You Are Being Lied To : Time to Wake Up to Reality
Show Notes
What if everything you thought you knew about media and politics was just one big game of propaganda? We tackle the ways in which sensationalism and soundbites have crafted a polarized narrative, with the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas serving as a key example. Our discussion puts a spotlight on the recent release of the 3 Israeli hostages on their awful treatment and how they were portrayed to the world. What you saw and heard were only a snippit of the truth. Yet, these manipulated and edited narratives are often passing for truth.
00:00:03.745 --> 00:00:42.548 wow, you know, david, it is the beginning of a new week and I gotta tell you, you know, when you turn on the news other than seeing the eagles eviscerating kansas city, uh, and probably the least most, I guess, a remarkable halftime show in NFL history, besides maybe the original few shows where they had some dancing girls I got to tell you I was so underwhelmed and very happy for the Eagles for finally clinching it and taking the three-peat down under to still not being done.
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00:01:21.430 --> 00:01:24.469 Another thought-provoking rant and meaningful discussion.
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00:01:27.219 --> 00:01:28.701 Another thought-provoking rant and medieval discussion.
00:01:28.701 --> 00:01:36.487 You know, I gotta tell you I was not totally overwhelmed with what's been going on.
00:01:36.487 --> 00:01:47.096 You hear about USAID spending hundreds of millions of dollars to give a cement factory to Hamas.
00:01:47.096 --> 00:02:23.080 You see victims not hostages victims being released that remind me of the horrific pictures of Nazi Germany when we saw what was left in these concentration camps, Germany, when we saw what was left in these concentration camps, images that most people don't want to see or deny happening, no different than the leaders of Hamas and the Palestinian government being literally an extension of the neo-Nazi party, which dates back to the 1930s.
00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:35.913 In fact, the teachings were exactly from Adolf Hitler, and when the Democrats yell in the street that Trump is like Adolf Hitler, you know, I think they're really not looking in the echo chamber within their own party.
00:02:35.913 --> 00:02:57.949 When you hear the words of Elon Omar and AOC, None of this is really the focus of this rant, but it gives the feeling about all the what I say isn't really what the truth is, and I'm just going to keep saying it until you believe that this is the story and media has gone amok.
00:02:57.949 --> 00:03:00.546 News no longer exists.
00:03:01.260 --> 00:03:07.723 I had a debate with someone in my office, David, that tried giving me soundbites and I said did you read the transcript?
00:03:07.723 --> 00:03:09.086 What do you mean a transcript.
00:03:09.086 --> 00:03:13.104 Well, I mean, you read me a soundbite, but what about the whole transcript?
00:03:13.104 --> 00:03:17.861 Do you know where the context of what was being said and what was the meaning?
00:03:17.861 --> 00:03:42.594 You hear the Democrats yelling and screaming about the unfettered access and resources given to Elon Musk, but they failed to tell you what the access was to Storo Fauci and the band of emissaries of evil that have been lying, pillaging and sifting not only the American, but the Canadians as well.
00:03:42.594 --> 00:03:57.866 Now you hear the President of the United States wanting to co-tax everyone what we are taxed and get into trade wars, destabilizing the Canadian government and possibly the conservative run in Canada, or at least that's what David thinks.
00:03:57.866 --> 00:04:09.748 David, you're crossing your arms and hoping that I stop, yeah, because you're straying again off the topic here, and, once again, stuart does what stewart does best spray and pray.
00:04:09.808 --> 00:04:13.223 that something sticks here, ladies and gentlemen, and it's spraying and praying.
00:04:13.223 --> 00:04:14.948 It sounds just like you know.
00:04:14.948 --> 00:04:18.983 It's just typical of what is going on in the world today.
00:04:18.983 --> 00:04:20.427 Look, let me.
00:04:20.427 --> 00:04:21.730 Let me just cut to the chase here.
00:04:21.730 --> 00:04:31.915 The whole purpose of today's rant that stewart and I talked about in the green room as we were talking about different topics, was simply put would you please stop believing what you're seeing?
00:04:31.915 --> 00:04:43.745 I know this is hard, because everywhere you look whether it's CNN or MSNBC, social media, you name it it just stinks, and what Stuart said was right.
00:04:43.779 --> 00:04:44.485 We're going to take a little sound bite here.
00:04:44.485 --> 00:04:45.286 We're going to take a little sound bite here.
00:04:45.286 --> 00:05:11.850 We're going to take a little clip over here, and, from this angle, what you see is horrifying, and it leads to people on the far left, like the AOCs, and you have the Joy Reads, and you have all these people in one basket, and on the right, you've got the Tucker Carlsons of this world, who are screaming and yelling Israel is bad, israel's bad, israel's at fault, israel's guilty.
