The Candice Malcolm Show - The legacy media desperately wants the trucker convoy to be Canada’s January 6th

00:00:00.000 The legacy media want nothing more than the trucker convoy to become

00:00:03.520 Canada's January 6th. It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:13.060 Hi everyone, thank you so much for joining the podcast. And so we have seen something so

00:00:16.920 predictable in the media this week. We have been hit over the head with this. The media are going

00:00:21.500 into overtime, they're going into overdrive, trying to misrepresent this freedom convoy,

00:00:26.120 doing everything they can to, you guessed it, painted as racist, sexist, angry, and extremist,

00:00:33.140 even though we can see with our own eyes that it's not. We can see the freedom convoy putting out

00:00:37.960 their positive messages, their inspiring messages, watching those Canadians line the freeways despite

00:00:43.100 all the elements. It is freezing, it is full of snow, it is icy, it is windy. No one wants to be on the

00:00:48.980 side of a freeway. But instead, we see families, we see people come out, people from all walks of life,

00:00:54.560 waving the beautiful maple-y flag. I mean, there's nothing better than seeing that and seeing those

00:00:59.520 truckers go by. It is so inspiring, so uplifting, so positive, so counter to the message that the

00:01:04.980 legacy media is trying to portray. And we're going to go through some of those examples. And joining me

00:01:09.900 is True North producer and journalist Harrison Faulkner. Harrison, thank you so much for joining us today.

00:01:14.740 Thanks for having me, Candice. And after watching this convoy roll through Canada and grow and unify

00:01:20.920 the country and reading some of these horrible, horrible takes by the legacy media. I've been

00:01:25.620 looking forward to this show all week, so let's get into it. Yeah, absolutely. And again, it's just

00:01:30.580 such a contrast because anyone paying attention knows that this convoy is positive. It's really

00:01:36.220 just filled with happiness and hope about the future of our country. And again, to juxtapose that

00:01:42.040 with some of these that we're going to go through is just laughable. So here we go, global news. This one

00:01:46.560 we saw coming from the first moment I heard about the freedom convoy. We saw this with United We

00:01:50.780 Roll Harrison, where, you know, anytime you have sort of working class people, you look, the honest 0.99

00:01:56.840 thing that happens is people go online, and sometimes they write stupid things, they blow off steam, 0.99

00:02:00.920 they write negative things. And what the media does is they'll try to find like one example of that, 0.99

00:02:05.040 and then paint the entire movement in a negative light. And so we see this here, this global news story,

00:02:09.920 far right groups hope that the trucker protests will become Canada's January 6. So according to the

00:02:15.600 very professional journalists over at Global News, Canadian far right and white nationalist groups

00:02:21.580 see the so called freedom convoy as an opportunity, with some hoping the protests will become Canada's

00:02:26.820 version of last year's January 6. Just my quick take here, Harrison, is that January 6 was a disaster

00:02:32.080 for everyone. I don't think that there's a single person who thinks that it was good. Okay,

00:02:35.640 the very, very small fringe number of lunatics who, you know, promoted it and had some weird idea that

00:02:41.420 they were somehow going to stop Joe Biden from becoming president. Those people were 0.67

00:02:44.980 delusional. And they failed, right? They failed at anything that they tried. They didn't stop

00:02:49.440 anything. Instead, they became sort of a laughingstock of the country and a punching bag that

00:02:54.560 the media and the Democrats and the left could use to try to paint the entire conservative movement

00:02:59.060 as French. So it was a failure for the few French people who did it. It was a major failure for 0.85

00:03:04.660 conservatives because it was embarrassing and it was just stupid. And for the media and the country, 1.00

00:03:10.080 I mean, it gives them this opportunity. But I can't imagine anyone in the world saying,

00:03:13.800 wow, January 6, how inspiring. Let's try to do that in Canada. And then the examples that they use in

00:03:19.560 this piece are so far flung. It's like they don't really name any. Okay, I'll just say first off,

00:03:25.120 I don't know that there's a big movement in Canada of the far right and the white nationalists. I don't

00:03:29.620 know any. I've never met any. I think maybe there's a couple guys online, but I don't know them.

