Former Clinton advisor Naomi Wolf issued a formal apology to conservatives following the broadcast of never-before-seen January 6 footage by Tucker Carlson.
Wolf, a feminist journalist and Covid-19 skeptic who was once praised by Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan around the same time she helped President Bill Clinton reach female voters during his 1996 reelection campaign, has repudiated the left wing narrative of January 6 in an open apology to conservatives published via Substack.
“I was duped,” wrote Wolf, and “as a result I made mistakes in judgement,” which “hurt millions of other people” in “existential ways.”
She summarized, “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.”
Dr. Cornell West (left) and Dr. Naomi Wolf (right) (Michael Fleshman / Flickr)
Then, Wolf directly credited the footage aired by Carlson – which showed Capitol police officers appear to peacefully escort the so-called QAnon Shaman through the halls of Congress – and summarized how the video disproved the left’s claims about January 6, 2021:
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?
Wolf concluded, “Peaceful Republicans and conservatives as a whole have been demonized by the story told by Democrats in leadership of what happened that day,” meaning “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.” She added, “I am sorry the nation was damaged by so much untruth issued by those with whom I identified at the time.”
“I am sorry I believed so much nonsense.”
Wolf was once considered red meat for conservative when she admitted to fundamentally misrepresenting Victorian England’s supposed criminalization of homosexuality after a disastrous radio interview.
More recently, fact checkers have repeatedly accused Wolf of spreading false information about Covid-19.
