[raveking]

I didn't know if I should have put this in 'The Canada Politics Thread' or if this deserves a thread on its own. I feel like this is big enough to where it warrants its own thread but I'll let the mods decide.

There's been a huge series of events that's taken place at Rebel Media today. This might be more relevant to Canadian viewers, but those that know or appreciate Gavin and Faith can perhaps understood where this is coming from.

Caolan Robertson (former Rebel reporter) posted a video today detailing about a scam and other unethical work practices of Ezra Levant (founder of Rebel). In the video he subtitles audio of a conversation of a "pay-out" and "hush money" supposedly with Caolon and George Llewellyn John (former Rebel camera-man for Caolan's content, and also boyfriend). Just some highlights are Ezra telling them how he sued a man just for the sake of it in hopes that he would commit suicide. He also talks about Rebel's money laundering where money donated to victims was not properly paid to the right individuals and asking audiences to "sign petitions" as a way for them to make more money.

Ezra responds with his own video saying that he was being blackmailed by Caolan and George. Ezra says that he hired both Caolan and George on the spot after Caolan got fired from his full-time job after appearing in a video with Tommy Robinson. He provided frequents sums of money to help Caolan and George as a good gesture to help them during their rough patch. However he was being blackmailed by the both of them after Ezra at some point would no longer meet their demands, hence the "hush-money" of $20,000.

Shortly thereafter, another video was uploaded by Ezra explaining why Faith Goldy was let go due to appearing at the Charlottesville Rally and going on a podcast affiliated with the Daily Stormer.

Also it is reported by 'Canadaland' that Gavin Mcinnes is also leaving Rebel Media
http://www.canadalandshow.com/gavin-mcin...ing-rebel/

Gavin kinda might have been onto the JQ after his Israel trip with the Rebel crew. 'Canadaland' also provided a transcript of an episode of Gavin's other gig 'The Gavin Mcinnes Show' at Compound Media with a behind-the-scenes look of Gavin, Faith Goldy, and Sheila Gunn Reid talking in a hotel room. In it, he goes on a drunk tirade about Israel, Jews, and some funny bits like almost making Faith cry asking her about why she's 27 and still not married yet to her boyfriend of 5 years...lol

http://www.canadalandshow.com/rebel-medi...isemitism/

Any other interesting tidbits that I'm missing feel free to discuss.

[AWright]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrRkclAmj3I&t=62m13s

Daily Stormer podcast with Faith Goldy at 1:02, she really talks up the alt-right in it.

[CynicalContrarian]

@FaithGoldy 2h

Quote:

I'll miss you, @TheRebelTV -- from colleague friends to faraway fans, you remain my extended family.

[TooFineAPoint]

I like how former employees are shocked SHOCKED that Ezra was engaged in a for-profit venture, kept mailing lists, and sensationalized some of his programming.

The socialism and naiveté is still strong.

[fokker]

What happens to Mark Latham? Will he wind up leaving Rebel?

[Conscious Pirate]

^ I hope so. He's fucking terrible on camera.

[Matt Forney]

Everyone in this exchange looks like a total dirtbag.

Ezra Levant was a moron for hiring two people on the spot knowing nothing about them, and they were morons for taking the job.

Faith Goldy was an idiot for appearing on a podcast without researching it beforehand.

Gavin McInnes is a craven opportunist. He's not quitting because of ideological principles, he's quitting because he knows the ship is going down. Lauren Southern probably sensed the same thing, that's why she quit when she did.

Who does this leave Rebel Media with? Laura Loomer? The hysterical crypto-SJW who doxed an alt-righter's mother and is crowing about getting James Allsup fired for his "racism?"

With "nationalists" like this, why do we need globalists?

[CynicalContrarian]

^
Hmmm.
Aside from Ezra himself.

Can't say I even know of anyone else at Rebel aside from Faith Goldy & Gavin
(Mark Latham really only being relevant in an Australian context).

[C-Note]

Isn't Tommy Robinson with Rebel Media?

[scotian]

Good riddance I say, I used to have a lot of respect for Levant when he was a champion of free speech in Canada but his lust for fame and attention whoring became too much. He should have kept his focus on Canadian issues and being an alternative to the lefty, Toronto-centric Canadian MSM but apparently his base of conservative Canadians wasn't earning him enough money so he branched out and this was his undoing.