00:03:34.740 And if they exist, obviously nobody likes that. Nobody supports that. Nobody wants anything to

00:03:40.240 do with that, especially on the conservative right side of the political spectrum. They don't really

00:03:44.600 exist, but the media love to fixate on them and pretend that they're this big deal. So right off

00:03:48.760 the top, it says Canadian far right and white nationalist groups, plural, as if there's just

00:03:53.120 like this whole ecosystem of far right white nationalist groups. And then, of course, the story

00:04:00.360 fails to name any of these groups. They just have a bunch of anonymous quotes online of just people,

00:04:04.380 again, kind of like sitting behind their computer, writing stupid things anonymously because they're 0.98

00:04:09.780 not tied to anything. So we have no evidence in this piece. It's just really just a huge drive-by 0.99

00:04:14.540 smear to try to intimidate people to stay away from the freedom convoy, to not think this is a

00:04:21.560 righteous movement and basically just to scare people away from it. What's your thoughts, Harrison?

00:04:25.860 Well, I mean, as you said, Candice, we could see this coming from miles away that the legacy media

00:04:30.180 were going to roll out these articles and try and paint this protest, this great, peaceful,

00:04:35.640 unifying protest as something that it isn't. You know, at the beginning of the article,

00:04:40.340 one thing that jumped out to me was that the writers described the protest as hundreds of

00:04:45.200 truckers. Now, I think the, uh, the journalists at global news should look at some of the footage

00:04:49.460 and break out the abacus and go back to counting because I think they'd quickly realize this is not

00:04:54.640 hundreds. This is thousands and it's going to be, it's going to be huge. It keeps growing. And on

00:04:59.620 Saturday, they're going to realize that, uh, their number was quite well off now.

00:05:04.760 Well, well, just, just, just to jump in on that, Harrison, I read that, that the convoy was 70

00:05:09.500 kilometers at one point that it, that it potentially set a Guinness book of world record, right? So we're

00:05:15.240 talking about thousands, if not tens of thousands, if not, you know, 50,000, uh, trucks. And, and of course,

00:05:21.820 it's such a good point that you make the media try to just say, Oh, a couple hundred, not, not a big

00:05:26.000 deal. Yeah. Like it's just some sort of small group of, uh, a group of rogue truckers on their

00:05:30.940 way to Ottawa for, for a weekend. I don't, I don't think so. Uh, and you know, as you said,

00:05:35.760 Candace, this article quotes anonymous and unattributed statements from supporters of the

00:05:41.520 convoy, labeling them only as users and supporters on social media, never giving us a name, never giving

00:05:47.140 us an actual quote or a source or a hyperlink. They're just unattributed statements. And here's

00:05:53.220 another thing that I really just, I really can't fathom about this article. They, they only quote

00:05:59.800 the organizers of the rally, the organizers who distance themselves, of course, from the most

00:06:04.620 radical statements made about this ones that are apparently unattributed and unsourced. They only

00:06:10.500 quote the organizers 14 paragraphs into the story, knowing full well, the majority of readers will

00:06:16.340 never get that far into the article. And all they will come away from thinking of all they will

00:06:20.760 come away from the article is, is thinking that this, this protest is some sort of January 6th,

00:06:25.460 Ottawa edition. Now, if this isn't carrying water for the liberal government, I don't know what is

00:06:29.500 Candace. Well, that's, that's what they do best Harrison. And I just want to point, look, I think

00:06:34.100 it's really stupid to go online and write things like no one should ever go online anonymously and 0.96

00:06:39.320 incite violence or say anything about violence that's wrong. And we have a problem in our country with 0.99

00:06:43.880 the discourse right now. There's a lot of anger out there. I've seen it compounding over the course

00:06:48.280 of the pandemic where people are getting angrier and angrier. I, I, I mentioned this before, but

00:06:52.980 I deleted all of my social media apps off my phone. I did it over Christmas. Some of them I brought back

00:06:57.240 because I'm trying to get back in the swing of things, but I, I personally don't even like social

00:07:01.480 media anymore because it's just such a negative, hostile space. And, and you, you kind of don't really

00:07:06.200 gain as much as you used to. I used to think it was fun to go on there. The problem with

00:07:10.280 really nasty rhetoric though, is not exclusively a problem of the right. In fact, you could see it

00:07:15.960 just the same on both sides. And so there was a great piece over at TNC, our colleague,

00:07:20.780 Cosman Georgia, who went into the, they created this anti, uh, this anti trucker convoy hashtag

00:07:27.960 called the flu trucks clan. I guess I play on the KKK. I, I told you, I thought it was amusing 0.99

00:07:34.460 because they call it the flu. And usually people on the left get mad if you equate COVID to the flu,

