Reprinted with permission from Dr. Naomi Wolf’s Substack.com.
There is no way to avoid this moment. The formal letter of apology. From me. To Conservatives and to those who “put America first” everywhere.
It’s tempting to sweep this confrontation with my own gullibility under the rug — to “move on” without ever acknowledging that I was duped, and that as a result I made mistakes in judgement, and that these mistakes, multiplied by the tens of thousands and millions on the part of people just like me, hurt millions of other people like you all, in existential ways.
But that erasure of personal and public history would be wrong.
I owe you a full-throated apology.
I believed a farrago of lies. And, as a result of these lies, and my credulity — and the credulity of people similarly situated to me – many conservatives’ reputations are being tarnished, on false bases.
The proximate cause of this letter of apology is the airing, two nights ago, of excepts from tens of thousands of hours of security camera footage from the United States Capitol taken on Jan 6, 2021. The footage was released by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson [https://www.axios.com/2023/03/08/mccarthy-defends-jan-6-footage-tucker-carlson-fox-news].
While “fact-checkers” state that it is “misinformation” to claim that Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was in charge of Capitol Police on that day, the fact is that the USCP is under the oversight of Congress, according to — the United States Capitol Police.
This would be the same Congress that convened the January 6 Committee subsequently, and that used millions of dollars in taxpayer money to turn that horrible day, and that tragic event, into a message point that would be used to tar a former President as a would-be terrorist, and to smear all Republicans, by association, as “insurrectionists,” or as insurrectionists’ sympathizers and fellow-travelers.
There is no way to unsee Officer Brian Sicknick, claimed by some Democrats in leadership and by most of the legacy media to have been killed by rioters at the Capitol that day, alive in at least one section of the newly released video. The USCP medical examiner states that this Officer died of “natural causes,” but also that he died “in the line of duty.” Whatever the truth of this confusing conclusion, and with all respect for and condolences to Officer Sicknick’s family, the circumstances of his death do matter to the public, as without his death having been caused by the events of Jan 6, the breach of the capitol, serious though it was, cannot be described as a “deadly insurrection.” [https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/medical-examiner-finds-uscp-officer-brian-sicknick-died-natural-causes] Sadly, though the contrary was what was reported, Officer Sicknick died two days after Jan 6, from suffering two strokes.
There is no way for anyone thoughtful, even if he or she is a lifelong Democrat, not to notice that Sen Chuck Schumer did not say to the world that the footage that Mr Carlson aired was not real. Rather, he warned that it was “shameful” for Fox to allow us to see it. The Guardian characterized Mr Carlson’s and Fox News’ sin, weirdly, as “Over-Use” of Jan 6 footage. Isn’t the press supposed to want full transparency for all public interest events? How can you “over-use” real footage of events of national relevance?
Sen Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate minority leader, did not say the video on Fox News was fake or doctored. He said, rather, that it was “a mistake” to depart from the views of the events held by the chief of the Capitol Police. This is a statement from McConnell about orthodoxy — not a statement about a specific truth or untruth.
I don’t agree with Mr Carlson’s interpretation of the videos as depicting “mostly peaceful chaos.” I do think it is a mistake to downplay how serious it is when a legislative institution suffers a security breach of any kind, however that came to be.
But you don’t have to agree with Mr Carlson’s interpretation of the videos, to believe, as I do, that he engaged in valuable journalism simply by airing the footage that was leaked to him.
And remember, by law that footage belongs to us — it is a public record, and all public records literally belong to the American people. “In a democracy, records belong to the people,” explains the National Archives.
You don’t have to agree with Carlson’s interpretation of the videos, to notice the latest hypocrisy by the Left. My acquaintance and personal hero Daniel Ellsberg was rightly lionized by the Left for having illegally leaked the Pentagon Papers. The New York Times was rightly applauded for having run this leaked material in 1971. I do not see how Mr Carlson’s airing of video material of national significance that the current government would prefer to keep hidden, or Fox News’ support for its disclosure to the public, is any different from that famous case of disclosure of inside information of public importance.
