*sigh*

Wrong video link?

I blame Bush! /sarc, eh.

Go Ezra! Our version of Andrew Brietbart!

If we are paying for it, should it not all be public property?

That was truly awesome. Go Ezra.

Go Ezra go . . just keep on rattling their cage.

My CBC . . . plumbing new depths of stupidity and ignorance.

Well done bit of guerilla agitation.

The best part is that the CBC itself is the biggest watcher of SNN and Levant in particular. You know they want to know what's being said about them.

It's like in the Spring, when Levant invited the Star's Delacourt to appear on his show to defend herself on why she was crying after Iggy was defeated.... she declined. But you know when Levant said, "okay, I'm going ahead with the show... thought you'd like to defend yourself, is all"... she was watching it!

Funny thing is that last summer, I counted about a dozen reasons the CBC gave why SNN should never go to air... funny thing that challenging the CBC itself wasn't one of them.

The party's over. The CBC seems unable, rather unwilling to adapt to the news reality -- that all this stuff is getting out there now.

They're probably paying a team of lawyers top dollar to monitor Sun TV, money means nothing to them.

The passive/aggressive nature of CEEB drones is to be expected...corporate culture considered.

God Bless Ezra Levant!

cheers to Ezra !

CBC shoulda said "we are Muslim" and called the cops

I didn’t think my disdain for and disgust of the CBC could sink any lower than it already is. This video has proved me wrong.

Ezra is THE BEST! His opponents think he’s the clown: he proves them wrong every time.

(I’ll bet the CBC is still wailing on about the even-in-death manipulator, Jack Layton: after duly and graciously giving him/ his death the respect he/it deserves yesterday, SUN News has moved on to other, more important issues. Alleluia!)

while i like ezra, i can only stomach so much of him at a time.

calling security guards, 'rent-a-cops' is doing the very thing he is criticizing, about being superior.

It is one thing to do it as a joke, but another to keep saying from a reporter standpoint.

So, someone please get Ezra a personality coach.

CBC > "Your on private property, get out or we send in the Gestapo jackboots"!

Joseph Goebbels would be so proud of the Canadian Ministry of Socialist Propaganda.

"Load the trains".

johnbrooks at August 23, 2011, 9:22 PM, writes, "So, someone please get Ezra a personality coach."

I'd say, sir, speak for yourself.

Ezra Akbar!

Speaking truth to power. Well done.

lookout, don't tell me Ezra's the new holy grail and above criticism, egad.

Again, johnbrooks, speak for yourself. (This is getting tiresome.)

If we had not decided to DVR Ezra today we would have missed the whole thing... what a GREAT segment. Those idiots moving into their space and eating a sandwich as a pretense they could not tell him who they are and the bumping into the cameraman show them all to be childish and hypocritical idiotic twits. The head of security, or whoever he was had a distinctly "Al Jezeera" look about him.
And that infant security officer who would not even pick up the phone to call for Ezra needed his diapers changed right after he got the spanking he deserved. THIS??? and Rick Mercer,David Suzuki, et al is what our 1.1 billion pay for?
We have been overcharged for years but this is beyond the pale.
What IRKS me is watching the clips of Minister Moore a CONSERVATIVE pound home the emphasis that 'funding to the CBC' has increased year over year, year AFTER year...and for this we get Corner Gas and Little Mosque on The Prairie?
I would gladly watch HNIC and Don Cherry on ANOTHER CHANNEL and never look back!
Ezra is one of the best people commenting today, either side of the border, along with Mark Steyn and our blog heroes and heroines ( Kathy and Kate, et al)!

Am I missing something? I get a video link to a story about the long term unemployed in the UK.

Could someone post the link so I could see it? Thanks.

Awesome.

I'm in that area every morning.

That building is a monster, the equipment is unbelievable.
The people that work there for the most part can't cross the road properly. I used to yell stuff like "Avi Lewis is a communist" when they were on strike and all standing around outside with their pathetic signs. The acoustics of that street are canyon-like and loud.
I also tried to talk to some of them during the strike but they were dismissive and would not engage in discussion. "Bunker mentality" describes them perfectly.

