November 2012 Archives

Joel Kotkin joins to discuss the new Hollywood Administration and the left's abandonment of average Joe.

This report aired on The Source November 30 2012.

This report aired on The Source November 30 2012.

Dr. Patrick Moore joins to discuss UN Climate Conference in Qatar and the lack of media coverage.

This report aired on The Source November 30 2012.

Dr. Charles Krauthammer weighs in on the state of Islam and the future of Israel and liberal democracy in the Arab world.

This report aired on The Source November 28 2012.

Dr. Charles Krauthammer gives his take on Obama’s energy policy, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, and the Israel vs. Iran question.

This report aired on The Source November 28 2012.

Dr. Charles Krauthammer talks to Ezra Levant about the 2012 US Presidential election, immigration, and America’s move to the left.

This report aired on The Source November 28 2012.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been in the lefties’ crosshairs for years, not for incompetency but because he’s a fat, middle class, conservative guy’s guy.

This report aired on The Source November 26 2012.

Sun News contributor Jerry Agar joins Ezra with his reaction to the turfing of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.

This report aired on The Source November 26 2012.

Ambassador David Wilkins on the new polls results that show Americans overwhelmingly prefer Canada's oil to OPEC oil.

This report aired on The Source November 26 2012

George Igler on the frightening case of foster children being taken away because the couple who took them in belonged to the wrong political party.

This report aired on The Source November 26 2012.

Two years ago, Justin Trudeau sat down for an interview on a French-language TV show in Quebec. It was a celebrity-style interview — the kind he likes best. Trudeau was wearing a Zorro-style hipster moustache and his shirt was, as usual, unbuttoned low.

He joked around, even doing a gag where he fell down a flight of stairs. But then the host asked him a serious question about Quebec’s place in Canada.

Trudeau summoned his best substitute-drama-teacher acting face — think of the male models in the movie Zoolander — and got serious too. Things aren’t going so well for people Quebec, he said, because “Albertans control our community.”

When the host asked if Canada was better when Quebecers were in charge, he agreed heartily: “I’m a Liberal, so of course I think so, yes … This country — Canada — it belongs to us.”

Trudeau’s claims are stunningly anti-Alberta. But they’re also just false. Canada is as socially liberal as ever — gay marriage, abortion on demand, affirmative action, bilingualism, etc. Stephen Harper hasn’t touched those in nearly seven years as prime minister.

And even if he had tried to, he couldn’t have undone those policies just with a band of wild Albertans. Only

28 seats out of our

308-seat Parliament come from Alberta. Harper’s Ontario caucus is almost three times bigger, and most of his senior cabinet ministers are from central Canada.

So it was a baseless accusation. But the facts weren’t Trudeau’s point. He just needed some generic grievance in order to bash the West, to demonize Alberta. That’s called bigotry.

So why did he do it?

Well, he’s a panderer. He was speaking in French, so he was counting on no one in Alberta hearing it. He has a different, lovey-dovey speech for them, in English, when he’s out West.

The insults came easily to Trudeau, because anti-western sentiment is every Liberal’s mother tongue. Earlier this week, David McGuinty had to resign as the party’s natural resources critic when he said Alberta MPs should get out of Ottawa and go back home. That’s not a gaffe; that’s standard-issue Liberal thinking.

But this story is bigger than Trudeau.

See, his Quebec supremacist video wasn’t hidden. It was broadcast, two years ago, to all of Quebec. To be fair, English-speaking journalists wouldn’t have understood it. But what about every bilingual reporter in the country? What about every reporter in Quebec?

To them, what Trudeau said was unremarkable. It wasn’t offensive, or even newsworthy. It wasn’t until Sun Media “broke” the story in English this week that it was grudgingly covered by other reporters. And even then, the Media Party did its best to minimize Trudeau’s gaffes. While Trudeau himself hid from the press, his media surrogates offered up any excuse they could. It was two years ago! He was just 38! It was just a small part of a large interview! It was out of context!

When Jason Kenney, the Conservative point-man on this issue, stepped out into the foyer of the House of Commons to talk about it, the scrum of reporters didn’t ask him questions. They debated him — asking him three times if his concern about Trudeau’s comments wasn’t just a reflection of his own party’s desperation.

