Posted on 11/22/2021 7:58:07 AM PST by Hojczyk
Following the departures of Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes from Fox News, a new report says the network has seen a significant level of an internal dispute over the conspiracy theories espoused by Tucker Carlson.
New York Times media columnist Ben Smith reported on Sunday that Goldberg and Hayes walked out because of Patriot Purge, Carlson’s 3-part Fox Nation docuseries about the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Fact-checkers and media commentators have been tearing Patriot Purge to shreds for boosting known propagandists and advancing unsubstantiated claims about January 6th.
NPR’s David Folkenflik reported on this development new details that had not yet been known: Senior Fox News figures voiced their own concerns about the dubious claims advanced by Patriot Purge and Fox’s opinion side. The report states that Bret Baier and Chris Wallace went as far as raising their objections to the network’s leaders.
The piece goes on to illustrate how Fox’s news division aired segments that distanced themselves from Carlson’s claims. Carlson declined to comment on that when reached by NPR, but he mocked Goldberg and Hayes over their leave-taking, saying it “will substantially improve the channel.”
“These are two of the only people in the world who still pretend the Iraq war was a good idea,” Carlson said. “No one wants to watch commentary that stupid.”
A Fox executive said the network had no intention of re-signing Steve Hayes or Jonah Goldberg when their contracts came up in 2022.
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FFNC
What a surprise.
Bret’s ratings are terrible. They should dump him.
Two down and two more to go. Don’t renew the contracts for Bret or Chrissie.
LOL- Tucker Carlson makes Fox more money in one week than these others makes in a year.
Freedom of the press - with an asterisk.
One thing about principles, if they have an asterisk, they’re not really principles at all.
Neither Bret Baier nor Chris Wallace are particularly friendly to the Constitutional conservative or the Constitutional libertarian points of view, and even their possible allegiance to the Establishment GOP is in question.
But hey, that is just the Faux version of “fair and balanced”.
I like Tucker, but I will not turn that channel on EVER AGAIN.
Baier always comes out acting all conservative when he is trying to pimp one of his books.
Tucker must be on the right track.
I would too, if the replacements aren’t also the types hoping to make Dems like them.
ping
Exactly! Hope they quit like Hayes and Goldberg!
Yes, I noticed.
Yes, I noticed.
Well, leave, then. I’m sure they’ll be very happy at CNN.
Totalitarian d-bags are so lacking in self-awareness that hypocrisy is just a natural feature of their personality.
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