00:07:39.040 but I digress. So anyway, Cosman went through this hashtag, found how many bots were pushing out

00:07:44.980 things, how many retweets there were, but he also noted the really despicable language that Canadians 1.00

00:07:51.220 are using against each other. And so, you know, there, there, there was, there was threats of

00:07:56.400 violence from the left coming towards the truckers. There were words like Vernum, plague, rats, dirty, 0.72

00:08:02.880 white trash. You know, these are the kind of dehumanizing, abhorrent statements that we weren't 1.00

00:08:07.720 against when we saw them in history, when we saw them in used by totalitarian governments of the

00:08:12.880 20th century. And so we see them here on the left and yet funny, funny Harrison, how the media pays

00:08:18.600 no attention to the fringe left. They pay no attention to the angry, violent rhetoric online

00:08:23.860 coming from the left. Instead, they focus all of their attention on one or two crazy comments that

00:08:29.020 they found online and try to use it to attribute and discredit an entire movement. I don't think it's

00:08:34.580 working. I think it's failing. I think Canadians are seeing through it, but still just so pathetic 1.00

00:08:39.200 and so transparent to see them put it out there like this. Yeah. And what more can you say? The 0.99

00:08:44.080 prime minister on Wednesday said that these truckers were a small fringe minority and they hold

00:08:49.400 unacceptable views. So the rhetoric coming from the radical left is being, is being emphasized by the

00:08:56.360 leader of the country. So until such time as these legacy media, uh, journalists call it out,

00:09:03.400 then all we know is that this is a one, this is a one way street. Those on the right, those who are

00:09:08.600 a part of a unifying, peaceful protest are going to always be demonized. And as you said, Candace,

00:09:14.460 the rhetoric on both sides is, is really concerning, but it needs to be called out just as much as the

00:09:21.040 rhetoric on the left needs to be called out just as much as it's called it on the right.

00:09:24.380 Well, and that's so true. And a great MP Pierre Polyev made this point walking into the house

00:09:30.300 of commons. Of course, one of these journalists is parroting the same thing. Oh, aren't you worried

00:09:34.060 about the, the extreme rhetoric? And he, he basically just put, put this journalist in their

00:09:37.620 place saying, Hey, how come you are never digging up this rhetoric coming from left-wing people and

00:09:42.460 trying to use it to smear the whole side? Oh, right. Because that's not what we do in Canada.

00:09:45.880 You know, don't try to take some fringe comment and apply it to the whole group. Well, good,

00:09:50.260 good for Pierre for saying that there are so many examples this week, Harrison, of these kinds of

00:09:54.980 stories. We just saw them over and over and over again. The media are pumping these out as if they're

00:09:58.900 being paid to do it. Oh, maybe they are. Uh, here's CTV saying so many angry people, experts say online

00:10:06.020 conversation around trucker convoy veering into dangerous territory. So I don't know how this is a

00:10:11.820 news story. It's basically an op-ed, um, where they found some experts who share their exact same

00:10:16.500 opinions to basically just say the same thing. This is dangerous. They're in dangerous

00:10:20.220 territory. These people are extreme. These people are fringe. And you know, this is why we shouldn't

00:10:25.100 take this movement seriously. What, what did you think of this piece here, Harrison? Well, CTV has

00:10:29.400 fallen so far. It's, it's kind of sad to watch really. Since when are journalists from these

00:10:34.920 radical left-wing outlets like anti-racist Canada and anti-hate Canada considered experts at anything?

00:10:41.580 You know, at least sometimes the CBC or Globe and Mail will actually quote a national security expert

00:10:46.240 or a professor, but I guess now we're just going to take the, the opinion of a, of a writer,

00:10:51.740 a no-name writer at that from anti-racist Canada to give us their opinion on, on this trucker convoy.

00:10:57.700 You know, this is below scraping the bottom of the barrel. This is activist journalism

00:11:01.580 with malicious intent to demonize and destroy what is a truly unifying movement. So this is just

00:11:08.240 obviously designed to scare people away from the convoy, to make people stay home and avoid

00:11:13.620 criticizing the government. You know, as Western countries and our allies are dropping

00:11:17.420 their COVID restrictions, Canada seems to be ramping up the rhetoric, tightening the restrictions.

