Fake News Friday | Pierre Poilievre exposes Global News
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Summary
In this week's episode of Fake News Friday, Rupa Subramania and Harrison Falkner discuss the P.J. McLennon-Dagalon debacle, the "Jeremy McKenzie-McKenzie affair, and the Justin Trudeau smear campaign.
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happy friday canada welcome to fake news friday the only show on the internet keeping canada's
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failing fake and bias legacy media in check and my goodness do they need a checking it's
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it's been a historically bad week i think for canada's legacy media my name is harrison
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falkner filling in for andrew lawton once again who usually fills in for candace malcolm and
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taking the seat that i usually occupy on the show is the very talented rupa subramania the host of
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the rupa subramania podcast now rupa this may be one of the worst weeks i think for canada's legacy
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media i mean i don't know how much worse it can get they they've they've embarrassed themselves
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and frankly exposed themselves i think a little bit yeah no i think so i mean we've we've lots to
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cover and um yeah i don't even know where where where to begin uh just when you think that you
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know it's it's bad it just gets worse and uh so uh yeah uh they've not conducted themselves
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well here uh they once again made themselves the center of the story uh and as we discussed last
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week journalists are not supposed to be the story so um you know it's it's just very unfortunate but
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unfortunately this is this is how it's been uh for a while and that's where that's why we call it as
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as we see it yeah well let's start with this let's start with this whole pierre polyev jeremy mckenzie
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diagalon debacle let's call it the diagalon debacle because global news have have just completely
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embarrassed themselves i think here and i think a good number of canadians who were already quite
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skeptical of what they were getting from the legacy media after seeing what happened now i think are
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just saying to themselves wow i mean we're this is this is these are new lows so let's just summarize
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what happened for those that maybe aren't aware of what's what went on so at an event on sunday
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pierre polyev i might have been sunday might have been monday i'm not sure but pierre polyev was doing
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a meet and greet as he usually does one of his rallies in nova scotia i believe it was and at these
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rallies polyev like any other politician in this country meets and greets the supporters he sets up a
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there's a long line of people who want to shake his hand have a quick word take a picture and keep that
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as a little uh a little political memorabilia of a of a well-known political candidate so sure enough
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this guy jeremy mckenzie who is a an online streamer someone who is i think known for being
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quite controversial quite on the edge um the the legacy media view this guy as some very dangerous
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extreme right boogeyman well he went to the polyev rally took a photo with pierre polyev shaking his
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hand posted it to his telegram page and all of a sudden here comes global news journalist rachel
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gilmore who takes this and says well because this guy jeremy mckenzie who doesn't need doesn't need
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defending uh but but this guy jeremy mckenzie because he took a photo with polyev pierre polyev
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must be some racist far-right boogeyman he he's attracting these these far-right individuals and
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because of that we must we must force pierre polyev to denounce these people and basically validate
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the claims legacy media are making about him that he's what uh you know uh rupa he's he's he's
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attracting these far-right dangerous dangerous figures it's it's completely bizarre and and they
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completely fell for this yeah no but uh harrison we've seen this movie before i mean this is classic
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guilt by association uh which uh is applied to uh politicians on the right uh and never on the left
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uh so you know we know that trudeau has appeared with all kinds of extremists out there um many of
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his mps have appeared uh in community groups associated with um for example the khalasthan
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independence movement uh or tamil tigers and and none of these people were called extremists i don't
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ever recall anyone uh calling justin trudeau an extremist or um who supports these organizations or
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these elements uh but this is a classic smear tactic that comes from the left uh you attack
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someone uh not for their ideas not for their policies but you want to cast aspersions on their
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character so it's clearly motivated there's an agenda here for sure uh but you know what i would like
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about pierce uh about pierce responses and he's done this before it's very clever and witty you know he
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could have responded to it by uh getting angry and defensive but he responds it responds with wit
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and humor and thereby revealing how ridiculous the whole thing is for example i think he said um he
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says you know likewise i can't be responsible for justin trudeau's many racist outbursts just because
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i've met him or shaken his hands um i think that's that's a great way of dealing with it uh and uh you
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know mckinsey himself i believe uh has said that he was deliberately doing this to provoke the legacy
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media and of course they they fell um uh for it they responded um just like they uh fell for his
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diagonal on meme which is a fake country but they um tried to concoct this conspiracy that it is
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a far-right movement um uh here to um overthrow the canadian government there are a bunch of extremists
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they're a bunch of terrorists i mean it's a joke it's a joke the meme it's a it's a fixed it's it's
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it's a made-up country uh with the with with the goat i think as its head i or you know i don't quite
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know all the specifics but it's it's kind of funny but but it just shows you how easy it is to rile up
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um the legacy media and uh essentially get them to reveal where they're coming from their biases and
