Aug. 21, 2023 - Candace Owens
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| You know, there are some movies that really just pull at your heartstrings. | |
| I can tell you one of my favorite movies of all time. | |
| It's better never get ruined. Remember the Titans. | |
| I just love Remember the Titans. | |
| Everywhere we go. | |
| And I think it's probably because it is one of those things that accurately examines how far America has come without... | |
| You know, saying that things are perfect, but realizing that we've come a very long way in terms of race. | |
| Another one of those movies that made you feel really good, and not necessarily because it was about a racial struggle, but because it was about racial harmony, really, was The Blind Side. | |
| You guys know the story, and in case you don't, I'm going to tell you. | |
| Michael Orr met the Tueys, a family in Tennessee, back in 2004 while he was attending the Briar | |
| Crust Christian School in Eads, Tennessee, where he excelled at football and he played | |
| in the Tennessee All-State game. | |
| But he came from a troubled home, and his mother was a drug addict, and amid his father's | |
| death, he was penniless and would often stay at the home of his classmates until he connected | |
| with a couple named Sean and Leanne Tuey in the summer of his senior year. | |
| Now based on clips of him, he said they made him feel like he was a part of the family. | |
| And eventually they made the decision not to adopt him, but to place him within a conservatorship. | |
| And the reason for that was because, well, he was 18 years old and adoption was not an option. | |
| Just to jog your memory a little more, take a look at this clip. | |
| My background is, you know, a bad background. | |
| You know, people said, a lot of people said I couldn't do it. | |
| You can do anything and you put your mind to it. | |
| And after the success of The Blind Side, the Tuohys now want to tell their version of the story and help others give back. | |
| In their new book, they say if there is one meaning we'd like you to take from our story, it's this. | |
| The person you just walked past is the one who could change your life. | |
| So every once in a while, stop and turn around. | |
| Butterflies. Honestly, even looking at that clip, it makes me so happy. | |
| And it's for a lot of reasons. Like I said, this wasn't exactly a tale of racial duress. | |
| It was just about harmony. | |
| And I think for a lot of people, you attach yourselves to a story like that. | |
| If you're in a circumstance where you can help people, you look at the Tuohys and you say, wow, they've had such a huge impact on this young man's life just because they took a second to care about him. | |
| I think that's the reason the movie was so successful, The Blind Side, aside from | |
| the fact that it had Sandra Bullock in it, and she's an amazing actress and played | |
| Leigh-Anne Tui in a way that was so powerful that it earned her an Oscar. | |
| It was just also that emotional storytelling and making people want to aspire to more in | |
| their lives. | |
| Now, I remember watching this movie. | |
| It earned $300 million at the box office, by the way. | |
| And it made me think about my childhood because throughout my entire life there have always | |
| been people that have helped me. | |
| I'm not saying this to in any way denigrate my own family. | |
| We always had food on the table. | |
| But, you know, I had two very busy working parents. | |
| My mother never really cooked. | |
| And there was this family that lived down the road for me who did so much for me. | |
| Young, probably, I would say, very middle-class Irish family. | |
| I'd go there every morning, have breakfast. | |
| The mom would take me to school. | |
| She'd pick me up from school. | |
| She'd take me back home. And so I think that might have been part of the reason why I attached to the story so much. | |
| I just thought, you know, you never know who's going to help you. | |
| And when you don't have to think of it or cast it in the light of racial issues and tensions, it's just a feel-good American story. | |
| Well... Ladies and gentlemen, as we know, we cannot have nice things in America anymore. | |
| We were all blindsided to learn that Michael Orr is taking the Tooheys to court. | |
| Yes, he has filed a lawsuit claiming that Sean and Leanne Tui tricked him into making | |
| them his conservators rather than his adoptive parents nearly two decades ago. | |
| So he is making these claims two decades after the fact. | |
| Now the Tuis have come out and denied that they kept the conservatorship a secret from | |
| Auer. | |
| They say that they are positively devastated by the allegations. | |
| And a part of his allegations is that they profited handsomely from his story. | |
| And they are now claiming through their lawyer that he demanded a $15 million payment from | |
| them and threatened to go to the public according to TMZ. | |
| Now, so you can imagine this going on in the background for a couple of years. | |
| He's making demands, give me $15 million. | |
| They don't give him the $15 million. And now he's taking this to the public. | |
| He's filing a lawsuit and he's saying that he's sad, but obviously he was taken advantage of. | |
| I mean, this movie made $300 million. | |
| And he says that he didn't make that much money, actually, that he only... | |
| He didn't make any money whatsoever, despite all the success of the film. | |
| So again, just to sort of recap why they didn't adopt him, it is because he was 18 years old. | |
| So in order to make him a part of their family, they needed to enter within a conservatorship contract, which would have allowed the Tui family to make legal decisions for him. | |
| Again, his mother was a drug addict. | |
| His father was dead. | |
| And so in order for them to step in as parents, being able to sign contracts on his behalf, Being able to sign contracts for him to go to school, they needed to enter into this conservatorship. | |
| This is not like the Britney Spears-type conservatorship by any means. | |
| But he's kind of looking at this backwards and saying that something was wrong, even though in his own book he acknowledged that they sat him down and explained to him why they were entering in this conservatorship. | |
| Somehow he's rinsed that from his memory and he feels that he was duped. | |
