The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 27, 2024


Leftist squirm after Conservatives proven right on Media Manipulation

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Pierre Poilievre Andrew Coyne Erin O'Toole David Musgrove Bruce Arthur Universal Dental George Washington Michelle Ferreri Steve Chase Max Fawcett Robert Fyfe Hitler Nixon
Poilievre's No Confidence vote exposes Singh as Trudeau's lackey BC Conservatives projected to win majority over Eby's NDP

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Over the past 72 hours, we ve ve witnessed a textbook example of media manipulation and left-wing bias in Canadian political coverage. And I m not just talking about the CTV News story, although that is the catalyst to the whole situation. I m talking mostly about the reaction from lefty journalists and fake conservatives in the legacy media. Because it s crazy how even though the federal conservatives and Pure Polyev were proven correct at every step of the way, the media attacked them for it.

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00:00:00.000 Over the past 72 hours, I think that we've witnessed a textbook example of media manipulation and left-wing bias in Canadian political coverage.
00:00:10.300 And I am not just talking about the CTV news story, although that is the catalyst to the whole situation.
00:00:17.260 For those of you who don't know, I'll explain generally what happened, and then I want to talk mostly about the reaction from lefty journalists and fake conservatives in the legacy media.
00:00:27.280 Because it's crazy how even though the federal conservatives and Pure Polyev were proven right at every step of the way, you mostly had the media attacking them for it, no matter what stage of the timeline we are in. 0.85
00:00:42.040 So it all started out with the conservatives calling out CTV news for having manipulated footage of Pure Polyev speaking about the no-confidence motion in the liberal government and making it seem like Polyev was bringing it forward because he opposes Universal Dental so much.
00:00:58.060 Universal Dental is still a terrible program, it's bloated, costs too much, and the liberals have basically been manipulating metrics around it to pretend it's performing well.
00:01:05.780 But obviously, Polyev had been calling for the motion of no-confidence because of the carbon tax, because the liberals refused to scrap the consumer carbon tax, that pretty much by all the polling metrics, the vast majority of Canadians want gone.
00:01:21.920 Now, obviously, the media had done this in order to make it seem like Polyev is just so against social programs, and that's why he wants to call an election.
00:01:30.620 CTV News had taken an entire paragraph that Pure Polyev had said and picked out a few different lines in order to reconstruct a sentence that made it seem like he was saying, yes, this is why we're bringing the motion forward, right after CTV News had been talking about Universal Dental.
00:01:48.480 This is not a mistake, you don't accidentally hit the keyboard wrong and then generate this kind of a clip.
00:01:54.060 This was spliced very precisely, and it would have only taken an extra second or two in order to get the full context that this was actually about the carbon tax.
00:02:03.840 Now, when Pure Polyev and the federal conservatives called this out in an email to their supporters as well as through press releases,
00:02:11.360 there were so many people in the legacy media as well as the left-wing blogosphere who immediately mocked the conservatives.
00:02:18.180 Oh, they're so sensitive, they can't handle neutral, unbiased media, they want CTV News to be putting up propaganda for them.
00:02:25.880 What's wrong?
00:02:27.080 And then the clips came out of what Polyev actually said and what CTV News had done.
00:02:32.900 And then you still got excuse-making saying, well, that's basically what he had said. 0.91
00:02:38.360 Oh, it's no different, it's just another dumb failed motion of no confidence.
00:02:42.600 What he's saying isn't so important that CTV News can't condense it. 0.65
00:02:46.660 And then CTV News had to come out and say, yes, we understand this is actually, you know, this is not fair,
00:02:52.860 that's not actually what you said about the no confidence vote.
00:02:55.480 And then you had people on CBC and other legacy media outlets, and again, also the left-wing blogs,
00:03:02.300 came out and said, well, it's ridiculous for the conservatives to pretend like this is malicious. 0.72
00:03:06.300 It's so paranoid.
00:03:07.780 And I even want to quickly bring up this post that was made right before the finale had happened.
00:03:13.520 David Musgrove, a man whose profession seems to be just being impressed with himself all day,
00:03:19.560 says, this paranoid, self-pitying, enemies-less Nixon bit won't age well.
00:03:25.380 And it's Polyev calling out other bad, like he was reposting an article from the National Post,
00:03:31.080 one of the few mostly conservative outlets,
00:03:33.300 saying that CTV News was acting in shameful fashion to their journalistic, you know, their journalistic aspirations.
00:03:43.140 And David is basically saying that pure poly is being paranoid and pretending everyone's out to get him.
