Conrad Black | The 'Civil War' in the American Media

[@notlimey]

A fascinating man who knows American history better than most Americans and certainly more than I know. I, like many Canadians of my generation, remember what he did to Dominion Stores. But he did found a newspaper and run an international group of newspapers profitably. I began only to admire the man when he would not give in against the charges brought against him. The U.S. justice system, like the United States in general is hard ass and they fight as prosecutors or defence attorneys with every weapon they can lay hold of, legitimate or illegitimate. I watched Mr. Black on a recent The Agenda show where Steve Paikin tried his best but could not match the detailed and carefully thought out evidence Black brought to bare - the same holds here. You cannot say it is because Black is right wing, because he was equally admiring of Roosevelt.

[@markcorriveau]

Steve stumbled. you could just feel that lean to the left. I tweeted," dont do it."

[@jeanhunter4310]

In 2007, Black was convicted of fraud in a U.S. court for siphoning $6 million out of the Hollinger International newspaper empire under the pretense it was a “noncompete payment” from buyers of the company’s assets. He was also convicted of obstructing justice after he was caught by security cameras spiriting boxes of documents out of Hollinger’s Toronto offices. He served 37 months of a 42-month sentence in a Florida prison.

[@shaneswanson1938]

@bob wach Finally someone who knows what he is talking about. Another shyster who thought he was above the law. Canada should have not let him back into this country.

[@teymani]

it is now 2017 and we see the same media trying to take down another pres. dejavu all over again ,this intellectual just nailed it.ty so much.

[@dianem6951]

teymani I watched the Left apologizing to the world when Bush won. The Left has zero business of being in charge to run the country.

[@mtmayhem933]

Enjoy hearing Conrad speak...Smart guy.

[@ytcarol]

Black said the internet would be a game changer but he was not sure how... it was twitter that allowed Trump to communicate directly with ordinary working Americans. Surely Black will have mentioned that in a later talk... will have to search for more. He is fascinating to listen to (as an American). I wonder if I could get through his Eagle book on U.S. history. I have just ordered his book on Trump.

[@catherinezoller4451]

His book on Trump is great! Very readable, mostly objective and full of facts. I know Trump is a man from Queens who comes across as a little rough around the edges. But he has animal cunning, destroys "political correctness," is a true PATRIOT and, I believe, put in office by God, "for such a time as this." If that evil, wicked, vile, corrupt woman had won, we would be singing funeral dirges over our country. GO President Trump! Continue to MAGA! More and more people are behind you as the scales fall from the eyes of the deceived!

[@bravebrowser6612]

+pippin1962 oh goody... a whole post full of mockingbird talking points... No one is listening to that crap anymore... Ask Lindsey Graham....

[@amandalyons1719]

@pippin1962 #walkaway

[@johnrobi0]

When he read the charges against Nixon, I was stunned. Obama has done 90% of them.

[@MsElke11]

what a mind!! Mr.Conrad, who is in his 80s, should let scientists research his Indelible Memory capabilities at such a golden age and have them bottle the FINDINGS!

[@MrRobster1234]

Conrad Black is actually 72. His witch of a wife is 76.

[@MsElke11]

whoops!! maybe he DOESN"T look that fit!!

[@colleenshea2293]

@@MrRobster1234 Conrad Black has an intellectual/writer partner in his wife Barbara Amiel - who adores him entirely.

[@stockinettestitch]

When was this recorded? It sounds like during the Am. 2012 campaign or shortly there after. ?

[@ideacity]

This was filmed in June 2013 - we'll add that information to the description.

[@johnmcknight5557]

Outstanding !! we need more men of this caliber, view from a man that is a Brilliant intellectual

[@mr7wi]

John McKnight the man is a crook and con artist who fancied himself above the law. I saw distinct parallels between his apologies for Nixon and his own legacy.

[@michaeldoyle6702]

Brilliant intellectual and a victim of the immoral American Justice apparatus.

[@sublime8728]

Brilliant intellectual and American Justice are oxymorons.

[@shaneswanson1938]

Brilliant intellectual must mean crooked shyster. Like Trump, he thinks he is more important than he is.

[@voranartsirisubsoontorn9010]

I wonder what happen to the world. People who anti-american, pro-socialism, pro-communism, pro-migration, pro-homosexual, pro-islam/muslim are the same groups of people with easy reason to understand. They simply like things that they like. I am pro-american, anti-socialism/communism, anti-homosexual, anti-islam/muslim, anti-migration and with more than enough to support my belief. Each individual person need to choose the belief to hold on to. It is not about anything else but freedom to choose. Live with the choice. I am sixty years old and happy enough with my choices whole life.

