The Candice Malcolm Show - September 19, 2021


The legacy media regurgitates Liberal talking points again and again


Episode Stats

Length

17 minutes

Words per Minute

202.9531

Word Count

3,505

Sentence Count

229

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

The legacy media is regurgitating liberal talking points again and again, and again. In fact, all of the examples on the show today are exactly that. I talked about this phenomenon on my show earlier this week. I covered in depth the CBC town hall events. They did one with Erin O'Toole, and the next night was with Justin Trudeau. And when it was Justin Trudeau's turn in the hot seat, well, he was not asked any tough questions whatsoever. It was the same sort of idea, more liberal, pro-liberal spin.


Transcript

00:00:00.080 The legacy media is regurgitating liberal talking points again and again and again.
00:00:05.340 It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:13.040 Everyone, thank you so much for tuning in.
00:00:15.020 It's the last week of the campaign and the last Friday campaign, so we will do Fake News Friday as we usually do.
00:00:20.800 We go through the most egregious examples of the legacy media here in Canada,
00:00:24.940 completely misleading people, presenting their opinion or liberal talking points, partisan spin, as if that is fact.
00:00:32.480 And we see this over and over and over again in the media.
00:00:35.260 In fact, all of the examples on the show today are exactly that.
00:00:38.400 I talked about this phenomenon on my show earlier this week.
00:00:41.040 I covered in depth the CBC town hall events.
00:00:44.240 They did one with Erin O'Toole. The next night was with Justin Trudeau.
00:00:47.260 They also did them with the other party leaders, but I didn't follow those as closely.
00:00:50.620 But what we saw from the CBC and what we saw from host Rosemary Barton was the way that she presented the ideas,
00:00:56.440 the way that she framed the debate and the line of questioning that she was asking Erin O'Toole when he was in the hot seat
00:01:02.700 was exactly based on liberal spin.
00:01:05.160 It wasn't based on the facts. It wasn't based on the truth.
00:01:07.440 It was based on how the liberals have framed this issue to create a wedge issue to try to trap conservatives.
00:01:14.100 And we saw that over and over and over again.
00:01:15.660 Why else would Rosemary Barton be talking about issues that are just not important at all in this election?
00:01:22.000 She was grilling Erin O'Toole on guns, even though gun violence isn't really an issue in Canada,
00:01:27.400 specifically not the guns that were banned by Trudeau.
00:01:30.880 There is a problem with gun violence in this country.
00:01:33.060 We don't address it because the problem stems from gangs.
00:01:36.240 Most of the guns used are illegal and they're smuggled in from the United States.
00:01:39.440 This liberal gun ban doesn't really address that at all.
00:01:41.840 But again, because it's a liberal wedge issue designed to make Erin O'Toole look like he's, what, a gun-toting hick,
00:01:49.000 the CBC jumps right in line and hammers Erin O'Toole over that using liberal spin.
00:01:54.800 Same thing with conversion therapy, the bill that was really, really taken out of context.
00:01:59.660 And again, you just saw this dominating debate.
00:02:02.380 Instead of talking about the economic recovery, instead of talking about jobs and the economy,
00:02:05.500 instead of talking about debt and government spending, the CBC instead focused on a handful of really niche issues
00:02:12.660 that the liberals have used as a weapon.
00:02:15.260 And then when it was Justin Trudeau's turn in the hot seat, well, he wasn't asked any kind of tough question whatsoever.
00:02:20.300 It was the same sort of idea, more liberal, pro-liberal spin in the talking points, really designed to prop him up.
00:02:27.220 And it's no wonder because, once again, Justin Trudeau is pledging billions of dollars, over a billion dollars every single year to the CBC.
00:02:35.180 And so it's no wonder they have such a chummy relationship.
