Bill Sammon and Chris Stirewalt
out at Fox News
American Thinker,
by
Thomas Lifson
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
1/20/2021 8:55:16 AM
Two executives involved in the early call of Arizona for Joe Biden on Election Night, angering many conservatives, are no longer employed at the cable network whose ratings took a subsequent nosedive. Both have been lightning rods for conservatives since the election. The Associated Press reports:
Bill Sammon, senior vice president and managing editor at Fox’s Washington bureau, announced his retirement to staff members on Monday. On Tuesday, as part of a restructuring of Fox’s digital operations, politics editor Chris Stirewalt was let go.
Fox’s decision to call Arizona for Biden took the network’s anchors by surprise and infuriated the White House, which believed the determination was premature.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
sanspeur 1/20/2021 9:03:45 AM (No. 667483)
Going deeper into the swamp . Eliminated the figureheads of their collusion ( they sacrificed the bad premature reporters /spit ) and are now pure as the ... ) will b going full aoc for bigger better dumber audience .happy murdoch wifes here
13 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
pros7767 1/20/2021 9:14:20 AM (No. 667496)
Looks like Fox is figuring out just how angry its prior viewers are.
Doesn't matter who they fire, who retires, or how they "re-organize". We're not coming back! You betrayed our President and your viewers.
111 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/20/2021 9:15:36 AM (No. 667498)
This is not going to buy them back their lost audience. When PDT starts his own conservative news service it will be the last nail in the Fo coffin.
70 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
jimboscott 1/20/2021 9:20:03 AM (No. 667504)
Stirewalt is an insufferable know-it-all. Glad to see him lose a job he never should have had to start with.
78 people like this.
I actually clicked on Fox and Friends the other morning and I couldn’t do it. Couldn’t watch those back stabbing betrayers. I especially can’t stomach Jedidiah Bila. Shes right up there with Donna Brazil. Aaack! Gag!
I wish them NO well.
59 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rama41 1/20/2021 9:22:48 AM (No. 667507)
We'll know they're serious when Chris Wallace gets the axe. He framed every single Sunday show in 2020 around an anti-Trump theme.
95 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
mizzmac 1/20/2021 9:39:38 AM (No. 667533)
They're moving the deck chairs around on the Titanic. Fox News is sinking for good.
67 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
frankiems 1/20/2021 9:40:45 AM (No. 667534)
Notice how this story comes out on the day of Biden's inauguration. Fox got the result they wanted by calling Arizona early and now they get rid of these two guys thinking it'll bring back conservatives. Nope
71 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
jimboscott 1/20/2021 9:43:52 AM (No. 667540)
8,
The polls were closed in AZ when they made that call. That did not change the election. It just stuck a big fat Stirewalt shaped finger in the eye.
It was telling, but it was not altering anything.
3 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
frankiems 1/20/2021 9:46:04 AM (No. 667542)
#9 the polls were closed, but were they finished counting?
42 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
planetgeo 1/20/2021 9:46:59 AM (No. 667546)
I love how small they're getting in my rearview mirror. Bye, Murdoch dudes. Hope the wives are happy now.
40 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Donna M 1/20/2021 9:50:59 AM (No. 667549)
All this is doing is taking down two big salaries. It's the start of massive layoffs (Fox Digital worker bees have already been decimated) due to their going woke. Eventually it will take out other big salaries. Hannity is practically inviting FNC to take him off. Carlson and Ingraham may remain as their tokens. Lou Dobbs will be retired. Sad, as both Verizon and ATT are being pushed to deplatform Newsmax and OANN. This will also hit the streamers like Pluto.
16 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
TJ54 1/20/2021 9:55:10 AM (No. 667556)
Unless Fox sells the station to President Trump, I won't be back.
41 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/20/2021 10:06:36 AM (No. 667572)
They need to get rid of a lot more covert liberal Democrats, besides the two fall guys who have already been kicked out, who have weaseled their way into the Fox on screen talent pool. Even if they do that may well be too late, as according to reports Fox has already lost about 40% of their reliable viewers. Talk about an corporate entity committing suicide.
22 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Analyn 1/20/2021 10:26:19 AM (No. 667597)
The election was stolen and they're part of the theft. I'm done with FoxNews.
41 people like this.
We are never coming back. The most consequential election in our lifetime was lost bc FOX called AZ ridiculously early and not calling other states like early like TX and FL that were solidly Trump. This opened the door for the swing states to stop counting and manafacture the votes they needed to win. FOX can burn in hell along with McConnell and the GOP. Whatever new party Trump creates we are all solidly behind him.
49 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 1/20/2021 10:39:47 AM (No. 667624)
#9, you must have not read some of the comments here after the election. One poster on this site commented he heard Joe Biden won in Arizona while standing in line to vote. Your information must be in error.
