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Previously on Red Pilled America.
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Oh also, I think I might be a conservative.
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Our first video went viral.
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Candace, Welcome to the show.
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It's a fan mouling you from Freedomain Radio here with Candace
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Owens.
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Candace Owens, Welcome to.
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The Rubin Report.
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Thank you.
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I'm so happy to be here right now.
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The conservatives, we're all courting the rising
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star.
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Black people don't have the same level of connections
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as Jewish people.
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It's like an ignorant compliment.
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Sonnie West to genius.
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I love the way Cannas souls.
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Thanks Kanye West.
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Please take a.
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Meeting with me.
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But let's not pretend that Kanye West is some sort of genius.
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I want to make America great
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in my own way.
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And Candace has facts she's researched.
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Is the candis You've just exploded onto the scene Kamye.
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Family Feud. Iven't Heard Part two?
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Stop and go back and listen. From the beginning,
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we're looking for the answer to the question what can
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we do to stop the spread of anti Semitism by
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telling the story of the epic conflict
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between Candiece OANs and the Daily Wire. So
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to pick up where we left off, by the end of twenty
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eighteen, Candice Owans had risen
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to a height of cultural relevance that few
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on the right had ever enjoyed. She'd struck
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up a friendship with a global superstar,
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the artist then known as Kanye West, and
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the two set out to convince Black Americans
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that they'd been used by the Democrat Party for
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decades. Establishment conservatives
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like Ben Shapiro were openly skeptical
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of their effort, as the duo saturated
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not only right wing media, but pop culture
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outlets as well. To formalize
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our mission, Candace launched Blexit,
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a movement to inspire the exit of African
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Americans from the Democrat Party. The
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one two punch of Kanye and Candace was
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inarguably a monumental moment
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for the black community. One of the biggest
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black artists on the planet teamed up
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with a rising black conservative woman to
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deliver a message that Democrats had been
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censoring for decades. It was an
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effort that would undoubtedly put them at risk of
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being ostracized from their community, but
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they did it anyway. The efforts were
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moving the needle in unprecedented ways,
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and that's why this Blexit movement had
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to be stopped or at least regulated.
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In late twenty eighteen, Candice
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Owens joined Charlie Kirk in the United
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Kingdom to launch Turning Point UK, the
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British arm of Kirk's Conservative advocacy
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nonprofit. At one of their events,
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an attendee expressed a fear of being called
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a nationalist for taking the patriotic
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stance on issues. Candace's
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response would lead to one of her biggest
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red hills yet.
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Yeah, I agree. I actually don't have any problems
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at all with the word nationalism. I think that
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the definition gets poisoned by
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laitists that actually want globalism. Globalism
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is what I don't want. So when you think about whenever
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we say nationalism, the first thing people think about, in
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at least in America is Hitler. You know,
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he was a national socialist. But if
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Hitler just wanted to make Germany great
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and have things run, well, okay, fine. The
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problem is is that he had dreams outside
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of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted
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everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German, everybody
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to look a different way. That's not to me. That's
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not nationalism. So I don't really
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have an issue with nationalism. I really don't. I think that
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it's okay. It's important to retain your
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country's identity and to make sure that what's
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happening here, which I think is incredibly
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worrisome in terms of just the decrease
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in the birth rate that we're seeing in the UK,
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is what you kind of want to avoid. So I'm not I have no problems
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with nationalism, it's globalism I try to avoid.
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Some of her history may have been a bit off,
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but to any honest observer, the crux
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of her message was true. Hitler's
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Nazi party was officially called the
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National Socialist German Workers
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Party, so in Candas's
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reasoning, it was Hitler's association
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with nationalism that gave the term
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a bad rap. When she made the
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statement in late twenty eighteen, no
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one gasped in the crowd. In fact, there
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wasn't even one condemnation from the audience.
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The journalists that were in attendance didn't write hit pieces.
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Weeks went by with not a single person
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expressing outrage over her comments.
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Well, the simple reference to Hitler in any
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terms that didn't start and end with monster
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was enough to give her opposition the required
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tools for an attack. Enter
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Media Matters, a far left nonprofit
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organization whose mission is to take down
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conservatives.
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In early February twenty.
