Chris Wallace: Company Man. Just Ask Cheney
By Nicole Belle Sunday Dec 07, 2008 3:00pm
Again, the hubris that it takes to unapologetically admit to being a propagandist never ceases to amaze me...Wallace's dad must be so proud.
ThinkProgess grabbed this rather astonishing audio from The Mike Gallagher Show, yet another apologist for The. Worst. Presidency. Ever. And in an oh-so-macho pissing contest over who is more favored by the criminals in the White House, Wallace brags to Gallagher:
WALLACE: Let me ask you this, did the Vice President say to you, “thank you so much for defending the president and yes I’m going to be giving you a special exit interview in a couple of weeks?”
GALLAGHER: Did he say all that to you?
WALLACE: Yes.
Apparently, all this gratitude towards Wallace came as Wallace defended the Bush administration, ironically at the premiere of a movie where a real journalist actually did his job when interviewing a president:
Last Monday, at a screening of Ron Howard’s new film “Frost/Nixon,” Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace vociferously defended President Bush against criticism by Howard that Bush has abused the office of the presidency in a way similar to President Richard Nixon. “Richard Nixon’s crimes were committed purely in the interest of his own political gain,” said Wallace. Wallace claimed that it was a “gross misreading of history” to say that Bush abused his power “for pure political self preservation” like Nixon did.[..]
Later in the interview, Wallace said that “a bunch of people” at Cheney’s party thanked him for his comments. “Cheney was genuinely grateful for what I had done, and Ed Gillespie, the senior counselor to the president, was there and genuinely grateful.” Listen to it here:
As ThinkProgress noted earlier this week, the Bush White House did in fact abuse its power for political gain and to maintain control of the government. Beyond politicizing many federal agencies, the Bush team also outed an undercover CIA agent in order to punish a critic and fired nine U.S. attorneys for political reasons.
I wonder if Wallace thinks he will be viewed as gratefully by the incoming administration or if he'll suddenly remember that his job is not to serve as a public relations flack. Somehow I can't see him being so quick to defend Obama.
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Seperated at birth?
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"Cheney was genuinely grateful for what I had done..."
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"No comment."
will be one of many "news" people put on trial for aiding and abetting inhumane, criminal behavior in terms of the Bush administration and republican congress. If any of those bas...ds ever get put on trial. Just dreaming.
Does Wallace ever look at those pages of the New York Times with the names of the dead troops listed? Does he ever feel even an ounce of guilt for his cheerleading?
His comments make me gag. Wonder what his dad thinks.
Chrissie, you are correct on that point. What a smarmy little creep.
Absolutely true.
Unlike Nixon, Bush abused his power NOT ONLY “for pure political self preservation” BUT ALSO for enormous profits for his base, the "haves and have-mores."
http://www.foureyesjokeshop.com/index.asp?Pag...
Well, I guess there is one thing you can say about Clinton and Lewinsky......at least they kept their blowjobs in the White House and not on the air.
I would a paid a dollar for that!
Wallace is so HAPPY with his pat on the head. Did Cheney give him a biscuit, too
Could someone photoshop the brown ring around chris' mouth, it has the shape of cheney's sphincter.
A thunk just occurred to me.
Chris Wallace is older to me and he should remember the era of the early 70's.
Watergate was about the Committee to Relect the President (C.R.E.E.P) hiring "plumbers" to break into the Democratic headquarters during a presidential run. Although it's not known if Nixon was behind the planning, he actively tried to cover it up.
However, Watergate alone wasn't what constituted the abuse of office. There were also illegal wiretaps, mail searches, investigating peace groups where often there were more government agents than members in the meetings.
Nixon was fighting the Vietnam war, so we wouldn't have to fight the Communist here on Main Street USA, and saw the whole Civil Rights, Peace Groups, and Counter-Culture movement as treasonable.
Nixon over-expanded the use of Executive Priviledge.
Supporters of his government kept saying that something illegal wasn't illegal if the president did it.
Sounds familiar don't it?
that nixon felt that turning over the white house to the antiwar libs wouldve caused the domino effect, thereby turning over the whole of southeast asia to the commies....allowing both china and the soviet union to expand their sphere of influence, and causing the ultimate defeat of the united states and other western powers
therefore, nixon wasnt a crook just to strengthen personal power...he was a crook in order to protect the citizenry
its all horseshit....but its wallace's argument
btw, wallace brought up his objection because he misunderstood the comments of the screen writer....who was saying that indeed, nixon was worse than bush
Oh yeah, the dreaded domino effect. Scary stuff. All those peaceful Buddhist rice farmers.
(Which is actually what many are. I go there all the time. Going back Jan. 1)
Yeah, I hate Domino Pizzas too.
The effect I get is heartburn.
And who has been a key participant through it all? Dick Cheney.
That's why to this day dickless hates limits on presidents
Like the Constitution.
Like the Borg, this Empire. Except they use guns and incarceration to get you to "co-operate".
