By: Rich Lowry - nationalreview.com - November 11, 2025

This is next-level lunacy. THERE’S been a lot of conversation about Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes lately, but everyone should spare a thought for Candace Owens. On her eponymous podcast, Candace, the crackpot influencer has been conducting an “investigation” into what happened to Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University that is another symptom of how far off the rails a segment of the right-wing media ecosystem has gone. (Owens is too foolish even for Fuentes, who says she defines “low-IQ antisemitism,” although Carlson has her on his podcast for friendly interviews.) The Owens probe is about as serious and likely to bear fruit as O. J.’s attempt to find the real killer of Nicole Simpson. According to Owens, who once worked with Kirk at Turning Point USA, what obviously didn’t happen is that Tyler Robinson shot Kirk in the neck with a rifle at relatively close range from the roof of a building with a clear line of sight to Kirk after fulminating about the activist and podcaster being a hater. To see this article in its entirety and to subscribe to others like it, please choose to read more. Source: The Malevolent Brilliance of Candace Owens | National Review