The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 10, 2024


Liberals want all media to be the CBC

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Wyatt Claypool
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Justin Trudeau David Menzies Pierre Poilievre Chrystia Freeland Greta Thunberg David Bonson
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Rebel News reporter David Menzies has created international headlines for good reason. His arrest, and subsequent release without charges, has become international headlines. And I m going to make the argument that Canada is not a first world country for journalism.

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00:00:00.400 The arrest, and then subsequent release without charges, of rebel news reporter David Menzies
00:00:04.840 has created international headlines for good reason.
00:00:07.800 And I'm going to make the argument, it's so much worse than what you just saw.
00:00:11.560 Canada is not a first world country for journalism. 0.73
00:00:14.800 Is it like, you know, a corrupt African dictatorship? 1.00
00:00:18.360 No, I'm not going to be that alarmist.
00:00:19.720 But there's a gap between where it should be there and where Canada is.
00:00:24.880 It's not a first world journalistic country.
00:00:26.560 You saw that.
00:00:27.560 David Menzies goes up to Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister, an elected official,
00:00:31.360 and asks her a question about the IRGC, which she promised to list as a terrorist organization
00:00:36.320 in 2018, and has neglected to do so despite multiple terrorist attacks by the IRGC directed
00:00:41.280 at Canadian citizens.
00:00:42.680 Okay.
00:00:43.680 Perfectly legitimate question.
00:00:45.680 Now, oh, he was being aggressive, you don't have the right to harass a reporter, but...
00:00:51.240 If you're running for office anywhere in Canada, you have the right, and it's aggressive journalism,
00:00:57.480 it's a style of journalism.
00:00:58.480 You don't have to like it, but it's legal.
00:00:59.480 Anyone can go up to, if you see Pierre Polyev on the street, and you're like, oh, you're
00:01:04.120 like, you're mad at him, you're like, Pierre Polyev, what do you think about the environment
00:01:07.240 and the carbon tax, and aren't we all going to die in 15 minutes because Greta Thunberg
00:01:09.820 told me so?
00:01:10.820 You have the right to do that.
00:01:11.820 And then it's Pierre Polyev's responsibility, as someone who's trying to assume leadership
00:01:15.540 in the country, to handle that situation.
00:01:17.420 Now, he can ignore it and walk by and say, not now.
00:01:20.240 Not now.
00:01:21.240 Like, he can do it. 0.98
00:01:22.240 He can't go and punch her, and the cops can't come and throw this woman in a gulag.
00:01:27.640 And what's worse than what happened to David Menzies in the moment, in my opinion, is everything
00:01:33.180 that happened before and everything that happened after it.
00:01:35.900 You see a bunch of Canadian press journalists coming out and go, oh, Rebel News isn't real
00:01:41.240 news.
00:01:42.240 Yes, okay, they have a center-right slant to their news.
00:01:44.580 And you have a center-left slant to your news.
00:01:46.580 Is this the...
00:01:47.580 Oh, they get things wrong?
00:01:48.580 Yeah, Rebel News has got things wrong over their career.
00:01:51.580 You know?
00:01:52.580 Multiple shooters in the Quebec Moss shooting.
00:01:54.580 Got that one wrong.
00:01:55.580 They've also done some real legitimate journalism.
00:01:57.580 Who uncovered the fact that the Chinese aren't... 1.00
00:01:59.580 The Canadians were training the Chinese PLA in winter combat?
00:02:02.580 Rebel News.
00:02:03.580 Got that story out there.
00:02:05.580 Okay, so the courts have ruled in Rebel News' favor because this isn't the first time that
00:02:10.580 the Liberal government has gone after Rebel News.
00:02:11.580 As I said, everything before and after is worse.
00:02:14.580 To understand the Trudeau government's entire censorship or what they're doing right now,
00:02:21.580 you have to look at it in the context of what they've been doing since 2015.
00:02:24.580 It's been a priority of the Liberal government under Justin Trudeau to monopolize the flow of
00:02:28.580 information.
00:02:29.580 And they've done it in multiple ways.
00:02:30.580 The most famous one was the $600 million bailout to the mainstream media to preserve independent
00:02:36.580 media.
00:02:37.580 Yes, by having the government funding something, it makes it independent.
00:02:41.580 No, and then they'll say, I'm mixing things, but they'll always say something about, oh,
00:02:45.580 we need to protect Canadian this, Canadian content, Canadian this.
00:02:48.580 Whenever you hear the Canadian government talk about Canadian content, what that means
00:02:52.580 is content regulated by the Canadian government.
00:02:55.580 It doesn't mean content created by the Canadian people.
00:02:57.580 That's what it means.
00:02:58.580 So everything falls under government purview.
00:03:00.580 So what the Liberals are trying to do is get more and more and more journalists under
00:03:04.580 government purview.
00:03:05.580 And if you go under government purview and you walk the line, you have all the freedoms
00:03:08.580 of any journalist anywhere.
00:03:10.580 You can ask questions.
00:03:11.580 You can go this.
00:03:12.580 But if you play within this box, right?
00:03:15.580 And media outlets like Rebel News, like True North, independent ones, were playing outside
00:03:21.580 the box.
00:03:22.580 So they sued them.
00:03:23.580 And they tried to bar them from their press conferences when they were running for office.
00:03:27.580 And the Canadian courts ruled in the favor of these journalists like outlets, media outlets,
00:03:32.580 which have the right to be there.
00:03:34.580 So, sorry, like, no, no, no.
00:03:36.580 We've ruled that, yes, Rebel News has the right to ask questions of politicians.
00:03:40.580 So does everyone else.
00:03:41.580 This is Canadian law, okay?
