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Conservatives Turn Against Fox News Over Election Coverage, Change Channel to Newsmax
Newsweek ^ | 04 NOV 2020 | EMMA NOLAN

Posted on 11/04/2020 6:28:08 AM PST by Patriot_MP

Conservatives and the Trump administration have railed against Fox News after the network called Arizona for Joe Biden.

While speaking on election night, Fox News Decision Desk Director Arnon Mishkin was asked about his call in Arizona and if he was 100 percent sure of his call, to which he responded by saying, "absolutely."

Fox was the first news organization to declare a winner in Arizona and make it the first red-to-blue flip on the electoral map. AP has since also called Arizona for Biden.

"It's been clear for a while that the former vice president is in the lead in Arizona and was most likely to win the state," Mishkin said. "I think we've heard from the White House is that they are expecting to get that they need just to get 61 percent of the outstanding vote and their 870,000 outstanding votes and they'll be getting that. That's not true.

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To: I still care

He might not have the money.


21 posted on 11/04/2020 6:39:46 AM PST by madison10 (Happy 20th Anniversary on FreeRepublic to me: Nov. 3, 2000 Remember?)
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To: Patriot_MP

I switched. Tucker, go over to Newsmax.


22 posted on 11/04/2020 6:40:16 AM PST by Old Yeller (Life is tough, but at least it's short.)
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To: I still care

If the POTUS loses he should buy cnn and make it conservative.


23 posted on 11/04/2020 6:40:32 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: Patriot_MP

Cut the cord.


24 posted on 11/04/2020 6:40:47 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: Patriot_MP

If President Trump gets this election stolen from him as it appears is happening, he needs to create a new media giant with TV, radio, social media, the works. Bring over Tucker Carlson and other such talent. Do what NewsMax and OAN are trying to do but on a Donald Trump scale.


25 posted on 11/04/2020 6:41:02 AM PST by CommerceComet (Joe Biden: Showing his leadership by cowering in the basement like a scared child.)
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To: Patriot_MP

THE MEDIA ARE THE 4TH BRANCH OF US GOVERNMENT!

It is the media that put Biden in office. They are more powerful than the 3 Constitutional branches, for they rule from darkness. They spread darkness - lies. They hide the truth.

Our form of government is not perfect, it has its flaws. While a free press is a must, a press taken over by communists not only could not be foreseen, it is possible there is no way to prevent it.

Education may be the 5th branch of government - brainwashing the public, dumbing them down, creating dependent slaves.

The open door for all this is our wonderful Constitution.


26 posted on 11/04/2020 6:42:49 AM PST by Arlis
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To: CommerceComet

Trump does not and will not let this election get stolen from him. Frankly, I don’t think that the whatever % of Americans who adore him will allow it either.


27 posted on 11/04/2020 6:44:24 AM PST by albie
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To: I still care

“Well, if Trump loses the election, and he can get it together, I think he would be great as the center of a new communications network.”
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If Trump loses I fear Conservative news and talk will be declared hate speech and be under attack. We’ve seen the silencing of it this past year..... you tube, twitter, facebook, etc. That wont get better.


28 posted on 11/04/2020 6:45:17 AM PST by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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I deplore the coverage, but one good thing about Fox's election news team....
it appears Chris Wallace got demoted and shoved to the sidelines.

His airtime was visibly curtailed, as well....I'd label it as being insignificant.

29 posted on 11/04/2020 6:45:30 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: madison10
He might not have the money.

Even if he doesn't personally have enough money, he knows how to get it. I don't think that finances would be an insurmountable problem.

30 posted on 11/04/2020 6:46:16 AM PST by CommerceComet (Joe Biden: Showing his leadership by cowering in the basement like a scared child.)
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To: Patriot_MP

They sucked in 2016 also. Why does anybody on FR waste time with Fox and Drudge? I can see tuning in for a specific show like Tucker’s. But as a general rule Fox is gone now.


31 posted on 11/04/2020 6:46:29 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?)
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To: Patriot_MP

I completely unplugged the TV last year and have not missed it.

I am glad Trump won and look forward to him mopping up the floor with coup plotters and seditionists. Let’s see some high profile perp walking like TODAY.


32 posted on 11/04/2020 6:47:02 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Patriot_MP

I did


33 posted on 11/04/2020 6:47:25 AM PST by MarDav
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To: Patriot_MP

Fox news is going to experience a ratings collapse. It will be permanent.


34 posted on 11/04/2020 6:47:55 AM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: Patriot_MP

I could tolerate Fox Business better even tho’ it was Caputo...I flipped all over the place to find something that didn’t irritate me..finally gave up after the president spoke - 2:30? - and went to sleep.


35 posted on 11/04/2020 6:48:28 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Patriot_MP
I watched Greg Hunter on YouTube last night ... it was excellent.

I'll only be watching Tucker on Fox going forward. There are PLENTY of other more legit news and opinion sources.

36 posted on 11/04/2020 6:49:00 AM PST by The Duke (President Trump = America's Last, Best Chance)
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To: Patriot_MP

That’s exactly what I did.


37 posted on 11/04/2020 6:49:35 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Patriot_MP; MinuteGal

Didn’t watch a minute of Fox.

I enjoyed OANN. They’re a little rough around the edges, but they produced straight, honest news, and didn’t hide their conservatism.

Good network.

From what I’ve been reading about Fox, I guess this was their “coming out.”

I’m hoping Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin make a move to another network in 2021.

Hannity can stay where he is. I wouldn’t watch him regardless.


38 posted on 11/04/2020 6:50:04 AM PST by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: Jonny7797

I felt the same way.. I had the sound off on Newsmax TV and watched Timcast on YouTube.


39 posted on 11/04/2020 6:51:21 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Patriot_MP

I did too


40 posted on 11/04/2020 6:52:23 AM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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