[@6teezkid]

I’m a Republican and Conrad doesn’t know what he’s talking about when he says we’re “uneasy” about him getting caught with a crime. He got what he deserved. We were betrayed. UNLIKE the Democrats who will never hold one of theirs responsible for anything.

[@paulmelonas7263]

Correction, there were not 550,000 draftees in Vietnam most were regular Army people who joined the Army .

[@NotBob223]

great interview but the constant ads ruined it

[@mangelamarde4091]

Brilliant!

[@mr7wi]

mangela marde he’s a thief and a con artist. Suspect every word he says.

[@davidbruce2159]

TOO many commercials dude.. good content

[@akompsupport]

didnt really address the subject or title of the talk.

[@kayharker712]

We need a Ministry of Love UK. Stephen Hawking, David Blunkett, Gerald Kaufman, Clement Freud, Jimmy Savile, Keith Vaz and many more could be committee members.

[@JohnBaker-wf2vn]

Civil war is an oxymoron. War is hell on earth.

[@davidrapalyea7727]

The publication date listed is shamefull. JANUARY 2017! A COMPLETE MISDIRECTION OF MY TIME.

[@DD-bn2mx]

abolishing the draft was a mistake, every American needs to serve their country at least once. Because those that didn't seem to always resent and maybe hate those that did serve.

[@thomasbergbusch3641]

The only reason that Canada does not have the same media wars is the CBC. Not that the CBC is not without its problems and biases, but it sets a standard that none of the commercial media can match in North America.

[@oliveoil7642]

Yes a standard of bias, lies and mediocrity🤢🤮

[@SuperAdam1313]

I guess you can't talk about Canada because they would jail you, so you have to talk about the USA

[@84imreplica]

Too many commercials!!!

[@consandpiracytheorums1563]

But my writing when comfortable is a diamond in the rough

[@hendrixon1]

In this talk he claimed that in 2016, there weren't the strongest candidates. I wonder what he thinks about Trump now, almost 2 years into his presidency.

[@smileydog9476]

I LIKE CB MORE AND MORE AND HOPE TRUMP PARDONS HIM FOR THE CRIMES HE WAS PUT IN PRISON FOR.

[@johnwright9372]

Nixon was an enlightened moderate compared to the later republican presidents who followed. Reagan began the neoliberal economic disaster which led to massive federal debt and the shift of capital away from America and Europe to the cheapest sources of production.

[@TheGrainhas]

The country of Trudeau calling others idiots. The irony...

[@paulg444]

We love you Conrad!!

[@jerrybobteasdale]

Well, that was a freshening of the wind.

[@jaywarrenclark6263]

Is he saying that the media division is stupid because it will not find the middle (status quo) and not because they-like all the rest-operate completely without regard to the U. S. Constitution? I think he is just a a gate keeper for the status quo.

[@PirateRadioPodcasts]

Wow! Already out of jail?

[@colleenshea2293]

I'm enjoying this remarkable talk but feel highly distressed that Conrad Black has not been given any water! (All presenters need water)

[@consandpiracytheorums1563]

No one leads me positively. They ruin my progress and a get me . If they don't I interupt me I share more truth.when they try to trigger me they lose my trust and true value. I'm the founder of the feast that's still ahead of us all. We can't destroy our resources unless we fuse them. Fusion is not a goal on earth. It's the beginning of the Blackhawk super.nova which is a Blackwood that lasts only seconds at most. Inward outward faster then the eye CAn survive

[@richardlucas7184]

"550,000 draftees in Vietnam" is a false statement, a common stereotype, sadly.

[@gerardlefrancois4746]

Please understand that you do not respond to anything directly, but to your interpretation of it. Your interpretation thus becomes the justification for the response.

[@stephensharp3033]

Conrad Black maintained he himself was not a criminal despite going to prison. He also believes Nixon was not guilty.

[@smileydog9476]

AGREE NIXON TRIPPED HIMSELF UP NEEDLESSLY.

[@humanforfreedom9583]

he was victim of the corrupt court system and Nixon was victim of a corrupt central intelligence agency and he fell into the trap they laid

[@LifeX2Find]

Human … Only half right!!

[@abdelkaderhamdaoui8337]

President Nixon was placed in the hands of those he trusted; Dean, Haig and Buzhardt, the very people who had set out to undermine his foreign policy and who conspired to have him removed from office with a frame-up most foul.

[@jamesjensen5000]

In retrospect it seems idiotic to me that Nixon, with his huge support in the 1972 election winning with 20,000,000 votes, to have engaged in Watergate coverup...

[@nicobester8053]

This is my third post on this. It makes me very angry. It is clear that this is an egregious abuse of process. Get the name of the prosecutors and their photographs. They need to be exposed for their bias and their disgraceful behaviour. Dies ist mein dritter Beitrag dazu. Es macht mich sehr wütend. Es ist klar, dass dies ein ungeheuerlicher Prozessmissbrauch ist. Nennen Sie den Namen der Staatsanwälte und ihre Fotos. Sie müssen wegen ihrer Voreingenommenheit und ihres schändlichen Verhaltens bloßgestellt werden.

[@theredbaronlives9889]

Gee after listening to mr.Black Richard Nixon was a helluva good president!

[@michaelmcneil4168]

For goodness sake why can't we have someone with a cattle prod giving all the American Cameramen a jolt of wake up and pay attention?

[@tigers456]

Always sad to see the demise of one who had the world at his feet. Hopefully, Trump will go to jail too.

[@chrisgreene2623]

Come on Conrad are you suggesting that Nixon did not abuse his position of power while in office? Good luck with that one but you make a great case defending your opinion.

[@ketherwhale6126]

I see history repeating.

[@lawneymalbrough4309]

We could have won in Vietnam had war een declared and the north over run by tthe milittary. That's how wars are won. However was it even our place to be there to begin with? I think not.

[@gerhardmoeller774]

Legal genius!

[@cromana5574]

Canadians just voted for Doug Ford. A glimmer of hope.

[@AIRDAM1]

commercial much ?

[@watermelonlalala]

Define "interested" in Nixon.

[@candygirl6323]

Was this not the same Conrad Black(who at one time surrendered his Canadian citizenship and wanted it back after serving a prison sentence) who was charged by the US judicial system for criminal financial fraud and served prison time in a USA prison. This man has no credibility.

[@mr7wi]

CandyGirl came here to say this. Leaving satisfied.

[@oliveoil7642]

Very accurate description of MSM

[@DD-bn2mx]

why do we car less what most Canadians think? Canadians feel inferior to and ignored by the US. So Canadians feel a need to criticize the US constantly.

[@6663000]

great

[@nadadreamer]

this guy is clueless ........stay in Canada ......please keep you r inept analysis there

[@oo88oo]

Discard this comment.

[@stephenschneider1018]

Completely false that Nixon reduced or eliminated inflation. Additionally, Nixon wanted full employment at any costs which is why his Fed Chairman printed money exorbitantly in the manner that only Paul Volcker would address several years after Nixon resigned. Does anyone check this guy's selective historical recollections?

[@bertharinarina6971]

Why not an imported mud slapper for president?

[@MrDennis9322]

this sounds like obama

[@consandpiracytheorums1563]

Everyone knows I'm the creator of the ideas concepts solutions answers and gifts I provide. Mechanical is always more valuable then digital.. it's consistent. Its proven. It's moves weight. . They compliment each other. But digital is easier to destroy and less trustworthy. Billets and radio win wars. Digital confuses all sides and is distraction not an asset that helps create wealth. It steals from every one. Its worthless. Unless used by pure hearted programmers across the board. One corrupt programmer ruins it all. That Sal it takes. Just one selfish evikdoer and the internet is worthless. And valued less then tagging with spray paint by gang bangers

[@clearintentions6182]

Oh my what a narrative based on the fiction told on tell a vision lol

[@AndroidAmI]

A very smart man. A revelation (thought he was primarily a criminal).

[@khizarhayat5042]

OK. Pakistan

[@lawneymalbrough4309]

I call propaganda on this one. Not buying the defense of Nixon. Not at all.

[@oliveoil7642]

How about the Clinton Crime Cartel are you good with that?

[@DavidVoy]

First LIKE & First Comment

[@AlongtheFarClimbDown843]

*Shame on Black for extolling Lincoln!*

[@bankcounsel]

I actually like Lord Black. I think he's obviously lettered and quite entertaining, but on this subject he's about as dead wrong as one can be. Nixon was indeed an accomplished politician and I would agree a very good president. And he was a crook. He enlisted government agencies to cover up an operation (that he did not authorize but nonetheless knew of) that was illegal and criminal. You cannot say (as I'm sure our Lord Black would have it) that our great American jurist Alex Kozinski should be solely based on his opinions, his wit and his curiosity and simply wax dismissive that he resigned because he harassed women and send pornography through his government email. I too like Alex. I met Alex, as have I met Lord Black. But he's clearly behaving terribly political on this point. For what reason, I'm not sure.