00:02:37.680 But it isn't just the CBC, and I'm going to point this out today.
00:02:40.220 So the first story I'm going to talk about is over on CTV.
00:02:43.040 This story made a lot of hay on social media this week.
00:02:45.400 The headline says,
00:02:46.400 Liberals would make it a criminal offense to block health care buildings and threaten workers.
00:02:50.340 So this is obviously in response to a lot of those protests that we saw over the course of the entire campaign.
00:02:55.720 Lots of people rallying in the big cities.
00:02:58.120 We saw a huge rally the other weekend in Montreal, another one in Toronto.
00:03:01.740 And there have also been rallies that followed the liberal campaign and Justin Trudeau, basically just to boo and heckle him.
00:03:07.260 And we've seen these smaller protests outside of hospitals.
00:03:10.960 People really just protesting for a variety of reasons.
00:03:13.980 They might be protesting against the vaccine.
00:03:15.960 They might be protesting against vaccine passports.
00:03:18.100 They might be protesting against lockdowns.
00:03:20.000 People who are basically just fed up with the lockdowns and the pandemic
00:03:24.600 and all the things we've been having to deal with the expansive growth of government over the last 18 months or so.
00:03:30.400 So people are protesting for their own reasons.
00:03:32.500 We've seen these protesters basically get scapegoated throughout the entire campaign,
00:03:36.900 really being demonized, especially by liberal leader Justin Trudeau, but also in the media.
00:03:41.120 So this is sort of the media's favorite topic right now.
00:03:44.700 It gives them the ability to condemn what they perceive as being far-right protesters
00:03:48.640 and to sort of celebrate the liberals for, what, condemning them and coming down on them.
00:03:53.860 And the only problem with the liberals' announcement here is that this is literally already the case.
00:03:58.560 This is literally already the case.
00:03:59.740 This isn't a new law that the liberals are proposing.
00:04:01.960 This is a law that is already on the books.
00:04:03.840 You cannot block critical infrastructure.
00:04:05.760 You cannot block healthcare workers from getting into their place of work.
00:04:09.480 And so we saw some people point that out.
00:04:11.740 Here's Andrew McDougall, a columnist over at the Ottawa Citizen.
00:04:14.980 He writes, when you announce something that already exists and duped the dot-com team
00:04:18.460 into giving you a straight-up headline, that is embarrassing.
00:04:21.460 And then we have a conservative candidate and MP, Garnett Jenis, who tweets this.
00:04:26.240 He says, this is from page 33 of the conservative platform.
00:04:28.920 Trudeau, a bit late on the issue of blocking critical infrastructure.
00:04:32.180 I know it feels like a long time ago now,
00:04:33.920 but back in 2020, before the pandemic really hit and before it became what it was,
00:04:39.840 we saw a group of fringe, far-left protesters basically hijack the issue of First Nations,
00:04:45.320 pretend that they speak for First Nations and that they oppose any kind of natural resource
00:04:49.080 development or pipelines going across their lands,
00:04:52.600 and basically just absolutely recklessly endangering people's lives by blocking freeways,
00:04:58.600 blocking railways.
00:04:59.560 They entirely shut down the nation's railway system for weeks, for weeks.
00:05:04.420 They prevented people from their livelihood.
00:05:06.760 They stopped people from being able to do their jobs.
00:05:08.600 We saw some crazy footage of people throwing things onto railway tracks
00:05:12.520 when there were trains coming, incredibly dangerous stuff.
00:05:15.580 And when that all happened, when that all happened, Trudeau was basically silent.
00:05:19.560 He didn't do anything to stop the blockades.
00:05:20.960 He didn't arrest anyone.
00:05:21.960 He didn't come out strongly and say enough is enough.
00:05:24.420 He basically just sat back and let it happen and watched it all happen.
00:05:28.080 And so it is a little bit rich now.
00:05:30.540 All of a sudden, when the protesters are protesting something that he doesn't like,
