Two writers who have been paid contributors to Fox News Channel have resigned, citing Tucker Carlson's "Patriot Purge" documentary on last January's US Capitol insurrection as a last straw for them.
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Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, who put out a Substack newsletter on conservative news called "The Dispatch," had both worked for Fox since 2009.
"The voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible," they wrote on their site. They did not immediately return messages from the Associated Press on Monday.
Fox had no comment on their criticisms. Carlson told The New York Times that their departure was great news. "Our viewers will be grateful," he said.
"Patriot Purge" is a three-part documentary released last month on the Fox Nation streaming service. In it, Carlson argues that Jan. 6 is being used as a pretext for persecution of conservative Americans, and compared it to how falsehoods were used in the lead-up to the Iraq War.
Goldberg and Hayes called the documentary a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, which is "riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery and damning omissions."
