The Candice Malcolm Show - The media isn’t finished smearing Canada’s truckers

00:00:00.100 Bad takes on Ukraine, the legacy media continue to lie about the freedom convoy, and the anti-social yob guy thinks that conservatives are extreme.

00:00:08.480 It's Fake News Friday, I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:15.300 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning in.

00:00:17.860 So we haven't really had a chance to get into the situation in Ukraine yet on the show.

00:00:22.140 Maybe we'll do that next week.

00:00:23.820 It looks pretty scary over there.

00:00:25.320 The situation is pretty tense with Russia and Putin invading Ukraine.

00:00:29.020 Boots are on the ground, there's explosions, there's bombing, lots and lots of scary scenes, lots of refugees fleeing, lots of fighters getting ready to engage in a conventional warfare, which we haven't seen in quite some time.

00:00:39.820 Now, we're not going to focus in on the serious part of Ukraine.

00:00:42.720 We're going to focus in on what you kind of have come to expect, right?

00:00:46.240 So over the past few years during COVID, we have seen every single journalist in the world basically become an expert in public health, in epidemiology, and in COVID.

00:00:55.720 Well, today and this week, what we saw is a lot of those experts on public health take off their public health expert hat and put on their foreign affairs expert hat and give us their sort of worst takes on Ukraine.

00:01:10.980 And it is kind of amusing.

00:01:12.640 So joining me for Fake News Friday today is True North producer Harrison Faulkner.

00:01:16.840 Harrison's a journalist here at True North.

00:01:19.240 Harrison, first of all, welcome to the show.

00:01:21.300 Second of all, why don't you walk us through some of the worst tweets that we've seen so far on Ukraine? 0.95

00:01:24.820 Yeah, so just as you said, Candace, we've pulled some of these foreign policy expert tweets, and they are, as you expect, they are just absolutely ridiculous.

00:01:35.860 So yeah, we're going to go through a couple of them. 0.54

00:01:37.640 This first one comes from Cenk Uygur, who's notorious for his bad takes.

00:01:41.300 He's the head of the Young Turks, which is this left-wing progressive YouTube news channel.

00:01:48.480 And he basically says that the right-wing doesn't love Putin just because he's an authoritarian, tyrannical leader.

00:01:55.220 They love him because he's a white authoritarian leader.

00:01:58.420 Race has become more important than even nationality. 0.95

00:02:01.100 They've turned on democracy and now even America in favor of a white warlord. 0.91

00:02:05.800 So, of course, as you can see, Candace, they are already preparing for this to be a racial war and has nothing to do with Ukraine and Russia.

00:02:15.060 Really, it just comes down to skin color.

00:02:17.900 Well, it's so absurd, Harrison.

00:02:19.940 First of all, I follow a lot of Republicans, and most of them are condemning Putin pretty hard right now.

00:02:25.240 Second to Cenk Uygur's position here, does he realize that Ukrainians are also white?

00:02:31.220 The whole idea that people are rallying behind Putin because he's white sort of ignores the broader picture here,

00:02:36.080 that this is a European war where both sides happen to have the same skin color.

00:02:40.340 Anyway, I'll give it back to you.

00:02:41.640 Well, I mean, that's the nature of these tweets we've pulled, and you can just see exactly where this is going to be heading.

00:02:49.560 Janelle Forsythe, who is a comms specialist for nonprofits and progressive causes, she writes,

00:02:56.460 This isn't discussed much, but Putin very much benefits from white privilege.

00:03:01.600 I just can't see a scenario in which a black or brown man running Russia will be allowed to invade Ukraine with no devastating consequences. 1.00

00:03:09.500 White supremacy will destroy us. 0.99

00:03:11.080 So, one thing quickly. 0.99

00:03:12.260 I agree with Janelle Forsythe that I can't really see a black or brown man running Russia as well.

00:03:17.400 But also, if you were to look at Africa, for example, where warlords run those countries all the time,

00:03:23.700 there is constant fighting and taking over of countries there all the time. 0.57

00:03:28.440 It's a little ridiculous, and I think that, you know, this is, again, like I said,

00:03:33.520 this is just what should be expected from some of these progressives on Twitter. 0.75

00:03:37.940 Well, not just that, Harrison, but it's like people who don't follow foreign affairs,

00:03:41.160 people who have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to international relations.

00:03:43.720 They're not observers of international conflict.

00:03:45.980 But suddenly, when the news cycle switches to Ukraine, they're the expert, trust them,

00:03:50.900 and they're going to have some really insightful takes, as we can see here.

00:03:54.320 Well, and Candice, this next one is quite funny,

00:03:56.960 and it leads to the point about how these public health experts who are now engaging in foreign policy,

00:04:01.840 they haven't totally forgotten about public health.

00:04:03.740 So, this one is from Dana Houle, who is a U.S. leftist activist,

00:04:08.040 and she writes, a lot of people in Ukraine crowding together inside.

00:04:12.440 Only 35% of Ukrainians have been vaccinated.

00:04:15.280 Less than two have been boosted.

00:04:17.100 So, again, the Ukrainians should be concerned about COVID. 0.96

00:04:21.460 They should be concerned about their vaccination status,

00:04:23.760 not too much about what's happening in Ukraine.

00:04:26.940 Just an unbelievable take.

00:04:30.260 Yeah, forget about the bombs crashing down.

00:04:33.280 Forget about the gunfire, the real threat, the real concern for everyone.

00:04:37.580 Still COVID, don't forget that.

00:04:39.020 Yeah, maybe we should be sending them N95 masks instead of rifles to really protect them.

00:04:44.920 And then this last one, which was horribly ratioed, from Stephen King, a fiction author.

00:04:51.400 You've probably heard of him.

00:04:52.840 He wrote, on February 22nd, just about a day before Putin decided to invade Ukraine,

00:04:58.540 he wrote,

00:04:58.880 When Mr. Putin has made a serious miscalculation, he forgot he's no longer dealing with Mr. Trump.

00:05:04.300 So, immediately people jumped on this as a, just a, one of the, probably one of the worst takes

00:05:08.820 of this entire situation.

00:05:11.920 Basically saying that,

00:05:13.500 Oh, right.

00:05:14.120 If, if Trump was still the president,

00:05:17.100 Ukraine would have already been gone, apparently.

00:05:18.900 But let's just remember,

00:05:20.240 under Donald Trump,

00:05:21.940 Putin didn't invade Ukraine.

00:05:24.040 Under Donald Trump,

00:05:25.100 China didn't invade Taiwan.

00:05:27.800 All of the, all of the issues that we are seeing really popping off now under Biden weren't occurring.

00:05:34.720 He basically went in and destroyed ISIS immediately.

00:05:38.800 And then from that point on,

00:05:40.820 every other leader, authoritarian leader around the world,

00:05:44.020 recognized that Donald Trump was serious.

00:05:46.600 He would have stopped them and they didn't do anything.

00:05:49.200 So, I'm not really sure where this, where this take is coming from.

00:05:52.660 But, I mean, this, this is coming from a fictional author.

00:05:56.220 Let's just remember that.

00:05:57.160 Well, it's, it's kind of just like Trump derangement.

00:05:59.520 Like, everything must have been worse if, if Trump was in office.

00:06:02.920 Forgetting the reality, right?

00:06:03.980 The, the truth of the matter is that,

00:06:05.540 Vladimir Putin invaded Georgia under George R.B. Bush,

00:06:08.400 when George R.B. Bush was president.

00:06:09.840 He invaded Crimea in Ukraine when Barack Obama was president.

00:06:13.520 He invaded nobody when Trump was president.

00:06:15.500 Say what you will about Trump.

00:06:16.480 Putin didn't invade another sovereign country under Trump.

00:06:20.180 Here we have Joe Biden and we see Putin invading Ukraine.

00:06:24.540 So, so, so, so, so real life history and the facts

00:06:27.740 are completely counter to a lot of this Trump derangement stuff.

00:06:31.520 No wonder the, the tweet was ratioed.

00:06:33.600 And for people who don't know ratio,

00:06:34.940 it just means that a whole bunch more people comment

00:06:36.980 and, and, and, and sort of tell you that you're wrong

00:06:40.080 versus very few people who like your tweet

00:06:42.760 and, and, and share it with your audience.

00:06:44.340 So, yes, let's, let's stick to your fiction writing, Mr. King.

