Fred Barnes, an American journalist and political commentator, 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 Brit Hume .

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

For ten years from 1985 to 1995, he was senior editor and White House correspondent for the New Republic. Before moving to the Baltimore Sun in 1979, Barnes covered the Supreme Court and the White House for the Washington Star. He was the national political correspondent at the Baltimore Sun. He also wrote the "Presswatch" media column for the American Spectator. He was a panelist on the public affairs show The McLaughlin Group for several seasons.

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.

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