The Toronto Star’s headline on the story was this: “Trudeau faces uproar for alleged anti-Alberta comments.”

Alleged?

The Canadian Press, the unionized, left-wing news agency, topped that. Their headline: “Tories target Trudeau as poll suggests his popularity keeps growing.”

Say what? No mention that Trudeau had slurred Alberta. The attackers were … the Tories! Oh — and in case you were wondering — Trudeau is super awesome, and they have polls to show it.

Some journalists practically asked Trudeau out on a date. Christine Tam, a CTV producer, posted a pretty picture of Trudeau on Twitter and wrote the caption: “Justin Trudeau can make anti-Alberta comments to me anytime!”

Oh, get a room. Or, don’t, actually — I prefer that kind of drooling to be done in public, for the country to see, rather than Liberal spin doctors pretending to be neutral reporters.

This column appeared in Sun Media November 24 2012.

The Media Party spins for Justin Trudeau, but why do they want to cover up his anti-Alberta comments? Ezra exposes the details.

This report aired on The Source November 23 2012.

Guy Giorno joins Ezra to shed light on Justin Trudeau's long history of divisive comments, which he always blames on Stephen Harper.

This report aired on The Source November 23 2012.

Michael Binnion explains to Ezra why Dalton McGuinty's opinions on fracking show a serious misunderstanding.

This report aired on The Source November 23 2012.

Ezra thinks David McGuinty doesn't understand that the oilsands are good for Canada's economy - they aren't an 'Alberta issue'.

This report aired on The Source November 21 2012.

Alberta Tory candidate Joan Crockatt joins Ezra to talk about David McGuinty's comments telling AB MPs to go back to Alberta.

This report aired on The Source November 21 2012.

Rick Bell joins Ezra Levant to break down Alison Redford's latest scandal involving her sister and some suspicious spending.

This report aired on The Source November 21 2012

Ezra Levant thinks it is imperative for other liberal democracies around the world to stand up for Israel during the conflict.

This report aired on The Source November 20 2012.

Does the Shiny Pony suddenly love the oil sands? Or will he stick to his previous comments and carry on his father's legacy?

This report aired on The Source November 20 2012.

PC Leader Tim Hudak joins Ezra to discuss why Ontario can no longer afford public sector pensions that are costing taxpayers billions.

This report aired on The Source November 19 2012.

Ezra Levant explains the latest fight Quebec’s separatist government is picking with English Canada by demonizing Anglo-oil.

This report aired on The Source November 19 2012.

Chris Schafer of the Canadian Constitution Foundation explains the difference between on fundamental rights and phony rights and the clash of rights between a lesbian and a Muslim barber.

This report aired on The Source November 19 2012.

So a lesbian walks into a Muslim barbershop, and asks for a “businessmen’s haircut”.

It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it really happened, and now a government agency called the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario will hear her complaint.

Faith McGregor is the lesbian who doesn’t like the girly cuts that they do at a salon. She wants the boy’s hairdo.

Omar Mahrouk is the owner of the Terminal Barber Shop in Toronto. He follows Shariah law, so he thinks women have cooties. As Mahrouk and the other barbers there say, they don’t believe in touching women other than their own wives.

But that’s what multiculturalism and unlimited immigration from illiberal countries means. A central pillar of many immigrant cultures is the second-class citizenship of women and gays.

So if we now believe in multiculturalism, and that our Canadian culture of tolerance isn’t any better than the Shariah culture of sex crimes and gender apartheid, who are we to complain when Omar Mahrouk takes us up on our promise that he can continue to practise his culture — lesbian haircuts be damned?

He’s not the one who passed the Multiculturalism Act, and invited in hundreds of thousands of immigrants with medieval attitudes towards women and gays and Jews, etc. We did.

Mahrouk’s view is illiberal. But in Canada we believe in property rights and freedom of association — and in this case, freedom of religion, too.

But McGregor ran to the Human Rights Tribunal and demanded that Mahrouk give her a haircut.

In the past, human rights commissions have been a great ally to gay activists. Because, traditionally, gay activists have complained against Christians. And white Christians are the one ethnic identity group that human rights commissions don’t value, and that multiculturalism doesn’t include.

In recent years, Canadian human rights commissions have weighed a complaint about a women’s-only health club that refused a pre-operative transsexual male who wanted to change in the locker rooms.

