In this episode, I talk about the ridiculous amount of anti-Pierre Polyev media coverage surrounding his first few months as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and how it has only gotten worse since then. I also talk about a car bomb that exploded at a border crossing between Canada and the United States, and why we need to take our national security seriously.
00:00:00.000Hey, everyone. Remember about a year ago when Pierre Polyev had first become the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and all the media coverage surrounding his first few months as the leader of the party?
00:00:10.780Remember all the media talking heads, political commentators from legacy media who immediately started attacking Pierre Polyev as if he was super unpopular?
00:00:19.920Oh, the Canadian public isn't going to like him.
00:00:22.060Oh, look at this poll that's showing moderate Canadians don't really like Pierre Polyev.
00:00:27.240Look at all this stuff indicating that Pierre Polyev is going to crash and burn as much as O'Toole, even though the media loved O'Toole because O'Toole wasn't an ounce Conservative.
00:00:35.880But all this anti-Polyev coverage was going on for a very long time.
00:00:40.380And it was completely absurd from the beginning because in Canadian politics, we don't really have a strong focus on political leaders and politicians as Americans do.
00:00:49.880So in Canada, when a new opposition leader is chosen by their party, it takes a while for them to be able to gain the name recognition and momentum for Canadians to take them seriously and actually start shifting their federal vote around depending on who the leader of the opposition is and how it changes the sort of dynamics of the political system.
00:01:09.100Obviously, it was never going to stay that Polyev was just going to be kind of performing like a generic Conservative leader was, like the polling had been showing during the leadership election where nobody knew who the leader was going to be, like everyone kind of knew Polyev was going to win.
00:01:22.860But all of the polls during the leadership election and the Conservatives were kind of stagnant because it's basically generic Tory versus Justin Trudeau.
00:01:31.180As soon as Polyev became leader, it ever so slightly started to rise.
00:01:35.440And the media during this period where technically the Liberals could still win more seats as the Conservatives, they were immediately bashing Polyev.
00:01:42.420And now over the past about six or seven months, now that the Conservative Party has spiked in the polls, now all these media talking heads that were mocking Polyev, mocking his style, saying that, oh, all this populist rhetoric, this isn't going to work well with moderate Canadians.
00:01:58.840Now he has to become prime ministerial.
00:02:00.900Oh, he just doesn't understand how politics works.
00:02:03.100Oh, did you know that he's been in politics since 2004 and he doesn't know how politics work?
00:02:07.060And it was just all this crap for so long.
00:02:09.680And then when he started spiking in the polls, you saw a very, very funny shift.
00:02:14.440The Chantel Hubert's of the world stopped writing articles about how Polyev is a disaster for the Conservatives and he can't win an election.
00:02:22.580And now they've switched to just whining constantly.
00:03:04.200So I'm not sure if you know about, I assume you do, but in case you don't know, there was a car explosion that happened at a border crossing at the Rainbow Bridge or the Rainbow, I think it's the Rainbow Bridge border crossing between the United States and Canada.
00:03:16.560Everyone pretty much, as soon as it reported that there was a giant fireball at this border crossing and all the destruction that was caused by it, assumed this must be a terror attack.
00:03:26.160It didn't turn out to be a terror attack, but even the media, like CTV News, published that it's basically suspected to be a terror attack, or I think they even said it was a terror attack based on sources they had talked to.
00:03:37.920But Pierre Polyev stood up in Parliament and said that, based on media reporting, this sounds like it's a terror attack and that we need to take our national security more seriously.
00:03:46.780Now, the media excoriated him when it was found out that it wasn't actually a terror attack and was basically just an insanely bad car accident that had resulted in a vehicle explosion.
00:03:58.140And the media is acting like Polyev was the originator of this rumor, and he wasn't the one who said it.
00:04:03.600And when Polyev then fires back and points out that he was not the one who originated this during a press conference, where a Canadian press journalist basically says,
00:04:12.420was it responsible for you to call it a terror attack when we hadn't confirmed anything, when a Canadian, you know, when this public safety minister hadn't confirmed if it was yet?
