The Candice Malcolm Show - Media goes into overdrive to attack Poilievre

00:00:00.000 Legacy media journalists lose their mind over Pierre Polyev properly quoting a media report

00:00:10.800 of what was feared to be a terror-related attack. Polyev said it was terror-related

00:00:16.000 because that is what the media in both Canada and the U.S. were reporting on Wednesday afternoon

00:00:21.300 when Polyev made his comment. Well, now Trudeau's legacy media are piling on Mr. Polyev

00:00:27.320 and even saying that him defending himself against the media smear should disqualify him

00:00:33.080 for running for prime minister. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm and this is a very

00:00:37.480 special live edition of The Candice Malcolm Show. Hi everyone, welcome to the broadcast. We are live

00:00:57.140 on both YouTube and Rumble. So if you're watching, please give us a like and leave a comment. Let us

00:01:02.180 know what you think of Pierre Polyev defending himself and whether you think that he can win

00:01:07.280 with a strategy, with a tactic of taking on the media like he is doing this week. Okay, so the

00:01:14.220 reason we decided to come live today, I'm back. I used to do the Fake News Friday every single Friday

00:01:19.020 on The Candice Malcolm Show. I was off for a very long time on maternity leave. My family welcomed

00:01:24.340 our third baby in the summer and I've been at home with the family, with the kids.

00:01:29.220 So I haven't been doing the show, but I am back doing it once a week. Haven't picked up Fake News

00:01:33.840 Friday yet, but given sort of the whole brouhaha over what was happening this week with the first,

00:01:39.460 the wild explosion that we saw in Niagara at the border crossing, followed by Pierre Polyev and

00:01:45.820 Trudeau's back and forth in the House of Commons. And now this story that's really just taken on a life

00:01:49.940 of its own. It's so silly. It's so pedantic. And it's really, it really exemplifies some of the 0.99

00:01:55.140 major problems that we have in Canadian media. So that's the sort of the idea, the purpose behind

00:02:00.460 Fake News Friday. It is delving into some of the major sort of structural issues with the legacy

00:02:07.020 media. We have a media in Canada that, as you know, is funded by the Trudeau government, where one

00:02:11.940 political party has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into legacy media newspapers. We know that

00:02:17.480 they pour billions of dollars into the state broadcaster. And because of that, they get really

00:02:22.140 favorable coverage. They get, they get glowing coverage in a way that the other parties just

00:02:26.520 don't. It's not fair. And I think it's important that we put a microscope onto it, explain what is

00:02:32.720 going on so that Canadians can really understand how their media is not free, how we don't have a free

00:02:37.820 press in Canada and how they really are bought and sold. Okay. So first let's walk through what

00:02:43.400 actually happened on Wednesday. So Wednesday at about 1130 in the morning, I'm sure you've probably

00:02:49.180 seen this many, many times by now, but all of a sudden there was a large explosion at the border

00:02:54.080 crossing at what looked like us customs. And we didn't really know what happened. People were saying

00:02:59.320 it was an explosion. It was a bomb. We saw footage, just people's cell phones pouring online, uh, you know,

00:03:05.360 explosion with like a fire. It looked like, so a guy's looking at his office. I've never seen anything

00:03:10.020 like this. The car just exploded. Yeah. You can see the, the person narrating that video said the

00:03:17.360 car just exploded. Right. So, so now we know that this was some kind of a bizarre traffic incident

00:03:23.180 where perhaps the individual who's driving his foot got stuck on the pedal or the pedal was sticking

00:03:28.240 and he drove at a very, very high speed into it. But if you notice that video, the individual who's

00:03:33.440 taking it said it exploded, a car exploded. So he didn't say a car crashed into this car exploded.