You don’t have to agree with Mr Carlson’s interpretation of the videos, to conclude that the Democrats in leadership, for their own part, have cherry-picked, hyped, spun, and in some ways appear to have lied about, aspects of January 6, turning a tragedy for the nation into a politicized talking point aimed at discrediting half of our electorate.
From the start, there have been things about the dominant, Democrats’ and legacy media’s, narrative of Jan 6, that seemed off, or contradictory, to me. (That does not mean I agree with the interpretation of these events in general on the right. Bear with me).
There is no way to un-hear the interview that Mr Carlson did with former Capitol police office Tarik Johnson, who said that he received no guidance when he called his superiors, terrified, as the Capitol was breached, to ask for direction.
That situation is anomalous.
There is always a security chain of command in the Capitol, at the Rayburn Building, at the White House of course, and so on, which is part of a rock-solid “security plan.”
There are usually, indeed, multiple snipers standing on the steps of the Capitol, facing outward. I made note of this when I was researching and writing The End of America. There is never improvisation, or any confusion in security practices or in what is expected of “the security plan”, involving “principals” such as Members of Congress, or staff at the White House. I know this as a former political consultant and former White House spouse.
The reason for a tightly scripted chain of command and an absolutely ironclad security plan in these buildings, is so that security crises such as the events of Jan 6 can never happen.
The fact that so much confusion in security practice took place on Jan 6, is hard to understand.
There is no way to not see that among the violent and terrifying scenes of that day, as revealed by Mr Carlson, there were also scenes of officers with the United States Capitol Police accompanying one protester who would become iconic, the “Q-Anon Shaman”, Jacob Chansley – and escorting him peaceably through the hallways of our nation’s legislative center.
I was oddly unsurprised to see the “Q-Anon Shaman” being ushered through the hallways by Capitol Police; he was ready for the cameras in full makeup, horned fur hat, his tattooed chest bare (on a freezing day), and adorned in other highly cinematic regalia. I don’t know what Mr Chansley thought he was doing there that day, but so many subsequent legacy media images of the event put him so dramatically front and center — and the barbaric nature of his appearance was so illustrative of exactly the message that Democrats in leadership wished to send about the event — that I am not surprised to see that his path to the center of events was not blocked but was apparently facilitated by Capitol Police.
A point I have made over and over since 9/11 is that many events in history are both real and hyped. Many actors in historic events have their agendas, but are also at times used by other people with their own agendas, in ways of which the former are unaware. Terrorists and terrorism in the Bush era are one example. This issue was both real and hyped.
“Patriots” or “insurgents” (depending on who you are) entering the Capitol can be part of a real event that is also exploited or manipulated by others. We don’t know yet if this is the case in relation to the events of Jan 6, or to what extent it may be the case. That is where a real investigation must come in.
But as someone who has studied history, and the theatrics of history, for decades, I was not at all surprised to see, on Mr Carlson’s security camera footage, the person who was to became the most memorable ‘face’ of the ‘insurrection’ (or the riot, or the Capitol breach) — escorted to the beating heart of the action, where his image could be memorialized by a battery of cameras forever.
There are other aspects of the Jan 6 breach that seemed anomalous to me from the start. I study the relationship in history of buildings such as The White House and the Capitol, to the US public; I follow the way in which the public is either welcomed into or barred from these structures.
The White House itself and the Capitol steps have often been open to US citizens. They are public buildings.
Indeed, inaugurations have been open public events in which the US citizenry simply entered the building for the celebration; this tradition lasted from President Jefferson’s inauguration in 1801, to 1885.
Things got very chaotic indeed in 1829. “On March 4, 1829, Andrew Jackson upholds an inaugural tradition begun by Thomas Jefferson and hosts an open house at the White House.
