The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 08, 2024


Liberal Minister threatens media for negative coverage


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6 minutes

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176.08537

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1,210

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71

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1

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Lib Dem MP Tlaib nur Muhammad has a new contender for the title of the dumbest MP in Canada's parliament, and he's not even smart enough to know it. He's just dumb enough to attack the subsidized media because they're not being enough positive about the Liberal government.

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00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, countrymen of all ages, I am excited to announce to you today that we have a new contender entering the arena, trying to grasp the brass ring and be titled the dumbest MP currently in Canada's parliament because Liberal MP Tlaib Nur Muhammad decided to threaten the subsidized media today because they're not being positive enough of the federal Liberal government.
00:00:29.180 This is incredible. I'm going to jump right into it. So we have Terry Newman here. She is a reporter and opinion writer for the National Post, a more conservative publication. They do get government subsidies, as most of the legacy media does.
00:00:45.720 The funny thing is that most of the people who work at the National Post actually probably oppose media subsidies. They just happen to take them because they're allowed to take them.
00:00:54.240 But I think that they would prefer there being less bad quality competition around rather than they get, you know, a couple hundred thousand dollars here and there while the CBC is getting $1.4 billion.
00:01:05.680 But Terry Newman here was just making a comment at Mark Miller saying that this man is very dangerous and has been very dangerous for Canada.
00:01:15.120 Mark Miller obviously is our current immigration minister and she is absolutely right.
00:01:20.120 He has made Canada a far more dangerous place with the mass immigration that Canada has been taking in. 1.00
00:01:26.700 Our crime skyrocketing. It's just a less affordable country to live in, all that stuff.
00:01:31.640 So Terry Newman's right. And then she followed up that tweet with this one saying, incredible how much damage a party and minister can do to a country in nine years.
00:01:40.440 And then Tlaib Nur Muhammad jumps into the conversation and says, your paper wouldn't be in business were it not for the subsidies that the government that you hate put in place.
00:01:54.180 The same subsidies your Trump adjacent foreign hedge fund owners gladly take to pay your salary.
00:02:00.120 So I guess Tlaib is now on the record against media subsidies, either he's against media subsidies or he's basically trying to threaten the National Post that they're not living up to the they're not living up to their subsidies, that they're somehow threatening their funding by having writers who have their own opinions.
00:02:23.100 The funny thing was, the funny thing was, this wasn't even like the National Post was doing reporting and that's what Terry, that's what Terry Newman was saying in her report.
00:02:33.180 This is her own private X account where she is making her own comments on different political issues.
00:02:40.040 And Tlaib, rather than, you know, maybe doing a better job in government, so there's more positive things to say, just comes out and starts attacking her and the National Post because they get subsidized.
00:02:51.960 And the thing is, he's using the fact that they're subsidized as a point against them, which means that Tlaib, not even probably being aware of it, is basically also saying the fact that the CBC is getting subsidies is also a bad thing, except he thinks it's a good thing because the CBC says nice things about the federal liberals.
00:03:11.560 They don't complain that other publications, you know, the Tlaib is very pro-liberal and that's, you know, somehow bad because they're getting taxpayer money.
00:03:21.400 They don't care if you're pro-liberal. They just don't like if you're anti-liberal.
00:03:24.800 So you're allowed to be neutral or pro-liberal, just not anti-liberal. And remember, we're paying you.
00:03:30.180 He's just so bad at this. If I was Justin Trudeau, well, one, I would just resign and end the whole thing out.
00:03:37.320 But goodness, I would just start tossing a lot of these people out of the party at mock speed, including myself, obviously, but assuming I'm Justin Trudeau and I'm not allowed to do that.
00:03:47.700 So many of the liberal MPs these days are extremely low caliber. It's just party hack activists.
00:03:56.840 They aren't able to connect with the average person because they have completely reshaped themselves in trying to please Justin Trudeau.
00:04:05.200 So they don't know how to talk to the average middle class person anymore because the average middle class people are not Justin Trudeau and they only know what the interests of Justin Trudeau are and how to satisfy those.
00:04:16.420 And so in this situation, Tlaib should know to shut his mouth, but he's trying to play to Justin Trudeau to make Justin Trudeau happy.
00:04:23.180 At the same time, Justin Trudeau himself, not being a particularly smart guy, is at least smart enough to say, dude, shut up about the subsidies.
00:04:29.440 I made a joke about it a few years ago that, well, he subsidized the media so they're all friendly to me, and that didn't go very well.
00:04:37.000 Trudeau's already been through this whole dog and pony show, and now his own liberal ministers are reviving the issue of the fact that the liberals know that the media knows that they're subsidized.
00:04:48.240 And if they say too many negative things, they could find an excuse to pull back on the subsidies.
00:04:52.720 Well, anyways, this is exactly why we should have no media subsidies at all.
00:04:58.100 No journalist should even be thinking that the government could take away subsidies because they shouldn't have them in the first place.
00:05:03.940 As soon as you have a subsidy from the government, even then, you are incentivized now to be nicer to the federal liberals.
00:05:11.480 Even the National Post, I would say, sometimes goes a little bit more mild on issues because they don't want to rock the boat too much.
00:05:18.660 And they're the conservative paper. They tend to even lean a little bit more red Tory-ish.
00:05:22.960 They were a big backer of Aaron O'Toole back in the day.
00:05:26.260 And before that, they would have been, you know, like very, like they would have liked more soft conservatives.
00:05:32.980 I wouldn't say like Andrew Shearer, but other people.
00:05:35.180 It's a very Michael Chong-ish type news publication.
00:05:39.020 I generally like them.
00:05:40.700 I think they've gotten better over the years.
00:05:42.240 But you can tell that they still have to warp their coverage around the fact that the liberals, if they don't like them enough, could just say that they violated their duties to the country.
00:05:52.920 And they're no longer allowed to have, you know, their a few hundred thousand dollars of subsidization per year.
00:05:59.020 Anyways, and I think the people on YouTube who do shows like me prove you really don't need subsidies to do the news.
00:06:06.840 It's pretty easy just to turn on a camera and talk.
00:06:09.340 I know this is more commentary, but in the U.S., news publications don't get money from the government unless you're on PR or PBS.
00:06:16.680 And somehow they're still able to function.
00:06:18.620 It's almost like they actually have to then please the audience instead of pleasing the government.
00:06:23.360 And then the audience will pay them.
00:06:25.000 Advertisers will pay them.
00:06:26.440 The CBC almost gets no advertising money because nobody watches them.
00:06:30.640 And advertisers won't pay very much if they know only 18,000 people a night are watching the national.
00:06:36.220 Anyways, that's actually truly the end of the video now.
00:06:41.120 See you guys later.
00:06:42.080 I'll have something out tomorrow of some description.
00:06:45.100 I'll have something out there.
00:06:52.160 Sorry.