They’ve ordered bed and breakfasts owned by Christian families to take in gay couples. They’ve censored pastors and priests who have criticized gay marriage. Gays win, because it’s a test of who is most outraged and offended.

But in the case of the Muslim barbers, the gay activists have met their match. If the test is who can be the most offended or most politically correct, a lesbian’s just not going to cut it.

Oh, McGregor is politically correct. But just not politically correct enough. It’s like poker.

A white, Christian male has the lowest hand — it’s like he’s got just one high card, maybe an ace. So almost everyone trumps him.

A white woman is just a bit higher — like a pair of twos. Enough to beat a white man, but not much more.

A gay man is like having two pairs in poker.

A gay woman — a lesbian like McGregor — is like having three of a kind.

A black lesbian is a full house — pretty tough to beat.

Unless she’s also in a wheelchair, which means she’s pretty much a straight flush.

The only person who could trump that would be a royal flush. If the late Sammy Davis Jr. — who was black, Jewish and half-blind — were to convert to Islam and discover he was 1/64th Aboriginal.

So which is a better hand: A lesbian who wants a haircut or a Muslim who doesn’t want to give it to her?

I’m betting on Mahrouk. And I predict that Muslim activists — not quiet barbers like Mahrouk, but professional Muslim busybodies — will start using human rights commissions more and more to push their way into places where they have no legal right, but where the human rights commissions are more than happy to engineer things for them, if they complain loud enough.

If I were a gay activist, I’d probably want to declare victory and shut down these human rights commissions right now.

In five years time, it won’t be gay activists forcing themselves into Christian B&Bs. It’ll be Muslim activists vetoing the gay pride parade.

This column appeared in Sun News November 18 2012.

A lesbian walks into a Muslim barbershop and asks for a men's haircut...

This report aired on The Source November 16 2012.

Things got aggressive when Paige T. MacPherson ventured into the anti-Israel protest in Toronto. Ezra Levant gets the scoop.

This report aired on The Source November 16 2012.

Billy Hallowell from The Blaze joins Ezra to discuss potentially false casualties from Gaza, the war on acorns and S.E. Cupp's latest dispute.

This report aired on The Source November 16 2012.

Ezra challenges Justin Trudeau and the Liberal party for their poor record of supporting the Canadian military.

This report aired on The Source November 15 2006.

Rob Breakenridge helps explain Allison Redford's confusing logic of what constitutes as a deficit.

This report aired on The Source November 15 2006.

Eric Duhaime discusses why a Quebec politician wants to stick his nose into pipeline issues.

This report aired on The Source November 15 2006.

What attempted assassinations, sex scandals and dirty secrets don't you know about the Royal Family?

This report aired on The Source November 13 2012.

Last week the CBC got its hands on an amateur video produced by some of our soldiers for a comedy night at a military base in Nova Scotia back in 2010.

It was a short, four-minute spoof making fun of Osama Bin Laden's older brother, "Eugene."

The CBC says it got this video last month. But it sat on it for weeks, in order to release it as a big, breathless exclusive right before Remembrance Day.

It's obvious why. It was the CBC's way of showing what it thinks of our Canadian Forces: That they're a bunch of racist pigs.

The CBC said the video was an exclusive. But it actually wasn't. Because the CBC called the military police to come watch the video at the CBC offices. The CBC isn't just reporting on this "scandal." It is pitching it to the police, with the implication that the police should lay charges.

The CBC isn't even pretending to be reporters. It is an anti-military activist.

The problem is that the video that it breathlessly "revealed" wasn't controversial at all. It was a soldier pretending to be bin Laden's brother, hiding out in Vancouver.

Maybe the jokes weren't particularly funny. But that's not what the CBC was outraged by. It thinks it's horrendous that our soldiers, who put themselves in harm's way fighting against Muslim fundamentalists in Afghanistan, might actually make fun of bin Laden and some of the things al-Qaida and the Taliban do, like use car bombs.

The most common word in the CBC's report was "offensive." But that's not reporting. Reporting is telling the facts. Saying, again and again, that a video was offensive, is offeringits opinion.