00:03:48.160 And then CTV News released a statement saying that, yes, we had had to fire two employees
00:03:53.060 because this error was so egregious and it was intentional.
00:03:57.000 This isn't something like, again, where somebody slips, hits the space bar when they didn't mean to,
00:04:02.040 and it generated something that made Polyev look bad.
00:04:04.520 This was something where the people working on it knew what they were doing,
00:04:08.060 it took them hours to accomplish,
00:04:10.100 and there was no reason for the entire statement that Polyev had made not to be included in the news segment.
00:04:16.000 The Canadian news, if you watch it, is the most repetitive thing on the planet.
00:04:19.580 CBC, the National, is only about an hour, and they repeat it multiple times a night. 1.00
00:04:23.520 CTV News as well, they will keep playing the same stupid stories all day long. 0.99
00:04:28.740 No excuse not to cover the no confidence vote, right? 0.99
00:04:31.760 This isn't like American media where they're always moving on to another story
00:04:34.420 because there's a lot of news in America, and they're privately funded news networks,
00:04:39.080 and they actually have to deliver you content, regardless if you believe in you like the station or not.
00:04:44.220 CNN, Fox, MSNBC do a far better job than any legacy media outlet.
00:04:48.600 And Michel Ferreri and other conservative MPs rightfully then took a victory lap
00:04:54.500 after CTV News had fired these two employees
00:04:57.360 because it was a complete admission of guilt that, yes, CTV was acting improperly.
00:05:04.200 And now we suddenly have the same people saying,
00:05:07.500 well, conservatives just can't handle neutral, unbiased coverage.
00:05:10.580 And then saying, well, this might have not been the best way of editing this clip,
00:05:13.940 but it's paranoid and delusional to think that this is actually CTV News coming after them
00:05:19.900 and trying to make Polyev look bad by implying that he wants an election over social programs,
00:05:24.960 not over the carbon tax, like he keeps saying every single day.
00:05:29.380 And now it's that, well, it's only two employees.
00:05:32.960 You can't blame all of CTV because of two employees,
00:05:35.840 even though a lot of these people in the same breath will say the entire CBC,
00:05:40.540 like the CPC, the Conservative Party of Canada,
00:05:43.740 is attacking journalists and being corrupt, 0.88
00:05:47.340 even though supposedly you're only supposed to blame the two individuals who are actually at fault.
00:05:53.420 You can't blame all of CTV, but you can blame all of the CPC
00:05:56.660 for going after CTV for doing something wrong.
00:05:59.940 And so now we have people like fake conservatives like Andrew Coyne coming out
00:06:05.300 to attack the conservatives for standing up for good coverage.
00:06:09.180 Andrew Coyne here says,
00:06:10.460 Pure Polyev will restore journalistic ethics and integrity.
00:06:14.000 Really? Tell us more.
00:06:15.600 How will he do that?
00:06:17.300 Andrew, it just happened.
00:06:19.480 That's an example of actually restoring journalistic ethics and integrity.
00:06:23.560 Another great move will be doing things like defunding the CBC,
00:06:26.580 who you work for and you don't want the money taken away from 1.00
00:06:29.460 because they pay you to give absolutely pedantic, stupid opinions on television all day. 1.00
00:06:34.980 And you get to write articles that are like 3,000 words 1.00
00:06:37.960 about something that everyone forgot about two weeks ago.
00:06:40.960 Regardless, though, this is restoring integrity,
00:06:44.500 calling out bad journalistic questions,
00:06:46.680 calling out bad edits,
00:06:48.200 calling out media organizations for not giving a fair shake to your political party
00:06:52.880 is absolutely in line with standing up for integrity in the media.
00:06:57.240 But Andrew Coyne thinks that we should live in a world where journalists never get questioned.
00:07:01.880 Journalists can say and do whatever they want.
00:07:04.640 And because they have a little lanyard around their neck saying, 0.82
00:07:07.580 I work for a crappy news organization,
00:07:09.660 that means they are owed, 0.67
00:07:12.200 just absolutely poured out respect.
00:07:15.660 We should just act like they're gods.
00:07:18.140 This is why Andrew Coyne liked Aaron O'Toole as the conservative party leader.
00:07:22.100 Aaron O'Toole's first move in any situation where something controversial comes up
00:07:26.980 is to capitulate.
00:07:28.340 So every time a journalist stuck a microphone in the face and said,
00:07:31.420 you're a bad person, Aaron,
00:07:32.880 what do you say about that? 0.53
00:07:34.060 Aaron O'Toole would be like,
00:07:35.100 I'm sorry for being a bad person.
