Dear conservatives: I apologize

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….

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.

(via Common Cents)

[Be sure to read it all. This isn’t any non-apology apology. It’s as close to comprehensive as is humanly possible to get. But it’s not really Dr. Wolf who needs to apologize — it’s the media industry that published the farrago of lies, and the bureaucrats and elected officials that concocted them in the first place. — Ed]