Western Standard - The Pipeline. Kenney's woes, O'Toole's staffing choices and Coates remains jailed

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00:02:00.000 Hey there, everybody. Welcome to this week's episode of The Pipeline. This is where we

00:02:11.360 discuss the week's top issues, stories that have been trending with the standard in Alberta,

00:02:16.540 in the West, well, and across Canada. We've got a reduced panel again today because our

00:02:23.580 publisher, Derek Fildebrand, is off gallivanting about the country. So I'm Corey Morgan,

00:02:28.700 a columnist and podcast editor, and I'm joined with our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:02:36.940 Corey, how's it going? I don't know about you, but

00:02:39.900 I'm starting to get some abandonment issues here over Derek continuing absence.

00:02:48.300 Yeah, but the blissful reunion when he comes back will make the absence all worthwhile,

00:02:53.100 i'm certain uh it will be joyful great so yeah always uh lots to cover we've had a number of

00:03:02.860 stories uh coming out this week you know on the the party front we're uh really starting to see

00:03:10.140 some some crazed conservative cracks going on a lot of stories coming out of things coming going

00:03:15.900 on within the constituency associations with some uh members of the legislature uh in the ucp jason

00:03:23.580 kenny is is having a heck of a hard time lately uh can you expand on what you've been seeing dave

00:03:28.700 yeah it's really been nothing but a series of scandals and gaffes and and other problems

00:03:34.220 really for the last several months uh you'll remember over christmas they had the snowbird

00:03:39.500 scandal uh there was the uh the public uprising all over their coal mining policies uh the anger

00:03:47.820 across a lot of alberta and the uh the coveted lockdowns uh uh reached a fever point when

00:03:54.540 even though we had reached all the promised benchmarks to move into step two and even step

00:03:59.580 three uh premier kenny only announced a slight reduction in uh being able to open libraries and

00:04:07.660 to open gyms to offer some services and that's when members of the caucus started getting a bit

00:04:14.620 fed up at least six of them publicly spoke out against kenny and his his covid policies uh and

00:04:22.620 then you know even just a few days later uh they were it was all reversed and they were then fully

00:04:30.060 reopened but a lot of anger out there there's some conservative or some uh ucp constituency

00:04:36.780 associations that say they want a leadership review. I believe it's if they get 50% of all

00:04:43.000 constituency associations across the province, the tank, the party is trailing badly, the NDP,

00:04:58.020 even in Calgary. And I think party members are realizing if this continues, they're going to be

00:05:05.320 out next election and it's going to be premier rachel notley once again so uh kenny says he

00:05:13.320 he welcomes open discussion but uh i think even he's starting to realize now he's got some major

00:05:18.440 problems corey yeah well it's distressing when you hear about that ground organization getting going

00:05:24.920 with with constituency associations you know these are the the base of the party these are

00:05:29.640 are the door knockers the donors the and of course the voters uh getting 50 that's quite a bar you

00:05:37.380 know to force a leadership review but that means so what's going to be happening is we're going to

00:05:40.820 see the the party mechanics working and and uh uh you know getting involved in constituency

00:05:46.220 associations and trying to make sure that bar isn't hit but that's a distraction when he's got

00:05:49.740 so many other issues going on and try to put out fires within his own party plus nothing gets your

00:05:55.420 supporters more more crabby than when it seems like the party uh uh operators are crushing your

00:06:01.340 grassroots organizations on the outside it's just a ugly situation you know for him to be dealing

00:06:07.220 with when uh um he's got a heck of a lot of other things on his plate what do you think

00:06:13.400 can he can do or can he do anything to get out of this mess what he started to do cory is is to try

00:06:20.900 and open himself up more.

00:06:22.360 He's having more and more Zoom chats

00:06:25.000 with constituency associations.

00:06:28.380 Excuse me, apparently some of them

00:06:29.720 have been quite vociferous

00:06:31.820 in their talks with him.

00:06:35.460 So I think he's going to have to appeal

00:06:37.780 directly to those grassroots in the party.

00:06:42.780 You know, it's okay if Drew Barnes complains

00:06:45.900 because everybody expects MLA Drew Barnes to complain.