Tsk,tsk - that is entirely the wrong approach to get an interview with the CBC. Now, if the Sun intern had phoned and claimed to have "found" sensitive, classified CPC documents he would have had instant access to anyone in the building.

Think like James O'Keefe of ACORN infamy.

Dunno, about passive aggression but what I saw were smug little dweebs with no balls for a fair scrap who prefer to BS, name call and have hissy fits from the safety of their morally superior bunker. I can't think of a more non-threatening guy as Levant but he sure had this CBC wuss pit buzzing with feigned indignity.

BTW sandwich boy's obstructionist ballet has got to be the most hilarious form of aggressive foot work I have ever witnessed - have these CBC droids been so emasculated by PC indoctrinating they can't even muster a manly defense for themselves and their ideals? I’m so thrilled SNN captured Sandwich boy’s dance of the indignant wuss on video for posterity as testament to PC impotency! ;-)

Occam, I was divided between the the deaf sandwitch guy and the security nazi on who was the funniest. I kinda expect that if Ezra had really been naughty, they'd a had him in cuffs. Private property, yah its mine, you pompus bunch of arseholes.

johnbrooks, when the CBC faces the criticism SNN makes against it -- fact-based and bullet-proof -- then you might have a point.

One criticism I do have, however, is that Aurel is on Levant's show now... I believe I saw him on CBC a few weeks, interviewed on a foreign affairs issue of some kind, maybe Libya or the attacks in Norway.

He can't decry the state broadcaster while accepting invitations to appear on it.

Having said that, great program so far... I love knowing that the CBC is watching every second of it, too.

How about making this into a series?

Ezra is certainly not above criticism and he'd be the first to say so! and he's not joking johnbrooks. While he may come across as a buffoon or clown, that is his schtick, what he says is dead serious...and 100% correct.

Be afwaid CBC...be vewy,vewy afwaid.

Haven't watched CBC for 5 years now (except HNIC)& recently spent hundreds to switch to Shaw Cable from Bell Expressvue, because they refused to come to terms with SunTV.

Really, how brain-dead do you have to be to not see that the Canadian Brainwashing Corporation is just a propaganda leftist outlet?

It's rather ironic,but that's how Michael Moore got his start, attempting to interview people from the corporate or political sector,and filming the reaction of the interviewee for his TV show.

Give 'em hell,Ezra! I thin k the time has come for all concerned Canadians to E-mail their MP's,and demand to know why there is never any discussion about privatizing the CBC.

I know it's a "national icon", but so was CNR,in fact,CNR was around a lot longer than CBC,since 1918,and they sold it off.

Ironically, CNR had it's own radio broadcasting service,so passengers would have entertainment while travelling.

"In 1923 CNR's second president, Sir Henry Thornton who succeeded David Blyth Hanna (1919–1922), created the CNR Radio Department to provide passengers with entertainment radio reception and give the railway a competitive advantage over its rival, CP. This led to the creation of a network of CNR radio stations across the country, North America's first radio network. As anyone in the vicinity of a station could hear its broadcasts the network's audience extended far beyond train passengers to the public at large.

Claims of unfair competition from CP as well as pressure on the government to create a public broadcasting system similar to the British Broadcasting Corporation led the government of R.B. Bennett (who had been a corporate lawyer with Canadian Pacific as a client prior to entering politics) to pressure CNR into ending its on-train radio service in 1931 and then withdrawing from the radio business entirely in 1933. CNR's radio assets were sold for $50,000 to a new public broadcaster, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, which in turn became the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1936."

Source: Wikipedia.

Cross-posted @ 5:35 on Reader Tips:

Over at SunTV, Ezra's getting a real grilling by CBC security.

I'm tired of these sanctimonious, thuggish gate keepers (not the red-headed kid who looked about four years old: whose son, nephew, neighbour is he?), supposedly on the public's behalf, harassing members of the public who walk into the CBC building and start asking a few questions.

