Chris Wallace shows no journalistic integrity when he interviews Rush Limbaugh: "He's very nice, very sweet and vulnerable"
By John Amato Monday Nov 02, 2009 1:00pm
Chris Wallace had a chance to prove to America that he actually has journalistic integrity and is not part of the Fox Sphere of phony reporting when he interviewed Rush Limbaugh on Fox News Sunday. What we got was FOX News #1, fair and balanced reporter acting like a bowl of jelly for Limbaugh's rants. During his post mortem of FNS, he topped his uninformative and ridiculous interview of Limbaugh thus way:
I just want to give you my reaction. First of all I had never met him. Very nice, very sweet and I've have to say vulnerable guy and if you watch the interview you'll see because he talks very candidly about drug rehab...
Wow, is Wallace this dimwitted? Rush is doing a major interview with FNS and he's shocked, shocked I tell you that he's such a sweet guy. Did Wallace want to date him or interview him? I couldn't tell, could you?
Chris Wallace has been a very vocal critic of the Obama administration and has even gone so far as to say that the White House is a big bunch of crybabies. Did you ever hear him ever say anything like that before of another administration?
When Anita Dunn called Fox News an arm of the Republican Party on CNN, that didn't make Wallace happy either.
On Bill O'Reilly's program he said that his show is a truly fair and balanced program:
WALLACE: ...That’s exactly my position: I think Fox News Sunday is a truly fair and balanced show.
O’REILLY: You’re not an ideological show at all.
WALLACE: No. And it’s like they refuse to take “yes” for an answer. There’s a kind of childishness or pettiness about them…
Really? Then where was Wallace's "balance" with Rush? If you're operating as a real interviewer, then Wallace would have had a handful of tough questions that would ask him some other than his opinions. Rush Limbaugh rarely goes on TV except for Fox, and would never do a political talk show where an anchor could actually have a week to prepare at least some moderately difficult questions for him.
So when Rush decided to go on Wallace's show, it was a chance for him to ask questions that would typically be skeptical of his positions. Instead, Wallace acted like a fashion reporter talking about a new line of footwear and stood there listening to typical Limbaugh rants without no fact checking or follow questions.
He could have at least made some sort of effort. After Limbaugh made the outrageous statement that President Obama didn't care about Afghanistan, the best Wallace could do was grin and say, you don't really believe that?
And when his question came up about Limbaugh being rejected by the NFL, couldn't Wallace have at least read some of Limbaugh's comments back to him and make him defend his racist comments about African Americans? All he did was give Rush a platform to whine about a "conspiracy" against him.
The news media that so quickly supported Fox News against the White House should now turn their sights on Chris Wallace and ask themselves if he isn't playing his part perfectly for Roger Ailes.
This interview was an embarrassment and Wallace should be held accountable by his media peers. If Jake Tapper of ABC or any other media entity wants to defend Fox, then they need to hold those who make a mockery out of the profession accountable.
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I did not know that rim jobs were allowed on television.
with the sagging cooke, if you ask me...
Chris know what he needs to clean, and he put his tongue to good use cleaning away.
... that also could very well mean that he lost the race ;-) Rush's ass is so large, that the wide angle lens was not able to capture Beck, O'really and Hannity.
I couldn't believe Chris the "weasel" Wallace sucked rush's dick for 30 minutes straight!These 2 creeps make me want to puke up a storm!
Well now that other networks have huddled with Fox regarding the administrations "take" on Fox News, do they now see a story?
I used take over attack, telling the truth should not be construed to be an attack.
When Rush spoke of his career, he told what year he began his radio show and said at the time he was the only one doing the kind of show he did. He said now there are lots of ways for conservatives to get their message out, like many conservative radio talk shows, and Fox news.
So Rush himself said what the white house has said, Fox is an extention of the republican party.
And just for the record, the last time I saw any man in Florida wearing white linen pants, a jacket, loafers and no socks was during the days of Miami Vice.
When the interview began, I thought Chris was asking some good questions, but he didn't follow up on any of Rush's answers.
Sunlight?
definitely mirrors.
Garlic too.
advances in gene therapy in the past decade. You'd be surprised about the resilience of these vampires now that they managed to cross-pollinate with cockroaches....
The big cat in me woke right up when I read that.
