Was Beck's anonymous 'Concerned Parent' actually just a blacked-out Chris Wallace? Inquiring minds want to know ...
By David Neiwert Tuesday Oct 20, 2009 10:00am
Continuing his Anita Dunn jihad -- in fact, he devoted nearly his entire hour yesterday to attacking Dunn speciously -- Glenn Beck featured a segment with an anonymous "Concerned Parent" who actually attended the high-school commencement ceremony at which Dunn delivered her now-notorious "Mao" remarks. To protect his identity from the evil White House thugs who no doubt would brutalize the poor fellow, they altered his voice and showed him only in silhouette.
But John Aravosis noted a particular family resemblance between this silhouette and a familiar profile at Fox News"
Well, today America's favorite sociopath had a super duper double secret "anonymous" parent on to complain about a graduation speech that Ms. Dunn gave a while back. The thing is, when you look at the alleged parent, who was speaking from FOX's Washington, DC bureau, he sure looks an awful lot like FOX's own Chris Wallace. Check out the screen capture above from the TV. I posted a normal photo of Wallace to the left, and one in which I scrunched his head to the right (since the anonymous parent looks like they scrunched the video of his head, to further disguise him). Is it just me, or are those trademark ears and helmet-head hair just a little too similar to Chris Wallace's?
That's always fun speculation. But then Richard Wolffe of Newsweek went on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night and pointed out that there was more than just a resemblance:
Wolffe: Look at how this video has just popped up about Anita Dunn and her graduation ceremony of her own son. You know, this video, which was not available for public record, happened to pop up on the Glenn Beck show. And it's the same school where Chris Wallace spoke the year before because his kids also went there.
Was that coincidence, or is Fox determined to take this to another level? That's not about news, it's about personal attacks. Look, they may enjoy it for all sorts of commercial reasons. But it goes way beyond the commercial aspect here. There is an unholy jihad going on.
Someone needs to ask Chris Wallace if he is Beck's "Concerned Parent." Just, you know, to clear things up.
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Come on now we're not going to travel this road are we?
That is the back of someone's head.
You can hear 3 different versions of this, each with the pitch lowered a bit more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vggtNlntIo
They have to make up an entire back story to get to the point where they have something sufficently fabricated to broadcast, a back story invented by a "journalist."
Can you imagine if Dan Rather appeared anonymously on 60 Minutes? That would be Fox News' replacment for Fair and Balanced: "Dan Rather appeared anonymously on 60 Minutes."
"unholy jihad" - pretty good term for Faux's tactics.
standard and competitors have to lower the bar to keep up.
The Dalai Lama filled Seattle's football stadium to overflowing, more than 65,000 people. Beck, not so much. Maybe 7,000 people - and probably not very many of them were from Seattle, which is Jim McDermott country.
There is no other bigger liar in the world then the people at fox.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
"Someone needs to ask Chris Wallace if he is Beck's 'Concerned Parent.' Just, you know, to clear things up."
And then misquote him.
Like say if he uses the word 'Mao' or even just 'my' in the thing, make it sound like it sound like he says, "I like Mao more than Anita Dunn does."
..especially on my ham and cheese sandwich.
I couldn't watch five minutes of this bullshit station.
Reporter: So, we asked Mr. Wallace if he was the 'concerned parent' in Glenn Beck's show, and he... well you can see for yourself...
Reporter: And there you have it.
undo the voice thing like they do on Law and Order? :D
games . . maybe bribe him with a bag of chips and a mountain dew.
how about a mountain doo doo
I'm sure there's software on the internet somewhere. What exactly is it called when they mask the voice for interviews...I can't figure it out.
Chris Wallace talk before...may take me some time.
I just posted about this... it's currently down at the end of the comments.
It is definitely NOT Chris Wallace!
I was gonna get all slick, look up the youtube video then parse it out using vidtomp3.com & then edit it in audacity. Guess you beat me to it.
Grabbed the track with Audio Hijack on my Macbook, ran it through Peak LE.
To repeat...
NOT CHRIS WALLACE!
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Of course (R)epublicans never quote Chairman Mao...
