Rachel Gilmore's testimony to a parliamentary committee about disinformation is getting a lot of attention, and it's not for the reason you think it should be. It's because she has absolutely no idea what she's talking about, and no idea why she should be talking about it at all.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. A couple of days ago, I talked about Rachel Gilmore, the disgraced former global news journalist, making an absolute fool of herself in front of a parliamentary committee studying disinformation.
00:00:15.320The story somehow has developed further since then, with Rachel Gilmore not being able to hold herself back from responding to her critics, and I think we need to talk about it a little bit more, because Gilmore, despite in a certain sense being a completely irrelevant figure, I think she is very relevant in that she represents the id of the left.
00:00:36.740This is somebody who the legacy media and many left institutions consider a credible human being. An MP, either a liberal or an NDP MP, would have had to call this woman in front of the committee to talk about disinformation when she has no clue what she's talking about.
00:00:55.260She's extremely arrogant and snarky. She's far left. In fact, she's actually okay with the murder of that healthcare CEO in the U.S. She's basically our discount version of Taylor Lorenz, that disgraced former Washington Post journalist who likes to smear people and dox people.
00:01:13.340Rachel Gilmore similarly likes to smear people and dox people. They are one of a kind, and they almost look exactly the same.
00:01:20.300But let's get into a little bit of this. I'm going to show you her testimony from the other day, if you didn't see it before. When I did talk about her, it was in a live stream many of you didn't see, or it was late into a video. It was like at the 20-minute mark I started talking about it.
00:01:34.880So let's at least see how she presented herself and let you decide whether or not this is embarrassing or not.
00:01:42.580Hey, everyone. Thanks for having me. This is obviously a very important topic, and I have some big feelings about it.
00:01:51.600So to kick things off, I'm sure you all remember the Freedom Convoy. Yeah?
00:01:57.380Well, as part of my coverage at the time, I joined several Telegram channels and groups where organizers and supporters gathered to exchange everything from planning details to fringe conspiracy theories.
00:02:09.520And you might not have realized this, but it was actually just days after the convoy—actually, you guys probably do know this—just days after the convoy that Russia invaded Ukraine.
00:02:20.760Yeah, so apparently in Rachel Gilmore's framing, the Russian government decided that it was at the right time to invade Ukraine because of the Freedom Convoy, or there's some connection there that she's trying to vaguely draw.
00:02:36.340But Rachel Gilmore is somebody who doesn't understand the relationship between cause and effect.
00:02:42.540So I think I've let that play enough. She just goes down a rabbit hole talking about how, you know, there's Russian disinformation out there.
00:02:49.780And is there Russian disinformation out there? Sure there is.
00:02:52.840But the liberals and Gilmore wanted to kind of be assumed that Russian disinformation is like really serious.
00:03:00.300It's like hurting our institutions. And people don't like the liberal government because of Russian disinformation.
00:03:07.020It has nothing to do with the fact their policies suck. There's just so much vague disinformation out there that that's the real reason why Canadians don't trust their government, because of the Russians, not because of the Canadian government's behavior.
00:03:19.780But even just at the start of that, she's saying, I have some big feelings about this topic.
00:03:24.900It's like, it was bad. And I'm not, like, grabbing the worst clip of this.
00:03:30.260This is her opening statement that she uploaded herself. This was what she decided to post.
00:03:36.880This was her own X account where she posted this opening statement.
00:03:41.280I think she only got to speak for about, like, four and a half minutes.
00:03:43.860There was some sort of emergency at Parliament or fake emergency, so everyone had to leave the room.
00:03:48.300Maybe someone pulled the fire alarm because they had to listen to Rachel Gilmore.
00:03:51.500But here is her response to the many, many, many people who have been mocking her performance because she does not just reserve the weird valley girl type behavior for the start of her testimony.
00:04:05.140That was throughout the entire four and a half minute clip that I have seen, where she just talks as if she's sitting down for mimosas with her friends.
00:04:13.680It's horrible. But here she is saying to her critics, a lot of very serious people are calling me unserious because I have a personality.
00:04:23.160So allow me to share a few things. OK, apparently a personality means being insufferable.
00:04:28.320If you guys are not insufferable, that apparently you do not have a real personality, according to Rachel Gilmore.
00:04:35.280She says, I consulted a national security expert on my testimony before finalizing it.
00:04:40.340How liberal was that national security expert?
00:04:44.500A widely respected disinformation expert has praised this testimony.
00:04:48.840Yeah, it's probably because they agree with your worldview.
00:04:53.220There are a lot of people in academia who are class A morons.
00:04:57.700I have a master's degree in public policy.
00:05:00.860There are so many people who research public policy who just have no clue what they're talking about.