00:06:49.600 But when you've got others, including some rural UCP MLAs starting to publicly complain, then you've got problems.

00:06:58.600 And it just seems to me that everything Kenny has touched in the last six months has turned out incorrectly.

00:07:06.800 You remember the billion and a half he sank into Keystone XL, even though President Biden or candidate Biden at the time said he would kill it.

00:07:19.600 um you know the province gleefully seemingly gleefully said yesterday oh don't worry it's

00:07:26.000 not 1.5 it's only 1.3 well billion is still a billion uh you know um so he's got to get out

00:07:34.640 there and he's got to he's got to become pickup truck kenny again instead of a suit wearing truck

00:07:40.480 uh kenny and uh and get down with the grassroots and and see what's going on and address their

00:07:46.800 concerns. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, those are the voters, those are the people who are going to

00:07:53.920 presumably be able to keep him in power in the next election. And he's got to figure out how

00:08:01.340 to get that support. I know something, Danielle Smith actually has been, you know, doing the

00:08:04.480 specials with us, something she used to regularly say on her show, and certainly she's had

00:08:07.700 experience with caucus grumbling and lack of support. She said repeatedly, the thing that

00:08:13.160 takes down leaders is when the caucus turns on them. You can have all sorts of being low in the

00:08:18.880 polls or hiccups or problems, but when your caucus turns on you, you're toast. And you saw that with

00:08:23.800 Redford, with Stelmac, with Stéphane Dion, and with some of the pressures that hit Danielle

00:08:28.740 later on. And to be blunt about it, when an MLA fears for their job, they stop looking at loyalty

00:08:35.600 of the leader and start looking at what might best hedge their bets. And that might be the

00:08:39.880 Wilder's Independence Party or trying to turn over the leader before the next election comes.

00:08:44.720 So I think if Kenny could turn around the polls somehow, he's going to get that ground support

00:08:49.580 again. But that's a big task because he just seems to be failing at everything he's touching so far,

00:08:54.400 which is kind of surprising with somebody who had such powerful credentials coming out of Ottawa.

00:08:59.900 And I think that's what people are shaking their heads about. You know, he was smooth and he was

00:09:05.260 slick and he won the leadership and then he won the election, and then he seems to have become

00:09:12.220 a changed person. Of course, it's easier to sit in opposition and complain, but sometimes you do

00:09:21.340 have to govern differently than you're going to say you were going to, but he's been so far off

00:09:28.140 from where he was before that it's sort of mind-boggling. I think one of the things that

00:09:34.060 also saving him cory is the fact that there doesn't seem to be you know a leader in waiting

00:09:40.380 i mean okay all right let's get rid of jason kenny he's a problem but where you know where

00:09:45.580 would they go to who would be the candidate that uh that could step up and turn it around in the

00:09:52.540 you know what's now a short time uh and closing until the next election so you know that that may

00:09:59.020 They ultimately may save his neck.

00:10:04.760 Yeah, I guess if there's no real contender, you know, roaring down the road towards him, then perhaps.

00:10:12.020 But I mean, being saved just due to a lack of one focus contender to take him down, again, that still might lead to Premier Notley,

00:10:19.380 which is frightening, I think, to most of us, aside from hardcore NDP supporters.

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00:11:12.140 times and conservative leaders now here's a bizarre thing i mean huawei as far as you know

00:11:18.860 any identifiable Chinese company that is kind of questionable and, you know, we're not comfortable

00:11:26.780 dealing with them. I mean, the Chinese really don't show principled business or political 1.00

00:11:30.740 practices. You would think that any political leader would stay as far as humanly possible 1.00

00:11:35.460 from anybody connected to Huawei. And O'Toole seems to have gone out and grabbed himself

00:11:40.380 somebody from there. What's the deal there, Dave? This one is a real head shaker to me because

00:11:46.080 Aaron O'Toole has been perhaps the strongest Canadian politician speaking against Huawei, saying that if he ever became prime minister, he would never let the company get in on the 5G networks.

00:12:01.740 You know, Justin Trudeau has not made a decision yet on whether or not he would allow them.

00:12:08.900 But there's been all sorts of anger over China lately and genocide and stuff like that.