00:04:20.840And Polyev's like, you guys reported this.
00:04:42.620They might as well come out and said, Polyev, you know we suck at our jobs.
00:04:46.060Why are you even bothering to quote us?
00:04:48.240If they took that stance, maybe I'd agree with them.
00:04:50.620Maybe Polyev shouldn't be ever referencing something from CTV News again.
00:04:54.740But still, this is how whiny the media has become.
00:04:57.820Polyev merely pointing out the media is bad at their jobs and then holding them accountable makes him a bully.
00:05:03.040I just want to bring up some of the posts here that we've had from, and I'm even specifically using a lot of Andrew Coyne, because he's supposedly supposed to be a conservative commentator on power and politics on the CBC.
00:05:15.160And I guess he's a writer somewhere else.
00:05:30.100It's him basically sort of maneuvering in and out of any sort of principles.
00:05:34.680The man dodges any sort of principle pylon on his way to getting to his non-point at the end of every single article he writes.
00:05:42.360But he was putting stuff out like this when people were posting the clips of Polyev, you know, besting, in my opinion, this Canada press journalist.
00:05:49.720And he says, I don't know who thinks he's impressive with his campus toward childishness, but they're probably already voting for him.
00:06:06.140If Trudeau said this to a reporter, said, hey, you reported and I was just quoting you at the time because it seemed like the best evidence we have.
00:06:12.980Everyone would be like, oh, Justin Trudeau is so mature, holding the media accountable for spreading misinformation.
00:06:18.180But if Polyev, even saying this is a media report and obviously everyone knows that it still has to be confirmed.
00:06:24.460If he quotes it and it was wrong, it's not the media's fault, it's his fault for some reason.
00:06:29.020And you can see this throughout all the headlines.
00:06:30.940You got all these, like, articles from Politico, he just can't help himself.
00:06:34.460And the Chronicle Journal, Polyev fuels voter cynicism.
00:06:37.520Canada conservatively or appropriately plays fast and loose with the truth.
00:06:41.280The fast and loose with the truth, you mean he quoted you guys and you messed up and he technically had not said something that was true?
00:06:48.000Even though he couched it in saying that, hey, this is a media report, which means that, yeah, it isn't fully confirmed yet.
00:06:54.440But, you know, politicians are supposed to react to events as they're happening, not wait a month and then maybe make a comment about it.
00:07:00.480We expect our politicians to be actually on top of things.
00:07:03.800They get criticized for taking too long to respond to crises.
00:07:45.160But, frankly, if you're watching me, you probably already read True North, which is good.
00:07:50.400So Candace Malcolm put out this tweet saying, legacy media journos are waging an all-out war against the Conservative Party, mocking its leader, past and present, petty name-calling, partisan mudslinging, cheering on attacks, which is 100% true.
00:08:03.300The media always is so childish, so backbiting.
00:08:07.800They're always just constantly mocking and criticizing Conservative leaders.
00:08:12.240It's always the coverage going towards any election over the past few races in terms of 2021, 2019, 2015, is how is this cool, dynamic, Liberal leader going to beat this stodgy, disgusting Conservative?
00:08:25.380They never give the Conservative the time of the day.
00:08:28.020And the only time they ever compliment a Conservative is when they act like a Liberal.
00:08:32.500So if you basically intentionally lose as a Conservative like Aaron O'Toole, they'll throw some comments here and there.
00:08:37.640But they'll still basically say that you're far right and you're crazy and you're unelectable right before the election hits anyways, just to make sure to stick that knife in at the end.
00:08:45.640But with Andrew Coyne's response to Candace Malcolm, I don't see how she's not absolutely correct.
00:08:51.580Andrew said, when you start to believe your own propaganda, you end up sounding like a movie trailer.
00:08:55.540When a cynical political warrior like Jenny Burns deploys this industrial-grade BS, you can pretty sure she knows it's BS and knows you know she knows and doesn't care.