Precisely which asshole did Chris Wallace fall out of?
but somehow that image explains his "pinched" look.
Rush is such a slob, he couldn't be bothered to put on socks...that whole Don Johnson/Miami Vice no sock thing is so 25 years ago...And Chris Wallace continues to be an embarrassment to himself. I guess that's why he and Drugbo hit it off so well.
Rush "very nice, very sweet and vulnerable" when it comes to the ill, the disabled, kids asking congress for reasonable legislation, people of colour, immigrants, drug addicts (who aren't him) Chelsea Clinton, &c...
they had to use an IMAX camera for that wide shot.
you know I got a bit nauseated looking at it; I'd assumed it was motion sickness...
much less reach them.
When was the last time you heard a man describe a man he had just met as "sweet"?
actually, he meant "salty"
'bitter'...
But it was at a drag queen show. Does that count?
because that takes more than 2 people. It could not be mutual masturbation, because only Wallace was "working." So it was just a whoring. Wallace is a whore and slightly effeminate.
Chris is just a "chubby chaser".
that Rush fancies little Dominican Republic boys.
on the radio. And I'm not about to start here.
...of Rush's grotesque and lumpy(sweet) ass.
n/t
Grossed out minds think alike. :)
first cheney, now FAtbuagh. slobbin the knob is pure porn. and Wallace is right--porn isn't ideological
You made a funny!
disowned this POS, or does he condone the POS's ethics?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9915051/
seriously next thing you know Maddow will be forced to have Rush on her show.
Desperate times
That is the name and presumably the purpose of the blog--calling out these people.
...is your dumbass.
Fox is not disclaimed as "opinion" or "editorial". It is labeled as NEWS, which they are NOT. Thety also lie continuously. C&L is a blog that clearly states what kind of blog it is. So take your FOX apologist garbage somewhere else...maybe to redstate. FOX is an unethical group of criminals disguised as "journalist" and your bleating and whining for them is plain pathetic.
And your apologist thinking is doing EXACTLY what Chirs Wallace is doing with FatBo....rather than confront, he just drools and licks away.
Aren't YOU being the perfect eltitist POS by saying everyone that watches FOX news is an idiot? Stop projecting.
Of courrse you are of the same mind of "if we ignore cancer, it'll go away."
Sorry, we've tried ignoring them, they are still here. Maybe you should go back to living in your world of happy puppies and kittens, and let people that care about getting the truth out there do there jobs.
I'm glas I stung you with my remark. Maybe you'll wake up to reality.
Ignoring you in the hopes you go away.
Oh yeah, you can bite me too.
FOX News is relevent because large swaths of the voting population get their news and opinions from fox. and then they vote.
C&L, like other sites (media matters for one) simply creates a venue where the antics of fox can be exposed and discussed.
like others have said, that is one of the main reasons for a site called 'crooks and liars'
Don't worry...Rush has enough ass for all of you shitwads to lick.
new and improved "independent" conservatives, who are not republican at all BTW, coming out of the woodwork now purely based on their deep "concern" for the well being of this country.
LOL
Nor a troll dating site for that matter.
There I went again. Me and my big mouth!
Facts cannot be manipulated. Only lied about!
Trickle Down? NAFTA? Tax cuts? Weapons of Mass Destruction? Globalization? Privatization? etc........., if you cannot critically think your way through the obvious bullshit, then you will make comments like the one above!
and I got my sh*t together!
Freaky
"ignorance" after you took such a "creative" detour from reality in your original post.
In any case, people are entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts. A lot of people in this country don't seem to get that...
Yes, like many of your "creative" detours from reality, oh pompous one.
"Entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts?" Gee, I wish I would have said that svengali? Oh wait, I did!
that you won't have any problem providing us with plenty of examples. Right?
Sorry man. I confused the posts, and am in a very gnarly mood, what with the corporate fascist's bearing down at work. It's been a very long Monday to say the least.
I know it's not a good excuse, but it's the only one I've got.
I think I am gonna take a nap.
P.S. I tried to delete it after I realized the error of my ways, but I couldn't figure out how.
We cool... It has happened to me a few times. Mainly involving not enough coffee.
If you are in a website titled "crooks and liars" whose mission statement is discussing both crooks and liars, and you start berating said website for... wait for it: discussing the latest crap load from, you guessed it, crooks and liars in high places in this country of us.
