Steven has a lot going on, I guess is the best way to say.
He has a lot going on and
that should be clear because people don't do stuff like this.
If there's not a lot going on in their lives.
You don't sell out your friends.
You don't record conversations.
These things are actions of individuals that are perhaps acting out of
desperation.
You have to dig deeper.
You have to look deeper to fully understand the picture of why somebody
might do that.
>> We didn't know it at the time.
But two weeks ago when Candace Owens tried to essentially threaten Steven Crowder
by outing him about some secret thing that he's hiding from everyone.
She was actually carrying out a tactic that she is quite familiar with because
she tried carrying it out with other people including a reporter or
journalist by the name of Jesse Single.
So Jesse Single had reached out to her because he was working on
a story that she was part of and she didn't like that.
He had reached out to her and so she responded to the request for
comment for his story with a threat.
Now, before we get into those details,
let's watch the rest of what she had threatened Crowder with.
So you get a sense of what she's really about.
>> His actions are a symptom of much something much larger.
And I want to choose my words very carefully here because I'm not angry
anymore.
I would like to import or my audience and everybody that isn't paying
attention to this situation, not to condemn him, but to pray for him.
Sometimes people need a prayer.
Sometimes people need a scripture,
I am certain that in the near future more information will come out.
I do not think it is my place to say more than that.
Well, probably what I should say is I am unsure at this
moment if it is my place to say more than that.
>> Yeah, so that threat is very clear now, she hasn't come out with any specific
accusation, but let's move on to Jesse Single and what happened here.
So, in 2016, Jesse Single wrote a piece for the New York magazine
about Candace Owen's Kickstarter project called Social Autopsy.
We had actually talked about it on this show as well.
Social autopsy was meant to essentially link anonymous social
media profiles to the owner's identity, real name and
make that information publicly available to their employers.
And the idea behind it was to squash cyberbullying and
to reveal the identities of these individuals.
So they couldn't hide behind anonymity as they were bullying people online.
That project got a negative response from everyone all around, right?
Because even though, let's say the left for
instance is not in favor of online bullying.
There are legitimate reasons why people would wanna protect their anonymity or
their identity through anonymity online anyway.
Now social autopsy again was widely criticized and
later she decided that Zoe Quinn and Randy Lee Harper
to anti-harassment activists and frequent targets of Gamergate.
Were the masterminds behind the hate that was directed toward social autopsy.
Now Single's piece sought to debunk that and he did.
He debunked that theory that Candace Owens had.
Now in response to his email asking for her to comment on his piece, she
threatened him before I get to the threat, Jake any thoughts, any initial thoughts.
>> So look, if Candace Owens has an actual story of, let's say sexual harassment,
that Steven Crowder did, she should definitely say right, and so
she shouldn't be embarrassed to say it.
If it happened to her, it's not her fault, right?
And so we on the left support any woman who's gonna come out and
say now there's a giant butt in there.
Candace Owens is a giant liar.
And so if she's making up cases of sexual harassment, that is doubly bad,
because number one, you're defending people that might not have done it.
And number two, you're using it as a political weapon and
thereby making other people's claims less credible because people go.
Well, you remember when Candace Owens made it up,
you remember when that person made it up, etc.
So the main question here is, does she actually have the goods?
Or is she just making this up regularly just to smear whoever's her opponent.
>> Well, let me read you her response to Jesse Single and then we'll go from there.
She writes, hi Jesse, I just wanna officially put in writing
that you are making me very uncomfortable and I do not feel safe anymore.
Mind you, he just emailed her asking her to comment on the story.
Okay.
She continues, I am asking for you to stop following me and my every move on Twitter.
I've had a few women reach out now and
I know about your history with women going as far back as your college days.
I also know know that whatever transpired between you and
Jamie Walton after she called you a predator.
It was sick.
Now, mind you, she provides absolutely no evidence
that anything had happened between Jesse Single or
any woman that he went to college with but I'll continue there was more.
I do not have a prior relationship with you.
And because so many journalists and women find you to be a predator,
I'm asking you to leave me alone.
You need to draw a line with your obsession with me.
Please let me know why slash if you feel you can't do that.
Or if if you feel I should join the other women before me who were
forced to get the police involved.
Now, if you're wondering who Jamie Walton is.
Jamie Walton of course is the woman that Candace Owens named and
made an allegation against Jesse Single about, here's what we know about her.
Okay, so basically, she had commented the following
on a change.org petition that Owens made to discredit Single.
So he did the same thing to my org conflated me with gamergate
because of Alison Rapp.
Hounded me with fake nice emails and
tweets trying to get me on record behaves like a predator rather than a journalist.
So glad I ignored him entirely.
Later, Walton deleted her comment after her claim of behaving like a predator was
taken out of context and Walton was harassed.
Beyond that, we were unable to find any evidence that Jesse Single was any type of
predator when he was in college.
>> So a couple of things.
So jesse signal was the person who now made this public.
You're not gonna make that public if you were an actual predator and
those were real charges.
Second well, you just saw the quote, you had another newer sex at all.
Hey, you're hounding me because and by the way,
I don't know the veracity of that original story.
Mainstream media often slams things.
So maybe he did, maybe he didn't slam.
I don't know.
It's not at all pertinent.
What is pertinent is no one alleged any kind of sexual harassment.
He doesn't know Candace Owens at all.
He just asked her questions about this policy issue that she's involved in if she
comes back with, maybe I'll have to out you as a predator and you're stalking me.
That is bad faith 101.
They've never been together in a room.
He never did anything sexual towards her or anyone else.
That is someone who weaponizes me too for their own personal gain.
That shows you what a terrible lack of character, right?
She doesn't care about other women at all.
Just making up things left and right.
And by the way, this is really interesting at that point she was not yet
a right winger.
She was doing anti-trump commentary.
So what Candace Owens is, is a grifter in search of a treasure chest.
She's like, where's the money?
Where's the left?
I'll go left.
Did you know earlier in her career, she sued for racial harassment.
So she sued for racial harassment.
She's charged that other people were sexually harassing her when they've never
even met her, right.
And then she's like, I'm not getting enough money from the left.
I need to go find a better grift.
It turns out the right wing are suckers.
They'll give me tons and tons of money for saying things against women and
black people.
Perfect.
And she found her nice little groove there and
she's been doing that grift ever since.
These are some of the worst people on earth.
>> Yeah, defaming people as predators in order to one up them politically or just
destroy their reputations because they're getting a little too close to the truth.
It's too uncomfortable for you.
We're just in such dangerous territory because these are serious allegations and
you shouldn't accuse someone of something that, you know, they did not do.
Or something that you have absolutely no evidence of, again,
accusing someone of being a predator can destroy their entire life.
And Candace Owens knows that she just doesn't care.
She's willing to destroy anyone in her quest to both cover up her past and
also make as much money as possible as a mouthpiece for the right wing.
>> So if you're a right wing follower of Candace Owens, do you support what she
did in the past,, weaponizing, sexual harassment that didn't even happen?
Do you support her suing for racial discrimination, or do you think?
No, it's okay.
She's found the light now.
Now she knows that you smear the left, not the right, not this, not that,
you just lie about everyone who's our opponents and you smear your own race and
your own gender.
So we like her now.
Is that your best case for her?
You know, she's a grifter.
By now if you haven't figured that out, man, I feel terrible for you.