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00:00:30.000 Hello and welcome to you all.

00:00:42.760 It is Friday, September 16th, and you know what that means.

00:00:45.960 The Friday bit, not the September 16th part.

00:00:48.780 It is time for Fake News Friday.

00:00:52.380 Yes, my friends, this is Andrew Lawton, joined as always by my colleague and host of Ratioed on True North, Harrison Faulkner.

00:01:00.000 Harrison, we gaze back upon another week that was.

00:01:03.280 What was your take on the week?

00:01:05.040 Well, my take on it, I think, Andrew, is one we'll be talking about on the show, and it's just the overwhelming, I don't even know if you could call it a meltdown, or you want to call it this sort of rush to paint Paul Yev, the new conservative leader, as something that the media want him to.

00:01:21.200 But it's been quite the spectacle, I have to say, this week.

00:01:23.480 It's really made for good TV.

00:01:25.340 Yeah, we were doing, Harrison and I, alongside our colleague Sue-Anne Levy and Elie Kenton Nantel and Jasmine Moulton and the whole team, last Saturday, a conservative leadership results show where we were documenting in real time and commenting on the results of the conservative leadership.

00:01:42.720 And at the very beginning of the show, I asked Harrison and I asked Sue-Anne, I said, what is it you're watching for tonight?

00:01:48.640 And I was thinking, they would say, oh, you know, I'm curious about how Jean Charest does in a bit to be to Miscaming, or, well, you know, I'm curious how Leslie Lewis does in Calgary Centre.

00:01:57.600 But no, Harrison said, you know, I'm looking for the mainstream media freakouts, and don't we have a show packed full of them just six days after that?

00:02:08.100 Let's start off with, I think, the overarching one here.

00:02:10.680 We're going to be talking about the Pierre Polyev derangement syndrome a lot over the course of this episode, because there has been, I think, a big freakout of it.

00:02:19.120 Now that it's gone from Pierre Polyev, the leadership candidate, to Pierre Polyev, the candidate for prime minister, as he says, there are some people in the parliamentary press gallery that don't seem too pleased by it.

00:02:30.720 Now, I know this has happened a few days ago, but I think it's revealing of the dynamic at play here.

00:02:37.540 So we're going to get it out of the way now.

00:02:39.580 Here is Pierre Polyev's first time stepping before the media as the leader of the Conservatives.

00:02:45.840 Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I appreciate your presence here today.

00:02:50.960 Before I begin, let me just say that...

00:02:53.480 Thank you very much. I'm being heckled here by the...

00:03:01.600 Thank you very much for your congratulations.

00:03:04.380 Thank you very much for your questions.

00:03:06.500 I'm going to begin my remarks now.

00:03:10.020 Justin Trudeau is out of touch, and Canadians are out of money.

00:03:14.760 The cost of government is driving up the cost of living.

00:03:19.960 A half a trillion dollars of inflationary deficits have bid up the cost of the goods we buy and the interest that Canadians pay.

00:03:31.140 The cost for workers and businesses to produce the goods that we buy.

00:03:36.220 On top of that, Trudeau proposes yet more spending to bid up costs even further.

00:03:41.840 The more he spends, the more things cost.

00:03:47.300 It is just inflation.

00:03:49.500 Their homes, and to buy a home in the very first place.

00:03:53.340 I'll put my hand up.

00:03:53.980 The reason that...

00:03:55.380 I'm going to look at Anthony.

00:03:56.560 That's the question. Is that where it works?

00:03:58.040 So, I mean, we have basically a liberal heckler who snuck in here today.

00:04:04.640 I'm a liberal heckler.

00:04:05.840 I'm the chief political correspondent for that organization.

00:04:10.300 Are you going to let me make my statement?

00:04:11.420 You may remember me from the guy who actually reported first on the prime minister breaking the law.

00:04:15.700 Are you going to let me make my statement?

00:04:16.240 We'd just like to ask a question.

00:04:17.860 Say, yes, I'll take your question.

00:04:18.260 I've never, I've actually never seen you heckling the prime minister.

00:04:21.800 I've done it before. Ask minister.