Then it is clear that somewhere, somehow, you took the wrong exit... like 3 states down the road.
Since you had to resort to the clear false dichotomy to make the point, it seemed that indeed facts had little bearing in deviating you from your agenda.
Cheers.
[Apparently I was not clear as to why your first post was deleted. Perhaps a temporary ban will be more clear. You should be able to post again tomorrow, should you wish to do so-Sitemonitor]
you cannot seem to sintinguish between a LIE and a Truth...and like to whitewash it with callin it a "manipulation, this ex[plains much, and makes you totally irrelevant. But since you are so superior to all of us here i guess that doesn't seem to matter to you.
So, I'll take your advice, welcome to ignore...maybe then you will go away.
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have their own opinions, it does matter what is said on Fox "News." People think what they say is the truth. It helps to point out the untruths to as many people as possible. Do you actually think that we should just ignore them? Is this that high road route back on the radar again?
in Fox news are irredeemable. I think exposing people to truth is important. I will continue. Please go on without me.
you deleted the comment?
por que?
i def didn't agree with it... but, it was at least a thoughtful comment. and you deleted it???
yikes....
[It's off topic and derails the thread. If visitors don't like a topic, there's the 'skipping it' option. We get this discussion all the time-Sitemonitor]
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what passes for brainless in your neck of the woods.
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... I don't live in your neck of the woods, I did not consider the original comment to posses the slightest intellectual honesty, and I wasn't asking a question.
So.....
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but your comment seems to be off topic.
Site monitor I'm not.
... red herrings are neither tasty, nor intellectually honest discussion devices.
you first were berating this site for deviating from the real objective (which from your posts seems to be Obama's corruption, rather than FOX's obvious role as America's favorite place for crooks and liars)... and then in another post, say how it is OK to deviate from the subject at had. So long as you are doing the deviating, I assume.
Coming to a website and comparing it to FOX, with a straight face, just because they don't adhere to your standards of "purity." And then down the line, you seem to be less than stringent with the same standard when it applies to your line of debate. It is a tad heavy handed, IMHO.
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Is to love love love him....
just like the Stay Puft marshmallow man!
But can marshmallow be made out of caustic lye?
sittin' in a tree...
accommodate Limbo. Or there would have to be a crane brought in.
you're right. How about sittin' near a tree...?
a lot.
call me crazy, but obviously rush is a vulnerable guy. he exudes self-loathing. his 'tough', loud, and confrontational behavior is projected to help hide and cover the weakness of his character and spirit.
rush excudes low self esteem from every sweaty, cholesterol-pocked pore.
vulnerable and deeply insecure, because he's nothing, and deep down he knows it. He has to get his strength through attacking people who are more vulnerable in this society than he; women, minorities, the poor, etc.
Pathetic, really.
Sweet on the other hand? Nu uh. To borrow a phrase from the Spanish telenovelas, he's about as loveable as a cactus!
Just another day of propaganda in the corporate fascist states of America.
I now realize that I probably won't live long enough to see the day when corporate fascism comes tumbling down in this country.
Someday our children and grandchildren will retake the country I grew up in, and hopefully learn from our mistakes. "Don't barter away your middle class existence for a couple of grubby GOP tax cuts that don't amount to more than a hill of beans!"
And remember your history. There will always be lying snake oil salesman around (conservatives), and they will always take anything and everything they can from you. If you listen to them, you will experience the 3rd republican Great Depression.
before the sh*t really hits the fan 4 years or so out.
SCOTUS ruling on corporations/free speech/money. Better know as the "other shoe."
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Remember what Rush himself said in another interview. For him, it's all about the money. He would say anything to get more attention, more audience for his radio show and more money from his advertisers for him.
He could just as easily be an evangelical preacher on tv asking for money in exchange for blessings. Con men are just that and nothing more. Some are more successful than others.
Do Alligators eat their young?
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Nope, and they are very protective of their nest.
Has Rush ever been married? When he talked about his past he never mentioned any sort of family.
