The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 14, 2025


Dumb Liberal operatives EXPOSED for anti-Conservative stunt!

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Two Liberal operatives planted a bunch of buttons at the Conservative conference in order to smear the Tories as mega-Republicans. They got caught and now they are in hot water with the Liberal Party of Canada. Is this just part of a larger smear campaign to delegitimize the Conservatives?

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. You'll love to see it. I love seeing political operatives make
00:00:06.860 absolute fools of themselves because they thought they were true political sharks, 1.00
00:00:11.940 when in fact they're just a bunch of lame staffers trying to pull off a stupid trick 1.00
00:00:16.740 so that they can get a promotion. I'm not sure if you've seen this, but some liberal staffers 0.99
00:00:22.020 or operatives tried to plant these buttons at the Canada Strong and Free Network conference
00:00:27.700 going on in Ottawa to try and smear conservatives as mega Republicans who are going to deny the
00:00:34.160 election and there's tons of infighting going on and everyone agrees with Corey Tanakey that the
00:00:39.260 conservative HQ was doing a bad job. It's embarrassing and they got exposed for it,
00:00:45.140 which means it is now a bad news story for the liberals because the liberals tried to push
00:00:50.100 the absolute lamest attempt to cheat the election by planting false evidence against their opponents.
00:00:58.960 The story actually came out from the CBC. I give Kate McKenna a lot of credit because she followed
00:01:04.980 this lead from just overhearing these two morons speaking in an Ottawa area bar. I'm going to give 1.00
00:01:12.360 some advice to sleazy political actors out there. If you want to do some sleazy political action, 0.96
00:01:20.580 don't talk about it in an Ottawa area bar. This is like if you're trying to undermine national security
00:01:28.740 in the United States and you plot in the coffee shop in the Pentagon. What are you doing? Everyone
00:01:33.960 in the bar is a political staffer, another political operative, or it's a journalist. And even
00:01:39.180 though most legacy media journalists would have just let it go because they probably support the
00:01:43.960 liberals, Kate McKenna did not let it go and followed up on it. So very good work to Kate
00:01:49.180 McKenna. I'm going to have this article linked in the description below as well as pinned at the top
00:01:54.120 of the comments. Something I want to comment on as well is just the subhead here. I'm going to get to
00:01:59.940 that in just a second. I do just want to do my normal plug. Hey guys, if you like this channel,
00:02:04.620 make sure to like the video, subscribe. If you're not yet a subscriber, leave a comment.
00:02:08.960 What do you think about the story I'm talking about today? I always like to scroll through and
00:02:13.160 see what people are saying. So, you know, do that and always make sure to try and get back to some
00:02:17.520 people if I see a common theme throughout the comments. But look at the subhead. So after the
00:02:23.560 official headline, Liberal Operatives Plant Stopped the Steal Buttons at Conservative Conference,
00:02:29.580 the subhead says, Liberal Party says campaigners regrettably got carried away with use of buttons.
00:02:35.240 So these people are confirmed to be Liberal Party campaigners. These aren't just some rogue staffers
00:02:41.400 work for some backbench MP and they were trying to pull off some big op and they got made fools of
00:02:46.920 for their trouble. These are Liberal Party campaigners in the Ottawa area, potentially working
00:02:52.440 in Mark Carney's riding of Nepean or Pierre Polly's riding of Carleton. I don't know. But when they said
00:02:59.520 they got carried away, aren't you kind of giving away the game a little bit that this, in fact,
00:03:05.820 may have been part of an overall Liberal strategy to smear the Conservatives? Because that's kind of
00:03:12.220 what the Liberals have been doing up to this point. But these two operatives just, you know, went a little
00:03:18.200 too far. But the Liberals generally liked 80% of the idea, just not the part where, frankly,
00:03:24.340 they got caught. I do just want to quickly jump down to what the Liberal Party said. So we see this
00:03:30.760 right here in the article. It says, Liberal spokesperson Kevin Lemke said the party has conducted
00:03:39.640 a review of the matter and that the leader Mark Carney had made it clear this does not fit his
00:03:44.920 commitment to serious and positive discourse. Have you guys noticed serious and positive discourse
00:03:52.260 by Carney in this campaign? I've noticed it being very hysterical and anti-American for the most
00:03:57.500 part. I know we're Canadians and that we should support Canada, but I have never appreciated the
00:04:02.620 idea that to be a Canadian nationalist, you then have to constantly slag the Americans, our closest
00:04:09.440 allies. I'm a Canadian patriot, so I want Canada and its allies to be better every single day in the
00:04:16.320 best way possible. But the quote goes on and it says, it's unfortunate, but not surprising. Oh, I
00:04:22.480 think this is the Cam Strong and Free spokesperson. They say it's unfortunate, but not surprising that
00:04:27.260 the Liberals would seek to misrepresent the views of attendees at our conference. These divisive,
00:04:33.320 gimmicky tactics say more about the Liberals than they do about the United Growing Conservative Movement.
