David Strom:
Candace Owens used to be a thing. She is smart, gorgeous, an outspoken conservative, and bat excrement crazy.
She has always been out there, of course, but more as a provocateur than a nutcase. Her outspoken advocacy and willingness to take on the race-baiters raised her profile so much that she landed a spot at the prestigious Daily Wire--a position she forfeited when she became an outspoken conspiracy theorist on the issue of Israel.
She claimed that her ouster was driven by her opposition to US support for Israel's war in Gaza, but things are more complicated than that. Matt Walsh is a skeptic, tending toward isolationism and a Fortress America stance, and his perch is safe as one of the company's most visible and popular hosts.
The problem was that Candace's advocacy veered perilously close to antisemitism. I can't see into her heart, so I won't comment on that, but her hatred for Israel is manifest. Her position seems closer to Israel Last than America First, and that was incompatible with the editorial stance of the Daily Wire, as was her increasing hostility to Ben Shapiro, not just his opinions.
Candace is big mad that the Israeli and American strikes on Iran's nuclear weapons program have made it less likely that she'll be able to watch a nuclear attack on Tel Aviv.
# posted by Ranger @ 1:47 PM
