Here’s how the legacy media is misleading you
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A fake news story about a "Trans Rights" rally in the Canadian capital, and the way it's being covered by the mainstream media is a perfect example of how fake news stories are made to paint conservatives as bigots for trying to protect kids.
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So we've been talking about Danielle Smith and her new policy to protect children from making
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terrible, irreversible changes to their bodies. And I wanted to show you this one news story.
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I could have chosen any news story in the country. I know that there's been radio segments
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and news segments like this. So I'm not just trying to pick on these individuals at CTV News
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in Ottawa. Again, I've been hearing from people across the country talking about how this issue
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has been covered in their community and on radio and news. And again, I could have picked
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anyone, but I want to show you this clip. I want to break it down to show you the genesis
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of a fake news story, how the media is working in overdrive to try to paint conservatives as
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bigots, to pretend that the whole idea of transing kids and getting kids to have surgeries and
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take hormones and drugs to change their biological sex. That idea is mainstream. Working overdrive
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to try to defend the same position that Justin Trudeau is trying to defend and trying to say
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that conservatives are bigots for trying to protect kids. So let's play this clip. It's
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from CTV Ottawa. And I will show you exactly how propaganda is made from start to finish.
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News of protest is happening in the Capitol this hour over trans rights.
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It comes as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is in Ottawa opening a new provincial office
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with her government's new position on trans policy.
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OK, so just right off the top here, the way that they position this, first of all, they
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have this big flag in the background with like a beautiful sunset behind it. This is a trans
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flag. And so they're trying to make it seem like somehow this is like a uniting idea that
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we all believe in this flag and that this is our flag together. So just even the imagery
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is all wrong and the way that they frame it, they're calling it a trans rights protest.
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So that implies that the rights of trans people are somehow being taken away or somehow being
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harmed or trampled on by the premier of Alberta. Of course, that's not true. The whole policy
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is there to protect children, protect little kids, minors from making decisions about their
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bodies that they may regret, that they're not mature enough to make. And again, just just
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the entire way that this is framed is completely wrong. OK, let's keep playing the front and
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center. CTV's Leah LaRock covering the rally for us tonight and joins us live. Leah?
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Well, Graham, this protest has been going on for about an hour and a half now showing no signs
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of stopping. It's a very large protest. If you take a look behind me, that's the Sir John A.
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McDonald building. And protesters have completely created a wall along the sidewalk here,
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wrapping all the way to O'Connor and to the back. They are here because they want to.
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OK, just pause it right there for a second. So she's again, the way that they're
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describing these protesters is very sympathetic, right? They're calling them ralliers or calling
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them protesters. They're trying to exaggerate how big this rally is from from best I could tell.
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I mean, that that crowd is like it's like half a block across. So we're talking about maybe 100,
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200 people. It looks like they're two or three deep. So I mean, we can see with our eyes that
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it's not like a huge it's nothing compared to the Freedom Rally. It's not nothing compared
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to those protests that, again, remember, everyone there was maligned as being extremists and racist.
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Those people were also trying to protest. They were actually protesting for the rights that were
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being trampled on. Media painted that completely the reverse and opposite. But even just the way that
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this reporter, this poor reporter, is trying to describe the scene behind her is not accurate
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from what I can see with my own two eyes. OK, let's keep playing.
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Social policies by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. And those include requiring parental consent
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for changing pronouns for kids under 15 in school and restricting care that some trans youth
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can get. So we spoke to Ottawa. OK, just pause it right there. Pause it right there. So she just kind
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of glazes over what the actual care is. So she's reading from a piece of paper here because she
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hasn't memorized it. But the idea that she's not even telling you what the policy changes are. So she
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says that parents have to be informed if kids want to start going by a different pronoun, a different
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name at school. And there's some limits to access for care that kids may need. No, no. This is saying
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that if you're if you're under the age of 18, if you're 17 or younger, you can't get surgery to remove
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your genitalia. You can't get life altering, irreversible changes to your body. Like if you
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actually get the left, the liberals, reporters to explain the policy, it's much, much less sympathetic.
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So you can tell that they remain super vague just saying, well, it's just about access to health
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care. This is just about being able to access the care that they may need without going into the gory
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details because they know that if they do tell you what it is that Danielle Smith is restricting,
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you'll change. You won't be on their side anymore. You won't you won't see this crowd as sympathetic.