What exactly was the problem? That a soldier wore a beard and painted his face brown to pretend to be Osama bin Laden? Isn't that what you do when you're pretending to be bin Laden?

I bet our soldiers put on a fake moustache and spoke in a German accent when they were doing anti-Hitler skits in the 1940s, too. But doesn't the CBC sometimes do skits, similar to this, making fun of people? Even Osama bin Laden?

Why, yes, it does. With fake beards and accents, too. It's rare for the CBC to mock a Muslim - too politically incorrect.

Much more common are its unfunny attacks on Catholicism, turned into skits by adding a laugh track. But once in a while they do a token satire of terrorists.

So how did the CBC square the fact that it has comedians speaking in accents and beards mocking bin Laden, with its scandalous "exclusive" that our Canadian Forces did it, but they were "offensive?" The CBC has more than a dozen comedians and comedy writers on staff, but it asked its one visible minority, Shaun Majumder - the same guy who usually plays bin Laden on the CBC - to explain why he can do it but soldiers can't.

Majumder was pitiful. He said he can do it because he's a professional and the soldiers weren't. He said he's culturally sensitive and the soldiers weren't.

And he said that in the anti-Muslim "backlash" in the West, it's never OK to mock Islam. Except when he does it.

Majumder should stick to comedy - not being a snitch on The National, ratting out other comedians as hate criminals.

And the CBC should stop its smear campaign against our Canadian Forces.

Offensive? What's offensive is the government broadcaster demonizing our brave soldiers.

This column appeared in Sun News November 13 2012.

China-Canada relations expert Charles Burton joins Ezra to argue that trading with China is imperative to Canada's economy.

This report aired on The Source November 12 2012.

The CBC has doubled down on its smear campaign against soldiers, and Ezra feels the heat for calling them out.

This report aired on The Source November 12 2012.

Barack Obama has been the worst president for the U.S. economy since Jimmy Carter. But Americans chose another four years of that.

What should Canada do to protect ourselves from America’s continuing economic decline? Here are eight things:

1. Pay down Canada’s government debt. The U.S. is $16 trillion in debt, and is racking up another trillion a year. Its credit rating has been downgraded, and surely will be again. That means interest rates will rise and borrowing will be more expensive. It’s a vicious circle. We’ve got to get out of that whirlpool ourselves. Our deficit is on track to be eliminated by next year. We’ve got to keep running a surplus, and retire our debt.

2. Obama ran a class warfare campaign to soak the rich. Too bad, because the rich are the ones starting businesses and paying the lion’s share of taxes. More practically, as both John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan proved, lower tax rates actually increase tax revenues, as economic activity booms. Canada already has lower corporate tax rates than America. We need to keep taxes low to stimulate economic activity.

3. Low taxes could also start a northward “brain drain.” Let’s recruit the best and brightest from America to immigrate to Canada. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney recently returned from a similar trip to Ireland. Why not add on new recruiting trips to Silicon Valley, the Boston-area universities, New York and other pools of talent who might prefer our stronger economy and quality of life?

4. As a country of just 34 million people, we need more human capital. But we need more financial capital, too. Just to develop our oilsands could require $100 billion — more than Canadians could invest. What a perfect time to steer foreign investors away from riskier

U.S. assets and into Canada. We need to immediately modernize our foreign investment review rules, to avoid the confusion and uncertainty arising from our delays of $21 billion in proposed Petronas and CNOOC investments.

5. We need trade agreements with those parts of the world that are actually growing — especially Asia. The Conservatives are currently negotiating more trade treaties than ever before. Some, like with Panama, are small. Some, like with China, are rudimentary. But a few billion here and there starts to add up — and we need it all to offset our dependence on the U.S.

6. One of our biggest exports to the U.S. is oil — about 2.2 million barrels a day. But there are two problems with that: Because all of our oil is sold to the U.S., our oil sells for $25 per barrel less than if we could sell it to other customers at world prices. And there’s another risk: In his election night speech, Obama talked about “global warming” again — signaling that he may permanently block the Keystone XL pipeline to the U.S., or add a new carbon tax, or both.

That means it’s more important than ever to build new pipelines to the Pacific — not just the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline, but the doubling of the existing Transmountain pipeline that already goes to Vancouver.

That’s six ways to inoculate our economy against Obamanomics. But we need to do two things to fix our democracy to guard our prosperity in Canada.