After Jackson’s swearing-in ceremony and address to Congress, the new president returned to the White House to meet and greet a flock of politicians, celebrities and citizens. Very shortly, the crowd swelled to more than 20,000, turning the usually dignified White House into a boisterous mob scene. Some guests stood on furniture in muddy shoes while others rummaged through rooms looking for the president–breaking dishes, crystal and grinding food into the carpet along the way. […]
The White House open-house tradition continued until several assassination attempts heightened security concerns. The trend ended in 1885 when Grover Cleveland opted instead to host a parade, which he viewed in safety from a grandstand set up in front of the White House.”
And inaugurations were not the only occasions in which US citizens approached their public buildings in Washington.
The Bonus Army, which massed in the summer of 1932, during the Depression, to claim the financial “bonus” promised to veterans who had served in World War I, is an example of citizens assembling peaceably at the Capitol. When I was an undergraduate, we were taught that the Bonus Army sat on the steps of the Capitol and lobbied the legislators who were entering and leaving the building. I remember from my history textbook, images of crowds seated on the Capitol steps in 1932.
“[M]ore than 25,000 veterans and their families traveled to Washington, DC, to petition Congress and President Herbert Hoover to award them their bonus immediately. Fortunately for the marchers, Pelham Glassford, the local police chief and a veteran of the war himself, made accommodations for this influx, including the creation of an enormous camp in the Anacostia Flats […]. Glassford understood that Americans had an inherent right to assemble in Washington and petition the government for the “redress of grievances” without fear of punishment or reprisals. […]
On June 15, the House of Representatives passed the new bonus bill by a vote of 211 to 176. Two days later, some 8,000 veterans massed in front of the Capitol as the Senate prepared to vote, while another 10,000 assembled before the raised Anacostia drawbridge. The police were anticipating trouble because of the large crowds. The Senate debate continued until after dark. […]
When it appeared that the bonus would not be paid, many of the marchers refused to leave, and President Hoover ordered the Army to evict them. Using tear gas, tanks, and a troop of saber-wielding cavalry commanded by Major George S. Patton, U.S. Army chief of staff General Douglas MacArthur drove the marchers out of Washington and burned their main camp on the Anacostia Flats.”
I mention the massing of the Bonus Army on the Capitol steps in 1932, to note that the dominant narrative around Jan 6 today, often implies that it is an act of violence or of “insurrection” simply to march en masse peacefully to the Capitol.
But we should be wary of allowing history to be rewritten so as to criminalize peaceful, Constitutionally-protected assembly at “The People’s House.”
Massing peacefully at the Capitol and other public buildings, is part of our rights and inheritance as citizens, and this use of our First Amendment right to assemble has a long history. Indeed, the public has traditionally had the right peacefully to enter the Capitol — to obtain passes to events, to galley seats, and to witness the proceedings in other ways.
The Capitol is not a sealed space exclusively for legislators, but it is one that is supposed to welcome the public in an orderly way. We should not be encouraged to forget this.
The violence of Jan 6 and its subsequent service as a talking point by the Democrats’ leadership, risks its use also to justify the closing off of our public buildings from US citizens altogether.
This would be convenient for tyrants of any party.
Leaving aside the release of the additional Jan 6 footage and how it may or may not change our view of US history —- I must say that I am sorry for believing the dominant legacy-media “narrative” pretty completely from the time it was rolled out, without asking questions.
Those who violently entered the Capitol or who engaged in violence inside of it, must of course be held accountable. (As must violent protesters of every political stripe anywhere.)
But in addition, anyone in leadership who misrepresented to the public the events of the day so as to distort the complexity of its actual history — must also be held accountable.
Jan 6 has become, as the DNC intended it to become, after the fact, a “third rail”; a shorthand used to dismiss or criminalize an entire population and political point of view.
Peaceful Republicans and conservatives as a whole have been demonized by the story told by Democrats in leadership of what happened that day.
So half of the country has been tarred by association, and is now in many quarters presumed to consist of chaotic berserkers, anti-democratic rabble, and violent upstarts, whose sole goal is the murder of our democracy.
Republicans, conservatives, I am sorry.
I also believed wholesale so much else that has since turned out not to be as I was told it was by NPR, MSNBC and The New York Times.