00:05:33.780 he is coming down hard and introducing a law that already exists.
00:05:37.920 Shame on CTV for even publishing this nonsense.
00:05:40.800 Again, this is liberal spin that is being presented as if it is real news.
00:05:45.060 It is not news.
00:05:45.740 It is not news to, with a couple days left in the campaign,
00:05:48.580 introduce a new law that is already a law.
00:05:50.940 That's not a thing.
00:05:52.200 And the fact that they didn't even point out how hypocritical it is for Trudeau to be doing this
00:05:56.100 when he sat silent when those other protests were happening is a joke.
00:05:59.680 It's why, even though CTV is private,
00:06:02.040 even though they don't get as much money as CDBC or other media outlets,
00:06:05.420 they are still in the can and completely untrustworthy.
00:06:09.320 All right, moving on.
00:06:10.140 I want to talk about this next story in the Toronto Star.
00:06:12.940 And now I know I could literally go through the Toronto Star every single morning,
00:06:16.400 flip through the entire paper,
00:06:17.720 and explain how each and every story is fake news.
00:06:20.440 But this one is particularly bad.
00:06:21.980 It basically repeats every false left-wing claim about immigration
00:06:26.480 and presents it as fact.
00:06:28.320 And that is the problem.
00:06:29.280 So here's a headline.
00:06:30.080 It says,
00:06:30.840 Aaron O'Toole recycles a sheer era false claim.
00:06:33.960 No, thousands of asylum seekers haven't crossed illegally at Roxham Road.
00:06:37.900 Well, actually, it is a fact that, yes, they have crossed illegally at Roxham Road.
00:06:41.600 I know this because in 2008, I reported from the ground at Roxham Road.
00:06:45.860 I went and traveled there.
00:06:46.820 It's about an hour and a half south of Montreal, right at the New York-Quebec border.
00:06:51.140 There is a big sign right at the border crossing that says it is illegal.
00:06:55.100 It says, stop, it is illegal to cross at this border.
00:06:58.180 Stop, it is illegal to cross this border.
00:07:00.040 That's because according to Canadian law,
00:07:02.000 you cannot enter into Canada other than at a port of entry.
00:07:05.340 So you can only cross into the country at a port of entry.
00:07:08.560 The entire purpose of Roxham Road is because it was an easy place
00:07:12.020 for people to get from the United States to get into Canada illegally.
00:07:15.960 So crossing that border in between points of entry is illegal.
00:07:19.320 It is illegal to cross the border and it is correct to say that the people who do this
00:07:23.460 were illegal border crossers.
00:07:25.200 This was a huge issue when Trump was president of the United States.
00:07:27.940 The media loved to emphasize and to really highlight the fact
00:07:31.340 that all these people were leaving the United States and trying to get into Canada.
00:07:34.820 They were taking advantage of Canada's generosity, okay?
00:07:37.160 Canada is signatory to a number of immigration laws and treaties, international treaties.
00:07:41.680 Many of them do protect the rights of asylum seekers.
00:07:45.280 So a person does have the right to come into Canada, basically throw their hands up in the air,
00:07:49.500 say, I'm a refugee.
00:07:50.760 And then at that point, they become protected under Canadian law.
00:07:53.800 They get access to a bunch of entitlements and rights, just like a Canadian citizen.
00:07:59.360 And one of them is a fair trial in front of a judge where they get to present their case.
00:08:03.180 And the judge determines whether or not their asylum case is legitimate and whether they can stay and
00:08:08.660 become a refugee or whether it's bogus and they get rejected and they get deported back to their home.
00:08:14.080 So that part is protected.
00:08:16.960 Once they come to Canada and do that, then they're no longer illegal.
00:08:20.420 Usually when we're talking about immigration, a person is an illegal immigrant if they're not
00:08:25.520 registered to the system.
00:08:26.640 So if they're just in Canada, they haven't registered anywhere, they just kind of come in the country and