Relationships
Limbaugh was first married on September 24, 1977 to Roxy Maxine McNeely, a sales secretary at radio station WHB in Kansas City, Missouri. They were married at the Centenary United Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. In March 1980, McNeely filed for divorce, citing "incompatibility." They were formally divorced on July 10, 1980.[1]
In 1983, Limbaugh married Michelle Sixta, a college student and usherette at the Kansas City Royals Stadium Club. They were divorced in 1990, and she remarried the following year.[1]
On May 27, 1994, Limbaugh married Marta Fitzgerald, a 35-year-old aerobics instructor whom he met on the online service CompuServe in 1990.[95] They were married at the house of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who officiated.[96] They were separated on June 11, 2004.[97] Limbaugh announced on the air, "Marta has consented to my request for a divorce, and we have mutually agreed to seek an amicable separation." The divorce was finalized in December 2004.[98] In September 2004, Limbaugh became romantically involved with then-TV personality Daryn Kagan, and they broke up in February 2006.[99]
/wiki
Roxy Maxine McNeely (1977–1980, div.)
Michelle Sixta (1983–1990, div.)
Marta Fitzgerald (1994–2004, div.)
Now he shares his home with a cat.
Sounds like he was married to the cast of "Chicago"
...with sex slaves (gender is still being debated)
[see, rush's viagra, Palm Beach International Airport, and his return from his domincan vacation]
A kindred spirit. No self-respecting cat would stay with him.
It would have to be a weasel. You know what they say about people and their pets looking alike.
Dontcha know, that's how poor rush got caught by PBCo sheriffs...
He proved he's lying about having a cat. He said women are just like cats, they only come around when they're hungry, rest of the time you don't even know where they are. That's bull. I wish my cats would do that. I have to tell them all the time, "Would you please go away for a while, quit climbing around on me, go EAT or something?" Cats are affectionate. Anyone with a cat knows it. Fatass has a pretend cat, a "beard" cat to try and seem normal. He has no kids, no wife, no GF, no BF, nothing alive can subsist with him except over the radio.
Bootsie the Cat has filed a restraining order against one Rush Limbaugh, citing thefty of cat food, and general bad odor coming from Rush's litterbox,
Bootsie now joins several dogs, goldfish, house plants, and a pet rock who have filed various incompatibility lawsuits against said FatAss.
UPDATE: Bongo the Ferret, now joins.
Strong women...
either victims, or right out gold diggers. Strong? Not so much...
strong enough to get the f*ck out, both from their beds and their marital chains. Hope lush's income paid their lawyers.
most intimate of moments.
Several times.
Read Al Franken's "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat Idiot!" Aside frm being highly informative, you will laugh your ass off!
Only way I can imagine this porcine poppycock puker being 'sweet' is if served with apple sauce.
In man Loves boy type of way.
Really, John, I'm amazed at you. Did you really expect anything different? Wallace has been at this for years, and has never shown the slightest inclination towards stepping outside the party line. Why on earth did you think he'd do so now, at this late date?
Leopards don't change their spots, dude. Wallace is a pathetic little twerp who will never grow up. He will always be an embarrassment to the profession and to his dad. Sad but there it is.
and pounding in the message until eventually someone get's it.
Obama has supported public option from the beginning. You might want to listen to all the speeches he's made about health care reform.
The President would love to close Gitmo and bring the prisoners here to our prisons but the chicken shit scared senators are afraid they will escape and do something bad. You know like Charles Manson keeps doing. Not!
The troops are coming out of Iraq a bit ahead of the schedule.
Where do you get your information, Fox?
As I heard on the radio this morning. "After this interview Rush must have a clean scrotum, and Chris is still spitting out hair"
OMG, yuck!! I'm laughing and want to NOT be.
Meaner and uglier than a serpent from the safety of your studio, but quick with the "really sweet and vulnerable" whenever it's needed for the ole face-to-face? That is a feminine wile. A man shouldn't have it. A real man doesn't.
What do they have in that vacation paradise, the Dominican Republic, that we can't get in Paris or Rome or Bermuda? That requires so much extra Viagra you have to fill it under various names? That you wouldn't want to be caught buying Viagra for in any case?
HMM?
Sweet and vulnerable, indeed. Fat faced cherub...no telling what that critter really is. ICK.
Hot monkey love.
just like my 30-06 likes my porcines. Not that I'd waste my lead...
I assume Prissy found that out after probing rush with the "fickle finger of Fux"...
D'ya get any onya?...
but who was on top?
was on top.