I believed that stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop were Russian propaganda. Dozens of former intel officials said so. Johns Hopkins University said so. “Trump specifically cited a “laptop” that contained emails allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden”, said ‘CNN Fact-Check’, with plenty of double quote marks.
I believed this all — til it was debunked.
I believed that President Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia — until that assertion was dropped.
I believed that President Trump was a Russian asset, because the legacy media I read, said so.
I believed in the entire Steele dossier, until I didn’t, because it all fell apart.
Was there in fact an “infamous pee tape”? So many other bad things were being said about the man — why not?
I believed that Pres Trump instigated the riot at the Capitol — because I did not know that his admonition to his supporters to assemble “peacefully and patriotically” had been deleted from all of the news coverage that I read.
Because of lies such as these in legacy media — lies which I and millions of others believed — half of our nation’s electorate was smeared and delegitimized, and I myself was misled.
It damages our nation when legacy media put words in the mouths of Presidents and former Presidents, and call them traitors or criminals without evidence.
It damages our country when we cannot tell truth from lies. This is exactly what tyrants seek — an electorate that cannot know what is truth and what is falsehood.
Through lies, half of the electorate was denied a fair run for its preferred candidate.
I don’t like violence. I do believe our nation’s capitol must be treated as a sacred space.
I don’t like President Trump (Do I not? Who knows? I have been lied to about him so much for so long, I can‘t tell whether my instinctive aversion is simply the habituated residue of years of being on the receiving end of lies).
But I like the liars who are our current gatekeepers, even less.
The gatekeepers who lie to the public about the most consequential events of our time — and who thus damage our nation, distort our history, and deprive half of our citizenry of their right to speak, champion and choose, without being tarred as would-be violent traitors – deserve our disgust.
I am sorry the nation was damaged by so much untruth issued by those with whom I identified at the time.
I am sorry my former “tribe” is angry at a journalist for engaging in —- journalism.
I am sorry I believed so much nonsense.
Though it is no doubt too little, too late —
Conservatives, Republicans, MAGA:
I am so sorry.
OK Naomi… which political Party do you owe allegiance to now that you have bared your soul? One lied to all of us then and still does.Remember sweety….the media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the most traitorous group ever to be in charge in DC. Walk off… and we will believe your tears.
No one should owe allegiance to a political party over allegiance to their country – and even allegiance to the country should not be blind allegiance.
More importantly, now that you realize what they were able to do to a president of the United States.
Think of how many other lies smears and misrepresentations you have been fed about Right wingers and their politics over the years.
Kudos to Naomi for her sincere apology. I expect she will feel even more remorse as she learns the full extent of the lies told about J6.
All those who have stood up against government lies and tyranny know her apology will cost her many so-called “friends” and financial benefits, She knows this, yet she did it anyway. We owe her our honest respect for her courage to do the right thing.
If you want to live….
NEVER TRUST THE GOVERNMENT.
NEVER RELY ON THE GOVERNMENT.
The government is not your friend, nor your protector.
At the start of the lockdown hysteria one of my neighbours said that we should trust the government.
She probably took all the injections and boosters, she became increasingly suffering with dementia and is no longer with us.
Was it due to the injections? Nobody knows if it was a coincidence or not but I know too many people who have suffered, one can no longer walk, another dead, another had a stroke and another who’s cancer has run rampant and is on death’s door. Plus those suffering from eye problems and ear problems all since the injections.
Trust the government? Trust the science? Trust the media? Trust the World pHarma Organisation? Trust the WEF?
They can and should all go to hell.
Thanks Mo. I also wonder about cases of people I know. Was it due to the Vax? Nobody knows, and there is no way to find out.
Democrat governors also stuffed elderly in rest homes like sardines. The resu,t was the most at-risk population succumbed to death as a result.
The fatal incompetence of these governors never interested the press (i.e. enablers); they were too busy covering nauseating suck-up awards to Andy Cuomo by Billy Cristol & other giddy actors.