00:08:30.740 go dark, or alternatively, if they are, if they overstay their visa.
00:08:35.080 So if they get rejected by a refugee judge, or if they're just here as a visitor and decide not to
00:08:39.520 leave, if there's a pending deportation order out against them, then that person would also be
00:08:43.720 considered an illegal immigrant.
00:08:45.440 So I agree in theory that if you are an asylum seeker who comes in, you're not an illegal immigrant,
00:08:50.000 but you have crossed the border illegally.
00:08:53.020 And so that's what we're talking about here.
00:08:55.020 And it is just flat out wrong to say that people have the right to do that.
00:08:58.520 And then it's not unlawful.
00:08:59.900 It is illegal.
00:09:00.720 Like I said, there's a big sign that says stop is illegal to cross here.
00:09:03.040 And also the reason that they're doing it.
00:09:04.400 So Canada is part of a treaty with the United States called the Safe Third Country Agreement.
00:09:08.500 There's a lot of countries around the world that accept refugees.
00:09:11.180 And basically the assumption for everyone is, look, you can come, you can come to Canada
00:09:16.040 and try to get refuge here.
00:09:17.700 But the idea is if you're truly fleeing persecution, if you're fleeing danger, you will present your
00:09:23.140 refugee case at the very first safe country that you get in.
00:09:26.060 So say you're fleeing, I don't know, some Arab country in the Middle East and you get on a boat
00:09:33.700 and you take that boat and you land on an island in Greece, right?
00:09:37.300 So you can't just say, okay, well, Greece doesn't really offer a lot of welfare benefits.
00:09:42.100 So I'm not going to make my asylum come here.
00:09:44.100 I'm going to get back on a boat and try to make it to France because I know that France has a better package.
00:09:48.600 You can't do that.
00:09:49.600 And so Canada and the U.S. have this agreement called the Safe Third Country Agreement saying,
00:09:53.460 if you land in the United States, you have to make your application there for refugee status.
00:09:56.960 If you land in Canada, you have to make your application there.
00:09:58.880 There are a few exceptions, say, if you have family members in one of the other countries
00:10:02.560 or you might have a reason that you would be better suited to go there.
00:10:05.980 But by and large, it is illegal.
00:10:07.780 So all this is just to say, it's illegal.
00:10:10.620 Of course it's illegal.
00:10:11.540 It's illegal to cross a border.
00:10:12.940 It's illegal to shop around and choose which country you make your asylum claim in.
00:10:17.240 But what this story is really saying is the opposite of that, that everything is just fine and dandy
00:10:23.220 and that this is just an example of mean old Aaron O'Toole who is unnecessarily scapegoating refugees,
00:10:29.920 just like mean old Andrew Scheer did in 2019.
00:10:32.840 And that's basically just what they say.
00:10:34.060 They find an activist lawyer to say it is not illegal to cross the Canada-U.S. border
00:10:38.500 for the purpose of seeking refugee protection.
00:10:40.900 It is illegal if you cross in between crossings.
00:10:43.540 If you showed up at a border crossing and tried to present refugee status,
00:10:46.840 then that wouldn't be illegal, but they would turn you away.
00:10:49.080 They would say, no, you can't do this.
00:10:50.540 So the reason that people are going in between the border crossings
00:10:53.140 is literally because a loophole has presented itself.
00:10:56.000 And that is what Aaron O'Toole wants to get rid of.
00:10:58.700 Now, interestingly, when the Conservatives and Aaron O'Toole released their platform,
00:11:02.280 this was included.
00:11:03.420 And I think True North might have been the only outlet that covered it,
00:11:06.060 that the Conservatives specifically talked about cracking down on this loophole,
00:11:11.620 closing the loophole, stopping the illegal immigration,
00:11:14.080 and protecting the integrity of our immigration system.
00:11:16.940 Not many people picked up on it.
00:11:18.320 True North did cover it.