00:04:22.440 I've never seen you heckling the prime minister.

00:04:24.040 Look, bottom line is this.

00:04:25.100 I'm going to take some questions at the end of this statement.

00:04:27.020 Yes, I'm taking two questions at the very end.

00:04:29.360 Thank you very much.

00:04:30.020 Thank you very much.

00:04:30.760 Ah, yes, and the liberal heckler there, David Akin, has since apologized for that exchange.

00:04:39.180 He said it wasn't appropriate.

00:04:40.720 The reason I wanted to play that to really set the stage here is because this has now triggered,

00:04:45.760 I guess in more ways than one, but it's triggered a bunch of other responses

00:04:49.780 from mainstream media journalists that we're going to get to over the course of today. 0.84

00:04:54.040 But the big one is this idea that Pierre Pollyev is this evil, big, scary, mean populist.

00:05:00.320 This is like the word of the day this week for most of these journos, isn't it?

00:05:04.480 Yeah, it is.

00:05:05.040 And I think we're starting to see this strategy from the media appear now.

00:05:09.800 It's been a few days, as you said, and they've had some time to let the result sink in.

00:05:14.640 And I think what we're starting to see, Andrew, and we'll get to this with the reaction from

00:05:18.500 the other journalists to that clip we just saw, but what I think we're starting to see

00:05:22.740 is the media have realized their attempt at trying to paint Pollyev as this divisive figure

00:05:28.080 that is appealing to the fringes of Canadian politics hasn't worked, right?

00:05:32.600 That's obvious because of the result that he had in the election, the leadership election,

00:05:37.300 the overwhelming majority of points going his way.

00:05:41.100 So the new strategy, I think, Andrew, from the media is to say that when Pollyev goes at

00:05:46.160 the media, when Pollyev sort of returns the favor to the media, it's him demonizing the media.

00:05:51.640 The new strategy, I think, is to, from these journalists, we're starting to see is to make

00:05:55.620 themselves the victims of Pierre Pollyev.

00:05:59.660 And when they realize that their attempts at trying to paint Pollyev as this divisive figure

00:06:04.480 clearly haven't worked.

00:06:05.440 So yeah, I think we're starting to see a new strategy come from the media.

00:06:09.700 And if that was the first go at it, Andrew, then I think maybe that's a harbinger of what's

00:06:15.040 to come with Pollyev press pool in Ottawa relations.

00:06:19.300 Yeah, I mean, Aaron Weary, who's a big CBC politics guy, said that this is the arrival

00:06:25.960 of, quote, 21st century populism in Canada, the internet-fueled, resentment-driven wave

00:06:32.780 that has already flooded American and British politics.

00:06:35.460 So he's not coming out and saying it, but he's like, this guy's Trump, this guy's Boris

00:06:39.300 Johnson.

00:06:40.240 This was also at the core of this really, really bizarro Theo Moudakis cartoon in the Toronto

00:06:47.320 star, which you can take a look at on the screen there.

00:06:49.980 It's like, I'm kind of even having trouble describing it.

00:06:54.480 It's like Donald Trump is calling Pierre Pollyev and Pierre Pollyev is looking or squinting

00:07:00.540 at the bondage dungeon he has in his basement where he keeps Patrick Brown and Aaron O'Toole

00:07:07.160 and Jean Charest.

00:07:08.460 So the Pollyev bondage dungeon has Jean Charest and Aaron O'Toole and Patrick Brown and it's

00:07:14.640 Trump that's on the phone there.

00:07:15.660 I mean, you just throw every cliche out of it and hope that one of them sticks.

00:07:19.660 So where he's basically doing that, the Pollyev is just this carbon copy of this thing that 0.98

00:07:23.880 you're always supposed to see and hate in these other countries.

00:07:27.240 But what I'm going to hone in on is resentment-driven.

00:07:31.360 I think this presupposes that there's something wrong with resenting the state of affairs in

00:07:38.200 this country when people have been left behind.

00:07:41.220 And I actually fundamentally reject that premise.

