The Critical Compass Podcast - The Media's Framing of Politicians vs. Reality ｜ A Critical Compass Clip

In this episode, the guys talk about the current state of the conservative movement in Canada, and what it means to be a conservative in the 21st century. They also discuss the recent "humanizing" clip of Polyana Vaynerchuk talking about his non-verbal daughter, and whether or not it was a good or bad thing.

00:00:00.000 I don't think people have gone through the same process, like a good chunk of people have not

00:00:08.540 stress tested their ideas. They get emotional when somebody disagrees, and we've seen this

00:00:13.920 with friends and family. And so there's a lot of incentive to kind of stick within your own circle.

00:00:22.020 And as soon as we step outside of the circle, I think a lot of conservatives forget how it feels

00:00:28.660 to be inside one bubble, because we're outside of that bubble. And if a lot of our interactions are

00:00:36.480 with people who also believe the same things, let it be on mandates, or how COVID went, or with kind

00:00:43.620 of the financial side of where Canada's going, or kind of where we need to go with governance and

00:00:49.800 immigration and all these other policies, we're in a totally different bubble.

00:00:55.780 So, but I'm wondering, how strong is that bubble? And what is the minimum that people need

00:01:04.260 to vote on? Is it a, is it, maybe it's a simple misconception? Could it be, Pierre is going

00:01:12.480 to take away abortion rights? That could be, and that's not true. And that's enough of a 0.56

00:01:20.560 misconception that a uninformed, unengaged, left-leaning voter might even vote on that.

00:01:29.900 So I guess, what's the path forward? Yeah.

00:01:35.720 We were talking before we hit record here about how that little clip that came out this week about,

00:01:40.640 or maybe late last week, of Polyev talking about his nonverbal daughter, and how that was kind of a

00:01:48.760 nice little, like, humanizing kind of moment, you know, to, maybe for somebody who, you know,

00:01:53.800 who views Polyev as a, you know, a Trump light or something like this, like, you know, obviously

00:01:58.800 couldn't be farther from the truth, but, you know, a lot of conservatives in Canada wish he was like

00:02:04.140 a Trump light, but, you know, unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, depending on your opinion,

00:02:09.000 not even close.

00:02:09.820 Um, but to see, you know, a little, a little human, humanizing type of a segment about this,

00:02:15.260 where he's talking about his little daughter, who's like, you know, obviously I think nonverbal

00:02:19.460 probably means like, she's somewhere on the autism spectrum probably. And, you know, they've

00:02:22.960 just, she was just a small comment on like how they communicate, they find different ways to

00:02:27.160 communicate and like how nice it is when she like, cause she really wears her emotions on her

00:02:31.040 sleeve. Cause she can't really, you know, she, you know, she'll, she'll, she experiences the,

00:02:35.460 the extremes of emotions. And so when she shows, you know, caring and love, you know, that's like

00:02:40.140 a, it, it means a little, it means so much more cause it's so, you can tell that she really means

00:02:44.780 it kind of thing. I think that was the gist of the little comment, but like, I have a hard time

00:02:49.000 believing that, you know, even the most hardened, like Polyev, like liberal Polyev hater could see

00:02:56.560 that and be like, ah, you know, maybe he's not so bad. You know what I mean? Like, it's like when

00:03:01.380 you see somebody you hate and you know, or like a politician or an actor or somebody you don't like

00:03:06.300 and like you see them interacting with their dog or something or their kids and you're like, ah,

00:03:11.000 yeah, maybe he's all right. You know what I mean? Like one of those little breaks the fourth wall

00:03:15.140 kind of things. Is that enough to undo months or years of, of demonization? I doubt it. I doubt it.

00:03:25.260 Because here's the thing. You can, you can find clips of Trump being like him interacting with his

00:03:33.300 grandchildren. Yes. You could see his heart come out and he's so happy to see them and he's

00:03:38.340 interacting and the way he interacts with children. Those are all green flags of like, if it's,

00:03:45.240 if you're comparing between different political figures, there's examples of people who are creepy

00:03:51.400 around children. Yeah. Um, maybe a couple, too many sniffs. Um, yeah. Old sniffing sleepy Joe. Yeah.

00:03:59.920 I was just going to say like, that's a, it's a perfect example because it's like, you look at how

00:04:04.880 you look at how the media tried to portray Joe Biden and his family for the last four years,

00:04:10.860 for the last, like, you know, even going back into the, you know, late two thousands, you know,

00:04:15.480 or rather, uh, yeah, late two thousands, early 2010s as, as the vice president. And like his

00:04:20.640 family is a disaster. Like they're just awful people. And like, what a mess. And then you look 1.00

00:04:26.720 at Trump and Trump's supposed to be this like irredeemable, like scourge on the earth. And

00:04:32.160 like his kids love him. They're all like high powered, you know, professionals. They all like,

00:04:37.340 they all work with him in some capacity. The grandchildren love him. Like his family unit is

00:04:43.340 like very intact. So it's like, Oh, how do you, how do you square these two things?

00:04:46.980 Hey.

The Critical Compass Podcast - April 23, 2025

The Media's Framing of Politicians vs. Reality ｜ A Critical Compass Clip

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