Incompetent or deliberately implementing Agenda 21 now 2030?
It’s both.
They’re incompetent to begin with. They indulge their scheming nature to deliberately implement ruin. (They’re nihilists – it’s what they do.)
Mo de Profit, let me assure you that all did not listen to this bogus government, though my heart weeps for those who did. I refused the vaccine and still do. I am in the age group of the elderly at risk and had Covid. I took the vitamins and minerals recommended. My doctor ordered the infusion that was cancelled because it works. I did not die, nor did I end up in the hospital or with multiple problems like those who’ve taken every new injection offered by these crooks and thieves. God gives us a brain and wisdom when we ask Him.
I commend Ms. Naomi for her heart felt apology. May we all learn it’s impossible to erase our words from the hearts and minds of history. Be very sure you’ve asked God for wisdom, then listened for His guidance before you speak. And when you speak, speak absolute truth.
Learning should be a lifelong experience. Naomi is, like all thinking people, moving to the right following the last three hysterical years.
“Patriots” or “insurgents” (depending on who you are) entering the Capitol can be part of a real event that is also exploited or manipulated by others. We don’t know yet if this is the case in relation to the events of Jan 6, or to what extent it may be the case. “
Oh we do, it was 100% beyond reasonable doubt that the administration did this to get rid of Donald Trump forever.
Just like they recommended warp speed vaccine development, they knew before hand that the mRNA was deadly to many but it guarantees them someone’ to blame. The warp speed was not about developing a vaccine it was about PRODUCING the product, planned in advance.
Anyone who counters the narrative is silenced by the globalist elites.
Just as you were Naomi.
Every cop that began firing on that static crowd lured into the ellipsis should be required to testify under oath before a congressional committee.
They need to be asked why they began firing on a complacent crowd of patriots for half an hour & who the piece-of-shit was that gave the order. (Mr. Kevin Greeson was the 1st fatality of that DC initiating the mayhem – his eye slammed with a pellet.)
The cops that beat Rosane Boyland to death require prison time.
The skittish coward that shot Ashly needs to share a prison cell with Chauvin (and Chauvin needs to be fully pardoned asap)
Every sack-of-shit that helped knowingly spread the lie about officer Sicknick should be brought to a podium & forced to fully retract & apologize. That includes DC cop Dunn, *Biden, & Liz Cheney.
Thank-you so much, Naomi. I have very much appreciated your views during the “pandemic.”
While many appreciate your written apology, I have to question, even after all the lies that you’ve listed by Democrats, you still instinctively believe them. You’ve even written about the Covid lies extensively, and the corrupt way it was handled by the Democrats. Yet, in typical knee jerk reaction you continued to believe all the blatant lies about Trump/conservatives/Republicans.
You know the media is corrupt. Yet, time after time, by your own admission, you readily believe the lying media and Democrats. It is only until the lie is clearly demolished and obliterated that you realize it was another scam by Democrats. That’s too late.
How can someone who’s as intelligent as Naomi continue to fall hook, line and sinker for every lie that comes out of the Dems mouths?
Naomi willfully and ignorantly believes what comes out of the media until it’s too late.
I didn’t notice any mention of the two protestors who were killed by the actions of the police. Maybe they are from the wrong party to expect sympathetic treatment?!
And you mention the video was “leaked”. No it was not. It was released by the newly-elected Speaker of the House. The leaking was done over the prior two years by the Democrats in order to portray their spin on the event!
Ray,
It’s 3 protesters when you include Kevin Greeson. His heart attack was induced when his eye was slammed by a pellet from a “sting”bomb.
He was the 1st casualty when DC cops began firing on a static, complacent crowd.
Hence, it was Nancy’s personal goon squad that initiated the turmoil.
Dr. Wolf’s intelligence is at odds with her credulity. Therefore, the problem lies in the way she employs her intelligence.
There are many reasons why intelligent persons can be deceived. Thinking analytically is difficult. ALL of us have ways of easily making quick assessments that might be inaccurate.