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could they?
we can't change the system now they just bombard them with a sea of media.
of course they can!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89UonFqTBYc&fe...
Lazy proably goes without saying since they cannot seem to even place the correct party affiliation letters next to names of members of Congress appearing on their programs.
The English language has been mangled by geek and street slang and mostly replaced by pictures and video.
Hell who needs to be literate?
on the new C&L edition of Beck O Rama.
I find it a nice break from healthcare reform O Rama.
Do you have a note or were you cleaning up the dog poo on the previous thread.
I don't need no stinkin' note. I have a permanent hall pass. Plus I am drawn to any post about the cabbage patch doll at Fox, aka Beck.
Awwwwwwww!!
All of us that were here from the first days of C&L have permanent hall passes.
..but..its glenn beck for heaven's sake!
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Of course Beck could clear some of this up by quoting Senator John McMao(R-Az).
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does FauxSnooze deceit know any bounds?
Completely rhetorical, btw.
Are they into bondage?
that's obvious.
I know our leaders are going to git the bad guys. Someone will do it! I don't know who but surely someone!
Thats why we elected them to represent us!
when has any conservative, especially a professionally spoken one like this one, ever been so scared that they required so much distortion?
At about 2:39, where he says "Ah, why did she go there?", I'm pretty sure I heard an inflection that I've heard Wallace use many times. Anyone else?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218
and see what response you get.
ask Chris Wallace if he is Beck's "Concerned Parent."
Alright get a phone number and post it and "someone" will do it.
I'm not sure Chris Wallace would even sink that low, but I wouldn't put it past Beck to black out a Chris Wallace interview and dub in the mouse voice.
..I believe he was. beck is already despicable and capable of finding the new lows to which faux will stoop but for someone to bring in some unpublished home video of a school graduation..I wonder if all the people in the video signed releases? If I was in the audience, I'd be po'd!
watch TeeVee. If that's not enough of a clue to motivate people nothing will.
It's funny. For so long Beck was only going after black people in the Obama white house. Someone must have told him that he was being very obvious so he made an about turn and found Dunn to chase.
He began his show yesterday by asking how many more warning will we get. He didn't say warnings about what, he just dropped the idea that something is coming and it won't be good. He leaves the idea that the president is planning some nefarious plot and only he is on the lookout for this big incident. He might as well jump out from behind a curtain on his show and yell, Boo! It would make as much sense.
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I grabbed the audio from the Mystery Guest and opened in my audio editor — then I altered the pitch digitally, bringing it down about a half octave.
It is clearly NOT Chris Wallace.
David, I'll be happy to forward you the dis-altered audio so you can hear for yourself, if you give me an address to send it to. In any case, you're going to have to retract this theory.
Couldn't the blacked out profile be Wallace with someone else's voice played in the video? I mean, I know about as much about such things as this seashell sitting here on my desk.
David & C&Lers...
I just emailed the "normal" sounding file I made to your crooksandliars@gmail account. Check it out.
LOL.
It's obviously not Chris Wallace. Look at how far up the part of the hair is, and the shape of the ear.
But beyond that... Chris Wallace? Seriously? Do you think there are only 12 people available in the Fox building or something? I don't doubt for a moment that they would stick a staffer in there for an "anonymous interview", but they wouldn't use Chris Wallace.
This really makes the site look silly.
obvious joke, the ones who look silly. That about the joke being on them and all that jazz...
LOL!
...that they think Wallace IS a concerned parent and only hid his identity because of what the audience would say. Technically, if Wallace is a parent of a student and he didn't like the speech, he qualifies as a "concerned parent."
When your sources are "concerned parents," the rules are pretty loose.
Quit toying with this. If it's Faux, it's not news, it's a ploy. Don't help the spread of A.D.D. by even questioning Glenn Beck. He's a mormon...ooops, too many "m's"...moron. Don't let republican A.D.D. become your reality.....Chris Wallace is his other mothers son...he didn't even fall from the tree. He's still in the tree.
Sigmund Fraud.....
..that's funny!
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Why did this person want to remain anonymous? What was he afraid of? He was only saying what he thought of the speech at the time. That's the bigger mystery to me.
becky and chrissy's next act?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfiNT6AKG0s
1) That's the closest to a black person you're ever going to see on Glenn Beck's program.
