Media goes into overdrive to attack Poilievre
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Trudeau s legacy media lose their mind over Pierre Polyev properly quoting a media report of what was feared to be a terror-related attack. Now, Trudeau's legacy media are piling on Mr. Polyev and even saying that him defending himself against the media smear should disqualify him for running for Prime Minister.
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Legacy media journalists lose their mind over Pierre Polyev properly quoting a media report
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of what was feared to be a terror-related attack. Polyev said it was terror-related
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because that is what the media in both Canada and the U.S. were reporting on Wednesday afternoon
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when Polyev made his comment. Well, now Trudeau's legacy media are piling on Mr. Polyev
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and even saying that him defending himself against the media smear should disqualify him
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for running for prime minister. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm and this is a very
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special live edition of The Candice Malcolm Show. Hi everyone, welcome to the broadcast. We are live
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on both YouTube and Rumble. So if you're watching, please give us a like and leave a comment. Let us
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know what you think of Pierre Polyev defending himself and whether you think that he can win
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with a strategy, with a tactic of taking on the media like he is doing this week. Okay, so the
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reason we decided to come live today, I'm back. I used to do the Fake News Friday every single Friday
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on The Candice Malcolm Show. I was off for a very long time on maternity leave. My family welcomed
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our third baby in the summer and I've been at home with the family, with the kids.
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So I haven't been doing the show, but I am back doing it once a week. Haven't picked up Fake News
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Friday yet, but given sort of the whole brouhaha over what was happening this week with the first,
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the wild explosion that we saw in Niagara at the border crossing, followed by Pierre Polyev and
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Trudeau's back and forth in the House of Commons. And now this story that's really just taken on a life
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of its own. It's so silly. It's so pedantic. And it's really, it really exemplifies some of the
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major problems that we have in Canadian media. So that's the sort of the idea, the purpose behind
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Fake News Friday. It is delving into some of the major sort of structural issues with the legacy
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media. We have a media in Canada that, as you know, is funded by the Trudeau government, where one
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political party has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into legacy media newspapers. We know that
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they pour billions of dollars into the state broadcaster. And because of that, they get really
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favorable coverage. They get, they get glowing coverage in a way that the other parties just
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don't. It's not fair. And I think it's important that we put a microscope onto it, explain what is
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going on so that Canadians can really understand how their media is not free, how we don't have a free
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press in Canada and how they really are bought and sold. Okay. So first let's walk through what
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actually happened on Wednesday. So Wednesday at about 1130 in the morning, I'm sure you've probably
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seen this many, many times by now, but all of a sudden there was a large explosion at the border
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crossing at what looked like us customs. And we didn't really know what happened. People were saying
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it was an explosion. It was a bomb. We saw footage, just people's cell phones pouring online, uh, you know,
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explosion with like a fire. It looked like, so a guy's looking at his office. I've never seen anything
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like this. The car just exploded. Yeah. You can see the, the person narrating that video said the
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car just exploded. Right. So, so now we know that this was some kind of a bizarre traffic incident
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where perhaps the individual who's driving his foot got stuck on the pedal or the pedal was sticking
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and he drove at a very, very high speed into it. But if you notice that video, the individual who's
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taking it said it exploded, a car exploded. So he didn't say a car crashed into this car exploded.
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So we're operating under an assumption that there was some kind of a bomb. Look in the world of media,
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the facts come in really fast when there's these kinds of incidents. Everybody knows you have to
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take it slow. You have to verify, you have to make sure that things are correct. So everyone is sort of
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operating under extra special care, not to jump ahead and make assumptions. But, but journalists and
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people watching people following along on social media and purely politicians and officials
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police, you know, people who work inside the federal government who focus on things like public
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safety and terrorism are looking into it, looking to gather clues. We had that video that showed
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someone saying there was an explosion. Eventually what we did learn was that, like I explained, a car was
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just driving at a speed of 100 miles per hour, apparently, and just crash into it. We do have a bunch of
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footage. So like I said, pretty incredible stuff there. A car just flying through the air. Eyewitness
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reports saying that the individual was driving at over 100 miles per hour, which, you know, is pretty
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incredible. If you've ever crossed through the border on a car, you know that it's mostly just a lot of
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moving very slowly, waiting in long lines, and not a lot of ability to even get going that fast. So
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it's still sort of hard logistically to wrap your mind around what exactly happened. But, but that, that is
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what happened. And like I said, you know, we, we, we were reporting True North. Here's our report,
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which we were continuously updating like many media do. No indication of terrorism in Rainbow
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Bridge, a car explosion that killed two people. You know, at the time, like I said, there were media
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reports that said that there, it was terrorism, but now we've all updated our story to say that there
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is no indication of terrorism. It looks like it was just some kind of a horrible accident where there
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was an issue with the brake and the accelerator on the vehicle. That's sort of the operating,
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that's the, that's the assumption in this moment. But to go back to Wednesday afternoon,
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when the news was still breaking, Pierre Polyev and Justin Trudeau got into a little back and
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forth in the House of Commons. Like I said, the incident had just happened near hour, two hours
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before this happened. And so there were really, you can tell by this clip that they're just operating
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based on things that they might've seen, things that they might've heard. They haven't had proper
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briefings yet. And here is what that back and forth looked like in the House of Commons.
