
00:25:06.000 that the funding needs to stop
00:25:07.740 and it should have,
00:25:09.800 it should stop right now.
00:25:11.560 Justin Trudeau should stop it actually.
00:25:13.460 But if it doesn't happen,
00:25:15.360 then I really hope
00:25:16.380 the conservatives,
00:25:17.600 if and when they come to power,
00:25:18.900 put an end to this.
00:25:20.400 Absolutely.
00:25:21.180 And yeah,
00:25:21.560 I recall,
00:25:22.000 I recall a conversation
00:25:22.980 on one of the Candace Malcolm show
00:25:24.440 interviews with Paul Wells,
00:25:26.140 who went,
00:25:26.940 he joined Candace's show
00:25:28.300 when he launched his own sub stack
00:25:30.500 and left the legacy media.
00:25:31.440 And he talked exactly about this,
00:25:32.640 that they don't feel
00:25:34.420 like they're influenced by the money,
00:25:36.160 but there's no way
00:25:37.260 you can convince the public
00:25:38.260 that they're not biased
00:25:39.300 in some way.
00:25:39.880 Well,
00:25:40.180 we try and end the show
00:25:41.200 these days.
00:25:41.760 It's a new theme
00:25:42.460 we're running with
00:25:43.020 on a lighter note,
00:25:44.380 on a funnier story
00:25:45.540 as best we can.
00:25:47.400 Because again,
00:25:47.800 it's not always easy
00:25:48.440 to find funny fake news,
00:25:49.820 but when you're looking
00:25:51.020 at the CBC,
00:25:51.880 usually something comes up
00:25:53.100 every seven days or so.
00:25:54.380 So we're usually okay.
00:25:55.560 And sure enough,
00:25:56.420 this one did.
00:25:57.260 So this hour has 22 minutes,
00:25:59.120 which presumably
00:25:59.960 is supposed to be
00:26:00.620 a comedy show,
00:26:01.300 but if you've seen
00:26:01.740 any other skits,
00:26:02.680 they're really not that funny.
00:26:04.520 This hour has 22 minutes,
00:26:05.720 which is the CBC
00:26:06.800 state-funded comedy show.
00:26:08.140 Go figure with that one.
00:26:09.480 They have basically
00:26:10.880 for their 30th anniversary,
00:26:12.760 for their 30th season episode,
00:26:15.540 they have done this
00:26:16.960 new sort of rebranding
00:26:18.260 or attempt to rebrand
00:26:19.240 with their program.
00:26:20.540 I want to read some of it
00:26:21.480 because it is quite funny.
00:26:24.260 The title of this
00:26:25.420 Canadian press article
00:26:26.820 for the announcement
00:26:27.900 of this rebranding
00:26:28.640 is this.
00:26:29.020 This hour has 22 minutes
00:26:30.640 taking aim at inflation,
00:26:32.660 racism in 30th season.
00:26:34.220 Oh, I'm sure it's going
00:26:34.920 to be even funnier,
00:26:35.760 Rupa, now,
00:26:36.480 now that they're going
00:26:36.920 after racism.
00:26:38.300 And at the end of this,
00:26:40.220 at the end of this long story,
00:26:41.420 I did read it,
00:26:42.400 all of it, unfortunately,
00:26:43.860 and it's all just sort of
00:26:44.900 about talking about
00:26:45.720 the story of 22 minutes,
00:26:47.220 but at the end of the story,
00:26:48.580 they get into this bit
00:26:49.480 about one of the new
00:26:50.600 cast members on the show,
00:26:51.960 and it's about this
00:26:52.920 new cast member
00:26:53.640 who openly admits
00:26:55.400 that she got her position
00:26:56.840 because of affirmative action.
00:26:58.300 Check this out.
00:26:59.360 She writes,
00:27:00.280 since joining the show
00:27:01.060 in 2022 as a writer
00:27:02.280 and supporting performer,
00:27:03.260 she was promoted to star
00:27:04.340 in the 2022 edition,
00:27:05.620 joining Trent McClellan,
00:27:06.720 Stacey McGonigal,
00:27:08.040 and Critch,
00:27:08.860 a feat she part credits
00:27:10.640 to 22 Minutes alumni
00:27:12.000 Susan Kent,
00:27:13.480 who, the woman's name
00:27:14.600 is Amu Kwando,
00:27:16.300 who Amu Kwando says
00:27:17.640 insisted that she be replaced
00:27:18.820 with a woman of color
00:27:19.820 upon her departure.
00:27:21.200 An intense request,
00:27:22.160 she says,
00:27:22.840 like that is the reason
00:27:23.740 I got hired, essentially.
00:27:25.160 So she,
00:27:25.940 this woman,
00:27:26.700 this black woman
00:27:27.340 openly admits
00:27:27.960 that she's on the show now
00:27:28.920 because of the fact
00:27:30.040 that she was supposed
00:27:30.680 to be replaced
00:27:31.320 by a woman of color.
00:27:32.780 Again, I just think
00:27:33.960 that that's exposed
00:27:35.000 to the CBC
00:27:35.540 for what they are.
00:27:36.700 And then at the end,
00:27:37.600 this woman kind of just
00:27:38.920 summarizes for all Canadians
00:27:40.280 about what we can expect
00:27:41.380 for this special
00:27:42.360 30th season of 22 Minutes.
00:27:44.120 She writes this,
00:27:45.200 especially with the rise
00:27:46.220 of fascism,
00:27:47.740 Canadians are waiting
00:27:48.580 for a real opinion
00:27:49.460 about our current landscape.
00:27:50.960 I can't wait for 22 Minutes
00:27:52.200 to continue to critique that
00:27:53.420 because I think we've really
00:27:54.520 been on the button
00:27:55.460 with that this year.