00:06:49.220 Well, aside from, aside from Ukraine

00:06:52.140 and all the consternation and the hot takes over there,

00:06:55.460 the media is still doing their best

00:06:57.500 to try to demonize the Freedom Convoy,

00:06:59.660 continuing to do Justin Trudeau's dirty work.

00:07:01.100 Look, Harrison, I think that Justin Trudeau

00:07:02.880 benefited greatly from the quick change

00:07:05.660 in the news cycle this week, right?

00:07:07.060 So he had the Emergency Act.

00:07:08.320 He used it.

00:07:09.540 He quickly got rid of it

00:07:10.480 without really a lot of explanation,

00:07:12.080 without really being held to account

00:07:14.040 in the way that you would expect

00:07:14.880 a Canadian democratic leader

00:07:16.340 to be held into account.

00:07:17.700 A few hours after he announced

00:07:19.240 that the Emergency Act was over,

00:07:20.520 we got news that Putin was going ahead

00:07:22.640 and invading Ukraine.

00:07:24.100 We saw bombs, we saw troops,

00:07:26.140 we saw, we saw the, the, the surge.

00:07:28.160 And so because of that, everybody focused,

00:07:30.580 everyone's focus immediately shifted to Ukraine.

00:07:32.780 And again, Trudeau benefited from that

00:07:34.200 because it helps him avoid the scrutiny

00:07:36.000 of using the worst power grab in Canadian history.

00:07:40.440 And so I hope that there will,

00:07:42.700 that the conservative opposition,

00:07:44.460 that courts, that judges, that lawyers

00:07:46.100 will continue to expose Trudeau,

00:07:49.500 to unearth the information,

00:07:51.380 to help the people whose lives have been destroyed

00:07:53.480 from having their bank accounts frozen.

00:07:55.440 I hope there's accountability.

00:07:56.800 I hope that we continue to get to the bottom of that.

00:07:59.120 Trudeau has benefited.

00:08:00.840 However, the media continue to do what the media does,

00:08:03.120 which is lie and spread propaganda

00:08:05.040 in favor of Justin Trudeau

00:08:06.540 trying to continue to smear the convoy,

00:08:08.960 even though my guess is that most people

00:08:10.700 who read the legacy media

00:08:11.760 already have a negative view of the convoy.

00:08:13.980 Regardless, they're continuing to do that dirty work. 1.00

00:08:16.320 So there's a story over in Global.

00:08:18.100 And a couple of interesting points

00:08:19.440 that I want to make about this story, Harrison.

00:08:22.020 So the headline says,

00:08:23.920 as Freedom Convoy leaves Ottawa,

00:08:25.780 residents continue to look over their shoulders.

00:08:28.240 So this idea that the people in Ottawa

00:08:30.800 are so forever triggered

00:08:31.860 from having a group of working class people

00:08:34.020 protest in their city for three weeks,

00:08:35.800 that they're going to have like PTSD

00:08:37.160 forever because of this.

00:08:39.840 And the idea that they're going to have to

00:08:41.200 look over their shoulders

00:08:41.960 just in case there's a trucker

00:08:43.600 or a working class person in their community.

00:08:46.460 So I'll read a little bit from this

00:08:47.820 because it's quite amusing.

00:08:49.500 It says,

00:08:50.180 the blaring of truck horns,

00:08:51.560 the sound of parties going into the wee hours of the night,

00:08:54.340 a city under occupation,

00:08:56.360 was Jamie Sadgrove's reality for three weeks.

00:08:59.060 Let me just make a quick point.

00:09:00.040 I lived in Ottawa.

00:09:01.280 It's a sleepy little town.

00:09:02.880 Normal cities in the world,

00:09:04.140 I've also lived in downtown Toronto,

00:09:05.500 spent time in some of the biggest cities in the world.

00:09:07.640 Normal big cities have a bustling feel to them, right?

00:09:10.740 The idea of horns honking in the middle of the night,

00:09:13.440 people partying the wee hours.

00:09:14.960 That's just sort of normal city life for most people.

00:09:17.420 For people in Ottawa,

00:09:18.340 it was like unbelievably jarring to the point

00:09:20.000 where they refer to the people

00:09:21.420 who are in their city as occupiers.

00:09:23.200 And it was an occupation,

00:09:24.320 a foreign occupation,

00:09:25.040 sort of like what we're seeing in Kiev right now.

00:09:27.000 It's just so silly to take a step back

00:09:29.500 and to view it under this lens.

00:09:31.200 But I'll continue reading.

00:09:33.300 It says,

00:09:34.160 but as the so-called freedom convoy,

00:09:36.380 freedom convoy in scare quotes,

00:09:37.640 I've seen this in another global piece, Harrison.

00:09:39.840 I think this must be their editorial position

00:09:41.520 that every time they call,

00:09:42.760 they refer to the freedom protest,

00:09:44.560 they call it the so-called freedom convoy,

00:09:46.440 freedom convoy in scare quotes,

00:09:47.580 so that you don't actually believe

00:09:48.980 that they are fighting for freedom.

00:09:50.540 That's just a scare quote.

00:09:51.500 So they put in.

00:09:52.140 So anyway,

00:09:52.940 the freedom convoy vanished from downtown.

00:09:54.680 Sad Grove is starting to see the spirit

00:09:57.200 of a resilient city trickle back into the streets.

00:10:00.300 Everyone seems to be in a better mood.

00:10:02.200 I picked up on that in the streets as well.

00:10:03.800 People smiling at each other,

00:10:05.220 saying hi more often

00:10:06.480 than I think they did before the convoy.

00:10:08.460 And more people are wearing their masks outside now too.

00:10:11.460 Hooray, congratulations.

00:10:12.820 All those horrible working class people are gone. 0.99

00:10:15.200 And we're back to our sensible,

00:10:17.140 bureaucrat government town

00:10:18.440 where we're so cautious

00:10:19.300 that we even wear masks outside,

00:10:21.240 even though it's completely unnecessary.

00:10:22.260 So congratulations, Ottawa.

00:10:24.660 You're back to being a completely uptight, 1.00

00:10:28.000 ridiculous city 0.99

00:10:30.240 that where people wear masks outside. 0.85

00:10:32.900 Another person that they interviewed for this story,

00:10:35.720 an individual named Amanda Knox,

00:10:37.560 who lives in Kanata, Ontario.

00:10:39.160 Okay.

00:10:39.980 For folks not familiar with Ottawa,

00:10:42.220 Kanata is not in Ottawa.

00:10:43.360 Kanata is a suburb

00:10:44.200 that is 45 minutes away from downtown Ottawa,

00:10:47.280 45 minutes away from where the convoy was.

00:10:49.040 So keep that in mind as we read this account

00:10:51.020 from Miss Knox here.

00:10:52.820 She says,

00:10:53.620 Monday was one of the few normal days

00:10:55.780 they've had all year.

00:10:57.880 Knox said that she would sleep a little better

00:10:59.860 knowing the convoy had departed

00:11:01.160 from the downtown core 45 minutes away,

00:11:03.380 adding that all members of her family

00:11:04.920 felt a little more at ease.

00:11:06.360 It's good to have that quiet return to the city,

00:11:08.900 said Knox from her quiet suburb

00:11:11.020 45 minutes away from Ottawa.

00:11:13.100 So I guess they're scraping the bottom of the barrel

00:11:15.180 to put together this article,

00:11:16.460 a Harrison where they couldn't find anyone

00:11:18.340 in Ottawa to comment on it.

00:11:19.580 So they went to someone

00:11:20.460 who lived in a suburb 45 minutes away.

00:11:22.700 You spent a bit of time in Ottawa

00:11:24.140 during the convoy.

00:11:25.560 How do you read a piece like this?

00:11:28.720 Well, two things.

00:11:29.900 So on Amanda Knox's account of the noise,

00:11:34.460 I stayed in two different hotels

00:11:36.260 on the second weekend

00:11:37.280 when the trucks were still there,

00:11:39.640 the police hadn't cracked down

00:11:40.940 violently on the protesters.

00:11:41.940 So everything was basically the way it was

00:11:44.040 the first weekend.

00:11:45.900 The first hotel I stayed at

00:11:47.240 was quite close to downtown.

00:11:48.440 So I could hear some of the horns

00:11:49.620 only when I woke up

00:11:50.760 because they stopped blaring their horns at night.