00:03:43.580 But you see many, many, many, many journalists and establishment types trying to convince you
00:03:48.580 otherwise.
00:03:49.580 Oh, David Menzies was so out of bounds here.
00:03:51.580 And just, like, walk by David Menzies.
00:03:53.580 You don't have to...
00:03:54.580 You could do the...
00:03:55.580 If you're Christopher Freeland, you can go.
00:03:57.580 Rebel News is racist. 0.51
00:03:58.580 You're promoting transphobia.
00:04:00.580 I won't answer questions and this.
00:04:02.580 And then your son would be like, yes, way to stand up to Rebel News, who's asking a
00:04:06.580 legitimate question about a terrorist organization that's murdered Canadians and continues to harass
00:04:10.580 them and undermine a national interest.
00:04:11.580 And you supported trans rights, which is the Islamic Republic that ran in some way.
00:04:15.580 You could do that.
00:04:16.580 You cannot have your thugs pounce on Menzies and throw them in jail as an intimidation tactic.
00:04:22.580 That is what you cannot do.
00:04:24.580 But the Liberals have been going under this full push to monopolize the flow of information.
00:04:29.580 They fund, and there's been tons and tons, there's billions that have flowed from the
00:04:33.580 Canadian government into the hands of the major media establishment.
00:04:36.580 And you saw the results of that in the Freedom Convoy where journalists were just outright
00:04:40.580 pulling pieces and footage and then, like, hours later putting up the government narrative
00:04:44.580 because, you know, there was a complete fatwa on the truth within the establishment media
00:04:49.580 and the Convoy, which is why alternative media became so big there.
00:04:52.580 We were there just filming, showing you what was happening on the ground.
00:04:54.580 Like, this is what they're talking, people could see that.
00:04:57.580 Then it became, oh no, news is a problem because if people keep getting independent media,
00:05:02.580 which could be anyone.
00:05:03.580 Like, anyone can kind of be a journalist these days.
00:05:05.580 Like, you have a cell phone.
00:05:06.580 Like, you have a camera.
00:05:07.580 Like, this isn't the 1920s where, like, you'd have to, like, really invest in a camera
00:05:11.580 and save your shots and know how to develop them and be economical.
00:05:14.580 Like, ding, ding, ding, ding, record, this happened here.
00:05:17.580 Like, so, to protect Canadian content, which is content regulated by the government,
00:05:22.580 they started the new bills, the C-11 and C-18.
00:05:26.580 So, this is like the Online Streaming Act where they're trying to get, one,
00:05:29.580 all internet content that streams, like videos like this, regulated under Canadian content
00:05:34.580 and news content, so I would have to submit these to government regulations
00:05:37.580 and because I won't do that, I'm not Canadian content, then I don't get promoted in Canada.
00:05:40.580 That's another way to depress content that is, you know, outside the purview,
00:05:46.580 but still pretend to have alternative media because it'll just be regulated alternative media.
00:05:49.580 And then you have C-18, which wants to protect the journal.
00:05:54.580 Oh, these, guys, don't you believe now how much Trudeau loves journalism?
00:05:57.580 Don't you believe it now?
00:05:58.580 Don't you believe, Trudeau just loves journalism so much?
00:06:01.580 And it's the big tech companies that are stealing from us.
00:06:04.580 Of course!
00:06:05.580 This is what Trudeau is claiming.
00:06:06.580 Oh, because he really wants to protect journalists.
00:06:09.580 You really believe that.
00:06:10.580 If you believe that, you should be deported.
00:06:13.580 This is my new thing. 0.92
00:06:14.580 Just deport everyone. 0.99
00:06:15.580 He's gonna give money from Facebook and Google and whatever to the news people who are stealing it. 1.00
00:06:23.580 That's not how it works, it's so dumb. 0.98
00:06:24.580 But what happened? 0.97
00:06:25.580 He made news on Meta and soon-to-be Google financially inviolable for these companies in Canada.
00:06:31.580 So we just don't see the news, win for Trudeau, and he gets to pretend that he's defending journalism the entire time.
00:06:37.580 And because he has that funded tunnel of acceptable opinions, they keep on promoting and promoting and promoting.
00:06:46.580 So every journalist who is not defending David Benzies in Rebel News here is a traitor, is an absolute traitor to the profession.
00:06:53.580 And you're undermining journalism.
00:06:55.580 You're taking away your own freedoms.
00:06:56.580 And in ten years, when this all comes back and blows up in your face and you're screaming to the hills, I will be there to say, I told you so.
00:07:04.580 I told you so.
00:07:05.580 So, you created the situation in which journalists didn't have rights depending on who likes them and who doesn't like them and if they had opinions outside the norm or not.
00:07:13.580 Because sooner or later, the Overton window of acceptable opinions is gonna exclude literally everyone but the most insane person imaginable.
00:07:21.580 And you'll be on that list.
00:07:23.580 And we will say, I told you so.
00:07:25.580 So, Canada, if you want to support The National Talker for What Do, there's a link in my bio and description you can support there.
00:07:34.580 Sigh.
00:07:36.580 Canada's really, really, really broken.
00:07:40.580 And we should fix it.
00:07:43.580 I'd like to probably have tweeted it out.
00:07:45.580 That was a nice start, but it's bad.
00:07:48.580 It's bad.
00:07:49.580 SOS.
00:07:50.580 Have fun.
00:07:51.580 Have fun.
00:07:52.580 What are the last charities that you want to do with us in this world?
00:07:53.580 What's the last thing about this?
00:07:54.580 Can we talk about this?
00:07:55.580 We talked about it before we wait and realise
00:08:03.580 a new world on whether it's a hangout.
00:08:09.580 Yes, two things we hope will do so.
00:08:11.580 Remember!
00:08:12.580 That's great.
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