Chris Wallace has become Mr. Irrelevant
Chris Wallace has been whining at an accelerated pace lately about President Obama and that doesn't bode well for him or his show.
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…
O’REILLY: You know, that’s a…it’s an immaturity that if you don’t …if you don’t hold our line, we’re just gonna ice you.
He used to maintain the appearance of a neutral talk show because the media would never dare to call out a fellow Villager even though we've been exposing him for years now as a political hack.
Here he is again whining the night away on his own show:
Chris Wallace continued to criticize the president Sunday. "Every president is thin-skinned, but I wonder whether this administration, this White House, has a particular problem with criticism," he said.
His rating were always terrible for FOX on the Sunday Talk Show circuit and on Sept 13, he remained firmly at the bottom of the barrel. And ratings are the GOD that drives all TV shows, but I still find it unlikely that Rupert will fire him.
Eric Boehlert's column hits the mark on Wallace:
The subsequent whining and childish name-calling from Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace became incessant and, of course, revealed more about the bitter and bruised host than it did the White House. No doubt the pity party that the thin-skinned journalist threw for himself in the wake of the embarrassing snub was genuine. But it went on for so many days and became so consuming that it seemed there was more to it than Wallace being forced to watch the Obama newsmaking parade from the sidelines. I think the slow-motion temper tantrum perhaps reflected Wallace's larger realization that his days of being taken seriously as a journalist are fading and that he can no longer be associated with the collectively unhinged Fox News family and maintain any dignity in the process.
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By contrast, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith had the courage and the decency earlier this year to call out the right-wing "crazies" on the fringe who targeted Obama and were feeding off incessant, conspiratorial hatred -- hate "that's not based in fact," as Smith stressed. (Naturally, right-wingers online immediately called for Smith's firing.) At least that Fox anchor expressed a commonsense concern about what that kind of raw, irrational hostility does to a democracy. But not Wallace. He knows to sit on his hands and to keep his mouth shut.
Except, of course, when he's not busy spreading nonsense like the charade about the "death book," an absolutely absurd conspiracy theory that Wallace must have known came without even the faintest hint of reality to it. (Here's the theory: In order to contain health care costs, the federal government under Obama is using a booklet on end-of-life counseling to urge U.S. veterans to kill themselves; it's trying to convince them that their lives aren't worth living.)
It was the type of patented foolery you'd expect a proud partisan like Sean Hannity to push. But it was Wallace who signed on as the smear's chief sponsor. It was Wallace who sat through two Fox News Sunday segments teasing out purposefully ignorant questions about how bureaucrats were trying to off veterans. Wallace played dumb like it was an Olympic sport. While the other Sunday shows were at least trying to engage in actual civic debate, Wallace spent his Sunday clowning on air.
And as a bonus, Wallace may have made the single dumbest statement uttered on a Sunday-morning talk show this year. Playing dumb, Wallace wanted to know why anyone would think about end-of-life counseling unless they're, you know, dying [emphasis added]:
Usually people don't even contemplate end of life until they're in an irreversible coma.
Flash to Wallace: When somebody slides into in "an irreversible coma," it's a little late for them to begin end-of-life counseling.
With the "death book" production, Wallace didn't merely engage in lazy journalism or allow his guest to sidestep important questions, he served as archetype -- as a co-sponsor -- of the debacle. He plucked the story (a smear campaign, really) from relative obscurity, and then he trampled the facts in hopes of launching the story nationally...read on
Maybe FOX will decide to bump him and make Glenn Beck the host of their Sunday Morning talk show. You know, a kind of Jerry Springer format for politics where white supremacists come on and throw chairs at African American guests and other guests call each other racists and socialists and Beck hands out apple pie to them as long as they agree to spend a week in his imaginary FEMA camps whose existence he can't disprove.
Chris Wallace is a prime candidate for a complete "make-over". I suggest corn-rows, sandals, a comfortable T-shirt and jeans. Then he should take a trip around the world with his family.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Good idea, but you forgot to mention "The Smirk" -- does he have that surgically removed?
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just pack a Bible and carry it everywhere.
Do you really think Mike wants to be seen in public with his mewling spawn of a son?
It's not all or nothing.
I doubt it.
The best part of Chris Wallace ran down Mike Wallace's leg.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
hye could get that smirk moved to the Lower center of his face... like under his nose?
Ah the days of Tony Snow simply getting up from his press room chair to take the podium are long gone.
Payback's a bitch, motherfuckers.
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
His ol man must be quite disappointed in his son.
Once the infection that is the Republican Party is gone, i can picture guys like this appearing human again... in appearance only.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
more often.
He, at least, was and continues to be, a credible journalist.
Chris, on the other hand, should have been bitch slapped the day he went on Fox and suggested his father needed to be committed to an assisted living facility.