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Nineteen, a writer from the organization
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took a snippet of Kandas's statement for months
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earlier and used it to suggest the Blexit
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founder was an anti Semite.
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It was an odd attack.
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The previous year, Candace joined Charlie
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Kirk in Israel to celebrate the opening
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of the US Embassy in Jerusalem. If
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she were an anti Semite, she wasn't a
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very good one.
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Well.
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Not long after Media Matters published their
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piece, uzzfeedstep in to amplify
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the hit job. The far left outlet
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mocked Candace running with the headline
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turning.
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Point has already lost one of its star recruits.
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And that's when the chorus of Jewish organizations
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piled on. The Jewish advocacy
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group. The ADL issued a statement
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as well.
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Hitler's murderous crimes against Jews and others
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were horrific, regardless of whether they occurred
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across Europe or in Germany alone.
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Hitler wasn't a globalist but a genocidal
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dictator.
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The American Jewish Committee took a few
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jabs as well.
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No, Candace Owens Hitler was actually
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really bad from the beginning.
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The Jewish Journal went with the headline ADL
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calls out Candace Owens over hitler comments.
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Forward, a Jewish nonprofit media
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outfit, claimed that Candace said that Hitler.
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Would have been fine if he stayed in Germany.
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A grossly inaccurate interpretation
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of her comments. The choir of attacks
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was curious. Everyone would have
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expected the far left media Matters
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and buzz Feed to purposefully misinterpret
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Candace's message, but the Jewish organization's
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doing it was puzzling given her association.
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She was speaking on behalf of Charlie Kirk's
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Turning Point USA, which has long
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been considered staunchly pro Israel. It
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appeared, like with Kanye's compliment a
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few years earlier, that these Jewish groups
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were attempting to put Candace on notice.
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The message being sent appeared to be strict.
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Adherence to a very specific narrative
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was required. Anything that colored
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outside the lines, even if by mistake,
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was not allowed. The
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reaction from Jewish organizations
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must have been a surprise to Candace, but
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they weren't done. One Jewish
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organization decided to punch below
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the belt. The Simon Weisenthal
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Center, a Jewish Holocaust remembrance
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organization, chastised the young
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Black Conservative, stating quote.
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Scope and depth of Candace Owen's lack
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of knowledge of basic history is appalling
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and frightening. Hitler's program
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to make Germany great was based on race
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and anti Semitism.
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It was pretty clear they were suggesting
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Candace Owens was an anti Semite. The
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striking thing about these attacks was the
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timing. The outrage didn't build
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over days, eventually forcing a statement
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from these organizations. Their condemnation
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of Candace all came within hours of the
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original post. It was almost
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as if it were all orchestrated.
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Well.
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The courus of pressure forced Candace to put
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out a video clarifying her statement, just.
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To clarify this, because I had about fifty
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emails from journalists reaching out asking for
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clarity. I was at an event in
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the UK and a question was asked, not
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about Hitler, and I think the person asked,
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how can we, as people that believe
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in the sovereignty of our nations avoid being
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called nationalists? And I thought
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the person was sort of implying that
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nationalism is a dirty word, and we see that a lot in
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America, that nationalism is sort of conflated
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with For some reason, Hitler like that the only
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interpretation and or the only understanding
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of the word nationalism that people seem
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to have in America as they instantly think of Hitler,
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and I think that that's really really wrong and that we
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have to almost correct the record on that.
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As Candace went on, she explained
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that in a time when globalism was spreading,
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strong leaders needed to stand up for American
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sovereignty. She expressed disgust
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with the source that amplified the hit job.
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It's just ridiculous.
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Me's buzzfeedes.
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She nede me be doing this video.
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It's so stupid.
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Before she was done, it became obvious
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that Candace wanted to make it crystal clear
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that she did not support Germany's World War
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II leader in any way.
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There's no excuse for or defense ever for
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everything, for everything that he did. I mean, obviously
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we've learned the lesson of what happened in Europe
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with national socialism, and it's something
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that will never come to America.
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Like Trump said that with all the attacks.
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In the end, Candace stood by her original
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statement.
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I stand by my statements, and that
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is that.