00:07:36.860 I'm going to flail myself when I get home with a whip
00:07:41.180 because I can't believe I even dared to even be part of the conservative party
00:07:45.460 in front of a journalist.
00:07:46.800 He was not conservative,
00:07:47.600 but Andrew Coyne liked him because Andrew Coyne's not a conservative.
00:07:50.680 Andrew Coyne is a conservative in the sense that he wants to conserve anything
00:07:55.520 that's currently in government.
00:07:57.960 If a government creates a new institution,
00:08:00.840 Andrew Coyne will defend that institution.
00:08:02.900 Andrew Coyne's the kind of guy that if he was in the Soviet Union in the 1990s,
00:08:07.220 he would be very mad that the entire thing fell apart
00:08:10.340 and they started getting rid of all the communistic institutions
00:08:12.900 because conservatives should be fighting to keep institutions
00:08:15.800 because we've had them for a long time, don't you know,
00:08:18.560 even though he will fight for institutions that were made five seconds ago
00:08:22.060 and are obviously just big left-wing policy front groups.
00:08:26.640 Regardless, jumping over to some other journalists here.
00:08:30.980 Max Fawcett, how was it that the free speech folks are now calling for a columnist
00:08:36.800 to be fired for exercising her right to free speech? 0.60
00:08:39.580 And he's reacting to this woman who's slamming somebody, I believe,
00:08:43.460 either from the CBC or the Toronto Star
00:08:45.760 for accusing the conservatives of attacking journalism for calling out CTV.
00:08:51.280 Obviously, this person doesn't have the power to fire whoever this,
00:08:55.580 like the Susan from CBC or Toronto Star.
00:09:00.240 She's calling her out for being obviously just bad faith, 0.85
00:09:04.380 just being a weasel.
00:09:05.700 CTV gets caught doing something wrong and now you have a bunch of journalists
00:09:09.740 coming out of the woodwork saying,
00:09:10.780 I can't believe Polyev's so mean.
00:09:12.820 I can't believe he would attack somebody for attacking him. 0.99
00:09:16.760 Goodness, disgusting.
00:09:18.040 I can't believe when somebody walks up to Polyev and says, 0.99
00:09:21.100 you're racist, defend yourself, 0.52
00:09:22.940 that Polyev says, no, you're wrong 1.00
00:09:24.780 and you're being absolutely bad faith and disgusting. 0.93
00:09:27.280 When somebody comes up to him and says, 0.99
00:09:29.140 you're dog whistling to the far right
00:09:30.660 and he asks, give me an example, 0.99
00:09:32.240 these fools legitimately think that that's somehow an attack on a journalist. 0.97
00:09:37.400 As if, again, a journalist was just supposed to have the red cart rolled out in front of them. 1.00
00:09:41.700 They'd walk up to you and say, when did you stop beating your wife? 0.73
00:09:44.440 And you're like, that's a fair question, whoever your name is.
00:09:48.120 You know, beating your wife's bad. 1.00
00:09:50.820 And if you're telling me that I'm doing that,
00:09:53.400 I'm going to stop doing that. 1.00
00:09:55.040 Stupid. 1.00
00:09:55.960 Don't capitulate to these people. 1.00
00:09:57.620 They have no ethics whatsoever.
00:09:59.240 They get people like Bruce Arthur, who still haven't deleted this post.
00:10:04.060 And it says, he's reacting to this guy,
00:10:06.320 says, new stage in Canadian Tory-led Polyev versus BCE or whatever.
00:10:10.860 And he's going after the fact that they were demanding that CTV News apologizes.
00:10:16.740 And Bruce Arthur from the Toronto Star here says,
00:10:18.940 they're already effectively boycotting at least one very unfair and well-run CBC show.
00:10:24.500 Very fair and well-run CBC show.
00:10:27.300 Claiming it was malicious speaks to either a paranoid worldview or just a cynical one. 0.92
00:10:32.560 What a petulant bunch.
00:10:34.220 Except they were right. 0.58
00:10:35.320 Bruce, maybe you should delete your tweet because it proves that you're completely out of touch.
00:10:40.280 You just assume that the conservatives are wrong.
00:10:42.780 And that's what he went along with.
00:10:45.000 Other people here saying, that one's not even worth it.
00:10:49.400 But other people basically saying the conservatives are bad.
00:10:51.720 And they're trying to now threaten the media by taking away their subsidies.