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their agenda no exactly and if the legacy media didn't have double standards we would know that
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they'd have no standards at all because of course if a legitimate journalist who's writing this story
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well first of all any politician who shakes hands with someone at an event designed for a meet and
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greet that's not a story no matter who they are it's not a story but if you're going to go to those
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those such low depths you might as well just provide a little bit of context not once in this global
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news reporter story did they did she mention the fact that as you mentioned trudeau has met with
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such you know acclaimed people as convicted pedophile ben levin or neo-nazi andre perubi
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or a pet or pedophile terry lowe so again and that's just to name a few there's there's actually
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four others worth mentioning but again it's just ridiculous i did some digging into this and
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it wasn't just of course global news that fell for this trap of course jerry mckenzie as you said
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mate put a video out there detailing how it was all just a setup it was just to expose a legacy
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media for being completely in the tank for trudeau but i did some research about this diagonal group
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as you said it's a meme it's a total joke you're trying to form some breakaway state a diagonal
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country from alaska to florida and from my research and and so in between these dangerous reports about
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how all these these diagonal guys are so dangerous they have to put in their actual specifics about what
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this group is and one of them is the fact that their vice president of diagonal is a goat figurine
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who has who does coke i mean so it's it's a total it's a total joke obviously and and it wasn't just
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global news that fell for this it was jean chariot who also in his best what patrick brown impersonation
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tried to basically say that pauliev hasn't denounced this jeremy mckenzie figure and if he doesn't denounce
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this guy he must be what supporting the the the views of of of the far right it's it's ridiculous
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and the whole goal here and conservatives should be wise to this and i think the more and more this
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goes on they'll start to see it what these what these legacy media journalists and the left want
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is for conservatives to denounce and distance condemn denounce and distance themselves from people
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who again aren't necessarily the model citizens but when have you seen justin trudeau
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openly denounce the extreme left or antifa he never does it and no one expects him to
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well you don't even have to go to jeremy mckenzie look what they did to the freedom protests
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and look look what look what they did to uh you know those people you know james top yeah james
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stopped like i've met james stopped to call him a white supremacist is so incredibly ridiculous i i don't
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even know where to begin here i i marched with the man you know for for a day to get an interview
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i was i spent about six hours with him and i did a podcast with him and he's perfectly reasonable
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person he believes in this you know in his cause and there's nothing racist or white supremacist about
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him i mean unless you know white supremacists are now becoming a more inclusive group i mean i'm not
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aware of this development but uh it's it's it's insane how they try to tar everybody um you know
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with this brush um and we saw that with the freedom protests uh just pretty much you know they were just
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using these talking points from justin trudeau himself when he recall when he characterized the
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unvaccinated as a bunch of racists and misogynists and should we tolerate them as he infamously asked
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and uh that's essentially what they're doing they're um you know they're essentially behaving
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like stenographers for the government and it's uh it's unfortunate but uh but there you have it yeah
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so you i mean you've you've got you've got the the whole series of photographs that justin trudeau
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has taken these aren't just with any individuals i mean one of them you know is the former speaker
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i think of the ukrainian parliament who is andre peruby i mean these are real legitimate people who are
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truly uh i i would say in to use the less language problematic um but again you don't even have to go
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that far you can go back earlier this week when the canadian heritage department gave money 130 grand
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to a violent semite where obviously we saw we saw ahmed hassan denounce and condemn rightly so but you
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don't have you don't have a whole procession of liberal mps openly coming out and saying we denounce
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this we denounce this man we we distance ourselves because they don't actually have to because the
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standards aren't actually the same and and it's also worth mentioning too the the way that this
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has all been set up they they've created these also they've created these these blanket terms like
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ideologically motivated violent extremism for example imve that's not that's like a new thing
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and if you think about that ideologically motivated that's basically politics and and and and violent
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extremism that can be anything as we've seen from the left so i mean we this was a standard
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operating procedure from the legacy media and there was another article that came up from the
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same journalist at global because global wasn't done there this week of course after embarrassing
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themselves on what the monday they decided the next day to double down and go even deeper they wrote
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an article the headline is laughable here the headline is how podcasts have become misinformation
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machines and what can be done about it so this article is unbelievable they basically just take
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any conservative uh right wing media operation if it's i mean they they take the biggest names we're
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talking uh jordan peterson ben shapiro alex jones they're saying anyone who is not basically