00:07:43.740 I think there are some people that are completely within their right to be resentful of a society

00:07:49.140 in which they've not been able to get ahead, a society in which the wealth is spread so

00:07:53.660 unevenly, which used to be something the left cared about.

00:07:56.420 Well, what does it say, Andrew, when the one candidate in the leadership race that seems

00:08:00.780 to, I think it wouldn't be unreasonable to say that he is the best at articulating that

00:08:06.100 resentment that a lot of Canadians are feeling.

00:08:08.260 What does it say when journalists turn that around and immediately paint the one person

00:08:12.780 who's speaking to the issues that Canadians are really, that Canadians have to face, that

00:08:19.300 politician is Donald Trump?

00:08:21.240 That person is someone that they try and paint as evil?

00:08:25.580 I think you're right.

00:08:26.660 It speaks to this idea that it's not just the, it's not just the opposition.

00:08:31.720 It's not just liberals telling conservatives that they're wrong to be thinking the way

00:08:35.760 that they think or to be taking issue with the issues they care about.

00:08:39.700 It's the journalists as well.

00:08:41.380 And I think that's, that's just only going to lead down the same problems we hear these

00:08:45.660 legacy media journalists talk about so often.

00:08:47.480 How, how often on the show, Andrew, have we talked about legacy journalists making themselves

00:08:51.760 a story and saying that they're victims from a lot of angry tweets and angry statements.

00:08:56.760 And some I'm sure are very rude and not appropriate.

00:08:59.540 But when, when the journalists are the ones that are mocking people who talk about the

00:09:05.260 issues that a lot of Canadians care about, what do you have to say about that?

00:09:09.040 I think it speaks really to this disconnect.

00:09:11.400 We always try and, we always try and highlight on the show that legacy media is just disconnected

00:09:15.880 from a lot of Canadians and that, that's become so clear in the first, what has it been?

00:09:20.260 Two, three days of Pierre Paglia's leadership of the opposition.

00:09:23.000 It's just been crazy to watch.

00:09:25.000 Yeah.

00:09:25.460 And the issues they do care about and choose to jump up and down on are generally not the

00:09:30.220 ones other Canadians care about.

00:09:32.280 And certainly this was the case during the leadership where it was conservative members

00:09:36.420 who were voting and, you know, they weren't interested in the same things that, you know,

00:09:39.680 every other CBC journalist was interested in.

00:09:42.460 But even now, so the, the big Globe and Mail exclusive, in fact,

00:09:45.880 I feel, you know, we, exclusive doesn't quite do justice to just how groundbreaking this

00:09:52.400 journalism is.

00:09:53.480 Step aside Pulitzer, step aside Nellie Bly, step aside Woodward.

00:09:58.460 The, the breaking news story, Pierre Pagliav, the official opposition leader, is planning to

00:10:06.220 move into the residence reserve for the leader of the official opposition.

00:10:10.200 Like, I'm, I'm shocked to my very core that Pierre Pagliav is moving into Stornoway.

00:10:16.720 But that's the big Globe and Mail exclusive.

00:10:18.880 I liked the quote that his press secretary, Anthony Koch, gave.

00:10:22.540 Of course, he will be moving into Stornoway.

00:10:24.560 It's like, yeah, duh, why are you bothering me with this question?

00:10:27.020 Of course, he's like, did you ask Justin Trudeau if he was going to move into one of his

00:10:29.840 residences?

00:10:30.480 No, it's, of course he's going to live there.

00:10:32.380 And you can take issue with, uh, why are we as a country paying for the leader of the

00:10:36.620 official opposition to have a house?

00:10:38.100 That's a legitimate question, but it's not like they're trying to just pigeonhole him.

00:10:42.940 Oh, he talks about the gatekeepers and he talks about affordability and he talks about

00:10:46.480 people not having a house, but he's moving into that house. 0.97

00:10:50.020 It's, it's, it's just so ridiculous. 0.56

00:10:51.980 And the way that Globe and Mail framed it was disingenuous from the start. 0.87

00:10:56.160 They try and paint it as though Polyev is, again, as you said, doing something that he

00:11:00.560 isn't supposed to do or is out of, out of step with tradition.

