The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 10, 2024


Liberals lie to justify police arresting journalists

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David Menzies Chrystia Freeland Dean Blundell Ezra Levant Trump Melissa Lansman Rebel Justin Trudeau Pierre Pauly Andrew Tate Jim Acosta Peer Polly Michelle Matthew O'Toole Islamo Polyev Hitler
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In the wake of David Menzies' fake arrest by police for asking a question to Canadian Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, the legacy media and liberal supporters have been quick to point the finger at someone else. Is this a case of the police overstepping their authority? Or is there a deeper issue at work?

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00:00:00.000 Apparently, liberal supporters and liberal media didn't heed my advice from a few videos back and stopped talking about situations that makes their own political side look really bad.
00:00:09.900 Conspiratorial liberal Truanon supporters and the legacy media actually believes that they can convince you that rebel news reporter David Menzies was at fault for being manhandled and arrested by police for just simply trying to ask Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland a question about the liberal's soft-on terrorism policy.
00:00:27.060 I want to show you the clip of David Menzies' arrest again just to set up how ridiculous a lot of the takes from online liberal supporters and even places like CBC have been in response to this fake arrest.
00:00:39.160 Again, and remember, the officer who did this is now under investigation and the assault charge against David Menzies was dropped only three hours after this took place.
00:00:48.560 Ms. Freeland, how come the IRDC is not a terrorist group? Why is your government supporting Islamo-nationalities? 1.00
00:00:57.060 What are you doing? What are you doing? You're under arrest for assault? Why are you pushing me? You're under arrest for assault. You're under arrest for assault.
00:01:07.060 I don't need to stop. What are you talking about?
00:01:08.760 A completely ridiculous situation, but the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on their political panel believes that they can spin this in such a way to actually make it a very neutral situation.
00:01:20.060 Well, you know, maybe there was a justification for manhandling a reporter and arresting them immediately for asking a single question.
00:01:27.960 So here's their panel right here jabbering on about how maybe there's a deeper context behind what happened here.
00:01:34.900 We'll just queue up the tape where you see that the monkey steps in a little bit towards Menzies and he bumps, who bumps into him before minister.
00:01:43.900 I like how he even had to correct himself there and say, oh, David Menzies, who bumped into him?
00:01:48.520 No, it was the officer who bumped into David Menzies.
00:01:51.340 If you walk directly up in front of someone and then immediately stop and they bump into you because they are trying to walk, that's actually your fault.
00:01:57.680 But, you know, in the CBC's mind, the officer said he bumped into him.
00:02:02.540 So that must be true, even though the charge was dropped.
00:02:05.280 Freeland, you know, moves to the other side of the pillar and then Menzies said, excuse me.
00:02:09.320 Then he's told he's being arrested for assault.
00:02:12.380 Now, I've banged in to the prime minister's security detail, Matthew, a few times and type things.
00:02:17.700 I've never been arrested for this.
00:02:19.040 Oh, you mean there's a double standard that exists?
00:02:21.380 Shock, gasp.
00:02:23.620 Is this a case of the police overstepping?
00:02:25.460 Because Emily makes very good points about the harassment of women in politics. 1.00
00:02:29.180 Menzies was detained.
00:02:30.820 Guys, guys, Chrystia Freeland's a woman. 1.00
00:02:33.680 That means that there might be a justification for manhandling reporters who try and ask her questions.
00:02:38.900 They should have maybe just shot David Menzies on the site because he is a man trying to ask a female politician a question. 0.98
00:02:46.220 This was just utterly pathetic coverage from the CBC. 0.98
00:02:49.460 I know this is supposed to be a more political show. 0.85
00:02:51.760 Isn't that man supposed to be the neutral host trying to set up such easy questions for these liberal panelists to pretend away any abuse of power here?
00:03:01.460 For assaulting a police officer and then later release.
00:03:04.180 Is this overstepping?
00:03:06.820 He missed the part where he wasn't just released.
00:03:10.060 It makes it sound like he might have been released on bail, but the charges still stick.
00:03:13.180 No, the charges were dropped.
00:03:15.500 There was no more charges.
00:03:16.620 And that cop is under investigation.
00:03:18.100 This clip might have happened before that, but there's no excuse to pretend as if the assault charge was legitimate, even just right after David Menzies was released.
00:03:28.180 It's a good question, but I think.
