LOLOL....Who? Didn't even recognize them
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.
F*ck these a**holes.
Exactly
People like these are media gadflies. They flit from one media outlet to another as paid “contributors.” I haven’t been watching much TV news since the 2020 elections, but happened to tune into FOX the other night. I was surprised to see Goldberg on as a “contributor,” although what he contributes escapes me. He and others like him seem to be perpetual adolescent hall monitor types who hyperventilate whenever anyone “disobeys” them. (By disobey, I mean disagree of course.) I’ll continue to happily ignore them.
The Lincoln project has openings for Tiki Torch holders, so good news somebody will want you two.
GOOD RIDDANCE !!!
Have to laugh at how the media a-holes are framing this news...”Conservative Commentators Resign from FOX News”.
Like Goldberg and Hayes are conservatives...what a joke these two are.
Yes to hell with the new left leaning National Review and Jonah’s liberal ass.
If Chris and Neil leave I may forgive Fox and renew my subscription.
They must’ve found better opportunities at the candy factory, putting fudge into boxes and taping them shut...
Don’t let the door hit ya where the Lord split ya!
Where is there to go for these guys? Nowhere. They based their taken on Trump, not by results, but on some fashion code designed by thieving and lying Democrats. What does that say about these two Laurel and Hardy clowns?... not much.
Goldberg and Hayes quitting is a good sign, now if Wallace and Baier would leave, maybe we could get better news instead of their slanted anti Trump mantra.
Be warned Fox, you don’t have a Comcast or a Disney that will treat you as a tax write-off when you hemorrhage cash.
Hope they didn’t let the door hit them in the a$$ on the way out.
Time to destroy RINOs of all types.
LOLOL....Who? Didn't even recognize them
Now that they quit the burning question is”Will they just SHUT UP ?”
Good Riddance.
The people who broke windows and doors and assaulted USCP officers to get into the Capitol on January 6th deserve what they get.
January 6th is being politicized in order to demonize anyone who doesn't support the liberal agenda.
Hayes is a brett Baier pal and pretty much a nobody along with the rest of the weekly standard democrats posing as conservatives.
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