What I Learned About Media Rage After Getting Fired From Fox

Politico ^ | August 28, 2022 | Chris Stirewalt

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

My first meeting in Roger Ailes’ boardroom of doom was on Election Day 2010.

At the time, I was the network’s new political editor. Republicans were poised to deliver a serious walloping to President Barack Obama and roll back the Democrats’ doughty majorities in both houses of Congress. The GOP was in a position to score major wins in governors’ mansions and statehouses from coast to coast.

The second floor of the News Corp headquarters on Sixth Avenue in New York was a hive of excited optimism. With Republicans looking forward to big wins, we knew viewership would be enormous that night. I was invited to the regular afternoon executive meeting for the first time so I could lay out the expectations we had on the Decision Desk and the politics team for what would transpire that night. I had only been with the company for about four months, and I was sweating it hard as I sat there at the far end from Ailes at a conference table roughly the size of a World War II aircraft carrier. The meeting was packed. Not only were executives from New York crowding in, but people like my boss Bill Sammon, who would have ordinarily joined the afternoon meeting by phone, were attending in person.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Stirewalt conveniently omits that FOX called Arizona for Biden with just 6% of the vote in. That was as dumb as news orgs calling Indiana for Trump that same night with similar returns. People really should wait for more returns before calling the races. JMO.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

And, of course, as to whether Chris is actually as impartial as he implies he is, I have no idea.

[Olog-hai]

If he’s writing for Pollutico, the last thing he is is impartial and he is obviously a left-wing hack.

[Olog-hai]

Never mind the fact that he was hired during Ailes’ so-called “course correction” that was officially announced in 2011.

[SaveFerris]

winner

[axxmann]

Or he know beforehand that the fix was in.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Despite a successful decade as politics editor at the Fox News Channel, I got canned after very vocal and very online viewers — including the then-president of the United States — became furious when our Decision Desk was the first to project that Joe Biden would win the former GOP stronghold of Arizona in 2020.

ESAD, Chrissy.

[Olog-hai]

That’s an open admission of treason by him.

[MotorCityBuck]

Stierwalt is a POS. No different than that fat piece of Sh!t Frank Luntz.
Couple of pole smokers. The illegitimate basterd sons of Karl Rove.

[Migraine]

The egghead whines. That’s about his speed.

[Freedumb]

I notice he fails to mention that in 2020 the Fox decision desk claimed before 10 pm EST on election night that the Democrats not only would hold the House but would increase their majority by at least 5 seats. They barely held on losing I believe 14 seats (so they were off by 19 seats). That’s a whole lot of races to blow the calls on at almost 10pm election night, fatboy.

[PghBaldy]

It is a book excerpt. I read entire article, I kept thinking this sounds like a book excerpt.

[rktman]

Hmmmmm!

[DMD13]

Fox called with people still in line to vote. If I am not mistaken, they called it before the polls closed which if true, that is totally irresponsible.

[j.havenfarm]

It’s a partial quote. The rest is “While, at the same time, they had to put a gun to my head to call Florida for Trump, long after it was clear as day that he’d carried the state.”

[Falconspeed]

Chris Stirewalt worked in the MSM and today lacks moral authority. In other news, President Trump has fans around the world. Of course, people in the media around the world have an involuntary, uncontrollable need to insult Trump supporters. MSM is a religion for some people and hate people who have real moral authority like Pope Benedict XVI.

[CaptainK]

Stirewalt conveniently omits that FOX called Arizona for Biden with just 6% of the vote in.

At the same time he refused to call Florida for Trump even though more Florida votes had been counted than in Arizona and Trump was clearly the winner.

[FlipWilson]

Oh yah, I remember this fat arse,. He was Me Again Kelly’s giggling political clown.

[LeonardFMason]

Exactly!!!!!

I remember Soy Boy Baier casually proclaiming the Democrats would pick up seats.

[sauropod]

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