Two Fox News contributors have quit their roles at the conservative network over comments made by right-wing influencer and prime-time host Tucker Carlson in a documentary series examining the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The contributors, Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg, who have regularly appeared on the network since 2009, announced their resignations from Fox following the release of Carlson’s controversial documentary, saying it was “a breaking point,” The New York Times reported Sunday night.
“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,” the two journalists wrote in an article on their political news and commentary website The Dispatch, according to The Times.
They added that Carlson’s message is clear: “The U.S. government is targeting patriotic Americans in the same manner — and with the same tools — that it used to target al Qaeda.”
Carlson’s documentary series, dubbed “Patriot Purge,” purports to tell an alternative story of the Jan. 6 insurrection and even claims the incident may have been a “false flag” operation.
