The Candice Malcolm Show - The Candice Malcolm Show： CBC’s ratings plummet but still receive more tax dollars than ever!

00:00:00.220 CBC's ratings plummet, they're still receiving more tax dollars than ever, Justin Trudeau

00:00:04.420 contradicts himself, joins the Trump derangement team and blames the United States for Iran's

00:00:09.980 reckless incompetency, a social justice mob goes after a celebrity for being too polite

00:00:14.940 and it's Wednesday so we will do fake news of the week.

00:00:18.080 I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:25.400 Hi, thank you so much for tuning in.

00:00:27.260 I know I've been focusing this show so much on Iran so I'm going to leave with something a little different today.

00:00:31.860 This is an exclusive from Black Locks Reporter that was picked up by Post Millennial and TNC.news.

00:00:38.100 The CBC's ad dollars have fallen by 37 percent.

00:00:42.780 So this is from Black Locks.

00:00:44.280 The CBC confirmed its English language TV ad revenues fell by more than a third last year

00:00:49.340 with fewer than one percent of Canadians watching its local suppertime newscast.

00:00:54.620 The Crown broadcaster in its latest annual report questioned whether it can remain sustainable without more subsidies.

00:01:01.920 So fewer Canadians than ever before are watching the CBC.

00:01:05.640 Canadians are just not tuned in.

00:01:07.120 They're not interested in what the CBC is pushing, which is a very far left anti-American worldview.

00:01:12.640 Canadians by and large reject that kind of nonsense and they're not watching it.

00:01:16.820 Less than one percent, fewer than one percent of Canadians are watching the CBC every night.

00:01:21.480 And at the same time, the CBC's ad dollars are falling.

00:01:25.840 So companies are less and less interested in advertising on the CBC.

00:01:30.300 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.

00:01:39.880 And at the same time, the CBC is still asking the government for more money, saying that their entire funding model is not sustainable

00:01:47.820 and that they're going to need yet another bailout, more and more money from the Canadian taxpayer in order to sustain.

00:01:53.720 You know, it's just it's so mind boggling that this entity exists in Canada.

00:01:58.200 You know, this is a time where digital media outlets are thriving, where new startups like TNC.News or like the Post Millennial,

00:02:05.780 or even some on the left, you know, Canada Land, Press Progress, the National Observer.

00:02:11.060 There are all these new digital media outlets that are successful, that have found a successful funding model

00:02:16.540 that Canadians are interested in, that sort of serve a niche audience.

00:02:20.760 And, you know, we're all making it work.

00:02:23.720 We found a sustainable funding model, whereas this sort of behemoth state broadcaster that has no clue what Canadians want,

00:02:30.760 that never really has to think or consider what to do to make Canadians more interested in their broadcast.

00:02:36.400 All they have to do is go hand in hand to the Prime Minister and beg him for more money.

00:02:40.720 And if the past is indicative of the future, Trudeau will always say yes to the state broadcaster.

00:02:47.500 You know, this reminds me of this little moment on the campaign trail where Justin Trudeau flat out stated why,

00:02:53.800 you know, him and the Liberals love the CBC. Let's play that clip.

00:02:56.780 This is for you, David. This is for you.

00:02:59.020 No, no, no, no, no, no, me.

00:03:01.000 Hey, Liberal Party always supports the CBC.

00:03:04.080 So we know that Justin Trudeau loves the CBC.

00:03:06.240 We know the Liberals are always there for the CBC, as he said.

00:03:09.000 So I wouldn't be surprised if the Liberals came up with even more money to subsidize the CBC.

00:03:14.380 You know, this is just so unfortunate because Canadians don't want this.

00:03:18.560 It's bad for the country.

00:03:19.800 The CBC is so biased.

00:03:21.020 They're so off in their editorial position that they have a negative impact on the country.

00:03:24.820 They harm the entire country.

00:03:26.460 And yet we're the ones funding it.

00:03:27.980 It's so frustrating.

00:03:29.680 Let's read more from this Black Locks report.

00:03:32.100 It says English TV ad revenues fell 37% from $178 million to $112 million.

00:03:38.980 French language ad revenues declined 3% from $140 million down to $136 million.

00:03:44.340 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.

00:03:57.160 That's fewer people than listening to this podcast.

00:04:00.880 The total market share for the CBC TV main network was 5% down from 8% the previous year.

00:04:06.240 The CBC News Network cable service has a 1.4% market share.

00:04:12.020 So whichever way you look at it, whichever way you cut it, the CBC is flailing and failing.

00:04:16.140 And really, it's time to just let the CBC go.

00:04:18.600 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.