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Publicly Candice was projecting righteous
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indignation. Who wouldn't feel an
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injustice for wrongly being accused of anti
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Semitism, but it wasn't hard to see
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that something was going on behind her
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defiant facade. During her defense,
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she was at times uncharacteristically
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frantic.
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No, I'm saying Hitler wasn't a nationalist and
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if Hitler all only the
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only.
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Thing that She'd later confess that fear
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had swept over her.
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The firestorm, and I endured, I will tell you
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something personal. I was so stressed
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out by that event that I stressed
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myself into an autoimmune response,
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like my body was breaking down because I didn't understand
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what was happening. I had never in my entire life been
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accused of anti Semitism, and suddenly I was fighting
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for my career.
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For a simple, generally true statement.
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Her career was hanging in the balance.
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I was temporarily blacklisted from Fox
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News for having said this sentence,
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which suddenly again was pulled out of obscurity,
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and I quite literally was
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facing a threat that everything was going to
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be over, because how dare I say that?
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I have absolutely no right to say that.
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in February twenty nineteen, far
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left media and Jewish groups were suggesting
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Candace Owens was an anti Semite for
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a statement she'd made months earlier.
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The attacks appeared coordinated. In
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the middle of the firestorm, Candace says
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that a friend strongly suggested that
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she visit the leaders of one of the Jewish
12:46
outfits that condemned her, the Simon
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Weisenthal Center, a Holocaust remembrance
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organization. Candas says she took the
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suggestion and met with an old man
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from the Center.
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And there was this very strange
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meeting that occurred. I had to sit
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in a meeting and explain
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that I didn't think Hitler
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was a great person.
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When she was done with her explanation, the two
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men spoke amongst themselves.
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Now I want to be clear that I
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didn't understand the meeting because
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the individuals were speaking in Hebrew. My
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understanding going into it was that once
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I spoke to this individual, things
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would be clarified, and
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then I could just go on living
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and my reputation would pretty much be restored.
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And by golly, that's kind of what happened.
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And then my reputation was restored, or at
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least I was allowed to go on pursuing
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what I wanted to pursue, which was just
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talking about black Americans and the fracturing
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of the black and white relationship.
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The meeting with these Jewish elders somehow
13:44
reduced the heat on her controversy, but
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in the months and years that followed, Candace
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says she felt as if she was in effect
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under the thumb of an invisible hand in conservative
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media.
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The threats that candas could be over at
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any moment, for you, don't you get
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out of line again by saying
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something that you never actually said,
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but don't make us have to threaten you again.
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That I still always felt over me because
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it was just a very scary thing to go through.
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Being publicly accused of being hateful,
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especially when accused of being racist,
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homophobic, or antisemitic, is an experience
14:24
few have endured. There is a feeling
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of vulnerability when it happens.
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Most look to somehow shield themselves
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from similar attacks in the future. It
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appears Candace took this well traveled path
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enter conservative establishment godfather
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Dennis Prager Well.
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I was born in Brooklyn, New York,
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and I was raised in an Orthodox
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Jewish family, so I
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have a very strong grounding in religion
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and specifically of course, in the Torah.
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In two thousand and nine, political commentator
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Dennis Prager launched prager You, a
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story he told right here on Red Pilled America
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back in December nine. Where
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did the idea for prager You come from?
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Jim? Entirely from my dear
15:06
friend and the producer of my radio
15:08
show, Alan Estren. In the Indian
15:11
Ocean. I was on
15:13
one of my listener cruises. I've been
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taking listeners for twenty five
15:17
years on cruises around the world. This
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one was on the Indian Ocean,
15:22
and he just said to me, I
15:24
think we should start Prager University.
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Prager u's early funding came from the
15:29
fracking billionaires Dan and Ferris
15:31
Wilkes, known as the Wilkes Brothers.
15:33
Besides backing preger U, they were
15:35
heavy donors to Ted Cruz in his twenty
15:37
sixteen presidential bid. They also
15:40
gave the seed money for an upstart streaming
15:42
service called The Daily Wire, but more
15:44
about that later. Shortly
15:47
after her cleansing procedure at the Simon Weisenthal
15:50
Center, Candace aligned with prager
15:52
U. On February twenty eighth, twenty
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nineteen, it was announced that Candace
15:57
Owens was starting a podcast with the nonprofit
15:59
organized. Her first guest
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was Roseanne Barr, the comedian famous
16:04
for her late eighties sitcom Roseanne.