2) I've narrowed down the identity of the concerned parent to either Joel Hodgson or Mike Nelson.
3) Out of fairness, Fox News should offer the same identity protection technology to Beck's sponsors.
was the kid there?
did he throw up?
..Sea Hunt?
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please C&L...
too much Flyin' Monkey ...
I need all the IQ I can get.
Btw did he start the clip by saying
"I'm sitting here (note: he is standing)... "your, your freedoms are slipping thru your fingers, especially the freedom of speech .."
and then goes on to continue to attack someone for what they said..?
Is this some weird Murdochian performance art or something?
PS: The Dunn resignation pool starts here:
I pick Friday 4:30.
Blogs that do this become one of Beck's greatest sources of notoriety.
If that's Chris Wallace, he should stick with the squirrel-voice and black-out face. Definitely an improvement on how he normally looks and sounds.
Mike Wallace must have a huge bruise on his forehead from slapping it so often when he watches his son the 'fair and balanced' journalist.
voice is trick by moose and squirrel ...
I actually thought it was Beck himself, because of the fact that this "concerned parent" was spouting almost the same exact comments that Beck himself has made on the show. However, the part in the hair was a key factor to tell you it wasn't Beck himself. I then assumed it was just a staffer on the show sitting there and it was Beck's voice being altered. But actually using another FAUX News pundit? How low can they go?
Plus, come on, what parent that is concerned enough to go on Fox about this issue would have to hide their identity?
five months after the speech but a week after Dunn attacked FOX in public.
"Well, looks like we'll have to leave it there...
But up next: Vampire boy stuck in a tree... we'll have wall to wall coverage for the next 3 hours ..."
is being served by this failure to disclose who the person represents?
Chris Wallace? Fox? or is it Richard Wolffe, MSNBC and C&L?
ricky cuts and pastes. You decide!
Neiwert today in C & L (in this very post)
"But then Richard Wolffe of Newsweek went on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night and pointed out that there was more than just a resemblance:
'Wolffe: .... You know, this video, which was not available for public record, happened to pop up on the Glenn Beck show. And it's the same school where Chris Wallace spoke the year before because his kids also went there.'
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Someone needs to ask Chris Wallace if he is Beck's "Concerned Parent." Just, you know, to clear things up."
Nicole Belle (October 6) in C& L
"Having Richard Wolffe ...serving as an almost daily "political analyst" -- is exactly tantamount to MSNBC's just turning over an hour every night to a corporate lobbyist. ... What makes that even more appalling is that, as Ana Marie Cox first noted, neither MSNBC nor Wolffe even disclose any of this."
Last night Countdown identified Wolffe as being employed by Public Strategies. He is no longer with Newsweek.
See how innocent mistakes can be distorted by malevolent people like
"little ricky?" See how guilt by association can be tossed up and then overlooked.
Now let's post comments about stepping in dog poo like we did last Beck thread.
your point? They can never cite Wolffe again?
Has Chris Wallace denied being "Concerned Parent"? I don't think he is "Concerned Parent," but why doesn't he just prove to us that he is not? And what about that young girl in 1990?
Why did they think they needed to disguise his voice? Is his voice that known?
because they are the bad guys and the bad guys have to hide.
A traditional bandit's scarf would have been more appropriate for a skit like that.
The FOX Theatre players are sick, sick, sick.
But that won't save their souls.
Fox noise has perverted every other interview technique from simple debate to ambush interviews. Why not the voice distortion and black out protection normally used for people who fear being fired or killed due to there job or undercover work.
You can hear 3 different versions of this, each with the pitch lowered a bit more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vggtNlntIo
There are inflections that do seem to sound like Wallace.
particularly when and immediately after he says "so I turned to my wife" and when he discusses nazi's and lampshades. Listen to the laughter.
I thought it might be Beck too. After listening a few times, I thought it was Wallace more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vggtNlntIo
.... voice to the level of Alvin and the Chipmunks?
Answer: When said voice is heard daily on the same channel.
Seems a little slimey and unethical of FOX though not at all surprising.
