The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 19, 2023


The Media tries to fabricate a Trudeau comeback narrative

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Polyev polls narrative
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Wyatt Claypool
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Pierre Poilievre Justin Trudeau Chantal Hubert Erin O'Toole Kinsella Peter Mansbridge Bruce Anderson Fidel Castro Max Fawcett
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In this episode, I talk about how the legacy media reacts when there's a story about how Justin Trudeau is losing ground in the polls, and how they try to spin it to make it seem like it's actually a good thing.

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00:00:00.000 One of the most laughable notions in Canadian politics is the idea that our legacy media institutions are somehow completely neutral and unbiased when it comes to their coverage of Canadian politics, both on the reporting side as well as the analysis side.
00:00:13.700 It seems like a lot of those who work in legacy media think that just because they don't outright endorse Justin Trudeau during a news broadcast, that we cannot detect that they're obviously trying to push people towards voting either for the Liberals or the NDP.
00:00:26.840 And I have a perfect story today to highlight just how giddy the legacy media becomes whenever there's a story that slightly benefits Justin Trudeau.
00:00:36.660 So I'm not sure if you remember, last week there was an abacus data poll that had its results released that showed that the Conservative Party was only up 10 points on the Liberals.
00:00:46.300 And now you're probably thinking, only up 10 points? Like, yeah, like 10 points is a pretty massive lead in Canadian politics.
00:00:52.240 But it was a significant decrease compared to the other abacus poll results that came out showing the Conservatives up, you know, 14, 15, 16 points ahead of the Liberals.
00:01:02.260 And so we had tons of legacy media reports, like op-ed pages that were dedicated to talking about how the downfall of Pierre Polyev might happen and Justin Trudeau still in the game and how Pierre Polyev's bad politicking is somehow giving Trudeau an angle to actually come back in popularity.
00:01:21.020 It was never going to happen. Everyone was calling it immediately that this was probably going to be an outlier poll in the long run.
00:01:27.040 And it didn't even take the long run for this to be manifest. It was proven pretty quickly that Justin Trudeau is not recovering whatsoever.
00:01:36.600 But here's some of the recent poll results that we had from, I believe this one is Nanos, which shows the Conservatives at 41 and the Liberals at 25.
00:01:46.640 That is a 16 point lead for the Conservatives. And then we had another poll come out that is an 18 point lead for the Conservatives from Main Street.
00:01:54.800 And these two polls, even though they are leaning more conservative in the results, like obviously, the thing is Main Street and Nanos usually weren't giving the more, you know, bullish kind of readings on how well the Conservatives were doing compared to the Abacus data poll.
00:02:11.060 Maybe that's why people freaked out when Abacus showed the Conservatives only up 10, because usually Abacus was the pollster that was showing them up 16 and 18 previously.
00:02:19.260 But regardless, I just want to get to what the media was doing at this time.
00:02:23.460 So regardless of someone as an op ed writer, or a reporter in the legacy media, there is this idea and there's some independent outlets, I would still consider legacy in the sense of the bubbles that they travel in.
00:02:36.040 But whenever even someone like a Chantal Hubert writes an op ed, even though she is an opinion journalist, they always act as if their opinions are come to through their just fact based and objective mindset, as if it's not that these people are very heavily biased leftists who are trying to prop up Justin Trudeau.
00:02:54.720 Like remember when Pierre Polyev, I've mentioned this several times on the show before, when Pierre Polyev became the leader, over the next five months of his leadership, even though it takes a while for opposition leaders to gain name recognition with Canadians, and then you'll see the bump in the support of their party take a while to manifest because most Canadians are just kind of confused about what a leadership election even is.
00:03:15.880 And I guess the conservatives have a new leader. So it takes a while for the actual benefits of the new leader that they bring to the party to actually be seen in the polls.
00:03:24.820 But Chantal Hubert did not take a second to go on about how Pierre Polyev was unpopular. He's too radical. Canadians aren't accepting him. Oh, look how he's more unpopular than Justin Trudeau.
00:03:34.900 And then around that June time of 2023, when Pierre Polyev and the conservatives skyrocketed in popularity, suddenly she went silent and she took a little bit of a leave of absence and a short vacation.
