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Barnes was a promoter and has been a continued supporter of the US [[Iraq war|war in Iraq]]. On [[10 April]] [[2003]], he said "The war was the hard part...and it gets easier. I mean, setting up a democracy is hard, but not as hard as winning a war".<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/05/02/BL2007050200485_pf.html Howard Kurtz - Hillary's New Friends? - washingtonpost.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He has been called the "Last Bush Loyalist" for his continued loyalty to [[George W. Bush]] by [[Slate.com]] columnist Timothy Noah.<ref>[http://www.slate.com/id/2167813?nav=wp Who Will Be the Last Bush Loyalist? - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
Barnes was a promoter and has been a continued supporter of the US [[Iraq war|war in Iraq]]. On [[10 April]] [[2003]], he said "The war was the hard part...and it gets easier. I mean, setting up a democracy is hard, but not as hard as winning a war".<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/05/02/BL2007050200485_pf.html Howard Kurtz - Hillary's New Friends? - washingtonpost.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He has been called the "Last Bush Loyalist" for his continued loyalty to [[George W. Bush]] by [[Slate.com]] columnist Timothy Noah.<ref>[http://www.slate.com/id/2167813?nav=wp Who Will Be the Last Bush Loyalist? - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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On July 29, 2006, Barnes expressed skepticism of anthropogenic climate change on Fox News's Beltway Boys. When co-host Mort Kondracke cited recent climate data, Barnes shrugged, saying "so?" Kondracke answered, "[G]lobal warming is a fact." Barnes retorted, "Yeah, but who caused it? You don't know." "Humans," Kondracke replied. Barnes protested: "No! You don't know that".[1] |
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In Spring of 2007, Barnes appeared as a panelist on Special Report with Brit Hume. He claimed that there was no scientific consensus on global warming citing, among other things, a difference in the claims made in Al Gore's movie and the claims of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.[2] |
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====2008 Presidential Election==== |
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Revision as of 22:57, 13 July 2009
Frederic W. Barnes is an American conservative political commentator. He is the executive editor of the news publication The Weekly Standard, co-host with Mort Kondracke of The Beltway Boys on the Fox News Channel, and also regularly appears on Fox's Special Report with Bret Baier.
Biography
Early life and journalism career
The son of an Air Force officer, Barnes graduated from St. Stephens School in Alexandria in 1960. He spent two years in the U.S. Army and considered applying to West Point, but instead decided to attend the University of Virginia where he studied history. Barnes graduated from the University of Virginia and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
After spending several years as a journalist with The Charleston News and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, he became a reporter for the Washington Star in 1979. Barnes covered the Supreme Court and the White House for the Star before moving to the Baltimore Sun. He was the national political correspondent at the Baltimore Sun. For ten years from 1985 to 1995, he was senior editor and White House correspondent for The New Republic. He also wrote the "Presswatch" media column for the American Spectator. He was a panelist on the public affairs show The McLaughlin Group from 1988 to 1998, where he was often referred to by the show's host as Freddy "the Beadle" Barnes.
In 1984, Barnes was chosen to be one of three panelists quizzing then-President Ronald Reagan and challenger Walter Mondale in the first nationally-televised debate of the 1984 presidential campaign.
Barnes has made cameo appearances in the Hollywood films Dave, Getting Away with Murder, Independence Day and My Own Private Idaho. He has thrown out the first pitch for a Boston Red Sox baseball game at Fenway Park.
Though having gone to separate high schools, Barnes was a friend of fellow Fox News personality Brit Hume in high school, and at The University of Virginia. Hume had gone to another elite private school, St. Albans.
Most recently, Barnes penned a biography of President George W. Bush, Rebel in Chief.
Iraq War
Barnes was a promoter and has been a continued supporter of the US war in Iraq. On 10 April 2003, he said "The war was the hard part...and it gets easier. I mean, setting up a democracy is hard, but not as hard as winning a war".[1] He has been called the "Last Bush Loyalist" for his continued loyalty to George W. Bush by Slate.com columnist Timothy Noah.[2]
2008 Presidential Election
In the days leading up to the 2008 United States election, Barnes was the only political pundit out of 27 catalogued by the Huffington Post (including Karl Rove, Alex Castellanos, Matthew Dowd, Ed Rollins, and George Will) to predict a John McCain victory for U.S President (286 to 252 electoral votes).[3]