Andrew Bolt: Candace Owens vomits obscene conspiracy theories yet many commentators on the Right won’t call her out

Normally, I’d insist free speech be free, believing free speech also let us prove a crank was a crank. But I’ve become scared and pessimistic.

Damn! Tony Burke has exposed me as a free speech hypocrite by banning American internet troll Candace Owens from Australia.

I know the Home Affairs Minister laughs at having snookered me, but Owens makes me sick.

She – with Tucker Carlson – represents a malignant new force on the fringe Right just as toxic as the far Left, and with some identical targets. Like the Jews.

Andrew Bolt writes that he has been exposed as a free speech hypocrite.

Owens has 6.2 million followers on Instagram plus 5.4 million YouTube subscribers to her podcast, where she vomits obscene conspiracy theories.

She insists Brigitte Macron, the French president’s wife, is actually a man. (The Macrons are suing.)

The moon landing is a likely fake. Lenin and Stalin were Jews. The Nazis’ infamous medical experiments on Jews were exaggerated. Judaism “believes in child sacrifice”.

Owens claims I criticise her just because she’s black (conspiracy!), but Burke last year banned her speaking tour as she had “controversial views leading to increased hostility and violent or radical action”.

Candace Owens vomits obscene conspiracy theories to her millions of social media followers. Picture: Getty

Owens appealed, but the High Court on Wednesday backed Burke.

Normally, I’d insist free speech be free, believing free speech also let us prove a crank was a crank.

But I’ve become scared and pessimistic. Reason seems dead on the Left and far Right, and extremists march shamelessly on our streets, as if this were 1933 Berlin or Gaza City. I no longer trust free speech to save Australia.

Indeed, since Burke first banned her, Owens has become even crazier and more popular.

She was once an ally of Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk, assassinated last month for simply arguing his Christian principles on university campuses, eloquently and politely, inviting his critics to prove him wrong.

Charlie Kirk was assassinated last month. Picture: Getty

But Owens has turned even Kirk’s murder by (allegedly) a transsexual lover into a freak show. She’s variously insinuated Kirk was murdered by Jews, by a US “federal conspiracy”, by people flying from France, by a death cult involving bees, and by Turning Point staff themselves.

Yet many commentators on the Right won’t call out Owens or Putin-promoting Carlson, I assume for fear of their huge audience.

US President Donald Trump has at least distanced himself from Owens, but is still too close to Carlson.

If you like hearing evil, nothing stops you from still listening online to Owens and Carlson.

But at least Australia has sketched a line in the quicksand.

Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Candace Owens vomits obscene conspiracy theories yet many commentators on the Right won’t call her out