00:11:03.700 I mean, every single opposition leader, even the interim leaders stayed in Stornoway.

00:11:08.080 And I, for one, actually kind of think that tradition in this sense is very important.

00:11:12.020 It's been a week that we've been watching tradition play out in the UK and these things

00:11:17.120 matter.

00:11:17.500 In my opinion, at least they matter.

00:11:18.860 I want the prime minister, for example, not to be living in, in, in the, wherever he is

00:11:24.740 in, uh, Rideau Cottage, we have a house for the prime minister.

00:11:28.280 That's where I want the prime minister to be.

00:11:29.780 I want the leader of the opposition to be in the, in the house that they're supposed

00:11:33.320 to be in.

00:11:33.840 It's, it's tradition.

00:11:35.000 It's what we've been doing in this country.

00:11:36.680 And the, the headline of Pierre Pauly had planned to move into publicly funded Stornoway

00:11:40.680 residents.

00:11:41.040 Like everyone knows it's publicly funded, right?

00:11:44.140 Everyone knows it's paid for by the taxpayer.

00:11:45.880 What a lot of Canadians don't know, however, is I'm pretty sure the figure was $11 million,

00:11:50.960 Andrew.

00:11:51.260 Uh, the, the prime minister spent $11 million renovating and upgrading the prime minister's

00:11:57.080 cottage, which I too also think the prime minister should have access to.

00:12:00.580 Again, it's not me taking issue with the, with the properties being there.

00:12:04.680 It's the fact that the media are grasping at, at, at thin air here, trying to, trying to

00:12:10.560 turn a non-story into something and doing it in, in the worst way, which is of course trying

00:12:14.680 to paint the opposition leader as, as some, somebody who doesn't care about, about the,

00:12:19.500 the, the public dollar when he's all, all he's doing is doing what his job tells him

00:12:24.160 to do, which is having a house in Ottawa.

00:12:26.820 And it happens to be this one that the taxpayer pays for.

00:12:29.880 It's such a non-story and it's really disappointing, but, and actually to be fair, to be fair, 0.93

00:12:34.880 not something I would have expected to see from the Globe and Mail, but just ridiculous. 0.89

00:12:38.800 And, and, and rightly so.

00:12:39.860 Anthony Koch, the, the press secretary, uh, had a great response to it.

00:12:43.100 I think you just gotta, you just gotta laugh at this, at stuff like this.

00:12:46.500 And I don't even know if it's worthy of a response to a journalist writing a story.

00:12:50.340 Yeah.

00:12:50.800 Well, no, but you could tell they wanted more because if you, if you read the actual story,

00:12:54.500 it's like they, they kept asking further questions about it.

00:12:56.960 Like, you know, Oh, he didn't respond to the conservative leaders views on the move.

00:13:01.140 Well, I assume the views on the move are, I've got to get packing because this move is coming

00:13:05.340 up and you know, other stuff like that.

00:13:07.180 And they, they claim that this is a lot more controversial than it really is.

00:13:10.900 Uh, the word, I, I want to pull it up exactly.

00:13:13.520 I think it was that it's bedeviled.

00:13:15.320 The issue of whether to move in has bedeviled previous opposition leaders.

00:13:19.460 It really hasn't.

00:13:20.280 They've all moved in.

00:13:21.440 I mean, they've all just like moved in.

00:13:22.980 Even the interim leaders tend to move in because that is what it's there for.

00:13:26.420 And again, if you want to have the discussion that there shouldn't be, someone pointed this

00:13:30.360 out to me the other day, which I don't actually think is wrong or like an off base comment

00:13:34.340 that, you know, why do we have for the loser of an election, an official

00:13:37.040 residence?

00:13:37.520 That's a fair point, but we do have it.

00:13:39.560 And unless someone's proposing to get rid of it, this is just such a non-issue.

00:13:43.380 But again, par for the course in how these are often trying to portray Pierre Polyev.

00:13:49.940 But what else has like irked you this week about the media coverage?