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You won't agree with this reporter. You will you will be on the side of Danielle Smith, which is why
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they keep it intentionally vague. OK, let's roll the clip in Alberta could happen here. And I do have a
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daughter that is affected by this. And if this were to happen in Ontario, it would completely
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upward our lives. We would have to move. I'm I'm very afraid of what it would do to her. And as a
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parent, I can't help but think of all the youth and all the families. OK, let's pause it. Let's pause
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it there at the mom who says that if these policies come to Ontario, we would have to flee. OK, so this is
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a situation of a mother who agrees with this ideology. Obviously, she's out there protesting
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on a cold day in Ottawa, and she's saying that her child is already undergoing these types of
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procedures, which is which is pretty extreme. The fact that the mom is there saying, I agree that my
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child my child should be subject to these medical interventions. So again, not not not like a normal
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mainstream opinion of a parent there. And and again, you can see here how it is the activists
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that are the ones that are really creating the fear that are that are that are the ones that are
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really hyped up about this. They're the ones that are pushing fear and division because she's now
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presumably telling her child that somehow she's in danger and that they would have to flee like they'd
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have to become refugees and flee the country if Doug Ford in Ontario were to do what Danielle Smith is
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doing. So it's not Danielle Smith that is promoting fear and scaring these trans kids. It's actually the
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trans activists that are blowing it all out of proportion and pretending it's a much, much bigger
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deal. So not exactly a regular mainstream interpretation of the policy, not a healthy way to look at it. OK,
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let's see the next trans activist here interfering in the rights and freedoms of trans kids and their
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families. And now she's come to Ottawa to spread her hate and we're going to stand up and speak up
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against it. Now, the protest has remained relatively peaceful, but there were some counter protests that
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were here supporting Smith. But there was some confrontations at times getting heated, but there
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is a very heavy police presence here along Wellington. OK, just just pause it right there for a second.
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She says that the protest has remained relatively peaceful. However, there were some counter protesters.
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So she's implying there that by virtue of disagreeing with these crazy lunatic trans people,
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that that is violent. Because she didn't actually note any instance of physical violence, which just
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said these are mostly peaceful. However, there are some counter protesters here. So those would be
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presumably people in favor of Danielle Smith's policy, in favor of protecting children, in favor of parental
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rights. And so, I mean, just just again, the way that she's framing that, like just their presence there
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makes it not quite peaceful because it's only peaceful if you're in favor of pushing this crazy left wing
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ideology onto children. And if you oppose it and just want to have a little bit of common sense, then that makes you what? Not
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peaceful. Again, just just imagine, you know, every little message that this journalist is trying to push
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is propaganda. This is all propaganda. It's all wrong. OK, let's keep keep playing.
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An idea of what is happening right now. So this is the Sir John A. McDonald building that's right behind
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me. And police have really created two barricades on both sides. On that side, there's the counter
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protest. And then we have the protesters on here and they are rallying back and forth. And again,
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you can just have a sense of what the police presence is like as they're trying to allow people to enter
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into the Sir John A. McDonald building to the rally continuing today for advocating for trans rights
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and really no idea of how much longer this will continue. Back to you, Patricia.
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All right. CTV's Leah LaRock live for us on Wellington tonight. Thank you, Leah.
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OK, so again, they're just advocating for trans rights. They're just advocating for trans rights.
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They're not trying to push anything dangerous. They're the correct side. And Daniel Smith, of course,
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is wrong. And the counter protesters are the ones that are somehow violent.
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You can just tell everything about that is not true. Every single thing about that news clip is
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not true. It is propaganda. There's a great clip earlier from Pierre Polyev who basically said the
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media is pushing pure propaganda on this issue. What they're saying is not true. And every little minute
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detail about that news report is wrong. Frankly, that's why people don't trust the media anymore.
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That's why Canadians have lost so much trust. Because I think even a sort of mainstream boomer
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sitting at home watching that news report might just kind of have a few questions that that raises.
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Like they might be like a little bit confused as to what this policy might be. And as soon as you read
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one thing about the policies, as soon as you read the details about it, as soon as you hear what it is
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that the trans community is promoting, once you hear about what it is that kids who are trans or believe
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they're trans are going through the kinds of medical interventions like hormone therapies to
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artificially block puberty and change their bodies forever. And then the next step, having surgeries to
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remove their male genitalia or remove their female genitalia and have it reversed somehow. We're talking
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about sex changes for little kids. As soon as you say what it is, then you've lost the audience,
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you've lost Canadians. Not only do they disagree with you on this issue, but they can see how what
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you're presenting to them is fake and it's propaganda. And again, this is why Canadians don't trust the media.
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