Every month or so, while chatting with sources at Fox News, I express my surprise that Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes are still working for the network. The two men were fact-based conservative thinkers who refused to surrender to Donald Trump. Unfortunately, Fox viewers rarely hear from them. This year they were so booked by network manufacturers that their contracts were likened to golden cuffs.
Now they are taking off the cuffs. Hayes and Goldberg announced Sunday night that they had resigned from Fox. Bag Written in a blog post for The Dispatch, their online homepage, that Tucker Carlson’s propaganda film “Patriotic Purge” was the last straw.
“Fox News still covers facts, and there are conservatives who have a responsibility to provide valuable opinion and analysis,” Written. “But the voices of those responsible are being drowned out by those who are irresponsible,” and Carlson is a case in point. CNN and many other news agencies have description How the “Patriotic Purge” is disturbing evidence of right-wing extremism, complete with January 6 denialism and paranoid depictions of a “new war on terror” ” aimed at Republicans. Goldberg and Hayes simply couldn’t take it anymore.
Ben Smith, New York Times media columnist, who bankrupt news of Sunday’s resignation, called Carlson up to react, and the trollish host spontaneously celebrated, speech “our viewers will be grateful” that Goldberg and Hayes are gone. But the conservative movement will suffer because of it.
Representative Liz Cheney, one of the leading Republican critics of Trump and the Big Lie, tweeted thanked the two men “for standing up to the truth and pointing out dangerous lies.”
A rare inside view of Fox
Goldberg, in a phone interview with Smith, which provides a rare glimpse into Fox’s political standing. Per Smith, “Goldberg said that ‘he and Hayes’ stayed at Fox News as long as they did, realizing from conversations at Fox that, following Mr. Trump’s defeat, the network would attempt to revive a number of his independence and as he put it, ‘right the ship.’ “But Fox’s decision to promote and publish ‘The Patriot Purge’ in early November is ‘a sign that people are at peace with the way things are going, and at least not with a plan. What’s the plan, Goldberg said.
In Sunday night’s post on The Dispatch, two commentators said the “Patriot Purge” web series “creates an alternate history of January 6, contradicted not only by common sense.” , not only by the testimony and testimony in the files of many of the participants. , but by the reporting of Fox News itself.”
Hayes and Goldberg praise the “news side” (which is constantly shrinking at Fox) but acknowledge that the opinion side has radicalized. “The release of ‘Patriot Purge’ is not an isolated incident,” they wrote, “it is merely the most severe example of an age-old trend.” So they went out. “We do not regret our decision,” they concluded, “even if we find it regrettably necessary.”
FOR RECORDS
– Jonathan Martin of NYT framed Resignation news like “Fox has chosen, no.” My interpretation: Fox continues to side with the pro-Trump populist establishment over the more rational, intellectual voice of the GOP…
– Former VP Pence aide turns to Trump administration critic Olivia Troye Written, “Thanks to Jonah Goldberg & Stephen Hayes for standing with the truth against a dangerous business going on.”
– Conservative writer Bill Kristol sent two men name “to stand up for Fox, yell at Stop, at a time when very few other conservatives are inclined to do so, or to have a lot of patience with those who so urge it…”
– Freelance writer Dan Froomkin’s reaction: “We should ALL get rid of Fox Noise. And fact-based journalists should work to remove America from it…”
– “Steve and Jonah are two of the bravest journalists in this whole mess,” David Brooks tweeted. “They’ve taken positions that have a real cost. Think of support Documentary. “
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