Why right-wing media can't stop Candace Owens

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Why right-wing media can’t stop Candace Owens
Erika Kirk’s defense of herself gets drowned out by “Bride of Charlie” documentary

By Sophia Tesfaye
Senior Writer
Published March 4, 2026 9:00AM (EST)


(Salon) The conservative media machine is currently discovering, to its evident horror, that it has no idea how to shut one of its biggest creations. Candace Owens was handed a megaphone by the late Charlie Kirk, feted by Donald Trump and praised by Focus on the Family as one of “the many Black giants of the conservative movement.” Now she is being called a vampire and a schizophrenic by the very people who built her platform. And she keeps growing.

With Kirk’s assassination at a Turning Point USA event in Utah last September, the MAGA movement faced a genuine tragedy. His widow, Erika Kirk, stepped in to lead the organization. But within weeks, before the grief had even begun to settle, Owens began publicly questioning the circumstances of Kirk’s killing and spinning conspiracy theories on her podcast. As a former TPUSA communications director — she resigned in 2019 after praising Adolf Hitler — Owens knew her voice had special resonance. What started as insinuation soon metastasized into a serialized spectacle: “Bride of Charlie,” a multi-episode YouTube series targeting Erika Kirk personally.

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In the series, which is still ongoing, Owens hints that Kirk’s murder was an inside job, suggests foreign agents may have been involved and implies that Erika Kirk has “ulterior motives” in leading TPUSA. She questions minor inconsistencies in divorce paperwork from Erika Kirk’s first marriage and ancestral records to dispute Kirk’s narrative that she was primarily raised by a “strong, independent single mother.” Owens also speculates about hidden Jewish connections and shadowy Romanian networks to imply that powerful “Zionists” orchestrated the assassination to prevent Kirk from challenging Israel policy.

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But the real reason right-wing media cannot stop Candace Owens is that they built her. And, more importantly, they built the engine that fuels her: the machinery of conspiratorial media, which is immune to the tools that might once have contained it. ......................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/03/04/why-right-wing-media-cant-stop-candace-owens/

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1. Nice expose' of Candace Owens. But, honestly, NOW DO Erika Kirk (and the reality behind Charlie)

Why the hell progressive writers only want to take one side of the exploding MAGA movement against the other, escapes me. There truly is NO good side of that movement.

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2. Almost sounds more like a fight over who will lead that organization.

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3. Lunatic MAGA person? I'm shocked! Shocked!!

Opps, meant I'm laughing my ass off.