On the other hand, Chris seems to have moved distinctly to the Right in the time I've been listening. Not sure I'd diss my dad on a national stage, though.
Regarding those coments, Chris sounded serious.
" 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.' "
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.
Gonna be a tense Hanukkah table chez Wallace this year.
At Mike's age senile dementia may play a part...and I am not kidding around. Didn't Mike have a run in in some deli? I could be reading this wrong but having witnessed how strident someone with dementia may become before they finally lose their abilities to think straight is very difficult because they may seem otherwise normal.
Whatever they may have thought important before may become magnified to a point of "losing it"and becoming irrational...and one cannot reason with them. Mike may be at this point.
Just a thought.
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.
he is probably not in the will, therefore, the competency hearing??? hmmmmm???
Me neither, which is why this doesn't smell right. Is this some kind of set-up, so the elder Wallace can say what the clan really thinks (surely noone's surprised to learn he's a leftist - he hasn't been exactly hiding the fact for the past 40 years), and Chris chides his so he can keep his own "embedded" job at Fox, where he can keep up the family mission of spewing propaganda, only more surreptitiously.
Yeah, there is something wrong about putting your down father on a national stage. Even if I thought this of my father, I could never imagine disrespecting my father this way in public. Chris should have kept his moth shut and dealt with this private issue within the family.
On the other hand, Chris seems to have moved distinctly to the Right in the time I've been listening. Not sure I'd diss my dad on a national stage, though.""
Could you stand by and be silent when you are in Chris Wallace's job. Others seem to be agreeing with him, as there has been no outcry to his remarks.
I think Chris is between a rock and a hard place. Mike is his dad, but Mike is showing signs of being out there somewhere.
"Not sure I'd diss my dad on a national stage, though."
I don't think it was a diss. His father has issues, and the press is taking advantage of an old man to promote their views.