00:04:31.740 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.

00:04:41.620 You know, something like that.

00:04:43.340 I'm not completely opposed to it.

00:04:45.020 I'd prefer to have just a total free market.

00:04:46.800 But if we're going to have some kind of a state broadcaster, look at the NPR model.

00:04:50.080 The CBC is just so nonsensical, especially when there are so many CBC reporters, for instance, in the Parliamentary Press Gallery.

00:04:57.160 They literally dictate the direction of the news story.

00:04:59.700 Look at Justin Trudeau's press conferences on the Iran plane crash, which we will get to in the show.

00:05:04.580 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.

00:05:14.420 Isn't the U.S. to blame? Is the U.S. to blame? Do you blame Trump? Trump, Trump, U.S., U.S.?

00:05:18.780 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.

00:05:28.020 That's the sort of outcome.

00:05:29.100 So, you know, CBC is having a very negative impact on our country, and it's time to pull the plug.

00:05:34.320 One reason I really hope that conservatives win next time around is just on this issue.

00:05:38.680 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,

00:05:46.980 and that they win the election just so they can do that one thing.

00:05:50.200 I think that would be great for the country and worthwhile.

00:05:53.280 All right, let's move on.

00:05:54.520 Justin Trudeau has completely contradicted himself.

00:05:56.900 So if you recall, on Saturday, he gave a press conference.

00:05:59.600 Iran took responsibility for the downing of that plane crash after spending several days lying.

00:06:04.200 At first, they said it was engine failure.

00:06:06.180 Then they said that someone else must have shot them down.

00:06:09.140 They finally took responsibility.

00:06:10.580 Justin Trudeau gave a very firm press conference on Saturday, firm for him.

00:06:15.020 He still wasn't perfect.

00:06:15.920 He still made some fumbles, and he wasn't as tough as possible.

00:06:19.060 Reporter after reporter, especially those CBC and Radio Canada reporters,

00:06:22.540 kept asking him if he thought that the U.S. was to blame.

00:06:25.400 He actually pushed back and was pretty firm for him,

00:06:28.460 made it clear that he didn't believe the United States was at fault,

00:06:31.460 repeatedly said that it was Iran, it was Iran, it was Iran.

00:06:34.500 I put together a little montage of him, you know, the best parts of Trudeau pushing back against the media

00:06:41.020 and clearly explaining that it was Iran to blame.

00:06:44.640 What Iran has admitted to is very serious.

00:06:48.920 Shooting down a civilian aircraft is horrific.

00:06:53.700 Iran must take full responsibility. 1.00

00:06:57.780 Should Iran compensate Canadian families here? 1.00

00:07:00.560 That is certainly something that is going to need to be part of the mix.

00:07:06.020 But Iran is still pointing some fingers at the United States,

00:07:08.620 as are many others, for raising tensions in the first place.

00:07:11.620 Do you share those views, and do you plan to speak with the U.S. president and discuss it?

00:07:15.800 The reality is there have been significant tensions in that region for a long time.

00:07:21.460 Many of these families have fled Iran, fled the regime,

00:07:25.620 tried to build a better life for them elsewhere,

00:07:27.700 and to have the regime that they have left behind accept responsibility for this is a bitter pill indeed.

00:07:36.800 I'm wondering if you think that the Iranian system may now find a culprit, 1.00

00:07:42.060 blame them, prosecute them without the international community.

00:07:44.840 I think there is a recognition that there is probably individual culpability in this situation,

00:07:51.520 but there is also a system-wide culpability,

00:07:54.680 and the reflections around that is something that the Iranians

00:07:58.200 and indeed the international partners will be engaged with over the coming weeks

00:08:02.260 as we unfold in this investigation.

00:08:04.480 So he makes it pretty clear.

00:08:05.440 He says that he believes that Iran should probably compensate the families,

00:08:08.120 which shows that he believes that Iran is the one that's to blame.

00:08:10.640 He says, when asked specifically, do you think the recent tensions in the region caused this plane crash,

00:08:16.000 he said no.

00:08:16.720 He said, let's be clear, there's been tensions,

00:08:19.100 there's been significant tensions in that region for a long time,

00:08:22.200 which is absolutely correct.

00:08:23.540 You know, those who are just looking at the death of Soleimani

00:08:25.900 are missing, you know, the last, not even just six months of history,

00:08:29.640 the last 40 years of history.

00:08:31.020 But even if you're just looking, you know,

00:08:32.760 a couple of days before Soleimani was killed in that attack,

00:08:36.000 in that drone strike by the U.S.,

00:08:37.780 you know, he had ordered an attack on a U.S. base,

00:08:40.860 on an Iraqi base where U.S. and Canadian troops were held

00:08:44.140 and an American citizen was killed.

