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Chris Wallace: Mike Wallace Has 'Lost It'
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Posted on 12/11/2005 8:18:18 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Chris Wallace: Mike Wallace Has 'Lost It'

"Fox News Sunday" anchorman Chris Wallace says father Mike Wallace has "lost it" - after the legendary CBS newsman told the Boston Globe last week that the fact George Bush had been elected president shows America is "[expletive]-up."

"He's lost it. The man has lost it. What can I say," the younger Wallace lamented to WRKO Boston radio host Howie Carr on Friday.

"He's 87-years old and things have set in," the Fox anchor continued. "I mean, we're going to have a competence hearing pretty soon."

Wallace Jr. quickly dispelled any notion that he was joking. When Carr suggested that his comments were likely to be covered by NewsMax, he responded: "You know what? Fine. Go ahead. Call them. That's fine. I'll stand by that."

Returning to the topic of his father's competence, Wallace Jr. explained: "He's checked out. I don't understand it," beyond the fact that Wallace Sr. has "problems with the war."

"I don't know why he said what he said," he added.

On Thursday, the elder Wallace told the Boston Globe that if he had the chance to interview President Bush, he'd ask:

"What in the world prepared you to be the commander in chief of the largest superpower in the world? In your background, Mr. President, you apparently were incurious. You didn't want to travel. You knew very little about the military. . . . The governor of Texas doesn't have the kind of power that some governors have. . . . Why do you think they nominated you? . . . Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that the country is so [expletive] up?"

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boston; bush; bushhaters; carr; cbsnews; chriswallace; fns; foxnews; howiecarr; liberaloldcranks; mediabias; mikewallace; murtha; seebsnews; sorelosers; wot; wrko
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To: Sub-Driver

Gee, Mike Wallace has the same position as Walter Cronkrite! Surprised?

Cronkite tells the idiot Larry King, "we are an ignorant country."


21 posted on 12/11/2005 8:27:49 AM PST by ConservativeGreek
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To: Sub-Driver

Give me the car keys, Dad.


22 posted on 12/11/2005 8:27:52 AM PST by Crawdad (So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
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To: Sub-Driver
The father may be losing his mind, but the son is a rotten POS for denigrating his own father publically (even privately).

What is that, the 5th?

23 posted on 12/11/2005 8:29:33 AM PST by M203M4
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To: bvw

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!


24 posted on 12/11/2005 8:29:37 AM PST by sauropod ("The love that dare not speak its' name has now become the love that won't shut the hell up.")
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To: SerpentDove
Sounds to me that maybe Chris has had enough of being questioned about his Dad's regular faux pas. It also maybe that his public behavior is catching up with his private behavior.

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.

25 posted on 12/11/2005 8:29:38 AM PST by sofaman ("We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail."-Pres George W. Bush, Sept 20, 2001)
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To: mylife

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.


26 posted on 12/11/2005 8:30:24 AM PST by CindyDawg
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To: bvw
A son or daughter should never speak ill of his parents in private, and to do so in public is rotten.

An ex-President should never speak ill of his successor in private, and to do so in public is rotten.

27 posted on 12/11/2005 8:31:18 AM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Sub-Driver

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!


28 posted on 12/11/2005 8:31:25 AM PST by derllak
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To: prion

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.


29 posted on 12/11/2005 8:31:39 AM PST by hgro (A)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


30 posted on 12/11/2005 8:31:49 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: bvw

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.


31 posted on 12/11/2005 8:32:57 AM PST by pollyannaish
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


32 posted on 12/11/2005 8:33:05 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Sub-Driver
"He's 87-years old and things have set in"

Dementia. About 50 years ago.

33 posted on 12/11/2005 8:33:10 AM PST by Recovering Hermit
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To: who knows what evil?
"Like the governors of oh, say , Arkansas, for example..."

Yes. And what qualified the draft dodging, military loathing bubba to be Commander-in -Chief of the United States.?

34 posted on 12/11/2005 8:33:31 AM PST by lstanle
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To: pollyannaish

Possibly.


35 posted on 12/11/2005 8:34:03 AM PST by bvw
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To: who knows what evil?

Lol


36 posted on 12/11/2005 8:35:18 AM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: ConservativeGreek
Cronkite tells the idiot Larry King, "we are an ignorant country."

After listening to him for 30 years, what else would one expect?

37 posted on 12/11/2005 8:35:34 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Sub-Driver

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


38 posted on 12/11/2005 8:36:09 AM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Sub-Driver
"What in the world prepared you to be the commander in chief of the largest superpower in the world? In your background, Mr. President, you apparently were incurious. You didn't want to travel. You knew very little about the military. . . . . . . Why do you think they nominated you? . . . Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that the country is so [expletive] up?"

Wallace had eight years to ask the same questions of Clinton.

Did he?

39 posted on 12/11/2005 8:36:23 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Sub-Driver

Howard "Tokyo Rose" Dean???? :-D
Makes his sound like he's one of his favorite
constituents...dressed in a kimono and white face.


40 posted on 12/11/2005 8:37:45 AM PST by Baby Driver
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