00:04:37.620 And that is absolutely correct. Alex Spence is correct that what the Liberals are really exposing
00:04:44.820 about themselves is how petty they are. The fact they don't have anything to run on. If you have to
00:04:50.320 try and artificially plant things to generate a scandal for the other party, then you don't have a
00:04:57.780 clear kill shot on that party. You don't really have anything to say about them that's that bad
00:05:03.960 if you have to make things up in order to say bad things about them. And let's be clear, even if not
00:05:10.080 a single attendee had seen that button and decided to put one on, that Liberal operative would have
00:05:15.820 taken a photo probably of the buttons that they placed there themselves and said, look what people
00:05:21.080 at the CSFN conference were putting on their table. That's very concerning. It's almost like they
00:05:27.340 want Canada to be the 51st state. They would have done it because we have had pettier, stupider things 0.99
00:05:33.400 being done in this election than even that. I want to get now to some social media reaction. I don't 0.96
00:05:38.940 usually want to be the guy who fills up a video of just reading other people's tweets, but this is
00:05:43.920 quite good. I just want to comment on these two things that people were talking about. The two posts
00:05:52.060 that Adam Zeevo had put up, great conservative campaigner out there who campaigns against safe
00:05:56.500 supply around Canada. So he sums up the story here saying, two Liberal staffers made fake Trump-style
00:06:03.700 buttons and planted them at a Conservative conference last week. They were exposed after they discussed
00:06:08.840 the plot at an Ottawa bar and were overheard by a CBC reporter. Misleading the public this way is
00:06:14.560 deplorable and inexcusable. And then I just want to jump up to this other post that he made about it
00:06:19.920 because it's very telling about the hardcore liberal in Canadian politics right now. So he starts
00:06:27.240 commenting on what happened on Reddit when some people started posting about the story on subreddits
00:06:33.740 that are heavily, heavily stacked with a lot of Canadian left-wing progressives. So Adam Zeevo says,
00:06:40.700 this story is being downvoted into oblivion within Canada's progressive subreddits,
00:06:45.560 Canada politics, and on guard for thee. Where users are claiming that the reporting is false and
00:06:51.580 unsubstantiated. Fascinating behavior from people who normally condemn election disinformation.