00:03:39.120 So we're operating under an assumption that there was some kind of a bomb. Look in the world of media,

00:03:44.280 the facts come in really fast when there's these kinds of incidents. Everybody knows you have to

00:03:47.740 take it slow. You have to verify, you have to make sure that things are correct. So everyone is sort of

00:03:51.780 operating under extra special care, not to jump ahead and make assumptions. But, but journalists and

00:03:58.140 people watching people following along on social media and purely politicians and officials

00:04:03.280 police, you know, people who work inside the federal government who focus on things like public

00:04:09.440 safety and terrorism are looking into it, looking to gather clues. We had that video that showed

00:04:15.480 someone saying there was an explosion. Eventually what we did learn was that, like I explained, a car was

00:04:22.120 just driving at a speed of 100 miles per hour, apparently, and just crash into it. We do have a bunch of

00:04:28.100 footage. So like I said, pretty incredible stuff there. A car just flying through the air. Eyewitness

00:04:34.440 reports saying that the individual was driving at over 100 miles per hour, which, you know, is pretty

00:04:40.000 incredible. If you've ever crossed through the border on a car, you know that it's mostly just a lot of

00:04:44.260 moving very slowly, waiting in long lines, and not a lot of ability to even get going that fast. So

00:04:50.620 it's still sort of hard logistically to wrap your mind around what exactly happened. But, but that, that is

00:04:55.700 what happened. And like I said, you know, we, we, we were reporting True North. Here's our report,

00:05:00.160 which we were continuously updating like many media do. No indication of terrorism in Rainbow

00:05:05.020 Bridge, a car explosion that killed two people. You know, at the time, like I said, there were media

00:05:09.960 reports that said that there, it was terrorism, but now we've all updated our story to say that there

00:05:15.920 is no indication of terrorism. It looks like it was just some kind of a horrible accident where there

00:05:19.540 was an issue with the brake and the accelerator on the vehicle. That's sort of the operating,

00:05:25.360 that's the, that's the assumption in this moment. But to go back to Wednesday afternoon,

00:05:29.540 when the news was still breaking, Pierre Polyev and Justin Trudeau got into a little back and

00:05:34.560 forth in the House of Commons. Like I said, the incident had just happened near hour, two hours

00:05:39.920 before this happened. And so there were really, you can tell by this clip that they're just operating

00:05:44.600 based on things that they might've seen, things that they might've heard. They haven't had proper

00:05:47.980 briefings yet. And here is what that back and forth looked like in the House of Commons.

00:05:51.760 Mr. Justin Trudeau is addressing this. We're going to listen in.

00:05:54.720 Border crossings all across the country. It's a very serious situation, but we will remain

00:05:59.860 engaged for the entire day.

00:06:02.640 The Honorable Leader of the Opposition.

00:06:04.820 Mr. Speaker, we've just heard media reports of a terrorist attack, an explosion at the Niagara

00:06:11.960 crossing of the Canada-U.S. border. Two people, at least two people are dead. One

00:06:16.920 is injured. It is the principal responsibility of government to protect the people. Can the

00:06:23.980 Prime Minister give us an update on what he knows and what action plan he will immediately

00:06:29.780 implement to bring home security for our people?

00:06:34.880 The Right Honorable Prime Minister.

00:06:36.940 Mr. Speaker, this is obviously a very serious situation in Niagara Falls. There was a vehicle

00:06:42.220 explosion at the Rainbow Bridge crossing. I've been briefed by the NSIA and the Minister

00:06:47.320 of Public Safety. CBSA, RCMP and Transport Canada are all fully engaged in providing the

00:06:53.600 necessary support. There are a lot of questions and we are following up to try and get as many

00:06:58.240 answers as rapidly as possible. We are in close contact with U.S. officials and we'll continue

00:07:03.780 to work closely with them. We will continue to be engaged. We will provide updates. Updates I

00:07:09.140 can give right now is there are four border crossings that are right now closed. Rainbow

00:07:13.620 Bridge, Whirlpool Bridge, Queenstown Bridge and Peace Bridged. Additional measures are being

00:07:19.060 contemplated and activated at all border crossings across the country. We are taking this extraordinarily

00:07:24.640 seriously. And Mr. Speaker, I will have to excuse myself now to go get further updates and work

00:07:31.840 on this very serious situation. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

00:07:34.100 So that was a little bit of a long clip, but I wanted to play the whole thing just so that you

00:07:41.280 could get a idea of how little these politicians really knew of the situation. So you heard

00:07:46.700 Pierre Polyev come out and say media reports of a terrorist attack. And he was saying that because

00:07:52.520 that's, again, what the media reporting is. I just want to make this perfectly clear. So the

00:07:56.200 incident seemed to have happened sometime at around 1130. I believe the first reports on social media that

00:08:01.320 we started seeing roll in were maybe around 12, 1215. And the House of Commons question period,

00:08:08.060 which is what the clip that we just saw, happens every day. It starts at 2 p.m. from 2 to 2.15.