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Hey, everybody, welcome to the Candace
16:08
Owen Show, where you get my unfiltered opinions,
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and this one is definitely unfiltered.
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In her debut episode, Candace gave Roseanne
16:16
Barr a platform to explain the scandal behind
16:18
her ouster from a reboot of The Roseanne
16:20
Show almost a year earlier. In May
16:22
twenty eighteen, Roseanne was fired
16:24
from the show after suggesting President
16:26
Obama's former senior advisor, Valerie
16:29
Jarrett looked like a character in Planet
16:31
of the Apes. Jarrett is black.
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I've lost everything, and I said
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to God, I am
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willing to accept
16:40
what of her consequences the springs,
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because I've KNOWNE wrong.
16:44
A month after her canceling, Roseanne initiated
16:47
her apology tour by appearing on a podcast
16:50
with one of her close friends, a man named
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Rabbi Shmooie Botaak.
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You understand why this caused a lot of pain, Yes.
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I do.
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You know.
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It just makes me sick that I
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did it and that it was taken that
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light.
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Throughout the years, people have turned to Rabbi
17:05
Shmooe to cleanse themselves of
17:07
racist accusations. Singer Michael
17:09
Jackson famously sought his counsel when the
17:11
Icon was accused of anti Semitism by
17:14
providing Rosanna platform. In March twenty
17:16
nineteen, Candice was playing a similar
17:19
role, giving a cleanse to the Jewish
17:21
comedian for her past racial transgressions.
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At the time of that tweet, I was
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in the middle of a conversation about
17:29
the Iranian people for three months
17:31
on Twitter. Most of the reason I
17:33
ever went on Twitter was to defend
17:36
Jewish people and our
17:38
way of life and our thinking, and also
17:42
a new way of being in the Middle
17:44
East.
17:44
Razanne went on a long, meandering explanation
17:47
for why she compared Jarrett to the Planet
17:49
of the Apes and ultimately apologized
17:52
for the statement.
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What was horrifying about it to me was
17:55
the way that it was purposely mischaracterized,
17:57
and I was not allowed
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to playing it. I was never
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allowed to say what it was actually about
18:04
and what I meant.
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Candace did her part to explain Roseanne's
18:07
dilemma.
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Well, of course, not your conservatives. Yeah,
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that's not how it works. Conservatives
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don't get second chances. Conservatives don't get to apologize.
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Conservatives don't get to explain in a fuller form
18:20
on what they were talking about. You should know that those are the rules.
18:23
And nobody knew that Valerie
18:25
Jarrett was even ten percent black. Nobody knew that nobody
18:27
thought she was black. They just dug for something and
18:29
said, ha, we've got her.
18:31
What was perhaps most noteworthy was that
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Candace debuted her first talk show
18:35
on a Jewish run network with the defense
18:37
of a Jewish comedian giving her
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experience just weeks earlier over
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her nationalism comments. It appeared
18:44
to be a symbolic offering to the Jewish community.
18:48
In the months that followed, Candace went through some
18:50
major developments.
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Okay, guys, we are rolling into another episode
18:54
of The Candace Owen Show, and this
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one is a wedding special.
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No, I'm not talking about William and Kate or
19:03
Harry and Megan, I'm talking about me. I
19:06
am getting married this weekend.
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In August twenty nineteen, Candace
19:09
married a man named George Farmer. George
19:12
was in Oxford educated britt who got his
19:14
start running a hedge fund with his father. He
19:16
traded in base medals. George
19:18
would eventually get involved in politics,
19:21
and at its launch he was appointed chairman
19:23
of Turning Point UK. So when
19:25
Candace participated in the launch in late twenty
19:27
eighteen, during her infamous nationalism
19:30
comments, her and George cross paths.
19:32
It was apparently love at first sight, because
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a little over two weeks after they met, George
19:37
Farmer proposed the two would marry
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at the Trump Winery near Charlottesville,
19:41
Virginia, owned by Donald Trump's son
19:44
Eric Trump. Kanye did not attend.
