Western Standard - August 25, 2022


Leader of Diagolon claims to be 'waging war' on media

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Pierre Poilievre Jeremy McKenzie James Topp
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1 minute

Words per minute

161.09

Word count

191

Sentence count

8

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Summary

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Jeremy McKenzie says the recent attacks against the mainstream media are the result of them lying and misrepresenting people, and not because their journalists are women and people of colour. McKenzie was recently thrust into the centre of the Conservative Party's leadership race after the 35-year-old Canadian Armed Forces veteran shook hands with frontrunner Pierre Polyev during a meet and greet in Nova Scotia.

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00:00:00.000 Diagon leader Jeremy McKenzie says the recent attacks against the mainstream media are the
00:00:05.460 result of them lying and misrepresenting people, and not because their journalists are women and 0.99
00:00:10.820 people of colour. McKenzie was recently thrust into the centre of the Conservative Party's
00:00:16.040 leadership race after the 35-year-old Canadian Armed Forces veteran shook hands with frontrunner
00:00:22.100 Pierre Polyev during a meet and greet in Nova Scotia. In the days following, several Liberal
00:00:27.960 and NDP MPs called for Polyev to denounce McKenzie by name. Instead, Polyev denounced racism and all
00:00:36.380 who spread it, and said he couldn't be held responsible for the actions of every person he
00:00:41.000 met. McKenzie said he met with Polyev because he wanted to ask him about his commitment to defund
00:00:46.740 the CBC. But McKenzie also wanted to take a photograph with Polyev because he knew this
00:00:52.480 would happen. I knew the media would run with this conspiracy theory that Pierre Polyev
00:00:57.640 James Topp and I are all secretly colluding together with neo-Nazis to take over the country.
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