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Mr. Justin Trudeau is addressing this. We're going to listen in.
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Border crossings all across the country. It's a very serious situation, but we will remain
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Mr. Speaker, we've just heard media reports of a terrorist attack, an explosion at the Niagara
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crossing of the Canada-U.S. border. Two people, at least two people are dead. One
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is injured. It is the principal responsibility of government to protect the people. Can the
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Prime Minister give us an update on what he knows and what action plan he will immediately
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implement to bring home security for our people?
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Mr. Speaker, this is obviously a very serious situation in Niagara Falls. There was a vehicle
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explosion at the Rainbow Bridge crossing. I've been briefed by the NSIA and the Minister
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of Public Safety. CBSA, RCMP and Transport Canada are all fully engaged in providing the
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necessary support. There are a lot of questions and we are following up to try and get as many
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answers as rapidly as possible. We are in close contact with U.S. officials and we'll continue
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to work closely with them. We will continue to be engaged. We will provide updates. Updates I
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can give right now is there are four border crossings that are right now closed. Rainbow
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Bridge, Whirlpool Bridge, Queenstown Bridge and Peace Bridged. Additional measures are being
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contemplated and activated at all border crossings across the country. We are taking this extraordinarily
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seriously. And Mr. Speaker, I will have to excuse myself now to go get further updates and work
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on this very serious situation. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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So that was a little bit of a long clip, but I wanted to play the whole thing just so that you
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could get a idea of how little these politicians really knew of the situation. So you heard
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Pierre Polyev come out and say media reports of a terrorist attack. And he was saying that because
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that's, again, what the media reporting is. I just want to make this perfectly clear. So the
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incident seemed to have happened sometime at around 1130. I believe the first reports on social media that
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we started seeing roll in were maybe around 12, 1215. And the House of Commons question period,
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which is what the clip that we just saw, happens every day. It starts at 2 p.m. from 2 to 2.15.
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There's member statements. And then the actual back and forth of question period starts at about
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quarter after 2. So this is all Eastern Standard Time. So again, we're talking about two hours after
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this thing had happened. And you can tell, you know, both sides didn't have the full picture.
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That's always the case with these unfolding news events that you don't really know what's happening
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until the dust settles and the fog clears. And then you get a better picture, which is what we
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have now. It's been two days since this happened. But even what Trudeau said, the prime minister said,
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you know, he referred to it as an explosion. He said he was going to go get further briefs. He'd been
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briefed by all these other people, all these agencies and organizations. Okay, folks, this is all
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just pretext. This is all just setting up for what I think was probably the biggest moment of the
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week, which is Pierre Polyev doing what conservatives and people who support Pierre Polyev, which let's
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just remind the audience that he has the largest support out of any federal leader. His party is if there
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were an election that were to happen today, they would get a sweeping majority in the House of
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Commons. So Pierre Polyev doing what he does best, I think, which is he is presented a question from a
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reporter that he doesn't deem fair. And so rather than doing what conservatives have been doing for
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generations, what conservatives have been doing for decades, what conservatives have been doing for
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years, which is just sort of shrug and accept the fact that the media doesn't like them, it isn't
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fair to them. Pierre Polyev takes a very different approach. Pierre Polyev has decided that when he is
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met with a media narrative, you can tell when a narrative is being presented, when it is being
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pushed, it's all already sort of preconceived, it goes along almost exactly with what the liberal
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government is saying, what liberal politicians are attacking conservatives for. You can sense it,
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Pierre Polyev has a very good sense for when this is happening, and he just has no time for it. He has
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no time for it. He stops a reporter in their tracks, makes them explain, makes them say their sources,
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makes them explain exactly what they're talking about, to not allow them to get away with the
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whole sort of pretense that they're putting into it, behind the whole sort of loaded question,
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preconceived narrative that the media is pushing. So I'll show you this clip back and forth between
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Pierre Polyev and a Canadian press reporter, just a little bit more background. Canadian press
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is a wire service. They write news stories, and those news stories appear across the Canadian media
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landscape. So everywhere from the Globe and Mail, Post Media, CTV, any number of websites will have
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a subscription to CP, and they will share and report their stories. So CP is probably one of the
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most widespread, most influential media organizations in the country. Many people don't know it because
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it's not a front-facing publication. You can't go and buy the Canadian press, but media companies buy
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subscriptions, and their reports appear throughout the legacy media. So here is this back and forth
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between Pierre Polyev and a Canadian press reporter. Do you think it was responsible for you to call
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yesterday's explosion by the customs, by the checkpoint at the Rainbow Bridge, terrorism, when no U.S. or
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Canadian officials said that was, or authorities said that was the case, and when the New York governor
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also said there was no evidence to suggest terrorism activity?