00:08:12.960 There's member statements. And then the actual back and forth of question period starts at about

00:08:17.140 quarter after 2. So this is all Eastern Standard Time. So again, we're talking about two hours after

00:08:24.240 this thing had happened. And you can tell, you know, both sides didn't have the full picture.

00:08:30.380 That's always the case with these unfolding news events that you don't really know what's happening

00:08:34.300 until the dust settles and the fog clears. And then you get a better picture, which is what we

00:08:39.980 have now. It's been two days since this happened. But even what Trudeau said, the prime minister said,

00:08:45.660 you know, he referred to it as an explosion. He said he was going to go get further briefs. He'd been

00:08:49.760 briefed by all these other people, all these agencies and organizations. Okay, folks, this is all

00:08:55.200 just pretext. This is all just setting up for what I think was probably the biggest moment of the

00:09:00.220 week, which is Pierre Polyev doing what conservatives and people who support Pierre Polyev, which let's

00:09:06.320 just remind the audience that he has the largest support out of any federal leader. His party is if there

00:09:12.160 were an election that were to happen today, they would get a sweeping majority in the House of

00:09:16.960 Commons. So Pierre Polyev doing what he does best, I think, which is he is presented a question from a

00:09:23.300 reporter that he doesn't deem fair. And so rather than doing what conservatives have been doing for

00:09:28.760 generations, what conservatives have been doing for decades, what conservatives have been doing for

00:09:32.420 years, which is just sort of shrug and accept the fact that the media doesn't like them, it isn't

00:09:37.200 fair to them. Pierre Polyev takes a very different approach. Pierre Polyev has decided that when he is

00:09:42.960 met with a media narrative, you can tell when a narrative is being presented, when it is being

00:09:47.200 pushed, it's all already sort of preconceived, it goes along almost exactly with what the liberal

00:09:53.340 government is saying, what liberal politicians are attacking conservatives for. You can sense it,

00:09:58.940 Pierre Polyev has a very good sense for when this is happening, and he just has no time for it. He has

00:10:03.460 no time for it. He stops a reporter in their tracks, makes them explain, makes them say their sources,

00:10:08.960 makes them explain exactly what they're talking about, to not allow them to get away with the

00:10:13.520 whole sort of pretense that they're putting into it, behind the whole sort of loaded question,

00:10:19.440 preconceived narrative that the media is pushing. So I'll show you this clip back and forth between

00:10:24.820 Pierre Polyev and a Canadian press reporter, just a little bit more background. Canadian press

00:10:29.940 is a wire service. They write news stories, and those news stories appear across the Canadian media

00:10:35.940 landscape. So everywhere from the Globe and Mail, Post Media, CTV, any number of websites will have

00:10:45.160 a subscription to CP, and they will share and report their stories. So CP is probably one of the

00:10:51.660 most widespread, most influential media organizations in the country. Many people don't know it because

00:10:56.080 it's not a front-facing publication. You can't go and buy the Canadian press, but media companies buy

00:11:01.980 subscriptions, and their reports appear throughout the legacy media. So here is this back and forth

00:11:07.320 between Pierre Polyev and a Canadian press reporter. Do you think it was responsible for you to call

00:11:13.520 yesterday's explosion by the customs, by the checkpoint at the Rainbow Bridge, terrorism, when no U.S. or

00:11:20.100 Canadian officials said that was, or authorities said that was the case, and when the New York governor

00:11:24.660 also said there was no evidence to suggest terrorism activity?

00:11:27.840 Actually, you're wrong. Are you with CP? Okay, so CP, by the way, CP, just for everyone's

00:11:32.820 knowledge, did have to make three corrections for falsehoods that they put into a single article.

00:11:39.020 I think that might be unprecedented. I'm actually thinking about checking with the Guinness Book of

00:11:43.920 World Records to see if there's ever been a news agency that has had to issue three corrections for

00:11:50.080 patent falsehoods that they admit they had been made in one single article, and now you've made yet

00:11:55.140 another falsehood in your question. Where you are wrong is that CTV reported that the government of

00:12:01.980 Canada was presuming that the incident was terrorist. So, yeah, that was, and that's what I said in my

00:12:07.980 remarks. You're right. It was a media report. But it's citing media reports and not... Which is what I

00:12:14.400 said in the House. I said there are media reports. And you think that's a responsible thing to go on to

00:12:20.340 make that kind of a statement at the time without speaking? What kind of statement? I didn't. I said

00:12:29.120 there were media reports. That's the distinction we're making? Okay. No, there's no distinction.