00:08:45.700 That was what really set off this recent chain of events.

00:08:48.400 If you go back, you know, a little further than that,

00:08:50.700 you'll know that Iran shot down an American drone

00:08:53.580 in international airspace over the summer.

00:08:56.500 They seized a British naval ship

00:08:58.500 that was also an international seize.

00:09:01.560 They bombed a Saudi oil facility,

00:09:04.600 knocking out about 5% of that country's oil production.

00:09:08.040 And then they attacked these bases.

00:09:10.040 So there are several examples of Iran being the aggressor 0.94

00:09:13.100 in this region that really led to the recent escalations.

00:09:17.800 And Trudeau rightly acknowledged that.

00:09:20.880 He made a point that many of the people who were on that plane

00:09:23.420 had fled the regime,

00:09:24.780 that they thought that the evil regime in Iran was behind them.

00:09:27.720 He didn't say evil.

00:09:28.640 They fled the regime

00:09:29.480 and that they thought that they had escaped the regime,

00:09:32.120 which, again, not only shows that Iran was to blame for the crash,

00:09:36.200 but also that there is this evil, oppressive regime

00:09:38.560 that caused all these people to flee.

00:09:40.480 And then at the very end there,

00:09:41.620 he was talking about how there's probably individual culpability,

00:09:44.440 but also a system-wide culpability.

00:09:46.620 So all of that is to say,

00:09:48.600 you know, no matter which way you look at it,

00:09:50.260 whether you're looking at tensions in the region,

00:09:52.100 that was caused by Iran.

00:09:53.600 Whether you're looking at, you know,

00:09:55.300 the regime's capability to do evil

00:09:57.760 and why so many people flee it,

00:09:59.720 he acknowledged that,

00:10:00.520 which, you know, that's about as far as I've ever seen Trudeau go on Iran.

00:10:05.020 And then what he talked about, the system culpability.

00:10:07.520 You know, this was an evening where Iran was launching an offensive. 0.98

00:10:11.300 They were bombing Iraq that night. 0.85

00:10:13.160 Remember, they said that they were going to

00:10:14.820 seek revenge for the death of Soleimani.

00:10:17.440 This was the night that they were doing it.

00:10:18.560 They were bombing Iraq. 0.96

00:10:19.800 They weren't being bombed that evening.

00:10:21.180 So, so many questions, you know, come up.

00:10:24.120 Why was the commercial airspace open?

00:10:25.980 Why were commercial planes still allowed to come and go?

00:10:28.060 That was the decision, again, of the government,

00:10:30.420 of the Iranian government.

00:10:31.900 The plane was taking off from Tehran.

00:10:33.980 The planes probably should have never been allowed to take off,

00:10:36.660 given that Iran was launching this bombing campaign to neighboring Iraq.

00:10:40.700 You know, there's also several other questions about,

00:10:42.940 you know, why one individual was in the position

00:10:46.280 where they were allowed to make that terrible, terrible decision

00:10:48.760 to press that button and launch a missile.

00:10:51.860 According to Iran's own explanation of what happened,

00:10:54.780 it was a junior person.

00:10:56.280 He didn't have the training.

00:10:57.640 He only had 10 seconds, they said.

00:10:59.720 They devised this crazy scheme where he only had 10 seconds

00:11:01.880 to determine whether or not to shoot down the plane.

00:11:04.400 And he said that he tried to reach out to his higher-ups,

00:11:07.460 but the lines were jammed.

00:11:08.420 So, you know, Iran has lied about this. 0.82

00:11:10.200 Everything they said about the scenario doesn't make sense.

00:11:12.840 And no matter which way you look at it,

00:11:14.160 it was an Iranian missile launched by the Iranian regime from Iran.

00:11:18.760 You know, in a situation where Iran was bombing, was on the offensive,

00:11:22.620 and their airspace should have never been opened.

00:11:24.400 So, you know, for all the components involved here,

00:11:27.280 almost all of them are directly responsible by Iran.

00:11:31.180 And Trudeau was pretty clear about that.

00:11:33.080 But then just two days later,

00:11:34.500 just two days after he gave this pretty strong press conference,

00:11:37.740 he goes on to Global,

00:11:40.140 and he does an interview where he pretty much just says the exact opposite.

00:11:43.320 Do you think that the people who died on that plane

00:11:46.220 are collateral damage in the tensions between Iran and the U.S.?

00:11:49.900 I think if there were no tensions,

00:11:52.740 if there was no escalation recently in the region,

00:11:56.280 those Canadians would be right now home with their families.