| So of course, in order to examine this and to look at it with clear eyes, we should have an understanding of how much money the TUIs actually made from the blind side, since this seems to be some sort of a financial dispute. | |
| It turns out, according to legal filings, that the TUIs, along with both of their two birth children, each made $225,000 off of the blind side. | |
| Plus 2.5% of the defined net proceeds. | |
| Now, Orr is claiming that he did not see a single red cent from the movie. | |
| But Sean Toohey Jr. | |
| is saying that even for him, he's frustrated because he only received $60,000 to $70,000 in royalties over the years. | |
| Not a lot of money. The Tooheys are saying that they placed his money in the conservatorship. | |
| He just hasn't touched it. He has decided not to touch that money for whatever reason. | |
| Likely because he's earning a lot more, or he earned a lot more as a pro-NFL producer. | |
| Football player. He earned millions. | |
| He signed, I think, a $20 million contract with the Baltimore Ravens. | |
| So the $100,000 or $200,000 that were seeing his conservatorship was not something that necessarily concerned him. | |
| But then there's this. This is when you just start to inject common sense, right? | |
| We're talking about, at most, $225,000. | |
| Maybe it's $60,000. | |
| Maybe it's $70,000. | |
| The Toohey family's wealth, the father earned $200 million by selling his conglomerate of | |
| fast food restaurants. | |
| So in order to believe Michael Orr's version of events, you would have to think that despite | |
| them having tremendous wealth themselves, despite the family selling the fast food conglomerate | |
| and its franchises for more than $200 million, that they conspired to meet with this athlete | |
| who they had no idea was going to make it to the NFL, who they had no idea if they wrote | |
| a book about it was going to be picked up and turned into a movie. | |
| all so that they could steal a couple of 100,000 extra dollars from him, which are conveniently sitting into his conservatorship. | |
| Obviously, that's foolish. | |
| That's an incredibly foolish belief. | |
| What they did, they did out of their hearts. | |
| There's no question about that. | |
| Placing him in a conservatorship, picking him up from his mother's house as was displayed, allowing him to live in their house, taking him to practice, making sure that he made it there, making sure that he got into a good school, signing all the contracts. | |
| They did not do this for money. | |
| They did this because they were just good people who cared about him and loved him as though he was their own son. | |
| And now 20 years down the line, he's turning their back on them. | |
| Why? Well, as I said, I have an inside scoop as to what happened here. | |
| It's the same thing that happens all the time. | |
| Black Lives Matter has rotted people's brains. | |
| That's what happened. Well, I'll tell you, this is not what happened. | |
| He got out of the NFL. He's seeing the media. | |
| He's seeing black versus white. | |
| Now people can't even see their friends the same way. | |
| You know these stories. People that were friends for decades, best friends growing up, now they no longer talk. | |
| They no longer talk because suddenly their black friend woke up one day and realized that their friend | |
| For decades was actually a racist the entire time because the media told them so or because they had the wrong | |
| perspective on the George Floyd shooting this has been the media brainwashed in a | |
| simulation that America has been existing under and it's actually | |
| Causing us to go backwards as a society and in this particular circumstance Michael or quite literally went | |
| backwards in his own mind Reflected on things that were beautiful in his life, and he | |
| turned those events into things that were villainous, right? | |
| He turned the two E's a family that did something out of the goodness of their heart | |
| Into villains and I will tell you that he likely had an entire cast of characters around him that supported it | |
| It says that he was married very recently I think last year a woman that he was with for a very long | |
| time But I will tell you that just being somebody that is | |
| married You know that these decisions aren't made with just one | |
| person He probably had his wife's full support. | |
| He's probably got friends that said to him, oh yeah, no, for sure they did you wrong. | |
| You're in a conservatorship like Britney Spears. | |
| Oh, for sure. That money made $300 million. | |
| You're telling me you didn't make any money? | |
| They used you, man. | |
| white people just used you and eventually it just started to make sense to him. He couldn't | |
| actually examine his life and the beautiful blessings that he received and rather he is | |
| destroying one of the most crucial relationships that he's ever built up in his life. A relationship | |
| that brought him every single thing that he has today. | |
| Aside from his remarkable talent, but of course talent will only get you so far. You | |
| obviously need to be organized. He would have had to apply to school. He probably would have never even | |
| applied to school had it not been for the two E's and all of their help with having a mother as a | |
| drug addict, but he can't see any of those blessings because Black Lives Matter has rotted his brain. | |
| And so unfortunately this feel good American story that brought us all closer is now being tainted | |
| by a lawsuit in which he's not going to win. I mean, he will win in the form of the two E's | |
| already saying we are happy to acquiesce to you leaving the conservatorship. | |
| We are certainly not trying to control any of your decisions. | |
| Go, take it. They have filed. | |
| They want the conservatorship gone. | |
| And I'm sure that they also want him gone. | |
| Because what a horrible thing to do to somebody that cares about you. | |
| What a horrible thing to do to a couple that loved you for no reason other than the fact that they felt a connection to you and they wanted to help you. | |
| That's where we're at in America, guys. It's pretty depressing, but shame on him. | |
| He should drop this legal filing immediately and apologize to the family for everything that he's done, including trying to hustle them for $15 million before he went public with this lawsuit. | |
| Shame on you, Michael Orr. | |
| All right, if you like this video, you're going to like the full episode even better. |
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