Candace Owens can't even tell a good lie. Far right personality busted using fake photo of 'drag queen'

 Conservative personality Candace Owens making a fascist fool of herself is as customary as a weekday. I am beginning to find it more and more difficult to be shocked by how low she stoops to grift the money. 

Still, girlfriend manages to pull a shock out of her cauldron every now and then. Like so:

Candace Owens says parents who take their children to drag queen story hour "are underqualified to have children. They should have their children taken away from them" pic.twitter.com/P5Bk3QIWqo

— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) June 16, 2022

Really Candace? I mean really? Let's go over this again. Drag Queen Story Hour is a perfectly innocent event enjoyed by kids and parents alike. Owens is simply trying to attach herself to the current right-wing moral panic about drag queens. It's simply another way people on her side of spectrum spook the gullible with lies about LGBTQ people supposedly wanting to harm children.

And what's more, Owens doesn't even try to tell a good lie as shown by this image:

The picture on the screen behind her is not from a Drag Queen Story Hour or any drag show. It is from a 2019 heterosexual burlesque show. Owens is simply the latest far right personality (aside from Babylon Bee editor Seth Dillon and FL Gov Ron Desantis's spokesperson Christina Pushaw) to use the photo to lie about Drag Queen Story Hour and drag queens in general.

Owens even verbally misrepresent the photo behind her as coming from a drag show starting at 1:40.

If folks used logic in this matter, they would ask if Drag Queen Story Hour and the like are so dangerous to kids, then why do right-wing personalities such as Dillon, Pushaw, and especially Owens have to lie to make that argument.

In their defense, logic has no place in the world of grifting, spooking, and clout chasing.

'Right-wing media furious over Biden administration effort to protect LGBTQ students' & other Thur midday news briefs

President Biden

Right-wing media furious over Biden administration effort to protect LGBTQ students from discrimination​ - Acting in scary coordination, they repeat the same lies over and over again. 

Drag shows are the latest battleground in the right wing anti-gay disinformation campaign about 'grooming' - One wonders who they will target next.

Fox Sports doesn't show 'Jeopardy' champ Amy Schneider throwing out first pitch - Typical. 

Chris Evans doesn’t mince words when asked about homophobes hating on ‘Lightyear’ - THANK YOU! 

Mass. commission recommends LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum, anti-bullying protections and training - Wonderful!

Video - Turning Point USA’s Drew Hernandez is obsessed with smearing LGBTQ people as 'groomers.' REALLY obsessed.

 

Editor's note - This is a special post because when I first saw the video, I had to post something about it. After read it, feel free to read  Did Libs of TikTok help set stage for white supremacist attempt to disrupt Pride event?, which was supposed to be tonight's only post before this guy showed up. 

 

From Media Matters:

The host of Turning Point USA’s daily show Frontlines, Drew Hernandez, has spent the first half of June targeting the LGBTQ community and Pride Month, referring to it as “groomer month” and calling LGBTQ people “mentally ill.” Publishing videos to TPUSA’s half a million-plus YouTube subscribers, Hernandez has called for parents who bring their children to Pride events to be arrested.

This video is like watching the camp classic Mommie Dearest.  You try not to laugh but its so ridiculous that you simply cannot help yourself. Hernandez's desire to scapegoat LGBTQ people as 'groomers' borders on obsession.  It's downright spooky.

Did Libs of TikTok help set stage for white supremacist attempt to disrupt Pride event?

Libs of TikTok (top picture), white supremacists who were arrested for trying to disrupt an Idaho pride event last weekend (second picture)

From Michael Edison Hayden of the Southern Poverty Law Center:

Right-wing influencers, including the pseudonymous, viral Twitter account “Libs of TikTok,” repeatedly drew negative attention to the Pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in its runup, setting the stage for white supremacists to target it. 