00:12:15.620 So O'Toole, for some reason, goes out and hires a guy called Jake Enright, who was the vice vice president of corporate affairs for Huawei as the research and issues manager for for the Tories.

00:12:34.580 Now, you know, as everybody said, Jake Enright might be the nicest, most capable guy in the world and probably is.

00:12:41.580 but he's got the Huawei baggage and why why Aaron O'Toole would I mean he's got

00:12:49.080 to know that surely you know he's got to realize that it's it's bad optics but

00:12:56.220 no he's he's brought him in and that's also angered a lot of conservatives too

00:13:01.280 Corey well and and I would imagine non-conservatives I mean people you know

00:13:07.340 China's kind of brought itself on the stage in this generation when you and I 0.86

00:13:10.600 were young it was the the soviet union but there's always seems to be kind of an unprincipled rogue 0.95

00:13:15.080 country that uh is large that we we we have to deal with but we're very cautious about and not

00:13:20.760 necessarily trusting with and if anything it's been one of the chips in trudeau's armor because

00:13:25.720 he just seems to have this soft spot in this weak spot when it comes to china while they imprison

00:13:31.160 canadian citizens while uh huawei executives are are up on charges for unprincipled business

00:13:37.400 practices and then no tool goes out and dives in so he's looking just as bad on china as trudeau

00:13:43.880 does it's just uh absurd i don't get it i'll just read you a quote he said on on september 17th just

00:13:53.480 a few months ago he said quote unlike justin trudeau i don't take entities of the chinese

00:13:59.480 regime at their word if i'm pm harper or if i become pm huay will be banned from 5g so he was

00:14:08.040 he was very strong very strong publicly against the company uh and then to make this move is like

00:14:14.280 a complete 180 and i i just don't understand it no and and uh you know that we did that special

00:14:22.760 with with mark patrone last night when we were talking about that because our tools facing some

00:14:27.240 very actually similar challenges to Kenny, which is really got to, I mean, that's even more of a

00:14:33.780 gamble, I think, for people who are perhaps considering taking him down as leader, or at

00:14:37.740 least abandoning, because we're probably months away from an election here. It's not a good time

00:14:42.760 to be turning over and changing your leader. But O'Toole just can't seem to be grabbing traction

00:14:47.800 anywhere. And I guess, you know, embracing Huawei executives isn't the path to do it.

00:14:55.860 But why is it so impossible for a conservative leader to actually stay conservative?

00:15:08.660 Could we have my internet hiccuping here?

00:15:12.480 Yeah, you were.

00:15:13.600 You looked a bit frozen there.

00:15:14.840 It looks like you're back now, though.

00:15:18.080 Yeah, I know there's been a lot of federal promises over the years of getting high-speed

00:15:21.600 internet to all the rural areas.

00:15:22.920 But I'm afraid out here in Pritis, we still have some less than perfect internet service.

00:15:27.920 I'll do a show and gripe about that at another time.

00:15:33.200 But again, I mean, yes, do we think that, you know, O'Toole can pull this together before the next federal election hits?

00:15:42.460 I mean, you know, Trudeau is just waiting to strike while the iron's hot right now.

00:15:45.520 I mean, he's lucky, O'Toole's lucky that, you know, Trudeau's vaccine rollout's turned

00:15:53.840 into a disaster, so he's low in the polls, so he's kind of taking his foot off the gas

00:15:57.860 with the election, but as soon as those poll numbers change, we know we're going.

00:16:02.380 Exactly, Corey, the fiasco that is the vaccine rollout is the only reason we're not in an

00:16:10.020 election campaign right now.

00:16:11.380 As soon as Canadians or the majority of Canadians get the vaccine, then you can bet Trudeau will be calling for an election and, you know, to get his majority.

00:16:21.940 And right now all the polls show that the Liberals are ahead despite all the Trudeau fiascos.

00:16:27.940 So for O'Toole to make another move like this, which will give the Liberals ammunition when an election could be just months away, it makes it even more bizarre.

00:16:41.380 Well, and they are bizarre times. So let's come back to Alberta for a bit here. We've got Pastor Coates that his bail has been revoked. It looks like he may be sitting in remand until May or so or longer over the crime of having held religious services.