Exactly. That's what I thought. Why distort the voice so much that Beck has to warn it's hard to understand?
It's the clown network!
Modified audio to lower pitch of voice.
Listen to the "uhhs" and the way he says his "s" sounds.
It's Wallace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCV1KbMAW7w
Between the audio at the link you posted above and the audio at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vggtNlntIo (especially the 2nd of the 3 examples there), I think it's Wallace too.
It's important to remember that this would be Wallace's relaxed delivery rather than the more forceful "I'm on camera" delivery.
...the key is whether Wallace uses the same phrases in unscripted speech. The speaker uses a lot of cliches and metaphors--a LOT. So the next step is to determine how frequently Wallace uses phrases like, "she didn't need to go there." And, "method to the madness." And "to the max." The last one seems unlikely, but I think I've heard Wallace use these verbal shortcuts frequently during the so-called panel discussions.
it past Beck to pull a Balloon Boy Dad trick. He's a little scoundrel.
I'll have to listen to the clips later. It also wouldn't surprise me if one of the voices in Beck's head is the true identity of the concerned parent.
Who can make a comparison on the speaking pattern of this "anonymous" parent and Wallace? It's interesting that this douche would want his identity kept as secret, since most ignorants on the right are pretty proud of themselves.
bunch of cowards. Sometimes the verbal diarrhea has to take a back seat to that cowardice. So I wouldn't be too surprised.
Here are 2 you can listen to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCV1KbMAW7w
Between the audio at the link above and the audio at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vggtNlntIo (especially the 2nd of the 3 examples there), I think it's Wallace too.
It's important to remember that this would be Wallace's relaxed delivery rather than the more forceful "I'm on camera" delivery.
maybe it's David Gregory? ;) or Beck himself?
I can't hear Chris Wallace saying"to the max" in any way shape or form.
it says quite a lot about a "news" station that anyone would even think to question whether it was really a concerned parent or Chris Wallace in disguise, doesn't it? There must be quite a bit of doubt about the trustworthiness of Fox News in order for this question to even have been brought up, no?
I think it's just funny they're now using masks and siloettes like common criminals and terr'ists.
I thought that silhouette looked kind of douche-y.
... a few hours ago... http://crooksandliars.com/comment/permalink/1... ...
... I still say...
IT'S NOT CHRIS WALLACE!!!
Here's my version on YouTube, with video & audio both stretched to 2X. (I figured Beck would use a nice simple number.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVALLm8obQE
wouldn't that take more than a pitch shift to mask? it sounds like there is some sort of phaser on there as well.
Some of the versions people have posted on YouTube were slowed down way too much...
I think I hit the approximate sweet spot (you could pitch it a bit higher or lower)... pitch & tempo seem about right, and the voice quality is fine. I would have also guessed that the "altered" soundtrack had been processed in other ways, but it sounds clean after just the pitch change..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVALLm8obQE
...Fox "News" should always broadcast his voice like that. I like it.
- Tom
Ya, it adds to the creepiness and bogusness of it all - perfect.
reminds me of admissions of guilt by felons - exciting!
Factoid - FOX news employs more convicted felons than any cable network ever should.
Fox News doesn't mix news and opinio . . . oh never mind . . .
no, FOX mixes schizophrenia with verbal terr'ism and call it opinion.
If this isn't Wallace, it's still a real embarrassment. Think about it. If Chris Wallace's son graduated from this college and Chris Wallace spoke at the college on the same night that Dunn spoke and yet, when a story breaks about a "concerned parent" and they allow Beck to "break" the story? Riiiiiiiiight!
Why even point this stuff out anymore.
...it could still be some random employee of FOX.
Think about it, why would anyone so clearly conservative and politically aware want to be shadowed-out on television for expressing their opinion? Most folks would love to appear on the TeeVee, even for a minute, and even if it means building a UFO shaped balloon! What backlash would anyone have to fear to simply say they were unhappy with a commencement speech? How paranoid would you need to be to demand anonymity in this situation?
Something isn't right here. Something has to explain why a 'concerned parent' feels they should forego their 15 minutes of fame and instead receive the same protections as a drug cartel informant.
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