 Police arrested 31 members of the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front before they had a chance to descend on the crowd on Saturday, June 11, and charged them with conspiracy to riot, which is a misdemeanor. Had police not apprehended the Patriot Front members, the situation could have proven volatile. Before their arrival, people photographed other likely extremists who appeared to walk among the otherwise pro-LGBTQ crowd. 

 The conflict created by Patriot Front and other anti-LGBTQ agitators highlights the correlation between social media performers flagging targets to their right-wing audiences and the subsequent mobilization of extremists to act in response. An example of this trend is when Twitter influencers, including some high-profile hate figures, hyped election-related disinformation in the runup to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, setting the stage for what became an insurrection attempt. What happened in Coeur d’Alene, a city in northwest Idaho of roughly 50,000 people, functioned in a similar way, even if the players and setting are different. 

Out-of-state members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front and other extreme far-right figures could have chosen many different targets during Pride month. They homed in on an obscure event highlighted by Libs of TikTok.

The rest of this article should send alarms to us all as we celebrate Pride Month 2022. Libs of TikTok is a viciously homophobic site which encourages acts of prejudice under the lie that its protecting children from pedophiles.  What happened last week may just be a prelude. Libs of TikTok has gotten folks harassed and fired because of its lies  (such as the one about 'furries.') but  the white nationalist attack on a Pride event takes things to a new level.

Someone may get hurt.

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'Fox News spent more time attacking trans people and drag queens than it did covering second Jan 6 hearing' & other Wed midday news briefs

Fox spent more time attacking trans people and drag queens than it did covering the second January 6 hearing​ - That network is the main problem with this country right now. And it's not easily going away. 

Fox News ran a positive segment with a trans teenager. Other members of the right-wing media lost their minds. - I still don't trust Fox News. Not by a longshot. And as you can see, even when it tries to be fair (laugh), the network's 'buddies' bring the hate. 

How Pride organizers are responding to increased threats to LGBTQ events - Good for them because they are noting the threat and taking action. 

Everything You Need to Know About Brittney Griner's Russia Detainment - Major prayers that she is able to come home.

Conservative hypocrisy over gay kiss in Disney's 'Buzz Lightyear' explained in a few pictures

 So if I am to follow conservative logic, Disney movies which feature the following are okay:

Getting killed in a sword fight (Sleeping Beauty)

Falling to your death from a high cliff (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

Accidentally hanging yourself  (Tarzan)

Falling off of a tower into a lake of fire (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) Editor's note - this scene was cool as sh!t!

Getting ripped apart by hyenas (The Lion King)

Getting staked by a ship while also being electrocuted.

But a lesbian couple below from the upcoming Disney movie Buzz Lightyear is supposedly DANGEROUS for kids to see:

If  seeing gay couples isn't appropriate for kids, then what about all of those death scenes? 

Let's take it even further. I hear that conservatives are 'alarmed' because the lesbian couple in the movie kissed. 

Big deal. So did these Disney characters.

In reality, this isn't about the kissing. Shapiro and company are throwing tantrums because people will not abide by their archaic beliefs of LGBTQ people. Our lives are normal. They aren't weird and they shouldn't be treated like an x-rated feature. We have families and kids. And no one has any right to put us in a box. 

Any uncomfortability some people have with our lives is their problem. It's not our job to make them feel comfortable.

Editor's note - it also should be mentioned that Shapiro's conservative news website, The Daily Wire, is making a move into feature films and television. It's not farfetched to guess that Shapiro's pearl-clutching is also more about making money than protecting morals. Mining outrage is very lucrative.

'Targeting of Pride events follow months of escalating anti-LGBTQ lies from right-wing media' & other Tue midday news briefs

Targeting of Pride events follow months of escalating anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from right-wing media​ - Homophobes are going to get people hurt. It's a serious problem. 

Seattle Pacific Grads Use Pride Flags to Protest Anti-LGBTQ+ Policy - This was wonderful! I loved this! 

Today’s GOP isn’t the one that Marco Rubio bet his political career on - Nope. 

Commonwealth Games Pride House aims to provide safe space for LGBTQ athletes and activism - Good for them.