19:46
By the time of her wedding, the artist had distanced
19:49
himself from Candace. It was rumored
19:51
that Kanye's in laws, the Kardashians,
19:53
were behind the distancing. Nevertheless,
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Candace was already a firm fixture
19:58
within the conservative movement. In the months
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that followed her August twenty nineteen wedding,
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she spoke on Capitol Hill.
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You know that white supremacy in white nationalism
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is nowhere near ranks, nowhere near the top of
20:09
the issues that are facing Black America. And
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the reason that you are bringing them up in this room
20:14
is because it is attempt to make
20:16
the election all about race as the Democrats.
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Why, mister chairman,
20:22
it's my time. At SEAPAC twenty twenty,
20:24
the Conservative Political Action Conference, she
20:27
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20:29
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20:30
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20:32
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20:35
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20:40
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20:43
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20:45
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20:47
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20:50
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20:52
war captives into labor. They would sometimes
20:54
sell their own children. They tortured others
20:57
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20:59
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21:02
was even the commonplace.
21:21
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21:23
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21:25
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21:28
she was also the perfect weapon to deliver
21:30
a tough love message to the black community.
21:33
Her life appeared to be calming down a bit,
21:35
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21:37
a few months, a chance arrest in Minneapolis
21:40
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21:42
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Welcome back to red Pilled America. So
22:48
By May twenty twenty, in less than
22:50
three years since our coming out video, Handis
22:53
Owens had risen to the upper echelons
22:55
of the political scene. The conservative
22:57
establishment loved what she was doing. She'd
22:59
be come the perfect weapon to deliver a
23:02
tough love message to the black community
23:04
and had grown accustomed to fielding the iire
23:06
of her brothers and sisters. But
23:09
a chance arrested in Minneapolis would raise
23:11
the anger directed at her to an entirely
23:13
new level. These pre
23:17
re On
23:20
May twenty twenty, a man
23:22
named George Floyd Junior died
23:24
while being arrested by Minneapolis police.
23:26
Get Get
23:33
Up, Get Right in
23:36
Minneapolis to I tensions are high, as four
23:38
police officers have been fired after a
23:40
man was pinned to the ground and died. The
23:42
incident was caught on camera.
23:44
The city of Minneapolis immediately erupted
23:46
in violence.
23:48
Overnighty Minneapolis on
23:50
fire.
23:55
There's the fire.
23:56
It does appear that that fire is a police
23:58
station.
23:59
Chaos Minneapolis streets for a fourth
24:01
night.
24:02
In the days it followed. The destruction quickly
24:04
spread to big cities all across America.
24:07
I have nowhere to go now.
24:09
This country is on fire. We
24:12
are facing an insurrection by people
24:14
that we don't quite understand who they are, but
24:16
by all indications they are violent
24:19
leftist thugs.
24:20
Like clockwork, politicians elbowed one
24:22
another out of the way to virtue signal and
24:25
support of George Floyd, including
24:27
the future Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.
24:29
The fact show that mister George Floyd
24:32
appears to have been the victim of murder,
24:34
and I personally don't believe that a close
24:36
review of the video can lead anyone
24:38
to any other conclusion.
24:40
But if you on the right had actually watched
24:42
this movie before and began asking
24:44
questions, Candace was one of
24:46
them. About a week after riots
24:49
erupted, Candace decided to take to Facebook
24:51
and dump a red pill on the block community.
25:00
I do not support George Floyd and the
25:02
media depiction of him as a martyr. It
25:06
was something that I wanted to say early on, but
25:08
there were so many emotions and
25:11
so much pressure for me to
25:13
go with a popular opinion.
25:14
About who George Floyd was.
25:17
And sometimes it can be difficult when there were just so
25:19
many external pressures to say what you believe in
25:21
This was an instance where I felt like my
25:23
silence would have been better. In the beginning, she.
25:26
Initially felt that being silent as the
25:28
riots erupted was the wise move and
25:30
people must remember the cultural landscape.
25:32
By June third, twenty twenty, the
25:35
country was literally on fire, with
25:37
violent riots breaking out in Minneapolis,
25:40
New York City, Los Angeles, Oakland,
25:42
Chicago, Georgia, practically
25:44
every urban enclave in America. The
25:46
social contract had been ripped to shreds.