00:11:23.660 And obviously the press is just doing the dirty work for them. And it's just, it's disappointing

00:11:27.900 to see. And you'd like to see more from some of these, some of these outlets like CTV, but I guess

00:11:33.040 that's what we should come to expect. Yeah, you're so right. Sometimes people counter like any criticism

00:11:38.000 of the CBC saying, Oh, we, you know, we have one public and one private kind of suggesting that

00:11:42.620 maybe the private sector one is like more reasonable or, you know, more because they have like a money

00:11:47.540 incentive, they're going to deliver something that's more palatable to Canadians. Then you see stuff like

00:11:51.660 this and it's like what the anti-hate network is a fringe like website, basically like no one reads

00:11:57.820 it. No one pays attention to it. They sit in their basements, you know, dreaming up like fever dreams

00:12:03.480 about the conservatives trying to paint them as extremists. No one even pays attention to them.

00:12:07.780 And yet somehow they're given credibility in this story. Now, this is the worst one that I've seen

00:12:12.420 Harrison because it's just so insulting and so beyond the pale. This is from Parliament Today,

00:12:17.180 which you probably never heard of. It's basically a newsletter, but it's one of those things that's

00:12:20.780 done by a journalist and read by journalists. And it really promotes a sort of insular group think

00:12:26.760 that we see in the legacy media. So this is, this is what the report said, potentially a big

00:12:31.520 problem for anyone who's donated. Okay. So this outlet has a quote of the day. The quote of the

00:12:35.940 day comes from a national security expert. You probably never heard of someone called Jessica

00:12:40.420 Davis, who warns that anyone who has donated to the GoFundMe page, the GoFundMe campaign,

00:12:45.400 I think it's raised almost $5 million at this point. Tens of thousands of people have reached

00:12:49.180 into their pockets. God bless them and given it to these truckers just to make it a little easier

00:12:53.600 for the truckers, allowing them to pay for their fuel, pay for their windshield wiper fluid,

00:12:58.940 pay for them to have some food and a comfortable place to stay along the way. And, and what this

00:13:03.940 so-called national security expert is saying that if you have donated, you should be careful

00:13:09.880 because it could go against the criminal code for funding terrorism. Yes, terrorism. They are

00:13:16.120 equating blue collar workers who are protesting peacefully against government overreach by exercising

00:13:23.120 their God given rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association,

00:13:27.740 and freedom to peacefully protest. And they are saying that they are terrorists. This is,

00:13:33.000 this is so beyond the pale. So absurd. It's like we are living in a bizarro world. This is such a farce.

00:13:38.340 And yet with a straight face here, she says that you may be found guilty under the criminal code

00:13:43.420 as directly or indirectly providing financial services intended for those who are carrying out

00:13:48.800 a terrorist activity or to benefit such a group. What an absolute insult. We've gone so far as a country

00:13:54.700 where we have these college educated elites, these government bureaucrats sitting at home,

00:13:59.540 working from home in their pajamas, comfortably making a living, not struggling at all, and sitting

00:14:04.420 there calling the frontline workers, the people who are so essential to our supply chain, the people who

00:14:09.580 are delivering, who are putting their own lives at risk, going on icy freeways, going out there in the

00:14:14.980 midst of a pandemic, putting everything at risk to make sure that everybody gets their food,

00:14:19.700 that we get their supplies to make sure our society runs as it should and our economy keeps moving. 0.67

00:14:24.540 And here, these elitist losers are sitting there looking down their nose and calling blue-collar 0.85

00:14:29.700 workers terrorists. This is one of the absolute worst things I've ever seen in my entire life 0.99

00:14:33.180 watching Canadian politics, Harrison.

00:14:35.060 Yeah. I mean, if you ever needed an example of what sheer panic looks like from the establishment,

00:14:39.560 this is what it is. Vocal support is one thing. But when the grassroots put their money where

00:14:45.640 their mouth is and they get behind something financially, and it's been so successful,

00:14:49.720 I just checked, Candace, that GoFundMe has over $6 million donated. So this is clearly posing a

00:14:56.840 serious threat to the establishment here, and they're trying to pull out all the stops they can

00:15:00.460 to get people to stop donating money. We could spend hours talking about how dangerous this rhetoric

00:15:05.460 is, about how really unbelievable it is for journalists and experts to say these sorts of

00:15:12.240 things. But all you can really do is laugh because the movement is far beyond just one national security

00:15:17.620 expert criticizing it. They can't stop this. People are fully behind it, and they're unified behind it.