00:03:30.220 It's actually an awful question.
00:03:32.080 Sorry, I'll stop interrupting it too much.
00:03:35.140 This just ticks me off.
00:03:36.360 It's a good question, but I think there's a few things that are important context.
00:03:40.140 I think the first is a point that Michelle raised earlier about not knowing the full threat context around, you know, Minister Freeland in this case, and obviously politicians more generally.
00:03:51.320 There's definitely a jumpiness that Emily alluded to as well.
00:03:55.300 That is such nonsense.
00:03:57.380 Because if you watch the clip of David getting arrested, Chrystia is walking back from an event by herself in this instant.
00:04:04.640 If there was, like, terror threats against her, there was people sending death threats, do you think that she would have been able to walk any distance without security right there next to her?
00:04:14.640 She is not under a significant threat.
00:04:16.580 And obviously, as soon as David walked up, as Rebel News, with the microphone wanting to ask a question, I assume that David hasn't become a terrorist in the past week and that he's going to go and try to attack a liberal politician.
00:04:29.600 Whatever.
00:04:30.640 I think it comes into play when there's certain factors to consider.
00:04:33.840 And listen, I mean, it's I don't want to do a sports instant replay thing here on the video, but you wonder sometimes if the individual in question is deliberately being confrontational with security detail in a way to your point.
00:04:48.240 Guys, David Menzies was wearing a short skirt and he was asking for it.
00:04:52.680 He was basically begging to have his skull caved in because he asked Chrystia Freeland a question.
00:04:57.900 This is Canada's state broadcaster.
00:05:00.900 They get $1.3 billion a year to deliver you content like this.
00:05:06.360 A hundred percent of the CBC should be defunded.
00:05:09.260 That not like they should be allowed to operate, obviously, as any free press should.
00:05:13.580 But they shouldn't be getting taxpayer money for this swill of coverage.
00:05:18.460 You know, even alluding to yourself, David, would not be.
00:05:21.880 You know, it's clear when it's an accident versus someone who's trying to be confrontational for the purpose of the of the format that these individuals are engaged in and the subsequent fundraising campaigns and social media attention that it garners among.
00:05:36.340 So because Rebel News might benefit from the fundraiser that then occurs after the false arrest to fund their lawsuit against the police, this means that somehow the entire situation is now illegitimate.
00:05:50.400 That even though David was arrested, like, you know, unlawfully and then released and now the officers under investigation, there's an angle here in which because it's Rebel News, who cares?
00:06:01.720 And I want to get to some posts from Liberals later where they pretty much just say, yeah, they're not real news, so you can abuse them.
00:06:07.800 Particular audience.
00:06:09.400 And it's perhaps not to be ignored.
00:06:13.900 And we've mentioned it a few times that the Conservative deputy leader now, of all people, then candidate Melissa Lansman, was also involved in a similar incident.
00:06:22.540 So when you see a pattern begin to emerge, you do start to.
00:06:26.140 And guess what? Back then when Melissa Lansman called the police and had David arrested, that was also bad.
00:06:32.000 That was also a politician refusing to ask a question.
00:06:35.220 And instead of just saying, I don't want to answer your question or giving an actual answer, she called the police and had David arrested.
00:06:42.220 Even that situation was at least a little bit more legitimate since it was a private cordoned off event.
00:06:46.800 So you're allowed to remove people.
00:06:48.940 But the idea that, well, two wrongs, basically this guy's trying to make the argument that two wrongs make a who cares.
00:06:54.300 That who cares what happens to David Menzies because someone else called the police on David before.
00:06:59.660 Question, the way that the individual behaves, you start to wonder what, you know, how the individual is being perceived.
00:07:07.040 I suspect that there's a conversation to be had about whether, you know, the the security detail needs to be better briefed about individuals like this if they are going to be getting into these types of.
00:07:18.640 Oh, yeah. Don't don't don't falsely arrest the individual if they can fight back.
00:07:22.360 I know that's not what he's saying, but in context, that's effectively what he's saying that because David Menzies and Rebel News can actually fight back against both of the abuse of power by individual cops trying to get themselves some form of like some form of like, you know, goodwill with the Liberal Party, maybe a promotion that because that Rebel News can actually document it.
00:07:44.500 Don't do it. That only do it when they're only holding a pad of paper or when you can knock the camera of their hands beforehand.