00:17:02.740 I noticed with that little tiny partial reopening the other week,

00:17:06.880 and one of the things that did get wiped out from phase two

00:17:10.240 was actually perhaps easing some restrictions on church services.

00:17:13.960 That was just completely gone off the table, I guess, now.

00:17:18.500 Where's that sitting today, Dave?

00:17:21.480 Well, Pastor Coates is sitting in solitary still.

00:17:25.200 He was arrested, as everybody knows, last month

00:17:27.700 for daring to preach to more people in his church than were allowed.

00:17:33.820 He was arrested by the RCMP, taken before a justice of the peace,

00:17:39.040 where he said no to bail conditions that included to stop preaching.

00:17:46.120 He had another bail appearance and made the same vow that he wasn't going to stop.

00:17:51.780 It was against his beliefs.

00:17:54.120 So there he sat.

00:17:56.140 The Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms appealed to the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta.

00:18:02.840 And they had held a hearing last week.

00:18:06.700 Justice, and I'm going to try and pronounce the name right,

00:18:10.100 Justice Mikalishan of the Edmonton Court of Queen's Bench said the jailing of Coates was justified and necessary

00:18:17.620 and basically said that Pastor Coates was not above the law.

00:18:21.800 So he is going to have to stay in solitary then until early May, until his trial.

00:18:31.560 He's only allowed out of the cell twice a day for 15 minutes at a time.

00:18:37.000 His wife says he's losing weight and developing neck pains, but he will not deny what he believes.

00:18:48.620 He will not bow to that demand.

00:18:53.620 His church services continue to go on without him.

00:18:58.620 They continue to be packed to the rafters.

00:19:00.620 The RCMP and Alberta Health Services continue to watch.

00:19:04.620 And they continue to say that the Race Life Church continues to break the law.

00:19:10.620 But again, I don't think the RCMP knows what they can do now.

00:19:15.620 Do they keep arresting every pastor who dares to go in there and preach?

00:19:21.640 So they keep putting out releases saying the law has been broken,

00:19:24.860 but they don't seem to know what to do about it.

00:19:28.500 Pastor Coates himself is said to have called into the service last Sunday.

00:19:34.460 He didn't speak, but listened.

00:19:38.620 So he's got several more weeks of sitting in that cell, contemplating and no doubt praying, Corey.

00:19:47.820 Yeah, well, and it's a difficult situation.

00:19:50.280 I mean, I don't even necessarily blame the justice in this regard.

00:19:53.100 They apply the law as the law is set.

00:19:55.280 So if you're going to set bail, I mean, part of a bail condition thing is typically saying,

00:20:00.000 okay, while you're awaiting trial, we'll let you out.

00:20:02.660 If we can get a bond and a promise from you, you are not going to break the law while you're out.

00:20:07.580 And Pastor Coates has been quite clear saying, well, no, I'm going to hold services the moment I get out.

00:20:14.800 He's taking a stand.

00:20:17.360 Similar to, say, if somebody was a car thief and the judge says to him, I'd like to let you out on bail until your trial comes, what are you going to do?

00:20:22.620 So I'm going to go out and steal a car.

00:20:24.060 Well, the judge can't let him out.

00:20:26.860 So, I mean, where this comes down to then is who is in charge of the law, and that's the provincial government.

00:20:33.060 And if they back off on their restrictions on religious services, then they even I'm I'm not a lawyer, but presumably you could say, OK, you broke that while it was still in law.

00:20:43.240 We'll carry on with the trial. But now the restrictions are lifted.

00:20:46.280 You can get out, do your thing, but we're still coming after you.

00:20:49.200 But it still looks weak. I mean, nobody's in a easy position here now.

00:20:54.040 I mean, if you keep letting people get away with with flaunting the restrictions, it's it's going to spread.

00:20:59.280 but what a terrible symbol this is one of the things destroying uh kenny's base as well i mean

00:21:06.400 religious individuals or or even you know libertarians like myself who just look i'm

00:21:11.740 not a religious person but i really strongly support the right of people to gather for

00:21:16.680 religious services and and this is a you really have to prove a heck of a lot of risk in order

00:21:22.600 to set aside such an inalienable right as free religion and free association.

