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When Mike met Mahmoud (Wallace treated Iran's Islamo-fuhrer like ... a Clinton!)
Boston Globe ^ | August 16, 2006 | Jeff Jacoby

Posted on 08/16/2006 8:37:24 AM PDT by GMMAC

When Mike met Mahmoud

Boston Globe
August 16, 2006

By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist


NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN flew to Munich to see Adolf Hitler, Walter Winchell observed in 1938, ``because you can't lick a man's boots over the phone." Why did Mike Wallace fly to Tehran?

Wallace's bio at the CBS website lauds his ``no-holds-barred interviewing technique," but there was no hint of it Sunday, when ``60 Minutes" aired his interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad .....

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; anitsemitism; iran; islamofascism; israel; jews; jihadistterror; mediabias; mikewallace; msm; terrorists; wot
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1 posted on 08/16/2006 8:37:29 AM PDT by GMMAC
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To: fanfan; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; headsonpikes; Ryle; ...

PING!
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2 posted on 08/16/2006 8:39:01 AM PDT by GMMAC (Discover Canada governed by Conservatives: www.CanadianAlly.com)
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To: GMMAC; Liz; Grampa Dave; abb; weegee; an amused spectator

We learned more about Wallace in that "interview" than we did about Ahmadinejad.


3 posted on 08/16/2006 8:44:28 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: GMMAC

Mocking Wallace in song -- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684481/posts


4 posted on 08/16/2006 8:45:34 AM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: GMMAC
It was a love-fest. And so nauseating I just skipped that Emmy Award-winning performance.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)

5 posted on 08/16/2006 8:46:04 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: GMMAC

Winchell: "because you can't lick a man's boots over the phone."

That's a great description of Wallace's behavior. Empowering Ahma-damn-nutjob, making the US look weak.


6 posted on 08/16/2006 8:48:48 AM PDT by bwteim ('m going to start thinking positive, but I know it won't work.)
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To: GMMAC

Just another treason whore.


7 posted on 08/16/2006 8:52:06 AM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 ("Conspiracy theories are the products of feeble minds." - A. Horvet)
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To: GMMAC
Side-topic: I watched a retrospective on Walter Cronkite on PBS the other week. One of the stories they featured prominently in the documentary was Cronkite's involvement in getting Sadat and Begin together and the resulting peace agreements that were signed between Israel and Egypt............

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/cronkite_w.html

".....There was no one, it was said, that he couldn’t get on the telephone. And in 1977, he got new Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to agree to an interview. In his autobiography, Cronkite described the hot afternoon on the banks of the Nile: "The interview was as tepid as the afternoon was hot. Sadat droned on about his hopes and plans for Egypt's future as I fought to stay awake. Suddenly he brought me bolt upright. I was sure that I had heard him say he intended to go to Jerusalem. Yes, he assured me, he would go to Jerusalem." Sadat was the first Middle Eastern leader to make any such gesture toward peace. Cronkite set up phone calls between Cairo and Jerusalem and flew with Sadat to his historic meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. ......"

JMHO: I think this was Wallace's 'Cronkite Moment' where he hoped that there would be some breakthrough initiated by his interview that would be a fitting testimonial to the end of his career.

Unfortunately, he didn't realize he's dealing with a beady-eyed, genocidal, sock-puppet of the wack-job Mullahs of Iran who used HIM rather than the other way around..

8 posted on 08/16/2006 8:55:36 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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To: bwteim
“ ...making the US look weak.”

The treasonous, MSM/DNC works 24/7... in order to ram it home to the world!

9 posted on 08/16/2006 8:58:36 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: martin_fierro; Timesink; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...
We learned more about Wallace in that "interview" than we did about Ahmadinejad.


No, I knew a lot already about Wallace...

Media Schadenfreude and and Media Shenanigans PING

If you were with enemy troops and had word that US troops were about to be ambushed, would you tell them?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGg_dpGhlf0

Mike Wallace: "...regard it as another story that they are there to cover..."

It's not about being unhappy, Mr. Wallace. Don't you a higher duty as an American citizen to do all that you can to save the lives of soldiers rather than this journalist ethic of reporting 'the fact'?

Mike Wallace: "No you don't have the higher duty to. No. No. You're job is to report 'what is going on' in that war. People know that Americans are getting killed in that war..." (note: WITH the accomplice of such journalists embedded with the enemy)

10 posted on 08/16/2006 9:01:05 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: neverdem; nuconvert; FARS
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN flew to Munich to see Adolf Hitler, Walter Winchell observed in 1938, ``because you can't lick a man's boots over the phone." Why did Mike Wallace fly to Tehran? Bingo
11 posted on 08/16/2006 9:15:36 AM PDT by GOPJ (The flurry of stories defending the '69 moon landing has the feel of trying too hard...)
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To: neverdem; nuconvert; FARS
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN flew to Munich to see Adolf Hitler, Walter Winchell observed in 1938, ``because you can't lick a man's boots over the phone."

Why did Mike Wallace fly to Tehran?

LOL

12 posted on 08/16/2006 9:16:49 AM PDT by GOPJ (The flurry of stories defending the '69 moon landing has the feel of trying too hard...)
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To: DoctorMichael

IMO, Sadat's entire plan for recovering the Sinai involved an eventual negotiation with the Israelis. His military operation was very limited in depth -- mostly it stayed under the SAM umbrella on the Egyptian side of the canal. I think the idea was always to sieze a foothold on the eastern side & give the IDF a bloody nose, declare a ceasefire, then negotiate.

Yes, the Israelis got the upperhand, but it was a very expensive victory.

Bottom line: for me anybody claiming that they got Begin & Sadat 'together' is just a tool.


13 posted on 08/16/2006 9:17:55 AM PDT by Tallguy (The problem with this war is the name... You don't wage war against a tactic.)
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To: Tallguy
Bottom line: for me anybody claiming that they got Begin & Sadat 'together'.....

This is exactly what the documentary said about Cronkite.

.....is just a tool.

Agree.

14 posted on 08/16/2006 9:22:38 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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To: DoctorMichael

That goes for Jimmy Carter, too.


15 posted on 08/16/2006 9:26:12 AM PDT by Tallguy (The problem with this war is the name... You don't wage war against a tactic.)
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To: GMMAC

bump


16 posted on 08/16/2006 9:29:35 AM PDT by fso301
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To: GOPJ
"Why did Mike Wallace fly to Tehran?"

To goose-step to the other side.

... bada-bing!

(funny, ironic & treasonous on so many levels)
17 posted on 08/16/2006 10:02:52 AM PDT by GMMAC (Discover Canada governed by Conservatives: www.CanadianAlly.com)
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To: GMMAC
To goose-step to the other side.

LOL - great one.

18 posted on 08/16/2006 10:28:03 AM PDT by GOPJ (The flurry of stories defending the '69 moon landing has the feel of trying too hard...)
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To: GMMAC

Bumping and thanking you for posting this article. Mr. Wallace is a slimeball.


19 posted on 08/16/2006 11:05:11 AM PDT by Theresawithanh (Every time I hear the word "exercise", I wash my mouth out with chocolate.)
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To: goldstategop

Love-fest interviews are a Wallace specialty. Remember the one with Webster Hubbel in prison? Turns out it was a conjugal visit.


20 posted on 08/16/2006 11:39:28 AM PDT by newportnewz
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