Two Fox News contributors, Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, have resigned from the network in protest over Tucker Carlson’s Patriot Purgespecial about the events of Jan. 6, calling it “dangerous” and “revisionist history.”
According to a report by New York Times media columnist Ben Smith, the two men discussed quitting Fox soon after the trailer for Carlson’s special was first posted online on Oct. 27, with Goldberg texting Hayes “I’m tempted just to quit Fox over this.”
“I’m game,” replied Hayes. “Totally outrageous. It will lead to violence. Not sure how we can stay.”
Goldberg told Smith that they had stayed on at Fox News “because of a sense from conversations at Fox that, after Mr. Trump’s defeat, the network would try to recover some of its independence and, as he put it, ‘right the ship.’”