MEDIA LOSER: Candace Owens Conservative commentator Candace Owens has made herself part of the Ukraine news for a second time in less than a week with her contention on Tuesday that the United States is to blame for Russia’s invasion. "WE are at fault," wrote Owens in a tweet that went viral in a very bad way. Russian President Vladimir Putin's long-winded, ahistorical speech on Monday he blamed America for a laundry list of complaints before giving himself a reason to invade Ukraine. It echoed remarks during a staged meeting with the Russian Federation Security Council that featured dozens of sharp condemnations of the United States as puppet master and aggressor. All that revisionist history and anti-American sentiment found a fan in the Daily Wire’s Owens. “I suggest every American who wants to know what’s *actually* going on in Russia and Ukraine, read this transcript of Putin’s address,” said Owens in a quote retweet. “As I’ve said for month— NATO (under direction from the United States) is violating previous agreements and expanding eastward. WE are at fault.” The link misidentified which Putin remarks were therein transcribed but Putin’s complaints about the United States were the central premise, and it was that which Owens highlighted for emphatic agreement. The backlash was swift, harsh, and by no means limited to any single sector of the political spectrum. Donald Trump has been praising Putin, and so have some other right wing talkers, even blaming Joe Biden for "provoking" Putin. But Candace Owens took it to another level. Linking to a doctored transcript direct from the Kremlin, Owens drank in the anti-American propaganda and spit it back out on Twitter as a direct attack on her country, and then doubled and tripled down, including questioning the nation's motive in past, unspecified conflicts. It was ugly, ill-informed, gullible, rankly hypocritical, and her response to the fierce backlash reeked of desperation. |