00:21:30.860 And it's getting increasingly difficult to believe that that risk is so great that it justifies this.

00:21:38.640 Interestingly, Corey, I did a story last week on Alberta prosecutors dropping four COVID-related charges against individuals.

00:21:49.020 These were, one guy was at an anti-mask rally dressed as Santa Claus, and his charges were

00:21:57.020 dropped. There was a paramedic who went into a grocery store in northern Alberta, and one of

00:22:03.980 his neighbors took a picture and snitched on him. His charges were dropped. Cases like that were,

00:22:11.020 you know who wasn't cory that said the law is an ass uh it's it's crazy um and i don't know

00:22:20.220 you know if they're throwing out these charges now i mean police and bylaw uh peace officers

00:22:25.820 have laid hundreds of these these charges are they all going to be thrown out who knows it's uh you

00:22:32.700 know the the the covet numbers right now are are steady albertans have done basically what they've

00:22:39.820 they've been asked to do, and so far aren't getting rewarded with, you know, with any easing

00:22:44.760 of the restrictions. Well, yeah, and that's a large part of it on a couple of fronts. As I said,

00:22:52.160 when it comes to the charges that are still hanging on people, aside from Coates and others,

00:22:57.740 I believe a lot of the cases the lawyers will be making is, look, section one of the charter allows

00:23:02.500 the government to set aside again, if you can demonstrate such it was for the public good,

00:23:06.620 that there was such a high risk. And we've been hearing what I've been calling out as baloney

00:23:11.900 on the variants. And it just seems no matter what happens, no matter how much we crack down

00:23:17.800 and our infections go down, our deaths go down, or, you know, they just find another bar to raise

00:23:23.760 to keep the fear up and say that we've got to keep these restrictions going. We're doing everything

00:23:27.920 right. And still the state won't back off. And I, again, with these numbers, I would find it,

00:23:34.380 I believe as a provincial prosecutor, pretty difficult to say, yeah, we felt that we had to

00:23:38.060 invoke section one of the charter to override rights because of 300 cases a day and 48 people

00:23:45.000 in ICU. I mean, again, it's tragic for those small numbers, but are they numbers large enough

00:23:49.920 to override the charter? And I don't think so. No, that's the question. Smarter people than you

00:23:57.840 and I are going to have to deal with shortly in courtrooms, Corey. And it'll be very, very

00:24:03.600 interesting it certainly will so i guess getting on we'll something uh you you've recently written

00:24:12.320 upon we've got a great deal more uh cartoons and and uh figures that we thought were innocuous

00:24:18.800 and harmless and and uh helping guide children and bring things forward dr seuss seems to have

00:24:23.200 started the chain so our our woke screaming drooling mob of cancel people are now turning

00:24:28.800 their sights towards uh uh what disney characters and a number of things that we have to warn people

00:24:34.480 before consuming yeah derek i just wrote this story about an hour or so ago up on westernstandardonline.com

00:24:42.160 and it's again the story of the day another head shaker uh the cancel culture got dr seuss last

00:24:48.160 week and uh you know walt disney uh in their sights now so the company has put on warning

00:24:54.800 labels basically on six of its most beloved films peter pan lady and the tramp the jungle book

00:25:01.600 dumbo the aristocats swiss family robinson now growing up we we all watched those films i used

00:25:08.080 to love dumbo and uh and the jungle book was was especially uh uh one of my favorites uh i'll just

00:25:16.080 quickly go through uh why these warning labels are being put up there now the aristocats first came

00:25:21.840 out in 1970. And it had some pretty outrageous stereotypes. So the warning label says a cat is

00:25:30.300 depicted as a racist character of East Asian people with exaggerated stereo traits such as

00:25:37.560 slanted eyes and buck teeth. He sings in poorly accented English, voiced by a white actor and

00:25:44.140 plays the piano with chopsticks. You know, things like that, which, you know, things that would 0.96

00:25:51.220 never ever be done in a film today but nobody thought about it decades ago uh lady and the

00:25:57.780 tramp there's a warning keep in mind this was done in 1955 with its siamese cat characters

