![]() T he internet loves good and evil, good or evil, and there exists no one more Manichaean than Owens. Her 2017 video titled “I don’t Care About Charlottesville, the KKK, or White Supremacy” sent her into the consciousness of right-wing hosts like Jesse Watters and Alex Jones. If you see how her staff stays glued to her as she commands their daily meetings, cracks up at her jokes during taping, how commenters online worship her, how the Republican media powers that be-Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson-feed off her words, nothing seems far out of reach. It’s where, in the conservative fiefdom, she’s become the It girl, enough so that just about everyone, including Owens herself, wonders if she has a future in politics. It’s here that she recorded her response to Kanyegate, which led many people to question why she fell short of condemning what was very clearly hate speech. For an hour, she holds forth with her scorching own-the-libs views on the news. million and a half people subscribe to Owens’s Daily Wire show, which airs as both a podcast and a YouTube video through the conservative media company. Owens and rapper Kanye West ignited global controversy when they wore “White Lives Matter” shirts at the Yeezy Paris Fashion Week show last year. The fallout cost West most of his business, rightfully, and thrust Owens into broad fame as a political flamethrower. ![]() The spectacle echoed far beyond the fashion world and marked the beginning of West’s media spiral during which, among other hateful statements, he praised Hitler. The two are backstage at his fashion show, sporting matching shirts blaring WHITE LIVES MATTER. In a picture she posted to Twitter (and which remains to this day), she looks over her shoulder, beaming, next to Kanye West. Yet nobody was surprised to see her at the center of the biggest controversy at Paris Fashion Week last fall. “She was not a fit at Vogue,” a former higher-up said flatly. Nobody expected her to continue on at the magazine, though. Yet they all described her as one of the best interns ever. “Very eccentric and not normal,” as one person put it. People who worked with her said that she would come to work wearing hats with animal ears or “girl boss power suits” with a bra under a blazer. ![]()
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