They remind me of the KGB -- at least, what the KGB looks like in the movies. Come to think of it, the CBC kind of reminds me of Pravda ...

again, speaking for myself outlook, is Ezra above criticism? has he become a pope?

if one can't voice one contrary opinion on here then we are just as guilty as the CBC and other wind bags 'we' are so ardent to point out.

Actually digging deeper, have we become right wing drones without accepting any independent thought here as well?

They just disagree with you, for **** sakes. Nobody's above anything.

Wow, touchy bunch.

my niece is a security guard at the rider games in regina sask. i have 3 other security friends,one at nortel in calgary, one at bow valley school in calgary and the other at gulf canada square in calgary. what's the beef with security guards, very juvinile , highschool boy prankish.
btw... i love Ezra

Right, john thanks for the "Otter Defense" of Ezra doesn't get criticized enough for being politically incorrect, good point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=6PYb_anBMus

"Wow, touchy bunch."

Posted by: johnbrooks at August 23, 2011 11:09 PM

Hearing a broken record (or skipping CD) over and over kind of does that to people. We get it, you're not a fan of Ezra. While I am a fan of Ezra, I can only speak for myself.

they couldn't come up with
"do you have an appointment?"

Dear Mr. Brooks:
Maybe I can clarify this issue for you a bit. Although Ezra can come off as a little ackward and he has a tendancy to run a couple octaves higher than most talking heads, folks in these parts watched this most dignified brave man with a razor sharp intellegence wade through some of the most egrigice slop a western government has ever perpetrated on a citizen in modern times.

In gratitude for his strength and his veracity most here loath the thought of any criticism to Mr Levant. That includes me, because he has done such a great service to this country.

The RT long term unemployment video is also great. In the late 1960s and early 1970s my wife worked in the St. Catharines City Hospital lab and encountered 3rd generation welfare recipients. No doubt the descendents of these families are now 5ht generation welfare recipients.

Ezra Akbar! Too funny. :)

Great job Ezra, keep the heat on CBC Pravda.

Jeff, appreciate the insight. Interestingly the first straight forward display of one's thought without sounding like a drone.

Maybe I'll go after Shaw and tell them I want a single station on my cable that being Sun TV. Currently I just have cable internet and that took a while as I tried to tell multiple people who work at Shaw that I don't watch TV. I might make an exception for Sun TV.

Why the CPC hasn't moved to defund this commie moneyswilling monstrosity is a mystery. Does the commie broadcasting corporation have video of PMSH in a compromising position that they'll broadcast if he decreases their funding? If PMSH won't do it, then perhaps it's up to us to start bombarding our MP's with requests to get rid of this statist relic which deserves the same fate that befell the Berlin wall.

Ezra can be grating at times, but he's still the godfather. Nobody can tell me what Ezra has done has been easy or has been self serving. The guy's a friggin hero so yeah some people get touchy about him. I would very much like to see him become more polished.. but it would suck if he lost that straightforward blunt truthiness too. Come on, he chainsawed a tree on earth day. What's not to love?

One last thing about Ezra.. he's waaaay better after about 2 beers.

max: "One last thing about Ezra.. he's waaaay better after about 2 beers."

After *he's* had about 2 beers, or *you've* had about 2 beers?

And is it 2 beers or 2 beer?

The chainsaw massacre on Earth Day was particularly touching, in my warped view; I can say from personal experience that Ezra grows on one. He embraces insults to his person with relish... as opportunities to duke it out and convert his attackers to conservatism. The guy is just plain goofy and likeable, but one underestimates his fierce intellect at his peril.

That was beyond bizarre. I have worked in various law enforcement/security positions throughout my life, some more serious than others. The first thing I always did was establish the source of and extent of my authority i.e. by what authority would I order someone to do something or deny them access to whatever. Without that, you have nothing.
"It's nice to see you, but this is a staff area, and you need to make an appointment. I'll take your name and let him know you're here, but no, I won't interrupt him in fairness to those he's seeing at present." That could have worked.
Equally, Ezra should have been readily recognizable to any of those Ceeb drones who could have easily dealt with him with a wave and a smile and a "Sorry Ezra, but you're asking me to comment on a matter of company policy best left to our PR people. You know how it is."
Instead, the bunker mentality reflects the degree to which they view any questioning of the status quo as an existential threat, and likely reflects their knowledge of exactly how fragile and illegitimate their position really is. Weird!