00:27:56.720 Wow.
00:27:57.080 So 22 Minutes,
00:27:57.880 they're going after fascism,
00:27:59.200 they're going after racism
00:28:00.360 and inflation.
00:28:01.980 The material,
00:28:03.120 I'm sure it's just endless,
00:28:04.300 Rupa.
00:28:05.080 Yeah.
00:28:05.520 So,
00:28:06.000 Harrison,
00:28:06.920 I mean,
00:28:07.140 so I'm assuming
00:28:08.540 they're going to be talking
00:28:10.620 about when it comes
00:28:11.720 to racism,
00:28:12.260 they're going to tackle
00:28:13.360 Justin Trudeau's blackface.
00:28:15.360 When it comes to the rise
00:28:16.460 of fascism,
00:28:17.720 hopefully they'll talk
00:28:18.460 about the Emergencies Act
00:28:19.780 and how a peaceful protest
00:28:21.100 was,
00:28:21.840 you know,
00:28:22.820 was,
00:28:23.620 you know,
00:28:24.100 the way a peaceful protest
00:28:25.280 civil disobedience movement
00:28:26.540 in Canada was dealt with.
00:28:28.300 So I'm hoping that they deal
00:28:29.660 with all of that stuff.
00:28:30.760 But you know what?
00:28:31.320 I'm not holding my breath
00:28:32.340 because I think this is going
00:28:33.580 to be
00:28:34.000 one of those things,
00:28:36.400 one of these woke humor
00:28:38.140 type things,
00:28:39.900 which is not exact,
00:28:41.540 which is not funny at all.
00:28:42.920 And it does,
00:28:45.080 I think this is going
00:28:46.140 to be another way
00:28:47.220 to attack Pierre Polyevre.
00:28:49.940 I think that's,
00:28:50.580 I think that's what
00:28:51.500 this is going to be about.
00:28:52.780 And again,
00:28:54.380 it's our tax funded,
00:28:57.080 it's our taxpayers' money
00:28:58.800 going to fund
00:28:59.900 this kind of stuff.
00:29:01.540 And yeah,
00:29:02.420 it's unfortunate.
00:29:04.740 I,
00:29:05.020 you know,
00:29:05.240 I stopped watching
00:29:06.060 this hour has 22 minutes
00:29:07.760 many,
00:29:08.300 many years ago
00:29:08.820 because it just stopped
00:29:09.660 being funny.
00:29:10.860 Yeah,
00:29:11.340 no,
00:29:11.560 exactly.
00:29:12.060 I mean,
00:29:12.280 we're seeing the death
00:29:13.700 of late time television,
00:29:14.980 these comedy shows,
00:29:15.980 right?
00:29:16.440 It was like Donald Trump
00:29:17.400 broke them.
00:29:17.960 Donald Trump came along.
00:29:19.320 All of these programs
00:29:20.460 in the US and in Canada,
00:29:21.500 they only focused on Trump.
00:29:22.960 And now all of a sudden
00:29:23.720 they can't,
00:29:24.200 they can't make jokes
00:29:24.920 about the other guy.
00:29:25.940 They can't make jokes
00:29:26.660 about the person
00:29:27.280 who's on the other side
00:29:28.440 of the,
00:29:28.840 on the other side
00:29:29.800 of the house
00:29:30.200 or on the other side
00:29:30.900 of the aisle.
00:29:31.820 And I think it's basically
00:29:33.060 ruined them.
00:29:33.780 And what a surprise.
00:29:34.880 I mean,
00:29:35.160 I hope that they go
00:29:36.000 after the blackface.
00:29:36.780 I hope they go
00:29:37.240 after emergencies act.
00:29:38.160 But like you said,
00:29:38.700 I'm not holding my breath.
00:29:39.640 I'm not optimistic.
00:29:39.900 No,
00:29:40.020 but here's,
00:29:40.640 yeah,
00:29:41.140 here's the thing,
00:29:41.820 Harrison.
00:29:42.180 I mean,
00:29:42.420 for a show
00:29:42.940 that is not exactly
00:29:43.860 very funny at all,
00:29:46.160 it manages to survive
00:29:48.940 somehow.
00:29:50.700 That would never,
00:29:51.700 that would never happen
00:29:52.740 with our shows,
00:29:53.800 right?
00:29:54.540 Yeah.
00:29:54.920 No,
00:29:55.300 exactly.
00:29:55.720 We see,
00:29:56.140 we see the death
00:29:56.700 of late time in the US
00:29:57.580 because they're actual businesses.
00:29:59.500 CBC,
00:30:00.140 they're never going to go away.
00:30:01.600 We keep giving them
00:30:02.500 billions of dollars.
00:30:03.560 They're just going to keep
00:30:04.220 pumping out this crap.
00:30:05.280 We're going to get 22 minutes
00:30:06.240 and we're going to get
00:30:07.000 this new Lido TV program
00:30:08.520 with the talking tomato.
00:30:09.560 Can't wait for it,
00:30:10.880 Rupa.
00:30:11.340 Well,
00:30:11.660 anyway,
00:30:12.000 it's been a great,
00:30:12.640 it's been great episode
00:30:13.600 of Fake News Friday.
00:30:14.420 Thank you for joining me.
00:30:15.540 That was Rupa Subramanian.
00:30:16.620 You can catch her show
00:30:17.600 every Thursday now
00:30:18.780 and you can catch my show
00:30:20.140 ratioed as well on Thursdays.
00:30:22.320 My name is Harrison Faulkner.
00:30:23.780 This was Fake News Friday.
00:30:24.780 Have a great weekend,
00:30:25.540 everyone.
00:30:25.940 Thank you so much.