25:49
Blacks were furious.
25:51
They saw with.
25:51
Their own eyes the video of Minneapolis
25:54
police officer Derek Chauvin placing
25:56
his knee on the back of the neck of George Floyd,
25:58
and it became the symbol of systemic racism
26:01
and law enforcement. The
26:09
entire mainstream media were raising
26:12
George Floyd up as a martyr. Almost
26:14
no one dared to claim otherwise. The
26:16
social pressure for public figures to
26:18
buy into that narrative was absolutely
26:21
enormous. But in the height of this outrage,
26:24
Candice began digging into George Floyd's
26:26
past. She initially stayed
26:28
back, waiting for more details to come
26:30
in, but when they did, staying quiet
26:33
was no longer an option.
26:35
I recently came across something that
26:37
was an idea that was planted into my head
26:39
by Shelby Steele, and it has been something
26:41
that I cannot forget.
26:44
Shelby Steele is a Black conservative
26:46
author.
26:47
Shelby Steele said that the Black
26:49
community is unique from other communities.
26:52
Our culture is unique from other communities
26:54
because we are the only community that
26:56
caters to the bottom denominator of our
26:59
society. Explain what that means. It
27:01
means to say that not every Black
27:03
American is a criminal, not every Black American
27:05
is committing crimes, but we are unique
27:08
in that we are the only people that
27:10
fight and scream and demand
27:13
support and justice for the people in our community
27:15
that are up to no good. You would be hard
27:17
pressed to find a Jewish person
27:19
who has spent five stints
27:21
in prison, who commits a crime and
27:23
dies while committing a crime, and
27:26
that the Jewish people champion and
27:28
demand justice for. You will be hard pressed
27:30
to find this in white America. You'll be hard pressed
27:32
to find this even in Latino America.
27:35
If there is a person that is spent
27:37
multiple times in prison, you are not going to see
27:39
a bunch of Latinos coming
27:42
out demanding justice
27:44
for this person, even if, and I want to be very
27:46
clear, what I'm saying is not any
27:48
defense for Derek Chauvin.
27:50
She believed the Floyd family should seek
27:52
justice in his case, but after looking at
27:54
his history, Candice couldn't believe that
27:56
he was being portrayed as a hero. She
27:59
went on to exc explaining her research into George
28:01
Floyd and what she found was not
28:03
being widely reported by the media.
28:05
George Floyd is being uplifted as an amazing
28:07
human being. First and foremost, George Floyd
28:09
at the time of his arrest was high on
28:12
fentanyl and he was high on methamphetamine.
28:14
Of this came back in both of his autopsy
28:16
reports. If you pursue the Nile
28:19
on one transcript, you can see the person describing
28:21
somebody who is out of their mind high,
28:23
which is what made the person fearful because he tried
28:26
to use a bill
28:28
that I guess was a fake bill to purchase something.
28:31
George Floyd had spent time in prison for
28:33
theft with a firearm, three stints in prison
28:35
for cocaine offenses, and he'd even robbed
28:37
a mother and her child at gunpoint, pointing
28:40
a gun at the mother's abdomen. A
28:42
neighbor was astute enough to get the license
28:44
plate of the getaway car, and George
28:46
Floyd was eventually arrested. He was
28:48
sentenced to five years in prison for that
28:50
horrific crime.
28:52
This was all news to most people, and.
28:54
Candace was delivering it at a highly volatile
28:56
time, a time when the black community
28:59
was lifting or George Floyd up as practically
29:01
Jesus on the cross. And it
29:03
was at this precise moment, when the black
29:05
community was out for blood for his death, that
29:08
Candice delivered the tough love message
29:10
that made her such a target within her
29:12
own community.
29:13
Let me tell you six percent of the population,
29:16
right, Black men, six percent
29:18
of the population, account for
29:20
forty four percent of all
29:22
murders in this country according to twenty
29:25
eighteen statistics. That is what you
29:27
call a gap. And yet white people,
29:29
white people, who represent sixty percent of
29:31
the population, represent fifty percent
29:34
of all the murders.
29:34
Right.
29:35
That makes no sense in a community where
29:37
we are extreme minorities, we
29:39
commit fifty percent of all violent
29:42
offenses.
