<p>Daily Wire host and author Candace Owens posted a video to her Instagram account on Friday fiercely responding to media smears over her commentary about the strict lockdown and COVID restrictions in Australia.</p>
<p>Outlets like The Guardian and The Sun ran with headlines that took Owens&#8217; commentary from her show &#8220;Candace&#8221; out of context in order to make it seem as if she called for the United States to &#8220;invade&#8221; Australia. The politico noted, in her monologue, that she was being facetious, underscoring her anti-interventionist beliefs but also decrying the dire conditions Australians are facing relative to other places the U.S. has deployed troops to, namely Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Owens said in the video that she plans on having her lawyers reach out to The Guardian over their &#8220;full lie,&#8221; noting of the U.K.&#8217;s libel laws.</p>
<p>&#8220;The U.K. has very strong libel laws, and you can&#8217;t just lie like that. And I want a full retraction,&#8221; the BLEXIT founder said. &#8220;To pretend that I was not joking, when I quite literally said, &#8216;I say that in jest&#8217; &#8212; it&#8217;s demonic, it&#8217;s satanic.&#8221;</p>
<p>A misleading headline from The Guardian, published Thursday, said, &#8220;Rightwing pundit Candace Owens suggests US invade Australia to ‘free an oppressed people.’”</p>
<p>The Sun ran with a similarly misleading <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/3903433/candace-owens-us-invade-australia-tyrannical-lockdown/">headline</a>, &#8220;Firebrand host Candace Owens calls on US to INVADE Australia to free people from ‘tyrannical’ Covid lockdown.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The AUDACITY of Twitter and [The Guardian] to run with a FULL LIE of a headline that I suggested America should invade Australia,&#8221; Owens captioned her Instagram response video. &#8220;I am in full dragon mode right now.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Are you awake yet?! Do you see the evil?&#8221; she added. &#8220;Do you understand there is value for these evil globalists in your perpetual state of fear?&#8221;</p>
<p>Continuing her commentary in the video, Owens said the media smear is part of the &#8220;reason that this world is so divided, it&#8217;s the reason why everywhere in the world people are being impoverished and imprisoned by their governments, who have launched a war against their own people.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an information war,&#8221; she emphasized. &#8220;They are lying to you about what is happening everywhere. They are lying to you about your own body, right? You don&#8217;t even trust your own body anymore. People are afraid when anyone sneezes. Because the government has launched a war, a propaganda war, a psychological war against its own people. Because fear gives them more power. That&#8217;s the truth.&#8221;</p>
<p>During her monologue for &#8220;Candace,&#8221; Owens said, &#8220;For the last 20 years, the United States has spent trillions of dollars overseas in Afghanistan for a war, which we lost, by the way,&#8221; adding that the goal was to &#8220;spread democracy&#8221; and &#8220;free an oppressed people.&#8221;</p>
<p>“So I’m going to ask those same lecturing politicians and media members a question – when do we deploy troops to Australia? When do we invade Australia and free oppressed people who are suffering under a totalitarian regime? When do we spend trillions of dollars to spread democracy in Australia? &#8230; Of course, I say that in jest.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">If you want an exercise in how journalists ruthlessly lie—please examine the <a href="https://twitter.com/guardian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@guardian</a> current headline claiming that I suggested we “invade Australia”, absent my following sentence, “I say that of course, in jest”. </p>
<p>Why the rush to lie? Because I told the TRUTH. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeAustralia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FreeAustralia</a> <a href="https://t.co/CsAY17ahVv">pic.twitter.com/CsAY17ahVv</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1451560125370667009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2021</a></p></blockquote>

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