Candace Owens on Erika Kirk Receiving Honorary Doctorate from Hillsdale College Sparks DEI Debate

[00:00] So, I say more power to her. I think we

[00:03] should call her Dr. Erica Kirk. I think

[00:05] we should lean in to the absurdity

[00:08] of of where we're at right now as a

[00:10] society. Erica Kirk is maybe she's now

[00:11] Dr. Erica Kirk.

[00:14] I I I know she said that she wanted to

[00:16] go home.

[00:17] She says a lot of stuff. She says a lot

[00:19] of stuff. She's in drapes. Nobody knows

[00:21] why.

[00:22] She told us that she was going to take

[00:24] some time to be with her family. Then

[00:26] she came in dressed like Janet Jackson.

[00:27] She yelled at me. She yelled at Drewski.

[00:29] She yelled at you for the fact that she

[00:31] had to go confront the wine bottles that

[00:33] were on the table. And then like I'm

[00:35] taking a break, but then actually now

[00:37] she's not taking a break. Again, it's a

[00:39] quick break and she's back. She's always

[00:41] back very quickly and we're probably

[00:44] going to get yelled at again that she

[00:45] had to even go get the speech done

[00:47] uh for Hillsdale College. Somehow it's

[00:50] it's always different. Erica can do

[00:51] whatever she wants and we're just sort

[00:53] of left here holding the bag. She went

[00:55] to Michigan

[00:56] to Hillsdale College to deliver a

[00:58] commencement address. Okay, it's her

[01:00] prerogative. I think we're all adjusted

[01:02] to this new program of Erica can do

[01:04] whatever she wants. And simultaneously

[01:06] she accepted a posthumous doctorate

[01:08] degree for Charlie

[01:11] honorary doctorate and also an honorary

[01:13] doctorate for herself.

[01:15] And I want to be clear that people that

[01:17] are on the left

[01:19] and have been enduring people on the

[01:21] right saying DEI DEI people should not

[01:24] be hired on the basis of how they look.

[01:26] They should not receive achievements.

[01:28] It's a regular beat and I do believe

[01:30] that by the way. I'm a I am a full I'm

[01:32] anti-DEI as well. Um but they're on the

[01:35] internet and they have something to say

[01:37] about it. The internet is saying this is

[01:40] stands against everything that you guys

[01:41] preached. Why is she getting an honorary

[01:44] doctorate? What has she accomplished?

[01:45] And I'll let you I'm just going to read

[01:48] one of these tweets. This is written by

[01:49] someone named Brian Allen. I don't know

[01:50] who this is, but they wrote

[01:53] Hillsdale College, one of America's

[01:54] loudest opponents of DEI, just gave a

[01:57] woman an honorary doctorate and

[01:59] commencement speech opportunity because

[02:01] of who her husband is.

[02:03] That is the definition of DEI.

[02:06] Diversity, equity, and inclusion for me

[02:08] and not for thee.

[02:12] So, conservatives,

[02:15] I hate to call balls and strikes here,

[02:17] but like, yeah, that's right.

[02:20] That that's that is actually the very

[02:22] definition of DEI. Like I I when people

[02:25] have someone come and give a

[02:25] commencement address,

[02:27] that's usually not the circumstances

[02:29] that you give someone an honorary

[02:30] doctorate for.

[02:32] Fair.

[02:33] I don't mind it. I get it. Like I said,

[02:35] I'm adjusted to this new program that

[02:36] she can do whatever she wants and

[02:38] they're just going to keep handing her

[02:39] stuff and she's just going to become

[02:40] more and more accomplished and people

[02:42] that are calling this out and saying

[02:43] she's not qualified for this, welcome to

[02:46] the program, ladies and gentlemen.

[02:47] Virtually,

[02:48] Erika's entire educational background

[02:51] has sort of just been fictionalized and

[02:53] when people began pointing this out, we

[02:55] got yelled at. This is just par for the

[02:57] Erika course. We keep being told it

[02:59] doesn't matter. Her husband died.