00:05:06.540I had a professor who has seriously issued a study on whether or not tires and brake systems emit enough emissions that they require regulation or taxation.
00:05:18.340Yes, that is something that somebody actually researched.
00:05:21.200They never researched whether we should get rid of a tax or anything like that.
00:05:24.860They only ever researched if we should tax people harder or regulate harder.
00:05:28.980But Rachel Gilmore, we don't need to, it says continue at the bottom, but it really doesn't continue into anything.
00:05:34.820She shows that she had sources for what the claims that she made.
00:05:38.100I'm like, yeah, everyone knows that Russia invaded Ukraine.
00:05:43.580It's the ridiculous leaps of logic you take from these fact patterns.
00:05:47.820The fact that she then goes on to act as if, like, tons of problems in Canada are just because of Russian disinformation.
00:05:54.820She connects dots that are just not there.
00:05:57.600She also was, like, notoriously bad and, like, at getting things wrong when it came to the Freedom Convoy.
00:06:04.140She pushed the arson conspiracy that a bunch of truckers who were wearing, like, had purple hair and whatnot and puffy, like, luxury brand jackets were trying to burn down apartment buildings, which was obviously untrue.
00:06:17.600And it was a bunch of lefty people trying to plant some stuff.
00:06:20.940But I want to just quickly jump over to the video that she ended up making on this whole issue.
00:07:12.220Now, when you speak at these things, you usually want to give an opening statement.
00:07:15.000So you have to prepare that in advance so you can give it to them and they can give it to the translators who do live interpretation in people's ears.
00:07:21.800So I spent my weekend drafting, researching, and fact-checking.
00:07:25.800You had to research the fact that the Russians invaded Ukraine, like, a few days after, and you somehow thought that was, like, a good thing to present.
00:07:33.140I brainstormed what I wanted to say, but I also wanted to make sure I had receipts for everything that I ended up saying if I was asked for them.
00:07:40.400You can see them all at the bottom of my Google Doc.
00:07:42.340I also ended up on the phone with a national security expert who is also a friend, and I read her the broad strokes of what I planned to say.
00:07:49.100When she confirmed that it was all accurate, I felt like...
00:07:53.440The weird insinuations about Russia invading Ukraine because of the freedom convoy or the other, like, attacks that she ends up making on, like, the Canadians in general having basically turned on the liberals because they, I guess, believe Russian disinformation or something like that?
00:08:11.480She talked in very vague terms that was basically just meant to sprinkle in the idea that there is a boogeyman out there that is causing bad things to happen and that we need to combat it.
00:08:24.580On the day of, I went through security, went up to the committee room, and waited outside.
00:08:29.100They had a massive coat room that was perfect for fit checks, and this is the bag that I brought, which is from a local Palestinian bookstore.
00:08:36.840Oh, yeah, by the way, she, like, really, really hates Israel in, like, a psychotic kind of a way, like her friend Erika Ifill, who I have dubbed in the past Black Hitler, if you want to look up Erika Ifill.
00:08:47.700She has an extremely strange hatred for white people that's, like, overt, and at one point she attacked...
00:08:54.020...a brown lady as being fair-skinned, because if you dare or disagree with Erika Ifill, you become white in some way. It's insane.
00:09:00.960I was running behind, dealing with something in camera, which means it's closed to the public, but I was cool lingering outside.
00:09:06.440Because I had crashed at my mom's place, so I made her come with me, and she was calming me down because I was very nervous.
00:09:12.240While waiting, I looked at social media, and I saw that one grifter-y dude was already planning to live-react on a stream to...
00:09:18.040I don't even agree with Viva Fry all the time, but what does a grifter-y dude mean?
00:09:23.140You're a grifter because you disagree with Rachel Gilmore, apparently.
00:09:32.080Then I got called in, took my seat, said hi to the MPs, and it was time to start.
00:09:36.080You can head to my last video to see what I actually said.
00:09:38.580It was interesting to watch the MPs and see who was, like, sitting, scrolling on their phone, and who was super engaged and listening to the opening statements, not just from me, but from everyone.
00:09:47.440The third speaker was the guy behind the Vatnik Soup series, which exposes Russian disinfo actors.
00:09:52.200But just a few minutes into his opening remarks, an alarm started going off.
00:09:56.140We all just kind of waited for it to end, and people cracked some jokes that maybe it was Russia.
00:10:00.140There was some probably brave hero who didn't want to listen to this stupid committee meeting.
00:10:05.140Then we were told we actually had to evacuate.
00:10:07.140And I overheard one staffer mention that a suspicious package may have been found.
00:10:11.140So we all went outside, and one dude I asked said he heard the suspicious package thing had actually already been resolved.