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Actually, you're wrong. Are you with CP? Okay, so CP, by the way, CP, just for everyone's
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knowledge, did have to make three corrections for falsehoods that they put into a single article.
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I think that might be unprecedented. I'm actually thinking about checking with the Guinness Book of
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World Records to see if there's ever been a news agency that has had to issue three corrections for
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patent falsehoods that they admit they had been made in one single article, and now you've made yet
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another falsehood in your question. Where you are wrong is that CTV reported that the government of
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Canada was presuming that the incident was terrorist. So, yeah, that was, and that's what I said in my
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remarks. You're right. It was a media report. But it's citing media reports and not... Which is what I
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said in the House. I said there are media reports. And you think that's a responsible thing to go on to
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make that kind of a statement at the time without speaking? What kind of statement? I didn't. I said
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there were media reports. That's the distinction we're making? Okay. No, there's no distinction.
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What I said, and I was right, was that there were media reports of a terror-related event. By your
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admission, there were media reports of a terror-related event. And that media report,
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according to CTV, unless you're questioning their integrity now, came from security officials in the
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Trudeau government. So do you think the CTV was irresponsible in putting out that tweet?
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Do you think it was responsible comment to make in the House a comment?
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Do you, sorry, I'm asking, I have already answered that. Do you, do you think CTV was irresponsible to
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put that tweet out? That's none of my business. That's not for me to comment?
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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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So I think this kind of thing is satisfying for conservatives on many different levels.
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Again, like I said, conservatives have always been pushed around by the media.
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They're always presented with these twisted, warped interpretations of the facts, always with
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the gotcha questions. And Pierre Polyev is really talented at simply turning that around
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onto the journalist. So one of the interesting parts about that exchange that I'll just note
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is that the journalist there is saying that asking Pierre Polyev whether he thought it was
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responsible to refer to it as a terror-related attack based on a media report. So is it responsible
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for a politician to quote a media report in the House of Commons? Well, presumably that journalist
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would say that CTV is a trusted legacy media source, that they are reliable, that they are
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nonpartisan, and that they are trustworthy. Therefore, according to the logic of the journalists,
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of course, it would be responsible of Pierre Polyev to quote the legacy media. But then in
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this instance, she's saying it's the exact opposite. How dare you quote a legacy media report saying
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it's terror-related, that, you know, you're drumming up fear, you're raising the public temperature,
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or whatever the sort of underlying accusation is there. Pierre Polyev had none of it. Shut it down.
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Put the questions right to the reporter and she simply doesn't have answers because the whole
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point was it was a setup. It was a gotcha question. She was just trying to embarrass Polyev and he
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didn't fall for it. And instead he did, again, what I think so many, I won't even just say
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conservative voters. I think just so many everyday people, so many Canadians who are tired of elites
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telling them what to think, elites telling them what to say. I mean, we just lived through several years
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of COVID lockdowns where the media were basically just, you know, taking the government's word and
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using it to ram down our throats. They weren't asking questions. They weren't holding officials
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to account. They were just the mouthpieces for these politicians, these elites. And I think, again,
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it's satisfying for so many people to see a politician just not accept the premise, just say,
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no, you can't come to me with this absurd line of questioning. It's not true. It's not based on
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evidence or facts. And in fact, where I got my facts from is you guys. I was just quoting you guys.
