The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 24, 2024


CTV News caught editing footage to smear Conservatives


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Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

179.80437

Word count

1,250

Sentence count

67

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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CTV News edited a clip of Conservative Party Leader Pierre Polyev's comments to make it seem like he was calling for a no confidence vote in the Liberal government over universal dental care. But that's not what actually happened. In fact, he was talking about a carbon tax.

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00:00:00.000 Although you shouldn't be shocked that the legacy media in Canada is anti-conservative and pro-liberal,
00:00:06.360 they're literally paid by the government, it is kind of shocking just how blatant it is sometimes.
00:00:13.060 I find the Canadian legacy media tries to mostly just do subtle jabs at the Conservatives.
00:00:18.440 They play the story straight, but then you have somebody like a Lise Laflamme as the host of the news
00:00:23.980 who gives kind of little small snide remarks at whatever the Conservative said or rolls her eyes.
00:00:29.000 That's really what I always knew her as when she was still doing the news over at CTV.
00:00:34.580 But in this case, CTV quite literally just edits Federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev out of context
00:00:41.980 to make it seem like he is trying to call a no-confidence vote in the current Liberal government over Universal Dental.
00:00:49.700 Although Universal Dental is not a very good program because it's a bloated program
00:00:54.560 that is just going to dry up the amount of dental care being provided for very bad delivery for those who it's claiming to help.
00:01:02.180 The thing is that the Conservatives have been very consistent about the fact that they want to call the election over the carbon tax.
00:01:09.140 Universal Dental is a side issue.
00:01:11.540 The Conservatives have a problem with the way that the program is made.
00:01:14.760 You could have Universal Dental for those underneath a certain income level where it makes sense,
00:01:20.200 but just having it be fully universal when more than half of Canadians already have a dental plan,
00:01:25.540 whether private or through work, you know, that's another thing for another day.
00:01:29.480 But I want to get to the way that CTV News had clipped this.
00:01:33.400 So Sebastian Skamski here does a really good job of breaking down what happened.
00:01:39.660 He shows right here what the original context was for Pierre Polyev's statement.
00:01:45.740 It's this longer paragraph here with the three colored words.
00:01:49.740 What above is shown as the three colored words side by side is what CTV News ended up clipping together.
00:01:55.520 You can see there was a lot of words between what is highlighted here.
00:01:59.700 But, like, CTV News, as silly as it seems, actually just put those three words back to back.
00:02:05.240 He has the emotion here.
00:02:07.960 That's why it's time to put forward a motion for a carbon tax election.
00:02:16.400 So that's the original context.
00:02:18.600 Oops, sorry.
00:02:19.060 That's why we need to put forward a motion.
00:02:25.120 That's why.
00:02:26.780 Sorry about this.
00:02:27.620 This is the what CTV News served up, which utterly shreds the entire context to make it seem like what he was saying is that they want to have a election over the dental care,
00:02:43.040 because that's what was previously being talked about during this CTV News segment.
00:02:48.160 That's why we need to put forward a motion.
00:02:51.740 So it just says that's why we need to put forward a motion and then moving on to talking about putting forward a motion of non-confidence, removing the fact that it's over the carbon tax.
00:03:03.160 They're just acting through their editing as if it is over the dental care proposal, because that's what CTV News had just been talking about right before they played the filleted clip.
00:03:14.140 And I find that even the media's own reaction to the conservatives reacting to being smeared has been very telling at how they all think, that when conservatives are being treated unfairly and they push back, it's actually pure poly of like the CBC headline is indicating, lashing out.
00:03:35.380 It says, poly of lashes out at Bell Canada after CTV airs altered clip.
00:03:41.740 No, no, no.
00:03:42.620 It was a complete, it was, they aired misinformation, if not disinformation, because you couldn't convince me that they weren't trying to alter the context or hurt poly of disinformation is when you are knowingly spreading information that is not correct.
00:03:58.360 And that's what CTV News did.
00:04:00.520 But no, it's Poly of lashing out.
00:04:03.580 He's lashing out at the CTV at CTV News or altering a clip.
00:04:07.620 It makes it sound like they might have just like removed a single key frame and that was it.
00:04:12.360 Obviously, that wasn't what happened.
00:04:14.460 But CTV News wants you to think that because they don't want to give any wins to the conservatives.
00:04:19.340 You see this all the time, where whenever a conservative pushes back against an unfair question these days, they get accused of being, you know, anti-journalist, anti-free speech.
00:04:29.080 I can't believe the usually pro-free speech conservatives aren't letting journalists ask them questions.
00:04:34.200 And they are.
00:04:35.160 They just have a problem with the framing because usually the framing is a lie.
00:04:40.120 If the framing is off, it doesn't matter how you answer the question, you're going to look bad.
00:04:45.440 It's the sort of when did you stop beating your wife type of a question.
00:04:49.500 That's exactly what people like Poly of get asked all the time now.
00:04:52.900 Oh, some people are saying that you're far right.
00:04:55.360 What do you say to that accusation?
00:04:56.820 Even if he denies it, the viewer is getting the impression, well, people are thinking this guy's far right.
00:05:01.540 There must be something far right about him.
00:05:02.760 Even though whenever Poly of then asks, what have I done that's far right?
00:05:06.820 How am I dog whistling to people?
00:05:08.480 How am I conspiracy theorist?
00:05:10.100 They then fall apart because they don't have anything.
00:05:12.140 They're just trying to inject those words into the conversation because if the words float around in the conversation,
00:05:18.760 you'll maybe, if you're not very well versed on the political situation, assume that there's some validity to it being brought up.
00:05:26.560 That happens all the time.
00:05:27.500 It's happening right now in British Columbia, where I am, where the NDP keep talking about crazy candidates or extreme candidates or weird candidates for the BC Conservatives.
00:05:36.800 And they don't really cite any real examples.
00:05:39.460 They'll take someone's tweets out of context from five years ago or go after candidates who were already filtered out by the party and pretend that that is now indicative of the party overall,
00:05:50.320 even though they have 93 candidates and they've only really gone after two of them, mostly completely unfairly at this point.
00:05:56.460 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
00:05:59.140 I just wanted to comment on this story a little bit because I know a lot of people are talking about it.
00:06:03.340 I saw so many people when the Conservatives put out an email about this were mocking them and saying that they're complaining.
00:06:09.240 And, you know, this is just what happens when the Conservatives are nasty to journalists.
00:06:13.840 The Conservatives didn't buy this for themselves in any way.
00:06:16.880 It's the media who have always been like this.
00:06:19.740 The media have been willing to take Andrew Shiro to context and Aaron O'Toole as well, despite how liberal Aaron O'Toole was.
00:06:25.920 They will only ever act against you.
00:06:28.460 And Conservatives have to not try and court legacy media approval.
00:06:32.320 If you push back on them, you'll actually probably get far more people who even watch those channels on your side.
00:06:37.860 Because even somebody sitting at home watching CTV News every night, when they see a lot of these questions that are asked of people like Paliyev or these clips being spliced out of context, the back of their mind subtly tells them that this is a white right. 0.83
00:06:51.840 And when you vocalize it, it kind of makes that final connection there.
00:06:55.540 Anyways, see you guys later.