00:10:55.360 Why do the media have subsidies in the first place?
00:10:57.960 Now we have David Musgrove here again saying,
00:11:00.780 the conservatives will fight the press because it plays well with the base and raise money.
00:11:04.860 Their machine feeds on enemies.
00:11:07.380 Eventually the strategy fails,
00:11:08.920 but it can work in the short run and do tremendous damage while it does.
00:11:13.420 He said this after CTV News had to fire the journalists,
00:11:16.780 had to fire the people for editing Polyev out of context.
00:11:20.980 How is that bad to point out?
00:11:22.920 I don't understand how these people can be so unselfaware.
00:11:28.500 Basically, it's a tactic for the conservatives to be right about something.
00:11:31.760 If the conservatives are right about something,
00:11:34.040 that's just a bad faith tactic.
00:11:36.820 I can't believe the conservatives called out bad faith journalism.
00:11:40.160 In fact, it's bad faith to call out people for being bad faith.
00:11:45.280 I almost want to read over this entire post by Musgrove. 0.66
00:11:50.260 It's so clownish what he writes here.
00:11:53.620 I want to start because I have to go back to find the full thread.
00:11:56.460 So you saw what he had said there.
00:11:58.100 He's saying that eventually this strategy fails
00:12:00.700 about calling out bad journalistic ethics from the media.
00:12:04.580 And he moves on to say, CTV screwed up big time.
00:12:08.840 But by CTV, I mean two people screwed up, maybe a few more, not an entire organization.
00:12:14.260 But the CPC will attack the organization and the media at large
00:12:18.300 because most people won't bother to try and tell the difference.
00:12:20.980 So in the same sentence or in the same post, he says,
00:12:24.920 CTV screwed up, but it was just two people.
00:12:27.840 And then he moves on to saying,
00:12:29.320 but the conservative party will attack the organization and the media at large.
00:12:33.140 So he goes from just saying it's just these two people to saying it's the conservative party at large.
00:12:39.880 He's not going to understand the irony of him making the statement, but I don't expect him to.
00:12:45.840 He is effectively just, his journalistic skills don't extend far past just being snarky
00:12:52.560 and sort of condescending and being condescending towards people he disagrees with.
00:12:57.880 But he moves on, David Musgrove says,
00:13:00.820 We're in an increasingly toxic, identitarian, polarized environment where norms are being eroded 0.98
00:13:06.960 and we're moving from opponents to enemies.
00:13:09.740 It's wildly unhealthy.
00:13:11.600 It's damaging to our already damaged democratic institutions.
00:13:15.500 It will get much worse before it gets any better.
00:13:18.680 Incidentally, the most extreme version of this tax employed in the last century in the 30s and 40s by the fascist right
00:13:24.920 and the most recent version relied on by a mega extremist and Trump administration share a common playbook.
00:13:31.320 Let's not use it here.
00:13:33.040 Okay. 1.00
00:13:33.980 So David Musgrove, an idiot, let's just clarify, he is stupid, 1.00
00:13:39.100 is saying that because the conservative party was right about the media manipulating story 1.00
00:13:45.080 and actively editing Pierre Polyev out of context because they called that out,
00:13:51.400 that is an unfair strategy.
00:13:53.140 And also that makes Pierre Polyev and the conservatives not just like the mega rights in the U.S.,
00:14:00.740 but makes them like Nazis and fascists who are apparently on the right,
00:14:04.640 even though fascists are literally trade unionist socialists and Nazis are literally national socialists.
00:14:11.060 In Nazi Germany, if you don't know, if you built like a typewriter,
00:14:15.020 you would have to have an economic manager tell you exactly how much you were allowed to manufacture it for,
00:14:20.260 how much steel you had to use, how much labor you had to use,
00:14:23.020 how much you were allowed to sell it for,
00:14:24.520 and ration you the amount of bolts and metal to create the product.
00:14:28.840 They would have quotas for businesses.
00:14:31.260 Before the war, they would make it so that you couldn't sell a pig for a certain amount of money,
00:14:36.020 and so farmers would have to come up with scams where they would like sell you 10 pigs and a dog
00:14:40.640 because dogs weren't price fixed and the dog would basically be the entire rest of the profit.
00:14:45.060 The dog would then just come home with the farmer who originally owned it.
00:14:48.800 It was not a right-wing government.
00:14:51.000 It was left-wing.