20 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 1/20/2021 10:49:37 AM (No. 667640)
Hey FOX! The horse is out of the barn which has burned down and you are trying to close the doors? Fools!
20 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 1/20/2021 10:51:45 AM (No. 667642)
I think the polls were c!osed in AZ but people already in line before c!osing were still allowed to vote.
That call for AZ was the signal for the other states to stop counting and start creating votes. They were part of a conspiracy to steal the election, plain and simple. Not calling OH, FL, TX was to keep Trump behind in electoral votes all night.
35 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 1/20/2021 10:54:44 AM (No. 667649)
Not going to change my opinion of Fox one iota. Go to Hades, Lochlan Murdoch and take your leftist propaganda outlet with you.
34 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Clinger 1/20/2021 11:08:58 AM (No. 667669)
I hope nobody thought Fox was our friend to begin with. Like any other smart marketer they saw an opportunity to sell advertising by attracting an audience in a large under served virtually unserved market and they filled the void. It's a common approach some refer to as the loose brick strategy. It is possible that they were gagging the entire time while profiting on something they themselves found distasteful and it's possible changes at the top caused them to chose ideology over profit. It's a business not a social club.
Before you fall in love with Newsmax of OAN be open to the possibility that they may be choosing profits over ideology.
7 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Tx2Step 1/20/2021 11:15:03 AM (No. 667677)
Chris Wallace has never had the ratings to remain on air. He should be gone and should take Neil Cavuto with him.
43 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
deerejon 1/20/2021 11:24:49 AM (No. 667684)
They can fire and retire the whole bunch as far as i'm concerned.I'll never watch them again.
18 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
daisey 1/20/2021 11:27:47 AM (No. 667687)
What about the idiot Arnon Mishkin? He ran that call. Is he still there?
17 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
andyboy 1/20/2021 11:39:14 AM (No. 667695)
Go ahead, Fox -- change your on-air personalities, your logo, or even your name. But until you change your poltics, we won't be back. And actually, we probably won't be back even then -- Newsmax TV is terrific.
19 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 1/20/2021 11:52:30 AM (No. 667707)
Too little, too late. I'm done with back-stabbing traitors like Fox News. Fair and Balanced my eye.
17 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
vinegrower 1/20/2021 12:19:59 PM (No. 667735)
There were people that had gotten in line before the polls closed in Arizona, they are still allowed to vote after the closing. Fox called Arizona before many of those people had voted.
11 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
msjena 1/20/2021 12:24:04 PM (No. 667739)
The early call of Arizona was inexcusable. It took weeks after the election to finish counting. No other network made the early call--not CNN, not MSNBC. It took all of the wind out of what looked like a big Trump win and justified questionable results in other swing states. Fox lost me forever with that call.
18 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 1/20/2021 12:27:05 PM (No. 667744)
Wouldn't know, as have not watched Fox for months now. And, don't watch FBN either which I used to have on all day.
6 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 1/20/2021 12:31:05 PM (No. 667750)
They could have staunched the bleeding after the election by actually engaging in a hard, journalistic investigation of the voter fraud. Instead, they joined the MSM in echoing that the fraud had been debunked because everybody said it was. No curiosity, no seeking the truth, no more viewers.
13 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 1/20/2021 12:49:28 PM (No. 667767)
#24, that Arnon guy wasn’t employed by Fox, but an article I read said he donated to democrats.
3 people like this.
What about Leonard Vittert? He should be swept out of FNC.
9 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
Hardright 1/20/2021 1:00:20 PM (No. 667778)
And Stirewalt can take his little friend Dana with him.
18 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/20/2021 1:55:11 PM (No. 667834)
Who cares? Nobody watches Fox anyway.
5 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
Smart11344 1/20/2021 2:22:31 PM (No. 667875)
Has FOX finally learned they have too many traitors in their, once fabulous news organization. FOX wake up and dump the WOKENESS. ( I hate that term.)
3 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
Smart11344 1/20/2021 2:24:45 PM (No. 667880)
#13: Trump buting FNC would be more that a blessing in disquise. Make my day.
4 people like this.
Rupert Murdoch is channeling O.J. Simpson's search for his wife's killer.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/20/2021 7:17:26 PM (No. 668272)
I am glad these 2 are gone, and hope there are many more to follow.
3 people like this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
OK state mom 1/20/2021 7:23:16 PM (No. 668277)
Fox News moved John Roberts to an afternoon anchor job and gave his position and Kevin Corke's as White House Correspondent to Peter Doocey and Jenna Fischer. I wish Kevin Corke would move to Newsmax. He is a great talent.
2 people like this.
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