00:07:49.700 Again, he's not saying that. But by implication, that's effectively the the idea of like what he's saying is that because Rebel News will publicize what's happening, that that's why you shouldn't act in this way.
00:08:02.680 Not that the action itself was really bad. But now I want to move on to every one of the worst news commentators online, Dean Blundell, who's going to somehow expose that this video was somehow faked.
00:08:16.160 And also David Menzies probably had it coming. Anyways, look at this. This is truly one of the stupid things I've ever seen.
00:08:23.060 This guy fancies himself as an extremely intellectual liberal. 0.99
00:08:27.640 Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Internet's on fire this morning because fake news outlet, Rebel News, totally fake news.
00:08:36.580 They're just an exclusive agent lobby group of the Conservative Party of Canada, and they're funded by some pretty dark organizations.
00:08:43.060 We all know that, right, Ezra? How about you name some of them, Dean, rather than just trying to poison the well before moving on to justifying why David Menzies should be manhandled and arrested?
00:08:53.880 Anyway, David Menzies, who's this fake news reporter, he's a crisis actor, who literally gets paid, if you Google David Menzies arrested, he gets paid to get arrested so that his boss, Ezra Levent, who is the biggest scammer on the fucking planet, think Andrew Tate only with real peeping Tom vibes. 0.89
00:09:14.560 That's Ezra. 0.91
00:09:15.020 Anyway, just for some context, Dean Blundell had made weird sexual comments about minors when he was back on the radio doing sports broadcasting.
00:09:26.100 Anyway, so interesting because David Menzies got arrested yesterday after he effectively attacked an RCMP officer, on-duty RCMP officer, giving him the old shove you can see in the video, chasing around the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.
00:09:41.000 And it was her security detail.
00:09:45.240 And anyway, as soon as it happened, they put up a GoFundMe, or not even a GoFundMe, really.
00:09:49.980 It was just a, donate to David Menzies, save him from the tyranny of Canada.
00:09:55.340 And it was totally a fake video.
00:09:57.220 The whole thing was in operation.
00:09:58.800 That's their business plan.
00:10:00.000 David Menzies and Ezra Levent.
00:10:01.200 So, was the cop in on it?
00:10:03.800 This is where people don't, I don't want to keep playing this video, because it kind of just goes on in circles from there.
00:10:09.880 But the idea that it's somehow like an op, that Rebel News must have paid off this police officer to arrest him.
00:10:16.120 I know that's not what he's quite saying.
00:10:17.960 What he's saying is that David tried to generate this confrontation in order to fundraise off of it.
00:10:23.300 If, again, so David, so all he's proving is that David Menzies might know that this police officer is corrupt and will arrest him for literally anything.
00:10:35.100 What's Dean's point?
00:10:36.540 Is that, that would be like saying, like, you know, look at this Jewish person being arrested in Nazi Germany in World War II.
00:10:43.500 He knows that if he goes outside being Jewish and all that, he's going to get arrested.
00:10:47.680 Okay, the proving the point that the cops are going to arrest someone for doing nothing wrong and that the person proved it by doing nothing wrong in front of the cop and getting arrested does not turn this into a, you know, well, he should, he knew he had, he had it coming for even attempting to, he had it coming somehow.
00:11:07.020 But, uh, whatever.
00:11:08.840 This stuff is just nauseating.
00:11:10.600 And here's the guy who has been posting a lot of these clips trying to justify the actions against Menzies.
00:11:16.060 He posted this clip acting as if, if he slows down the footage enough, like it's the Zapruder film of JFK's assassination, that you'll eventually believe they could do wrong.
00:11:33.060 If you can't see that, his TikTok video or the TikTok video he clipped says rebel news reporter David Menzies aggressively rams into RCMP officer.
00:11:41.700 Man, if two people bump into each other on the street, this guy must call it a genocide because they lightly bumped into each other with the cop instigating it by, for no reason, stepping up in front of him and then immediately stopping.
00:11:54.960 Was the officer trying to do that?
00:11:57.100 Like in the street, you cannot walk around, put your arms out and then just stop in front of people and then they bump into you.
00:12:02.520 You're like, you're assaulting me.
00:12:03.700 That's not how real life works, but the liberals here are willing to twist how real life works in order to try and deprive the conservatives of a situation where they were right about an abuse of power.
00:12:16.660 This is what I mean by the true and on left.