00:11:53.520 But the second hotel I stayed at

00:11:55.100 was 10 minutes away from downtown,

00:11:57.140 but it was still in Ottawa.

00:11:58.820 I didn't hear anything actually.

00:12:00.400 I couldn't hear the downtown.

00:12:02.500 I couldn't hear the trucks.

00:12:05.160 So it's pretty hard to believe

00:12:07.440 that in Kanata,

00:12:08.540 Kanata was reverberating

00:12:10.160 with the sound of truck horns.

00:12:11.320 I doubt that.

00:12:12.780 But on the first account

00:12:15.240 from Jamie Sadgrove,

00:12:16.800 so he says that people are now smiling

00:12:19.500 and waving at each other

00:12:20.780 and saying hi.

00:12:21.680 When I was there,

00:12:22.800 I had never been a part of a group

00:12:24.620 where more people were smiling,

00:12:26.460 more people were happy to be there,

00:12:27.640 and more people were waving,

00:12:29.640 hugging, talking to people.

00:12:31.260 It was actually one of the most refreshing things

00:12:35.300 to be a part of

00:12:35.960 to see that kind of sense of community come together.

00:12:38.920 I live in downtown Toronto.

00:12:40.080 It is one of the most dull cities around. 0.98

00:12:43.580 Everyone is miserable. 0.97

00:12:44.900 Everyone has their head in their phone. 0.78

00:12:47.040 No one is saying anything to anybody. 0.88

00:12:49.260 So I just find it to be ridiculous, obviously,

00:12:52.740 that they're going to such great lengths 0.60

00:12:54.740 to spin this.

00:12:56.020 But again, it's global news.

00:12:57.460 It's such a good point, Harrison.

00:12:59.640 I heard that from so many people who were there.

00:13:01.460 I unfortunately didn't make it down into Ottawa

00:13:03.020 for these convoys,

00:13:04.100 but I was following it very closely,

00:13:05.480 and I was watching a lot of reporters,

00:13:07.460 including our own,

00:13:08.400 who were down there.

00:13:09.020 And one of the things

00:13:09.540 that so many people commented on

00:13:10.840 was the festival, carnival-like atmosphere

00:13:13.640 and how friendly everyone was,

00:13:15.140 even people who weren't necessarily in support at all.

00:13:18.160 I remember reading a blog by Matt Gurney

00:13:20.540 who was sort of saying

00:13:21.600 that these people weren't his people

00:13:23.120 and didn't like them,

00:13:23.700 but he still said that one of the things

00:13:25.000 that was so notable to him

00:13:26.120 was the eye contact

00:13:27.060 and how people were smiling and friendly,

00:13:29.760 and it was unlike anything he had seen before.

00:13:32.580 And to me, that's sort of like

00:13:33.900 the difference between a small town and a city.

00:13:36.540 When you're in a city,

00:13:37.220 everyone keeps their head down.

00:13:38.040 They keep to themselves,

00:13:39.160 whereas when you're in a small town,

00:13:40.860 people are friendly.

00:13:41.540 People say hi to each other

00:13:42.380 walking down the street

00:13:42.960 even if you don't know each other,

00:13:44.080 and that's just one of those

00:13:44.940 major cultural divides.

00:13:46.380 And it's like when all of these

00:13:48.320 working-class people came to Ottawa,

00:13:49.640 they brought a little bit

00:13:50.440 of their small-town community to the city,

00:13:52.960 and it was nice.

00:13:53.960 I'm sure it was refreshing.

00:13:55.220 So interesting point

00:13:56.680 that you picked up on there.

00:13:57.500 Well, that wasn't the only example

00:13:59.680 of the media just really obsessing

00:14:01.800 over the convoy

00:14:02.560 and trying to paint it

00:14:03.500 in the worst possible light.

00:14:05.220 One of the things that I noticed

00:14:06.300 throughout the convoy

00:14:08.020 was that the media tried

00:14:09.720 to really fixate

00:14:10.580 on a small handful of people

00:14:12.320 in the convoy.

00:14:13.040 So basically what they did

00:14:13.920 was they sifted through the convoy.

00:14:15.980 They found the most egregious people possible. 0.99

00:14:18.380 They picked out the biggest lunatics, 0.99

00:14:20.180 the craziest people 0.99

00:14:20.860 who were making the conspiracy theories,

00:14:22.620 who were talking about

00:14:24.480 how they wanted to overthrow the government,

00:14:25.840 or who were making

00:14:26.800 legitimately racist comments.

00:14:28.840 And then they would hold these people up.

00:14:30.340 The legacy media would hold these people up

00:14:31.620 as if they were somehow

00:14:32.960 the leaders of the convoy

00:14:34.100 or that their views represented

00:14:35.420 everybody at the convoy,

00:14:36.900 treating the convoy

00:14:37.640 like a political party.

00:14:38.600 The thing that the media

00:14:39.280 fundamentally misunderstand

00:14:40.680 or perhaps they deliberately misinterpret

00:14:42.960 because it makes the truckers look worse

00:14:44.480 is that the truckers

00:14:45.700 are not a political party.

00:14:47.020 It never was, right?

00:14:47.820 It was a completely organic

00:14:49.000 grassroots movement.

00:14:50.060 There was word that

00:14:51.020 a couple of truckers

00:14:52.000 were going to do a slow roll

00:14:52.860 from Vancouver.

00:14:53.720 All of a sudden there was convoys

00:14:54.980 all over the country

00:14:55.820 and they were putting together

00:14:56.980 a sort of loosely organized,

00:14:58.340 not a political organization,

00:15:00.240 a protest movement,

00:15:01.400 a group of people

00:15:02.240 who were all coming together

00:15:03.200 because they shared one view,

00:15:04.700 which is that the government

00:15:05.640 had overstepped,

00:15:06.840 that their powers were being abused,

00:15:08.900 that they wanted their lives back, right?

00:15:10.720 And so despite the true nature

00:15:13.820 of the protest,

00:15:14.460 which was that it was

00:15:15.020 totally decentralized and organic,

00:15:17.020 the media treated it

00:15:18.160 like it was a top-down organized event

00:15:21.540 where there was like

00:15:22.260 a couple of brain trusts

00:15:24.040 that were planning the whole thing.

00:15:26.180 And so among that structure

00:15:27.620 that the media invented,

00:15:28.860 they found an individual

00:15:29.780 called Pat King.

00:15:31.260 Now, I pointed this out on Twitter.

00:15:33.260 I'll make the point again.

00:15:34.240 I follow a lot of people in the convoy.

00:15:35.980 I follow it very closely.

00:15:37.140 I follow a lot of conservatives.

00:15:38.540 I have a lot of truckers

00:15:39.240 in my feed constantly

00:15:40.140 and I'm reading what they're saying

00:15:41.200 and I'm hearing how they're communicating

00:15:42.920 and I'm watching them.

00:15:44.220 And I never heard anybody

00:15:45.780 talk about this individual, Pat King.

00:15:47.340 I didn't hear anybody saying,

00:15:48.920 go check out his videos.

00:15:50.260 Let's show him support.

00:15:51.320 I heard a lot of people

00:15:51.980 talking about BJ Dichter.

00:15:53.420 I heard a lot of people

00:15:54.000 talking about Tamara Litch.

00:15:55.260 I heard people talking about

00:15:56.460 lots of other people

00:15:58.220 who were involved.

00:15:59.560 I didn't hear anyone

00:16:00.280 talk about Pat King

00:16:01.100 other than a small handful

00:16:02.920 of journalists

00:16:04.200 in the parliamentary press gallery,

00:16:05.560 people in the legacy media

00:16:06.640 who held him up

00:16:08.020 and called him a leader.

00:16:09.420 They called him a leader

00:16:10.000 and they pretended

00:16:10.600 that his views

00:16:11.320 represented the views

00:16:12.280 of everyone.

00:16:12.680 Now, I will just say

00:16:13.380 I find Pat King to be repulsive. 0.84

00:16:15.340 I find his views to be awful.

00:16:16.740 He seems to be 1.00

00:16:17.820 a despicable racist person. 1.00

00:16:21.200 I've seen clips of him 0.99

00:16:22.260 making egregious statements.