00:12:33.780 What I said, and I was right, was that there were media reports of a terror-related event. By your

00:12:45.000 admission, there were media reports of a terror-related event. And that media report,

00:12:51.780 according to CTV, unless you're questioning their integrity now, came from security officials in the

00:12:58.560 Trudeau government. So do you think the CTV was irresponsible in putting out that tweet?

00:13:03.560 Do you think it was responsible comment to make in the House a comment?

00:13:09.340 Do you, sorry, I'm asking, I have already answered that. Do you, do you think CTV was irresponsible to

00:13:14.240 put that tweet out? That's none of my business. That's not for me to comment?

00:13:18.800 Well, you just did comment.

00:13:21.340 Okay, so I, you know, I just hope you're not going to print something that you have to apologize for again.

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00:13:59.360 So I think this kind of thing is satisfying for conservatives on many different levels.

00:14:04.040 Again, like I said, conservatives have always been pushed around by the media.

00:14:06.600 They're always presented with these twisted, warped interpretations of the facts, always with

00:14:11.300 the gotcha questions. And Pierre Polyev is really talented at simply turning that around

00:14:15.540 onto the journalist. So one of the interesting parts about that exchange that I'll just note

00:14:19.480 is that the journalist there is saying that asking Pierre Polyev whether he thought it was

00:14:25.120 responsible to refer to it as a terror-related attack based on a media report. So is it responsible

00:14:31.740 for a politician to quote a media report in the House of Commons? Well, presumably that journalist

00:14:38.200 would say that CTV is a trusted legacy media source, that they are reliable, that they are

00:14:44.340 nonpartisan, and that they are trustworthy. Therefore, according to the logic of the journalists,

00:14:49.160 of course, it would be responsible of Pierre Polyev to quote the legacy media. But then in

00:14:55.420 this instance, she's saying it's the exact opposite. How dare you quote a legacy media report saying

00:15:01.620 it's terror-related, that, you know, you're drumming up fear, you're raising the public temperature,

00:15:07.220 or whatever the sort of underlying accusation is there. Pierre Polyev had none of it. Shut it down.

00:15:12.620 Put the questions right to the reporter and she simply doesn't have answers because the whole

00:15:17.960 point was it was a setup. It was a gotcha question. She was just trying to embarrass Polyev and he

00:15:23.640 didn't fall for it. And instead he did, again, what I think so many, I won't even just say

00:15:29.000 conservative voters. I think just so many everyday people, so many Canadians who are tired of elites

00:15:35.080 telling them what to think, elites telling them what to say. I mean, we just lived through several years

00:15:40.320 of COVID lockdowns where the media were basically just, you know, taking the government's word and

00:15:45.700 using it to ram down our throats. They weren't asking questions. They weren't holding officials

00:15:49.740 to account. They were just the mouthpieces for these politicians, these elites. And I think, again,

00:15:55.780 it's satisfying for so many people to see a politician just not accept the premise, just say,

00:16:00.780 no, you can't come to me with this absurd line of questioning. It's not true. It's not based on

00:16:06.660 evidence or facts. And in fact, where I got my facts from is you guys. I was just quoting you guys.

00:16:14.040 And I think it's all very amusing. And so I did want to just get into a little bit of the details

00:16:18.380 because there's still just so much sort of back and forth and accusations over this because it didn't

00:16:24.900 just end there. Of course, that was sort of just really the beginning of it. Because after this clip

00:16:29.120 came out and after it went viral, what we saw is the legacy media just lose their collective minds.