00:09:05.640This is literally in the context of Polyev saying, hey, why are you attacking me?
00:09:10.360I cited a media report and you guys even say you're highly credible and you criticize independent media because they're not part of your legacy media club.
00:09:29.900I remember there was an article where he was basically comparing Polyev to O'Toole and waxing on poetic about how O'Toole gave us these 50-page policy papers.
00:10:06.620And that's why Coyne hates him, because he doesn't release 50-page policy plans.
00:10:11.320He just articulates his small government vision, talks about family values and parental rights, a couple other things.
00:10:17.800You could say, well, he's being vague.
00:10:19.160Well, the whole point is that Canadians want him to prove he believes in the principle, and Polyev has been going around proving he believes in the principle.
00:10:26.400Who cares about the policy detail if you're not actually convincing people that you believe in the principles that you're apparently standing for?
00:10:34.060Coyne does not have any principles, so as soon as Polyev is on the trail marketing his principles, he's completely in the jungle and doesn't know what's going on.
00:10:42.260He's pissed about it, too, for some reason.
00:10:50.560If you watch it, your IQ is going to go down.
00:10:52.440Let's quickly play this minute and, like, 15-second clipper or so just so you can just see the media getting so agitated by the fact that Polyev knows how to best them, and they're very upset about it.
00:11:04.200As soon as you criticize a media journalist and you're correct about it, that's bullying.
00:11:11.800Polyev might bully someone because he's right.
00:11:14.720It will be very hard to sell a leader who is turning out to be an intellectual bully, especially one who picks on people who are smaller than him in the sense that the journalist asking a question is smaller than someone who is the leader of a major party.
00:11:34.700And I don't know what is being said outside Quebec in the other language, but I was on a panel today, and the words I used associated with Pierre Poilier, and they are gaining currency, is that he is someone who will lie whenever it suits his purpose.
00:12:03.140We wanted leaders, and we looked up to them because they were able to rise above these kind of petty squabbles.
00:12:08.440This is small and insecure, and it appeals to people who want a leader who they don't have to look up to who's just as small and insecure as they are.
00:12:15.300That's not the kind I think that most Canadians are looking for.
00:12:18.300I think they want people who are uniters and not dividers, where people are trying to appeal to the best of us and not the worst of us.
00:12:25.360It's so foolish to hear Chantel Hubert going on like, well, I don't think Canadians want to vote for someone who's an intellectual bully.
00:12:37.380You literally were writing article after article for the Toronto Star talking about how Polyev's unpopular is not going to win.
00:12:42.680Now that he's popular, you're just whimpering about how you think he's, oh, I still don't think, I can't see how Canadians want to vote for an intellectual bully.
00:12:52.260You guys are so used to just people bowing down and saying that you're correct about everything and not thinking for themselves that as soon as a leader rejects the media's fake wisdom, that now it's bullying.
00:13:03.540And Andrew Coyne is going on about how we used to elect leaders that we would look up to.
00:13:47.480But these people, you can be a soft-spoken jerk.
00:13:50.460These people are like Noam Chomsky, very, very soft-spoken man, also evil human being, if you actually know any of his positions on things.
00:13:58.040And all these people, if you talk about family values, they will get deeply triggered because they hate family values.
00:14:04.080None of these people, like, Andrew Coyne's version of conservatism is, don't even lower taxes, just spend the money slightly more efficiently, and that's conservatism.
00:14:13.860If you do slightly more efficient spending with the level of, like, taxation and bloated bureaucracy that Justin Trudeau has, that's conservatism to Andrew Coyne.
00:14:35.360Polyev is besting them because he doesn't care to try and please intellectual dolts like Andrew Coyne anymore.
00:14:41.600He actually cares to please the average Canadian who wants a leader who sympathizes with them about the wreckage that Justin Trudeau has made of the country as much as they do.
00:14:52.900Anyways, that's pretty much it for me today.
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