Rick’s Rant - Fake News

[@KraigOliver]

does rick ever get out of that graffiti maze? hes been stuck in it for several months

[@rebekahambrose5839]

Haha! Right?!

[@Terrx]

I did time travel from the 70's and 80's. I just did it the long way

[@andrewbilyea9814]

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[@cedarbobedar7223]

We were always this dumb. We just had information sources that had a vested interest in credibility.

[@jessemccarthy2470]

Cedar Bobedar it's too bad these credible sources don't have money and therefore not a big enough platform. I completely agree.

[@thermal1580]

Then why do school curriculum books get updated every few years? Because half the shit in them was wrong.

[@xapemanx]

i always wondered what the camera man looked like while filming Ricks rants xD

[@mindfreekify]

Please come back - Canadians miss your reports - you make us laugh when we want to cry - you tell it staight and you are too good looking and intelligent of a Canadian to quit your fantastic news outbursts - we all miss you xo

[@irongoatrocky2343]

I live below the 49th and I loved how RM told it like it is!

[@CaptArgo24]

As the years go on, this holds up even more the issue is we chose what we want to believe

[@Nieghorn]

As a librarian, I've been saying this for years! It's incredibly ironic on the surface but, sadly, I guess the truth is that a lot of people are still too gullible (believing the first thing they read) or lazy (checking several sources to cross reference, evaluating those sources for bias / authority) in inform themselves.

[@luisdestro7662]

Nieghorn a good example is climate change warmists saying every weather event is due to global warming with altered data to back up false claims.

[@mymyzie525]

Well said.

[@balderdashery1]

It's called marketing. Tobacco industry really perfected alternative facts.

[@mopartshemi]

LOL selfee dude at 1:00

[@ulogy]

Damn shame Rick wrote this before Trudeau shit the bed on electoral reform.

[@Miranox2]

Meanwhile Trump has done most of what he promised in just the first 2 weeks. It's funny how "literally Hitler" is a more reliable leader than the feminist champion on the north.

[@StrudelCutie.4427]

Miranox it's pretty easy to do everything you promise when most of your promises are vague

[@dwightwilliams5892]

Funny? In a horror-movie sort of way.

[@Miranox2]

doofenshmirtz Are you implying that Trump's promises are more vague than "electoral reform"? I think you're smart enough to know that's not true.

[@axeavier]

Yes but much like any other leader, trump is spineless since he had supported every side on every issue throughout the years.

[@BRAVOACTUAL]

Finally something I can agree with you on!

[@shawnf760]

That rant is so true to this day. In america the lies oitway the truth. People are to fast to jump instead of getting facts

[@matthewstone7218]

#RickMercerforPrimeMinister

[@kevinmacdonald4068]

So many people missing the point.

[@MrPaulwilson8]

Reference to Leitch's manager saying that?

[@trinitytwo14992]

Obfuscation, intimidation, manipulation, welcome to 1984 in 2017

[@ralimba1778]

Good question Rick

[@TheOlmecindian]

right on Rick

[@riggermortisfpv526]

Many people still question everything Rick, and to suggest otherwise is insulting.

[@axeavier]

And also agree with anything that lines up with their views regardless of the sources, much like the bubbles of one sided politics that facebook has created

[@riggermortisfpv526]

Axe Avier It is important that people learn to avoid confirmation bias. It is also important to avoid the logical fallacy of tu quoque.

[@mspaddyg]

Saying that many people still question, doesn't change the fact that a LOT of people are just exactly like Rick says. The truth isn't an insult!

[@axeavier]

Marc Ariss I agree it's important but it's also easy to do it thus it's something most people do.

[@riggermortisfpv526]

Many people are like he says, yet the whole is not, this is not called truth its called a generalization when applied to the whole as he did.

