{"id":15305,"date":"2025-11-06T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/heritage-president-apologizes-for-carlson-defense-in-brutal-leaked-all-staff-meeting\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:20:28","slug":"heritage-president-apologizes-for-carlson-defense-in-brutal-leaked-all-staff-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/heritage-president-apologizes-for-carlson-defense-in-brutal-leaked-all-staff-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage president apologizes for Carlson defense in brutal leaked all-staff meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts apologized to staff for his controversial video defending Tucker Carlson, and faced brutal criticism from the think tank&#8217;s scholars for how he handled the matter, in a leaked all-staff meeting on Wednesday. &#8220;I made a mistake, and I let you down&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/5592407-heritage-foundation-carlson-controversy\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts apologized to staff for his controversial video defending Tucker Carlson, and faced brutal criticism from the think tank&#8217;s scholars for how he handled the matter, in a leaked all-staff meeting on Wednesday. &#8220;I made a mistake, and I let you down&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}