00:16:23.620 I completely disagree

00:16:24.560 with everything he's saying

00:16:25.360 and I believe

00:16:26.000 that people in the convoy

00:16:27.340 felt the same way

00:16:28.360 that as soon as they got

00:16:29.080 to know this guy,

00:16:30.080 they said,

00:16:30.400 you need to stay away from us

00:16:31.380 because you're poisonous 0.98

00:16:32.240 and we don't agree with you. 1.00

00:16:33.860 Go away.

00:16:35.060 Regardless,

00:16:35.660 the media loved to hold him up

00:16:36.820 and call him a leader.

00:16:37.800 So we saw that again this week

00:16:38.960 because he apparently

00:16:40.040 was arrested

00:16:40.540 and he was in court.

00:16:41.700 Worth noting that the lawyers

00:16:42.900 that were representing

00:16:43.660 a bunch of the other

00:16:44.420 trucker convoy leaders

00:16:45.340 refused to represent this guy

00:16:46.840 because he's not part

00:16:47.820 of their group at all.

00:16:48.580 So this guy's on his own

00:16:50.180 in court.

00:16:51.080 Here's David Akin

00:16:51.820 of Global News saying,

00:16:53.520 it's been a long eight hours

00:16:54.480 for Pat King in court.

00:16:55.560 He's not able to speak.

00:16:56.560 He's the center of attention

00:16:57.480 but he's not in the way

00:16:58.680 he's accustomed to.

00:16:59.780 As lawyers argue his fate,

00:17:01.100 he's slumped forward,

00:17:02.360 elbows on knees,

00:17:03.320 head in his hands.

00:17:03.860 As if people care.

00:17:06.280 I don't understand.

00:17:07.400 They think he's his public figure

00:17:08.620 when everyone in the truck

00:17:09.540 of convoys tried

00:17:10.240 to distance himself from him.

00:17:11.860 Likewise,

00:17:12.360 the CBC had a story

00:17:13.180 calling him the convoy leader.

00:17:15.040 So it was this convoy leader,

00:17:15.940 Pat King,

00:17:16.440 to hear bail decision Friday

00:17:18.200 as a woman puts up 50K

00:17:19.740 in support

00:17:20.440 and they quote,

00:17:21.420 of course,

00:17:21.800 the Canadian Anti-Hate Network,

00:17:23.980 which should be called

00:17:24.720 the Anti-Hate Hoax Network

00:17:25.920 because they have become infamous

00:17:28.360 for pushing hate hoaxes.

00:17:30.380 Regardless,

00:17:30.820 it says we've tuned in

00:17:32.780 for Pat King's bail hearing

00:17:34.540 this morning

00:17:35.060 so you don't have to

00:17:36.200 and we'll be providing

00:17:37.000 updates accordingly.

00:17:38.820 Harrison,

00:17:39.380 what's your take

00:17:40.340 on this individual,

00:17:41.220 Pat King,

00:17:41.740 and why do you think

00:17:42.340 the media are so obsessed

00:17:43.040 with him?

00:17:44.300 Well,

00:17:44.680 I think it's important

00:17:46.500 to note, Candice,

00:17:47.340 that as you said,

00:17:48.440 this was a decentralized operation

00:17:50.160 and there were a couple

00:17:52.000 of different groups

00:17:53.140 with some followings

00:17:54.100 that were kind of

00:17:55.400 taking the lead

00:17:56.160 on the organizing

00:17:57.060 of the truck movement itself.

00:17:58.580 One of those groups

00:17:59.860 had listed Pat King

00:18:01.020 amongst a list

00:18:02.060 of many other people

00:18:03.620 who had a truck

00:18:06.260 and had some responsibility

00:18:08.560 per province.

00:18:10.520 So the media

00:18:11.000 immediately picked that up

00:18:12.180 and they listed him

00:18:12.860 as an Alberta captain.

00:18:14.720 So the media picked that up

00:18:15.640 and said that he was the leader

00:18:17.900 of this entire operation

00:18:19.120 knowing that

00:18:19.680 that wasn't the case.

00:18:21.320 Now,

00:18:21.620 I had the opportunity

00:18:22.300 to join a press conference

00:18:24.420 held by the organizers

00:18:25.760 including Tamara Litch, 0.95

00:18:27.500 Ben Dichter,

00:18:28.580 some of the other organizers

00:18:29.840 including Keith Wilson,

00:18:30.920 their lawyer.

00:18:31.760 In that press conference,

00:18:33.100 they explicitly stated

00:18:34.400 that Pat King

00:18:35.480 was not an organizer

00:18:36.560 of the event.

00:18:37.520 He was not a part

00:18:38.260 of their official,

00:18:39.480 the official organization

00:18:40.700 that had,

00:18:41.720 that were the leaders

00:18:42.940 of this group.

00:18:43.920 But that didn't matter

00:18:44.600 for the media

00:18:45.120 because it was an easy

00:18:46.220 target for them.

00:18:47.060 He was an easy figure

00:18:48.280 to latch onto

00:18:49.320 because he had these,

00:18:50.560 he had these posts

00:18:51.840 that he put up

00:18:52.560 on social media

00:18:53.400 that live on,

00:18:55.260 of course,

00:18:55.640 and the media

00:18:56.800 were able to take those

00:18:57.760 and use it to smear

00:18:58.600 the entire group.

00:18:59.500 So,

00:19:00.000 I think it's important

00:19:00.900 to note that

00:19:01.620 even when the organizers

00:19:03.600 of the event

00:19:04.160 distanced themselves

00:19:05.500 clearly

00:19:06.280 from this individual,

00:19:08.240 that doesn't matter

00:19:08.760 to the media.

00:19:09.620 They're not going

00:19:09.980 to take that

00:19:10.360 as any legitimate word.

00:19:12.600 They're just going

00:19:12.960 to believe

00:19:13.300 what they want to believe

00:19:14.120 and push 0.99

00:19:14.780 what they want to push.

00:19:15.680 So,

00:19:16.160 it's disappointing

00:19:17.140 that this individual

00:19:18.120 has tarnished this group

00:19:20.580 and that was clear

00:19:21.660 that the organizers

00:19:22.280 of this event

00:19:22.740 knew that was going

00:19:23.620 to happen,

00:19:24.380 knew this person

00:19:25.220 was going to be

00:19:26.120 a target for the media

00:19:27.760 and they tried their best

00:19:28.740 but they weren't able

00:19:30.340 to defeat the narrative

00:19:32.120 being peddled

00:19:32.680 by the legacy media

00:19:33.440 on this one.

00:19:34.360 Well,

00:19:34.420 they just insist

00:19:35.240 on the fact

00:19:35.680 that this guy's leader

00:19:36.280 even though everyone

00:19:37.160 says obviously he's not.

00:19:38.600 I think it's a good lesson

00:19:39.680 for conservatives,

00:19:40.680 however,

00:19:41.200 because,

00:19:41.820 look,

00:19:42.200 there are people

00:19:43.200 out there

00:19:43.720 who have horrible views 0.99

00:19:45.620 who are despicable racists 0.77

00:19:47.120 and it's important 0.80

00:19:48.560 to police your own

00:19:49.340 and to make sure

00:19:50.040 that these people

00:19:50.660 aren't able

00:19:51.380 to latch onto your movement,

00:19:52.420 aren't able

00:19:52.840 to ride your coattails

00:19:53.900 in order to promote

00:19:55.400 their own despicable worldview

00:19:58.020 and it's so important

00:19:59.640 to loudly

00:20:00.620 and clearly condemn

00:20:02.560 people like that

00:20:03.580 who wave Confederate flags

00:20:04.780 and who talk about race

00:20:06.440 in that way

00:20:07.520 that those people

00:20:09.020 are just simply not welcome

00:20:09.860 and if you start

00:20:10.340 talking about that stuff

00:20:11.100 you're going to get removed

00:20:12.440 and basically just

00:20:13.860 excommunicated

00:20:14.620 by the community.

00:20:15.660 I like to see conservatives

00:20:16.240 do that more strongly

00:20:17.700 and of course

00:20:18.460 when it comes to the media

00:20:20.040 they're just

00:20:20.500 the worst of the worst actors,

00:20:21.820 such bad faith,

00:20:22.560 pretending again

00:20:23.560 that somehow

00:20:23.940 this individual

00:20:25.120 speaks for everyone

00:20:25.900 is just so,

00:20:27.060 such bad faith

00:20:28.360 and exactly

00:20:29.140 what we've come to expect

00:20:30.620 from the legacy media.