00:05:11.850 --> 00:05:15.684 I'm not sure of what, though, but they'll throw whatever you can.
00:05:15.684 --> 00:05:18.209 Spray and pray Ethnic cleansing.
00:05:18.209 --> 00:05:19.312 Spray and pray.
00:05:19.312 --> 00:05:23.206 Apartheid Spray and pray, anti-gay Spr.
00:05:23.206 --> 00:05:24.209 Spray and pray.
00:05:24.209 --> 00:05:26.793 You just throw as much as you can, hope something sticks.
00:05:26.793 --> 00:05:37.531 And if you're listening carefully, ladies and gentlemen, to the banter that Gaza has been destroyed, a wave of victory.
00:05:37.531 --> 00:05:44.091 Spray and pray when you hear that they're looking for peace.
00:05:44.091 --> 00:05:46.605 But they want to call from river to the sea.
00:05:46.605 --> 00:05:50.327 Spray and pray Because, basically, what they've done is manipulate you.
00:05:50.327 --> 00:05:54.447 They have manipulated you and the folks in the media.
00:05:54.447 --> 00:06:02.490 The politicians on far left and far right have done a remarkable job of being the propaganda machine for Hamas.
00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:05.002 But here's the reality, ladies and gentlemen.
00:06:05.002 --> 00:06:12.391 Today in Israel, there are families who have been destroyed because of Hamas.
00:06:12.391 --> 00:06:15.074 Forget wars, forget all this stuff.
00:06:15.074 --> 00:06:31.603 You imagine, if you will, that for close to 500 days you're in captivity.
00:06:31.603 --> 00:06:32.666 You've been treated badly, physically, emotional.
00:06:32.666 --> 00:06:43.184 You've been held in a tunnel, no sunlight, you haven't been fed properly, you've been physically abused, psychologically abused, and the only thing that you stay hold on to today is that you're going to one day see your family upon release.
00:06:45.627 --> 00:06:51.218 On this past Saturday, when that occurred, as the three hostages emerged, reality set in.
00:06:51.218 --> 00:06:55.353 As Stuart said, they looked emaciated, almost like Holocaust survivors.
00:06:55.353 --> 00:06:56.516 That was the comparison.
00:06:56.516 --> 00:07:12.274 They found out the realities of what happened on that day, and one survivor in particular found out that his family was completely killed, hope the hope that he could come home to his family destroyed.
00:07:13.326 --> 00:07:15.514 Now let's take a step back.
00:07:15.514 --> 00:07:18.653 Let's talk about realities, people, that the world is not going to talk about.
00:07:18.653 --> 00:07:21.754 One this is a breach of the Geneva Convention.
00:07:21.754 --> 00:07:27.656 None, not one of these hostages was visited by the Red Cross.
00:07:27.656 --> 00:07:31.108 Red Cross, we joked about them, the best Uber service you can.
00:07:31.108 --> 00:07:39.798 And, by the way, now they do not even want to televise these exchanges, because they realize how bad this looks and that they're part of the Hamas parade.
00:07:40.641 --> 00:08:24.572 If you saw the entirety of the clip, not the small clip that the world wants you to see, but the entirety of the exchange, the way these three were paraded, were forced to cheer, were forced to, you know smile and wave to the crowd, were intimidated by dozens of oh, starving no, they weren't starving Palestinians, they were well-fed and well-dressed children and adults, women throwing flowers and candies to the soldiers, praising Allah, praising this victory that they've got in Palestine, in Gaza.
00:08:24.572 --> 00:08:28.286 All of this, all you got was the little clip.
00:08:28.286 --> 00:08:31.370 All you got was the little clip.
00:08:31.370 --> 00:08:32.533 All you got was the little clip.
00:08:32.533 --> 00:08:34.174 You didn't get the full story.
00:08:34.995 --> 00:08:37.240 You're waking up today wondering why.
00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:52.570 Stuart, I'm going to tell you something the world is being lied to and these ideologies that you hear from people who are not going to read beyond the headlines, they're the ones who are lying to you.
00:08:52.570 --> 00:08:55.758 They're not telling you what's really happening.
00:08:55.758 --> 00:09:02.357 And I'm going to let you go on for a little bit, but I'm going to come back because I got even more, but I see you're like irking to jump in.
00:09:02.357 --> 00:09:03.745 So, stuart, what's the thing?
00:09:03.965 --> 00:09:05.106 No, no no, David, it's just.
00:09:05.106 --> 00:09:25.140 It goes back to like and as you tried to allude that my my start was way off the green room chat, it really wasn't, because I was trying to illustrate that if you were to look at images of the Ukraine and look at bombed out cities, you don't see that in the news either.