00:11:19.160 I think it was a good policy, and I'm happy to see it in there.
00:11:21.460 And I was a little surprised that the media didn't catch up on it.
00:11:24.000 And here it is, what, two weeks later,
00:11:26.100 the Toronto Star has done this ridiculous hit piece,
00:11:29.020 literally saying the opposite of what's true.
00:11:31.460 They found another immigration activist to say,
00:11:33.440 it's perfectly lawful.
00:11:35.400 Well, it is.
00:11:36.380 And this is also something I found interesting.
00:11:38.480 So you can see that they posted this sign,
00:11:40.440 a picture of this sign.
00:11:41.460 It says, notice, claiming refugee status in Canada.
00:11:44.060 And then it just basically lets people know that,
00:11:46.180 look, this isn't a free ride.
00:11:47.280 You still have to go through a legal process,
00:11:48.780 and it's possible you'll get rejected.
00:11:50.880 And that, you know, it literally says here,
00:11:53.680 claiming asylum is not a free ticket into Canada.
00:11:56.100 Not everyone is eligible for asylum.
00:11:58.200 So anyway, I've been to this location.
00:12:00.400 There's that sign right there.
00:12:01.800 And literally right next to that sign,
00:12:03.560 this is how dishonest the star is.
00:12:05.100 They show this sign.
00:12:06.380 Literally right next to that sign is a sign saying,
00:12:08.900 stop, it is illegal to cross here.
00:12:10.600 But they don't show the full picture of the two signs.
00:12:12.900 They just show the one sign kind of detailing
00:12:14.840 what it's like to claim refugee status.
00:12:18.540 Again, unbelievable, completely fake news.
00:12:21.260 And I really don't expect anything better
00:12:22.980 than the Toronto Star, but had to point that out.
00:12:25.500 All right, moving on.
00:12:26.200 Next, we have a story in the CBC.
00:12:28.300 The headline reads,
00:12:29.500 between violence and vandalisms,
00:12:30.900 the parties are experiencing a very ugly campaign.
00:12:34.180 And they found a group called
00:12:35.120 the Canadian Anti-Hate Network
00:12:37.280 to say that this is the worst campaign
00:12:39.320 in recent memory for far-right activism.
00:12:42.240 So basically, just this story
00:12:43.560 is that we're seeing a lot of vandalism,
00:12:46.200 a lot of protesters,
00:12:47.740 a lot of profanity on the campaign trail this time around.
00:12:50.560 And of course, they blame it all on,
00:12:52.200 you guessed it, the far-right.
00:12:53.320 So this group, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network,
00:12:55.920 they're a government-funded organization.
00:12:57.800 Basically, the entire purpose of this network
00:12:59.680 is to demonize the right,
00:13:01.680 to make the right seem like
00:13:02.940 they're this really dangerous, shattery organization.
00:13:05.120 Every single time that they're quoted in a news piece
00:13:07.460 is exactly the same.
00:13:08.680 They're fear-mongering and trying to scare us.
00:13:10.600 They're trying to just broadly demonize the right,
00:13:12.920 very broadly, not very specific.
00:13:14.700 So look, of course, there are crazy people on the right,
00:13:16.740 just like there's crazy people on the left.
00:13:18.180 What this organization really focuses on
00:13:20.480 is making it seem like the right in Canada.
00:13:23.200 And that means the conservatives sort of by proxy,
00:13:25.760 but that that's the biggest threat to our country.
00:13:28.200 And so they sort of parade them out,
00:13:30.440 the CBC and other legacy media networks
00:13:33.080 kind of parade them out to repeat this schtick
00:13:35.960 time and time again.
00:13:36.960 So we're supposed to believe
00:13:37.620 this is the worst campaign in recent memory.
00:13:38.920 Maybe it is.
00:13:39.460 Look, I've been watching partisan politics for a long time.
00:13:41.760 We always see this kind of stuff.
00:13:42.900 It's kind of ugly.
00:13:43.640 But again, some people just really hate politicians.
00:13:46.480 They really hate the electoral system.
00:13:49.100 They might hate a specific party
00:13:50.340 or their specific candidate.
00:13:51.740 And this is how it manifests.