00:20:31.780 Harrison,

00:20:32.060 well there's one more story

00:20:32.840 I wanted to pick up on

00:20:33.600 but this came out last Friday

00:20:34.800 and we didn't cover it

00:20:35.620 on Fake News Friday

00:20:36.320 but look,

00:20:37.700 Andrew Coyne

00:20:38.780 who is a columnist

00:20:40.360 over at the Globe and Mail

00:20:41.340 he's sort of,

00:20:42.300 he's an individual

00:20:43.540 who goes on CBC

00:20:44.620 and talks,

00:20:45.420 he's sort of the

00:20:46.300 quintessential

00:20:47.340 Canadian

00:20:48.120 Laurentian elite.

00:20:49.340 actually he became

00:20:50.980 infamous during this

00:20:51.880 protest because

00:20:53.140 he referred to

00:20:53.680 the truckers

00:20:54.180 as a group

00:20:54.960 of antisocial 0.96

00:20:56.060 yobs.

00:20:56.820 Let's play that clip,

00:20:57.700 we haven't played

00:20:58.060 that clip on the show

00:20:58.800 before so this is

00:20:59.860 Andrew Coyne

00:21:00.500 just so you get an idea

00:21:01.260 who we're going to be

00:21:01.960 talking about next year.

00:21:03.280 In many cases

00:21:03.640 they're not even

00:21:04.120 truckers at all,

00:21:05.520 they're basically

00:21:06.300 a bunch of

00:21:07.240 you know

00:21:08.340 antisocial yobs 0.96

00:21:10.000 with delusions 0.97

00:21:11.560 of grandeur,

00:21:12.860 a persecution complex

00:21:14.100 and too much time

00:21:14.860 on their hands.

00:21:15.420 So a group

00:21:16.520 of antisocial 0.98

00:21:17.180 yobs 1.00

00:21:17.600 with delusions

00:21:18.400 of grandeur

00:21:19.120 and a persecution

00:21:19.840 complex,

00:21:20.760 that's what he thinks

00:21:21.660 about working class

00:21:22.660 Canadians.

00:21:23.540 Well on the day

00:21:24.360 that Justin Trudeau

00:21:25.300 enacted the emergency

00:21:26.900 act,

00:21:27.120 the day that he

00:21:27.780 unleashed it

00:21:29.680 and the police

00:21:30.320 were storming Ottawa

00:21:31.380 and militarized the city

00:21:32.540 and were moving in

00:21:33.600 to remove the

00:21:34.540 peaceful unarmed

00:21:35.320 protests,

00:21:36.340 Andrew Coyne

00:21:36.720 who's a political

00:21:37.180 affairs columnist,

00:21:38.640 you know you'd think

00:21:39.380 at a moment like that

00:21:40.560 you know watching

00:21:41.180 the police move in

00:21:42.240 on a group of

00:21:42.980 peaceful protesters,

00:21:44.240 watching the prime

00:21:45.020 minister use an

00:21:46.000 unprecedented power

00:21:47.020 grab in the

00:21:47.860 emergencies act,

00:21:48.580 never been used

00:21:49.080 before,

00:21:49.720 hearing news of

00:21:50.480 bank accounts

00:21:50.960 being frozen,

00:21:51.560 watching police

00:21:52.020 brutality,

00:21:52.660 you would think

00:21:53.100 at that moment

00:21:53.680 a political affairs

00:21:54.660 columnist would

00:21:55.460 choose to write

00:21:56.280 a column on

00:21:57.080 the actor that's

00:21:58.760 leading this whole

00:21:59.400 thing,

00:21:59.580 the person who's

00:22:00.200 causing the chaos

00:22:01.060 which was Justin

00:22:01.900 Trudeau,

00:22:02.380 talking about why

00:22:03.340 he enacted the

00:22:04.000 emergency act,

00:22:04.640 talking about

00:22:05.040 you know his

00:22:06.180 position as leader

00:22:07.540 of the party,

00:22:08.280 the liberal party

00:22:08.820 leading the country,

00:22:10.080 how he mishandled

00:22:10.900 it,

00:22:11.240 you know there's

00:22:11.740 so many things

00:22:12.160 you would expect

00:22:12.700 a political affairs

00:22:13.460 columnist to

00:22:14.840 focus in on when

00:22:16.000 it comes to the

00:22:16.540 person leading the

00:22:17.440 action.

00:22:18.340 Instead,

00:22:18.860 Andrew Coyne

00:22:20.020 shifted his focus

00:22:21.140 and decided to

00:22:22.080 write a column

00:22:22.660 demonizing conservatives

00:22:23.680 so he wrote a

00:22:24.740 column that came

00:22:25.240 out on February

00:22:26.100 18th saying

00:22:26.940 how did conservatives

00:22:28.200 become so attracted

00:22:29.560 to extremism?

00:22:31.120 So I'm going to

00:22:31.360 read a little bit

00:22:31.860 here,

00:22:32.700 Harrison,

00:22:33.000 I'll let you

00:22:33.300 react.

00:22:33.800 So he writes

00:22:34.980 this,

00:22:35.580 conservatives who

00:22:36.500 were once

00:22:36.900 considered part of

00:22:37.760 the mainstream,

00:22:39.040 so first of all

00:22:39.720 he's saying the

00:22:40.180 conservatives aren't

00:22:40.620 mainstream anymore,

00:22:41.560 okay buddy,

00:22:42.460 conservatives who

00:22:43.220 were once part of

00:22:44.360 the mainstream are

00:22:45.360 spiraling down the

00:22:46.240 same arc traced by

00:22:47.620 Mr. Maxim

00:22:48.680 Bernier,

00:22:49.020 leader of the

00:22:49.300 PPC party and

00:22:50.040 others for three

00:22:51.040 weeks with the

00:22:51.600 country's capital

00:22:52.240 held hostage.

00:22:54.120 The party's former

00:22:55.040 leader Andrew

00:22:55.580 Scheer,

00:22:55.900 his interim leader

00:22:56.540 Candace Bergen

00:22:57.180 and his probable

00:22:57.880 future leader

00:22:58.520 Pierre Polyev have

00:22:59.440 all openly sided

00:23:00.560 with the hostage

00:23:01.680 takers,

00:23:02.740 their rhetoric

00:23:03.260 indistinguishable

00:23:04.420 from Maxim

00:23:05.740 Bernier.

00:23:06.980 Okay,

00:23:07.420 what do you think

00:23:07.800 about that,

00:23:08.300 Harrison?

00:23:09.160 Well,

00:23:09.380 there's quite a lot

00:23:10.360 to get into.

00:23:11.120 I mean,

00:23:11.380 the hostage takers,

00:23:12.740 as Andrew Coyne

00:23:13.280 calls them,

00:23:13.840 who are armed

00:23:14.340 with bouncy

00:23:14.980 castles and

00:23:15.680 hot tubs

00:23:16.360 and food

00:23:18.120 really must have

00:23:19.580 scared Andrew

00:23:20.520 quite a lot.

00:23:21.480 Now,

00:23:21.920 here's the thing

00:23:22.480 that I really

00:23:24.180 don't understand.

00:23:26.040 The conservatives,

00:23:27.560 the mainstream

00:23:28.060 conservatives who

00:23:28.860 he calls not

00:23:29.760 mainstream,

00:23:30.460 like Pierre Polyev

00:23:31.440 and Andrew Scheer

00:23:33.020 and Candace Bergen,

00:23:34.140 all they were doing

00:23:35.220 was taking a very

00:23:36.380 measured defense

00:23:37.520 of Canadians' 0.98

00:23:38.240 peaceful right

00:23:39.100 to protest

00:23:39.600 because they have

00:23:40.300 the ability

00:23:40.800 to see past

00:23:41.700 the politics.

00:23:42.900 They know full

00:23:43.500 well that once

00:23:44.920 the Emergencies Act

00:23:46.000 has been invoked

00:23:47.000 on a peaceful

00:23:47.740 protest like this,

00:23:48.960 there's very little

00:23:49.600 stopping it from

00:23:50.400 being invoked

00:23:50.940 on other people's

00:23:51.900 right to protest.

00:23:53.220 And unlike Andrew

00:23:54.140 Coyne,

00:23:55.000 these conservative

00:23:55.780 leaders were taking

00:23:57.240 a very measured

00:23:58.120 response.

00:23:58.800 They weren't

00:23:59.140 freaking out.

