The worst show on the CBC (#DefundCBC)
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Summary
In this episode of Power in Politics, I talk about why the CBC should not get $1.4B a year from the Canadian taxpayers to pay for a political talk show that is so dull that you can't even make sense of it.
Transcript
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I wanted to fund the CBC. You wanted to fund the CBC. If you own a cat or dog,
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they probably also wanted to fund the CBC. And I think the show on the CBC that makes the best
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case as to why they shouldn't be given $1.4 billion of Canadian taxpayer money every single
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year is CBC's Power in Politics. Yes, there's other shows that are worse than their actual
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presentation or quality, but I think CBC Power in Politics makes the best case because it is
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easily the dullest show. Think about having a $1.4 billion budget and putting this garbage
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on television. And CBC Power in Politics is awful for approximately three reasons. And these are
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the three reasons right here. It's nothing against these three individuals themselves,
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but the reason why it is a terrible political talk show where they have different analysts from
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different political perspectives come and talk about the issues of the day. It sucks because
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these people actually can't talk about the issues because either they are lobbyists or they
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basically are still doing PR work for the party that they favor. They can say nothing that a party
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does not approve of or will not lose them lobbying clients. It is the worst show ever because the show
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fails at doing what it is meant to do is to have three partisan people come on and discuss political
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issues who cannot even discuss the issues because they have too much invested in not saying anything
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controversial or not contradicting the party that they are obviously still either working for or at
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least still heavily in touch with. It's not just like three conservative NDP and liberal journalists
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talking. They're all opinionated and it kind of being controversial actually kind of helps them get
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attention. That would maybe be interesting. These three people, they can't say anything because they're
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working for random big businesses in terms of lobbying. They're still doing comms for like the NDP or they
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run a strategy firm and they're trying to get clients in and they have to be hyper professional
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at all times in artificial sense. This show, nothing happens. I'll just let it play in the background while
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I talk. But you have the liberal guy here. He used to work in parliament with the liberals and you think,
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pull that, maybe give him some good political insights, but it's so obvious. All he does is regurgitates
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liberal talking points. He doesn't have his own perspective. The NDP lady, I believe, is from a lobbying
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firm and a strategist. And then Fred Delori there, the conservative on the panel, the conservative on the panel
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who worked as Aaron O'Toole's manager on the 21 election, he's right now working for a lobby firm while he's on the
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CBC show. So he can't say anything that's actually that political. He'll just basically explain what's
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going on. Like the host there, who I'm actually most concerned for the health of, because this is
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such a dull show, he's probably suffering. He'll actually pitch them sometimes interesting topics
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to talk about. Tucker Carlson, or in this segment, they're talking about Ken McDonald, the liberal MP
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from Avalon, basically saying that none of his constituents like Justin Trudeau. And even Fred Delori,
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who should be able to go in hard on this issue? He basically just describes, yes, this is very bad
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for Justin Trudeau. You have a liberal MP basically saying people don't like the prime minister. Yes,
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very bad. And then you'll have the NDP person come on. And she'll say, well, you know, actually,
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well, you know, he's still a part of the government. So it's also Ken McDonald's fault that things suck
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as bad as they do. So it's kind of a little hypocritical for him to be throwing Justin Trudeau under the
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bus. At the same time, she's never going to acknowledge that Jagmeet Singh is also part of the
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government. And then Greg here, the guy on the left is like, easily just the most belligerent
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liberal propagandist I've ever seen, at least on social media. He just bulldozes people doesn't
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have a coherent point. And like just does the usual liberal tactics of you're racist, you're mega far
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right and all this stuff. This is all the show is. This is why these people shouldn't be getting
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1.5 billion dollars. You messed up the easiest show to put on television. Just grab three average
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people, three people who kind of know what they're talking about from the three different political
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perspectives. They, you know, they're not, they're not from any lobbying firm. They don't work for a
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party. So they can just be unfiltered. They're willing to criticize their own side because they're
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not being paid. And they're also willing to get into controversial issues because they're not working
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for an extremely corporate lobbying firm. But no, the CBC messed it up. And they had three people on
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who are robots, who can't say anything other than what their party wants or what their lobbying firm
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will allow. And we just muck about for like 30 minutes. That is the thing with the CBC. And I'll
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get into other CBC shows and sort of talk more broadly now. If you watch 24 hours of the CBC,
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you will have seen probably, and not just because like there's obviously repeating news, that's fine.
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In the national, CBC, the national, when Daniel Boardman and I, like my co-host here at the National
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Telegraph, when we sat down to do an episode of his show, The Worst of the CBC, we watched a 45-minute
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episode of the National. And they repeated in that 45 minutes, the same story six times from ever so
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slightly different angles. And you could tell it was just the same journalist basically getting all
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the footage to do this. It wasn't like, okay, it's the same story, but here's three very unique angles.
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And we still have to travel across the country to do it. No, it was like some indigenous people in
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Canada visiting the Vatican. And they did that five times. And each time they redid the story,
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they would just interview a different person that was there. And it didn't add any real like content.
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It was just stuff. And this show is the definition. This show, is it this way? Sorry. I'm always
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trying to point to the right direction towards the footage. This show is stuff personified. They're
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just talking about stuff. They're not saying anything about it. They're just describing the
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stuff. And every once in a while, some liberal guy will say something absolutely crazy. And Fred
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DeLore will be like, oh, well, you know, that's not quite fair. And then nothing will really happen
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because they're not supposed to say anything. They should not be given a dime. We do not need
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$1.4 billion of CBC funding. Like I'm running for the Calgary Signal Hill conservative party
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nomination. My name's Wyatt Claypool. If you're watching this, you can live there, buy a membership
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and vote for me. But this is why this is why whenever people say, well, the CBC is part of
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Canada's heritage. No, the Canada's heritage is this. It's four, three lobbyists talking about
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nothing. At the very least, the CBC should have three quarters of its budget cut. And it should
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only be doing weather and just basic just, you know, just like ticker tape readings of the news.
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Oh, Justin Trudeau went here and said this. And opposition leader said this today. And Jagmeet
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Singh whined about this. That's all it should be. It may be some northern radio shows in places where
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you couldn't run a radio show at a profit. Fair enough. But this, this is torture. This is how you
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drive people insane. This is just like people who are pseudo intellectual will watch this show and
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pretend that there was content because the people talk a lot, but they don't actually talk about
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anything. I'm even repeating myself talking about this. They're really getting to me here. You
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should actually go and watch this. I will leave a link to this episode of Power and Politics in the
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description. Go watch this show. It is boring. It's horrible. This is what's wrong with Canadian
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politics. People just sort of soft shoe around serious issues and they just talk word salad for 30
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minutes at a time. I hate politics like this. Okay. Anyways, that should be it for me today. If
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you want to donate to the Give, Send, Go legal fund in the description below, that really helps myself,
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the National Telegraph out. We have a billionaire developer suing us over nothing. He doesn't have
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any evidence we've done something wrong. He's just offended at whatever we said in an article about him,
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which we fully based off previous reports from the Globe and Mail. We said nothing unique about him,
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but he's mad at us and he thinks he can bully us to give him an apology. Anyways, that doesn't really
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matter too much. If you want to donate, sure. If you don't donate, we're not going anywhere.
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And if you want to, again, buy a membership for me, if you live in the Calgary Signal Hill riding,
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we want real conservatives representing strong conservative ridings. So if you could do that
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for me, that's brilliant. My website, WyattClaypool.com is in the description of the video below if you want
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to go sign up for the email list. And other than that, that should be it for me and I'll be back again