Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Two Fox News Contributors Quit in Protest of Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 Special
The New York Times ^ | Nov. 21, 2021 | Ben Smith

Posted on 11/22/2021 2:52:56 AM PST by nikos1121

The trailer for Tucker Carlson’s special about the Jan. 6 mob at the Capitol landed online on Oct. 27, and that night Jonah Goldberg sent a text to his business partner, Stephen Hayes: “I’m tempted just to quit Fox over this.” “I’m game,” Mr. Hayes replied. “Totally outrageous. It will lead to violence. Not sure how we can stay.” The full special, “Patriot Purge,” appeared on Fox’s online subscription streaming service days later. And last week, the two men, both paid Fox News contributors, finalized their resignations from the network. “I’m game,” Mr. Hayes replied. “Totally outrageous. It will lead to violence. Not sure how we can stay.” The full special, “Patriot Purge,” appeared on Fox’s online subscription streaming service days later. And last week, the two men, both paid Fox News contributors, finalized their resignations from the network. In some ways, their departures should not be surprising: It’s simply part of the new right’s mopping up operation in the corners of conservative institutions that still house pockets of resistance to Donald J. Trump’s control of the Republican Party. Mr. Goldberg, a former National Review writer, and Mr. Hayes, a former Weekly Standard writer, were stars of the pre-Trump conservative movement. They clearly staked out their positions in 2019 when they founded The Dispatch, an online publication that they described as “a place that thoughtful readers can come for conservative, fact-based news and commentary.” It now has nearly 30,000 paying subscribers.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: breaking; didyousearch; hayesandgoldberg; jarjarfatberg; quitagain; stephenhayes
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-38 next last
They founded the Dispatch in 2019 and they now have 30,000 paid readers?

Hmmm. I just sauntered over there. You can join and have access to their podcasts and news releases for free, or pay $100 per month.

I really question if they have any paying customers.

1 posted on 11/22/2021 2:52:56 AM PST by nikos1121
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: nikos1121

Bye Felicia!

CC


2 posted on 11/22/2021 2:58:28 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nikos1121
Totally outrageous. It will lead to violence.

How is it ‘outrageous’? Or are you just making crap up ?

3 posted on 11/22/2021 3:06:09 AM PST by Altura Ct.
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nikos1121
Where can I watch Tucker Carlson's special?

Anyone have a direct link?

4 posted on 11/22/2021 3:06:38 AM PST by Jess Kitting
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nikos1121

they offered lifetime memberships early on at a discount.


5 posted on 11/22/2021 3:07:08 AM PST by conservative98
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

Goldberg was always a hack.


6 posted on 11/22/2021 3:10:38 AM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: escapefromboston

His mother was a beut too. Wasn’t she the one who egged Linda Tripp to tape Monica Lewinsky?

Steven Hayes has always been the guy who gets it wrong.

Goldberg is in that same category as that other idiot, with the glasses who was kicked off Fox whose name, thank God escapes me. Oh yeah, George Will.


7 posted on 11/22/2021 3:23:00 AM PST by nikos1121 (It was a really super cold, dark and windy night.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: escapefromboston

Never liked him.

If they’re going to be Liz Cheney “Republicans” they should have quit over Kyle Rittenhouse.


8 posted on 11/22/2021 3:23:54 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: nikos1121

I can’t stand those two.


9 posted on 11/22/2021 3:24:03 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nikos1121

At one point, the Weekly Standard had a fair number of subscribers (I was even one for a two-year period), but as things developed around 2015/2016 and the Trump era....it was garbage.

As for getting hyper over the 6th of January effort, it just settles upon my mind that when people try to make a big deal out of it....the crowd within the building had a arsenal of backpacks, water bottles, and flag poles. That was it. If you tried to suggest insurrection to some Iraqi or Syrian...over water bottles, they’d just laugh you out of the room.


10 posted on 11/22/2021 3:26:51 AM PST by pepsionice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Altura Ct.

Truth gets crucified ya know


11 posted on 11/22/2021 3:52:49 AM PST by aces (and )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: nikos1121

Goldberg is a never Trumper who bought into some of the Russian collusion lies:

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg fell for NPR’s false story about Trump Jr.’s testimony. In a column of Mueller probe fan fiction (really!), he lashes out at those who are frustrated by the epidemic of false news reports and defends his error on the grounds it was an “entirely plausible story.” For all of NeverTrump’s moralistic attacks on Trump for being dishonest, it’s strange to see one of their leading lights defend falling for a falsehood and spreading it around, because it might have been true in an alternate universe. Conservatives used to mock the laughable media standard of “fake but accurate” but many have now apparently decided that “fake but plausible” is fine.

Goldberg claims he’s completely neutral in the overarching discussion of the conspiracy theory regarding Trump and Russia, but adds that Trump’s “true nature” will be exposed and “he will not look good in this fight.” Also, Mueller is “the only major player here who deserves the benefit of the doubt” and that “the one thing I know he cares about is the facts.”

Goldberg further says that those who criticize Mueller are “grifters” who are slandering him. More telling than any of that is his utter lack of curiosity about the manifest improprieties at the Department of Justice. I’m going to be honest: I’m not entirely sure this suggests neutrality or anything even close to it.

https://thefederalist.com/2018/12/03/nevertrump-clings-to-russia-collusion-conspiracy-theory-despite-lack-of-evidence/


12 posted on 11/22/2021 3:53:28 AM PST by lowbridge
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lowbridge

Nobody wanted them around. Even Bret B was tired of of the garbage.


13 posted on 11/22/2021 3:56:37 AM PST by blackberry1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: nikos1121

Jonah Goldberg?

No loss at all.


14 posted on 11/22/2021 4:03:53 AM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nikos1121
They clearly staked out their positions in 2019 when they founded The Dispatch, an online publication that they described as “a place that thoughtful readers can come for conservative, fact-based news and commentary.” It now has nearly 30,000 paying subscribers.

$1,200 a year, nah, they ain't got 30,000 people paying for their slop.

johnah goldberg needs a haircut and a dentist, and steve hayes is so full of himself that even his own family can't stand him.

15 posted on 11/22/2021 4:06:42 AM PST by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nikos1121

Self-promoted “Conservatives”, who morphed to Anti-Trump Losers...

Be gone vile weeds...!


16 posted on 11/22/2021 4:10:11 AM PST by MCEscherHammer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nikos1121

Now if only Chris Wallace, Neil Cavuto, Juan Williams, and Geraldo Rivera would join them.


17 posted on 11/22/2021 4:25:19 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo

Geraldo and Juan are controlled opposition. They are there to be slapped down. It is there job.

Cavuto and Wallace are deep staters there to promote the corporatist narrative of the FOX exec’s and are what is wrong with MSM journalism.


18 posted on 11/22/2021 4:36:38 AM PST by UNGN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: blackberry1

“...stars of the pre-Trump conservative movement.” In whose eyes?


19 posted on 11/22/2021 4:59:19 AM PST by Bookshelf
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: nikos1121
From Tucker's twitter feed


20 posted on 11/22/2021 5:07:19 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-38 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson