Fox News aired two hours commercial-free of right-wing commentary from Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity during Thursday night's hearing.
Stirewalt came under fire from Trump and his supporters after the Fox News political desk was the first to call Arizona for Biden in November 2020. The state had a recent track record for voting for Republican presidential candidates, so the call stunned the political world and all but confirmed Trump would lose the 2020 election.told The Washington Post
that Stirewalt's dismissal"had nothing to do with the correct Arizona call by the Fox decision desk." After Fox fired him, Stirewalt, without mentioning Fox News, said media"hype men" helped push the false narrative that the election was stolen from Trump. "The rebellion on the populist right against the results of the 2020 election was partly a cynical, knowing effort by political operators and their hype men in the media to steal an election or at least get rich trying," he wrote in a Los Angeles Times op-ed."But it was also the tragic consequence of the informational malnourishment so badly afflicting the nation."
Representatives for Fox News and the select committee didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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