Fred Barnes

Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard.
From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White
House correspondent for theNew Republic. He covered the
Supreme Court and the White House for the Washington Star
before moving on to the Baltimore Sun in 1979. He served as
the national political correspondent for the Sun and wrote
the "Presswatch" media column for the American Spectator.

He is host, along with Mort Kondracke, of the Beltway Boys
on the Fox News Channel. Mr. Barnes appears regularly on
Fox's Special Report with Brit Hume. From 1988 to 1998 he
was a regular panelist on the McLaughlin Group. He has also
appeared on Nightline, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and
the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

Mr. Barnes graduated from the University of Virginia and
was a Neiman Fellow at Harvard University.