00:06:57.920 But they're just following the lead of Mark Carney, who, like his predecessor Justin Trudeau,
00:07:03.940 will basically say you can't believe everything published in the Globe and Mail as soon as the Globe
00:07:08.940 and Mail, a very liberal paper, reports something that they don't like. There's a pattern of this in
00:07:14.660 liberal circles that if even mainstream news reporting goes against them, it suddenly becomes
00:07:20.500 fake news when they are the same ones who attack conservatives when the same legacy media papers
00:07:26.180 put out actual smear stories about conservatives. Guilt by association, innuendo nonsense. If you don't
00:07:32.740 like that story and you're a conservative, you're just some sort of right-wing troll. But the CBC puts out 0.88
00:07:38.620 a story where they had actual verification that this was a false flag and it's misinformation and
00:07:44.940 disinformation and Kate McKenna should be put on an ice float and let starve out at sea. It's 1.00
00:07:51.020 absolutely pathetic. And if you don't know on, if you're on Reddit, if you ever use Reddit, you 0.98
00:07:56.960 shouldn't use Reddit. The worst thing can be called in this world is a Redditor. But if you download
00:08:02.460 something, it's not like on YouTube where it doesn't matter if you like or dislike a video,
00:08:07.040 although I do like likes on my videos, disliking a video doesn't bury it because it just demonstrates
00:08:12.080 that there's discourse about a video, that there's strong reactions about a video. On Reddit, because
00:08:17.120 it's such a left-wing, censorious platform, if people don't like a story, they can just mass
00:08:21.880 downvote it so that nobody actually sees it on their timeline. It's absolutely pathetic. It's why I 0.98
00:08:27.620 really do not like apps like Reddit and there's just constantly people on it that are trying to
00:08:33.780 pump themselves up. By the way, I love that this story included a button that had Jenny Byrne's name
00:08:42.700 crossed out and had Corey Tanike's put underneath. As if any conservative, especially at a more
00:08:48.760 ideological event like the Canada Strong and Freedom Network, are very anti-Jenny Byrne, but very pro-Corey
00:08:55.160 Tanike. I'm not saying that people are pro-Jenny Byrne. It's that nobody cares. Nobody cares about the 1.00
00:09:01.640 difference between these two campaign directors and them fighting. They're trying to like start
00:09:05.700 this. You can tell that political operatives put this whole operation together. This was not organic
00:09:12.580 because only a political operative would think that there is infighting over who likes Jenny Byrne and 1.00
00:09:18.680 who likes Corey Tanike. Most conservatives don't probably like either of them because both of them
00:09:24.060 tend to be more red Tories and people at a conference like CSFM are just going to say like, you know,
00:09:30.060 well, who cares? Who would wear a button like that and then stop the steal? Stealing what?
00:09:36.940 What conservative has actually said anything about rigging an election? In fact, there actually is
00:09:42.080 election issues in Canada, but it's around the liberals working with the basically the Chinese 0.87
00:09:47.180 Communist Party and allowing candidates to run with CCP connections as well as connections to Islamic
00:09:52.360 Revolutionary Guard Corps from Iran. You can do that. Who is the guy? Maja Jahari. That's the liberal MP who
00:10:01.240 has the strong Iranian government regime connections. And then you have people like Paul Chang. They got rid
00:10:06.520 of, replaced him with this Juan Yun guy who also has CCP connections. That Baines guy in BC has CCP
00:10:13.080 connections. Mary New has CCP connections. There is literally CCP front groups trying to pump up liberal
00:10:19.480 candidates, drive out students from mainland China to force them to go and volunteer to hurt conservatives. 0.53
00:10:25.720 There is actual election issues in Canada, but even then the conservatives are usually sanguine and nice
00:10:31.160 enough to not even go to the level of saying it's cheating. They mostly just call it out as election
00:10:35.960 foreign interference. And the liberals never deal with it. And it's hilarious that the the liberals would then go to the
00:10:43.160 operatives would then try and plant evidence that the conservatives are saying stop the seal.
00:10:48.440 They've never done it. And in fact, you guys are cheating and they're nice enough not to mention it. And you guys
00:10:53.420 couldn't even find a conservative willing to wear that. It's ridiculous. I love this post from J.J. McCullough, where he 0.99
00:11:01.320 says, next, you'll be telling me these official conservative party, these aren't conservative party
00:11:06.200 buttons either. And he did this AI generated image of three buttons that says, I am a proud boys. And one
00:11:13.480 says, let's all do political violence. And another one says, I love Trump more than Canada. Because these
00:11:20.200 are some of the other buttons that were also put out on the tables. Danielle Smith for CPC leader 2026,
00:11:26.600 free Alberta, make Canada great again, which I don't know exactly how that would be bad.
00:11:31.720 lock Justin up. And a vote for Carney is a vote for Wexit. Yeah, the fact that you thought that this was
00:11:39.240 going to work proves you shouldn't work in politics. In fact, you probably shouldn't work in anything.
