SFGATE: Right-wing writer apologizes for tweet mocking survivors

Right-wing writer apologizes for tweet mocking survivors
Published on February 21, 2018 at 03:21PM by Jon Levine, provided by

Conservative polemicist Dinesh D’Souza apologized on Wednesday for an “insensitive” tweet mocking survivors of last week’s deadly Florida school shooting. “While it aimed at media manipulation, my tweet was insensitive to students who lost friends in a terrible tragedy. I’m truly sorry,” he wrote in a rare public backtracking on Twitter. While it aimed at media manipulation, my tweet was insensitive to students who lost friends in a terrible tragedy. I’m truly sorry — Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) February 21, 2018 For D’Souza, no stranger to controversial right-wing opinion, it was a rare admission that he had gone too far.
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