Dr. Wolf’s emotions LEAD her reasoning, or she would not say she dislikes Trump but is unsure of the reason. Women are more likely to succumb to this weakness, but men are not immune. She must re-evaluate her FEELINGS of dislike for President Trump and force her reasoning to guide her emotions (rather than vice versa).
If she still dislikes Trump, at least she will be able to know WHY and have logical reasons for doing so. Until she does this, her opinions have little value.
Then there is the 3rd step. Where you decide that you could never vote for the DemoRat, and you may not be fond of Trump, but you are able to separate your emotions and vote for what they do. Not necessarily what they say. Or what the MSM say’s “he said.”
For many decades now the lame stream media has “cherry-picked, hyped, spun, and in some ways appear to have lied about” just about everything.
This is exactly why a vast majority of Americans don’t believe anything you say
Too little too late mam people have lost their freedom and an election was stolen only to end up wrecking our country. IF and I say IF you are really remorseful then action on your part is necessary. Prove by action you mean what you say, or else it is all blather.
Apology accepted. Thank you Ms Wolf for your sincerity.
If enogh people of good will could come together, we could bring America back from the brink.
I appreciate her willingness to admit her mistake in light of the number of people she influences. However, even if enough good people come together, we have waited far to long to get through this without a battle royal. And the problem truly is what we call “good” people don’t have a smidgen of the courage our forefathers did. But we all need to remember God has the last word. He is in control…even when we think we are. And He tells us “If My people, who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sins and heal their land.” Most Americans have a great deal to learn about humility. But humility before God is essential.
Thank you, Naomi. May others be as brave and honest.
Propaganda is the most powerful tool in the democrats’ drawer.. Many millions of us knew from the get-go that the J6 tapes the democrats aired were cherry picked and edited by a professional, not because we know professionally edited video, but because we know democrats.
“My “Team” was taken in by full-spectrum propaganda about January 6.”
Because you and your team wanted to believe that. Otherwise you would have been looking for the true from the false
So the question is: why did you and your team want to believe that?
No apology needed…
What we all need to apologize for is… not supporting those real Patriots of America there on January 6th…
…thanks, Naomi. Takes courage to admit the Kool-Aid is tainted. Been watching your podcasts and your great work uncovering Covid malfeasance.
“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man pick’d out of ten thousand.” ~Hamlet to Polonious
I won’t hold my breath waiting for other lefties to join her. Shame.
TRUMP WON! TRUMP WON! TRUMP WON!
One question remains, and needs to be answered. Was there collusion between the Pelosi demarcates and the intelligence community? Did the FBI in anyway encourage the breach of the building in hopes of the entrapment of Trump supporters? Will Ray Epps face a real investigation in relation to the FBI? Did they count on and encourage the presence of Atifa or other anti Trump groups to take part in Jan. 6th? We know that the FBI was involved in the Russian Hoax. Having not been held accountable for what they did then, why would they not continue their efforts against Trump, and his followers, during, the Jan. 6th rally. Ray Epps certainly did encourage people to “go into the capitol” starting January 5th. How many others might there have been that were not exposed in the same way as Epps?
I hope you continue to talk to “your tribe” and plant the seeds for their eventual awakening. You’re in a better position than we are. You have the credentials.
So does this mean she is now awake rather than woke.
I guess she at least admits her faults that she swallowed all the lies from the MSM however I wonder how she can be so inside the Beltway and not see it when Im not even in America and I seen it very clearly.
So she seems like one of the many idiots that dislike the one President that claims.. ” We need to get out of these endless Wars, stop being the Policeman of the World and stop sending vast amounts of Cash over to countries that openly hate us and use that money instead to rebuild the infrastructure of America”..
Trump made the deal with the Tali Boys in Kabul and he told them that if ONE American dies from the moment we sign this deal and the moment we leave Afghanistan that I will bomb your home, with you and your family inside it… and then he handed the Tali Leader an actual photo of where his house and family live..
