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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I suspect Chris has had conversations with his father for the last several years about leaving gracefully before he embarasses himself and it fell on deaf ears.
To each their own, but if one of my friends talked about their parent's political views in such a way I'd have to question his or her judgment. It's unseemly and inappropriate to denigrate one's parents, IMO. Especially in front of those outside the family structure - and all the more so in public.
Sadly, the family is often slow to realize what others around them have long observed. For instance, I'm sure Helen Thomas's family is only now starting to question if her mind matches her beauty.
After listening to him for 30 years, what else would one expect?
Yup, just a foolish, old, liberal.
They don't want their winning record surpassed.
Why not? I have an old senile father who has "lost it" as well, and considering he was a politician, what he says in public no matter how retarded, can be, and is believed by those other old, senile people of similar political persuasion. Old age doesn't always bring wisdom however. It brings confusion, tall tales, fragmented memories and beliefs from another era long past. Because they regress into fragments of memory from times past, they haven't a clue what's going on in the world today. They are incapable of learning news things, and what was once learned is slipping away.
Take Murtha for example. He is living in a different reality, old and senile, yet there are those that will follow his words regardles of how stupid they are. And the old, senile MSM dinosaurs elevate him into a "highly decorated" war hero, when he was only an office clerk. Clearly showing fragmented memory loss themselves. Yes, the world is "---ed up" for them. But they can't make sense of anything these days.
"As you get older, you become more of what you always were"
er-er forgot..."dumbass"
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Have the same thoughts, but it occurred to me that maybe Mike and his Dad have already had the talk about Dad is losing it. Please don't embarrass yourself. etc.
Chris knows that when his father starts speaking like a loon, he will be put in a very strange position of either defending his dad or publicly outing him as a sick man. Either way it must be tough
Maybe it's Mikes way of doing an intervention.
Just conjecturing
That said, I've got to give Mike Wallace the credit for raising such a fine son.
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Boy they must have had one heck of family thanksgiving dinner.
He is no different than 95% of the Stone Age Press. They are nothing but moonbats. The New Press is driving them nuts.
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