Well, if anyone thinks this is the "hearts and minds strategy" they are sorely mistaken. Levant looks like a goofball, as usual. While charming in person, he comes across as a bully and an idiot in these types of segments. He needs to get a comedy coach - it's not natural for him. Grrrrr, some on conservatives, we can do better than this!

Before Harper won his minority government, I heard Levant on the radio, and thought "If the liberals were smart, they would interview Ezra Levant on national radio as a conservative pundit, and that would be the end of Harper and any hopes of a Conservative government"

Now that's excellent programming - I was glued to the screen throughout the entire show and what a show it was. Informative entertainment - Ezra style. The CBC truly is a Source of contention and angst among Canadians.

Clever and funny comment this "How about making this into a series? " Posted by: David at August 23, 2011 10:20 PM. This "episode" had everything: docu style facts, suspense, comedy, drama, some action, and even cool music. IMO, it evoked viewer feelings of vindication, elation, power, and the sense of good dealing evil a well aimed, long awaited blow with truths fist. Who wouldn't want to be able to pull something like that off? - add fantasy to the list.

Ezra has only 4 months of TV experience, for a newbie, he is doing an exceptional job. It's true that his passion and excitement get the better of him at times; however, his passion/excitement is a key part of his appeal though. As a result, he sometimes fires too many questions at his guests, not giving them enough time to answer fully. Seems he is trying to squeeze to much into the slotted time - he's improving on this, but still hit and miss at this point. Some topics need/deserve/beg for more than one show. Give him a year to hone his interviewing skills and tweak his style. There is no one else like him on Canadian TV - he's unique and that's a good thing!

Thank you for yet another, entertaining and informative hour; more importantly, many thanks for being my voice on the TV.

correction - should read: many thanks for being my voice shouting from the TV.

Is this the CBC of Mary Walsh and This Hour has 22 Minutes? Ezra is so polite; CBC is totally hypocrtical.

Thanks Ezra! Great job of exposing the CEEbeecee for the nitwits they truly are - imagine, using a phrase like 'private property', in Canada; they were making that up. There must be a Snowy Owl in that massive building and I want that owl saved! They must all move out, at once. So much for private property ceebeecee nincompoops. Mr Moore, where are you?

Erik Larsen, the only way that the CPC is going to make any headway in Canada is to stop being nice and to tell the truth as they see it. We've seen how extremism gets results and homosexuals have used this method for years. Look at how a self-inflicted disease that can be prevented with a modicum of self-control has been forced into the forefront of medical reaseach and the people who have HIV are not viewed as libertine idiots but rather a special class of victims. HIV is a homosexual disease, but it's warped the sexuality of heterosexuals living in large cities who are terrified of catching HIV. Well, other people can use this tactic also and Ezra is good at what he does. I hope he inspires a host of imitators.

The only dispute I have with Ezra is him terminating the Western Standard after I'd purchased a 2 year subscription and I never got a refund. I've forgiven him for that but, if I ever get to meet him in person, will bring it up.

Ezra was the first person to take on the HRC's in a manner that they never expected and he single-handedly publicized the arbitrary statist environment that existed within the HRC's. The nanny state has gotten so massive that we'll need a thousand or so Ezra's to attack every unwanted intrusion of the state into our lives. What I hope comes from Ezra's show is that it will embolden the masses to push back at statists and not play nice. We've tried that and it hasn't worked and it's time to take on the totalitarians and destroy them.

There's little love out there for the totalitarian nanny state except among those who derive their employment as state enforcers and among the dependant classes. The former need to be unemployed and the latter don't bother to vote. It's time to harness that diffuse anger and use it to cut the state down to size and put strong limits on what it can do in future. If there's going to be a Canadian TEA party, people like Ezra are going to be founding members.

