{"id":110473,"date":"2016-12-18T17:06:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T01:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=110473"},"modified":"2016-12-18T17:06:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T01:06:20","slug":"breitbart-after-getting-everything-wrong-in-2016-stephen-hayes-elevated-to-editor-in-chief-at-the-weekly-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=110473","title":{"rendered":"Breitbart: ‘After Getting Everything Wrong in 2016, Stephen Hayes Elevated to Editor-in-Chief at the Weekly Standard’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breitbart<\/a>: The news that the Weekly Standard has appointed Stephen Hayes editor-in-chief has caused some to wonder if former editor and consistent Trump critic Bill Kristol all but made himself toxic for the publication\u2019s masthead.<\/p>\n

Whether that\u2019s true, or not, may depend upon one\u2019s view of all things Washington \u2014 and Trump; however, it\u2019s difficult to see how Hayes represents much of a change in that regard given his long list of failed prognostications and analysis during the course of the 2016 presidential campaign. Take for example this gem of a Weekly Standard headline atop a Hayes\u2019 item from July of 2016: Donald Trump Is Crazy, and So Is the GOP for Embracing Him. Wrote Hayes of Trump, \u201c(T)his isn\u2019t the behavior of a rational, stable individual. It should embarrass those who have endorsed him and disgrace those who have attempted to normalize him.\u201d<\/p>\n

As some will recall, it was the Weekly Standard that sought to undermine Trump right on through the Fall by embracing wannabe candidate Evan McMullin, who still continues to attack both Trump and the Republican Party as a whole as basically racist and corrupt.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how the lingering memory of exchanges like this one with Sean Hannity back in January of 2016, who called Hayes out directly for being \u201cso consistently wrong\u201d on Trump, will impact any potential relationship between Hayes in his role as editor and the incoming administration.<\/p>\n

Sean Hannity calls out Stephen F. Hayes of The Weekly Standard for being consistently wrong about Donald Trump\u2019s demise. The two argue Trump\u2019s electability against Hillary Clinton on a special edition of FOX News\u2019 Hannity after the FOX Business debate in Charleston, South Carolina. While Hayes concedes he has been wrong, he calls out other FOX News contributors who have been \u201cTrump boosters.\u201d<\/p>\n

As late as September of this year Hayes almost looked as if he was rooting for Hillary Clinton during the presidential debate on September 26. From the article \u201cHayes Explains How Trump Walked Right Into Hillary\u2019s Tax Return \u2018Trap\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cShe set him up, and Trump walked right into her trap by saying that he was smart for not paying any taxes,\u201d Hayes said.<\/p>\n

He explained that Trump followed that admission with a series of internally contradictory responses, claiming that he couldn\u2019t release his tax returns while he was being audited and that he would release them when Clinton released her 30,000 deleted emails.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was sort of this mish-mash of excuses,\u201d Hayes said. \u201cAnd rather than turning and pivoting and making an attack on her, he engaged that debate on her terms and I thought lost it badly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier in May of 2016, Hayes appeared on Fox News pushing the notion that Trump would ban Islam and Muslims from the United States and all but withdraw the United States from world markets, while engaging in name calling of the now president-elect. Said Hayes, \u201cIf you have principles and believe we shouldn\u2019t ban a religion? Don\u2019t ban a religion? A country founded on freedom of religion\u2014it\u2019s not good idea to ban a religion. Republicans can\u2019t just cast aside their principles, free trade, because Donald Trump comes around and this orange guy suggests that free trade is bad. We\u2019re going to throw away 300 years of Adam Smith.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Breitbart: The news that the Weekly Standard has appointed Stephen Hayes editor-in-chief has caused some to wonder if former editor and consistent Trump critic Bill Kristol all but made himself toxic for the publication\u2019s masthead. Whether that\u2019s true, or not, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110474,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110473\/revisions\/110474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}