00:03:47.700 Like, and really, like, like, maybe she really was just taking a leave that was, you know, predetermined, but it was a little bit sketchy that she suddenly left town as soon as people were running to her to explain why, you know, Canadians have not swiveled hard against Pierre Polyev.
00:04:03.720 Regardless, but as soon as this abacus data poll came up, we had articles like this, like, obviously, you can assume the content by the title, I've read them.
00:04:13.800 And yeah, it was basically this, you know, playing up this narrative that Justin Trudeau could actually come back because Pierre Polyev is scaring people and he voted against Ukraine, which he didn't, or he voted to cut X thing that's very sympathetic, which he didn't or whatever.
00:04:28.460 And they were pushing this idea that somehow Pierre has, like, unmasked himself as a radical, and now Canadians are going to turn on him.
00:04:35.120 So you get headlines like this, Polyev breathes new life introduced chances, an article by Max Fawcett that did not age well.
00:04:42.000 We have another one from the Toronto Star, Trudeau's liberals gain support at expense of Polyev's conservatives poll suggests.
00:04:48.180 And then we have this one, Kinsella, Pierre Polyev would be wise not to count out Justin Trudeau.
00:04:53.280 And although Kinsella is usually considered a more of a conservative journalist, you have a lot of red Tory types like him who are doing this kind of fear mongering against the conservatives being outspoken on issues.
00:05:03.740 Because unless you act boring like Aaron O'Toole, somehow the Canadian populace will turn on you, even though we literally proved through Aaron O'Toole's leadership that Canadians never warmed up to this diet liberalism that he ended up bringing to the conservative party's platform.
00:05:18.340 Anyways, and then we also had this podcast with Peter Mansbridge and Chantal Hubert and someone else, I don't really care about Bruce Anderson, where, again, these people are pretending as if they just know politics better than you, that, well, if you understand how Canadian politics works, you would know why Pierre Polyev is falling in the polls right now.
00:05:37.740 That wasn't the entire thing. Chantal Hubert tried to compare Pierre Polyev to Fidel Castro and other dictators simply because I think when the conservative party put out membership cards, and you can disagree or agree with this as a good or bad move, they had Pierre Polyev's face or like his image on many of the membership card options.
00:05:58.340 And she was saying that this was like dictator-like and more evidence of why Pierre Polyev is falling in the polls.
00:06:03.560 And as soon as the polls actually shoot back up, they're nowhere to be found.
00:06:06.820 These people never actually come back and explain themselves whatsoever.
00:06:10.660 I actually just want to quickly go and check Chantal's, I'm not going to check her Twitter account, but you get the point.
00:06:18.420 The idea that somehow the legacy media is trying to just tell it like it is and we're just going to give you the facts and that's it.
00:06:25.820 One poll came out and there was dozens of op-eds written about how, or even just media reports acting like they're completely neutral, basically trying to feed into the narrative that Polyev is weak and Justin Trudeau is ascendant because Justin, because Pierre Polyev is radical.
00:06:40.820 They're trying to kind of launder that narrative into the media so that it's repeated so often it becomes the unbiased way of referring to Pierre Polyev.
00:06:51.740 I guarantee by election day, they will start trying to always refer to Pierre Polyev as controversial conservative leader, Pierre Polyev.
00:06:59.380 They're going to hit him with a couple of fake scandals that they basically just create out of whole cloth and then forever until the election, it will always be controversial leader Pierre Polyev or Pierre Polyev, who is slipping in the polls recently because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, radical policy stance that he never actually took.
00:07:17.960 This is exactly the media's game. And as much as they tried to pretend to be unbiased, if you ever hang out with these people, and I've been around, many of these people are in legacy media, they're very, very political people.
00:07:30.960 Even like everyone down to like people who report the weather, a lot of these people are extremely political individuals.
00:07:36.600 They just pretend as if somehow because they, you know, cite sources or whatever, or, you know, we've quoted an expert that our reporting is more neutral, even though oftentimes it's the experts themselves and the selection of the people that they call experts demonstrates just how hard left many of these people are.
00:07:55.760 Many of the people that they'll quote in like stories about how like, you know, the parental rights movement is radical are usually like, you know, democratic socialist types.
00:08:04.540 They're usually the types of people who think that Antifa is a fantastic organization, that they're not neutral individuals.
00:08:11.800 Anyways, well, that should be pretty much it for me today.
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