00:12:19.240 True and on is the conspiratorial wing of the liberal party.
00:12:22.640 And they believe that no matter what, the liberals can never be wrong about anything and the conservatives can never be right about anything.
00:12:28.860 So despite how bulletproof the evidence is that this police officer acted badly to the point he is being investigated, there must be something going on that justifies beating up David Menzies.
00:12:41.420 Anyways, I just want to, before I get to some other clips, I just want to do a quick shameless plug to talk about the fact that I'm running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
00:12:50.580 If you live in Calgary Signal Hill, hopefully buy a membership for me and vote for me number one on your ballot whenever the nomination date is called for.
00:12:59.060 I am an independent journalist, obviously, and I want more independent journalists to get into government after the next election so we can get rid of all the stupid, censorious, anti-free speech policies of the liberals and actually have people speak out against abuses of power like this by the police against journalists when politicians happen to not want to answer a question.
00:13:19.980 And I will 100% call out conservatives if they start trying to treat journalists this way as well. 0.89
00:13:25.900 The liberals also think, though, that somehow the conservatives are abusive of journalists.
00:13:32.040 So in response to all of this, the liberals have put out a fairly embarrassing video trying to pretend as if calling the news or calling any media fake news or calling them out for misrepresentation or lies, that in itself is an attack on the media.
00:13:52.100 So the liberals, with nothing better to say in this scenario, is just going to compare PR or Polyev to Trump like they've been doing for the past two months.
00:13:59.660 So here is the clip that they put out attempting to buy back the situation where their own security team abused a journalist.
00:14:06.900 We have basically a liberal heckler who snuck in here today.
00:14:18.140 These newspapers and the media are totally dishonest people, folks. Remember that.
00:14:22.300 Contrary to the false and dishonest reporting of the liberal media.
00:14:26.540 Yeah, I think the media is the opposition party in many ways.
00:14:29.280 I think CP should stop acting as the communications arm of the PMO.
00:14:32.960 You know, when I look at the media, how one sided it is, how biased it is.
00:14:37.800 Well, first of all, your question was typical of CBC.
00:14:41.460 Again, I keep making the joke online, but eventually they're going to accuse pure poly of being Hitler because both of them drank water in their lifetimes.
00:14:50.020 I don't know. The liberals literally have clips of their own politicians, both from the NDP and the liberals, attacking conservative journalists as being propaganda.
00:14:59.240 You're not a real journalist. You're fake news, blah, blah, blah. You're bigoted, whatever.
00:15:03.560 So now just calling out any journalist for doing things that you don't like.
00:15:07.760 That's Trumpian in nature.
00:15:09.500 Also, in these specific situations where Trump is getting into fights with journalists, it's situations where like Jim Acosta is like screaming at him in the middle of a press conference while Trump is trying to deliver remarks.
00:15:20.180 And it was usually about things like the Trump-Russia supposed scandal in which it was proven that it was just an incorrect story.
00:15:27.820 So is it wrong whenever Trump calls out, you know, fake news, if it's actually fake news?
00:15:33.120 It's Trump, so it's always bad for some reason. 0.99
00:15:36.220 It's so silly. 0.96
00:15:37.540 But you get even liberal supporters online posting stuff like this. 0.85
00:15:40.400 And remember, this is not me just grabbing a couple of cherry-picked posts.
00:15:44.680 A lot of these posts from people like Dean Blundell and the other guy posting those CBC clips and the, you know, Zapruder film style slowdown clips of the supposed assault that David Menzies had done against the officer.
00:15:57.980 These have hundreds of likes, retweets, and they are just some of the people posting about this.
00:16:04.160 There are countless liberals trying to defend the actions here.
00:16:07.180 And a lot of people are posting stuff like this.
00:16:09.420 Fact, Rebel News isn't an accredited news organization.
00:16:12.740 Fact, Rebel News isn't a member of any credible media organization.
00:16:16.640 Well, Rebel is its own media organization, so that's weird.
00:16:19.840 Also, it's part of the Independent Press Gallery, which is an accredited news agency or news lobby organization.
00:16:31.260 But whatever.
00:16:31.680 He said, Fact, Rebel News spreads misinformation, peddles in gossip, and openly encourages conspiracy theories.
00:16:36.800 Fact, Rebel News will do your bidding for free.
00:16:39.420 And this is all in response to Pierre Polly of taking issue with the arrest that took place.