00:11:45.560 You seem too stupid to eat. You may need assistance doing basic day to day tasks. So yeah, it demonstrates 1.00
00:11:54.520 the liberals got nothing. Now I just want to move on to another video because I love this ladies 1.00
00:12:01.160 videos. I love myself some Laura Babcock clips. So we're going to end this video off with this 22
00:12:09.960 second video of Laura Babcock having yet another panic attack on camera talking about why Mark Carney is
00:12:17.240 so much better than Pierre Polyev. I'm a business owner. I value results over
00:12:22.600 bullshit. I value success over ambition. I want a leader who can get it done. Who doesn't just 0.99
00:12:31.480 yell and tilt at windmills who actually gets it done. And we have watched Mark Carney getting it done.
00:12:39.800 What is she even talking about? Is she actually comparing the Mark Carney to Pierre Polyev that
00:12:46.680 Carney got rid of the carbon tax and has done some extremely minor policy shifts. It's almost like he's the
00:12:54.040 prime minister and Pierre Polyev is the opposition leader. What was he supposed to wrestle the pen out
00:13:01.640 of Mark Carney's hand to sign that he in fact was the one who wanted the carbon tax to go? Everyone knows
00:13:07.080 that Polyev was the one who was pushing to get rid of the carbon tax and Mark Carney and the liberals caved
00:13:12.360 to the demand and eventually did themselves pretending that this was all their idea.
00:13:16.840 This is the average liberal voter in terms of the hardcore never going to change their mind liberal voter
00:13:21.960 thinking that there is some that Carney is just more qualified because he's wielding power. Yeah, he's in
00:13:31.720 charge right now. Of course, he's wielding power and she starts that off with saying well, I'm a business owner.
00:13:37.640 Apparently her business is not selling lithium or Xanax because she is never like calm and collected in these
00:13:44.040 videos business owner business. No, I reject the claim that she is a business owner. If she does,
00:13:51.400 she is a delusional business owner thinking that somehow Carney's been getting it done when he's
00:13:56.840 been the economic advisor for five years and has helped hollow out Canada's economy. In fact, Carney,
00:14:03.080 also somebody who helped run a business investment firm, moved his business down to the United States
00:14:08.600 and has three tax havens, two in Bermuda and one in the Cayman Islands.
00:14:13.080 That's getting it done. She just doesn't care. These people are just willing to say things.
00:14:20.760 Anyway, so that should be it for me today, guys. I'm actually boarding a plane tomorrow. I'll
00:14:25.800 probably film something else before I go tomorrow, but I'm boarding a plane to go to Ottawa myself to
00:14:31.240 investigate the button scandal. Not actually. I'm going to Ottawa to go doorknock and probably the
00:14:36.040 ridings of Nepean and Kanata. Maybe I'll also go to Alio's riding of Carlton for a day just for the fun of it.
00:14:41.640 If you live in the Ottawa area and you want to volunteer, I will probably be bouncing around the
00:14:46.920 office in Nepean at Barbara Ball's office on the 15th to the 20th. So if you want to come
00:14:52.840 doorknocking with me, you want to do any campaign organizing with me, show up. I'm just volunteering.
00:14:57.640 I'm not an important person, but if you've never doorknocked before, maybe swing by at some point
00:15:02.840 and I will show you the ropes, teach you how to do it. I haven't doorknocked this campaign,
00:15:06.680 so I feel bad. I am in Calgary, so it does make it hard to find a riding that isn't like
00:15:11.400 a 45-minute drive away that I can go help out in. So make sure you swing by. Send me an email
00:15:18.040 about it or not. I actually have like a pile of 50 emails. I'm sorry if you ever email me and it
00:15:23.560 takes me a while to get back to you. Sometimes my email app closes and I don't realize it's closed.
00:15:29.480 I open out like 50 emails like, okay, I'm going to have to do this in 10 email chunks per day until
00:15:33.560 I'm caught up. So maybe email me. Maybe don't because you might not have me get back to you right away.
00:15:39.480 But anyway, so that's it for me today, guys. See you later.