Sammon authored four
New York Times bestsellers:
At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election;
Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism From Inside the White House;
Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, Media Bias and the Bush Haters; and
Strategery: How George W. Bush Is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media. These books have been largely derided as overtly favorable to President George W. Bush and
his administration.
Vanity Fair critic
James Wolcott listed
Strategery among other related books on Bush written by "faithful holdouts in Bush's pep squad [who] are happy to have endowed him with superpowers" as "hagiography mash notes whose toothy gleam of triumphalism was almost blinding". Reporter
David Weigel sarcastically referred to these books as "scathing critiques of presidential power".
The American Prospect wrote that Sammon "wrote an astonishing four books on the topic of Bush's super-awesomeness". He is a frequent guest on Fox News programs like
Special Report with Brit Hume, Fox News Sunday, and
Hannity & Colmes. On September 13, 2007, Sammon appeared on
Special Report and argued that
Theodore Olson should be confirmed as
Attorney General. On February 27, 2009, Sammon was promoted to vice president of Fox News and Washington managing editor. In January 2021, Sammon announced he was retiring at the end of the month, with his position to be assumed by editorial staff members. On the night of the
2020 United States presidential election, Sammon had supervised the network's Decision Desk HQ, which had controversially declared
Arizona for then-Democratic presidential candidate
Joe Biden. Sammon's departure, along with that of
Chris Stirewalt, was seen as retaliatory in light of President
Donald Trump's criticism of the network and subsequent decline in viewership. It was subsequently reported that Murdoch suggested that it was "maybe best to let Bill go right away" as a "big message with Trump people". ==Controversy==