I've been following Levant for over a decade, since his days as founder and editor at the Western Standard magazine, I remember when I was a student at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary and found all of the copies of the magazine in the library and devoured them in one sitting. I also used to read the Shotgun Blog that Levant ran and was impressed to find that this type of conservative opinion existed in Canada, coming from the socialist east coast to Alberta, it was all new. Levant was also a contributing journalist at the Sun newspaper in Calgary until he was fired over questioning a bus driver's head scarf who was involved in an accident. Then the Western Standard failed so he founded Sun Media which also failed and then he founded the Rebel, which looks like another failure for Levant. Canada needs someone else to carry the conservative torch in Canada, Levant is done.

I won't get into the details about conservatism in Canada but let's just say that its quite a bit different than that of the US and the UK, Canadian politics is ruled by the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal based "Laurentian Elite" and US style conservatism just doesn't work up here as we saw during the last election when Trudeau beat Conservative PM Harper.

[Enoch]

I've got a job for Faith Goldy.

This is also why Paul Nehlen cannot become a US Rep- he was on the Fash the Nation podcast. Didn't say anything he wouldn't say on his own twitter but guilt by association and all that.

[HighSpeed_LowDrag]

If you want an understanding of exactly how pathetic the state of the modern Canadian conservative movement is today, realize that this was the sole major non-cucked outlet in the entire country. I'm shaking my head in disgust as I'm watching this sad excuse of a media organization implode.

If Ezra Levant cared more about advancing the cause of actual conservatism in Canada as opposed to just filling his pockets every chance he got, he would have sold RebelMedia to Breitbart as its Canadian chapter, who unlike him evidently know how to actually run a counter-cultural media operation.

[ed pluribus unum]

(08-18-2017 08:57 AM)scotian Wrote:  

Good riddance I say, I used to have a lot of respect for Levant when he was a champion of free speech in Canada but his lust for fame and attention whoring became too much. He should have kept his focus on Canadian issues and being an alternative to the lefty, Toronto-centric Canadian MSM but apparently his base of conservative Canadians wasn't earning him enough money so he branched out and this was his undoing.

My favourite WS issues were the ones with the Mark Steyn editorial on the back page.

I don't hold it against the guy for trying to make a buck - when you think about what it's cost him financially over the years, fighting off all the bullshit lawsuits from all manner of jihadis, dhimmis and the government, who can blame him?

If we're giving the benefit of the doubt, it costs money to run something that doesn't look like it was filmed in a basement apartment, and he saw a chance to branch out and tap into a common current in the US and the UK.

As long as you accept and understand that he is always an Israel/Jews first kind of guy (and why shouldn't he be?), he has done a lot to create the only real alternative to the state media in Canadia.

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I won't get into the details about conservatism in Canada

At this point it's reminiscent of that old joke, "Shortest Books in the World: French Military Heroes, Great Italian Military Victories, Jewish Sports Stars". You can add "Conservative Canadians" to the list.

[TorontoRocks]

(08-18-2017 08:57 AM)scotian Wrote:  

Good riddance I say, I used to have a lot of respect for Levant when he was a champion of free speech in Canada but his lust for fame and attention whoring became too much. He should have kept his focus on Canadian issues and being an alternative to the lefty, Toronto-centric Canadian MSM but apparently his base of conservative Canadians wasn't earning him enough money so he branched out and this was his undoing.

I've been following Levant for over a decade, since his days as founder and editor at the Western Standard magazine, I remember when I was a student at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary and found all of the copies of the magazine in the library and devoured them in one sitting. I also used to read the Shotgun Blog that Levant ran and was impressed to find that this type of conservative opinion existed in Canada, coming from the socialist east coast to Alberta, it was all new. Levant was also a contributing journalist at the Sun newspaper in Calgary until he was fired over questioning a bus driver's head scarf who was involved in an accident. Then the Western Standard failed so he founded Sun Media which also failed and then he founded the Rebel, which looks like another failure for Levant. Canada needs someone else to carry the conservative torch in Canada, Levant is done.