7. End forced union dues. Obama’s win was partly financed by big unions in the U.S., thanking him for his largess with taxpayers’ money. That’s a risk to our democracy, too. It is illegal for employers to force employees to donate to a political campaign supporting Stephen Harper. So why do we allow unions to extract dues from their members to finance ad campaigns that support left-wing candidates?

8. Voter fraud in the U.S. is rampant. But Obama didn’t win a single state with mandatory ID laws. Forget about the fake Canadian scandal of “robocalls” that didn’t actually make a single person switch their vote. We need to require proof of citizenship to vote — and to end the bizarre Elections Canada rule that you can vote while wearing a mask like a burka.

This column appeared in Sun News November 11 2012.

Ezra takes on the CBC for their blatant malice and disrespect for those Canadians that fought for the freedom that allows it to do what it does

This report aired on The Source November 9 2012.

WWII and Korea veteran, Peter Worthington talks about his timing serving and the state of Canada's military.

This report aired on The Source November 9 2012.

Canada's Silver Cross Mother, Roxanne Marie Priede, remembers her son's ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan.

This report aired on The Source November 9 2012.

Ezra unveils his eight step action plan to inoculate Canada from Obama’s cliff jump. This report aired on The Source November 8 2012.

David Goldman on how the presidential election ushered in the death of the American dream.

This report aired on The Source November 8 2012.

Kevin Gaudet, spokesperson for Reverse The Bag Ban, on the new study that reveals a majority of Torontonians want to reverse the bag ban

This report aired on The Source November 8 2012.

Part two from Ezra's interview with Ann Coulter last night on the politics of race in the U.S. election and her new book "Mugged".

This report aired on The Source November 7 2012.

Ezra questions how Barack Obama was able to win re-election with everything he's done wrong and has failed to do.

This report aired on The Source November 7 2012.

Former Republican Congressman Ernest Istook on what went wrong in the Romney campaign, and how conservatives in America can get back on track.

This report aired on The Source November 7 2012.

Charles Cooke on his hard lessons from the election season and whether or not America is still the land of the free.

This report aired on The Source November 7 2012.

How could Barack Obama win reelection, with U.S. unemployment still at 8%, and real unemployment much higher? With 43 million Americans on food stamps? With a $16 trillion debt, credit ratings tumbling and economic growth sluggish?

How could Obama be reelected with foreign affairs in a shambles – with Al Qaida overrunning U.S. consulates and murdering U.S. ambassadors, with Iraq and Afghanistan slipping back to chaos, with terrorists dominating the misnamed Arab Spring, with Russia and China pressing their interests with no American resistance, and with Iran building nuclear weapons unhindered?

Does the blame go to the Republican standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan? There is something to that; Ryan didn’t carry his home state of Wisconsin, which would have brought the Republicans within striking distance of an electoral college victory. And Romney carried neither Massachusetts, the state he once governed, nor Michigan, the state his father governed.

But that cannot be the whole answer; Romney did very well in the debates – especially the first one – and campaigned vigorously. Obama wasn’t a particularly dazzling candidate, and Vice President Joe Biden was universally an embarrassment.

So, then what?

A massive, four-year get-out-the-vote campaign by the Democrats, painstakingly identifying millions of partisans and getting them to advance ballots, takes some credit. But surely Republicans know those dark arts as well as their rivals.















The unhappy answer – to a conservative, and to someone who loves America for its exceptional dedication to freedom – is that perhaps the United States has changed, and that the miraculous country envisioned by its Founding Fathers and described so beautifully by Alexis de Tocqueville has simply changed.

It is no longer a nation of rugged individualists, of fiercely independent men and women. It is now a nation that would not be out of place in Europe – a welfare state, a state with the firm hand of government directing its peoples lives. Not great anymore, but good, or good enough.

How could New Hampshire – motto: Live Free or Die – vote for a president who nationalized two car companies and brought in government-run health care? But it did – or at least that’s how it was looking at 10 p.m. ET.

Has America reached a tipping point, where there are simply more takers than there are makers – and the party that casts itself so clearly with those on welfare and food stamps and hand-outs can count on the support of its clients to continue to tax and regulate the industrious class?

