Trudeau Liberals funding insane anti-Poilievre propaganda website!
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Summary
If I was to crown the King of Liberal Propaganda in the media, it would not go to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, despite their 1.4B taxpayer dollars every year, but to the smaller, legacy media outlets like Global News, CTV and CTV, I would give it to the CBC. Because their liberal propaganda is some of the most blatant I have ever seen in my entire life. They might not be the most subsidized, but you can really tell they are fighting to maintain those subsidies by promoting Trudeau's liberal government whenever they can, and attacking Pure Polyev and the conservatives. They will cite polls to try and slam Pure PolyEV, but they will cut everything out of context in order to generate anti-Polyev conservative news stories.
Transcript
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Wyatt Claypool Show. Media propaganda is a very big problem
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in Canadian politics, and the government subsidizing legacy media outlets big and small
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is no small part of the problem. But if I was to crown the king of liberal propaganda in the media,
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it would not go to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation despite their 1.4 billion taxpayer
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dollars they're given every year, or one of the other big legacy media outlets like Global News,
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CTV, or City News. I would have to give it to the smaller publication, CultMTL, because their
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liberal propaganda is some of the most blatant I have ever seen in my entire life. They might not
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be the most subsidized, but you can really tell they are fighting to maintain those subsidies
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by promoting Trudeau's liberal government whenever they can, and attacking pure Polyev and the
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conservatives, not just for unfair things, for completely fictitious things. They will cite
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polls to try and slam pure Polyev that if you actually read them, makes Polyev look good,
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but they will cut everything out of context in order to generate anti-Polyev conservative news
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stories. Every single one of these articles is oddly written by this guy, Matthew Renfrew. I don't
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think he might even be a real person, because whenever I try and find a Matthew Renfrew online,
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I don't come up with anything. Maybe there's some obscure LinkedIn profile out there that is the real
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Matthew Renfrew. At this point, it might just be some name that they throw up so that no one gets
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blamed for the propaganda specifically, but some of this stuff is hilariously bad, and we are going
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to look at some of it today. But before I jump into the video, guys, make sure to like this video,
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subscribe to the channel. I'm trying to hit 100,000 subscribers by mid-December of this year,
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and make sure to share the video if you like it. But without further ado, let's take a deep dive
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into cult MTL. So here we have one article entitled,
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Pierpolyev's poor favorability will cost the conservatives come election time. The subheader
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then reads, a large majority of Canadians believe Pierpolyev is not the best choice for Prime Minister.
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Now, you probably don't even need me to tell you what the problem with the premise of this article is,
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but I'm going to read you a couple of sentences and show why it's just blatantly wrong.
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A new study by the Angus Reid Institute has found that net favorability of Pierpolyev has reached
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negative 18%. Just 37% of Canadians have a positive opinion of the Conservative Party of Canada leader.
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A study by Leger also found that while Canadian Conservatives are leading in the polls,
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less than one in three Canadians believe Pierpolyev is the best choice for Prime Minister.
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Obviously, not only is this an outlier leadership approval rating for Pierpolyev,
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in most other polls he has a net positive approval rating, but what cult MTL fails to mention because
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they love Justin Trudeau so much, is that he has an approval rating of 28% and a disapproval rating of
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68%, with Jagmeet Singh only being a little bit up on Pierpolyev, mostly because nobody really knows who
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Jagmeet Singh is, even after two elections, and so they're willing to just think generically positive
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stuff about him. Oh, and by the way, in that Leger poll they mentioned, where less than one in three
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Canadians think Pierpolyev would be the best Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau only has 11% of people thinking that
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he would be the best, Jagmeet Singh has 13%, and Pierpolyev had 31%. You think that might flavor the way
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you would read this story by Matthew Renfrew if you knew that going in? This is pure propaganda.
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Worse than anything I've ever seen from the CBC, it may even be worse than things I've seen from the
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anti-hate network. It should be stated right here that I have no problem with media bias. Even cult MTL
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is pretty overt about how much they like Trudeau and hate Pierpolyev, but this is not bias. This is just
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blatant manipulation of the facts in order to get you to a conclusion of their choosing. They want you
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to hate Polyev, they want you to think that Canada's fantastic under Justin Trudeau, so they will pick and
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choose the facts that they like in order to make you believe that. But now let's move on to the second
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article I mentioned. This one which has the title, Just 29% of Canadians Want a Federal Election Now.
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The subhead reading, here Polyev continues to embarrass himself by calling for an immediate election
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Canadians do not want. Now, I probably do not need to tell you that this is not exactly what the poll
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that they're citing actually says. Now, I'll give Matthew Renfrew some credit because he actually
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does include the full poll results, but when he pretends like Polyev is unpopular or embarrassing
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himself because only 29% of Canadians won an election now, you just have to look at the other results to
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see, oh, well, 30% also won an election in the spring, which is, you know, two and a half months,
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three months from now. That is effectively saying when it's not cold. So Polyev, in fact, actually has
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more than half of Canadians agreeing that they want an election sooner than later. Now, their manipulation
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of the facts wouldn't be so bad if they weren't being subsidized both by the federal government
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as well as the Quebec provincial government. Several months ago, Andy Lee, an investigative journalist,
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pointed out that they were receiving money from a Quebec provincial fund for local publications,
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but then I found that even the federal government was directly giving money to CultMTL every year
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since 2020. Now, while I agree subsidies this size wouldn't be enough to keep the lights on,
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it definitely pays for quite a bit of the salary of whoever this Matthew Renfrew character is.
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Back in 2020, CultMTL was given $46,719. In 2021, $12,800. In 2022, $13,945. And in
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2023, the last time I could get data for $13,247. I don't know how much money CultMTL is getting from
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the QCNA fund in Quebec, but it's obvious that they probably wouldn't be writing these articles
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unless they were being subsidized by the federal liberal government. It's probably them trying to
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sweeten the deal for the federal government and ensure that grants keep coming in every year,
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because why else would you be writing hacky articles like this? CultMTL, which the name implies,
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is a culture magazine for Montreal. They mostly report on cocktail lounges and different shows that
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are in town. They aren't really a place that would ever be talking about politics,
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but suddenly they started to when they got federal money. This publication has been around
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for a while, so I went back to check on if they wrote much about Prime Minister Stephen Harper when
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he was in office, and they really didn't. Other than this one article about the Syrian refugee crisis
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I found, and one extremely short article that basically just said in a single sentence,
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Montreal still hates Stephen Harper, they really didn't have many references to Stephen Harper on
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their website until the 2020s, when they started comparing Stephen Harper's popularity to new
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conservatives' leaders, concluding that these conservative leaders are even more unpopular
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than Stephen Harper. This is the background for why there are hundreds of people on social media
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calling out CultMTL's Pravda-esque lies, including Michaela Peterson and other conservative influencers.
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The one good thing that CultMTL is doing is that they are making themselves the poster child for
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why blanket media subsidies are wrong. I can maybe agree that certain northern Canadian publications
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do need some taxpayer dollars in order to survive, you're operating in towns of only a couple thousand
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people, maybe you need the money to stay afloat, but a place like CultMontreal should not actually be
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getting Canadian federal tax dollars, especially to put out propaganda this blatant. I would be on
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social media also calling them out, but sadly, CultMTL, maybe Matthew Renfrew himself, have sadly blocked
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me. Well, that's it for this video today. Hopefully you enjoyed this dive into what CultMTL is and why we
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