Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, the U.S.S. Liberty, or How to Beat a Dead Horse Until it Stops Complaining

Andrew Benjamin | May 19, 2025

U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE: “The brutal assault left 34 men dead and 171 wounded—two out of every three men on board were either killed or injured. In addition to the torpedo hole, which measured 24 feet tall by 39 feet wide, naval investigators later counted 821 shell holes, a figure that did not include machine-gun rounds and shrapnel holes, which were deemed simply “innumerable.” The 67-minute attack would prove to be the bloodiest assault on a U.S. ship since World War II, one best described by Patrick O’Malley, a Liberty ensign at the time. “There wasn’t any place that was safe,” he recalled. “If it was your day to get hit, you were going to get hit.”

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FEIGNED SINCERITY

Tucker Carlson taught her well. Candace Owens’ executes Oscar-winning performances of feigned sincerity even better. Hardly in need of microscopic examination, the two pundit’s stories constitute deliberate imbalance, historical revisionism and propaganda (such as Tucker’s takes on Ukraine and Russia you can find in the search bar above – just punch in the words “Ukraine” and/or “Tucker”). The narratives unwind as nothing more than disguised malice expressed as legitimate historical and political analysis.

Along with their co-religionists Ye, Pedro Gonzales and Nick Fuentes, Owens and Tucker have elevated feigned sincerity to an art form. And the notion that yes, there are “good Jews,” maybe, and they used to work as Sondercommandos.

One can only respect their enviable talents of which, not so farfetched perhaps, Joseph Goebbels would have been envious. Hardly surprising if one followed the predictable patterns, the three cited were guests on one or the other pundit’s channels.

JEWISH-AMERICANS LEAD THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

JEWS, 2% OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, CONSTITUTED 2/3RDS OF WHITES IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Ironically, the very same kind who despise the Jews are one and the same. They detest Owens’ race even more. For example her “pretend friends” cited above in the White Power movement (in which Pedro Gonzales and Nick Fuentes consider themselves white, and blond blue-eyed Jews are – in their brown eyes – coloreds.)

Moreover, the very Jews this smug lowlife reviles were the most committed to freeing Owens’ people from slavery and during the 60s civil rights movement. Accordingly, it took a special kind of unselfawareness for this vain creature from THE EXORCIST to speak with the straight face of feigned sincerity.

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THE BACK STORY

In the fog of war, Israel attacked a U.S. intelligence ship disguised as a cargo vessel. It looked like an Egyptian ship for which Israeli forces were on alert. Just beforehand the United States informed Israel that there was no U.S. intelligence gathering in the area. The evidence is documented below.

Israel was under the impression that the Liberty was an Egyptian spy ship masquerading as an American vessel. After all, we’ve never heard of enemy spies having been outfitted with the uniforms of our own, have we?

34 American sailors died and more were injured as a result of friendly fire in the middle of a war in which Israel was fighting for its very survival. Realizing the fatal error made by commanders under not small pressure to stay alive themselves, shortly IDF warships came by with bullhorns to offer help. The Liberty’s commander declined the Israelis’ offer. Rather, it behooved him to revise the story sixty years later.

And there’s Candace’s justification for calling on other malevolents with her derangement to hate Israel and all of the Jewish people.

Even the United States’ navy refused to assist by its own admission! The spy ship was not supposed to be in the area after all!

Credit

Owens’ and Carlson’s take, given that they have nothing good to say about Israel to begin with, is that Israel deliberately and malevolently attacked the very nation that insured the Jewish nation’s survival. And that survival is Owens’ problem.

Put another way and given her manipulative logic, Israel wanted to commit national suicide in the middle of an existential war by attacking its ally and ending it’s ally’s backing.

It makes about as much sense as a Buddhist Pope, a near miss, UFOs that only appear on Carlson’s show, Old News, jumbo shrimp, and narratives that keep insisting that modern medicine and vaccines are deliberately designed to injure patients.

Some people will believe anything, especially if they have ill will.

Obsessive-compulsives often will.

Antisemitism is obsessive-compulsive – psychotic – thinking.

During the time of the incident U.S. forces “murdered” 8000 to 10,000 American soldiers in Vietnam in “friendly fire” incidents. Not 34. NATO troops in these wars shot or bombed each other, one nation another’s.

In the Gulf War for example U.S. forces “murdered” American troops in friendly fire incidents because (using Owens’ and the other conspiracist’s logic), they must have hated their own brothers in arms.

What did Owens have to say about these? Can you hear the crickets as loudly as I?

In a recent Israeli rescue operation (again using Carlson’s and Owen’s logic), IDF “murdered” three Israeli hostages who escaped from their captors and emerged holding white flags. It must have been because the IDF hated the hostages they risked their lives trying to rescue.

Hey, it’s “logic.”

Feigned sincerity is a powerful mask for smug, self-righteous and self-assured propagandists, haters whose souls and minds are polluted with paranoia.

For example, 9-11 Truffers and Rothchild conspiracists, such as Candace Owens.

But is it feigned sincerity after all. And the operative word is “feigned.”

It is an act meant to turn other paranoids, ie mean, mentally ill beings, into loathers who can themselves learn to propagate feigned sincerity themselves. After all, some of these psychopaths will tell you with a straight face that their best friends are Jews.