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in the legacy media anything that's not printed by a legacy media outlet or anything that's not
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produced by uh some sort of uh legacy media outlet rupa is disinformation and right wing and they even
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they even try and lump in shows that aren't even podcasts as podcasts it's ridiculous yeah it's very
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poor research look obviously there's misinformation out there there's disinformation no one denies that
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uh but here's the thing there's a lot of fake information in from the legacy media itself
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the legacy media itself is a big proponent of uh fake news stories and uh uh propagates this right
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uh not proponent but uh propagates these stories uh so it's rather disingenuous to say that it's
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just podcast spreading misinformation um and keep in mind that legacy media uh still reaches a large
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number of people who are not into uh podcasts and you know and other uh sort of you know how you and i
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would get the news there are a lot of people who still look to the cbc and the c and ctv and legacy media
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for for news so again um the the fact of the matter is that the fake news the legacy media
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maybe that was a freudian slip but uh but but the legacy media itself propagates fake news and they've
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been called out plenty of times um and uh and again you know i refer to the freedom convoy protests
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where the legacy media was all but parroting the trudeau government's uh own misinformation uh where
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they tarred all the protesters with the with the same brush that they were racist and misogynist and
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we know that's not true um and it and and guess who um uh you know guess who who who were the people
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who who was pointing this out it was the independent media uh which was there on the ground um uh and uh
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and i think people like uh you and i were were there at the protests and we i think we presented
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a much more accurate picture of what was actually happening there um and you know i think i think
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what's happening here harrison is that podcasts and independent media are increasingly providing
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a much needed corrective to i believe a very hegemonic agenda driven narrative uh by legacy
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media uh and at least here in canada we know it's usually in favor of the liberals well no exactly and
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and you know the thing is is i think canadians should understand and i think canadians do understand
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that when you read something from the legacy media these legacy media outlets they're obviously
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going to be left-wing that's just sort of the nature of of big media but when you put out an
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article when the global news puts out an article that is so clearly slanted against the against the
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right i mean they're trying to they're trying to basically say that uh jordan peterson and ben
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shapiro and podcasters like that are putting out misinformation they don't once talk about any sort
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of antifa or far left podcast and we know they're out there they should at least make these make these
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articles known that it's it's an opinion or it's or it's some sort of analysis like even the cbc to
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their credit and i can't believe i'm going to say this rupa to the the cbc's credit they will label
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their articles either op-ed or analysis and you know that it's really not news but this apparently
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is being presented as news and you people should go through this article because the more you read
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it the more it obviously becomes a justification to to introduce censorship in the media to guarantee
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that canadians can't access information that is not filtered by legacy media sources so there's
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there's an important there's an important paragraph that i want to that i want to uh read here and it's
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a quote from somebody in this article i think it's justin ling actually which just makes it even worse
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if anyone knows canadian legacy media but this is what he says in the article one of the main draws
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of podcasting is the low barrier to entry all you need is a microphone and some basic editing software
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the result your message can go right to the listeners ears with no gatekeepers i mean what's
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wrong with that rupa what's wrong with people instead of people just putting out news and and
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letting letting audiences decide how they want to receive it it has to go through gatekeepers i mean
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it's ridiculous and then here's another line too he says it feels like somebody leaning over the
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counter of the bar or coming to your cubicle in the office or sitting across your kitchen table and
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explaining something to you it doesn't feel produced it doesn't feel put on it doesn't feel like
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there are any filters between what the host is saying and what you're hearing so again i ask the
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question what's wrong with someone just telling it to you straight just giving you a conversation
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to inform you they want it to go through their sources only because they can feel their their
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monopoly on information slipping through their hands and there's nothing that terrifies them more
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that's precisely it you've you've uh you know you've identified the problem there and that is
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it uh look it's democratization of discourse which is a great thing that's what that's what we
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want and that's what technology has enabled us to do uh that's what podcasting um has enabled us to
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do uh and you know everybody has a voice what is wrong with that uh and and if you you know you're
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you're free to disagree with those views and opinions but you know to obviously this you know
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they feel that their control over this narrative that they've been pushing for a very long time
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is slowly starting to slip away it's it's already happening i think in in a big way uh in certain
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areas and they're being challenged constantly every day uh by viewers and listeners um uh you know