00:14:52.460 World War II, at least on the Eastern Front,
00:14:55.700 was basically a war about two left-wing socialist systems fighting each other
00:15:02.040 over extremely small differences in worldview
00:15:06.220 and on basically their view of the role of the government.
00:15:09.780 They were totalitarian regimes.
00:15:12.060 You can't be totalitarian and also be capitalistic like these people will contradictory claim.
00:15:18.720 Yes, Hitler was somehow a big capitalist, 0.65
00:15:21.520 even though he was anti-Semitic and believed that capitalism was Jewish.
00:15:26.520 Yes, but somehow he's a big free market guy,
00:15:28.680 even though one of his first acts in government was getting rid of private property
00:15:33.580 from the Weimar Republic's constitution as well as banning profit from the railway system.
00:15:40.900 That's something that actually happened.
00:15:42.520 But whatever.
00:15:43.500 Moving on.
00:15:44.060 That's my little mini rant on national socialism is, in fact, real socialism.
00:15:48.000 Socialism is just the government runs the economy or the public runs the economy.
00:15:51.800 Many different flavors of that outside of just flat-out pure communism.
00:15:55.440 Regardless, so it's now just you're a fascist for actually standing up for the truth.
00:16:03.340 I don't think it's a good thing for society, for the left,
00:16:07.380 to constantly try and associate truth with fascism.
00:16:11.720 I hate fascism. 0.98
00:16:13.280 I hate Nazis just as much as I hate communists. 0.89
00:16:16.460 Not a good play for us to start saying that you might be far right for actually having integrity. 0.98
00:16:22.220 That's crazy. 1.00
00:16:24.160 It's stupid. 1.00
00:16:25.780 But all these people don't have an ounce of integrity themselves. 1.00
00:16:30.540 And this is just a sampling of the posts.
00:16:33.400 And again, we had the timeline go, it's not happening.
00:16:37.080 CTV News didn't manipulate the footage.
00:16:39.000 And then saying, well, it's a little bit off, but it's probably not malicious.
00:16:42.800 To CTV News admitting it's malicious. 0.99
00:16:44.640 And then the same idiots in the media say, well, that's what the conservatives are attacking CTV News. 1.00
00:16:50.560 They're attacking the media. 1.00
00:16:51.580 They're trying to chop down our institutions from the very foundations.
00:16:58.900 Nobody likes you guys for this exact reason. 0.99
00:17:01.840 You guys suck at your jobs. 0.94
00:17:04.480 Anyways, if you guys want to fund this show, go to the Give, Send, Go link in the description below. 0.98
00:17:10.140 Or pinned at the top of the comments, we have a Chinese billionaire suing us for defamation.
00:17:16.140 And in almost three years has not even provided a single shred of evidence that we defamed him.
00:17:22.500 In fact, when we mentioned him in an article about who was fundraising or who was funding Aaron O'Toole's 2020 leadership campaign, when we mentioned this guy, we just linked to a Globe and Mail article that was a long investigative piece about him.
00:17:36.580 The only thing that we said new about him was the fact that he was donating to Aaron O'Toole.
00:17:41.600 And then we just linked a Robert Fyfe and Stephen Chase article that was all of his connections to the Chinese government.
00:17:47.240 And I didn't say anything.
00:17:49.340 We didn't say anything new about the guy, nor was it even defamatory in any way, shape, or form.
00:17:55.600 Anyways, so if you want to help us out with that, it's cost me more than $32,000, $33,000 fighting this thing.
00:18:01.740 Every dollar helps.
00:18:02.620 Hopefully, you don't mind these videos when I kind of go a little bit ranty towards the end and pull up a bunch of random topics.
00:18:09.340 But regardless, I at least got this video.
00:18:12.160 It took me forever to make this one.
00:18:13.740 It was, I was trying to, you know, put it in correct order.
00:18:17.080 And yesterday, I like absolutely had like just an aneurysm trying to get the first two, three minutes coherent.
00:18:23.060 And I'm like, okay, I'm leaving.
00:18:24.740 I'm gonna go door knocking, pull off some steam, talk to some voters in BC.
00:18:28.480 And I'll try and maybe do this tonight or the next day.
00:18:30.920 And it ended up being the next day.
00:18:32.620 Also, I do need a haircut at some point.
00:18:34.740 I am starting to look very George Washington-ish when my hair is in a certain thing.
00:18:38.540 So I have like those kind of like two wings on the sides.
00:18:41.300 And then this is coming up too much.
00:18:43.020 Ugh, horrible.
00:18:44.340 I apologize.
00:18:45.240 I will have a better haircut later.