00:26:04.580 sai and nam uh they're depicted as exaggerated exaggerated having trouble with that word today

00:26:12.180 exaggerated ethnic stereotypes uh peter pan the viewers 1953 they're going to be warned on

00:26:19.620 stereotypical uh depictions of indigenous people uh the jungle book in 1967 was bad because of

00:26:28.500 king louis uh the he he was at music loving ape uh but he did some racist stereotypes of african

00:26:36.420 americans and it's not just cartoons swiss family robinson you remember was a a classic live action

00:26:44.500 film from 1960 they're in trouble for pirates having yellow faces and brown faces and that's

00:26:53.540 a stereotype uh dumbo the flying elephant was done way back in 1941 and i'll just read you the the

00:27:02.740 warning label on that one the crows and musical numbers pay homage to a racist minstrel shows

00:27:09.940 where white performers with blackened faces and tattered clothing imitated and ridiculed enslaved

00:27:16.180 africans on southern plantations now the leader of the group in dumbo is jim crow which shares

00:27:24.660 the same name as laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern u.s uh and it also

00:27:33.060 has offensive stereotypes in their songs.

00:27:37.320 One of the lyrics in the song of Roustabouts is,

00:27:40.600 when we get our pay, we throw all our money away.

00:27:44.020 No, I'm not going to sing it for you, Corey.

00:27:47.340 Disney says that the stereotypes were wrong then.

00:27:51.500 They should never have gone in, and they're wrong now.

00:27:55.900 They at least didn't remove them like all the Dr. Seuss books

00:28:00.180 are going to be removed removed or six of them anyways you know they say rather than remove them

00:28:05.940 they're going to use it as a teaching moment to acknowledge that the content is what it is

00:28:11.540 and uh and let's learn from it so you know what i'm starting to live in great fear of the hardy

00:28:18.260 boy books that i've got down in the basement for you and i'm worried that they're next on the hit

00:28:22.820 list chet and biff and joe and you know all those guys oh yeah every day is an outrage as they say

00:28:32.820 well you know and and there's a little bit to it i mean some of the caricatures back then were

00:28:37.940 were bad it was a different time but it doesn't mean we have to get rid of these things i i think

00:28:42.580 if i i believe it was mickey rooney and in breakfast at tiffany's and he played uh a chinese

00:28:48.020 man with big thick glasses and buck teeth and holy cow when you look back that i think that was

00:28:52.420 produced in the late 60s or something yeah we don't do that but we can still look at and learn

00:28:59.780 from these things i mean you and i also grew up in the old versions of tom sawyer and that whole

00:29:05.140 book and huckleberry finn were peppered with the n-word throughout but we already knew and our

00:29:10.580 parents had taught us in our system and taught us we don't use that word that is not something you

00:29:15.060 throw out it's inappropriate this book is a reflection of a time that was worse that was

00:29:20.260 more intolerant if anything it actually kind of drives home that time existed it really was

00:29:24.820 that bad but we don't do that now i i and you know with these disney cartoons i think they're

00:29:30.500 kind of approaching it the right way as you said they're not yanking them down they're just saying

00:29:33.380 this was a different time it's not appropriate now but for the woke crowd it's just never enough

00:29:39.700 that's the problem like dr seuss they jumped into it on their own and as an organization and they

00:29:45.140 pulled those six books and then i saw a tick tock presentation from a toronto star columnist and she

00:29:52.260 was going on this isn't enough this isn't enough they've got to apologize they've got to make

00:29:57.060 reparations and she was going on that they've got to rip these out of libraries we've got to make

00:30:01.460 sure these books are gone we've got to make sure they're stomped down you see when you try to feed

00:30:04.820 that mob it's never enough just saying that there's a warning won't be enough i'm pretty confident

00:30:10.580 now that disney has said we're going to put a warning on these shows the next step is people

00:30:14.100 screaming, well, if you're going to warn about it, how dare you even show them? How dare you

00:30:19.820 distribute them? How dare you produce them? And what an awful road. You know, every generation

00:30:26.300 is supposed to learn from the last. And I think we've certainly done that. As you said, we've

00:30:32.260 been taught, we don't say the N word, but things were different 50, 60 years ago. They didn't

