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Stephen Hayes, a conservative journalist and and commentator who left Fox News last year over the company's publication of a controversial documentary about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is joining NBC News. Hayes, CEO of the political news and commentary website The Dispatch, will join NBC as a contributor and political analyst and is slated to appear on “Meet The Press” this Sunday, the network announced on Friday. "I’ve known and worked with Steve Hayes on and off for nearly 25 years. He is a principled reporter and analyst who always puts truth and facts above...

Famous never Trumpers Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes quit as contributors for Fox News in protest of Tucker Carlson’s January 6 documentary suggesting that the Capitol Hill riot may have in part been sparked by the FBI. In late October, as Carlson’s documentary hit the subscription service Fox Nation, Jonah Goldberg sent a text to Stephen Hayes wondering if he should quit the network. “I’m tempted just to quit Fox over this.” “I’m game,” Hayes replied. “Totally outrageous. It will lead to violence. Not sure how we can stay.” Speaking with the New York Times, Hayes and Goldberg said they...

All of their predictions are based on the conventional wisdom and assumptions of an insulted and excluded D.C. intelligentsia, and all are wrong. Media bias is an old constant. It has never and will never go away. A reporter or host can use all the proper, sanitized words he wants, but behind the scenes lie the decisions that went into which stories to pursue and which to drop; where to pull back and where to push forward; who to interview, who to skip; what is most important versus what can be buried or even cut.And then, of course, there’s the...

Former "National Review" columnist Jonah Goldberg and Steve Hayes of the now-defunct Weekly Standard have launched a conservative media company called The Dispatch. “We aim to make The Dispatch a place that thoughtful readers can come for conservative, fact-based news and commentary that doesn’t come either through the filter of the mainstream media or the increasingly boosterish media on the right. Importantly, we want to build a genuine community, with regular engagement between those of us who work here and the readers and listeners who will pay our salaries," Goldberg and Hayes write on the company's website. Visitors of the...

Former Weekly Standard editor-in-chief Steve Hayes and National Review's Jonah Goldberg will be joining forces to launch a new conservative media company, according to a Thursday report. The Axios report comes just three months after The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine that was critical of President Trump that has been printing since 1995, announced it would be ceasing publication. The report says Goldberg and Hayes, who are currently seeking investors, plan "a reporting-driven, Trump-skeptical company that will begin with newsletters as soon as this summer, then add a website in September, and perhaps ultimately a print magazine." It adds that...

A federal judge is ordering the State Department to try again to find emails top Hillary Clinton aides wrote about the Benghazi attack. U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the State Department had not done enough to try to track down emails in the official government accounts for Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Jacob Sullivan related the 2012 terror attack that left four Americans dead. ... Mehta ruled that the State Department must now search through its own internal records, which it previously neglected to do. ... He said it was obvious, however, that the State Department was...

The other day, Steve Hayes had this piece up at the Weekly Standard. In it, he noted that Cruz was running a video positing himself as the heir to the Ron Paul Revolution. You'd never even know Rand was running. Rand Paul, after all, was the fusion candidate who was going to bring libertarians and conservatives together along for a ride against the left. It has not happened. Rand Paul's campaign has imploded. And now, if you scroll down in this article towards the end you will find this blurb: "Former Georgia congressman and Libertarian candidate for president Bob Barr...

Things got pretty heated last night on Megyn Kelly's show when Steve Hayes debated Trump apologist Roger Stone on whether Trump mocked reporter Serge Kovalevski and whether Trump actually saw "thousands and thousands of Muslims" celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11 ... Ms. Kelly asked Roger Stone "you're telling me that motion that he did with his hands was not an attempt to mock a reporter who's covered him for 20 years and who he's on a first name basis with?" Stone's first attempt to answer was to deflect the question: ...

(FULL TITLE) ‘A HUGE Double Standard:’ Steve Hayes Blasts Media Over Walker Questioning In Obama/Christian Story [VIDEO] Reacting to The Washington Post’s interview with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in which he said he isn’t sure President Barack Obama is a Christian, columnist Steve Hayes blasted the media for it’s “huge double standard” when it comes to GOP candidates.Hayes told “Mediabuzz” host Howard Kurtz there is a “huge double standard” with the media’s treatment of Walker and other potential GOP candidates for the White House, adding that the real story within The Post’s story isn’t being talked about by the mainstream...

During the panel discussion on Special Report, Steve Hayes schooled Juan Williams on Tax-Cuts, and why the Democrats can not win the argument on raising everyones taxes during a recession. Steve Hayes comments even left Charles Krauthammer speechless. Jaun had absolutely no response at all when Steve finished with him.

Here is video of Steve Hayes on Fox News reacting to President Obama's claim that "I am not an ideologue." Hayes said that was one of the "single most ridiculous thing" Obama said in his appearance before the House Republican Conference. Hayes said the fact Obama believes his Health Care Plan was "centrist" shows how ideological he really is, because no one else - especially the American People - considers it to be "centrist." . . . (VIDEO)