Dang, they didn't arrest Ezra. If they had you could probably sell tickets to watch the trial and get rich. Mr. Head-of-Security being verbally sliced and diced in the courtroom would be like you or I lacing up our skates and playing pick up hockey with Gretzky. I watched the "Human Rights" videos and that was pure entertainment. Ezra on home turf of a real courtroom would be a thing of beauty.

Don't bother Ezra with your trivial lost Western Standard subscription money, perhaps you should consult with a lawyer and learn a little about capitalist fundamentals, "the corporate veil", etc. Ezra has no personal liability for your subscription contract with the Western Standard entity. To attack him personally on this matter only makes you look stupid and wastes his time.

Remember, the CBC staff are the same gang that are wailing and gnashing their teeth over the death of the Canadian Pope of Socialism (Layton).

Bizarre behaviour should be expected.

Still not getting how a publicly-funded broadcaster can be "private". If it is in fact private, WHO owns it? And why are we all still paying for it??

I love Ezra's take-no-prisoners schtick.

As others have mentioned, these are no normal times. We're in dire straits here in Canada, thanks to the Nanny State. The only way to make a point is to be utterly outrageous in order to smoke out the weasels.

Weasels are vicious. You don't handle them with kid gloves; you put on boxing gloves.

Ezra took on the Continually Bullshi**ing Canadians cabal and rattled them. Good for him! Bully? I don't think so. They're the bullies: Look at them. Pushing him, shoving the SunTV cameraman, accusing him of being "belligerent" (when he was just having a little fun?) and being "harassing." The CBC-types are nanny-state wimps. The only way to dislodge them (please, God) is to give them a good, swift (verbal) kick. Ezra's doing that in spades and it's sweet to see them squirm and hear them squeal!

Go, Ezra!

While I am a huge Ezra fan, I find some of his stuff on STV to be little better than a Rick Mercer skit.
This was no exception.

Ezra is the hero of free speech and that's just a start.

Some may find him over-the-top but he's simply countering over-the-top stupidity and inane rules and actions wherever he encounters them. It's called fighting fire with fire.

What's wrong with having a little silliness to point out silliness such as we viewed in his escapade with CBC? Since when can they treat someone like Ezra as a threat when they know exactly who he is, a Canadian taxpayer who's taxes support the Canadian Crappy Corporation?

Ezra has performed a little send-up of Rick Mercer "ambush journalism" at the home ball park for this sort of thing. Good on him I say.

As penny used to say, “johnbrooks, are you a young person, perchance?” I ask because you have flown to the most outlandish and altogether unjustified conclusions—your “inferences” are based solely on pure emotion and no evidence—from these few words of mine about Ezra:

I questioned your prescription, "So, someone please get Ezra a personality coach”, with “I'd say, sir, speak for yourself.” I used the same minimalism when you responded, “. . . don't tell me Ezra's the new holy grail and above criticism.” Actually, if you’d bothered to read and process my few words, you might have noticed that I suggested no such thing.

Now you write to me: “. . . is Ezra above criticism? has [sic] he become a pope?

“if [sic] one can't voice one contrary opinion on here [sic] then we are just as guilty as the CBC [sic] and other wind bags [sic] 'we' are so ardent to point out.”

BTW, johnbrooks, even the pope isn’t above criticism, and your comments here are utter poppycok. As the Professor said in “The Magician’s Nephew”: “WHAT DO they teach these children in school?” Contrary to the advertisements, certainly not critical thinking skills . . .

So in that regard, as you single me out, I’d be very interested to know which words of mine suggested that Ezra is above criticism. NB: To be credible, inferences about other people’s ideas have to be based on more than your own fantasies: your emotional, ludicrously hyperbolic, empty- and utterly wrong-headed accusations here, which put words in my mouth, reflect very badly on you and are tedious in the extreme.

If you respond, if possible, please engage your brain.

And I hope Ezra keeps the pressure on the CBC in his own, inimitable (though not always perfect) way. Making fun of the CBC is such fun to watch—and it drives its "We're-the-CBC-and-you're-not" snobs CRAZY. YEAH!

GO, EZRA!

Liz J and nold sum it up well. CBC just got a taste of their own medicine for a change and they did not like it.

