The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 02, 2023


Media Backs Jagmeet Singh's ＂Homophobic＂ Heckler Lie


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636

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Jagmeet Singh calls a heckler who heckled him "homophobic" for no apparent reason, and the media go along with the lie that the heckler is actually homophobic and bigoted. But is there any truth behind it?

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00:00:00.000 so i'm not sure how many of you have seen that absolutely embarrassing clip of jagmeet singh
00:00:25.120 calling some random guy heckling him homophobic but apparently ctv news never actually saw the clip
00:00:31.200 because they went along with the lie that somehow this random heckler yelling at him was homophobic
00:00:36.720 for no reason the guy just randomly started saying that he should call out justin trudeau
00:00:40.480 and that he should stop you know supporting the liberal government and then you know
00:00:43.520 yelled some expletives too which i don't support but there's nothing in that interaction that that
00:00:48.880 sort of indicates that the guy's somehow homophobic or bigoted in any way but the ctv news's headline
00:00:54.080 was still singh confronts homophobic heckler at events in newfoundland and i read the article
00:00:59.760 nowhere in the article do they actually dispute that there was no reason to call the man homophobic
00:01:04.240 they just say that like singh said it and that he says that there's like a big problem
00:01:08.480 with bigotry or like sort of people disrespecting politicians and others these days it's so clownish
00:01:14.800 but it demonstrates that if you're an establishment left-wing politician the media just parts ways
00:01:20.640 for you they if the your narrative makes no sense they'll at least present your narrative the way
00:01:26.160 you said it with no pushback at all which is effectively trying to indicate that there's some
00:01:30.720 truthfulness behind it when there's no pushback neutral reporting is actually in a certain sense
00:01:36.560 a lie this is where i don't i do not appreciate the neutrality of the media at times there'll be an
00:01:42.800 obvious lie that justin trudeau or jagmeet singh or even back in the day when erin o'too was the leader of
00:01:47.680 the conservative party if they had said anything that was just objectively a lie they would print
00:01:51.600 what they said but there would be no follow-up or they would contact no person to be able to give
00:01:56.080 comment to be able to expose why what that person is saying is wrong so in that and when you're when
00:02:01.440 you do that all you're basically saying to the audience is you should probably just take their word
00:02:05.360 for it but like if if if pier polioff says anything like that other day where he said that that
00:02:10.080 one house out in ontario i believe or nova scotia was a shack and it was like this like this 500 square
00:02:16.720 foot house that was on the market for 550 000 and they hunted down the homeowner to basically say
00:02:22.080 that they felt insulted that they called their home a shack which is objectively a shack by the way
00:02:27.280 uh that they'll do that to pier polioff all day long any other conservative if you say something
00:02:31.440 that's even true but they can kind of find an angle where you were maybe slightly rude or maybe if you're
00:02:36.240 really squint and put your head to the side you can see how maybe they didn't say it in the most 100
00:02:41.760 accurate way possible the media does that all the time but jagmeet singh basically just pointed
00:02:46.480 to the guy and said that guy's homophobic and the media's like yeah he must be homophobic
00:02:50.080 but jagmeet singh said it and where and when has jagmeet singh ever been wrong but goodness if you're
00:02:56.240 ever looking for a an opportunity to realize just how bad the media is it's in these small little
00:03:02.000 stories like this the media doesn't even have any reason to lie they don't have any reason to not
00:03:06.720 bring up the fact that they don't know why he called the person homophobic but they do anyways 0.98
00:03:11.200 because the media is in the bag of the liberals and the mvp who are making sure to subsidize
00:03:16.080 their reporting