Rush reminds me of the disgusting boil oozing slob in Dune. Didn't that movie come out about the same time as his radio ascendency?
is this country going to make it? Or is Rush going to end up President?
What are we making anyway these days? Besides deals to sell off everything to the highest bidders.
for future Americans. Be gross, dumb, obnoxious, and never let anyone else barge in when your speaking.
Journalistic integrity?
On FOX?
BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
ROTFLMAO!
Just a suggestion: He could change the name of his show...
How about "Softball for Dummies"????
any Bank, Hospital, Business you walk into that has Fox on the TV set in the lobby or waiting area you can just stop, turn around and walk out!
Finding places that doesn't have on Fox is the hard part.
in China at Mal-Wart.
for that matter
They already have it,
But they call it Viagra.
Oxycontin.
Chris Wallace shows no journalistic integrity
where's the story in that?
A real sweet guy...deaf from oxycontin and sporting a permanent stiffy from off-market viagara (h/t one of the mooks on stephanie miller)
1. Rush Limbaugh runs the Republican Party.
and 2. Chris Wallace gives better BJs than most porn stars.
Rush was so sweet and vulnerable when discussing his own drug addiction. Too bad Wallace didn't ask what Rush's line about addicts was before he was caught doctor shopping. It was far from forgiving. One of his favorite lines for years was about "dope smoking maggot infested hippies" I also recall once listening to him say that all addicts should be kicked out of the country.
have a field day with this interview.
Wallace is obviously more worried about his job than journalistic integrity. I'm sure several years from now, he'll write a book and say that he was under a lot of pressure from ailes to perform the rimjob.
Either way, Rush is on his way out. He's so radical, he doesn't even see it. I've even convinced a few conservative co-workers to stop listening to him. They say they have but, who knows...
The 'leader' of the GOP is a pasty-white, lawyer's-kid, junkie who got caught with someone else's viagra coming back from a country known for child-prostitution and Chris Wallace loves him.
The GOP the party of 'demons'......by THEIR OWN definition
You mean like the handful(s) of tough questions that President Obama receives from the MSM....ever....are those the kind of tough questions your talking about Mr. Amato? Gee, have ya compared how the (non-FoxNews) MSM treated Bush vs. how it treats Obama? Please tell me you notice a difference!
Troll, you are a classic example of why Progressives took the Nation from you pussies while we left our collective shoe prints all over your sorry asses.
Go back to bursting the pus out of those gigantic cysts off of the cavernous ass of that junkie, child molesting, racist hero of yours.
Loser.
Zing! Please L&L, by all means, don't stop now.
Now there's a 'faux' for you! How about the money paid to A black-con-radio-head to promote the 'no child left behind' disaster.
Or maybe David Gregory 'gettin'down' with K.Rove Or Dick-less Cheney quoting HIMSELF as the source on Meet the Press to LIE us into WAR while getting a 'reach-around' from the MSM while the ditto-becker-heads watched in a hannitized stuper?
When you brag about being a 'ditto-head' whose been 'hannitized' it sounds like you are proud of your 'brain-washing'.
Like all ditto-heads, he's a moron and proud of it! U.S.A., U.S.A.,U.S.A.,.....
Poor Mike Wallace.
I watched snippets of that interview, and found it totally nauseating. What a suck up. I'm surprised Wallace didn't bow down and kiss his ring. Conservatives of all stripes are afraid of Rush. Look at the way they treat him, with such deference, like he's royalty, like if they said the wrong thing, Rush would casually dismiss them while giving the order "off with his head". There's not one that has the gonads to challenge him, and certainly not to his face. What I saw in that interview was a very angry, nasty, arrogant man. Talk about narcissistic. Project much, Rush.
Wow, that interview was horrible.
That’s what is called journalistic malpractice today……
Garbage in garbage out.
Hey Rush hows that buying a team working out for you?????
It must be a serious setback to Rush fans to know that the NFL owners turn down this racist slob.
Some fans of his are out on a ledge right now..
LMAO
Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."
Oops - your bad-mouthing mean spirited comments came back to bite you in the @ss--
Excuse Me While I Laugh -Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha
So after the draft dodger got up from the chair, he had to have another anal operation to remove Wallace.
a lot of COCK and bull to me.
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