The Candice Malcolm Show: CBC’s ratings plummet but still receive more tax dollars than ever!
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The CBC s ratings plummet, they re still receiving more tax dollars than ever, Justin Trudeau contradicts himself, joins the Trump derangement team, and blames the United States for Iran s reckless incompetency, a social justice mob goes after a celebrity for being too polite, and it s Wednesday so we will do fake news of the week.
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CBC's ratings plummet, they're still receiving more tax dollars than ever, Justin Trudeau
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contradicts himself, joins the Trump derangement team and blames the United States for Iran's
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reckless incompetency, a social justice mob goes after a celebrity for being too polite
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and it's Wednesday so we will do fake news of the week.
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I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
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I know I've been focusing this show so much on Iran so I'm going to leave with something a little different today.
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This is an exclusive from Black Locks Reporter that was picked up by Post Millennial and TNC.news.
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The CBC's ad dollars have fallen by 37 percent.
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The CBC confirmed its English language TV ad revenues fell by more than a third last year
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with fewer than one percent of Canadians watching its local suppertime newscast.
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The Crown broadcaster in its latest annual report questioned whether it can remain sustainable without more subsidies.
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So fewer Canadians than ever before are watching the CBC.
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They're not interested in what the CBC is pushing, which is a very far left anti-American worldview.
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Canadians by and large reject that kind of nonsense and they're not watching it.
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Less than one percent, fewer than one percent of Canadians are watching the CBC every night.
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And at the same time, the CBC's ad dollars are falling.
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So companies are less and less interested in advertising on the CBC.
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And yet they're still receiving $1.2 billion in annual subsidies courtesy of you and me and the rest of the Canadian taxpayers out there.
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And at the same time, the CBC is still asking the government for more money, saying that their entire funding model is not sustainable
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and that they're going to need yet another bailout, more and more money from the Canadian taxpayer in order to sustain.
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You know, it's just it's so mind boggling that this entity exists in Canada.
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You know, this is a time where digital media outlets are thriving, where new startups like TNC.News or like the Post Millennial,
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or even some on the left, you know, Canada Land, Press Progress, the National Observer.
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There are all these new digital media outlets that are successful, that have found a successful funding model
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that Canadians are interested in, that sort of serve a niche audience.
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We found a sustainable funding model, whereas this sort of behemoth state broadcaster that has no clue what Canadians want,
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that never really has to think or consider what to do to make Canadians more interested in their broadcast.
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All they have to do is go hand in hand to the Prime Minister and beg him for more money.
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And if the past is indicative of the future, Trudeau will always say yes to the state broadcaster.
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You know, this reminds me of this little moment on the campaign trail where Justin Trudeau flat out stated why,
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you know, him and the Liberals love the CBC. Let's play that clip.
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We know the Liberals are always there for the CBC, as he said.
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So I wouldn't be surprised if the Liberals came up with even more money to subsidize the CBC.
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You know, this is just so unfortunate because Canadians don't want this.
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They're so off in their editorial position that they have a negative impact on the country.
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It says English TV ad revenues fell 37% from $178 million to $112 million.
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French language ad revenues declined 3% from $140 million down to $136 million.
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The total audience for 6 p.m. local TV newscasts at 27 CBC stations nationwide was 319,000 people, the equivalent to fewer than 12,000 nightly viewers per city.
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That's fewer people than listening to this podcast.
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The total market share for the CBC TV main network was 5% down from 8% the previous year.
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The CBC News Network cable service has a 1.4% market share.
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So whichever way you look at it, whichever way you cut it, the CBC is flailing and failing.
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I'm not totally opposed to having some kind of a national state broadcaster, maybe something more in the package of NPR, which is, you know, a smaller entity that doesn't dictate the entire media landscape in the United States.
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But they have thoughtful programming, and they're funding not only from the taxpayer, but also through their own sort of fundraising initiatives and grassroots fundraising.
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But if we're going to have some kind of a state broadcaster, look at the NPR model.
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The CBC is just so nonsensical, especially when there are so many CBC reporters, for instance, in the Parliamentary Press Gallery.
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They literally dictate the direction of the news story.
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Look at Justin Trudeau's press conferences on the Iran plane crash, which we will get to in the show.
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You know, question after question after question from those CBC and Radio Canada and CBC French, all the different CBC reporters asking in the same line of reasoning because it was their editorial position.
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Isn't the U.S. to blame? Is the U.S. to blame? Do you blame Trump? Trump, Trump, U.S., U.S.?
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And it sways the entire coverage, and it even sways the thinking of the politicians who are getting pestered with these far-left, deranged questions.
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So, you know, CBC is having a very negative impact on our country, and it's time to pull the plug.
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One reason I really hope that conservatives win next time around is just on this issue.
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I hope that the conservatives choose a leader who is courageous enough to say the truth about the CBC and pledge to defund the entire entity,
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and that they win the election just so they can do that one thing.
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I think that would be great for the country and worthwhile.
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Justin Trudeau has completely contradicted himself.
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So if you recall, on Saturday, he gave a press conference.
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Iran took responsibility for the downing of that plane crash after spending several days lying.
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Then they said that someone else must have shot them down.
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Justin Trudeau gave a very firm press conference on Saturday, firm for him.
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He still made some fumbles, and he wasn't as tough as possible.
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Reporter after reporter, especially those CBC and Radio Canada reporters,
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kept asking him if he thought that the U.S. was to blame.
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He actually pushed back and was pretty firm for him,
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made it clear that he didn't believe the United States was at fault,
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repeatedly said that it was Iran, it was Iran, it was Iran.
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I put together a little montage of him, you know, the best parts of Trudeau pushing back against the media
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and clearly explaining that it was Iran to blame.
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That is certainly something that is going to need to be part of the mix.
