Posted on 12/11/2005 8:18:18 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Gee, Mike Wallace has the same position as Walter Cronkrite! Surprised?
Cronkite tells the idiot Larry King, "we are an ignorant country."
Give me the car keys, Dad.
What is that, the 5th?
Mike Wallace is a public figure that is trying to arrogate to himself a national stage by saying what he says.
Chris is entirely correct in criticising his father in public. If my old man did this, you BET I would speak up!
While it probably would have been a little classier not to comment negatively on his Dad in public, imho what we witnessed was some pretty acute exhasperation from Chris.
I'm not ready to join the chorus jumping on him for dissing his Dad. What Mike Wallace said, was, as is typical from the left & the mainstream media, outrageous and rather poorly thought out.
Does a person "lose" it? Sometimes. Does he have a history of saying stuff like this though (maybe off camera)? How we are now , is how we will be as we get older, barring a medical condition. The older we get the more we tend to feel comfortable with what we say. I hate to see the elderly automatically labeled as senile when they would have been labeled as left, liberal, activist, conservative, etc when younger.
An ex-President should never speak ill of his successor in private, and to do so in public is rotten.
Wow, somebody needs to get a big box ready for Mikey cuz it sounds like he's about to implode!
His moronic questions are a joke - I can see him asking the same questions to Slick Willie and never getting a straight answer for any of them! Tick...tick....tick....kaboom!
The elder Wallace just didn't enter the home of the brain dead. Lets not belittle the elderly. Mike Wallace has been ditzy all of his like. The only thing he has avoided is asking "what's the frequency Kenneth" and joining his equally nutcase buddy Dan Blather's inane blatherings.
Like so many liberal media flunkies, Mike Wallace has always displayed a thinly veiled and malignant hostility--consider all the nasty and often ill-tempered ambushes he colluded with on 60 Minutes. Now the shingles are just starting to curl and reveal the longtime rot underneath.
Just to play devils advocate here, if his father really has lost it due to age, then he is protecting his dad's reputation by letting people know. I didn't actually hear how it was phrased, but I think that should be figured in to the equation.
There may or may not be some dementia involved, but the old man was always a flaming liberal, so his mental state now has no bearing on his political views.
Dementia. About 50 years ago.
Yes. And what qualified the draft dodging, military loathing bubba to be Commander-in -Chief of the United States.?
Possibly.
Lol
After listening to him for 30 years, what else would one expect?
Hell, as far as I'm concerned -- Mike wallace "lost it" decades ago...
He convinced me, when he once said that if he were doing a story with the enemy troops in some "fictional" (Vietnam) country -- and saw them preparing to ambush a column of Americans -- he would not take any measures to warn the Americans, because "he was there to report the story" not play a role in the story.....
A badly wounded Marine Officer on the same TV panel, said he wished he knew that was the position of "journalists" before he had sent out Marines to rescue "journalists" in trouble in Vietnam....
Mike Wallace is a self loving, over rewarded POS.
Clearly another member of the "stupid tribe"...
Semper Fi
Wallace had eight years to ask the same questions of Clinton.
Did he?
Howard "Tokyo Rose" Dean???? :-D
Makes his sound like he's one of his favorite
constituents...dressed in a kimono and white face.
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