00:13:53.280 Of course, vandalism is wrong and it's illegal
00:13:55.840 and we should crack down on it.
00:13:56.920 I like how all of a sudden vandalism is a big problem
00:14:00.120 when it's targeting a liberal and yet all summer
00:14:02.940 when we saw vandalism of churches across the country
00:14:05.720 and statues, you know, we didn't see any kind of outreach.
00:14:09.300 We didn't see the Canadian anti-hate network
00:14:11.180 coming out and condemning it.
00:14:12.780 Of course not.
00:14:13.320 It's because it's a partisan group
00:14:15.100 who is really just designed to create fear
00:14:18.120 and hatred of the right.
00:14:19.660 And it is really disgusting and gross to see.
00:14:22.580 All right.
00:14:22.900 And final story I want to talk about here on Fake News Friday
00:14:25.500 is a op-ed that was published in the CBC.
00:14:28.340 This headline says,
00:14:30.800 As an Anishinaabe citizen,
00:14:32.500 I can't vote in good conscience in the federal election.
00:14:35.760 Casting a ballot in the federal election
00:14:37.720 erodes the sovereignty of First Nations.
00:14:41.020 So the entire idea here is what?
00:14:43.720 That Canada is this horrible colonialist state
00:14:46.420 and that even the very act of us having a government
00:14:50.260 and having an election undermines the rights
00:14:53.160 and freedoms of First Nations people.
00:14:55.260 This is just really chock full of all the leftist woke nonsense
00:14:59.200 that we've been hearing.
00:15:00.180 Canada is a colonialized system full of suppression
00:15:03.220 and oppression of First Nations
00:15:05.800 and really just over the top hatred of Canada
00:15:10.360 saying that everything about our society
00:15:12.640 is irredeemably broken
00:15:13.860 and therefore voting is just cementing that in.
00:15:16.860 Instead, First Nations people should not vote,
00:15:19.020 which is just really disheartening.
00:15:20.720 If you're a young person on a reserve
00:15:22.940 or in a First Nations community,
00:15:24.560 the message that you should hear
00:15:25.960 is encouraging you to get involved,
00:15:27.560 make positive change,
00:15:28.780 get out there,
00:15:29.720 speak for your community,
00:15:30.900 speak for yourself,
00:15:31.940 and participate.
00:15:33.420 And instead, this is the exact opposite message.
00:15:34.960 It's so sort of cemented in defeatism,
00:15:37.940 all the buzzwords that you would expect,
00:15:40.460 and the outcome is just sort of sad
00:15:43.360 because what?
00:15:44.260 You want a Marxist revolution
00:15:45.680 and you refuse to participate until then
00:15:48.180 that the only way to fix Canada
00:15:49.280 is to completely tear it apart to the ground
00:15:51.960 and build something new up.
00:15:52.880 Well, I've got news for you.
00:15:54.000 If you do that,
00:15:54.660 if you go ahead and do that,
00:15:55.600 the thing that will be built in Canada's place
00:15:57.660 will not be as good as Canada.
00:15:58.960 It will not be as fair and safe and secure
00:16:02.180 and free as Canada
00:16:03.160 because it is an ideological experiment in utopia
00:16:06.780 and those never work out.
00:16:08.220 That never works out.
00:16:09.520 So this message is just really disheartening
00:16:11.740 for the CBC to publish,
00:16:13.160 especially on the eve of the federal election campaign.
00:16:16.220 Shame on the CBC for encouraging people
00:16:18.720 not to vote and not to participate,
00:16:21.000 especially people who are part of communities
00:16:22.920 that really we would want more representation
00:16:24.860 and more involvement.
00:16:26.160 So again, just a really sad, pitiful message
00:16:29.540 for the CBC, typically amplifying,
00:16:31.760 but really do expect any better.
00:16:33.380 I do not.
00:16:34.420 All right, I'm going to leave it at that.
00:16:35.500 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:16:37.080 Have a great weekend
00:16:37.860 and we will be back for election coverage on Monday.
00:16:40.760 Thank you so much.
00:16:41.360 I'm Candice Malcolm
00:16:41.840 and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:16:46.220 Thank you so much for tuning in.