00:13:53.040 Well, one thing that I just found to be very bizarre was this idea that Pierre Polyev

00:13:58.080 is painting the media as the enemy, which is clearly, by the way, a line they're trying

00:14:02.380 to attribute to Pierre Polyev when they know that it's sort of, for some people, it's

00:14:08.720 representative of the Trump era.

00:14:10.220 They want to try and attribute that quote to Pierre Polyev.

00:14:12.900 People are trying to say that Pierre Polyev is calling the media the enemy when he didn't

00:14:17.740 say that at all.

00:14:18.520 So after the David Akin story, Pierre Polyev wrote a fundraising email off of what had

00:14:23.300 happened.

00:14:23.660 And there's been some criticism of that.

00:14:25.040 I'm not going to really get into that part of it, but it's the reaction to the fundraising

00:14:29.800 email.

00:14:30.600 These journalists, we've got Rachel Gilmore of Global News.

00:14:35.560 We've got Amber Mack, the tech journalist.

00:14:38.720 Amber Mack, for example, basically took the fundraising email that Pierre Polyev wrote to conservatives

00:14:44.560 and wrote, week number one, the media is the enemy.

00:14:47.600 This is a dangerous path, specifically naming a member of the media as the enemy in your email

00:14:51.320 to thousands of supporters.

00:14:52.460 It's pure intimidation by someone who interrupts for a living.

00:14:55.860 The problem is, Andrew, nowhere in that fundraising email did Pierre use the words enemy.

00:15:00.580 He didn't even use the word enemy.

00:15:01.820 He's not pinning the media as the enemy.

00:15:03.420 Yeah.

00:15:03.700 Yeah.

00:15:04.020 How dare you label him as your enemy?

00:15:05.420 I didn't.

00:15:06.220 It's the only...

00:15:06.660 Well, still, you thought about it.

00:15:09.540 Exactly.

00:15:10.080 Like, it's this idea that they don't even have the ammunition.

00:15:13.220 They don't have the right ammunition to go after Polyev for it.

00:15:15.240 So they're making it up.

00:15:16.600 It's crazy.

00:15:19.120 Yeah, that was bizarre.

00:15:20.720 And it's like the script has already been written before the circumstances come up that

00:15:26.460 justify using it.

00:15:27.960 And one way where you saw that was CUPE, which is like the big public sector union, had launched

00:15:33.160 this attack on Pierre Polyev this week that I just want to share.

00:15:37.480 They said, it's too bad that unlike Andrew Scheer, Pierre Polyev does not hold American citizenship

00:15:43.080 because he would be right at home as governor of a state like Alabama.

00:15:46.920 It's like they've already purchased, like from, you know, their local, you know, county comedy

00:15:51.660 writer, a bunch of jokes that they didn't get to about Andrew Scheer.

00:15:54.860 And now they're like, all right, well, let's just cross out Scheer and write Polyev.

00:15:58.760 It's like they've already determined the line of attack they're going to take.

00:16:02.520 And they don't even think about how well or not well this stuff is landing.

00:16:06.660 Yeah. 0.85

00:16:06.900 And of course, I'm just going through some of these other ridiculous takes.

00:16:10.520 And I stumble, I see this one here from the Toronto Star. 0.72

00:16:13.900 Go figure.

00:16:14.880 This is from Bruce Arthur.

00:16:17.260 And we at True North get name dropped in this article, Andrew.

00:16:20.760 Oh, yeah.

00:16:21.200 We get a shout out.

00:16:22.100 Yes, we do.

00:16:23.080 So the, of course, the press pool in Ottawa, they took issue, I think, with the fact that

00:16:27.880 media outlets like True North, like Rebel, they mentioned, they even mentioned the page

00:16:33.580 Ontario Proud.

00:16:34.780 These journalists took issue with the fact that we clipped the interaction, if you want to call

00:16:39.780 it, the heckling from David Aiken.

00:16:42.040 And I just want to read this paragraph because I think it speaks to this idea that we're talking

00:16:45.240 about, this idea that you can just attribute quotes and statements to Pierre Polyev or

00:16:51.220 to media that the legacy media disagree with when we've never said it.