Not since the Great Depression has an American election been so coloured with the rhetoric of class warfare and outright envy – Obama himself declaring to an audience that voting was the best “vengeance”. Vengeance against those who arrogantly choose work rather than welfare, perhaps – Obama never properly explained.

Economic malaise, even two terms of it, can be healed. Ronald Reagan proved that, as did Margaret Thatcher. Even foreign affairs debacles can be undone, again as proved by Reagan and Thatcher, though putting the Iranian nuclear genie back in the bottle is something that will be impossible.

A greater worry is that America’s identity will change irrevocably – that it will simply not want to come back from Obama’s big government mentality, that it will prefer the soft mediocrity of regulation and taxation to the bracing risks of freedom.

Live Free has been replaced by Free Stuff.

All empires come to an end. Which is a shame, because the American empire – an empire of freedom, not coercion – was the most noble and generous the world had seen. If the rest of the night continues on course, a re-elected President Obama will continue to preside over the decline of the American era. It’s a pity.

This column appeared in Sun News November 7 2012.

What if Barack Obama is re-elected president of the United States tonight? What will the next four years be like?

It’s not hard to guess. His campaign slogan is “Forward.” Which means he’s not about to back down on his policies. He’s going to go deeper.

“Forward” happens to be a call to arms for socialist movements around the world. It is not an insult to call Obama’s policies socialist. It is an observation. Five years ago, the thought that the U.S. would nationalize two of the three big automakers would have been called socialist. The de facto nationalization of the entire health care industry — one-seventh of the U.S. economy — would have been called socialist.

In Obama’s America, government picks winners and losers in industry, replacing competition and freedom with command and control, replacing entrepreneurs with lobbyists and political cronies.

It’s not just that Obama is socialist; or that he has never been in the real world of business or job creation. It’s that he’s positively hostile to those who do create jobs.

It’s one thing to tax businesses. It’s another thing to morally condemn them, as Obama did when he departed one day from his Teleprompter, telling business owners “you didn’t build that,” that they exist only by the grace of government, not the other way around, that government is the centre, and that citizens are clients of it, not masters of it.

It’s that hostility, as much as any actual policies, that’s holding back the U.S. economy. Who would build a new factory, or a new mine, or a new company, with Obama re-elected? Because if you didn’t build your own business, then you don’t own it, and Obama can take it — through taxes or regulations.

In one of the presidential debates, Mitt Romney outlined a basic test for government spending: Is any expenditure worth borrowing money from China? Obama has yet to find his limit, and America’s debt and tax load will continue to grow.

Foreign affairs are just as scary.

Obama treats America’s friends like enemies and America’s enemies like friends. Alone amongst modern presidents he has not visited Israel during his presidency.

But it’s not that symbol that matters — it’s the substance, a palpable hostility to Israel and its prime minister, and an unlimited appeasement of the region’s menace, Iran, and a quiet acceptance of the radicalization of the Arab world through the misnamed Arab Spring.

And if Obama has found excuse after excuse to do nothing to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program these past four years, why would he do something in the next four? Would the president who literally bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia lift a finger to protect Israel from Muslim nukes?

Obama has abandoned liberated Iraq, is abandoning Afghanistan and has long ago abandoned the war on terror ­— even though it has not abandoned him.

So desperate is he to pretend that it’s over, that for two months he and Hillary Clinton claimed the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, by 300 al-Qaida terrorists on the anniversary of 9/11, was simply a grassroots demonstration against an obscure movie on YouTube.

In a second term, what will Obama cede to Iran? To al-Qaida? To China? Obama was caught on tape telling Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s prime minister, to pass on a message to Vladimir Putin to be patient ­­— that after Obama’s re-election, he’ll be able to be more “flexible.”

America is resilient. But four more years of Obama will change that country deeply — and not for the better.

This report appreared in Sun News November 6 2012.

Tim Graham joins Ezra to discuss the biased coverage of the US election from the mainstream media, and the problems with misleading polls.

This report aired on The Source November 5 2012.

What would a second Obama term mean for America? And why would a Romney win be beneficial for Canada? Ezra has the scoop.

This report aired on The Source November 5 2012.

Buck Sexton from The Blaze joins Ezra Levant to talk about the question on many minds: Will the Benghazi attacks impact the US polls?