00:09:25.140 --> 00:09:25.926 You don't.
00:09:25.926 --> 00:09:28.534 You know Gaza is is inhabitable.
00:09:28.534 --> 00:09:31.130 There is really nothing left.
00:09:32.073 --> 00:09:43.634 And you know those people that are saying it's a bad idea to take these people and let's take them in to an empty part of Egypt or an empty part of Jordan or an empty part of Syria.
00:09:43.634 --> 00:10:05.208 Well, the world took all these people in, and I brought up the Ukraine specifically, because millions of Ukrainians were distributed throughout all of Western and Eastern Europe, but they were also distributed to United States, Canada and Mexico, but these people called Palestinians no, you can't go anywhere and what the?
00:10:05.208 --> 00:10:38.871 You know, and and you know as much as people are calling out Donald Trump, and it's just not the focus of this rant, for for for coming up with unorthodox concepts is for 70 years, this plan has failed because one party is a branch of the neo-Nazi party that had no desire to make peace with anybody and was defeated and the only reason why you don't have a modern neo-Nazi party existing for the most part in Eastern or Western Europe, is because they were destroyed, taken down, taken out.
00:10:38.871 --> 00:10:49.075 But one function of that Nazi party exists in Hamas and Hezbollah in Iran, and they are the evil that we are all fighting.
00:10:49.075 --> 00:10:59.850 And the Democrats in the United States, the liberals in Canada and the socialists in Mexico are all capricious with the media, which is now being exposed.
00:11:01.072 --> 00:11:04.105 You only saw a snippet of what these people look like.
00:11:04.105 --> 00:11:11.888 You only saw a snippet of what that drive and the Red Cross is comprising, as much as the media is for now demanding.
00:11:11.948 --> 00:11:15.596 It's not so nice to have these, you know, victims.
00:11:15.596 --> 00:11:16.357 They're not victims.
00:11:16.357 --> 00:11:17.447 They call them hostages.
00:11:17.447 --> 00:11:22.389 They're victims, they're terror victims that the Red Cross failed to do anything about.
00:11:22.389 --> 00:11:24.798 United Nations is going dark.
00:11:24.798 --> 00:11:27.868 It's as if these atrocities weren't happening.
00:11:27.868 --> 00:11:30.155 Let's be an ostrich, they say.
00:11:30.155 --> 00:11:31.365 David.
00:11:31.365 --> 00:11:41.576 It is appalling, I am angry, I am upset and it is the reason why we've been doing this now for our fifth year, and I'm sorry if you think I took us off topic.
00:11:41.576 --> 00:11:42.336 I don't think I did.
00:11:42.336 --> 00:11:59.150 I think I'm merely widening the scope, the optics of how bad this really is, and as much as you in Canada are feeling the pinch because Donald Trump is doing what Donald Trump does brings chaos to an unorthodoxy to politics.
00:11:59.150 --> 00:12:03.384 I think at the heart it's really bringing us back to where we all.
00:12:04.246 --> 00:12:04.506 I don't.
00:12:04.506 --> 00:12:05.148 I don't agree.
00:12:05.148 --> 00:12:07.052 What Trump is doing isn't helping.
00:12:07.052 --> 00:12:11.580 I'm sorry, but what he is where he is helping is exposing the fallacy.
00:12:11.580 --> 00:12:14.370 What he is doing is exposing the lies that you know.
00:12:14.370 --> 00:12:21.292 What he's doing to Canada is I'm not going to get into today because and the tariffs he wants to slap on is just what.
00:12:21.572 --> 00:12:27.072 What I'm getting at is when he said hey, If you people don't want to rebuild Gaza, we'll rebuild Gaza.
00:12:27.072 --> 00:12:28.565 And on Sunday he doubled down.
00:12:28.565 --> 00:12:33.770 Right before the Super Bowl, he sat down with Fox News, had one of those interviews and said yeah, we're ready to build.
00:12:33.770 --> 00:12:36.208 And he did it on the plane and he talked about what's going to rebuild Gaza.
00:12:36.208 --> 00:12:42.581 And this is where both media and the left have lost their minds, and this is what I wanted.
00:12:42.581 --> 00:12:46.967 To come back to Erdogan, the president of Turkey.
00:12:46.967 --> 00:12:51.355 He wants to be the next caliph in the Middle East.
00:12:51.355 --> 00:12:57.008 He wants to be the next big leader amongst the Middle East, While Iran is getting eviscerated.
00:12:57.008 --> 00:13:01.988 He wants to emerge as the guy, the most powerful guy in the Middle East.