00:16:43.180 The idea that these liberals are saying, well, you're not accredited media, whatever that means.
00:16:49.280 I guess it means that you get money from the government.
00:16:51.640 Because you're not accredited.
00:16:53.140 Let's even just say, hypothetically, Rebel's not accredited.
00:16:56.240 So you get to falsely arrest their journalists.
00:16:59.540 The left is very famous for having protesters follow politicians around and scream at them.
00:17:04.060 Should police tear gas them and arrest them all and throw them in prison?
00:17:08.580 I would hope not that we would think that you can do that to people.
00:17:12.560 We have free speech in this country.
00:17:14.520 But the left has moved to the absurdist position while denying that the liberals are censorious and anti-free speech.
00:17:20.180 They also think, oy, do you have a license to report the news?
00:17:23.980 They actively think that you should have to have a license in order to actually talk to a politician, write on a notepad in front of them, or record their answer.
00:17:35.320 That is a dystopian future that these people are begging for.
00:17:39.700 And I don't think that they would like it if the conservatives got into government next, which is very likely.
00:17:44.560 And they just start saying, CBC is no longer an accredited news organization.
00:17:49.080 Neither is Global or Toronto Star.
00:17:51.200 And if you try and scrum us in the streets, we will have police officers just tick your head in. 1.00
00:17:56.000 That is obviously foolish. 0.96
00:17:57.340 But these liberals have convinced themselves that because it was a liberal and their security team who acted badly here, that, you know, it's probably all right. 0.91
00:18:06.980 It's very funny to watch people digging up the old posts by Justin Trudeau and Christy Freeland and other liberals talking about how they stand against the abuse of the media around the world.
00:18:17.440 And that a free press is key to a free democratic society.
00:18:22.700 Well, can you guys maybe walk the talk a little bit and have Christy Freeland at least put out a statement saying, yes, that was an abuse by a police officer. 0.58
00:18:31.060 I didn't want to answer David's question, which is legitimate.
00:18:33.460 She doesn't have to.
00:18:34.660 But I didn't want to answer his question.
00:18:36.580 But he didn't need to be manhandled and falsely imprisoned for doing his job.
00:18:43.060 But she'll never do that.
00:18:44.140 Because as someone who used to be a journalist in, you know, Eastern Europe where press freedom isn't usually very honored, someone who probably liked whenever the state wouldn't come after them, now she's okay with the state going after other journalists because she's no longer a journalist.
00:18:59.420 She's one of the important political people. 1.00
00:19:01.380 So all of her principles from the past go out the window.
00:19:05.200 Anyways, that should be it for me today.
00:19:07.040 I have my usual give, send, go link in the description of this video below.
00:19:10.300 I'm being sued by a billionaire for this incredibly stupid case where we supposedly defamed him despite the fact that everything we said about him was based on either obviously factual information or things that had been reported about him multiple years before, which he never disputed at the time, legally speaking.
00:19:29.540 But he's trying to sue us because he assumed that I, as a 22-year-old at the time when this lawsuit started, wouldn't have been able to pay for a defense. 0.96
00:19:37.000 And although he's partially right, because it was breaking me fairly financially.
00:19:41.500 So if you can contribute to that, it does help me out a lot.
00:19:44.280 And then I also just, again, want to plug the fact that I'm running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
00:19:49.700 If you live in Calgary Signal Hill or if you know someone who lives in the riding, make sure to buy a party membership and vote for me number one on the ballot.
00:19:56.740 We want real conservatives in the next conservative government, not a bunch of people who just are applying to run as candidates because they think it might be a nice, easy, cushy job.
00:20:05.680 I think right now the biggest threat to a conservative government is not the Liberals or the NDP resurging in the polls.
00:20:11.520 I think they have no ability to.
00:20:12.880 Their fundraising numbers are even worse than their polling deficits.
00:20:16.800 But I think that the biggest issue would be too many red Tories getting into the Conservative Party caucus and being these nervous O'Toole types who immediately pump the brakes. 1.00
00:20:27.560 As soon as Peer Polly wants to actually do real reform to government, then they get scared about the media's reaction or protesters outside their office and immediately start sabotaging the Conservative government's ability to get anything done.
00:20:41.500 Anyways, other than that, you'll see me probably here again in another video today.
00:20:45.440 Thanks for watching and thanks for supporting the National Telegraph.