‘Antisemite of the year’ Candace Owens was ridiculed and trolled on X by conservatives and leftists–after having a meltdown following a spoof headline from the satirical Babylon Bee. One of the highlights came when Kyle Mann, the Bee’s Editor-in-Chief, posted an AI-generated photo of a group of Chassidim, and joked that it was photo of a Babylon Bee staff meeting.
The wackiness began when Owens melted down on Monday and attacked the The Babylon Bee for an article aimed at her.
The Bee’s piece was entitled, “Candace Owens Horrified To Learn Christmas Was Started By Birth Of A Jew.”
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, “Everyone is just starting to see the agenda behind your “jokes”. Hope this helps.”
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???”
Mann replied, “It’s a conspiracy, we’re all out to get you.”
Don’t make me explain the joke again https://t.co/zUCrWVdsJh
— Kyle Mann (@The_Kyle_Mann) December 23, 2024
Owens continued her bizarre rants against The Bee, 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.
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.”
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