00:15:23.600 Now, I would love to know where these experts were when we had protesters blockading our railways and

00:15:31.380 blocking critical infrastructure because of pipeline protests. Did anyone call out the fact that those

00:15:37.340 who funded those protests could be also found guilty under the criminal code for financing domestic

00:15:42.800 terrorism? Like I said before, it's a one-way street for those on the right. And the legacy media

00:15:47.960 is just so focused on doing their best to get Canadians to stop donating. Here's a message to

00:15:54.680 Canadians. Stay the course and see through these blatant attempts to slow you down because everyone

00:16:00.460 here who's a part of this protest is making a difference. This story has made it across around the world,

00:16:06.340 and it's really, as I say, it's unified the country together on a very positive note. And I just think,

00:16:12.840 as you said, this is just disgusting, and it's totally, totally dangerous.

00:16:16.980 Well, and you're so right about the gaslighting element, Harrison, because we have, they're basically

00:16:22.220 preemptively spinning for violence. They're trying to say, this will probably be violent, this is going

00:16:27.160 to be violent. And something that's completely peaceful, completely justified, completely harmonious,

00:16:33.540 and like you say, unifying the country. They're trying to paint that as something nefarious.

00:16:38.180 Meanwhile, what have we seen over the last two years? We've seen looting and rioting at Black

00:16:42.720 Lives Matter protests. And what do the media say? They say, no, this is peaceful. This is nothing

00:16:46.800 to see here. These fiery protests are mostly peaceful, right? We saw the Cancel Canada Day movement,

00:16:52.920 where they were violently destroying public property, including the property that belongs to all of

00:16:58.240 us, like Queen Victoria statues, Queen Elizabeth statues, John A. McDonald statues. They're

00:17:02.720 destroying our country's infrastructure and the democratic symbols that we have. Nothing to see

00:17:07.880 here, hardly any coverage. Instead, we have people like Gerald Butts saying that it's justified. It

00:17:12.440 is justified to burn down churches and sacred places of worship. So we see legitimate violence on

00:17:17.300 the left, Harrison, and the media hand wave and say nothing to see here, say it's legitimate and say

00:17:22.140 it's fine. And then on the counter, we have peaceful people doing something amazing. And the media is

00:17:28.000 doing the exact opposite. This is gaslighting to the extreme. And I think that the good news about

00:17:32.020 all of this, and maybe we can end this show on a bit of a good news note, Harrison, is that Canadians

00:17:36.060 are seeing through this. The legacy media is not having the impact that they want. They're not

00:17:39.920 successfully scaring people away from this movement. The movement is growing. People can see for

00:17:44.280 themselves. They can see on social media. They don't need to go through the intermediaries in the

00:17:48.280 legacy media. The legacy media has lost its power. Justin Trudeau has lost his power because he can sit

00:17:52.740 there and say that these people are unjustified, but it's not true. We all know that. We all know

00:17:57.960 that the vaccine mandates are unjustified because vaccines do not stop the spread of COVID. And that

00:18:02.800 was the original point. We all know that's true at this point. So Justin Trudeau has lost his

00:18:06.920 credibility. The legacy media have lost their credibility. They are irrelevant at this point.

00:18:11.220 And instead, we see these truckers, these hardworking men and women who, again, sacrifice

00:18:18.120 themselves and do so much for our country. They are the moral leaders of our country right now. They're

00:18:22.780 the people who everyone is uniting behind, raising, like you said, over $6 million. It's so

00:18:27.560 incredible. And it's just so great to see. And that is why True North is going to continue to do

00:18:32.400 wall-to-wall coverage all weekend. Don't miss it, folks. Tune in, tnc.news. Follow us on social

00:18:36.980 media. We will be here every step of the way. And we're just so happy, so proud to see Canadians

00:18:41.620 finally doing what we should have done two years ago. It's so inspiring to see. And I couldn't be

00:18:46.580 happier. So Harrison, thank you so much for joining the show and helping us make sense to this crazy,

00:18:50.720 crazy world. Of course. And to the truckers, keep on rolling. And to Canadians showing their

00:18:55.480 support, make sure you show your support peacefully and bring out the crowds. Because as you said,

00:19:02.060 Candice, this is really a great news story and a great thing for us to see.

00:19:06.900 Absolutely. All right. Thank you so much. This is Harrison Faulkner. It's Fake News Friday. I'm

00:19:10.420 Candice Moncombe, and this is The Candice Moncombe Show.

00:19:17.000 Thank you.

The Candice Malcolm Show - January 28, 2022

The legacy media desperately wants the trucker convoy to be Canada’s January 6th

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