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saying you know this your your reporting of this is completely biased it's incorrect and they're
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you you no longer have to write a letter to an editor um you know which which used to be the case
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when i was growing up and it would take a week for them to publish it and you you didn't even know
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if the journalist even received that letter so yeah but now it's instantaneous you know you can
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just tweet to this person you can just tell them directly look i think you suck your reporting sucks
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and and that and they they have a hard time dealing with it and uh and and then of course
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they they they you know they're they they face fierce competition from independent media um you know
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and i was i was just looking at podcasts um by charitable a ranking of podcasts in canada um
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and and um and and i i noticed that several of our podcasts on true north are actually up there in
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in the top 50 uh ranked you know in in the top 50 yeah mine happens to be number 21 so um
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i'm rather pleased with that certainly yeah but i noticed that most of those podcasts are actually
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from the independent media space uh i think i saw one cbc podcast up there but most of it are just
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people like you and i podcasting and i think that's that's where you know they feel really
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threatened and that would explain why they come out with these stupid bogus articles um uh you know
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which are poorly researched poorly written and uh and you know and and you know because they they
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they they want to keep this monopoly going as much as possible yeah absolutely and i think when
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journalists are on the side of of restricting access to the news and and trying to you know
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keep canadians from being able to access other voices i think that's when they're on the wrong
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side of this debate and i think canadians are going to see that now rupa the the legacy media
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journalists speaking of these great legacy media journalists they they still haven't gotten over
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your reporting which has exposed the trudeau government it's like it's like it almost hurts
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them more than the trudeau government i don't understand why but they can't stop attacking you
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what's going on here uh well it's uh you know back back in the old days harrison and that was not
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too long ago um i you know when a journalist broke a story right other journalists would dive into the
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story and try to get more stories out of it right uh but what's happening here is that they're actually
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trying to demonize the journalist and defending the government it's it's messed up so you know just
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imagine when bob woodward and carl bernstein broke the watergate story uh and legacy media
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in canada would have attacked them and tried to defend nixon um it's it's it's really about that
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ridiculous and so incredibly shameful uh you know there are several things that are shameful here
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they're attacking me and they're also so incredibly stupid and naive that they take everything that
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government officials are saying at face value um they do this kind of thing in north korea and
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other tin pot dictatorships you know to stay alive right because if you speak up speak out against
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um dear leader uh that's it that's game over for you uh but it's incredible that uh you know some
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journalists here are behaving like we're in north korea um you know rather than having a healthy
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skepticism um you know towards uh official narratives uh from the government uh fact checking
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they're fact checking me they should really be looking at these court documents and digging deeper
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there's a lot of stuff in there that i couldn't get into there's so many stories here um but uh no
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but they're busy fact checking me and uh you know again uh attempting um a character assassination by
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saying that i'm affiliated with far-right outfits what what on earth does it have to do with the story
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and the story speaks for itself um you know but instead you know they're they're you know they
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should be fact checking the government and they should be looking for evidence to support the
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government claims and not just take them at face value it's a shameful dereliction of duty by
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some of these individuals in the legacy media no absolutely and you know the legacy media are going
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after journalists and they're going after small podcasters like jeremy mckenzie who has 12 000
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subscribers instead of going after the government instead of actually going after people who are in
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authority the whole point of journalism is to hold power to account but we is the common thing i say
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on this show and it's that this is just par for the course there's nothing changing in the legacy
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media i would love it if there was a a carl bernstein like type journalist that just emerged through one of
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these outlets because it would do good for canada i want to see these outlets do good for canada
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but right now all they're doing is just the opposite quickly i i want to i want to touch on this
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ridiculous cbc article where they're basically saying that uh the dutch protests uh that we see
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in in the netherlands the farmer protests in the netherlands that really took off around the world
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these were fueled by conspiracy theories in canada so there was a cbc headline that came out today
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uh came out yesterday excuse me that said canada's convoy movement waved the dutch flag
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then conspiracy theories swirled about fertilizer and bugs very bizarre article they're basically trying
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to say rupa i i think here and correct me if i'm wrong the the statement here is the because a lot
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of people who are involved in the freedom convoy sympathized with what was going on in the netherlands
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which i think a lot of people rightly consider to be a sort of a uh the next evolution of of protests
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that we saw start in ottawa because canadians who are sympathetic to the ottawa protest and the