He should have taken him to the woodshed and left him there. What quality, exactly, do people think they inherit from their parents that makes them worthy of promotion over people who actually have talent for the job? The only reason we ever saw Chris Wallace was because of his father's talent. He's a would-be has-been.
The old man trained him to be a loser. Who needs an uppity 75 year old son when you are 100 years old!
to ambush the president when he is out shopping?
I thought the gop symbol was the irrelevant.
But then I'm a Democrat, and make an ass of myself.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Chris "Fish Lips" Wallace just keeps sucking in the propaganda and blowing it out both ends. This man is a disgrace to his father's name and apparently has no sense of dignity or shame. At least he's found a place where he rightfully belongs, on the Fox Propaganda Channel.
Woody McBreairty
Was the first significant politicians to call them out in their face, like the did to Wallace. They have tried to play coy but it was too late.
Chris is a right wing ideologue. (Probably because of daddy issues.) But I suspect he's a bit more moral and decent than most of the ideologues on Faux. (Again, probably because of who his father was.) But that's his problem. If he were more dishonest and thereby more fringe wacko like Beck or even Hannity, his Faux ratings would be off the chart, for Faux anyway. But he's occasionally honest and this means he will occasionally tell the truth. Way too infrequently for my tastes though and probably way too infrequently for the overwhelming majority of those in the reality based community. That leaves the wacko community. But he's not wacko enough for them. His occasional honesty doesn't work with that audience. What he needs to do is stop trying to be a journalist and try being a performer. Like the rest of Faux News. Of course, he could remake himself as a real journalist, but then he's have to leave Faux News.
So he's screwed. Can't win. I almost feel sorry for him.
All said and done, he's stuck with a VERY narrow viewing audience.
With all the fried pork rinds and beer?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The duty of the journalist is to further the enlightenment of the public by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_DVkqP5-jw
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
It has been a long time since I have watched a cartoon.
You reap what you sew and eat the labor of the plants you chose to water and care for and when it turns out to be humble pie. Guess whats for dinner.
Gee Chris... might be something to do with the fact that Fucx Noise spent 8 years propagandizing and shilling for the Bush war criminals. Id love to see BO go on your show just so Barack would get out of his chair and smack the taste out of your bullshitting mouth. Liberals, progressives and Democrats know better than to go on Faux. Where the hell is horseface Hume these days anyways ?
You list liberals, progressives and Democrats like they're separate categories.
So what's the latter, gefilte fish?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Jiminy H. Cricket, does O'Reilly have *anybody* on his show who isn't on the Fox payroll? Happily, I don't/won't/can't watch his fine program so all I'm left with are the C&L reports, but it sure seems like he's just got a rotating squad of Fox "pundits" on to agree with him.
A couple of comments above have alluded to this and I think it's at the crux of Chris Wallace's problems. He's spent his entire life trying to impress an absentee father who, in his prime, was an important and effective broadcast journalist. He should give it up. Sadly, Chris is a 3rd rate talent at a 3rd rate network. Basic law of physics: Water seeks its own level. Irrelevant doesn't begin to describe Mr. Wallace.
More like: Bush League
extremely Busch League - good one - as is the entire FOX network.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
This isn't the first time I've read this.He is Mike Wallaces' son?? Really?? Poor Mike.
I'll bet his bum still hurts from when Clinton spanked him.
He is a "gotcha" "journalist" -- he asks the "when did you stop beating your wife?" type of questions.
I'm sure he's not only smarting from the snub - but I imagine he had an entire list of creatively deceitful questions lined up and ready to ask.
Faux News has clearly demonstrated that they have no interest in anything President Obama has to say -- they don't air any of his speeches. Based on that alone - why would Wallace think the White House didn't "get the message" that Obama wasn't welcome at Fox?
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"What magazines do you read?"
Now THAT is sneaky!
Yes! If you're a journalist and you see smoke, you find that fire! That's why the MSM involvement and complicity with the Busch Regime is so clear and obvious. The bush debacles were perfect fodder for real journalists, but there were none around to feast...
The whole Resluglizan party and their organs like FOX are fakes, phonies, cons, purse snatchers, and generally scum.
No representation by scum!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
I'm willing to bet Obama could handle that one . . . .
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Fox News fair and balanced?!? You've got to be kidding me. He can't be serious. They really have their panties in a wad about being dissed by President Obama. Poor babies.
They're not still doing that 'fair and balanced' joke are they? WTF?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
the President was doing a NEWS show circuit this past weekend. When he gets the time to do an entertainment show circuit no doubt he'll include FOX News Sunday along with Leno, Letterman and Colbert. Wallace REALLY needs to quite whining so.
ever Relevant?
Ever hear the old adage "What goes around comes around"? Waaaaaaah!
When was he ever Mr. Relevant?
me-oww!
exactly my thoughts!
