Fred Barnes
Frederic W. Barnes is an American political commentator. He is the executive editor of the news publication The Weekly Standard and regularly appears ... More »
Krauthammer Analyzes Newton School Shooting
On Special Report, Bret Baier spoke with syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer, Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers and Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard about the tragedy that unfolded this morning in Newtown, Conn. Krauthammer pointed out that there will be three main things that ... Read more »
Weekly Standard: Why Obama's Ahead : NPR
Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard. President Obama is outside the ideological mainstream, viewed as very liberal by an electorate that's moderate or somewhat conservative. His domestic policies are unpopular, notably his health care law, economic stimulus, and ... Read more »
Republican Fantasyland
We’re running a Clint Eastwood campaign, running against a version of Barack Obama that doesn’t exist.” Exhibit A is this Fred Barnes piece in the Weekly Standard, which begins with this rather remarkable paragraph: President Obama is outside the ideological mainstream, viewed as very ... Read more »
Weekly Standard: No Excuse For Obama's Record : NPR
Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard. President Obama has had four years to fix the economy, and it's not his fault he's failed so far. He's tried very hard, and he's made some headway. But the task is so great that no one, not even FDR or Bill Clinton, could have done ... Read more »
Weekly Standard: But Does Clinton Believe It? : NPR
Fred Barnes is the executive editor of The Weekly Standard. In his fondest dreams, President Obama couldn't have imagined getting any more from Bill Clinton than he did last night at the Democratic convention. Rather than pull Obama toward his centrist policies, Clinton embraced Obama's ... Read more »
Weekly Standard: Romney Aced It : NPR
Fred Barnes is the executive editor of The Weekly Standard. A few hours before Mitt Romney spoke to the Republican convention last night, his campaign did something clever. It's normal procedure before a major speech is to release excerpts so the evening TV news shows can preview the ... Read more »
Weekly Standard: Rating Romney's Foreign Trip : NPR
Fred Barnes is the executive editor of The Weekly Standard. Republican presidential candidate Matt Romney finishes his 8-day trip to the UK, Israel, and Poland with a speech in Warsaw today. It's been an up-and-down trip as Romney seeks to demonstrate his ability to function effectively ... Read more »
Bill Moyers: WATCH: The Cowardly Lions of' 'Free Speech'
Here's what Fred Barnes wrote in The Weekly Standard about the Senate race in Missouri: For three weeks in May, Republican super-PACs took turns attacking Democratic senator Claire McCaskill in TV ads. Republicans hadn't held their primary -- it's not until August 7 -- but McCaskill ... Read more »
Weekly Standard: They PAC A Super Wallop : NPR
Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard. For three weeks in May, Republican superPACs took turns attacking Democratic senator Claire McCaskill in TV ads. Republicans hadn't held their primary — it's not until August 7 — but McCaskill wound up trailing all three of the GOP ... Read more »
Weekly Standard: Slow Learner : NPR
Fred Barnes is Executive Editor of The Weekly Standard. President Obama has been touted by friends and family as the smartest man ever to sit in the White House. Perhaps. Yet he surely is the slowest learner to gain the presidency and probably the most intellectually inflexible. Obama is ... Read more »
Weekly Standard: Obama's Phantom Tax Breaks : NPR
Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard. In his State of the Union speech in 2011, President Obama referred to "small business" five times and alluded to it seven more. Progress in America is measured, he said, "by the prospects of a small business owner who dreams of ... Read more »
American Pundit Writing Assignment, Feb. 18-28: Obama’s agenda
For this segment, we’ve selected columns by Eleanor Clift ( “Obama’s appeal for gun vote is emotional high point of state-of-union speech,” published at thedailybeast.com ) and Fred Barnes ( “There he goes again,” published at theweeklystandard.com ), both of which deal with the State of ... Read more »
Ryan favored for next GOP nod after glowing Tampa performance
Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard said Ryan could be in prime position to run for president. “He’s where Bush was in 1980 when Reagan picked him and eight years later he’s the nominee,” he said. But if the Romney-Ryan ticket falls short, getting nominated for vice ... Read more »
Richard Cohen: Republicans adrift on their way to nowhere
At Juneau, conservative notables including Fox News commentator Fred Barnes lunched with the governor, Sarah Palin -- and, as men often do on shore leave, swooned. Her remarkable qualities -- "how smart Palin was," according to Barnes -- and her considerable beauty left most of ... Read more »
Obama’s Arrogant Overreach—and the Republican Opportunity
So when Geithner made the suggestion to McConnell in that Thursday meeting, McConnell didn’t just say “no”; according to The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes, he “burst into laughter.” For his part, Boehner said on Sunday that he was “flabbergasted.” And that was mostly the end of the ... Read more »
I Want To Believe Mitt Romney Can Win
I want to believe Michael Barone and Fred Barnes and, especially, Peggy Noonan when she says voters are cooking up a surprise for this, and the surprise is a big, enthusiastic Romney victory. I want to believe even is not even— ties are not tied. I want to believe the stories we read ... Read more »
Should All Women Heed Author's Advice To 'Lean In'? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
Well, almost zilch — Fred Barnes at The Wall Street Journal did wonder whether Bob Knight's lessons from basketball coaching really do carry over to leadership in business and other areas of life. But no one questioned the Heath brothers' or Adam Grant's credentials to advise the masses ... Read more »
‘Are you better off’ question will define the campaign going forward
Fred Barnes said last night on Special Report with Bret Baier that the war on women, income equality, and other Obama “initiatives” have been distractions, designed to avoid answering that question. Now that it is out there, thanks to Paul Ryan, changing the subject is no longer an ... Read more »