Just goes to prove a point I've made before. A conservative couldn't get a job pushing a broom at CBC no matter who he or she is related to!

Never underestimate the power of ridicule - and the potential for profits as a bonus - remember the Obama "Disappoint-mints"?

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/aug/06/disappointmints-brouhaha-boosts-sales-for-new/

If CTV and CBC can have merchandise stores, I can see no end of fun if SunNews should have a go at it... An entrepreneurial opportunity just waiting to happen!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4DEuRMigtc

WalterF, Thanks for reminding me of CBC'er Mary Walsh and her attempts at humour. On this ambush of Sarah Palin,Walsh is escorted out by security,goes to the loading dock,and Palin speaks to her briefly,which is more than you can say for CBC with Ezra.

Walsh ambushed Stephen Harper and tried to embarrass him,it didn't work, but I can't find the video on Youtube,maybe the CBC was ashamed and had it removed.

Allah almighty,what a bunch of deadbeats the CBC comedy gang are, and my tax dollars go to support this crap!

Johnbrooks has a legitimate point, as I think security was just doing its job, as Ezra was doing hi; it was the idiots in the courtyard eating lunch who were being obnoxious.

Ezra does a 'Roger and Me' a la MikeWhale Moore.

LOL!

Stay away from the deep fried grilled cheese sandwiches.

Well, you can always use the methods of the left against them.

Although I can't really see it happening in Toronto, or Ottawa..but perhaps a flash mob gathering of like-minded conservatives at CBC buildings in Edmonton or Calgary asking for access to areas paid for by taxpayer money might be entertaining.

@Enkidu: Well done, you made me laugh during a horrible day at work. :)

I dunno about you guys but I want sandwich boy to teach me that wet diaper dance he did in front of Levant. Happy feet and crazy legs – go sandwich man go!

loki@627 - I agree - but Ezra doesn't understand how to have the lighthearted touch to what he does - instead he looks like a bully, like a bull in a china shop. Michael Moore, who I despise, can at times have the light-hearted touch. Levant needs to lighten up - he reminds me of someone with a huge chip on their shoulder daring a disinterested passerby to knock it off.

Everyone should realize - liberals can get away with anything, conservatives have to be more careful. Besides, don't we have more class?

And lookout - chill my friend! :)

Hey, Erik Larsen, I thought that, under severe provocation, on his and our dime, Ezra carried off a most admirable light touch when dealing with Big Brother CBC in its monster-size fortress—as compared to what annoyed and entitled “youts” might have done.

If I were you, I’d be grateful for the ironic and humorous style of Ezra’s protest. Speaking of "chill": you might try it yourself!

lookout - OK, I'll have one for me tonight, and one for you too! Cheers.

How in the world did I not know about this site before? This is AWESOME. Oh, and Eskimo @4: I think you're absolutely right. He IS the Canadian answer to Andrew Breitbart.

Just what I needed...another daily "must read" blog. LOL

lookout, time for your meds dear.

Re retarded CBC denisons: Give me more!

I'm stuck with Eastlink, but this glimpse into the CBC counterculture just brings me back in time.

A time where the entitlements attitude of LIBRANNOS, their ministers Goodale, Caplan, et all made Canadians sick.

The billion dollar boondogle, the PM strangling the protestor, the BDC hatchetmen sent after Mr Beaudoin, when he wouldn't do Cretiens bidding.

Rick Mercer, Mary Walsh, Little mosque etc...

fire em all....

I can understand any institution having security policies, and being hesitant to admit someone under these circumstances. However, the security guard's comment about "private property" is ridiculous.

As Ezra has said more than once on his show, if he owns a piece of something, then he has the right to use and dispose of it. If not, then he doesn't have genuine ownership. "Public ownership" is a contradiction in terms, an anti-concept.

time for your meds dear.

Posted by: johnbrooks

He typed while holding his sandwich in front of his face

actually i was picking my nose there richy.

Looks like some good footage for someone to send to the CBC ombudsman and request the name of that coffee-drinking and internet surfing for a living thug pushing Ezra and the Cameraman for purposes of filing assult charges.