The sadness, the agony!
Posted on 11/22/2021 11:54:36 AM PST by MNJohnnie
Fox News commentators Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes have quit the network, upset over a documentary about Jan. 6 that was produced by Tucker Carlson.
“With the release of ‘Patriot Purge,’ we felt we could no longer ‘do right as we see it’ and remain at Fox News. So we resigned,” they wrote in a joint post at The Dispatch, where both work.
“Patriot Purge” is a documentary series from Carlson about what took place on Jan. 6, when protesters and rioters breached the U.S. Capitol in Washington, interrupting a joint session of Congress that was certifying electoral votes.
A preview released earlier this month quotes officials and media personalities comparing the breach to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which Carlson argues is part of “pushing the lie of a domestic white terror army.”
“Jan. 6 is being used as a pretext to strip millions of Americans, disfavored Americans, of their core constitutional rights, and to defame them as domestic terrorists,” he said, adding that some of what has been promoted about what happened is untrue.
Goldberg and Hayes, part of a small group of conservatives who opposed former President Donald Trump for most of his time in office, said they see the documentary as part of a pattern at Fox of amplifying “false claims” and “bizarre narratives” of Trump.
“‘Patriot Purge’ creates an alternative history of January 6, contradicted not just by common sense, not just by the testimony and on-the-record statements of many participants, but by the reporting of the news division of Fox News itself,” they wrote.
Both men joined Fox in 2009. They primarily appeared on “Fox News Sunday” and “Special Report.”
A Fox executive told The Epoch Times in an email that the network had no intention of re-signing Hayes or Goldberg when their contracts came up in 2022.
The resignations drew praise from some, including Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who have both repeatedly attacked Trump in recent months.
Cheney said on Twitter that the men were “standing up for truth and calling out dangerous lies.”
Others panned the move, including Carlson, who sent out a promotion of the documentary that described it as the series “that drove Jonah Goldberg to an impotent rage.”
“Thank you to Jonah Goldberg and Steve Hayes for putting us out of our misery; now we don’t have to be accosted by your illogical and nonsensical takes while watching Fox News,” said Jennifer Van Laar, managing editor of Red State.
another team of lying scum.
If these two liars don’t like it, Patriot Purge must have a lot of facts in it.
If only Chrissy Wallace woulda joined em!!!
I want to know exactly what is in dispute. Lord knows the media narrative is almost certainly incorrect. Have they learned nothing from the difference between the media narrative and the evidence presented at the Rittenhouse trial? Or the Russian hoax narrative ?
Show the evidence or shut up.
Good riddance.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is a very sad disease. Once upon a time, Jonah G. was a mildly interesting and occasionally interesting voice on the center-right. He chose to destroy whatever sort of career he once had due to a wild-eyed mania to take down Donald Trump. He, like his confreres David French and Max Boot, has confined himself to utter irrelevance in the process. Good thing for Jonah that his wife Jessica Gavora is rich.
Yeah; good riddance.
William F Buckley would have helped Tucker narrate the Jan 6 documentary.
These two pricks didn’t even watch the documentary.
What can Tucker Carlson say to convince these low-lifes to leave the country?!?
They’re both being funded to attack Trump.
I assume so, but we can never be 100% sure as 2021 America might be an alien place to Buckley's Edmund Burke style conservatism.
LOL. Jonah would still be living in his mom Lucianne’s basement were it not for Monica Lewinsky.
Nice to see the trash take itself out.
Yes, great news...
Fox is better off.
Thanks guys.
The sadness, the agony!
They should start their own network, they could call it the dumbass channel.
Maybe, but maybe they'd love to hire a Tucker hater given he's wiping the floor with them.
I will wager a $100 they never watched it...their contracts were up, not to be renewed so they threw a hissy fit. Two pansies will not be missed.
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