Naomi Wolf has now devolved into full blown conspiracy nut.

[BradAllison]

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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-keeps-hosting-pandemic-conspiracy-theorist-naomi-wolf

The feminist writer Naomi Wolf garnered fame during the 1990s for her book The Beauty Myth and her work as an adviser to the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. But in recent years, she’s been better known for promoting an array of unhinged conspiracy theories, most recently regarding the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. This combination has made her a perfect guest for Fox News.

Fox is far more interested in turning coronavirus into a political cudgel than in giving users accurate health information. And so the network’s hosts lean on Wolf’s liberal credentials while giving her a platform to claim that the Democratic response to the pandemic is aimed at dissolving society and enacting a totalitarian state comparable to Nazi Germany.

Since mid-February, she appeared at least seven times on Fox to discuss her views on the pandemic: twice apiece on Tucker Carlson Tonight and The Revolution with Steve Hilton, and three times on Fox News Primetime, the most recent of which came Monday night. Wolf cited the notorious anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during that interview to argue that Dr. Anthony Fauci, Bill and Melinda Gates, the state of Israel, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were engaged in some sort of nebulous but sinister vaccine conspiracy.

It is irresponsible for a news outlet to give Wolf that sort of credulous attention. Her social media channels are littered with absurd claims about the virus and its vaccines. Between her first and second Fox appearances alone, she tweeted that a new technology allowed the delivery of “vaccines w nanopatticles that let you travel back in time”; that the Moderna vaccine is a “software platform” that allows “uploads”; and that due to face masks, children now lack “the human reflex that they when you smile at them they smile back” and have “dark circles under [their] eyes from low oxygen.”

[Mike Nelson]

1. Yikes!

... she's a nit! i wonder if it's an act, mental illness, or a real belief system?

[Politicub]

2. The right has created its own reality. Their discourse is often gibberish and

nonsense, and all of it is in service of white supremacy and autocracy, when it is all said and done.

Wolf has discovered how profitable it can be in the bubble, and now that’s her reality. At a minimum she is working overtime to project that she is a foot soldier.

[BradAllison]

3. The Carlson part is illuminating.

She was rightfully excoriated for her dumb book that hinged on her complete misunderstanding of a historical event and the meaning of words. Not that the typical FOX News viewer would care in any other way than for goofy Tucker to bash an alleged "liberal icon". But her deciding to turn around and rehabilitate her image by joining the FUX Snooze parade of horribles is pretty wild.

[Carlitos Brigante]

4. Makes me wonder if she's really this goddamn ignorant/unstable or if she just found a

"better gift".

[Sur Zobra]

5. Fox pays good money

Ellen Ratner, Mara Eliason, and Juan Williams have all made a lot of money by playing the compliant liberal for Fox. Heck even Ratner got plastic surgery in order to comply with Fox’s female “dress code”