I took a deep dive into Fox News' pattern of hosting Naomi Wolf -- seven appearances since mid-February, most recently last night -- who has spent the last 15 years pushing increasingly bonkers conspiracy theories, most recently related to the coronavirus. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-k… 
Tucker Carlson's Strange New Respect for Naomi Wolf in four images -- from kook whose book was debunked during a live radio interview, to useful coronavirus guest. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-k…
Wolf's social media is absolutely unhinged and paranoid stuff. This is not someone a credible news outlet would host in inform its viewers.
Tucker Carlson was first at the network to host Wolf. Here he is on her in 2019: "This woman calls herself Dr. Naomi Wolf. She’s advised presidential candidates.... She was a Rhodes Scholar. You and I were raised to believe that she was really impressive, but she’s really not.”
It's not new that Wolf pushes conspiracy theories -- in 2014, her bonkers claims that the U.S. fabricated ISIS beheading vids and was trying to create an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. as part of a plot to bring about a totalitarian state drew broad condemnation from right and left.
And please enjoy my personal favorite, Naomi Wolf's claim at a 2008 Ron Paul rally that her not receiving letters from her daughter at sleepaway camp indicated that the government was intercepting her mail:
But now her conspiracy theories have become useful to Fox. They are giving her a platform to say that the Democratic response to the pandemic is aimed at dissolving society and enacting a totalitarian state comparable to Nazi Germany. Not great!
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