It is slowly coming to an end. Not Fox entertainment entirely, just the most annoying are finally over stayed their welcome in the mindset that is America. GOP talking point pundits like Beck, Lou Dobbs, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Hannity, Grassley, Palin, Boehner, Matlin, Coulter, Taitz, Cantor, every Republican in South Carolina, Bachmann and yes good old never really a journalist Wallace. The list of GOP liars, fear mongers, and out right racists goes on and on.
America has once again woke up from the drunkeness of bipartisanship and realized the futility of negotiating with the GOP on any issue. The GOP entrenchment policy against anything Democrat is having its toll. In times of hardship such as what the Bush administration and the GOP left Democrats to inherit; the rhetoric of lies and distortion only goes so far before the critical mass of true Americanism shines through. Wallace do yourself a favor, go into retrospect mode, learn some humility, grow a pair of dignities and quit lying for a living. Ideology and free speech does not make something true; especially if you have been as wrong on the issues as you have. Quit your belly aching and interview some clone GOP pundit; leave the real work for the professionals.
But like others have said, not half the talent.
You know, I've known many wealthy people, sons and daughters of great achievers and earners and let me tell you, one fact is widely known: most who grow up under the shadow of great achievers tend to not be much themselves.
Its sort of tragic, but then not really tragic, but whether one is rich, poor or in the middle, we all need love, acceptance and stability growing up.
Most children of high achievers never feel this, have absentee parents who are often driven, cold and disinterested in anything but their own career -- that's what gets them to be who they are.
As a result their offspring are usually fraught with esteem issues, often shiftless and lazy from having every whim granted in order to placate them, have no work ethic, no moral ethic and very little understanding of how the world and daily life works for the majority of Americans.
Those who do show some vigilance and even without the slightest talent can usually do quite well by utilizing deep, important connections, access to the best educations money can buy and a road to adulthood without much in the way to stop them. Even if they do have transgressions (arrests, drug problems, unwanted pregnancies) its nothing a little money can't make right most of the time.
Just look at John Mayar, the pop singer, Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, and many other wingnut pundits, our former president and most top CEO's (who make up a closed class all their own) and large number of entertainers.
It makes you think about the mythology so many believe that we are still an opportunity laden, classless society. Much to prove it isn't and really never was.
the levels of bs in this segment. If this is an accurate depiction of Fox in the last year, I am very glad I haven't watched.
Chris, Bill - seriously. Let's look at the ludicrous amount of interviews handed to Fox during the Bush administration. The former President GW, the vice president Darth Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, and Rove WORKS for the station now!
Then look at the number of interviews handed to all the other media outlets combined during the 8 years of darkness.
You really are making Jon Stewart the most trusted newsman in America. It's not his fault you are a for-profit industry that went to court for the right to lie.
I hope Fox news implodes.
First your a weak journalist who constantly repeats the right wing spin on a daily basis ... you literally kiss the ass cheek of the war criminal Cheney and no you have air time to fill so you complain and cry about being snubbed by a man you have done nothing but vilify. Both Wallace and O'Reilly are giant pussies incapable of rational thought who become angry and disturbed when anyone calls them on their cowardly childish crap. Never has there been so many adult men who show such severe cases of personality disorders and have no regard for reality. O'Reilly is a sick human being and Wallace is just a sad pathetic little man who could never fill the shoes of hie father ... and will always be a pathetic reminder that he caries the set of weak genes of the Wallace line.
The words "dweeb," "loser," "pinhead," "wimp" and "putz" come to mind.
He's really quite pathetic.
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You mean there was a time when he wasn't Mr. Irrelevant?
Has become an echo chamber, feeding upon itself. Notice how often Beck or Wallace goes on Fox & Friends, O'Reilly, etc. to amplify Fox's own image. O'Reilly telling Wallace that his (Wallace's) show is non partisan? O'Reilly as the arbiter? Fox defending Fox.
Rather than the apple not falling too far from the tree, Chris Wallace fell prematurely and the worms devoured him.
What do you mean "has become irrelevant"? He never was and never will be.
what you said!!
Mr. Irrelevant and Mr. O'Lliely, two morons that twist, manipulate and fabricate the news. This coming from the Idiots that REFUSED to care the Presidents speech, hey Idiots at the Faux Noise Nit Wit Noise The President is in charge not the Fascist, Nazi, Racist, NeoCon, Conservatives Traitors.
There's something about this little dweeb that just rubs me the wrong way.
He comes across as a smug, smirking little over privileged jerk who if it wasn't because of who his Daddy was, would never be in the public eye.
He fit right in during the Bush years when that sort of thing was all the rage, but junior really wasn't made for television, not telegenic at all.
that he will never be mentioned in the same sentence as his father, unless it's to make an unfavorable comparison.
Chris Wallace has ALWAYS been irrelevant! He's a spoiled petulant brat who's been riding Daddy's coattails for way too long...
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