{"id":1041759,"date":"2021-11-21T21:43:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T02:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1041759"},"modified":"2021-11-21T21:43:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T02:43:30","slug":"never-trumpers-jonah-goldberg-stephen-hayes-quit-fox-news-in-protest-of-tucker-carlsons-january-6-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/never-trumpers-jonah-goldberg-stephen-hayes-quit-fox-news-in-protest-of-tucker-carlsons-january-6-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Trumpers Jonah Goldberg, Stephen Hayes Quit Fox News in Protest of Tucker Carlson&#039;s January 6 Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnever-trumpers-jonah-goldberg-stephen-hayes-quit-fox-news-in-protest-of-tucker-carlsons-january-6-documentary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1041759&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/august2021-tucker-carlson-fox-gettyimages-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Famous never Trumpers Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes quit as contributors for Fox News in protest of Tucker Carlson\u2019s January 6 documentary suggesting that the Capitol Hill riot may have in part been sparked by the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>In late October, as Carlson\u2019s documentary hit the subscription service Fox Nation, Jonah Goldberg sent a text to Stephen Hayes wondering if he should quit the network.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m tempted just to quit Fox over this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m game,\u201d Hayes replied. \u201cTotally outrageous. It will lead to violence. Not sure how we can stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/21\/business\/jonah-goldberg-steve-hayes-quit-fox-tucker-carlson.html?smid=tw-share\">Speaking<\/a> with the<em> New York Times<\/em>, Hayes and Goldberg said they stayed on as contributors with Fox News despite their never Trump stance in hopes that they could help \u201cright the ship\u201d after the former president exited the White House. Those hopes were dashed with the arrival of <em>Patriot Purge,<\/em> Tucker Carlson\u2019s documentary exploring January 6 and how the riot has allegedly been used by the Biden administration to crack down on patriotic Americans. Goldberg said the documentary was evidence that \u201cpeople have made peace with this direction of things, and there is no plan, at least, that anyone made me aware of for a course correction.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNow, righting the ship is an academic question,\u201d said Goldberg. \u201cThe \u2018Patriot Purge\u2019 thing meant: OK, we hit the iceberg now, and I can\u2019t do the rationalizations anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hayes, editor-in-chief of <em>The Weekly Standard<\/em>, worried that the documentary could lead people into believing \u201cthat there\u2019s a domestic war on terror and it\u2019s coming for half of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not true,\u201d said Hayes. \u201cThe imagery of waterboarding and suggestions that half the country is going to be subject to this kind of treatment, that\u2019s the same kind of treatment that the federal government used when it went after Al Qaeda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Tucker Carlson] pumped that stuff out into society, and all you need is one person out of every 50,000 people who watch it to believe it\u2019s literally the story about what happened, that it\u2019s true in all of its particulars and all of its insinuations,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd that\u2019s truly dangerous in a way that the usual hyperbole that you get on a lot of cable news isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg recalled National Review founder William F. Buckley, who famously purged the John Birch Society from the right-wing as part of his mission to impose \u201cseriousness on conservative arguments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s \u2018Patriot Purge\u2019 or anti-vax stuff, I don\u2019t want it in my name, and I want to call it out and criticize it,\u201d Goldberg said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to feel like I am betraying a trust that I had by being a Fox News contributor. And I also don\u2019t want to be accused of not really pulling the punches. And then this was just an untenable tension for me<em>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are lots of people there that I respect and like and consider friends, and they\u2019re making a decision based upon how to provide for their families and deal with their careers and all of that. And I\u2019m not going to second-guess them,\u201d he later added. \u201cAnd there are also lots of people over there who think the Fox opinion side today is awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Tucker Carlson expressed no sorrow over the resignations of Goldberg and Hayes, even going so far as to tell the <em>New York Times<\/em> that \u201cour viewers will be grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti offered no comment on the resignations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous never Trumpers Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes quit as contributors for Fox News in protest of Tucker Carlson\u2019s January 6 documentary suggesting that the Capitol Hill riot may have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}