00:11:59.780 So that is the derangement view.

00:12:01.400 That is the Trump derangement view,

00:12:03.120 which was the exact opposite.

00:12:04.700 You know, on Saturday, he said there's tensions for a long time.

00:12:07.440 And on Monday, he said if it wasn't for those recent tensions,

00:12:10.060 which we know he's talking about the drone attack on Soleimani,

00:12:14.560 if it wasn't for those recent tensions,

00:12:15.840 those Canadians would be home by their families. 0.55

00:12:17.340 So, you know, most serious people in the world are on the side of,

00:12:21.320 you know, this is clearly Iran's responsibility 1.00

00:12:23.620 and we need to be tough against them.

00:12:25.380 And this is totally unacceptable and reckless and evil.

00:12:28.620 And then there's a small component of people

00:12:30.280 who just hate Donald Trump so much,

00:12:31.720 they're so partisan, they can't get over their deep hatred for Trump,

00:12:36.040 that everything that happens is his fault.

00:12:38.140 And, you know, there's a broader group of people

00:12:40.180 that are just anti-American in general. 0.91

00:12:41.980 And their worldview is that America is this horrible, evil place

00:12:45.080 and that everything they do is wrong.

00:12:46.880 And Trudeau just sort of went from, you know,

00:12:49.460 one camp over to the other camp.

00:12:51.520 It's very embarrassing.

00:12:52.760 Trudeau just flip-flopped and basically said the opposite.

00:12:56.420 And really, you know, the worldview that you have to have

00:12:59.600 to say that the U.S. is at fault for Iran's bad behavior, 0.93

00:13:04.640 it's so deranged. 0.80

00:13:05.600 Okay, let's move on.

00:13:06.580 And there was a lot of outrage, a lot of outcry over a clip.

00:13:11.240 President Trump and the First Lady, Melania Trump,

00:13:14.040 were at a football game, a college football game down in Louisiana.

00:13:17.580 He got a huge applause.

00:13:19.680 Watching Donald Trump step out on the field,

00:13:21.680 you kind of see Trump has this, like, huge backing.

00:13:25.720 It's sort of like a cultural phenomenon.

00:13:27.600 So he walks out, the crowd goes crazy,

00:13:29.720 people are chanting the USA, USA, really, really over-the-top welcome

00:13:35.860 from the crowd there at Louisiana State.

00:13:39.020 A video surfaced of Trump in the crowd later during the game.

00:13:43.000 And he's there with Vince Vaughn, actor Vince Vaughn,

00:13:45.760 who's a pretty big celebrity.

00:13:46.880 And you can see Vaughn and Trump talking,

00:13:49.180 and their exchange sort of ends with a handshake.

00:13:51.660 So because of that, there's sort of this huge reaction online.

00:13:55.420 Everyone knows that Vince Vaughn is a Republican.

00:13:57.300 He's been conservative for a long time.

00:14:00.020 But, you know, they just, the mob, the left-wing mob,

00:14:02.840 social justice warriors just can't handle

00:14:04.280 seeing a celebrity being nice to Donald Trump.

00:14:07.220 So there's a huge outcry.

00:14:09.000 I don't know exactly how much of it was organic.

00:14:11.000 I think some of it was a joke that led from a tweet

00:14:15.740 from someone at the Washington Examiner

00:14:17.500 who was kind of joking around.

00:14:19.320 But anyway, if you look at the clip,

00:14:20.540 if you watch the video,

00:14:21.680 it doesn't actually seem like a super friendly exchange.

00:14:23.940 From my reading of it, me watching it,

00:14:25.800 it seems like Vince Vaughn is sort of telling Donald Trump

00:14:28.360 his opinion on something.

00:14:29.560 Like, he's almost criticizing Trump.

00:14:31.040 He's saying, blah, blah, blah.

00:14:32.420 I don't like what you're doing.

00:14:33.700 You should consider changing this.

00:14:35.220 And Trump kind of like, kind of gives it like a little,

00:14:38.720 okay, I respect you for saying that or whatever.

00:14:41.780 A kind of little head shake and a handshake.

00:14:44.160 It's not like a super friendly,

00:14:46.060 like back-slapping kind of interaction.

00:14:48.460 It seems like a little bit more tense.

00:14:49.660 We don't obviously know what was said

00:14:50.940 because there's no audio.

00:14:52.200 But looking at the video, looking at the interaction,

00:14:54.800 you could actually imagine that Vince Vaughn

00:14:56.380 was sort of telling Trump off or criticizing Trump.