00:16:55.080 So right here, this quote I find interesting.

00:16:57.200 Polyev seemed to have been thrown off balance.

00:16:58.980 Media dustups happen all the time.

00:17:00.760 They just turn broadcast live.

00:17:02.260 Far right websites such as The Rebel and True North Center or right wing influencer Ontario

00:17:07.180 Proud rushed to push out the video.

00:17:09.500 All three self-servingly love to say mainstream media is the enemy.

00:17:14.020 That's typical stuff.

00:17:15.300 Funny, Andrew, in that clip, I don't think, in fact, I think we posted it three times,

00:17:18.880 three different angles.

00:17:20.260 Nowhere, I think, Andrew, did we say the media is the enemy.

00:17:22.920 But then again, I guess it doesn't matter.

00:17:25.520 It doesn't matter if it's printed or not.

00:17:26.860 It's attributed to us no matter what.

00:17:29.880 Yeah, and we didn't even really editorialize.

00:17:31.800 We just let like David Aiken's conduct and Pierre Polyev's response speak for itself.

00:17:35.740 But I mean, people see in this what they want to see.

00:17:38.280 Like people that don't like him are like, oh, he got thrown off balance.

00:17:41.120 Keto Maggie, the pollster, he went on this big, long Twitter rant, which it took me like

00:17:45.920 four times falling asleep before I got to the end.

00:17:47.960 But when I got to the end, his fundamental point was that Pierre Polyev lost it under,

00:17:53.380 he cracked under pressure.

00:17:54.580 And I'm like, well, the fact that they sent out that clip in a fundraising email suggests

00:17:58.320 they think Pierre Polyev probably handled himself just fine.

00:18:01.360 Yeah, I think obviously that's the way it comes across to the majority of people.

00:18:07.500 I think the clip went viral not because of Polyev's response, but because of the behavior

00:18:10.880 of the journalist.

00:18:12.240 And I think, like you said, everyone recognized that.

00:18:15.100 But here's the other thing.

00:18:16.020 So the media have been taking issue, Andrew, with the fact that Polyev in the media availability,

00:18:21.760 and I know we can call it what we want to call it.

00:18:23.620 I think when you speak to press, a lot of people view that as a press conference without

00:18:26.740 knowing the lingo that is used in the industry.

00:18:30.060 So people view it as a press conference.

00:18:31.980 And they take issue with the fact that Pierre Polyev was not even supposed to take any questions,

00:18:36.460 but then he ended up taking only two questions.

00:18:38.660 And because of that, the media gave themselves a pass, I guess, or gave one of their peers

00:18:44.240 a pass to heckle Pierre Polyev over it.

00:18:48.160 But this is not the first time.

00:18:49.880 This should not come as a surprise, Andrew, because Justin Trudeau has done this many times.

00:18:53.800 Because Justin Trudeau often puts limits on how many questions he can take.

00:18:56.940 Or, for example, like he did at one trip, he basically said that any journalist who blurts

00:19:02.380 out a question gets escorted off the property from one of his trips.

00:19:05.480 I think that's what we saw from Justin Brown.

00:19:07.080 That was just in July.

00:19:08.760 It wasn't even like ancient history to go back to that.

00:19:10.820 Exactly.

00:19:10.920 They don't have to go that far back in their newspapers to find out when that occurred.

00:19:14.900 So, again, we shouldn't be expecting journalists to call balls and strikes the way we'd like

00:19:21.200 them to.

00:19:21.520 I think everyone takes issue and can find issue with that.

00:19:24.460 But at least can we get some consistency, please?

00:19:27.260 This shouldn't have come as some surprise.

00:19:29.160 Justin Trudeau has done this plenty of times.

00:19:31.300 Yeah.

00:19:31.620 And I mean, I don't have to go back that far, I guess, to 2019 when the liberals had like

00:19:36.360 had police escort me out of a public event.

00:19:38.500 It wasn't even a press event at the time because, you know, they were just concerned that,

00:19:42.580 you know, he might be in the vicinity of a tough question.