00:24:00.460 They weren't,

00:24:01.100 you know,

00:24:01.620 writing crazy posts

00:24:02.840 on Twitter.

00:24:03.500 All they were doing

00:24:04.340 was basically saying

00:24:05.480 we defend the right

00:24:07.140 for truckers to have

00:24:08.020 their right to protest

00:24:08.840 as we do for everyone

00:24:10.080 else in this country

00:24:10.700 to do that.

00:24:11.740 So I just think

00:24:13.180 it's quite dangerous

00:24:15.100 to see the shift

00:24:17.000 happening where

00:24:17.980 even the ability

00:24:19.400 for mainstream

00:24:20.380 politicians to defend

00:24:21.600 the rights of

00:24:22.280 working class people,

00:24:23.980 defend their right

00:24:24.840 to protest,

00:24:25.620 that is seen as extreme.

00:24:27.400 That's a bad direction

00:24:28.580 we're heading in

00:24:29.080 if that's where

00:24:29.540 the so-called elite

00:24:30.600 are now siding.

00:24:32.820 Well,

00:24:33.100 it's just like,

00:24:33.760 you know,

00:24:34.520 the perspective

00:24:35.200 of a progressive

00:24:36.200 who doesn't think

00:24:37.480 that the conservative

00:24:37.900 party should exist,

00:24:38.700 doesn't think the conservatives

00:24:39.540 should have a political

00:24:40.300 platform,

00:24:41.160 and thinks that the

00:24:41.920 political conservative

00:24:43.380 party should basically

00:24:44.240 be a party of like 0.87

00:24:45.140 red Tories

00:24:45.660 who have sensible

00:24:46.900 progressive values

00:24:48.240 and maybe care a little

00:24:49.500 bit more about

00:24:50.260 balanced budgets

00:24:50.960 or something like that.

00:24:51.620 That's sort of

00:24:52.400 where he's coming from

00:24:53.600 and this idea that

00:24:54.600 like how dare

00:24:55.420 these conservative

00:24:56.160 politicians

00:24:56.660 want to listen

00:24:58.820 to the truckers.

00:25:00.080 Like,

00:25:00.340 I was watching

00:25:02.200 the conservatives.

00:25:02.760 I think that they

00:25:03.580 were very measured.

00:25:04.660 I don't think that

00:25:05.100 they defended the truckers

00:25:06.120 in as much as I

00:25:08.000 would have liked

00:25:08.460 to see them do.

00:25:09.200 I don't think that

00:25:09.620 they truly represented

00:25:11.820 them.

00:25:12.380 However,

00:25:12.820 what they were saying

00:25:13.520 was very moderate,

00:25:14.620 very moderate,

00:25:15.340 saying,

00:25:15.860 these people have

00:25:16.160 the right to protest.

00:25:17.320 We should hear them out.

00:25:19.200 That's basically,

00:25:19.880 they condemned

00:25:20.380 illegal blockades

00:25:21.260 and they sided

00:25:22.560 with law and order.

00:25:24.620 You know,

00:25:24.780 compare that to

00:25:25.240 Maxime Bernier

00:25:25.840 who was much more,

00:25:27.580 you know,

00:25:28.740 colorful in his language,

00:25:30.100 much more likely

00:25:30.780 to, you know,

00:25:32.280 use hyperbole

00:25:33.040 in describing

00:25:33.480 what Justin Trudeau

00:25:34.180 was doing.

00:25:34.560 I didn't see any

00:25:35.120 of that from

00:25:35.540 those conservative

00:25:35.980 politicians.

00:25:36.520 So Andrew Coyne

00:25:36.940 is just wrong

00:25:37.480 on the facts

00:25:38.020 on that one.

00:25:38.520 Let's continue here.

00:25:39.440 Oh,

00:25:39.600 because he takes

00:25:40.600 a shot at journalists

00:25:41.700 like you and I, 0.92

00:25:42.460 Harrison,

00:25:42.740 here at True North.

00:25:43.560 So interesting.

00:25:44.840 Now let's talk about

00:25:45.660 what Andrew Coyne

00:25:46.720 thinks about the media.

00:25:47.720 So he says,

00:25:48.140 right-wing opinion

00:25:49.600 formerly fragmented

00:25:50.720 now presents itself

00:25:51.840 of something

00:25:52.320 of a continuum

00:25:53.040 running all the way

00:25:54.100 from Rebel News

00:25:54.820 through True North

00:25:55.540 to the Sun newspaper chain

00:25:56.720 and alas,

00:25:57.320 the National Post.

00:25:58.340 People you'd have thought

00:25:59.200 would be able

00:26:00.200 to spot a grift

00:26:01.060 a mile away

00:26:01.740 instead have been

00:26:02.920 enthralled by it 0.81

00:26:03.780 as if the half-witted

00:26:05.220 bros in the convoy 1.00

00:26:06.740 really were fighting

00:26:07.680 for freedom

00:26:08.160 and not providing cover

00:26:09.180 for their anarcho-racist leaders.

00:26:10.680 So Andrew Coyne

00:26:11.420 falls into the same trap

00:26:12.500 as David Akin

00:26:13.620 and other journalists

00:26:14.760 pretending that this was,

00:26:16.100 again,

00:26:16.200 the top-down movement

00:26:19.580 where the leaders

00:26:20.780 of the convoy,

00:26:21.620 they weren't actually

00:26:22.220 working-class people

00:26:22.920 fighting for their

00:26:23.420 freedom, Harrison.

00:26:24.280 They were actually

00:26:25.040 anarcho-racists

00:26:26.400 who were, what,

00:26:27.000 trying to overthrow

00:26:27.680 the government, I guess.

00:26:28.900 And apparently,

00:26:29.880 the whole thing

00:26:30.460 was a grift from day one

00:26:31.560 and people like you

00:26:32.140 and I should have been

00:26:32.840 smart enough

00:26:33.800 to see through

00:26:34.920 what he calls

00:26:35.760 the half-witted bros 0.89

00:26:37.080 in the convoy. 0.84

00:26:37.680 As if calling them

00:26:38.280 antisocial yabs 1.00

00:26:39.200 wasn't bad enough.

00:26:39.880 Now he's calling them 0.86

00:26:40.500 half-witted bros.

00:26:41.880 So, again,

00:26:42.600 this is Andrew Coyne

00:26:43.820 who is a very privileged elite

00:26:45.780 who sees himself

00:26:47.380 as being very,

00:26:48.200 very insightful

00:26:48.840 and intelligent,

00:26:50.020 looking down his nose

00:26:51.120 and scoffing

00:26:52.520 at the intelligence

00:26:53.160 of the truckers.

00:26:54.600 That's great.

00:26:55.900 That's very good

00:26:57.900 for class relations

00:26:58.740 in Canada.

00:26:59.400 And he's just bitter

00:27:00.260 about the idea

00:27:01.260 that there's this

00:27:02.240 sort of new continuum

00:27:03.020 of right-wing

00:27:04.260 conservative media.

00:27:05.560 So, he much prefers

00:27:07.080 that the rebel

00:27:07.500 be like isolated

00:27:08.440 and far away,

00:27:10.440 removed from

00:27:11.280 the conservative party.

00:27:12.780 Whereas now he sees

00:27:13.660 this continuum.

00:27:14.380 I'm flattered by this

00:27:15.260 that he says,

00:27:16.140 look, there's the rebel,

00:27:17.400 then there's True North.

00:27:18.420 You know,

00:27:18.660 the rebel does its own thing

00:27:20.540 and it's not for everyone.

00:27:22.040 It's its own flavor.

00:27:23.960 Here at True North,

00:27:24.980 we're a little different.

00:27:26.100 We have our own flavor.

00:27:27.440 And then same with

00:27:28.400 over to the Sun newspapers

00:27:30.200 and Post Media.

00:27:31.400 Those two are kind

00:27:32.180 of blurring together.

00:27:32.740 Yeah, I think that's fair

00:27:35.020 to say that there's

00:27:35.760 sort of different types

00:27:37.100 of conservative news outlets.

00:27:38.460 We all have our own flavor

00:27:39.680 and we're all influenced,

00:27:41.320 again, by our own worldview

00:27:42.680 and our own editorial position.

00:27:44.620 Post Media takes money

00:27:45.440 from the Trudeau government.

00:27:46.780 We do not.