00:16:35.120 I'll just come out and straight say it. I mean, the way that the legacy media were behaving on X

00:16:41.100 yesterday, on the platform formerly known as Twitter, was just so evident of the way that

00:16:46.260 they behave, that they see a conservative doing something that they believe is outside the norm

00:16:50.940 of Canadian politics. It goes against their sort of sensibilities as a journalist, that the role is

00:16:56.800 so protected and so safeguarded. And it's so unbecoming to question a journalist or to turn it around

00:17:04.000 and ask them questions or not to accept their premise. And so what we saw was really what I

00:17:10.080 would describe as a weep fest on social media. So I'm going to go through a few of my favorite

00:17:14.700 ones. You had Bruce Arthur from the Toronto Star. Andrew Scheer, former leader of the party,

00:17:20.720 shared the video. Norm Spector, who's a former chief of staff to a conservative prime minister,

00:17:26.420 Brian Mulroney, posted it. And then you had Terry Glavin, who is a reporter, excellent reporter,

00:17:32.320 for the National Post. And he's not even a conservative. I believe Terry Glavin is a

00:17:36.260 socialist. But anyway, Bruce Arthur shared the whole thing. And he writes, just another grotesque

00:17:42.260 day for the conservative party. He continues here in a thread. He writes, so Pierre Polyev in a truly

00:17:50.720 scummy moment blamed a CTV report for his assessment of the Rainbow Bridge as a terrorist attack in the

00:17:56.860 House of Commons yesterday. The first CTV report didn't seem to have landed before Polyev spoke,

00:18:01.340 but the Fox News report had. I'll just continue with this thread that he had here. He writes,

00:18:09.240 where are we here? Either way, the CTV story said the government was operating under the assumption

00:18:14.520 that the explosion was terror-related, which was an operational necessity. It's very difficult

00:18:18.620 from saying flat out. It's very, sorry, it's very different from saying flat out that this was

00:18:23.700 terrorism. Pierre cited media reports. Looks like he cited Fox. I should say the whole,

00:18:28.820 a whole host of far-right influencers and pretend media were also flat out stating this was clearly

00:18:35.420 terrorism. Just going to attach this to the thread and do something else now. And then he has this

00:18:42.000 whole thing, well, this theory that the CTV report came out at 2.39 p.m. Eastern time, but the Pierre

00:18:48.520 Polyev spoke at 2.26. So I think this is like a gotcha moment. Bruce Arthur here is trying to say,

00:18:55.040 or maybe he is saying that Polyev is lying, that Polyev was, when he said media reports,

00:19:00.660 he was just talking about independent media outlets like True North or maybe The Rebel,

00:19:05.840 and that it was Fox News. You can take that down now. Yeah. So just saying that, you know,

00:19:13.800 it wasn't real media. It wasn't the mainstream media, the trusted media like CTV who were reporting it.

00:19:18.700 It was like awful, terrible Fox News and awful, terrible independent media who he calls far-right

00:19:25.220 and pretend media, which is kind of amusing. And then he has it all sorted out exactly. He says

00:19:30.800 that CTV report came out at exactly 2.39 and Pierre Polyev spoke at 2.26. So interesting,

00:19:38.160 just the evolution of what the media were saying. So at first it was that the CTV story hadn't come out

00:19:45.180 yet. Therefore, he was quoting Fox News, and that is like a sin in and of itself. I'll continue on

00:19:51.140 with the legacy media sort of losing their minds. You had Andrew Coyne, who I believe these days writes

00:19:57.780 for the Globe and Mail. He writes, I don't know who he thinks he's impressing with this campus Tory

00:20:03.300 childishness, but they're probably already voting for him. Likewise, Tabisa Soody, also from the Globe

00:20:10.540 Mail. She sometimes writes for McLean's as well. She says the entire incident ought to disqualify the

00:20:15.600 man as prime minister. And as a cautionary tale, Pierre Polyev is what happens when you mistake your

00:20:21.140 mentions for your constituency. I don't quite think that she gets this right. I don't think that

00:20:26.920 Pierre Polyev is like going for a social media clout on this. You can take that one down, Sean.

00:20:33.140 I don't think that Pierre Polyev is really going for a clout on this one. I don't think that he was

00:20:38.740 like sharing that video in order to get likes on Twitter. I think that he really does understand

00:20:43.140 his constituency. He understands that the everyday man, the working man in Canada appreciates having

00:20:48.960 somebody call out BS when they see it. And actually, if you look at polling, any polling done in the

00:20:55.820 last, I don't know, six months, eight months, year, you'll see that Pierre Polyev certainly does know

00:21:01.060 who his audience is and his constituency. John Iveson, National Post, he writes, he could lose this thing

00:21:08.300 yet, if he keeps behaving like this. Again, the legacy media operate on this assumption that they

00:21:13.960 are very respected, that they are very, you can take that down, Sean, that they are very respected,

