In separate interviews with NPR, Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg pointed to a breaking point earlier this month: network star Tucker Carlson's three-part series on the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol that relied on fabrications and conspiracy theories to exonerate the Trump supporters who participated in the attack.
"It's basically saying that the Biden regime is coming after half the country and this is the War on Terror 2.0," Goldberg tells NPR.
Jonah Goldberg and his partner at The Dispatch, Stephen Hayes, quit their roles as commentators for Fox News after Tucker Carlson's special on the Jan. 6 riot aired.
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Hayes has been a close friend of Fox News political anchor Bret Baier since their college days at DePauw University; both he and Goldberg were mainstays of Baier's Special Report since joining the network in 2009.
Asked for comment for this story, Carlson says the departure of the two "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 writes to NPR. "No one wants to watch commentary that stupid."
Hayes and Goldberg were formerly top editors at the Weekly Standard and the National Review, respectively. They recently joined forces to found the conservative anti-Trump site The Dispatch.
In other Tucker Carlson news:
Kyle Rittenhouse claims he supports Black Lives Matter in Tucker Carlson interview
"I’m not a racist person; I support the BLM movement, I support peacefully demonstrating," Rittenhouse told Fox News' Tucker Carlson in an excerpt from an interview set to air Monday night.
"It's basically saying that the Biden regime is coming after half the country and this is the War on Terror 2.0," Goldberg tells NPR.
Jonah Goldberg and his partner at The Dispatch, Stephen Hayes, quit their roles as commentators for Fox News after Tucker Carlson's special on the Jan. 6 riot aired.
The Washington Post/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Hayes has been a close friend of Fox News political anchor Bret Baier since their college days at DePauw University; both he and Goldberg were mainstays of Baier's Special Report since joining the network in 2009.
Asked for comment for this story, Carlson says the departure of the two "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 writes to NPR. "No one wants to watch commentary that stupid."
Hayes and Goldberg were formerly top editors at the Weekly Standard and the National Review, respectively. They recently joined forces to found the conservative anti-Trump site The Dispatch.
In other Tucker Carlson news:
Kyle Rittenhouse claims he supports Black Lives Matter in Tucker Carlson interview
"I’m not a racist person; I support the BLM movement, I support peacefully demonstrating," Rittenhouse told Fox News' Tucker Carlson in an excerpt from an interview set to air Monday night.