00:27:48.020 And so, you know,

00:27:49.200 what he's really angry

00:27:50.380 about, Harrison,

00:27:51.460 is something that I'm

00:27:52.280 really proud of.

00:27:53.020 The fact that independent media

00:27:54.180 like the rebel,

00:27:55.380 Ezra Levant,

00:27:56.160 head of the rebel,

00:27:57.340 posted a couple days ago

00:27:58.220 that his channel

00:27:58.960 has had over 100 million views

00:28:01.280 in the last month.

00:28:02.160 So many people

00:28:03.000 are going to rebel.

00:28:03.760 They've had a lot of journalists

00:28:05.380 and reporters on the ground

00:28:06.580 filming and covering things

00:28:08.140 that legacy media

00:28:08.720 were just unable to cover.

00:28:10.240 Here at True North,

00:28:10.960 we've had similarly

00:28:11.880 very, very good numbers,

00:28:13.040 not quite that high,

00:28:13.880 but still I'd wager

00:28:14.720 that more people

00:28:15.720 are reading True North

00:28:16.700 than a lot of those

00:28:17.640 post-media newspapers.

00:28:19.660 And it's great

00:28:20.620 that people are getting

00:28:21.180 their news from other sources

00:28:22.460 and that if you are conservative,

00:28:24.260 you don't have to be stuck

00:28:25.480 with the National Post,

00:28:27.120 which, again,

00:28:27.720 is a big corporation

00:28:28.700 that takes money

00:28:30.000 from the Trudeau government

00:28:31.140 and isn't always necessarily

00:28:32.540 going to take the side

00:28:33.520 of conservatism,

00:28:34.820 especially when it's more

00:28:36.120 of a populist

00:28:37.100 or a Western Canadian movement.

00:28:39.740 And so the thing

00:28:40.360 that Andrew Quinn

00:28:41.200 is most upset about,

00:28:42.540 to me,

00:28:43.560 is a great sign

00:28:44.600 for the conservative movement

00:28:46.400 that we have more outlets,

00:28:47.460 more voices,

00:28:48.400 more opinions being expressed.

00:28:50.120 What's your take on that?

00:28:51.140 Well, I think one thing

00:28:52.600 to note is that

00:28:53.800 at True North,

00:28:55.060 we don't call Canadians

00:28:56.440 half-witted bros 0.99

00:28:58.720 and anti-social yobs. 0.98

00:29:00.380 Most of those Canadians, 0.65

00:29:02.320 we don't call Canadians

00:29:03.240 that read our work that,

00:29:04.940 and we don't call Canadians

00:29:05.780 that don't read our work that.

00:29:07.420 We actually take,

00:29:08.320 we have a sense of respect

00:29:09.900 for Canadians exercising

00:29:11.500 their rights to protest.

00:29:14.340 And clearly,

00:29:15.160 this is really upsetting

00:29:16.380 Andrew Coyne.

00:29:17.520 And no wonder,

00:29:18.300 I mean,

00:29:18.520 luckily,

00:29:18.820 at my role,

00:29:19.720 I have the ability

00:29:20.200 to see the data,

00:29:21.760 the back end,

00:29:22.760 the numbers on our site,

00:29:23.920 and it's no surprise

00:29:25.360 that our growth

00:29:26.160 is catching the attention

00:29:27.200 of these people

00:29:28.440 who work for

00:29:29.300 sinking ship

00:29:30.340 legacy media outlets.

00:29:32.160 It is a threat

00:29:32.940 to their dominant control

00:29:36.300 over the media.

00:29:37.120 We are on the map now.

00:29:38.580 We have seen incredible growth

00:29:41.180 since this convoy began,

00:29:42.560 and it's because

00:29:43.180 Canadians are desperate

00:29:44.340 for real coverage.

00:29:45.440 That isn't going to demonize them

00:29:46.920 at every turn.

00:29:47.760 And I think that that's just,

00:29:49.760 that's just the way

00:29:51.020 this is all heading.

00:29:52.420 Globe and Mail,

00:29:53.600 the National Post,

00:29:55.080 and some of these

00:29:56.340 post-media newspapers

00:29:57.340 aren't appealing to Canadians 0.99

00:29:58.940 because they've taken

00:30:00.140 this really nasty position

00:30:02.820 on everyday Canadians

00:30:05.020 who just want to,

00:30:05.600 who just want to have

00:30:06.600 their right to protest,

00:30:07.440 have their voice heard,

00:30:08.320 and do it in a,

00:30:09.620 in frankly,

00:30:10.180 a fun way

00:30:11.100 with bouncy castles

00:30:12.180 and hot tubs.

00:30:12.740 These are not

00:30:13.140 half-witted 0.79

00:30:14.140 anti-social yobs. 0.95

00:30:16.020 And Andrew Coyne,

00:30:17.100 if you've looked

00:30:17.440 at any of his coverage,

00:30:18.320 every time he does

00:30:18.920 a CBC hit,

00:30:19.940 he's doing it

00:30:20.540 from his house.

00:30:21.760 So clearly,

00:30:22.360 he's cooped up in his house,

00:30:24.020 not talking to any

00:30:24.840 of these people

00:30:25.420 who he seems to think 0.69

00:30:27.440 are half-wits,

00:30:29.260 and is just,

00:30:30.920 and is just firing shots

00:30:32.100 from his basement 1.00

00:30:32.740 at these Canadians.

00:30:34.380 It is,

00:30:35.080 it's just disappointing

00:30:36.140 to see,

00:30:36.720 but clearly,

00:30:38.180 this whole convoy

00:30:39.220 has really,

00:30:40.100 really broken

00:30:40.800 Andrew Coyne's spirit.

00:30:42.820 Totally.

00:30:43.220 I want to read

00:30:43.880 one more part of it

00:30:44.860 because it's so interesting.

00:30:46.420 So,

00:30:46.720 yeah,

00:30:47.160 again,

00:30:47.460 you have this elitist,

00:30:48.500 Laurentian elite guy

00:30:49.280 sitting from his home.

00:30:50.300 He appears in the Globe and Mail

00:30:51.520 and on the CBC,

00:30:53.340 and he's raging against

00:30:55.140 what he calls

00:30:55.540 a phony class war.

00:30:56.580 So he says,

00:30:57.060 there's also a whiff

00:30:58.000 of a class war in the air,

00:30:59.220 a phony class war,

00:31:00.420 but there you are.

00:31:01.160 Conservative commentators

00:31:01.980 have persuaded themselves

00:31:02.880 or at any rate

00:31:03.540 would like to persuade others

00:31:05.080 of the blockade participants

00:31:06.100 because some of them

00:31:06.840 brought trucks,

00:31:07.720 are genuine representatives

00:31:09.000 of truckers as a group,

00:31:10.300 or better yet,

00:31:10.920 the working class.

00:31:12.020 It's not remotely true.

00:31:13.260 Ninety percent of the working class

00:31:14.380 are fully vaccinated at work,

00:31:15.680 but it fits the populist

00:31:16.840 conservative ambition

00:31:17.720 of hiving off

00:31:18.760 working class voters

00:31:19.480 from the left

00:31:20.540 whom they accuse

00:31:21.220 of being more concerned

00:31:22.420 with racial and sexual identity

00:31:23.780 politics than traditional

00:31:25.300 working class issues.

00:31:26.180 A lot to unpack there.

00:31:27.100 First of all,

00:31:27.960 the idea that

00:31:29.000 if you're fully vaccinated,

00:31:30.220 that you're not part

00:31:30.860 of the trucker convoy

00:31:31.680 is a lie.

00:31:32.440 It's wrong.

00:31:33.260 It's objectively wrong.

00:31:34.540 If you spent any time,

00:31:35.940 as you did, Harrison,

00:31:36.800 going and interviewing

00:31:37.340 these truckers

00:31:37.920 or as I did,

00:31:38.440 watching a lot,

00:31:39.060 a lot of interviews,

00:31:39.740 combing through a lot of footage,

00:31:40.540 you will learn

00:31:41.340 that a lot of the truckers

00:31:42.480 were in fact fully vaccinated.

00:31:44.060 The reason that they were there

00:31:44.940 is because they want

00:31:45.900 their freedoms back.

00:31:46.580 They don't want to live

00:31:47.540 in a two-tiered society.

00:31:48.560 They don't like the mandates.

00:31:49.740 They don't like the idea

00:31:50.320 that people are being fired

00:31:51.200 from their jobs.

