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Continued: In a recent podcast, Owens began by telling her audience about an “interesting tip” her team received about “an old man talking to a bush” during the Turning Point USA campus event where Charlie Kirk was killed.

“Bush did 9/11, but did Bush [shrubbery] do 9/10?” she jokingly asked, implying that this man could somehow be involved in the murder of Kirk.

Owens claimed that she initially disregarded the tip until she uncovered that the identity of this individual was Burton ‘Butch’ Hibbs, the brother of Calvary Chapel Pastor, Jack Hibbs. Suddenly, the man allegedly “talking to a bush” became much more interesting to Owens—who recently began a smear campaign targeting Calvary Chapels. Now, what’s compelling is really that, just like every other one of these new age Turning Point pastors, the Hibbs are from a military family,” she stated. “Butch Senior was in the Navy. What he did in the Navy is unclear, but I’m interested. I’m just really interested.”

Owens didn’t shy away from implying that Jack Hibbs and other Calvary Chapel pastors were “involved in this Utah story”—meaning Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Jack Hibbs was a close friend and advisor to Charlie Kirk. But apparently, his brother’s attendance at the event and his father’s military background are evidence enough that he played a role in Kirk’s death. This is truly the height of absurdity.

“There’s just a lot happening here, is all I want to say,” she added. “And I find it to be odd. There’s a picture emerging here.”

A Zionist Military Operation?

What is Candace Owens’ real problem with Calvary Chapels? They stand with Israel, whom Owens hopelessly attempts to link to the murder of Charlie Kirk.

After his death, Owens sought to cast doubt on the Turning Point USA Founder’s love for the Jewish State—a claim quickly refuted by the mountains of online content and statements where Kirk vocally declared himself to be a zionist (an individual who believes the Jews have a historic and God-given right to the land of Israel). Kirk surrounded himself with like-minded individuals who shared his Biblically founded love for Israel, many of whom were present at the event on the day of his death. Wow, Candace! You really did unearth something shocking, didn’t you?

Common sense clearly is not Owens’ preferred narrative. According to Owens, it was Israel and the Jew-loving Calvary Chapel preachers whodunit!

The preposterous allegations didn’t stop there. Owens went on to call Calvary Chapels an invention of the military, created to carry out a “psychological operation” to garner support for Israel.

“I am wondering about these new age pastors. Like, is that what everybody does when they leave the military, they start a church?… Or are we looking at an operation? That’s the question that I have,” she alleged to the audience. “If you are a part of Calvary Chapel anywhere, I would just wonder if your pastor just came from the military, and if he’s from a high-ranking military family.”

“Did the military execute an operation, a psychological operation on the American people to get us to support Christian Zionism after World War II?” Owens stated. “Kind of the question that I think is hanging in the air right now.”

For the sake of time, I am going to move on from the statement branding Jack Hibbs and other Calvary Chapel Pastors as “new age.” Either she is attempting to redefine the term, or more likely, her lack of theological understanding has rendered her ignorant of what it means.

Is This What We Are Calling Journalism Today?

Owens treated the podcast episode as a citizen-journalism type investigation, where the viewers are “in it together,” sending in tips to uncover the truth. Of course, this isn’t journalism by any stretch of the imagination—and the goal was not to pursue the truth. The podcast desperately strung together unverified theories from across the internet, outlandish exaggerations, and reckless speculation.

As the late Dr. Chuck Missler—who was also a zionist closely affiliated with Calvary Chapel—often stated: “torture the data long enough, and it will confess to anything.”

Candace, you tortured the data in front of millions of viewers, trying to make it confess to your delusional anti-Israel ideology—and you certainly did not come across as hard-hitting or remotely respectable. Watching the podcast, a person could easily picture you with a cluttered wall in your basement, covered with images of your “zionist enemies” and a vast, confusing web of strings pinned in every which direction.

Owens calls it journalism; others might call it gross negligence and defamation. The manipulation of data was intentional, aimed at tarnishing others’ reputations with little regard for facts.

To be fair, even the most well-known news media organizations have done away with journalistic standards when it comes to Israel and its supporters—similarly weiving conspiracies and blood libels.

What makes Owens’ so-called “investigation” all the more shameful is her insistence that she is a Christian defending the truth. Unfortunately, just as she tortures the data surrounding Israel and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, she applies the same method to the Bible, striving to make it also confess to her madness.

While intentionally misrepresenting the actions of individuals could place her in court one day, intentionally misrepresenting God’s Word—without repentance—will land her before a very different judgment seat.

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1 posted on 11/23/2025 4:42:11 AM PST by cuz1961
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In decades past, intellectual heavyweights like Buckley policed the flanks of the conservative movement to keep idiots like her out and put some distance between us and others of her ilk. Alas, no more.


2 posted on 11/23/2025 4:45:31 AM PST by nwrep
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Jack Hibbs And Calvary Chapel
are Rock-Solid ✝️✝️🙏🙏🛐🛐


3 posted on 11/23/2025 4:48:08 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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??????? Is she doing drugs??? SMH.