This report aired on The Source November 5 2012.

If Mitt Romney wins the election in Ohio, that state’s 18 electoral votes will probably clinch the election for him.

Trouble is, the latest CBS/New York Times poll shows that Barack Obama is leading there by 50% to 45%. Maybe it’s time for the Democrats to break out the champagne.

That’s what most people who watch CBS or read the Times might think. But the handful who would look at the fine print of the poll would see something shockingly different. The pollster — Quinnipiac University’s Polling Institute — didn’t publicize the raw results that they got when they actually called people in Ohio.

They tweaked them first.

And by tweaked them, I mean they pumped up the Democratic sample by 8%.

If this sounds like polling fraud, it’s not. In the U.S., where most citizens are registered with the government as Democrats or Republicans, it’s common practice for pollsters to adjust their polling results to better match the known proportion of the public that’s in one party or another.

And there’s a second reason to tweak the numbers, too: Enthusiasm. In 2008, young voters and black voters had higher than average voter turnout for Obama, while Republicans lacked the same fire in the belly for John McCain.

So back to the latest Ohio poll. If you dig into the details, the pollsters pumped up the Democrat numbers by 8%.

Back in 2008 — when Obama was still regarded as a messiah — the great Democratic wave in Ohio was only 5%. But the CBS/Times poll has, built in, an assumption that Obama’s supporters are even more enthusiastic today — after four years of high unemployment, deep debt and foreign policy bungling.

That’s not statistics. That’s spin.

Because buried in that same poll is the finding that Republicans are actually 14% more enthusiastic about voting than Democrats are. And the poll also shows that Romney has a 6% advantage with independents — those voters who are not registered with either party, and are thus more likely to be persuadable.

So is Obama really leading by 5% in Ohio? Or is he actually trailing — a fact obscured by the pollsters engaging in some artful editing?

Oh, don’t be shocked. The mass of the political commentariat is biased towards Obama. Do you think it was coincidence that in each of the four presidential and vice-presidential debates, the journalist moderators gave more time to Obama than to Romney? That they interrupted Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan four times as often as they interrupted Obama and vice-president Joe Biden? That one of the moderators, Candy Crowley, actually joined in one of the debates, telling Romney that he was wrong on an issue?

These slanted polls are nothing more than an extension of the slanted reporting that has characterized this campaign.

There’s another way to measure Ohio. According to analyst Adrian Gray, as of last Tuesday, 530,813 Ohio Democrats had voted in advance polls. That’s down 181,275 from the Obama wave four years ago. And 448,357 Ohio Republicans had voted early. That’s up 75,858 from the last presidential election.

Together that’s a 257,000 vote swing towards the Republicans just in the advance polls. Which is shocking when you realize that Obama only won Ohio by 262,000 votes last time.

Nothing’s over until it’s over. Obama comes from Chicago, the factory of election irregularities. Public-sector unions — as well as the bailed-out auto workers unions — know that life under a Republican businessman president will be less lucrative for them than life under a far-left Democrat community organizer president.

Many people on food stamps and welfare want to get back to work. But many others like the lifestyle of taking instead of making — and these days, welfare queens include every windmill and solar panel lobbyist in America. And of course there’s still time for a November surprise.

But I’m still calling it: A big Romney win.

This column appeared in Sun News November 4 2012.

Ezra and Tiffany Gabbay of The Blaze discuss how the mainstream media buried the real Benghazi story, and Facebook’s censoring of a Navy SEALS anti-Obama post.

This report aired on The Source November 2 2012.

Economics professor Steve Horwitz joins to explain why big government is not the answer to natural disasters.

This report aired on The Source November 2 2012.

Ezra sees through the mainstream media’s rose-coloured portrayal of Obama and Bloomberg’s handling of Hurricane Sandy.

This report aired on The Source November 2 2012.

Steven Crowder celebrates Halloween Obama-style. Don't miss this hilarious interview on the US election.

This report aired on The Source November 1 2012.

Ezra gives his US election predictions and talks about the key moment in the campaigns when everything changed.

This report aired on The Source November 1 2012.

Brian Lilley and Ezra Levant recap the scandals and waste at the CBC, highlighted in Brian's new book CBC Exposed.

This report aired on The Source November 1 2012.