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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.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: breaking; didyousearch; hayesandgoldberg; jarjarfatberg; quitagain; stephenhayes
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To: Chickensoup

Hayes either.

Would bet my house they both voted for Biden.

I would call them “has been’s” except I don’t think they ever were anything.


21 posted on 11/22/2021 5:13:29 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: blackberry1

Well that does say a lot. :)


22 posted on 11/22/2021 5:13:35 AM PST by OKSooner ("AFTER THE FAIR TRIAL!" Always say "After the Fair Trial.". )
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To: nikos1121

Worse was Goldberg’s father. Longtime Deep State media manipulator:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Arch_Conspirator/6NkTeLEY9qYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Sidney+Goldberg+cia+media&pg=PA75&printsec=frontcover

(Also explains why such a mediocrity as Jonah was given a golden media career from the NR on.)


23 posted on 11/22/2021 5:13:44 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Pollard

Ha ha.

https://thedispatch.com/p/why-we-are-leaving-fox-news


24 posted on 11/22/2021 5:14:40 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: nikos1121
Jonah Goldberg sent a text to his business partner, Stephen Hayes

“I’m tempted just to quit Fox over this.”

"TOTES!"

25 posted on 11/22/2021 5:16:03 AM PST by silent_jonny (Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, Joe. The feet are at the door (Acts 5:9) 9-18-21)
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To: nikos1121

“it will lead to violence”

They were shocked to find gambling in this casino


26 posted on 11/22/2021 5:17:34 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: Jess Kitting

Fox Nation

Subscription channel. It costs about $5/month


27 posted on 11/22/2021 5:29:02 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Chickensoup

Reminds me of the joke about:

What do you call a 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?

a good start.

I would call their departure from Fox News a good a start.


28 posted on 11/22/2021 5:31:29 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: nikos1121

Steven Hayes???

Isn’t he that Never Trumper Bill Kristol wanna be RINO???


29 posted on 11/22/2021 5:32:26 AM PST by BradtotheBone (When I die I want the GOP to be my Pallbearers, so they can let me down one last time.)
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To: 9YearLurker

I believe everything Tucker says


30 posted on 11/22/2021 5:41:45 AM PST by nikos1121 (It was a really super cold, dark and windy night.)
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To: BradtotheBone

And a reminder, Kristol isn’t just slithery and repulsive, he is pure evil. He was a prominent part of the “Project for a New American Century” (with Cheney and other noxious neocons) that published this in a major report (Rebuilding America’s Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in September 2000: https://cryptome.org/rad.htm):

“And advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.”


31 posted on 11/22/2021 5:50:14 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Mr. Mojo

Chris Wallace especially. He’s the worst.


32 posted on 11/22/2021 6:00:09 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: nikos1121

Good. They are both detestable Trump haters.


33 posted on 11/22/2021 6:04:56 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: nikos1121

Two Bush League flacks, no great loss..


34 posted on 11/22/2021 6:21:54 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: napscoordinator

Go easy on Mike Wallace Jr, he just lost two of his Sunday Morning Roundtable.


35 posted on 11/22/2021 6:23:24 AM PST by bray (Our patience is wearing thin Joe)
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To: nikos1121

FOX’s gain is the world’s loss.


36 posted on 11/22/2021 7:11:56 AM PST by stevem
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To: Jess Kitting

Fox Nation it’s free for one month.


37 posted on 11/22/2021 9:22:37 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: nikos1121

What will lead to violence? Misinformation in Tucker’s piece? Or when people find out what has happened?


38 posted on 11/22/2021 1:42:30 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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