[@oma15]

everyone can more easily surround themselves in an echo chamber and fall victim to believing every facet of their life and every belief they have hold merit

[@wintermystic4542]

Hello Mr. Mercer long time fan, ever since this hour has 22 minutes where your rants were my favorite part. It's really good to see you on KZbin though it seems to be just your show cut into smaller vignette instead of a whole episode as 1 long video. Not sure if you've noticed but your Rick's Rants have a lot more views then most of the over videos. It would be awesome if we could get some web exclusive Rants. Watching you go is truly impressive.

[@NoirRaven]

This is extremely ironic coming from a news parody host. :/ Also, hi, Rick, people used to enforce the rules back then. They don't know because it's just too rampant. They can't afford the man power, even if they had the budget to do so, to scope out and investigate every false headline/article. They just can't.

[@rebekahambrose5839]

Well said, Mr. Mercer! I think that people need to step away from government-owned news channels/resources and go to independent sources. It is pitiful that people are spreading false news and that people are not critically questioning whatever is being presented in the news story.

[@paulmelnychuk5477]

Hey Rick where'd you get the jacket Radio shack! Wahahahaha!

[@thethoughtcriminal8786]

Well, Mark.....because we are increasing being lied too....I don't believe anything I hear anymore.....when I'm told about the "wage gap," that there are more than two genders. That someone is sexist, or racist, or Islamophobic.....or that we need to silence hate speech, while using violence to do it. And by the way Mark, this isn't a new thing, it's been slowly growing for decades. Our children are being taught in collages and universities to be Social Marxists in gender studies courses. Why don't you try asking that question to man like Professor Jordan Peterson.....do you even know who that is?

[@andrewgodly5739]

"WHAAAAH. The news doesn't always correlate my opinions and beliefs, therefore it's fake and biased. Only the BS I get from Rebel media and the insane rantings of republican/conservative nut-jobs is real news" said the triggered KZbin commenter

[@riggermortisfpv526]

Sounds like you are the triggered one. Have a cup of tea and go back to believing whatever that state tells you.

[@anitat9727]

Says the special snowflake.

[@andrewgodly5739]

"WHAAAH! This guy makes a point, and I'm to stupid to come up with something creative to say" said the triggered KZbin commenters

[@Steve-rl2qv]

You know where Snowflake came from? Its what the slavers were called back in the day as they preferred white lives more than black. Thanks for clarifying your a racist baiting troll.

[@anitat9727]

Actually it came from the Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel Fight Club, and its 1999 film adaptation. Both the novel and the film include the line "You are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake."(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Snowflake). And as a woman of color, your false facts sicken me as make light of actual racism. You are as bad as those alt right supporters.

[@georgedearman7720]

Rick you need to go down to Washington and do a new segment of Talking to Americans.

[@mcconkeyb]

When has spreading lies about politicians been frowned upon. This is the fundamental task of a politician, and has been since the beginning of time. He who can lie most and get away with it wins! Its the profession of politics that is spreading to other aspects of life and its politics (and religion intertwined) that is taking control of the internet. The age of stupidity is upon us. So sad, so sad.

[@AliBordbar-vj3pf]

Have my children

[@Didntwanttomakeauser]

Cui bono, Rick. That's why.

[@icyettall2905]

I do not agree with what you say, Rick, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Your rant was blatantly supportive of Internet censorship. Also, for all those of us who have been kept in the dark before the Internet did not make us brainier, but brainwashed. For all those lost years I spent in public school I say " thanks for nothing". Paul Simon said it best when he wrote, " when I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all! And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none, I can read the writing on the wall."

[@TheRanblingjohnny]

There too much data, and not enough critical thinking.

[@ferox965]

Alex Jones....

[@Phynellius]

Alternative facts is a funny term, but I feel like it fails to properly convey the seriousness of deliberate and malicious misinformation to create a desired response in the public. The easily influenced believe all this garbage information while the rest of us become so jaded by falsified "facts" that we lose interest in knowing altogether.

[@265433432]

Clickbait is a disgrace.