29:42
Evenly split her Rant drew
29:45
the attention of conservative media, including
29:47
Glen Beck.
29:48
Is this really the guy that black
29:51
America? I mean, they were very careful
29:53
to pick Rosa Parks. Is
29:56
this the symbol of Black
29:59
America today?
30:00
I'm gonna say yes, it is a symbol of Black
30:02
America today. And it's a symbol of
30:04
a broken culture in Black America today,
30:06
and the people are not willing to talk about again
30:09
how we contribute to our own demise.
30:11
Conservative media loved her message,
30:14
but the black community felt as if she were stabbing
30:16
them in the back, including stand up
30:18
icon Dave Chappelle.
30:19
Why wouldn't one care with
30:22
the favorite comedian things after
30:25
they saw a police officer kneel on a man's
30:27
neck for eight minutes and forty
30:30
six seconds. I can't get that number
30:32
out of my head because it was my time
30:34
of birth on my birth certificate.
30:37
I was born at eight forty six in the morning,
30:39
and to kill us in eight minutes
30:42
and forty six seconds. I
30:44
watch everything everybody says. I think
30:46
Cannas Owens trying to convince white
30:48
America don't worry about it. He's a
30:51
criminal anyway. I
30:53
don't give what this did. I
30:55
don't care what this did. I don't
30:57
care if personally Canda
31:00
Solan's in her stinky.
31:04
I don't know what stinks, but I imagine it does.
31:07
By constantly bringing up uncomfortable
31:09
truth to the black community, Candace
31:11
was sacrificing in a way that few
31:14
in the conservative movement could match.
31:16
The constant attacks by her own people
31:19
appeared to earn the respect of the growing
31:21
streaming network, The Daily Wire, and
31:23
in September twenty twenty, she appeared
31:25
on The Ben Shapiro Show.
31:27
Candace Owens, thanks so much for joining the show.
31:28
Thanks for having me.
31:29
The show opened with Ben breaking some personal
31:32
news.
31:32
You told me this. I'm not giving anything away. You're pregnant.
31:35
Yeah, that is an amazing thing. That is a life changing
31:37
thing. How do you feel about that?
31:38
I'm excited. I mean, I'm really excited for that
31:40
next chapter of my life. And I would say in
31:42
terms of my political life, the stake's
31:45
still a bit higher in terms of where America
31:47
is going to go.
31:48
But the show eventually got to an area of contention
31:50
between the two conservative commentators,
31:53
that being the cultural moment that Ben had
31:55
initially marginalized.
31:56
So I need to ask you about the Kanye
31:59
issues. So we had a little bit of a head
32:01
of head on Twitter ye when Kanye
32:03
came out and he was supporting President Trump
32:05
and I said Live by the Kanye, Die by the Kanye, which mainly
32:08
me saying, you know, Kanye takes a lot of positions
32:10
on a lot of different issues, and you got a little
32:12
bit upset about that. It seemed, yeah, you know, with
32:14
Kanye.
32:14
I think what I was upset with was that so many people
32:16
were just dismissing him and calling him crazy, and
32:19
it's just not fair. I mean, I think I
32:22
like Kanye. Kanye's a friend, and Kanye
32:24
is a person that is a billionaire, and I
32:26
don't I would not take someone, you know, to
32:28
be like he's richer than both you and I sitting here combined.
32:31
Right, I'm assuming, I don't know, maybe you're a billionaire
32:33
and people keep taking him lightly and it's
32:35
been his entire life.
32:42
Candice addressed the elephant in the room. Unlike
32:45
other conservatives in media, her and Kanye
32:47
had taken an enormous risk in delivering
32:50
a tough love message to Black Americans.
32:52
No mainstream, gay, Muslim, White,
32:54
Asian, Latino, or Jewish conservatives
32:57
had criticized their own community in
32:59
the way that Candace and Kanye had with the Black
33:01
community.
33:02
Maybe I was emotional in my response because
33:04
it is it is so hard. You try being a
33:06
black conservative, amiss black Lives
33:08
matter right and go out
33:10
and say I support the president, and you will see how
33:13
you how you get treated right you it's easy.
