Fred Barnes Biography
Fred Barnes is a political analyst from the United States. He was the executive editor of the defunct news publication The Weekly Standard and appears on the Fox News Channel show Special Report with Bret Baier on a regular basis.
Fred Barnes Age
He was born Frederic Wood Barnes Jr. on February 1, 1943, in West Point, New York, United States of America. Fred is 80 years old as of February 2023.
Fred Barnes Education
He holds a B.A. degree from the University of Virginia in 1965.
Fred Barnes Wife
Barnes has been married to his wife Barbara Beatty since 1967. They have three children.
Fred Barnes Career
He previously co-hosted The Beltway Boys with Mort Kondracke, which aired on Fox News Channel. Barnes is still a prolific writer on presidential and other political themes.[After working for The Charleston News and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, for several years, he became a reporter for the Washington Star. He worked for the Star, where he covered the Supreme Court and the White House, before transferring to the Baltimore Sun, where he was the national political correspondent. He was The New Republic’s senior editor and White House correspondent from 1985 until 1995. He also contributed to the American Spectator’s “Presswatch” media column.
From 1985 to 1998, he was a panelist on the current affairs show The McLaughlin Group, where he was frequently referred to as Freddy “the Beadle” Barnes by the show’s host. For Radio America, Barnes hosted the radio show What’s the Story? He now moderates the Voice of America program Issues in the News. Barnes was one of three panelists who grilled then-President Ronald Reagan and challenger Walter Mondale in the first nationally broadcast debate of the 1984 presidential campaign 1984. Barnes has appeared in the films Dave, Getting Away with Murder, and Independence Day as a cameo. He threw out the opening pitch at Fenway Park for a Boston Red Sox baseball game.
Barnes published Rebel in Chief, a favorable biography of President George W. Bush, in 2006. Isaac Chotiner, writing in The Washington Monthly, described it as “fawning and at times unintentionally amusing,” identifying its creator as a “perfect Bush hack.” He is a member of the Institute on Religion and Democracy’s board of directors. He and his family voted as members of The Falls Church to disaffiliate from the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He is a trustee on the board of The Fund for American Studies, where he also serves as a senior fellow. In the days running up to the 2008 presidential election in the United States,
Fred Barnes Net Worth
Barnes has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.