[@ROOKTABULA]

Yes but wtf does that have to do with this clip?

[@romeocharlie1]

A lot of the fake stuff on the internet are deliberately created so that you click on it and that website gets 'hits'. There is no obligation to post true information, only to draw people to your site. Clickbait is likely one of the largest contributors to the problem Rick is outlining

[@chrissiebawn9357]

😀😀😀😀

[@NDBit]

Also this rant is pretty dumb Look at you making Toronto look all cool between two spray-painted walls

[@Lvlaple4Ever]

Kellie Leitch is based. Agreed with the last point though.

[@clydepiper4046]

Fake News - Globe & Mail / Vancouver Sun/ The Province (B.C.) .....Rick Mercer

[@borlach321]

Because the CBC is real news. LOL.

[@kevincharbonneau5953]

on purpose. suppressed information. get "money" out of the internet. ..

[@krod193622]

Richard .... maybe you are intimidated that the few sources you so dearly trusted were fake (see: "high cognitive dissonance") .... now it takes much more work to vet sources for news coverage ....but the effort is worth it ....the truth is out there ....and with enough effort you may find it ....at least for a little while longer...you have the opportunity

[@borlach321]

www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ian-buruma-ghomeshi-1.4831445

[@toddbacon6738]

These days, your fake news Rick.

[@borlach321]

www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/01/12/cbcs_amanda_lang_denies_she_tried_to_kill_royal_bank_story.html

[@GearGearRingLeader]

Short answer to Rick's question is that humans are flawed and lazy creature, and Human nature and the issues that come with it will not sim[ply change because we got the internet. Some of the longer answer in down below. Well before there was less people out there with "megaphones", some level of standards needed to reached to prove that you were worthy of being called News. (sometimes those standards was being good at spreading propaganda, unfortunately that never stopped). And since the world became more globally aware, by this I mean countries know some of what is going on around the world almost instantaneously, a new avenue of competition came from people wanting to learn about this as fast as possible, and tell as much News as fast as possible, the 24 news cycle. This lowered some of some standards, to allow News Groups to compete for attention. News groups funded by Governments may not need to fight as hard as other groups for public attention, but still run the risks of having an agenda they wish to push either because that is what the government tells them, or they have vested interests in how or what stories are told beyond the facts. Also the fact that no one can view every issue from all angles all the time, and humans are to a degree lazy thinkers, who are sort of set to try to spot out patterns to cut time and energy spent on thinking. Then once more people were finally able to use "Megaphones", then some of the "standards" where lowered even further. If everyone is all trying to speak at the same time, the voices most listened to will be the loudest saying the craziest things, And since so many news groups on all sides try to push narratives. Also people has just enough time in the day and formal intelligence to see the number of places that News groups cannot all get the perfect details and people within those groups will try to control people thoughts to a certain degree to agree with them.

[@the78thHesparian]

duh

[@crazycaucasian9342]

Get a new camera man, yours is obviously broken.

[@borlach321]

www.canadalandshow.com/amanda-lang-tried-sabotage-cbc-story-scandalized-rbc-who-paid-her/

[@borlach321]

ipolitics.ca/2016/09/11/mansbridges-millions/

[@iloveyouamberappel]

CBC is just as guilty of this

[@jibjabhamers8177]

22 minutes and ricks report are garbage. cbc must go!!!

[@blingbling574]

Eh there hoser, like your jacket, I got a green one like that. Mr. Trump going put some pain down on us. Is he right? Yeh, cause or leaders been acting like ##%%€££*^#|\, for a while now.

[@borlach321]

Nope, nothing wrong at the CBC.

[@sadlert]

Not a big fan of Trump, but Meryl Streep is the most overrated actor/actress of all time. Nothing fake about that - bad example Rick.

[@Redpatch]

Filthy normy.

[@wustenfuchs3285]

Trump 2020

[@NDBit]

Meryl Streep is overrated as an actress