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dutch protest they're also conspiracy theorists or they're pushing conspiracy theorists maybe it's just
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because they take issue with a real policy and the government is trying to back them up i don't know
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what's going on here yeah this was a really bizarre story it was desperately trying to um bring in
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misinformation and disinformation into this uh into the uh into some canadian support for the farmers
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protest uh in the netherlands um it was a really bizarre story it was long and it was just uh you know
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it made no sense to me uh but you know i was i was intrigued by a tweet that uh that the cbc sent
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out uh to promote the story um and uh you know the language was very problematic uh um i don't have the
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tweet with me but basically i felt this was a case study in propaganda that if you oppose government
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policies they framed uh an opposition to government policies as uh as has uh as being uh anti-government
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ideology um which is very problematic so just because you criticize the government um essentially
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that means you're a far-right conspiracy theorist and uh you you're anti-government and it's anti-government
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ideology uh it this is incredibly problematic and imagine for example if the legacy media in the u.s
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um during the civil rights movement for example and this was the example i sent out on my twitter feed
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uh in my tweet in the 60s the civil rights movement was protesting unjust laws and uh and and imagine
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if they were called anti-government ideology uh in fact there were people saying that this was
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anti-government of ideology but guess who these people were these were southern white supremacists
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right no exactly and that's that's kind of the shift we're seeing right i mean it's when it's when
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this this this movement goes so far they've completely lost lost touch with reality and they end up
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they end up sounding insane i mean the cbc sounds absolutely insane here i have the tweet here
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as the canadian convoy movement embraced farmers protest in the netherlands far-right outlets here
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took advantage to amplify anti-government ideology so excuse me it wasn't even just about the protesters
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it was about the far-right outlets so they're attacking the media which are critical of the government
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and and by proxy basically saying anyone who reads these outlets uh that's you watching the show
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right now audience you the cbc thinks are are some sort of far-right conspiracy theorist you pay for
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the cbc remember that this is what you pay for you pay for you pay for an outlet to bash all of us
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constantly and do the government's bidding it's it's it again like this is the kind of stuff we can
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laugh at the cbc and they always put out stuff to laugh at but then they do stuff like this which is
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extremely dangerous and just absolutely ridiculous well we do we do try and end the show on a lighter
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note and it's tough these days because it's just so ridiculous from the legacy media they're always
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kind of gaslighting canadians trying to convince us all that we're we're wild conspiracy theorists but
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we found something that i thought was was definitely worthy of of mockery rupa the kind of thing that i
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think just shows you really what i don't even know what to describe this as but wendy's the fast food
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chain decided that they really wanted to kind of hop on the lisa laflam bandwagon and there's this
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there's this narrative going around about lisa laflam lisa laflam's firing from ctv that actually
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it was because she was going gray that that's that's sort of the narrative we're hearing and
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wendy's taking this literally without actually perhaps thinking about the fact she was making a
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lot of money for doing a pretty bad job it turns out taking this literally they went out and decided
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of all days yesterday which is a couple weeks past it to change the wendy's logo on social media
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to give the wendy's girl gray hair wow wendy's rupa is really standing in solidarity with lisa laflam
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there i just can't believe this well yeah i mean it is it's just virtue signaling right um and um
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it's tokenism does it actually help lisa laflam at the end of the day um you know i i don't know what
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what what exactly um is the goal behind this sort of thing i often see this as uh tokenism but
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uh you know and i'm just quickly checking to see some of the comments um um and uh several people
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pointed out the fact that um you know if if if several people were asking wendy's if they've
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removed their advertising from bell media exactly that's a great point that would actually hold more
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weight uh you know in terms of making a difference but uh um but you know i mean anybody can change
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their display picture and uh and virtue signaling and which cheap uh talk is cheap but um you know
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are they actually going to do something about this uh and uh and and here the you know what people are
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asking is have you removed your advertising from bell media and that's a i think that's a fair question
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um and uh yeah at the end of the day i you know i i certainly don't you know think that this is this
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kind of thing does nothing at the end of the day it's just it's it's just it's just virtue it's just
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weird cringe sort of classic classic corporate media attempts at trying to ride a bandwagon
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and uh it's just very bizarre and i think i mean they have 13 000 likes so people i guess like it but
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there's some good comments here and there's some good mockery on it too so what a way to wrap us up
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for the show have a great weekend everyone thank you for watching fake news friday my name is harrison
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faulkner that is rupa supermania you can catch rupa's podcast every tuesday you can catch my show
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ray showed every thursday take care everyone thank you for watching have a great weekend