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And I think it's all very amusing. And so I did want to just get into a little bit of the details
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because there's still just so much sort of back and forth and accusations over this because it didn't
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just end there. Of course, that was sort of just really the beginning of it. Because after this clip
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came out and after it went viral, what we saw is the legacy media just lose their collective minds.
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I'll just come out and straight say it. I mean, the way that the legacy media were behaving on X
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yesterday, on the platform formerly known as Twitter, was just so evident of the way that
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they behave, that they see a conservative doing something that they believe is outside the norm
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of Canadian politics. It goes against their sort of sensibilities as a journalist, that the role is
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so protected and so safeguarded. And it's so unbecoming to question a journalist or to turn it around
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and ask them questions or not to accept their premise. And so what we saw was really what I
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would describe as a weep fest on social media. So I'm going to go through a few of my favorite
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ones. You had Bruce Arthur from the Toronto Star. Andrew Scheer, former leader of the party,
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shared the video. Norm Spector, who's a former chief of staff to a conservative prime minister,
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Brian Mulroney, posted it. And then you had Terry Glavin, who is a reporter, excellent reporter,
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for the National Post. And he's not even a conservative. I believe Terry Glavin is a
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socialist. But anyway, Bruce Arthur shared the whole thing. And he writes, just another grotesque
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day for the conservative party. He continues here in a thread. He writes, so Pierre Polyev in a truly
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scummy moment blamed a CTV report for his assessment of the Rainbow Bridge as a terrorist attack in the
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House of Commons yesterday. The first CTV report didn't seem to have landed before Polyev spoke,
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but the Fox News report had. I'll just continue with this thread that he had here. He writes,
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where are we here? Either way, the CTV story said the government was operating under the assumption
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that the explosion was terror-related, which was an operational necessity. It's very difficult
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from saying flat out. It's very, sorry, it's very different from saying flat out that this was
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terrorism. Pierre cited media reports. Looks like he cited Fox. I should say the whole,
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a whole host of far-right influencers and pretend media were also flat out stating this was clearly
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terrorism. Just going to attach this to the thread and do something else now. And then he has this
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whole thing, well, this theory that the CTV report came out at 2.39 p.m. Eastern time, but the Pierre
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Polyev spoke at 2.26. So I think this is like a gotcha moment. Bruce Arthur here is trying to say,
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or maybe he is saying that Polyev is lying, that Polyev was, when he said media reports,
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he was just talking about independent media outlets like True North or maybe The Rebel,
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and that it was Fox News. You can take that down now. Yeah. So just saying that, you know,
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it wasn't real media. It wasn't the mainstream media, the trusted media like CTV who were reporting it.
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It was like awful, terrible Fox News and awful, terrible independent media who he calls far-right
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and pretend media, which is kind of amusing. And then he has it all sorted out exactly. He says
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that CTV report came out at exactly 2.39 and Pierre Polyev spoke at 2.26. So interesting,
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just the evolution of what the media were saying. So at first it was that the CTV story hadn't come out
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yet. Therefore, he was quoting Fox News, and that is like a sin in and of itself. I'll continue on
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with the legacy media sort of losing their minds. You had Andrew Coyne, who I believe these days writes
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for the Globe and Mail. He writes, I don't know who he thinks he's impressing with this campus Tory
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childishness, but they're probably already voting for him. Likewise, Tabisa Soody, also from the Globe
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Mail. She sometimes writes for McLean's as well. She says the entire incident ought to disqualify the
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man as prime minister. And as a cautionary tale, Pierre Polyev is what happens when you mistake your
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mentions for your constituency. I don't quite think that she gets this right. I don't think that
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Pierre Polyev is like going for a social media clout on this. You can take that one down, Sean.