00:21:21.700 that they know exactly, you know, everything that they say is trusted and revered. And the mere fact

00:21:28.460 that a journalist would push back is just outrageous. My colleague and friend Rupa Subramanya,

00:21:33.380 who writes for the pre-press, and she has a show with us here. Trunar, she pushes back against John

00:21:37.600 Iveson, mentioning a whole bunch of leaders who, she says, would beg to disagree. You could add a

00:21:43.740 couple more, probably Donald Trump to that list as well. The mainstream is no longer dictated by a few

00:21:50.180 elite opinion makers, but a large number of people who have their, this is a quote from Rupa, by the way,

00:21:55.480 the mainstream is no longer dictated by a few elite opinion makers, but a large number of people

00:22:00.820 who have their views on what's going on. Dismiss such opinion at your own peril. The reality is that

00:22:06.860 a lot of people love Pierre Polyev's energy that is completely missed by our elites. I think that's

00:22:12.280 pretty much hits the nail right on the head, Rupa. Moving on, we have another journalist in Canada,

00:22:18.140 this individual's name's Les Perrault. He's with Policy Options. He's the editor-in-chief over there.

00:22:23.540 And he writes, it's a really good thing that I'm not in the press conference business anymore,

00:22:27.680 because he awes of me saying, Mr. Polyev, would you please grow up, would be extremely high.

00:22:34.180 Les Perrault went on with a thread where he said, I have the privilege of josting with dozens of

00:22:40.160 prime ministers, premiers, and opposition leaders from all parties over 25 years. I don't remember

00:22:44.560 one of them acting like this, and certainly not on repeated occasions. Chantal Hebert from the Toronto

00:22:50.280 Star writes, ditto, ditto, simply that. It's interesting because, you know, that's probably true. I don't think

00:22:57.140 that politicians in Canada have treated the media with this sort of open disdain or disrespect that

00:23:04.660 you see from Pierre Polyev. But that's probably because the media has changed drastically over

00:23:09.500 the past 25 years. I mean, over the past five years, since Justin Trudeau started bailing out

00:23:13.700 the legacy media newspapers, since he started giving hundreds of millions more dollars to the CBC.

00:23:19.380 It's become, you know, instead of a media press that is culturally left-wing and probably all vote

00:23:26.340 liberal or NDP, but when they show up to work, they at least try to be professional. That's completely

00:23:31.080 changed. It's completely changed now. And we have a media that is bought and paid for by the Trudeau

00:23:36.020 liberals who get their funding from the government. They know where their bread is butter. They know where

00:23:40.520 their checks are coming from. And you can just see the difference in coverage. You can see the change

00:23:44.720 has happened over the last several years. And then add on top of that, the sort of elites know best

00:23:49.680 mindset, the sort of changing of journalism. Remember, journalism used to be more of a blue

00:23:55.600 collar profession where you had reporters working really, really hard, running around, trying to keep

00:24:00.460 up with politicians, constantly trying to hold them to account and pressing them and being sort of

00:24:08.080 adversarial. And now, you know, the journalism profession is much more white collar, college

00:24:13.960 educated, people who spent lots and lots of time in universities getting indoctrinated with left-wing

00:24:18.560 ideas. And culturally, they're all liberal still. So I think journalism has gotten so much worse over

00:24:25.720 the past 25 years. And then add on top of that, the fact that there's funding. So, you know, the fact

00:24:30.440 that these journalists are lamenting Pierre Pauly is not his fault. He's reacting to it. He's not the one

00:24:35.120 that created these situations. Okay, next we have Luke LeBron from Press Progress. He writes,

00:24:42.080 Pierre Pauly stood in the House of Commons Wednesday afternoon and labeled this a terrorist attack. An

00:24:46.420 FBI investigation has officially ruled out terrorism and now describes it as a traffic incident. Well,

00:24:51.860 yes, that's correct. And we learned that fact like 24 hours later. But, you know, the time that Pierre

00:24:59.420 Pauly stood up in the House of Commons was two hours after the attack. He was basing it on preliminary

00:25:03.680 information. And that was based on media reports. So good, good on there, Luke. Too bad you missed a

00:25:10.760 whole timeline. All right, we'll go through a few more of these. We've got Rachel Gilmore, who is a

00:25:16.780 freelancer, I guess. She writes this, how do you push back on the spot when Paulyev outright lies to your

00:25:22.320 face when it's impossible to prove the lie without pulling out your phone and scoring timestamps?

