Posted on 03/22/2024 9:53:37 AM PDT by jimwatx
The Daily Wire and controversial right-wing commentator Candace Owens parted ways on Friday, according to CEO Jeremy Boreing.
“Daily Wire and Candace Owens have ended their relationship,” announced Boreing on X.
Owens’s departure comes after months of tensions between her and Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro over her promotion of various anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
After the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel and outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip, Owens quickly emerged as a critic of Israel’s military operations, promoting falsehoods about supposed religious segregation in Jerusalem and all but accusing Israel of genocide.
In the months since, Owens has lashed out against “political Jews” and theorized about a “small ring” of “sinister” Jews exerting influence in Hollywood and Washington, D.C..
Most recently, she liked a tweet promoting the blood libel that Jews drink Christian blood as part of certain religious ceremonies, as Mediaite reported on Monday.
In November, Boreing had insisted that Owens was “paid to give her opinion,” and that until her opinion violated the law or the terms of her contract, she would be “welcome at Daily Wire.”
But that defense of Owens came before any of her more recent and more brazen comments.
Amidst renewed attention on her anti-Semitic comments this week, Owens has doubled down. After the Anti-Defamation League noted that infamous white supremacist Nick Fuentes had been praising Owens for her rhetoric, Owens said she was “grateful” that the organization had “turned their smear merchant guns on me.
“The world already knows my heart. Their attacks will have the opposite desired effect. Awaken world,” she wrote on X.
Owens responded to her departure on X shortly after Boreing’s announcement by declaring that she was “finally free” and soliciting donations.
She started a Locals channel (Rumbles paid subscription branch)
Seems like she’s taking the Steven Crowder route and will go independent
Owens has been a disappointment. Too often she lets her mouth overstep her mental ability.
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Not too surprising
I like Candace. Going it alone beats being smeared by the likes of Ben. Can’t stand his arrogance.
Yeah she’ll go independent and has enough supporters that will fund her. And she’ll probably sue the Daily Wire for breach of contract. But this just exhibits the chasm on the Right between the American Firsters (Candace) and the Israel firsters (Shapiro).
Can someone explain her appeal to me? She was a garden variety leftist until she found that being a token female conservative of color brought in the Benjamins. She is shrill, shallow, and comes across as insincere. Dont get the appeal.
I have a love/hate relationship with both of them.
I may not agree with everything Owens believes but she is correct when she says, a “small ring” of “sinister” Jews exert (disproportional) influence in Hollywood and Washington, D.C."
If the ADL and Uncle Leo's of this world are offended by this assertion, they deny reality and they can pound sand!
What? I have a hard time believing she said all that.
What do you mean by ‘over-represented’? They seek opportunity and work hard to succeed. Do you want to see ‘quotas’ on the hiring of Jews?
Is no one going to mention the butt plug peddlin’ rabbi?
To me it sounds like the same old ‘International Jewish Conspiracy’ propaganda.
So ridiculous, there is no sense to liking or retweeting this kind of nonsense. Just makes her look like a fool.
“You shall not partake of the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Anyone who partakes of it shall be cut off” (Leviticus 17:13-14)
She was feuding with not only Shmuley but another rabbi who came on her show the other day. I’ll say one thing, she’s not afraid of confronting her detractors and giving her opinion on things no matter who it might offend.
I get ya.
I think they’ve taken what she’s said out of context. Keep in mind this comes from a leftist media source who hate Candace.
Of course not. The idea is only to make Candace look bad.
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