4 posted on 11/23/2025 4:49:00 AM PST by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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Candy ass must not have seen the recent hit movie staring Kelsey Grammer , The Jesus Revolution , that documents the founding of Calvary Chapel.

I came to Christ in this revolution. In a home Bible study group.
I had no idea the same thing was happening all over our country.
One of the greatest evangelization event in this nations history .

We weren’t then , and are not now

agents of Israel and mossad.

The attacks on my home church , by preterists in general and candy in particular is ,despicable and disgusting and hateful.

Shame on them.


5 posted on 11/23/2025 4:52:56 AM PST by cuz1961
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new age pastors.
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This chick is quit the weasel.

New age is a term to describe old pagan cults being practiced again in our time.

Calvary is not only not “ new age” , it teaches against paganisms in all its forms.

That Candice would stoop to conflate “ new age” with Calvary Chapel is the heighth of intellectual dishonesty .

Or ignorance.

Or malice.

Shame on her .


6 posted on 11/23/2025 4:57:31 AM PST by cuz1961
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Because of her paranoia, Calvary Chapel pastors will now have to ramp up their church security. It’s sad watching her become mentally unhinged over the years. God help her.


10 posted on 11/23/2025 5:06:04 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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Owens is a very sick and dangerous cult leader. She woke up on the anniversary of the JFK assassination and decided to make up a ridiculous story about the French ordering HER assassination. Deranged narcissist. But millions of her followers believe every word and Twitter is awash with hundreds of thousands of tweets demanding Tulsi Gabbard “investigate.”


14 posted on 11/23/2025 5:27:46 AM PST by montag813
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Candace Owens is still on something bad Jim.


15 posted on 11/23/2025 5:28:13 AM PST by Vaduz (?.)
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I find it to be odd

Yeah, I find it to be odd about YOU, Candace.

Glad I never went all in on her stuff.

16 posted on 11/23/2025 5:28:27 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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She’s a nutcase. She was a dem until she found it to her personal advantage to act like a republican.

She pounced on Charlie Kirk’s passing to take advantage of that too. That’s just who she is.

She’s doing all she can to salvage her career.


17 posted on 11/23/2025 5:34:37 AM PST by boycott
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I have come to assess Candace Owens‘ presented topics separately, not dismissing everything she presents as a whole. I am paying attention to specific issues, and listening to her as well.

Just saying…


18 posted on 11/23/2025 5:40:14 AM PST by OldCountryBoy (You can't make this stuff up!)
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She’s taking on the WRONG pastor.


21 posted on 11/23/2025 6:27:50 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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Calvary Chapel East Coast here.

I can assure you there are no nefarious schemes or
messages being propigated by Calvary Chapel or their pastors. Just the Gospel message being proclaimed from
the pulpit each and every Sunday.

I pray Ms. Owens finds the Truth in this lifetime. She
will need it in the next.


24 posted on 11/23/2025 6:54:10 AM PST by big truck ("This space intentionally left blank.")
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Continued: In a recent podcast, Owens began by telling her audience about an “interesting tip” her team received about “an old man talking to a bush” during the Turning Point USA campus event where Charlie Kirk was killed.

So G-d and Moses were in on it?

No wonder no one knows where Moses' grave is! He never died, and has spent all these millennia lowering moral standards and secretly running Communism!

25 posted on 11/23/2025 7:04:14 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ)
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others might call it gross negligence and defamation.

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I will be watching John Haller’s prophecy update

https://www.youtube.com/@FellowshipBibleChapel

to see if he comments on this today.

John is a pastor, but in his day job he is a lawyer.

Pretty sure he isn’t a military psy op specialist /-)

And neither was Chuck Smith who founded Calvary Chapel in the early 70’s.

Not quite

” just after WW2 “
as Candice spins it.


26 posted on 11/23/2025 7:24:56 AM PST by cuz1961
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Thanks for posting this.


30 posted on 11/23/2025 7:33:23 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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”an old man talking to a bush”

That sounds like one of the original Zionists! Calvary Chapel members frequently quote from a book filled with Jews.

These could be the Christian Zionists that Tucker warned about.

32 posted on 11/23/2025 7:39:05 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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Candy is getting into the Twilight zone.


36 posted on 11/23/2025 8:04:55 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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She wasn’t making enough money with Daily Wire so she took whatever fame she had from her days of being a successful conservative and went to the fringe where Tucker Carlson and Meghan Kelly hang out. She is trying to make a few bucks and I hope she puts some of it away for the inevitable future of obscurity that she is heading into.


41 posted on 11/23/2025 8:49:09 AM PST by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words? )
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I don’t want to alarm anyone but I’ve been tipped off by a high level employee of the French government that they hired Candace Owens to kill Charlie Kirk and now she’s coming to kill me. She’s doing it on behalf of Israel. I hope President Trump sees this.


43 posted on 11/23/2025 9:16:49 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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