Far-right provocateur Candace Owens melted down on Monday and attacked the right-of-center, satirical website The Babylon Bee for an article aimed at her. Owens fuming at the website’s joke, led to its editor in chief doubling down and roasting critics online.
Far-right provocateur Candace Owens melted down on Monday and attacked the right-of-center, satirical website The Babylon Bee for an article aimed at her. Owens fuming at the website’s joke, led to its editor in chief doubling down and roasting critics online.
The Bee published a piece on Sunday titled, “Candace Owens Horrified To Learn Christmas Was Started By Birth Of A Jew.” Owens exited the Daily Wire after feuding with Ben Shapiro over Israel and antisemitism and has made headlines throughout 2024 for her attacks on Jews, including claiming that a “small ring” of Jewish people in Hollywood and DC are involved in a “sinister” plot. She ended the year being labeled the “Antisemite of the Year” by a right-leaning watchdog group, which warned “There is no psychotic rabbit hole too extreme for this poisonous hater.”
The Babylon Bee’s editor in chief Kyle Mann defended the article on X, writing, “I think maybe you just didn’t get the joke. Let me try to explain. It’s that Candace Owens was horrified to learn christmas was started by the birth of a Jew. Hope this helps.”
Owens replied to Mann, “Everyone is just starting to see the agenda behind your “jokes”. Hope this helps.”
Owens continued fuming at The Bee in additional posts, writing:
1) They never make jokes about Jews. That’s part of the feedback.
2) We aren’t asking for it to be censored. We’re asking for it to be funny. No one asked for Alec Baldwin to be censored on SNL. We just didn’t think he was funny and noticed he was sort of just an angry man
She later replied to another user, “Are we required to think the Babylon Bee is funny when they take so many shots at Christians and mock Mary and then go “it’s just a joke!”. We can take a joke, maybe their writers can learn to take an opinion. People simply aren’t finding them as funny as they used to be.”
The managing editor of The Bee, Joel Berry, responded to Owens’s posts, adding, “Candace Owens is really spending Christmas Eve melting down about a Babylon Bee joke.”
Mann further weighed in by sharing a quote from English author G.K. Chesterton, who is popular on the right, saying, “A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.” Mann went on to defend the article in a series of replies to angry X users, including one who wrote, “I’m kinda confused why the Bee pretends to be Christian when it’s run by a bunch of jews? The Daily Wire does the exact same thing. Why???”