00:30:38.920 realize what they were doing was wrong probably for the most part. And as you say, they've got

00:30:43.680 the the cancel culture has a different target uh every day yesterday it appears that they they took

00:30:50.320 down uh great britain's most popular tv host piers morgan now 41 000 people complained uh about his

00:31:00.400 comments that he made after the the megan merkel in uh interview with over winfrey on the weekend

00:31:06.560 uh morgan and uh and uh merkel used to be friends but they've been feuding because she

00:31:13.920 ghosted him and he's written you know fairly negative comments about her and on tv on monday

00:31:20.720 morning on the the breakfast show on the itv channel over there he said he didn't believe

00:31:26.480 uh marco when she said she had all those those mental illnesses and uh you know probably not

00:31:32.800 the right thing to say but people lost their minds imagine it 41 000 people uh complaining

00:31:41.920 and even even merkel herself complained so i think what happened he quit and i'm assuming

00:31:49.040 what happened was that the network went to him and say you know apologize or you're out and

00:31:55.840 he stood by what he thought and he left and tweeted this morning that uh you know he had

00:32:00.640 the night to think about it and he still doesn't believe uh markel uh so you know all right they

00:32:06.800 got uh they got pierce morgan yesterday uh you know who are they coming for today well well yeah

00:32:13.680 he he's a a crotchety uh critical uh show host that's his persona that's what he's done for 0.97

00:32:20.160 years i think it's a morgan thing and uh you know if you don't like it change the damn channel when 0.97

00:32:27.440 did you know when did this change where if you don't like it don't watch it but that's the 0.84

00:32:31.520 difference between the mob they don't want to just not watch it they want to tear it down they want

00:32:35.840 to stop anybody else from seeing it they want to ruin it and and that's just what's getting

00:32:40.800 intolerable about this but we're letting them win and it's a scary trend that's uh that's what our

00:32:47.920 society has become corey and it's uh it's quite sad yeah well we're still speaking for now and

00:32:55.600 and there's always going to be lots for us to grouse and gripe about

00:32:59.520 and occasionally put out a solution.

00:33:02.340 So I think that's enough to cover this week's stories and outrage.

00:33:06.780 I'm sure you've got plenty more to be putting out on the Western Standard main site there.

00:33:12.840 And just, I guess, that shout-out to people to remember, please, you know, subscribe.

00:33:17.800 We're independent media.

00:33:19.240 We will report on these things.

00:33:20.840 you know that the government dependent media outlets aren't going to be touching these issues

00:33:26.740 they they're too scared of the mob or losing their their federal dollars we don't get any of that

00:33:31.600 we really rely on sponsors like like irons way and subscribers as well just for things such as the

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00:33:49.180 live and comment and call us names and all the good stuff that comes along with that.

00:33:54.260 And yeah, with that, I think we'll close it off.

00:33:56.660 Anything else you'd like to pass along, Dave?

00:33:58.720 Well, yeah, I don't think we're going to get 41,000 complaints about this show yet.

00:34:04.580 Are you set up or did you want to promote the Mark Patron show tomorrow night?

00:34:09.500 Boy, yes.

00:34:10.140 Thank you for the reminder.

00:34:12.040 We are doing another special.

00:34:13.540 It'll be live.

00:34:14.120 It will be tomorrow night at six o'clock Mountain Standard Time.

00:34:18.740 That's with Mark Patrone, who is a radio host out in Ontario, Mississauga.

00:34:25.120 He hosted a special last night that you can see on our YouTube channel as well.

00:34:29.440 It's up there.

00:34:30.120 And we're going to be talking about, yeah, the turmoil and issues with Jason Kenney's

00:34:35.320 party and leadership right now.

00:34:37.120 So it should be a pretty interesting discussion, you know.

00:34:40.800 And if you get on live, we get the comments in, we can get the questions in, and people

00:34:44.840 on the panel and such can respond.

00:34:47.740 Must watch TV, Corey.

00:34:49.840 You bet.

00:34:50.900 All right.

00:34:51.480 Thanks, Dave, and thanks, everybody, for tuning in,

00:34:53.580 and we will see you tomorrow night.

Western Standard - March 11, 2021

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