00:13:01.988 --> 00:13:05.410 And he said no, thou shalt not touch the Palestinians.
00:13:05.410 --> 00:13:26.611 It's foreboding and you're thinking, my God, if you really did care, find a solution, the solution that they keep part of the final solution the idea, you're right, the idea here that people are really say that one more time.
00:13:26.793 --> 00:13:28.280 I am yes, yes, yes, do it.
00:13:28.280 --> 00:13:28.880 You're wrong.
00:13:28.880 --> 00:13:43.259 The the thing, the thing that you're the people continuously miss, is that the message that you're getting from Iran, that you're getting from Turkey, that you're getting from many other places this isn't about helping the Palestinians, it's about hurting Israel.
00:13:43.259 --> 00:13:47.969 And if you look at it, why is Columbia University in court now?
00:13:47.969 --> 00:13:49.611 Because they did nothing?
00:13:49.611 --> 00:13:50.673 Did they really?
00:13:50.673 --> 00:13:58.673 Is this helping Palestinians by breaking into Concordia and McGill, for example, or destroying the property of Columbia?
00:13:58.673 --> 00:13:59.294 None of it.
00:13:59.294 --> 00:14:00.844 It's not about that.
00:14:00.844 --> 00:14:03.304 Intimidating students, it's not about that.
00:14:03.561 --> 00:14:06.048 But why wouldn't the media go down that road?
00:14:06.048 --> 00:14:11.323 Wouldn't the media go down that road?
00:14:11.323 --> 00:14:14.052 The only path that they've been brainwashed with is we need a two-state solution.
00:14:14.052 --> 00:14:16.138 You don't have a two-state solution without a partner.
00:14:16.138 --> 00:14:31.455 And when your partner at the other end of the table says I want to destroy you and yes, the Palestinian Authority, yes, hamas and all these other terror organizations have one objective kill Israel, destroy Israel.
00:14:31.455 --> 00:14:33.768 He said it on Saturday.
00:14:33.768 --> 00:14:47.072 On Saturday, upon releasing the hostages, they said and, by the way, watch he said we're wanting to destroy Israel, not peace.
00:14:47.072 --> 00:14:49.126 There was not a word about negotiation.
00:14:49.126 --> 00:14:51.705 Nope, as we go into a so-called phase two.
00:14:51.804 --> 00:14:55.783 But here is the crazy thing, stuart, you watched.
00:14:55.783 --> 00:15:03.870 When you zoomed in, stuart, and we zoomed in right, we see the faces of the hostages and of the captors.
00:15:03.870 --> 00:15:06.086 When you zoomed out, what did you see?
00:15:06.086 --> 00:15:18.591 A dozen cameras building content for social media, building content to spread out the propaganda, but none of it was about a peace in the Middle East.
00:15:18.591 --> 00:15:27.611 It was about continuing the quest to destroy Israel, and that, my friend, is not being shared by the media or politicians.
00:15:27.611 --> 00:15:31.203 That's why, folks, you're being lied to.
00:15:31.203 --> 00:15:35.476 You don't have the full story and what Stuart said before.
00:15:35.476 --> 00:15:40.211 If you're just going to listen to one sound clip, you can't make your mind up.
00:15:40.211 --> 00:15:44.202 Listen to the entirety of a transcript, the entirety of the whole thing.
00:15:44.202 --> 00:15:46.687 Watch the whole thing Unedited.
00:15:46.687 --> 00:15:48.370 Whoa, whoa.
00:15:48.390 --> 00:15:58.241 You might be shocked to see what's really going on david, I'm gonna say that's a wrap, and this brings this episode another one done at the beginning of the week.
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00:16:15.945 --> 00:16:18.533 We've been posting all kinds of little snippets to give you little teasers about what David and I are up to.
00:16:18.533 --> 00:16:23.227 And let me tell you something the reviews and the feedback has been awesome.
00:16:23.227 --> 00:16:24.230 In fact.
00:16:24.230 --> 00:16:29.510 You know, I never thought these little clips would generate thousands of views, but you know what, david?
00:16:29.510 --> 00:16:32.769 I got to thank technology and a little perseverance.
00:16:32.769 --> 00:16:34.746 Maybe I'll figure it out one of these days.
00:16:34.746 --> 00:16:51.350 David, I want to thank you again for another thought-provoking four years, and I look forward for the next four years as we shed light where there's darkness, where we give explanation where there is none, where we tell you how to find the truth and don't tell you what the truth is.
00:16:51.350 --> 00:16:52.845 David, what do you say?
00:16:54.019 --> 00:16:57.971 If only we had the patience to actually dig, it might be better.
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