Canadian media refuses to call Rebel News’ David Menzies a reporter after RCMP arrest

The arrest of Rebel News journalist David Menzies has got to be an outrage that keeps on giving.

Rebel News owner and publisher Ezra Levant – an old friend – is considering legal action against the RCMP and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland – whom Menzies was attempting to question when he was effectively body slammed by a bald, aggressive cop who immediately accused him of committing "assault."

You can watch the video of this altercation over and over, and your blood will boil every time. 

Just who does this unnamed security guard think he is? Was he operating on instructions from Freeland to keep all unfriendly media away from her, or was he acting like a member of Stalin’s NKVD? Perhaps he was just a common dolt?

We know that the RCMP is at least "looking into the incident," though that doesn't necessarily mean cueball will be subject to any kind of investigation, review, or disciplinary action.

He should be.

At least Menzies was released, largely because While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau might have the police in his pocket, he hasn't yet bought the courts and judges. Social media, where tens of millions viewed this spectacle, has also managed to escape the Liberal leader's control, although he continues to try to strangle the internet with censorship laws and is poised to deliver the Online Safety Act in the spring that will attempt to ban but not define misinformation and disinformation.  

The response from the RCMP has been pathetic at best, and reads like something a secret police force would issue to explain why they arrested the wrong dissident.

"RCMP protective policing resources were involved in an incident while deployed on a protective operation," spokesperson Sgt. Kim Chamberland said. "The RCMP is looking into the incident and the actions of all parties involved. No further comment is available at this time."

York Regional Police, who assisted Freeland’s security detail in capturing this scary reporter, also tried to explain the travesty of justice.

"The arrest of the Rebel News reporter was made by the Prime Minister's RCMP security detail," Cst. Lisa Moskaluk said. "York Regional Police officers assisted as the interaction took place in our region. It was determined that no credible security threat existed and the subject was released unconditionally shortly thereafter."

While that statement isn't much better than that offered by the RCMP, at least Moskaluk called Menzies a "reporter."

The legacy media has been calling him anything but. 

CBC, as usual, has been the most disinclined to label Menzies a reporter or journalist, choosing instead to refer to him a “personality." One anchor even went so far as to suggest he "identified as a journalist." Is that some kind of new transgender manifestation?

In another report, CBC referred to Menzies as a "Rebel News employee" as if he was no different from a janitor.

One can watch an entire "power panel" of CBC clones dismissing Menzies in this clip from "Power & Politics."

Global News also called Menzies a "personality," while The National Post deemed him to be nothing more than a "commentator."

Those descriptions are pretty common for Canada’s mainstream media. 

I have known David Menzies for over a decade, and worked with him at the now-defunct Sun News, where Menzies started the day with an in-your-face style of journalism that was both comedic and irreverent of the establishment. He was known as “the Menzoid” in those days. 

Since joining Rebel News, Menzies has continued to be a courageous, unapologetic journalist who is never afraid to put his microphone in the face of the rich, powerful, and politically protected.

His skills were on full display, for example, when he confronted the transgender Ontario high school teacher who wore enormous prosthetic breasts to class. Menzies actually attended a local school board to demand answers and persisted even after he was treated with disdain and ordered to leave the building.

Recently, Menzies exposed the outrageous activity of 50-year-old biological male, or "trans woman" Nicholas Cepeda, who insists on disrobing in the girl's change room of an Orangeville, Ontario community center pool. 

I'd like to see the journalists at CBC and Global News conduct this kind of reporting.

I ran into Menzies while we were both covering the February 2022 Freedom Convoy in frigid Ottawa. During this seminal moment in Canadian history, the CBC "journalists" were inside their headquarters, participating in talking head interviews with like-minded people who were shocked that these truckers had decided to protest the Covid mandates in our nation's pristine capital. 

They were enthusiastically parroting Justin Trudeau's rubbish that these blue-collar workers were a dangerous "fringe" minority composed of "racists" and "misogynists."

Needless to say, the legacy media might not like Menzies, and might really resent The Rebel’s resistance to becoming another sycophantic media outlet that worships at the feet of Justin Trudeau. 

Regardless, they should at least have the dignity to refer to Menzies, and the rest of the "employees" covering news, as journalists, because at the end of the day, that's what they are.