I won't get into the details about conservatism in Canada but let's just say that its quite a bit different than that of the US and the UK, Canadian politics is ruled by the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal based "Laurentian Elite" and US style conservatism just doesn't work up here as we saw during the last election when Trudeau beat Conservative PM Harper.

Sharp post. Levant was good and carried the low rated Sun News Network. I thought "Rebel" was going to be an online version of that television network. Because of Justin, its a necessity. However, they should have just focused on Canadian issues. Why they brought in correspondents reporting from the U.K. and Australia was beyond me. There are enough problems here.

Faith did some very good reporting from the U.S.-Canada border on the "migrants" illegally crossing into Quebec. But why did she and Ezra travel to Israel and Iraq?

Why was Faith in Virginia over the weekend? Its not the content that I have issue with, its a U.S. matter, she should be focused on Canadian issues. Lauren Southern is the same way, she started off on reporting on Canadian issues but then expanded to Europe.

Gavin McInnes is Canadian but has lived in the U.S. since 1999. I like him but don't know why he is (was) with Rebel.

Faith's Canadian accent does get pretty annoying after a while.

[TooFineAPoint]

You know how hard it is to have a right wing anything in Canada when the network's own audience and employees are sad that the network wants to make money.

[Extinguished Light]

This kid was always terrible and should never have been on camera for the Rebel. Also seems highly untrustworthy. I have no doubt that Ezra was (((unscrupulous))) but he did put together a platform that has given us a number of good personalities over the last two years. Lauren leaving was suspicious to be sure though. Hopefully faith goldy is able to put together her own thing and avoid being completely no platformed and wiped from the internet for the crime of appearing on a DS podcast

[Simeon_Strangelight]

Ezra Levant sounds more like a shitty boss and who simply forgot that you better be all-out open with your cries for money. There are better ways to ask for money and procure financial help - all without bullshitting people that you need this and that amount and pressuring your people into constantly asking for more for causes which are already fully funded.

Better to say "Give me money for everything." than to lie saying "Give money for this cause or that one."

It's frankly not much of a breaking story - just bad PR and bad leadership by Levant.

[TooFineAPoint]

Yup.

That's why I like Alex Jones. His little pitches are amusing to me, and occasionally hit on real issues I might want to solve. I have no problem being pitched to.

[nomadbrah]

(08-18-2017 01:35 AM)Matt Forney Wrote:  

With "nationalists" like this, why do we need globalists?

Link me to where Ezra Levant has ever called himself a nationalist.

On the opposite, Levant has been called out as being a neocon since the beginning.

[Soundbyte]

(08-18-2017 01:32 PM)nomadbrah Wrote:  

(08-18-2017 01:35 AM)Matt Forney Wrote:  

With "nationalists" like this, why do we need globalists?

Link me to where Ezra Levant has ever called himself a nationalist.

On the opposite, Levant has been called out as being a neocon since the beginning.

Mr. Forney may be wrong, but only because you know better. To most people, Levant is 'Nationalist'. Not many people are going to take the time to dig deep into other peoples beliefs. If he looks like a nationalist to the masses, he is a nationalist.

[Simeon_Strangelight]

(08-18-2017 03:30 PM)Soundbyte Wrote:  

(08-18-2017 01:32 PM)nomadbrah Wrote:  

(08-18-2017 01:35 AM)Matt Forney Wrote:  

With "nationalists" like this, why do we need globalists?

Link me to where Ezra Levant has ever called himself a nationalist.

On the opposite, Levant has been called out as being a neocon since the beginning.

Mr. Forney may be wrong, but only because you know better. To most people, Levant is 'Nationalist'. Not many people are going to take the time to dig deep into other peoples beliefs. If he looks like a nationalist to the masses, he is a nationalist.

According to the media Ezra Levant is a far-right nationalist who is only spared the white supremacist name-calling by being a Jew.

[Eskhander]

Also Loomer doxing that TRS guy's mom.

What a shit show

Edit: Forney beat me to it

[Eskhander]

Allsup has a good video on this

[SirTimothy]

With all the stuff that was going on (people leaving, hush money tapes), firing Faith Goldy was a big mistake. She was easily the most likeable person they had left.

[debeguiled]

Damn, there goes another alpha leader.