{"id":1044012,"date":"2021-11-22T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1044012"},"modified":"2021-11-22T11:59:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:59:58","slug":"anti-trump-republicans-say-they-quit-fox-news-over-tucker-carlsons-january-6-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-trump-republicans-say-they-quit-fox-news-over-tucker-carlsons-january-6-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Trump Republicans Say They Quit Fox News Over Tucker Carlson\u2019s January 6 Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fanti-trump-republicans-say-they-quit-fox-news-over-tucker-carlsons-january-6-content%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=1044012&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--><p>Two longtime never-Trumpers say they quit their gigs as contributors to Fox News because of Tucker Carlson\u2019s recent content about the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/p\/why-we-are-leaving-fox-news\">announced<\/a> their resignations from Fox, where they have worked since 2009. They said in a joint statement that Carlson\u2019s recent \u201cPatriot&nbsp;Purge\u201d&nbsp;special, which aired earlier this month on the network\u2019s streaming service, portrayed the January 6 riot as a deep state \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation that sought to justify the subsequent persecution of conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis. But the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible,\u201d they wrote. \u201cA case in point:&nbsp;<em>Patriot Purge<\/em>, a three-part series hosted by Tucker Carlson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>We joined Fox News as contributors in early 2009. Combined, that\u2019s more than 20 years of experience, relationships, and friendships. For most of that time, we were proud to be associated with the network, if not necessarily with every program, opinion, or scandal that aroused controversy. We believed, sincerely, that the country needed Fox News. Whether you call it liberal media bias or simply a form of groupthink around certain narratives, having a news network that brought different assumptions and asked different questions\u2014while still providing real reporting and insightful conservative analysis and opinion\u2014was good for the country and journalism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis. But the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A case in point:&nbsp;Patriot Purge, a three-part series hosted by Tucker Carlson.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The special\u2014which ran on Fox\u2019s subscription streaming service earlier this month and was promoted on Fox News\u2014is presented in the style of an expos\u00e9, a hard-hitting piece of investigative journalism. In reality, it is a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions. And its message is clear: The U.S. government is targeting patriotic Americans in the same manner \u2014and with the same tools\u2014that it used to target al Qaeda.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe domestic war on terror is here. It\u2019s coming after half of the country,\u201d says one protagonist. \u201cThe left is hunting the right, sticking them in Guantanamo Bay for American citizens\u2014leaving them there to rot,\u201d says another, over video of an individual in an orange jumpsuit being waterboarded.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is not happening. And we think it\u2019s dangerous to pretend<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two longtime never-Trumpers say they quit their gigs as contributors to Fox News because of Tucker Carlson\u2019s recent content about the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.On Sunday, the Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg\u00a0announced their resignations from Fox, where they have worked since 2009. They said in a joint statement that Carlson\u2019s recent \u201cPatriot\u00a0Purge\u201d\u00a0special, which aired earlier this month on the network\u2019s streaming service, portrayed the January 6 riot as a deep state \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation that sought to justify the subsequent persecution of conservatives.\u201cFox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis. But the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible,\u201d they wrote. \u201cA case in point:\u00a0Patriot Purge, a three-part series hosted by Tucker Carlson.\u201dWe joined Fox News as contributors in early 2009. Combined, that\u2019s more than 20 years of experience, relationships, and friendships. For most of that time, we were proud to be associated with the network, if not necessarily with every program, opinion, or scandal that aroused controversy. We believed, sincerely, that the country needed Fox News. Whether you call it liberal media bias or simply a form of groupthink around certain narratives, having a news network that brought different assumptions and asked different questions\u2014while still providing real reporting and insightful conservative analysis and opinion\u2014was good for the country and journalism.Fox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis. But the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible.A case in point:\u00a0Patriot Purge, a three-part series hosted by Tucker Carlson.The special\u2014which ran on Fox\u2019s subscription streaming service earlier this month and was promoted on Fox News\u2014is presented in the style of an expos\u00e9, a hard-hitting piece of investigative journalism. In reality, it is a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions. And its message is clear: The U.S. government is targeting patriotic Americans in the same manner \u2014and with the same tools\u2014that it used to target al Qaeda.\u201cThe domestic war on terror is here. It\u2019s coming after half of the country,\u201d says one protagonist. \u201cThe left is hunting the right, sticking them in Guantanamo Bay for American citizens\u2014leaving them there to rot,\u201d says another, over video of an individual in an orange jumpsuit being waterboarded.This is not happening. And we think it\u2019s dangerous to pretend it is. If a person with such a platform shares such misinformation loud enough and long enough, there are Americans who will believe\u2014and act upon\u2014it.This isn\u2019t theoretical. This is what actually happened on January 6, 2021.Over the past five years, some of Fox\u2019s top opinion hosts amplified the false claims and bizarre narratives of Donald Trump or offered up their own in his service. In this sense, the release of\u00a0Patriot Purge\u00a0wasn\u2019t an isolated incident, it was merely the most egregious example of a longstanding trend.\u00a0Patriot Purge\u00a0creates 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.Indeed, the news side of Fox routinely does what it is supposed to do: It reports the truth. COVID-19 is deadly, vaccines work, Joe Biden won Arizona, the election was not stolen, January 6 was not a Deep State-orchestrated \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation but was an assault on the Capitol as part of a broader attempt to steal an election: The people who put the \u201cnews\u201d in Fox News have reported all of these things.This is not the place to expound at any length on the many problems and challenges facing the country. But we sincerely believe that all people of good will and good judgment\u2014regardless of their ideological or partisan commitments\u2014can agree that a cavalier and even contemptuous attitude toward facts, truth-seeking, and truth-telling, lies at the heart of so much that plagues our country.We started\u00a0The Dispatch\u00a0two years ago \u201cto do right as we see it, by providing engaged citizens fact-based reporting and commentary on politics, policy and culture\u2014informed by conservative principles.\u201d We made a\u00a0promise\u00a0to our readers and members that we\u2019d challenge our own assumptions as we challenged theirs, and that we wouldn\u2019t pull punches. The tension between doing that work well and remaining loyal to Fox has tested us many times over the past few years. But with the release of\u00a0Patriot Purge, we felt we could no longer \u201cdo right as we see it\u201d and remain at Fox News. So we resigned.We remain grateful for the opportunities we\u2019ve had at Fox and we continue to admire many of the hard-working journalists who work there. This is our last recourse. We do not regret our decision, even if we find it regrettably necessary.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"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-1044012","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\/1044012","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044012\/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=1044012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}