Western Standard - July 11, 2022


CORY'S RANT： Legacy media fawning over Justin Trudeau


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4 minutes

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202.07018

Word count

885

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67

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Justin Trudeau was mobbed by admirers at the Calgary Stampede pancake breakfast, and the legacy media outlets were quick to report on it. But did you know that the event was staged? And that the story was picked up by the mainstream media?

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00:00:00.000 So the bias in Canada's liberal-leaning legacy media outlets is hardly new or surprising.
00:00:05.740 I mean, what does one expect when the government dangles hundreds of millions of tax dollars in front of them,
00:00:09.500 much like a person holding a piece of bacon to make a dog sit up and beg?
00:00:12.980 The legacy media outlets are in Trudeau-boosting overdrive this week,
00:00:17.700 as most of Canada's aspiring politicians do their annual pilgrimage to the Calgary Stampede.
00:00:23.360 It's the one time a year when Albertans can feel loved by their federal political masters.
00:00:29.100 The other 51 weeks, eh, not so much.
00:00:31.940 Now the Globe and Mail outdid themselves with a headline saying,
00:00:35.000 Trudeau mobbed by admirers at a Stampede pancake breakfast.
00:00:39.900 The image depicted a manically grinning Trudeau gloriously indulging in selfies with fawning admirers at the event.
00:00:46.700 Oh, it was something.
00:00:47.720 Oh, but wait, the Winnipeg Free Press had the exact same headline.
00:00:50.740 It started the Lethbridge Herald.
00:00:52.580 Oh, and CP24, and oh, there were all sorts of others.
00:00:55.020 You can see in that picture that Nico put up there.
00:00:56.660 Yes, there are likely more that we didn't even find, but I think I've made my point.
00:01:02.200 Try to do a little work, you guys.
00:01:04.660 I mean, the reason Trudeau was surrounded by admirers at the event is because it was staged.
00:01:09.260 Nobody aside from a small group directly in touch with his lone member of parliament, George Chahal, even knew he was coming.
00:01:15.200 People were quietly bussed into the event and instructed to crowd around Trudeau for the pictures.
00:01:20.300 Look, I don't fault the liberal organizers for staging the event.
00:01:23.160 That's the way the game's played.
00:01:24.180 The stampede is a must-go for politicians, and it doesn't look good if they shun it.
00:01:29.300 And if the event had been publicly announced, Trudeau would have been mobbed by protesters and hecklers.
00:01:33.740 It's Calgary.
00:01:34.300 It's not fertile ground for him.
00:01:35.820 If I was a liberal strategist, and I don't suspect that's going to ever happen, by the way, I would have done the same thing.
00:01:41.940 It's the weak, complicit mainstream media I'm revolted with.
00:01:45.580 They used the CP story and didn't even bother to change the headline.
00:01:48.620 It's cut-and-paste journalism, and it indicates two things.
00:01:51.460 One is laziness on the part of the legacy media outlets and their efforts.
00:01:55.840 Their efforts to endear themselves to the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:02:00.580 Only one or two reporters were tipped off to attend the event, of course.
00:02:03.640 They were clearly liberal-friendly ones.
00:02:05.820 They wanted to keep the news of the event tight.
00:02:08.080 Where were the other legacy reporters, anyway?
00:02:10.080 Well, they came out to the Conservative Party barbecue in droves.
00:02:13.020 The headlines were rather different, though.
00:02:15.120 I mean, look at this gem from the CBC.
00:02:16.900 How a Conservative Party barbecue became Pierre Polyev's red meat cookout.
00:02:21.980 The piece then reported on pins being handed out.
00:02:24.580 One said, hands off my six-shooter.
00:02:26.480 Or another one said, more Alberta, less Ottawa.
00:02:28.740 Of course, it was reported by Mr. Markisoff.
00:02:30.660 And hushed tones on all hat, no cattle, or buck off Trudeau was even seen there.
00:02:35.540 It was noted that Charest got a few boos as well.
00:02:37.920 Pretty much went on to imply it was a redneck gathering of borderline extreme Polyev supporters. 0.77
00:02:43.300 Quite a difference in coverage from one event to another, isn't it?
00:02:46.800 Reporting has gone on for years.
00:02:48.180 This kind of reporting has gone on for years, and it works.
00:02:50.340 It's little wonder the Liberals keep spending more and more tax dollars fostering it.
00:02:54.720 Does anybody remember the beauty in 2016?
00:02:56.460 That was just awesome.
00:02:57.240 When the Trudeau Liberals staged an event in front of a chalkboard covered with random formulas.
00:03:01.180 And Trudeau then recited a carefully rehearsed statement on quantum computing to a room of cheering, giggling supporters.
00:03:08.620 I'm surprised they didn't give him some glasses with a little tape on the bridge of it to make him look a little more like a classic bookworm.
00:03:14.480 The event was cheesy enough to warrant it.
00:03:16.640 The Liberals were trying to knock down the growing impression among Canadians that Trudeau is a moron.
00:03:20.180 And again, they can't be blamed for working to convince Trudeau as a cerebral support sort of guy, though.
00:03:26.900 I mean, it's a monumental task.
00:03:28.140 It failed, and the Liberals went back to showing pictures of Trudeau shirtless or impulsively crashing weddings.
00:03:34.180 Again, though, it wasn't the Liberal actions that were galling.
00:03:36.320 It's how the mainstream media obliges them.
00:03:39.400 Information is everything, and the authoritarian Trudeau government wants to control it.
00:03:43.760 Bills C-11 and C-18 are testaments to that.
00:03:46.120 The purchase of the Canadian Media Corps, though, is the most repugnant of their actions.
00:03:51.360 Legacy media outlets dance like trained monkeys to a government organ grinder.
00:03:55.520 It must be humiliating to journalists who entered the trade with dreams of doing investigative and critical, unbiased reporting.
00:04:02.800 Alternative outlets like ours are filling the void.
00:04:05.100 I believe in the long run, free media is going to win, even though they might need to go nearly underground at some point.
00:04:10.220 It may be a tougher ride for independent media outlets like us who refuse tax funding.
00:04:14.680 But it's much more satisfying, and we can hold our heads high.
00:04:18.020 Legacy media, they continue to embarrass themselves further with every Liberal pup piece.