(edit) Oops. I forgot torture.
OK, maybe I live in a dark cave here in NJ. I did not know Chris Wallace was the son of Mike Wallace, that makes this so much more horrific.Who has brought more shame of their family name W or Wallace?
thought that fact was well known
mike did a shitty job with jr
Mike was just whacking off when his wife got in the way.
which is nothing, I served in Viet Nam.
So what? One might say.
And I would agree.
But if this guy had been in my unit, he wouldn't have lasted long.
I sucked out a bigger stool than you, took it right down, and didn't gag. Nyaah nyaah nyaah. How pathetic.
Cheney should give him a freezer full for Christmas. Then he can chew the stuff like cud.
valerie Plame was NOT outed as political payback. That's the convenient surface excuse.
Plame's group was outed because they were the only legitimate authority the United States had on the ground in the Middle East regarding the spread of WMD, including Nuclear. This authority encompasses not only Iraq, but Syria and especially Iran.
They were the only one's we had that could derail this administration's pathetic excuses that were foisted on the public for their imperialism behavior towards Iraq and Iran.
They were dangerous. And That is why they were outed.
I don't disagree with what you wrote at all.
Where did you get the idea I did?
He read the signs from the markings in his boxer shorts.
And not really relevant to the paid shill, Wallace, being thanked by the criminal mastermind Cheney for all of Wallace's shillings.
The only real disagreement I had was Nicolle's characterization of the outing of Valerie as payback for criticism.
I see it as a preemptive disruption of a potentially damaging source of facts that could have potentially derailed their Middle east, imperialistic agenda.
of your information?
that what you wrote means that they were indeed outed for POLITICAL reasons, right?
"the Bush team also outed an undercover CIA agent in order to punish a critic"
Criticism never ever stopped these thugs. The ONLY thing that's ever threatened their various illegal activities was legal rulings.
That Brewster Jennings was collecting intelligence on the dissemination and spread of WMD (including nukuler) throughout the middle east is common knowledge now. The timing speaks volumes as it coincides with several criminal issues our government was involved in:
Shutting down Sibel Edmonds
Sliding the forged (by Cheney's group) Niger papers thru
Ramp up the rhetoric against Iran
I assert that all 3 are closely related, and Brewster Jennings was a threat to all of them.
Greg Palast is a veritable wealth of incriminating information about the criminal activities of BushCo.
And Tyler, what I wrote implies that BushCo did it for LEGAL reasons. (Just as they got John Yoo to rationalize torture...for LEGAL reasons.)To verify the assertion that Iraq/Syria/Iran has an active Nukuler weapons program (which was their justification for acts and threats of war)so that no one within our intelligence community could impugn their assertions and derail their false justifications.
Again, criticism never ever stopped these thugs. The ONLY thing that's ever threatened their various illegal activities was legal rulings.
Am I strange because I don't give a rat's ass what this man has to say on any subject?
If so...that is fine w/me.
Who me?
Spending every day counting on the support of the ignorant.
Faux is the main reason I never watch the so called TV news anymore, not since 2003 and never again! ot as long as it is owned and operated by warmongering criminals.
Comrade Chris---how does it feel to be an enabler for the direct descendent of Pravda? I guess hacks like you without integrity or ethics can't cut it in the real world so you spew your state sponsored propaganda about your Neocon criminals on the slimiest channel in America.
And I thought you
SovietsNeocons hated the Soviet Union---not bad enough I guess to rebrand something from them that benefits your masters at the Kremlin.No wonder Mike Wallace cried when they asked him about Chris.
What disgrace he is.
When he wonders aloud "What has it come to in this town?" when he was the only one defending the President, someone should give him his answer: Only sycophant's to the worst President in U.S. history would be shameless enough to what you do. How's that make you feel Chris, as a journalist? Respected?
Not so much.
Every time I see that fuc*ing smirk on chrissie's ugly puss, I want to slap him into next week!!
Poor Mike; to have such a brown-nosed, as*-kisser for a son.
"From one hack trying unsuccessfully to withstand the pressure of his father's shadow to another, my heartfelt and most sincere gratitude.
Hugs and kisses,
george W. bush"
Bush is happy to give out medals for incompetent or corrupt suckups tennet,bremmer ect ect... mabey they will make a new medal for chrissy wallace. the brown starfish
He only has pissing contests with Larry King over who is the better friend of Nancy Reagan.
and said that about a Democratic president, he would have lost his spot on the show.
I am convinced that they have to put old Mike under suicide watch each Yom Kippur for fear of what he might do to himself for unleashing the likes of Chris on the world.
Wallace, you and your wife can't believe that very few people said good things about the Bush Regime? Duh. Could it be that Bush abused his powers and got away with it? The aftermath is this country is going to see Depression like symptoms.
Wallace, you sicken me. Anyone with a conscious and brains sees that Bush is the worst President in History.
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