00:31:52.000 It was a point of principle, okay?

00:31:54.080 So the idea that

00:31:54.920 just because someone

00:31:55.640 is vaccinated,

00:31:56.500 therefore they can't be part

00:31:57.940 of the convoy

00:31:58.620 in the movement

00:31:59.040 is just false.

00:32:00.160 It's false.

00:32:00.680 It's wrong.

00:32:01.180 If he paid attention

00:32:01.960 to what people are actually saying,

00:32:03.300 he would understand that.

00:32:04.380 And I understand as well,

00:32:05.380 look, I'm fully vaccinated

00:32:06.460 and I vehemently oppose

00:32:08.360 vaccine mandates.

00:32:09.180 I think it is terrible for society

00:32:10.760 and bad for the future

00:32:11.900 of our country.

00:32:12.620 So it's not a contradiction.

00:32:14.260 And just by simply saying

00:32:15.160 that someone's vaccinated,

00:32:16.320 therefore they're not part

00:32:17.360 of this group,

00:32:17.980 is wrong on the surface.

00:32:19.600 The broader point

00:32:20.380 that he's making here

00:32:21.040 that it's a phony class war.

00:32:22.640 Look, the idea that

00:32:23.860 a bunch of people

00:32:24.620 who work in the real world,

00:32:25.960 who don't have the luxury

00:32:26.640 to sit on Zoom all day,

00:32:27.940 to work from their home,

00:32:29.380 to be, you know,

00:32:30.540 hived off from society

00:32:32.400 because they can live

00:32:33.180 in this virtual world.

00:32:34.180 The people who actually

00:32:34.920 have to get up every morning,

00:32:36.240 get dressed,

00:32:36.840 go out and, you know,

00:32:38.260 face the world,

00:32:39.500 COVID or not,

00:32:40.440 regardless of the weather,

00:32:41.720 these are the people

00:32:42.420 who have had enough.

00:32:43.760 It very, very much

00:32:44.820 is a class distinction.

00:32:46.200 And it's so obvious

00:32:47.220 that it's not just

00:32:48.180 conservative commentators

00:32:49.300 who are making this point.

00:32:50.380 I read a piece about it

00:32:51.180 in the New York Times yesterday.

00:32:52.760 The exact same thing.

00:32:53.700 So many people are observing

00:32:54.900 that this is a class distinction.

00:32:56.820 In fact,

00:32:57.520 Andrew Quinn wrote

00:32:58.000 this piece last week.

00:32:59.240 Later in the week,

00:33:00.040 he was on CBC

00:33:00.840 sort of admitting

00:33:01.480 that it actually was

00:33:02.340 a class distinction.

00:33:03.160 So maybe he's come around

00:33:04.060 on this point.

00:33:04.620 But here,

00:33:05.580 just the points

00:33:06.120 that he's making

00:33:06.680 are so wrong,

00:33:08.680 so out of touch.

00:33:10.340 And to me,

00:33:10.740 again,

00:33:10.980 just shows this sort of

00:33:11.760 like bitter angriness

00:33:13.480 that he has,

00:33:14.140 that he's sort of losing.

00:33:15.080 He's losing his grip.

00:33:16.340 He's losing his grip of power

00:33:18.940 because people are no longer

00:33:20.580 looking to him

00:33:21.360 as sort of the intellectual

00:33:23.860 thought leader for conservatives.

00:33:25.820 That's not who he is anymore.

00:33:26.980 And he's so out of touch

00:33:27.900 with the grassroots base

00:33:29.720 of the conservative party

00:33:30.620 that the conservatives,

00:33:31.840 they don't look to him.

00:33:33.020 They don't care

00:33:33.360 what he has to say.

00:33:34.300 He's in a position of power,

00:33:35.640 but he's losing that power

00:33:36.800 and he's angry

00:33:37.860 that that power is slipping away.

00:33:40.240 Yeah, the guy who says

00:33:41.540 that this isn't a class war

00:33:42.640 is the same guy

00:33:43.340 calling working class Canadians 0.98

00:33:45.580 half wits 0.96

00:33:46.740 and anti-social yobs.

00:33:48.660 I mean, how much,

00:33:49.220 how much more,

00:33:50.260 how much clearer can it get

00:33:51.520 the person from the CBC

00:33:53.440 and Globe and Mail

00:33:54.180 basically attacking

00:33:55.620 all of these people

00:33:57.200 and looking down on them

00:33:59.040 and saying,

00:33:59.540 oh, this is not a class war.

00:34:00.640 This is not a class divide.

00:34:02.320 Well, clearly it is.

00:34:04.180 And Andrew wouldn't know that

00:34:05.740 because he hasn't spent any time

00:34:06.800 talking with any of these people.

00:34:08.440 I wonder if he's even talked

00:34:09.800 to a trucker

00:34:10.440 in maybe in his whole life

00:34:12.340 because this kind of opinion

00:34:13.720 is from the same kind of person

00:34:15.960 that wouldn't be,

00:34:17.400 wouldn't even know a trucker

00:34:18.960 if they walked,

00:34:20.440 if they walked past him

00:34:21.220 on the street.

00:34:22.280 Oh, that's such a good point.

00:34:23.580 And to the earlier point

00:34:24.700 that somehow

00:34:25.320 this is a continuum

00:34:26.880 from Rebel to True North

00:34:28.500 to Sun Papers

00:34:29.260 all the way to National Post.

00:34:30.940 One of the people,

00:34:31.840 one of the journalists

00:34:32.660 who has been the strongest

00:34:33.900 proponent and advocate

00:34:35.580 for the working class

00:34:36.920 and the truckers

00:34:37.380 has been Rex Murphy

00:34:38.480 who writes for the National Post.

00:34:39.680 He's probably the most prominent writer

00:34:41.560 for the National Post.

00:34:42.680 And it's because he grew up

00:34:44.160 in a working class environment

00:34:45.180 and he still goes out of his way

00:34:46.860 to try to interact

00:34:47.980 with the working class

00:34:49.480 and people like truckers.

00:34:50.540 So there's quite a distinction

00:34:52.220 that you can see

00:34:52.840 between a person

00:34:54.160 who loves their country

00:34:55.000 and cares about getting to know them

00:34:56.320 and wants to hear

00:34:57.160 from different people

00:34:57.800 from different classes,

00:34:58.980 Rex Murphy,

00:34:59.880 and someone who's very isolated,

00:35:01.560 very insular,

00:35:02.660 very snobby,

00:35:03.760 and sort of telling everybody else

00:35:05.460 what to think.

00:35:06.280 And that is Andrew Coyne.

00:35:07.160 Well, it's no surprise, Harrison,

00:35:08.920 that this came out.

00:35:10.200 Polls show that trust

00:35:11.380 in the media

00:35:12.020 and the government

00:35:12.760 are at an all-time low.

00:35:14.460 So in 2022 so far,

00:35:16.180 only 35% of Canadians

00:35:17.940 say they trusted traditional media.

00:35:19.820 It's down from 38% last year.

00:35:21.060 My guess is that

00:35:22.020 it has plummeted even more

00:35:23.200 over the past weeks

00:35:24.120 seeing the way

00:35:25.120 that the media

00:35:26.200 has turned into

00:35:27.160 essentially propagandists

00:35:28.440 for the Trudeau government,

00:35:29.760 repeating their lies

00:35:30.880 that this was an occupation,

00:35:32.400 that these protesters

00:35:33.520 are extremists 1.00

00:35:34.560 and Nazis and racists. 0.99

00:35:36.100 And to so many people,

00:35:37.860 it's just clear as day

00:35:39.220 what the media is doing

00:35:40.440 and how out of touch

00:35:41.360 and untrustworthy they are.

00:35:43.500 Well, Harrison,

00:35:44.100 thank you so much

00:35:44.600 for joining Fake News Friday.

00:35:46.120 It's always fun

00:35:46.600 to have you on the show.

00:35:47.540 Thank you.

00:35:48.340 Yeah, it was great

00:35:48.700 to be on, Candice.

00:35:49.380 Thank you.

00:35:50.640 All right.

00:35:51.080 Thanks for tuning in.

00:35:51.940 I'm Candice Malcolm

00:35:52.460 and this is

00:35:53.060 The Candice Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - February 25, 2022

The media isn’t finished smearing Canada’s truckers

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