00:25:30.600 If one more person tries to say the reporter should better prepare themselves for an outright lie,

00:25:35.740 I'm going to scream. Okay, well, I think that the criticism isn't that the reporter should have

00:25:44.040 somehow been able to, you know, shoot back against Pierre Paulyev and say, no, you're actually wrong. Your comment

00:25:51.580 came 20 minutes before the CDV report came out. I think that the criticism of the CDV reporter, or sorry, of the

00:25:57.920 CB reporter was that she was asking really, really loaded questions and trying to catch Pierre Paulyev in a gotcha

00:26:03.760 moment that just didn't really work out. You know, she's talking about the timestamps and the time zones.

00:26:09.760 We've got another tweet on that theme. Again, our friend Bruce Arthur from the Toronto Star, he says, he's

00:26:15.620 talking to Nick Cavallis, who had posted the CTV report in question, saying that it came out at 1.50 before

00:26:23.020 the House of Commons question period had started. And you can see very clearly in the tweet that it said

00:26:28.220 terror-related. Bruce Arthur goes, ah, ha, ha, even Nick is falling for the lazy screenshot.

00:26:33.760 That presume nobody understands the concept of time zones. Nick Cavallis, of course, is a conservative

00:26:39.580 operative and an insider in the conservative party movement. So I'm not exactly sure whether that

00:26:45.840 screenshot was on the Eastern time or the Mountain time, but basically the whole explanation from the

00:26:53.580 left and from the legacy media was that the conservatives were lying because the CTV report that Pierre

00:27:01.240 Polyev says that he was basing his comments on didn't come out until afterwards. Well, the only

00:27:06.380 problem is that you can go, you could go right now onto CTV and you can see that report. You can see

00:27:12.880 their first report. This is the updated version of it. It says two people dead in Rainbow Bridge

00:27:17.660 explosion. Like I said, just like the True North story, right? You put the story out as soon as you

00:27:22.140 have enough information and then you update it throughout the day to make sure that the facts are

00:27:26.320 up to date with the latest from police and from law enforcement at the time. So you can see that

00:27:33.180 the original story came out and it is timestamped right there. You can see it on the top left. It

00:27:39.240 came out on November 22nd, which was Wednesday at 1 0 9 PM Eastern time, not Mountain time, not Pacific

00:27:46.040 time, but Eastern time. So it says it right there. And then you can see written in that report,

00:27:50.820 it says the part that I have circled in red there. Sources did tell CTV news earlier in the day that

00:27:56.960 the conservative government that, sorry, that Canadian government officials were initially

00:28:01.420 operating under the assumption that this was terror related. Okay. So I mean, you can't say that that

00:28:08.380 was based on a different time zone. You can't use that whole timestamp time zone thing. We know that

00:28:13.420 their story came out at 1 0 9 PM Eastern because you can still see it. And you know that it said that

00:28:19.340 at the time when the report first came out, you know, citing government officials, they did indeed

00:28:24.840 say that it was terror related. So this vindicates Pierre Polyev. This shows that what he was saying

00:28:30.540 was true. And I tweeted so much. I put out exactly the facts. Pierre Polyev rose in the House of

00:28:37.420 Commons on Wednesday and said there were media reports for terror attack. The House of Commons starts

00:28:41.780 at 2. Pierre Polyev happened, remarks happened around 2 25 PM. CTV news citing Canadian government

00:28:47.960 officials did indeed report that the Rainbow Bridge explosion was being treated as terror related.

00:28:53.120 Here's a CTV time slot 1 0 9. So can someone please explain to me how it is Pierre Polyev

00:28:59.360 who is lying that, you know, they were pushing this whole thing around, that it was time zones,

00:29:03.740 people are confusing a mountain time zone, push notification or tweet saying that that was

00:29:10.080 incorrect. And you know, it continues. Bruce Arthur is still, as we speak out there tweeting,

00:29:16.420 he's saying, of course, Candace is now pretending not to know how the media works, ignoring what CTV

00:29:21.700 contemporaneous reality say about when it was published. So Bruce Arthur is talking about the

00:29:27.700 fact that CTV put out a report today, basically calling Pierre Polyev a liar. They're jumping on this

