We All Could Have Predicted Never Trump Jonah Goldberg’s New Career Move – Opinion

Back in November, we reported how Never Trump commentators Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg announced that they were leaving Fox as contributors because of Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 special.

As we noted at the time, most didn’t even know that they were still with Fox and weighed in that no one would miss them if they left.

The NY Times published their announcement. Sen. Mitt Romney (RINO UT) praised them for their principle and courage.

Carlson was able to provide the best response.

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— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 22, 2021

“These are two of the only people in the world who still pretend the Iraq War was a good idea,” Carlson said. “No one wants to watch commentary that stupid.” He declared their leaving “great news” and said, “viewers will be grateful.”

As we noted at the time, there was a little more to the story that wasn’t said: that Fox had no intention of re-signing them when their contracts came up this year so this alleged resignation was just ahead of not being renewed.

Bravo! Not.

But now, there’s news about Jonah Goldberg’s next career move. Who could have foreseen it? Not even us.

Variety reports that Goldberg is now aboard CNN’s sinking ship. So from the number one network to the scandal-plagued font of misinformation, that’s some move.

It’s more than a little ironic that Goldberg, who claimed he was upset with norms being broken, is cool going to a network that is collapsing with “norms” breaking, it would seem. It’s all about principles.

Didn’t he learn anything from the crash-and-burn move of Chris Wallace who went to CNN with certain expectations and then basically found out he’d walked aboard the Titanic? This would be a surprise. Goldberg knows all that yet is doing it knowingly, which means he doesn’t care.

We’re not looking to occupy the anti-Fox seats at CNN and MSNBC, they said at the time they left in November.

For context, here are Stephen Hayes & Jonah Goldberg saying they left Fox News over Tucker Carlson: “We’re not looking to occupy the permanent anti-Fox seats at CNN or MSNBC, but we thought it worth discussing our decision & the factors that led to it…”https://t.co/c8iZBIGUrH pic.twitter.com/8hL6kvv1sq

— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) February 7, 2022

Goldberg now works at CNN, and Hayes has just accepted a position at NBC. What did you guys say? So I’m sure their “resignation” wasn’t at all about auditioning for a job at these places.

He not only got mocked by conservatives, he got mocked by CNN’s likely audience on the left.

CNN hires Jonah Goldberg, NBC hires Stephen Hayes. These two most absurd political voices in our times continue to fail. https://t.co/r2qipqfv6z pic.twitter.com/eyls9WvZKE

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) February 7, 2022

It’s going to be a good thing.

But I’ll leave the last word on the matter to Goldberg himself because there’s always a tweet for everything.

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— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) November 15, 2017