[03:01] Right? She told the

[03:03] when she was trying out for the American

[03:06] race

[03:07] with her ex-boyfriend, she never said

[03:09] you know, she never had a boyfriend

[03:10] before Charlie in the 5 years before

[03:12] Charlie, but she did.

[03:13] And when they were trying out for the

[03:15] Great American Race, in the video that

[03:17] she submitted,

[03:19] she said that she graduated from ASU

[03:22] magna laude.

[03:24] Years later, she would edit that

[03:26] credential. She just kind of upgraded it

[03:29] on her LinkedIn page when she wrote that

[03:32] she graduated summa laude.

[03:34] Right?

[03:35] With a double degree, I should mention.

[03:37] You can take a look at this, her

[03:38] LinkedIn page, in political science and

[03:41] international relations. This is this is

[03:43] the old LinkedIn page. It since has been

[03:45] removed.

[03:46] Turns out, she didn't graduate magna

[03:48] laude and she also didn't graduate summa

[03:50] laude. She didn't graduate with any

[03:52] honors and she did not graduate with a

[03:54] double degree.

[03:55] That was all just made up for funsies

[03:57] and she's put it on bios. So, this is

[03:59] not like, oh, this was one mistake and I

[04:01] had an intern that typed a button wrong.

[04:03] It's been put on bios. In fact, ASU did

[04:05] not even offer the international

[04:08] relations degree

[04:10] um at all in 2012.

[04:12] Baron Coleman, some other people online

[04:14] dug up the

[04:16] um dug up everything from the past to

[04:18] see if the catalog even offered it. The

[04:20] answer is no. So, she just made it up.

[04:23] And we're we're not allowed to ask

[04:24] questions. Not the only thing she made

[04:26] up. Pull that up again. You will also

[04:28] see on her LinkedIn that she has Doctor

[04:31] of Education that she received that in

[04:33] Christian Leadership from Liberty

[04:35] University. That is factually untrue.

[04:38] That's made up.

[04:39] She took a top a couple of credits

[04:41] toward that goal,

[04:43] but she never accomplished it.

[04:45] Just a couple of credits toward the goal

[04:47] uh when her and Charlie were together

[04:49] and then she decided that that was

[04:50] enough and she could assert that she had

[04:52] this Doctor of Education. She doesn't.

[04:56] Our fault for noticing. Our fault for

[04:58] fact-checking her background at all. How

[05:00] dare we? Her husband died

[05:03] um

[05:03] and she's allowed to compulsively lie

[05:06] about everything all the time. And if

[05:09] you are a person that thinks, hey,

[05:12] if you have a profile of an individual

[05:14] who compulsively lies about everything,

[05:16] that person should probably not be put

[05:18] into a leadership role. If you feel that

[05:20] way, you're the monster and you're

[05:22] demonic.

[05:24] There were so many holes and so many

[05:26] lies in the Erica Kirk background and

[05:28] and story that we had to choose. We had

[05:31] to like think about editing. How are we

[05:33] going to tell the Erica Kirk story when

[05:35] we did Bride uh Bride of Charlie. We had

[05:37] to just leave a lot of them. Okay, we're

[05:39] just going to let her go with that lie.

[05:40] We never even covered that the whole

[05:42] educational background is made up,

[05:45] virtually the entire I mean, she did

[05:46] receive her masters um from Liberty

[05:48] University online, but she just keeps

[05:50] adding credentials. So I say more power

[05:52] to her. I think we should call her Dr.

[05:55] Erica Kirk. I think we should lean in to

[05:57] the absurdity

[05:59] um of of where we're at right now as a

[06:01] society, where everyone can see what she

[06:03] is and apparently she's a part of the

[06:06] elite class of people. Let's call it the

[06:07] Epstein class of people who just don't

[06:10] have to answer. There's no consequences

[06:11] for anything and they can make us the

[06:13] bad guys for noticing. So I salute you

[06:15] uh Dr. Kirk.

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