00:14:59.220 And yeah, that doesn't matter

00:15:00.260 because all the deranged left saw

00:15:02.200 was a celebrity being nice to Trump.

00:15:04.280 And that led to typical Trump derangement online.

00:15:08.320 All right, it is Wednesday.

00:15:09.940 So we're going to do fake news of the week.

00:15:11.940 This comes courtesy of, you guessed it,

00:15:14.240 the CBC, the state broadcaster.

00:15:16.000 You cannot trust to tell the truth.

00:15:17.780 Okay, so CBC politics tweeted out,

00:15:20.980 Harper says regime change needed in Iran

00:15:22.940 to bring peace to the region.

00:15:24.920 CTV followed suit and put out a very similar piece

00:15:27.900 saying Harper calls for Iranian regime change

00:15:30.620 in wake of downed jet.

00:15:33.100 Now, the only problem with all that

00:15:35.500 is that that's not what Stephen Harper actually said.

00:15:38.360 And calling for regime change is like very specific.

00:15:41.440 It is very specific meaning.

00:15:43.860 And it's pretty aggressive.

00:15:45.100 Like it's something that most politicians wouldn't do.

00:15:47.280 Me, on the other hand,

00:15:48.160 I would openly say that Iran needs regime change.

00:15:50.680 They obviously need regime change. 0.98

00:15:52.660 They're led by a group of evil moolahs 1.00

00:15:55.600 who are not only evil, but incompetent, 0.99

00:15:57.660 as we've seen over the past several weeks. 0.92

00:15:59.600 But that's not what Stephen Harper said.

00:16:01.440 Stephen Harper is more diplomatic than I am.

00:16:04.140 Unfortunately, the CBC just doesn't always,

00:16:06.460 you know, report the truth, as is the case here.

00:16:09.320 It was pointed out by the National Post's Chris Selle.

00:16:12.720 He tweeted out that regime change

00:16:14.100 has very specific meaning,

00:16:15.620 and Harper doesn't even remotely allude to that.

00:16:18.720 In the passages quoted here,

00:16:20.620 even Gerald Butts, even Justin Trudeau's BFF,

00:16:24.120 came to the defense of Stephen Harper

00:16:25.920 and said, I'm not in the business of defending Harper,

00:16:28.420 but he didn't use the phrase regime change

00:16:30.580 in this interview.

00:16:31.460 It's a loaded term, to say the least.

00:16:33.760 So after being called out for misrepresenting

00:16:36.560 what the former conservative prime minister said,

00:16:39.360 CBC sort of did a little mea culpa here

00:16:41.640 and said, the headline and lead paragraph of this story

00:16:44.600 have been edited from a previous version

00:16:46.420 that says Stephen Harper said regime change

00:16:48.220 was needed in Iran.

00:16:49.320 In fact, Harper said,

00:16:50.760 I do believe we need to see a change in Iran 1.00

00:16:53.280 if we are going to see peace in the Middle East.

00:16:55.460 He also said, I think without a change

00:16:57.820 in the nature of the government in Tehran,

00:17:00.120 the Middle East will continue to be in turmoil.

00:17:02.800 That's not exactly calling for a change of government.

00:17:05.620 He's just saying that there needs to be a change,

00:17:07.460 which could potentially be a change within the government.

00:17:10.900 Again, I would prefer to be a change of government,

00:17:13.000 but that's not what Harper's saying.

00:17:14.460 So, you know, the CBC is manipulating the words

00:17:17.100 of a former prime minister to make them more loaded,

00:17:19.580 to make them more controversial than they actually are,

00:17:22.700 to probably anger a lot of people in Iran

00:17:24.500 who are thinking, you know,

00:17:25.740 why is Canada talking about whether or not

00:17:27.900 we need a change in government?

00:17:30.540 That's not the role of a former prime minister.

00:17:33.060 So shame on the CBC for trying to push that in life.

00:17:36.200 They hadn't been called out so publicly

00:17:37.540 by that National Post reporter.

00:17:39.640 They probably would have just continued 0.86

00:17:41.080 to be pushing out this nonsense.

00:17:42.840 Again, that's $1.2 billion of your taxpayer money

00:17:46.800 going to further divide the country

00:17:49.140 and pick Canadians against each other 0.53

00:17:50.760 by lying about what a politician says.

00:17:53.760 Okay, I'm going to leave it at that.

00:17:54.680 Thank you so much for joining in.

00:17:56.560 Thank you for tuning in today.

00:17:57.920 And we will be back next week.

The Candice Malcolm Show - January 18, 2020

The Candice Malcolm Show： CBC’s ratings plummet but still receive more tax dollars than ever!

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