A conference of clowns |
From the moment you saw the speaker lineup at Turning Point USA’s year-end conference, the biggest national event for the organization since the assassination of its founder, Charlie Kirk, you could see the trouble waiting to happen.
No, the group did not book podcaster Candace Owens, who has spun a seemingly endless variety of conspiracy theories around Kirk’s killing, insisting that the alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, was merely a pawn of larger, more sinister forces. (In early October, Owens claimed that Kirk appeared to her in a dream and told her “that he was betrayed.” It is very difficult to corroborate her sources.)
But Turning Point did invite big-name podcasters such as Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, who have steadfastly refused to utter a critical word about Owens’s unhinged rants and unfounded accusations.
In late September, Kelly posted on X, “If you need me to condemn Candace or Tucker for their opinions in order to listen to me, then I may not be for you.”
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And in a Nov. 12 interview with British journalist Harry Cole, Carlson said of Owens’s conspiracy theories, “The whole ritual of, ‘You know this person. This person said something I don’t like. In order to be a good person, you........