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I don't think that Pierre Polyev is really going for a clout on this one. I don't think that he was
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like sharing that video in order to get likes on Twitter. I think that he really does understand
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his constituency. He understands that the everyday man, the working man in Canada appreciates having
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somebody call out BS when they see it. And actually, if you look at polling, any polling done in the
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last, I don't know, six months, eight months, year, you'll see that Pierre Polyev certainly does know
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who his audience is and his constituency. John Iveson, National Post, he writes, he could lose this thing
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yet, if he keeps behaving like this. Again, the legacy media operate on this assumption that they
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are very respected, that they are very, you can take that down, Sean, that they are very respected,
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that they know exactly, you know, everything that they say is trusted and revered. And the mere fact
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that a journalist would push back is just outrageous. My colleague and friend Rupa Subramanya,
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who writes for the pre-press, and she has a show with us here. Trunar, she pushes back against John
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Iveson, mentioning a whole bunch of leaders who, she says, would beg to disagree. You could add a
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couple more, probably Donald Trump to that list as well. The mainstream is no longer dictated by a few
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elite opinion makers, but a large number of people who have their, this is a quote from Rupa, by the way,
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the mainstream is no longer dictated by a few elite opinion makers, but a large number of people
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who have their views on what's going on. Dismiss such opinion at your own peril. The reality is that
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a lot of people love Pierre Polyev's energy that is completely missed by our elites. I think that's
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pretty much hits the nail right on the head, Rupa. Moving on, we have another journalist in Canada,
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this individual's name's Les Perrault. He's with Policy Options. He's the editor-in-chief over there.
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And he writes, it's a really good thing that I'm not in the press conference business anymore,
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because he awes of me saying, Mr. Polyev, would you please grow up, would be extremely high.
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Les Perrault went on with a thread where he said, I have the privilege of josting with dozens of
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prime ministers, premiers, and opposition leaders from all parties over 25 years. I don't remember
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one of them acting like this, and certainly not on repeated occasions. Chantal Hebert from the Toronto
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Star writes, ditto, ditto, simply that. It's interesting because, you know, that's probably true. I don't think
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that politicians in Canada have treated the media with this sort of open disdain or disrespect that
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you see from Pierre Polyev. But that's probably because the media has changed drastically over
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the past 25 years. I mean, over the past five years, since Justin Trudeau started bailing out
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the legacy media newspapers, since he started giving hundreds of millions more dollars to the CBC.
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It's become, you know, instead of a media press that is culturally left-wing and probably all vote
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liberal or NDP, but when they show up to work, they at least try to be professional. That's completely
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changed. It's completely changed now. And we have a media that is bought and paid for by the Trudeau
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liberals who get their funding from the government. They know where their bread is butter. They know where
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their checks are coming from. And you can just see the difference in coverage. You can see the change
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has happened over the last several years. And then add on top of that, the sort of elites know best
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mindset, the sort of changing of journalism. Remember, journalism used to be more of a blue
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collar profession where you had reporters working really, really hard, running around, trying to keep
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up with politicians, constantly trying to hold them to account and pressing them and being sort of
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adversarial. And now, you know, the journalism profession is much more white collar, college
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educated, people who spent lots and lots of time in universities getting indoctrinated with left-wing
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ideas. And culturally, they're all liberal still. So I think journalism has gotten so much worse over
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the past 25 years. And then add on top of that, the fact that there's funding. So, you know, the fact
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that these journalists are lamenting Pierre Pauly is not his fault. He's reacting to it. He's not the one
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that created these situations. Okay, next we have Luke LeBron from Press Progress. He writes,
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Pierre Pauly stood in the House of Commons Wednesday afternoon and labeled this a terrorist attack. An
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FBI investigation has officially ruled out terrorism and now describes it as a traffic incident. Well,
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yes, that's correct. And we learned that fact like 24 hours later. But, you know, the time that Pierre
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Pauly stood up in the House of Commons was two hours after the attack. He was basing it on preliminary
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information. And that was based on media reports. So good, good on there, Luke. Too bad you missed a
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whole timeline. All right, we'll go through a few more of these. We've got Rachel Gilmore, who is a
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freelancer, I guess. She writes this, how do you push back on the spot when Paulyev outright lies to your
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face when it's impossible to prove the lie without pulling out your phone and scoring timestamps?
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If one more person tries to say the reporter should better prepare themselves for an outright lie,
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I'm going to scream. Okay, well, I think that the criticism isn't that the reporter should have
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somehow been able to, you know, shoot back against Pierre Paulyev and say, no, you're actually wrong. Your comment
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came 20 minutes before the CDV report came out. I think that the criticism of the CDV reporter, or sorry, of the
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CB reporter was that she was asking really, really loaded questions and trying to catch Pierre Paulyev in a gotcha
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moment that just didn't really work out. You know, she's talking about the timestamps and the time zones.
