Dyed-In-The-Wool Conservatives Quit Fox News Over Carlson Series

Two leading conservative contributors of Fox News have resigned after 12 years, saying “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: Patriot Purge, a three-part series hosted by Tucker Carlson.”

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Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg wrote in The Dispatch that “the special—which ran on Fox’s subscription streaming service earlier this month and was promoted on Fox News—is presented in the style of an exposé, 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 US government is targeting patriotic Americans in the same manner —and with the same tools—that it used to target al Qaeda.”

The two, who organized The Dispatch two years ago, said Carlson’s three-part series reports on a bogus war being waged by the Biden administration against the opposition and American patriots.

“This is not happening. And we think it’s 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—and act upon—it. This isn’t theoretical. This is what actually happened on January 6, 2021.”

“Over the past five years, some of Fox’s 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 Patriot Purge wasn’t an isolated incident, it was merely the most egregious example of a longstanding trend.

Patriot Purge creates 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,” Hayes and Goldberg concluded.

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