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USS Liberty: Israel Did Not Intend to Bomb the Ship – History News Network

False Flag Attack? The USS Liberty – Skeptoid

EXCERPT: “This is a difficult topic, because the issue of Israel looms large over every part of it. Because Israeli forces are the ones who attacked the ship, and because of the tenuous and divisive nature of the United States’ political relationship with Israel, official accounts of the episode tend to walk on eggshells. If you point the finger at Israel, you get called anti-Semitic. If you diplomatically omit any mention of who attacked the Liberty, you get accused of covering it up…

“…One part…that is definitely germane to our topic is that anti-Israel sentiment — driven in no small part by the American hesitance to place the blame even partially on itself for this attack — is, in turn, a major driver of conspiracy theories…they guarantee that conspiracy theories placing blame for anything on either Jews or Israel will be around for a long, long time…”

The Conspiracy Aboard USS Liberty

The Spy Ship Left Out in the Cold – U.S. Naval Institute

EXCERPT: “The Liberty was part of a secret program run by the U.S. Navy and the National Security Agency (NSA) in which the United States dispatched cargo ships outfitted as mobile listening platforms to eavesdrop on the world’s hot spots—places such as Cuba, North Korea, and the Middle East. Though the Liberty officially was classified as a technical research ship, her 45 towering antennas used to soak up communications of foreign nations made it obvious to any trained observer that she was a spy ship…”

The problem was, whose spy ship was it?

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Many in the Johnson administration did not believe the Israeli side of the story in its entirety…

Yes, there was a coverup, depending on how one spins the story, the investigation was politically “inconvenient” and limited in scope, publicity about it was tightened, the Israelis did not testify (and were not asked to) and thus that nation’s motive was never established, the attack could be interpreted by the malicious mind as having been deliberate, regardless of evidence contrary to it.

The political ramifications were certainly complex. And the entirety of the Jewish People, millions, are to be blamed for the mistaken acts of a few commanders during the fog of war and for the U.S.’ reluctance to share information – to inform the IDF it was in the area.

In the malevolent mind it was a Jewish event, doings of the evil “Jooz,” not a people event, a tragic military operation going wrong.

Weaponizing the story against Israel is precisely the conspiracists’s purpose. At least because the stories were decontextualized by politically-motivated writers at the naval institute whose own were the victims.

Decontextualizing means ignoring the actual Israeli dependence on American largess during those times. The two nations were political, commercial, ideological and military allies defending U.S. and Western shipping lanes and military interests in the vital Gulf, Red Sea, Mediterranean, and the Suez – as they are doing today.

The U.S. and Israel were not enemies. Israel has been fighting America’s wars for decades.

There are no enemies. There are no friends. There are only common interests.

It is the “deliberate” part, no matter how well twisted, which is inconceivable for the reasons I cite above. Israel and the Israeli people – especially the soldiers – have the greatest respect and gratefulness for America, the American people, and the American ethos. These soldiers were America’s and the Western World’s Brothers in Arms.

Moreover, a large number of the IDF are Americans themselves!

And that is the fifth to a hundredth reason the “deliberate attack” charge was always specious.

Why You Shouldn’t Pay Attention to the Claims that Israel Deliberately Attacked the USS Liberty – History News Network

EXCERPT: “The next paragraph is a repetition of the demand of various conspiracy theorists requesting a congressional hearing and suggesting the survivors be allowed to testify. One hundred and fifty four pages of sworn testimony of the Liberty’s Captain, William McGonagle, the ship’s officers and key crew members was taken on June 13 and June 14, 1967 and is available for review by any member of the public. Not one shred of additional evidence has been produced or disclosed by the conspiracy theory supporters since 1967…

Every key crew member in fact testified!

“What is being requested is a platform to make allegations and charges before TV cameras without any prior showing that there is new or credible evidence to support the allegations. In our system of justice, first there must be the presentation of some credible evidence of probable cause to support the charges. To date…(sic no one) has produced such evidence.”

“Since no Israelis participated in the Court of Inquiry, who was able to testify about he intent of the Israelis – and where is that testimony?”

As for “justice”? Then a poor country, Israel has nevertheless paid reparations to the victim’s families. In fact the reparations constituted twenty percent above the amount negotiated between the United States and Israel.

Fact Check: Did Israel deliberately attack the USS Liberty?

Debunking the Ridiculous Conspiracy – Salte @ Substack

“Despite this clear historical context, Candace Owens…brought absolutely no new information to the table. Owens is merely recycling a long-debunked conspiracy theory in an attempt to peddle her brand of sensationalism and anti-Israel sentiment…

“Owens’ lack of regard for established facts speaks volumes. She knows full well that this story has already been comprehensively addressed by historians and military investigators. Yet, with her characteristic sleight of hand, she spins an outdated narrative as if it’s fresh and compelling. This isn’t journalism; it’s manipulation…”

It is also evidence of her lack of imagination and talent that Owens could not find a real issue with which she can waste the viewer’s time.

Al-Jazeera America’s Fraudulent USS Liberty Documentary – CAMERA

THE FINAL WORD – Attack on a Sigint Collector, the U.S.S. Liberty: NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY

© 1980 NSA PDF 67 page DECLASSIFIED document of the investigation.

Remember the word Candace keeps repeating in the video above: “they”?

You know who “they” are, don’t you?

“They” are usually what racists, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis call Candace’s people and race…

“They” are what white Democrats call the Congressional Black Caucus.

Conspiracists are paranoids experiencing untreated mentally illness. They are unaware of their mental illness and that provides them with a super power: Feigned Sincerity.

They believe their own drivel. In their own eyes their sincere drivel gives them credibility. Smart people won’t fall for any of it.

The SUBSTACK writer from above:

“It’s shocking and appalling ….This isn’t a healthy debate; it’s a toxic manipulation of history for personal gain.”

Smart people will connect the dots to the ironic ending of this story from the subtitle that began it:

With respect to “the malevolence of the utterly misinformed, smug and self-righteous sensationalist peddling a thoroughly discredited 60 year-old conspiracy theory to profit from clickbait” …motive indeed has been established!

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