Western Standard - December 01, 2022


Douglas Murray DESTROYS Canadian legacy media.

Mentioned
Freedom Convoy
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Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

163.37

Word count

509

Sentence count

49

Harmful content

Toxicity

7

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

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Mainstream media in Canada is a disgrace. They are part of the ruling class and do the bidding of the government. They do not question the government and are not a free society's media. That is what we need to change.

Transcript

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00:00:00.160 Your Prime Minister decided in advance that these people were, oh, what did he do? 0.91
00:00:05.480 All the modern excommunications, they were Nazis, they were white supremacists, 0.97
00:00:09.800 they were anti-Semites, they were probably homophobes, they were misogynists, 0.97
00:00:13.440 they were probably transphobes, etc, etc, etc.
00:00:16.440 He did all the things you do in the modern political age
00:00:18.420 if you want to just defenestrate somebody who's awkward to you.
00:00:21.880 And then he brings in the Emergency Powers Act.
00:00:23.840 Now, at such a time, what would the mainstream media do?
00:00:27.080 It would question it. It would question it.
00:00:31.720 The Canadian mainstream media did not.
00:00:34.700 The Canadian mainstream media acted as an Amen Chorus of the Canadian government.
00:00:39.960 I will give you a couple of examples.
00:00:42.680 But...
00:00:43.080 Ladies and gentlemen, I could go on for hours with examples of this.
00:00:49.360 You had a CBC host describing the Freedom Convoy as a, quote, feral mob.
00:00:53.720 You had a Toronto Star columnist saying, quote, sorry for the language, 0.99
00:00:57.980 it's a homegrown hate farm that was then jet-fuelled by an American right-funded rat-fucking operation. 0.99
00:01:04.400 Jesus, they can't even write at these papers anymore. 0.99
00:01:08.280 CBC said that two indigenous women who were so scared to go outside in Ottawa because of racist violence
00:01:13.280 didn't bother to mention that indigenous drummers had led the truckers in an O Canada rendition.
00:01:17.780 The National Observer said that the many black and indigenous Freedom Convoy supporters
00:01:21.980 were in fact duped by the truckers.
00:01:24.440 The Globe and Mail reporter said,
00:01:25.980 my 13-year-old son told me to tell protesters I'm not a Jew out of fear of anti-Semitic violence
00:01:30.900 without mentioning that one of the leaders of the convoy was himself Jewish.
00:01:34.200 Now, why is this so rancid? 0.97
00:01:36.460 Utterly, utterly rancid and corrupt.
00:01:38.540 Because in this country, your media, your mainstream media, is funded by the government.
00:01:46.600 A totally corrupted system.
00:01:50.300 In 2018, oh, election year, coincidence.
00:01:52.860 The Canadian media has given $595 million over five years.
00:01:57.960 The Toronto Star estimated it was going to be getting $3 million from the government in the first half of the year.
00:02:04.720 It went on and on.
00:02:06.180 So, you see, the government in Canada can tell the banks to shut down people's bank accounts.
00:02:13.620 Oh, yeah.
00:02:14.500 Your government can do that.
00:02:15.560 And if you're happy with that, just think about what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot.
00:02:19.340 The government can do that.
00:02:20.780 But in Canada, they can also tell the media what to do.
00:02:24.060 And the media does the bidding of the Canadian government.
00:02:27.600 That isn't a free society's media.
00:02:31.360 I've seen unfree countries all my life.
00:02:34.220 But this, in a developed liberal democracy like Canada, is a disgrace.
00:02:39.300 We're not saying don't read the mainstream media.
00:02:41.540 We're just saying don't trust them.
00:02:43.060 We're not saying don't trust them to do that.
00:02:50.380 We're not saying don't trust them.
00:02:51.440 This way it gets to our widzom. 0.97
00:02:51.900 We're just saying don't remember.
00:02:53.640 We're just saying don't trust them.
00:02:54.640 We're just saying don't trust them.
00:02:55.860 We're just saying a lot.
00:02:56.880 That's right.
00:02:57.560 Bye.
00:03:03.940 Bye.
00:03:06.380 Bye.