Posted on 03/10/2023 8:38:45 AM PST by TigerClaws
You have made a very good start.
While it’s still quite early for me, I am definitely having trouble understanding the direction (to whom) your comments were about.
It reads as if you were implying that the person you were addressing was a Republican and okay with what is being done as long as it’s Republicans doing it.
Please, forgive me if I misread it.
As an American who just happens to be a Republican I am *outraged* at the behavior of Republicans in power who have aligned themselves with evil over the years and are doing it unto this day.
:ting ting ting:
Aw, look. Naomi found the one with bells on it! Isn't that adorable?
I stood up to the oppressors as they were oppressing, it would have been easy to go along and let big government do what they wanted and then after the fact say, oops my bad. She condoned the actions, the ridicule and now says sorry. Please, she knows the truth is coming out and she wants to save her ass.
I stood up to the oppressors as they were oppressing, it would have been easy to go along and let big government do what they wanted and then after the fact say, oops my bad. She condoned the actions, the ridicule and now says sorry. Please, she knows the truth is coming out and she wants to save her ass.
What in the wide world does your post even mean?
And, she wants to save her @$$ from WHAT, exactly?? What “truth” is coming out, that she is fearful of?
Ah.
Your posting makes sense, now. :)
As she said, though, she cannot ‘unsee’ somethings.
It’s going to be a tough walk for her.
Apologizing had to be painful in the sense she knew that for many, it was indeed, “too little, too late.” Especially if sincere, it will be such a weight and will affect her outlook at anything she’s now shown by the left.
I truly hope her walk is real.
“there is no true sorrow... she will continue to do what she has done and she has no readiness to see justice done.
she circles around her apology with an equivalent of “oops, my bad”, without realizing the torture, torment and travesty she has wrought upon us all.
YMMV with your virtue signalling and calls for forgiving them when they had no compassion to the people they were wronging.”
____
As I said earlier, look at the number of times she admits she was lied to, yet still she returned to those same news sites for their “truth” as to the news. Each time she believed them although she admits they lied to her. And, those news sites are still her “go to” news sources. She will believe the next lie they tell her and once again be aghast when she finds out they led her astray. It’s much like returning to an abusing boyfriend and then apologizing to your friends after they have to come recuse you yet again.
You would think a person would have stopped vilifying the sources who got the story right, as she has done so much in the past, while she jumped on the conspiracy theories and mis-information bandwagon,and instead bookmark those sites while deleting the ones who have proven untruthful.
My goodness, it is not as if the truth on every lie she has believed over the past six years was not available if she had looked for it. The Federalist, Emerald Robinson, Julie Kelley, John Solomon, Greg Jarrett, Aaron Mate (at RCP), and Matt Taibbi to list just a few have been posting the truth on every issue she listed. From Russian/Trump collusion to the January 6th narrative. Did she not ever go read any of those articles that were supported by evidence? She didn’t believe the government narrative on Covid, but she trusted them on everything else?
So, I don’t think this is as much an apology as it is an excuse for being wrong (everyone else I know believed it, so who can blame me?). She is one who wants the “amnesty” for spreading lies without actually admitted she wanted to believe those lies, so we shouldn’t blame her for it.
“Naomi Wolf, like Susan Faludi, was a hard core feminist until she strayed slightly off the reservation”
Tammy Bruce, too.
I think Naomi is the one tasked with changing Gore into an alpha male in 2000.
“What I liked about this essay was that it was straightforward, no double talk”
She writes the way she speaks. I enjoy listening to her when she’s on War Room.
Don’t mistake me for some kind of brainless peace-nik who has never observed the behavior of Leftists. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I have spent plenty of time in close contact on the opposite side of protest lines with them, more than the majority of people on this forum. I have seen and experienced close up their vile behavior. My observation is in no way an execrable “give peace a chance” endeavor, a slogan I despise with a burning passion, almost as much as “Imagine there’s no country...”.
I am not “embracing” this person. But I am giving someone room to change their mind.
And as far as I am concerned, that piece she wrote contains a lot of unequivocal admissions about how wrong she was about a lot of things.
She wasn’t hedging about it. I don’t know about you, but I have read a lot things written by Leftists as I approach my seventh decade of life that might be construed as them coming around to “our” side, but they always hedge to give themselves an out, or to evade responsibility for their decisions.
I saw very little of that in that piece she wrote. That could not have been easy to write.
Also, keep in mind that some of the most fervent Conservatives on our side did not start out that way in their lives. David Horowitz is one that comes to mind, and he was further to the Left than 95% of the moonbats we see out there today, someone who was wholly in the camp of a radical enemy dedicated to destroying this country.
Another is Whittaker Chambers. A dedicated Communist wholly devoted to the subjugation of freedom. Yet, in the end, he had to renounce all he had stood for his entire life and embrace liberty.
As for us, we may indeed be in a fight to the death to save this wonderful country of ours from people still classified legally as our fellow Americans, though many of them would be more at home in The People’s Republic of China. Maybe it is too late for this country. Maybe we have shot our bolt. Maybe we are indeed finished, and death and dissolution is the only thing that awaits the United States of America because we have decided that the people we share this country with are our un-repentant and un-reachable enemies, as no doubt many of them are.
I am not there yet. I still hold out hope that this country can be held together in some way. Somehow, someway. I see it as a long shot.
All that said, I will take comfort that you or someone like you will be up in that elevated nest keeping an eye on things, because a free people need that too. So, I will say Thank You.
More importantly, she’s re-examining the “WHY” of her re-think.
To realize she is wrong about Trump is one thing.
To realize “WHY” she was wrong...what it was that caused her to think that way, is quite another.
“your apology is worthless. your actions have ruined our great nation.”
She’s probably done more than anyone else to expose the horrors of the “vaccine”.
She has been spot on, on the jab adverse effects/Pfizer research. Here is but a small area of said topics, that she has covered....
https://warroom.org/?s=naomi+wolf
“It’s truly a phenomenon - what you don’t see until you do, then you never see things the same again.”
That’s how it was for the activist Brandon Straka. He hated Trump, especially because he believed the lie that PDJT was making fun of a handicapped person.
I think it was a lady who was his babysitter when he was little who helped educate him. She showed videos of Trump taken over years where he used the same gestures with his hands. Straka was shocked. He realized he had been lied to.
That took him to, “If they lied about that, what else have they lied about?”. So he did some research and learned that they had lied about everything. At that point he recognized the BS every time.
The Pentagon Papers is an interesting case.
Well it is not as if it was a continuous business. It had only been the restaurant for maybe the last 50-60 years. My mother visited in college for jukebox dances and casual soda-shop type entertainment. In the 19th century it was mostly a hotel rest stop type place.
So, from that sense not overly tragic.
(I’m trying to console myself!)
She’s highly educated
- - - - - - -
I think many courses are a waste of time, don’t develop good skills, and some are easier to pass if you’re stupid or are willing to pretend you’re a lunatic.
this letter is quite impressive.
i know some folks say ‘not accepted,’ but this is about as sincere and open an apology as you ever get from anyone.
the trump quote says volumes.
we need more like this.
which I guess is why fox has been pressured to shut down showing any more video.
I was glad (and pleasantly surprised) to read this article. It brings to mind the story in the Bible about the miraculous healing of the blind man, who was finally able to see. Hopefully many more leftists will have their eyes opened by all this nonsense that has been going on lately.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.