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But Iran is still pointing some fingers at the United States,
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as are many others, for raising tensions in the first place.
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Do you share those views, and do you plan to speak with the U.S. president and discuss it?
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The reality is there have been significant tensions in that region for a long time.
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Many of these families have fled Iran, fled the regime,
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tried to build a better life for them elsewhere,
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and to have the regime that they have left behind accept responsibility for this is a bitter pill indeed.
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I'm wondering if you think that the Iranian system may now find a culprit,
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blame them, prosecute them without the international community.
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I think there is a recognition that there is probably individual culpability in this situation,
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and the reflections around that is something that the Iranians
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and indeed the international partners will be engaged with over the coming weeks
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He says that he believes that Iran should probably compensate the families,
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which shows that he believes that Iran is the one that's to blame.
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He says, when asked specifically, do you think the recent tensions in the region caused this plane crash,
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He said, let's be clear, there's been tensions,
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there's been significant tensions in that region for a long time,
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You know, those who are just looking at the death of Soleimani
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are missing, you know, the last, not even just six months of history,
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a couple of days before Soleimani was killed in that attack,
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you know, he had ordered an attack on a U.S. base,
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on an Iraqi base where U.S. and Canadian troops were held
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That was what really set off this recent chain of events.
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If you go back, you know, a little further than that,
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you'll know that Iran shot down an American drone
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knocking out about 5% of that country's oil production.
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So there are several examples of Iran being the aggressor
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in this region that really led to the recent escalations.
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He made a point that many of the people who were on that plane
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that they thought that the evil regime in Iran was behind them.
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and that they thought that they had escaped the regime,
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which, again, not only shows that Iran was to blame for the crash,
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but also that there is this evil, oppressive regime
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he was talking about how there's probably individual culpability,
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whether you're looking at tensions in the region,
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which, you know, that's about as far as I've ever seen Trudeau go on Iran.
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And then what he talked about, the system culpability.
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You know, this was an evening where Iran was launching an offensive.
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Why were commercial planes still allowed to come and go?
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That was the decision, again, of the government,
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The planes probably should have never been allowed to take off,
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given that Iran was launching this bombing campaign to neighboring Iraq.
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You know, there's also several other questions about,
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you know, why one individual was in the position
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where they were allowed to make that terrible, terrible decision
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According to Iran's own explanation of what happened,
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They devised this crazy scheme where he only had 10 seconds
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to determine whether or not to shoot down the plane.
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And he said that he tried to reach out to his higher-ups,
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Everything they said about the scenario doesn't make sense.
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it was an Iranian missile launched by the Iranian regime from Iran.
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You know, in a situation where Iran was bombing, was on the offensive,
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and their airspace should have never been opened.
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So, you know, for all the components involved here,
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almost all of them are directly responsible by Iran.
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just two days after he gave this pretty strong press conference,
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and he does an interview where he pretty much just says the exact opposite.
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Do you think that the people who died on that plane
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are collateral damage in the tensions between Iran and the U.S.?
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if there was no escalation recently in the region,
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those Canadians would be right now home with their families.
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You know, on Saturday, he said there's tensions for a long time.
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And on Monday, he said if it wasn't for those recent tensions,
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which we know he's talking about the drone attack on Soleimani,
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those Canadians would be home by their families.
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So, you know, most serious people in the world are on the side of,
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you know, this is clearly Iran's responsibility
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And this is totally unacceptable and reckless and evil.
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they're so partisan, they can't get over their deep hatred for Trump,
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And, you know, there's a broader group of people
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And their worldview is that America is this horrible, evil place
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Trudeau just flip-flopped and basically said the opposite.
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And really, you know, the worldview that you have to have
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to say that the U.S. is at fault for Iran's bad behavior,
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And there was a lot of outrage, a lot of outcry over a clip.
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President Trump and the First Lady, Melania Trump,
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were at a football game, a college football game down in Louisiana.
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you kind of see Trump has this, like, huge backing.
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people are chanting the USA, USA, really, really over-the-top welcome
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A video surfaced of Trump in the crowd later during the game.
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And he's there with Vince Vaughn, actor Vince Vaughn,
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and their exchange sort of ends with a handshake.
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So because of that, there's sort of this huge reaction online.
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Everyone knows that Vince Vaughn is a Republican.
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But, you know, they just, the mob, the left-wing mob,
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I don't know exactly how much of it was organic.
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I think some of it was a joke that led from a tweet
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it doesn't actually seem like a super friendly exchange.
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it seems like Vince Vaughn is sort of telling Donald Trump
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And Trump kind of like, kind of gives it like a little,
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okay, I respect you for saying that or whatever.
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But looking at the video, looking at the interaction,
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was sort of telling Trump off or criticizing Trump.
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And that led to typical Trump derangement online.
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CTV followed suit and put out a very similar piece
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is that that's not what Stephen Harper actually said.
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And calling for regime change is like very specific.
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Like it's something that most politicians wouldn't do.
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I would openly say that Iran needs regime change.
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you know, report the truth, as is the case here.
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It was pointed out by the National Post's Chris Selle.
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and Harper doesn't even remotely allude to that.
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and said, I'm not in the business of defending Harper,
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what the former conservative prime minister said,
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and said, the headline and lead paragraph of this story
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if we are going to see peace in the Middle East.
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the Middle East will continue to be in turmoil.
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That's not exactly calling for a change of government.
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He's just saying that there needs to be a change,
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which could potentially be a change within the government.
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Again, I would prefer to be a change of government,
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So, you know, the CBC is manipulating the words
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of a former prime minister to make them more loaded,
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to make them more controversial than they actually are,
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That's not the role of a former prime minister.
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So shame on the CBC for trying to push that in life.
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Again, that's $1.2 billion of your taxpayer money