00:19:44.960 So it is, you know, quite ridiculous how and again, I said on my show and I don't want

00:19:49.900 to re-litigate the point I said on my show that I think not taking questions at your

00:19:53.480 inaugural event is a mistake.

00:19:55.940 It's a tactical shortcoming.

00:19:57.800 But at the same time, that's his call and he's going to make it and his team's going to

00:20:02.560 make it.

00:20:03.300 And that's that.

00:20:04.180 But I thought it was just incredibly, incredibly bizarre that this is like the hill to die on

00:20:10.040 for so many of them who then leap to David Akin's defense, defense, even when David apologizes

00:20:14.520 for it, when he realizes, yeah, that probably wasn't right.

00:20:17.620 Yeah.

00:20:17.880 And Andrew, we there's so much to there's so much to go over on this, this sort of week

00:20:22.740 that was in Canadian politics, this, this major week with Polyev as the new leader.

00:20:27.100 I want to highlight a comment or a tweet thread that we got that we saw from Althea Raj, who

00:20:33.620 basically did this, in my opinion, Andrew, shameless defense of the prime minister, a complete,

00:20:40.020 completely ridiculous jump to the defense of the prime minister while quote tweeting

00:20:45.360 in opposition MP.

00:20:46.520 So Lance, Melissa Lantzman, the now the deputy leader of the conservative party under Pierre

00:20:52.000 Polyev wrote on Twitter, I'm old enough to remember that time when the prime minister

00:20:55.900 called an election and weaponized vaccines, calling everyone who disagreed with them racist

00:20:59.880 and misogynist.

00:21:00.820 We have the French clip.

00:21:02.000 You've all seen it many, many times.

00:21:04.060 Althea Raj quote tweeted Melissa Lantzman and wrote clarification.

00:21:08.500 He didn't call everyone who disagreed with him racist and misogynist.

00:21:12.160 He was talking about the aggressive protesters who showed up during the campaign when he

00:21:16.160 said these protesters are people who don't believe in science, who are often misogynistic

00:21:20.380 and often racist as well.

00:21:22.260 So again, why would a journalist jump to the defense of the prime minister while quote

00:21:27.460 hitting an opposition MP?

00:21:28.700 The optics could not could not have been any worse, Andrew.

00:21:31.060 Yeah, and I think that there was a defense early on because remember, when Justin Trudeau

00:21:37.100 made that comment during the election, a lot of people didn't latch on to it.

00:21:40.120 It wasn't until later when in a lot of ways his true colors, his true approach to this

00:21:45.960 had become a lot more apparent and people started looking at it in the broader context

00:21:49.640 and saying, yeah, you really just hate the unvaccinated.

00:21:52.800 And it's all of them.

00:21:53.580 When we said, why do we tolerate these people?

00:21:55.660 He specifically gave the percentage at the time of people that weren't vaccinated.

00:21:59.980 So you can't take away from that, that he wasn't talking about the unvaccinated in general,

00:22:04.380 who he saw as really being indistinguishable from the people protesting his campaign at

00:22:09.920 the time.

00:22:10.500 No, and it's just it's just bizarre to me that the media or frankly, that we're in a

00:22:15.140 climate in which legacy media who know there's no way, Andrew, that the media don't know

00:22:19.480 the perception that they that many Canadians have about them.

00:22:22.540 I refuse to believe that there is this level of ignorance in the legacy media where they

00:22:26.980 just think that Canadians, all Canadians trust them and take their, you know, take for what

00:22:32.080 they say to be absolutely fact.

00:22:34.020 Yeah.

00:22:34.520 I mean, if you're going to go, if you're going to go down the road of fact checking, you

00:22:37.660 really have to be darn sure that you've got the facts.

00:22:39.920 And look, no one can speak to the heart and mind of Justin Trudeau, you know, except for

00:22:45.220 him.

00:22:45.700 But I think when you look at that comment, it was not at all something that, you know, Melissa

00:22:50.700 Lansman was wrong to take as a broad swipe against the unvaccinated in general.

00:22:55.620 What else?

00:22:56.120 There's so much to be packing into this week, but a lot's happened.

00:22:58.860 What else was on your radar?