00:29:34.680 sort of bandwagon and saying that they put out their report 15 minutes before Pierre Polyev rose and stood

00:29:41.540 in the House of Commons. Now, look, I don't know why they put out that report. I don't know why they

00:29:46.120 decided to sort of jump into the fray of pushing back against a conservative politician. It sort of

00:29:53.160 seems like that would be the liberals job and partisan liberals. But CTV is pushing in. Look,

00:29:58.380 you can't deny the fact that their story says that it came out at 1 0 9 when I use various web engines to

00:30:05.240 search back to see what the original news story would have looked like. At 1 0 9, it appears to me that it does

00:30:10.920 say terror related at that time. So it sort of becomes like their word against like screenshots

00:30:17.120 on the internet versus Pierre Polyev. Again, I don't know why it is the media's role, why they believe

00:30:23.500 it is their job to defend Justin Trudeau, to try to push back against a conservative, conservatives

00:30:31.080 defending themselves against a legacy media attack. It really is quite something. A final Bruce Arthur

00:30:36.800 tweet right here, he says, lots of people struggling with the updated part of this page.

00:30:41.760 This is a final version of a rolling story updated at 7 54. But CTV flat out told people that they

00:30:48.620 reported it later, no screenshots. But the dumb times and screenshots are still being circulated. No, 0.83

00:30:54.520 this isn't about time zones. This isn't about, you know, trying to understand what the CTV,

00:31:01.000 why the CTV put out that version. Like you can look online and see that it came out at that point.

00:31:07.520 But it's just interesting just to see the evolving change in the narrative, right? At first it was

00:31:12.860 Pierre Polyev is lying. Then it is Pierre Polyev is trying to drum up fear about an attack about

00:31:18.820 supposed terrorism that may be happening. Next, it is that Pierre Polyev is quoting Fox News and how

00:31:25.480 could he quote Fox News or independent media? Then it's no, these idiots have the timestamps wrong or 1.00

00:31:30.880 that they're looking at the wrong time zone. And now it's like people are struggling with the idea 1.00

00:31:35.420 that news stories are updated. Well, the story itself said that the original report did say that it was

00:31:41.060 terror. It said that that was coming from Canadian officials. This is all very silly. It's all, it's all

00:31:46.220 very sort of pedantic and, you know, arguing over tiny little things. Like really the legacy media

00:31:53.820 spending an entire day arguing over whether a CTV story came out before 2 p.m. or slightly after

00:32:00.400 2 p.m. Why does that matter? The reality is that CTV did report on Wednesday that this was terror.

00:32:06.280 Canadian government officials told the media that they were suspecting it as terror, that they believed

00:32:11.100 it to be a terror incident. Anybody with eyes who was watching the situation, watching the facts

00:32:15.460 involved in the ground, there was a lot of reason to believe that it could have been. Thankfully, it turned

00:32:20.960 out not to be. Thankfully, it turned out not to be someone trying to carry out an evil attack against

00:32:26.000 our country or against Americans. Sadly, it was some kind of an accident that claimed the lives of

00:32:32.340 two people, a married couple in their 50s. But you can really just see the sort of pettiness,

00:32:39.900 the immaturity, the obsession that the media have over trying to discredit a conservative leader,

00:32:45.840 over trying to embarrass a conservative leader, over trying to create a narrative around him

00:32:50.520 that just happens to coincide with what the liberals are saying. And you can see them all

00:32:55.740 coming out to bat for their friends, for their hero, Justin Trudeau. So I don't think we should

00:33:02.540 waste any more time on this silly story, trying to explain it the best I could. I think it is

00:33:07.580 quite silly. But look, folks, I think it's really important that we spend time looking at what the

00:33:13.820 media is doing, watching them with a microscope, watching the way they operate, the way they behave.

00:33:18.420 And frankly, I think that it's a little bit of a breath of fresh air to see a politician like

00:33:23.060 Pierre Polyev push back, fight back, say no to their narrative, call them out on their nonsense,

00:33:28.720 call them out on their BS when they're trying to twist the truth or trying to argue over tiny

00:33:33.420 little details that nobody cares about. No, look, we thought it was terrorism. It wasn't. Let's all

00:33:38.700 move on. I'll leave it at that. Have a wonderful weekend, everybody. Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:33:43.360 This has been a live edition of Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - November 24, 2023

Media goes into overdrive to attack Poilievre

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