13 Marines died and Old Joe left the Tali Boys a whole lotta weapons…
Biden is a traitor, should be charged with treason.
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It’s a very nice open letter, Ms. Wolf; most of us know you from your brave analysis of the COVID virus and vaccine. Please consider two things, since you’ve come so far:
1) The reason for all those people coming to the capitol was to protest a stolen election. Since ‘journalists’ of the kind you’re dissociating from, with your mea culpa, have said over and over that Trump was lying about the 2020 results, maybe you can examine the train of lies that accompanied their declarations and ask yourself how far would you be willing to go to stop a fraud perpetrated on the American people;
2) the revulsion to violence is apparently not just your redline but also that of Chuck Grassley and John Kennedy–two senators that surprised me with their antagonism to Tucker’s movie night… what is there to fear from citizens seeing unredacted film? Everyone is against violence till the point it overwhelms, and then you must protect yourself. Ask yourself was it not a brave thing for those who showed up to back up their beliefs with a protest, like the Bonus Army? Were they not more sinned against than sinning? We threw off the British violently to win our independence. In hindsight, January 6 seems more like a trap sprung on normal people to facilitate a coup than a riot. A bridge too far for you?
Trump won the election Biden stole it with the help of the Globalists and there are still the pathetic little Pinheads who thinks trump Lost since they depend upon the M.S. Media for their News
You should apologize again for failing to recognize the distinction between information being LEAKED and info being RELEASED.
We know who gave what to whom in this instance.
In every Democrat narrative, the “leaker” was anonymous.
“ But you don’t have to agree with Mr Carlson’s interpretation of the videos, to believe, as I do, that he engaged in valuable journalism simply by airing the footage that was leaked to him.”
Jeez, Dr. Wolf, when are you going to just let the other shoe drop?
Thanks for doing the bare minimum and apologizing for perpetrating lies and contributing to thousands of people exercising their First Amendment rights to assembly and petition for redress of grievance spending years of their life in solitary confinement and being tortured by racist black guards for being White,followed by illegal imprisonment for many. It’s a very sad day in America when that warrants a thanks. Your apology will not restore the sight in Ryan Samsel’s eye or repair the brain damage he received from the vicious,inhumane, and brutal beating he received at the hands of racist D.C. jailers nor will it bring Ashli Babbitt back to life after having been murdered by the Capitol police that your tribe lionized in the wake of the deadly attack on January 6th protesters by the government.
You can grieve the poor broken windows at the Capitol building while we grieve our dead,our political prisoners, the loss of our fundamental rights,and the permanent loss of our voice in the political system as questionable future elections go unchallenged due to the chilling effect this “insurrection” hoax will have on patriotic Americans.
If Ms. Wolf is vexed that she fell prey to the lies of the Left, she should perhaps take some “solace” in the fact that the liars she now criticizes learned from the very best–Ms. Wolf herself. Naomi Wolf’s 30 years of scholarship–if one can call it that–is riddled with errors, distortions, unfair characterizations, and outright falsehoods all designed to indoctrinate generations of women to be suspicious of and hostile to men. If Ms. Wolf truly needs to feel apologetic about something, let it not be for when she was an innocent fooled by those with wicked intent—but let her truly feel remorse for when she was on the other side of that equation.
The M.S. Media need to appoligize for all its Lies and Fake News they gave us
Mark this day, Naomi. This is the day you “came out” to your liberal friends by calling out their liberal lies. Now, will you retreat back into your shell when they come for you? Will you reverse course again and promise them you’ll never stray again? This apology is theater if it’s not followed up with a “full throated” denunciation of so many more liberal lies. It’s time to choose, to pick your side and to boldly move forward. It’s time to choose life, not liberal lies.
It’s funny, I was telling people that I don’t trust Miss Wolf because she has done so much damage over the years. I would tell them that for someone who has done that needs to apologize for their mistakes.
After reading her letter, I must confess that I am impressed with the depth of her understanding, apology accepted.
Welcome into the light. Let’s hope we can save America before it’s too late!