00:23:00.660 So we make fun of the media plenty of times.

00:23:03.500 Usually it's for an over, usually it's for bias.

00:23:06.360 Usually it's for some sort of, you know, attack on conservatives.

00:23:09.760 But rarely, Andrew, does it come down to major errors in either spelling or in factual errors

00:23:18.440 like getting the number wrong beside the new king's name.

00:23:23.140 So CTV News Vancouver Island, of course, you have to give some leash to these media outlets.

00:23:29.720 Reporting on the Queen's death was very difficult.

00:23:31.980 There was a pressure to get everything right and to get it out quick enough.

00:23:36.400 So of course there were bound to be some errors.

00:23:38.280 CTV News Vancouver Island, however, when they announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II,

00:23:44.840 they wrote this on Twitter.

00:23:46.540 A key point to Queen Elizabeth II's legacy is that she ascended to the throne, T-H-R-O-W-N, 1.00

00:23:53.360 when she was only 25 and in a male-dominated patriarchy. 0.52

00:23:57.380 So, of course, they got the wrong throne there.

00:24:00.740 And then they also talk about the male-dominated patriarchy,

00:24:03.940 which I think doesn't need to be dissected too much to realize what's wrong in that tweet.

00:24:09.760 But it wasn't enough.

00:24:10.720 They hadn't had enough of the, I guess, the mockery from what they were getting in the comments, Andrew.

00:24:16.620 So later they put out this tweet commenting from this person who I think has a pretty obvious bias against the monarchy.

00:24:26.580 They write this tweet.

00:24:28.320 Royal commentator Afua Hagan explains how King Charles II has to address colonialism and even reparations in order to truly modernize.

00:24:37.540 I'm not sure, Andrew, but I think King Charles II died quite a while ago.

00:24:42.340 Yeah, you know, it's going to be very difficult for a guy who died 400 years ago to address colonialism and reparations.

00:24:48.420 But just because it's difficult doesn't mean he shouldn't try.

00:24:51.720 Yeah, I mean, it was a double whammy on CTV News, Vancouver Island.

00:24:56.600 I guess they're going to have to have a discussion with whoever writes their tweets, types up their tweets.

00:25:01.720 I know we get some things wrong on social media, too, at True North.

00:25:05.140 We're not perfect. No one's perfect.

00:25:07.000 I think we also have to say that.

00:25:08.340 But in a week in which major transition has been taking place across the Western world,

00:25:15.260 it's a big, major news announcement, the passing of our late monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

00:25:20.560 There's bound to be some errors in there.

00:25:23.340 Those two were quite worthy of highlight, I think, especially coming from the fact that it's the same little outlet on Vancouver Island,

00:25:31.420 and it happens to be legacy media.

00:25:33.360 So I'm sure at some point, Andrew, when they realized they had made these mistakes,

00:25:37.080 maybe they thought to themselves, well, Harrison and Andrew are definitely going to hit us on Fake News Friday for this,

00:25:42.380 and sure enough, we did.

00:25:43.280 Yeah. I just want CTV to point out the non-male-dominated patriarchy. 0.94

00:25:48.580 It's like, oh, this was a really bad patriarchy.

00:25:51.080 It was a male-dominated patriarchy, as opposed to all those other female-dominated patriarchies 0.59

00:25:56.840 which are running around.

00:25:58.560 I mean, it's 2022, so you can't judge, I guess.

00:26:01.420 But in any case, that is the week that was as far as fake news.

00:26:04.920 My thanks, of course, to Harrison Faulkner, who you can catch every week in his great new show, Ratioed.

00:26:10.800 And hopefully you'll tune into my show, The Andrew Lawton Show, as well.

00:26:14.140 Thank you all for joining us today, and thank you, Harrison.

00:26:16.580 We'll talk to you next week.

00:26:17.760 Thank you, God bless, and have a good weekend.

00:26:19.380 Thank you, God bless, and have a good weekend.

The Candice Malcolm Show - September 16, 2022

Fake News Friday ｜ Poilievre Derangement Syndrome returns with a VENGEANCE

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