33:15
You get called racist with us. It's there is
33:17
a it's ferocious. They want
33:19
you gone. I mean, they will accuse you of anything.
33:21
They want you gone. You get death threats, you get all
33:23
these horrible things. And here's a guy that's just saying I'm
33:25
no longer going to lie about who I support. Not
33:28
if you don't support him, you're a racist. And I
33:30
thought, this is this is productive. It's a good thing for
33:32
someone to say, I'm comfortable saying that I'm black
33:34
and I'm a conservative in the cultural realm, especially
33:36
because we know most Black Americans have their
33:39
eyes fixed culturally. That it just
33:41
sent a huge single that it's okay to
33:43
break away from the from the hive mentality.
33:46
So that was the nuance. He wasn't doing anything
33:48
that I found to be harmful.
33:49
After a very public critique of Kanye,
33:52
Ben Shapiro had come to Candas's way of
33:54
thinking on the issue.
33:55
So I actually agree that I think that it's actually a very important
33:57
thing that a Kanye West put on a Maga
33:59
hat and based he said, you know what, it's fine. I'm allowed to wear a
34:01
Maga hat. As someone who's been called a Jewish Nazi
34:03
for being a Republican, I certainly understand
34:06
the perspective of being inside
34:08
a minority group where it is considered verboten
34:11
to be on a different side of the
34:13
political aisle. So I'm very glad
34:15
that happened.
34:16
The two appeared to have buried the hatchet, and
34:19
it should be noted that on paper, Ben
34:21
and Candace were similar in at least
34:23
one way. Candace was a Black
34:25
Conservative in a community that was over
34:27
ninety percent liberal. Ben was a Jewish
34:30
Conservative in a community that, by
34:32
some estimates vote almost eighty percent
34:34
for Democrats. They'd become important
34:36
weapons within conservative politics, but
34:39
for different reasons. As Candace
34:41
and Ben's discussion continued, it looked
34:43
as if her appearance on the Ben Shapiro Show
34:46
was a bit of a test run to see how
34:48
these two egos would mesh, and
34:50
apparently Candace passed the test.
34:58
On election night, to the twenty the
35:01
Daily Wire co founder Jeremy Boring
35:03
broke some news.
35:06
And I think what you're doing is so important and the only
35:08
thing that would make it cooler is if you did it with us.
35:10
Me a woman joining the Daily Wire
35:12
team?
35:14
Yeah yeah, second man's
35:16
club, I said, if any woman were going to be
35:18
invited, it's you a company, Daily Wire.
35:21
I think one hundred percent
35:23
I would love to join the Daily Wire. I think
35:25
there is a lot of stuff we could do together. Should
35:28
we make it official on Election night?
35:30
America?
35:31
Am I joining a Daily Wire?
35:32
Is it real?
35:33
Ben Shapiro to you first?
35:35
Absolutely?
35:36
Let's and Andrew
35:38
Clayven, the man that would later claim
35:40
to have played a role in discovering Candice co
35:43
signed the offer.
35:44
Andrew, I've been I've been and lobbying
35:46
for this for many many years.
35:48
Aganda please come over, save us,
35:50
save us.
35:51
Oh my gosh. Well, then it is a
35:53
done deal on election night and
35:55
the results that come in good. Canda Owns
35:58
is coming to Nashville, baby, all right.
36:01
Candace Owens was set to join the burgeoning
36:03
streaming service. It was a big move
36:06
for everyone involved, but Candace
36:08
appeared to have no idea what she was stepping
36:10
into because the Daily Wire
36:12
had a very specific agenda that was
36:14
quietly in operation, one that was
36:17
at odds with everything that she represented.
36:20
Before it was all over, Candace would
36:22
find out that asking tough questions
36:24
in search for the truth was not really
36:26
in the Daily Wire's charter. The company
36:28
that claimed to be against cancel culture
36:31
actually had its eye on being the ones
36:33
with the power to cancel.
36:36
Coming up on Red Pilled America.
36:37
And Candace's expressed opinions
36:39
that I disagree with, opinions that I maybe
36:42
even very passionately disagree with in
36:44
some cases. But that's well with then her
36:47
right as an opinion host at The Daily
36:49
Wire.
36:50
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