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We've got another tweet on that theme. Again, our friend Bruce Arthur from the Toronto Star, he says, he's
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talking to Nick Cavallis, who had posted the CTV report in question, saying that it came out at 1.50 before
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the House of Commons question period had started. And you can see very clearly in the tweet that it said
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terror-related. Bruce Arthur goes, ah, ha, ha, even Nick is falling for the lazy screenshot.
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That presume nobody understands the concept of time zones. Nick Cavallis, of course, is a conservative
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operative and an insider in the conservative party movement. So I'm not exactly sure whether that
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screenshot was on the Eastern time or the Mountain time, but basically the whole explanation from the
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left and from the legacy media was that the conservatives were lying because the CTV report that Pierre
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Polyev says that he was basing his comments on didn't come out until afterwards. Well, the only
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problem is that you can go, you could go right now onto CTV and you can see that report. You can see
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their first report. This is the updated version of it. It says two people dead in Rainbow Bridge
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explosion. Like I said, just like the True North story, right? You put the story out as soon as you
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have enough information and then you update it throughout the day to make sure that the facts are
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up to date with the latest from police and from law enforcement at the time. So you can see that
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the original story came out and it is timestamped right there. You can see it on the top left. It
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came out on November 22nd, which was Wednesday at 1 0 9 PM Eastern time, not Mountain time, not Pacific
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time, but Eastern time. So it says it right there. And then you can see written in that report,
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it says the part that I have circled in red there. Sources did tell CTV news earlier in the day that
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the conservative government that, sorry, that Canadian government officials were initially
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operating under the assumption that this was terror related. Okay. So I mean, you can't say that that
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was based on a different time zone. You can't use that whole timestamp time zone thing. We know that
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their story came out at 1 0 9 PM Eastern because you can still see it. And you know that it said that
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at the time when the report first came out, you know, citing government officials, they did indeed
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say that it was terror related. So this vindicates Pierre Polyev. This shows that what he was saying
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was true. And I tweeted so much. I put out exactly the facts. Pierre Polyev rose in the House of
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Commons on Wednesday and said there were media reports for terror attack. The House of Commons starts
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at 2. Pierre Polyev happened, remarks happened around 2 25 PM. CTV news citing Canadian government
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officials did indeed report that the Rainbow Bridge explosion was being treated as terror related.
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Here's a CTV time slot 1 0 9. So can someone please explain to me how it is Pierre Polyev
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who is lying that, you know, they were pushing this whole thing around, that it was time zones,
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people are confusing a mountain time zone, push notification or tweet saying that that was
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incorrect. And you know, it continues. Bruce Arthur is still, as we speak out there tweeting,
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he's saying, of course, Candace is now pretending not to know how the media works, ignoring what CTV
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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
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sort of bandwagon and saying that they put out their report 15 minutes before Pierre Polyev rose and stood
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in the House of Commons. Now, look, I don't know why they put out that report. I don't know why they
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decided to sort of jump into the fray of pushing back against a conservative politician. It sort of
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seems like that would be the liberals job and partisan liberals. But CTV is pushing in. Look,
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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
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search back to see what the original news story would have looked like. At 1 0 9, it appears to me that it does
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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
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defending themselves against a legacy media attack. It really is quite something. A final Bruce Arthur
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tweet right here, he says, lots of people struggling with the updated part of this page.
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This is a final version of a rolling story updated at 7 54. But CTV flat out told people that they
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reported it later, no screenshots. But the dumb times and screenshots are still being circulated. No,
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this isn't about time zones. This isn't about, you know, trying to understand what the CTV,
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why the CTV put out that version. Like you can look online and see that it came out at that point.
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But it's just interesting just to see the evolving change in the narrative, right? At first it was
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Pierre Polyev is lying. Then it is Pierre Polyev is trying to drum up fear about an attack about
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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
00:31:30.880
that they're looking at the wrong time zone. And now it's like people are struggling with the idea
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
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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
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2 p.m. Why does that matter? The reality is that CTV did report on Wednesday that this was terror.
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Canadian government officials told the media that they were suspecting it as terror, that they believed
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it to be a terror incident. Anybody with eyes who was watching the situation, watching the facts
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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
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media is doing, watching them with a microscope, watching the way they operate, the way they behave.
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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
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move on. I'll leave it at that. Have a wonderful weekend, everybody. Thank you so much for tuning in.
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This has been a live edition of Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.