Posted on 10/17/2022 7:00:21 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Chris Wallace is learning a harsh lesson after he abruptly left Fox News after 18 years to join the left-wing outlet at CNN. Wallace was lured onto CNN’s new online streaming service called CNN+ but it’s drawing fewer than 10,000 daily viewers. Wallace is quickly learning that no one is watching him anymore.
Sources say Wallace is suffering “daily breakdowns,” and asking his staffers “to count how many times a day his promo is playing.” Without stronger marketing, it appears very few people are tuning in. Jon Nicosia, president of News Cycle Media and former managing editor of Mediaite, says a source told him “Chris Wallace is ‘having daily breakdowns’ over the ‘miserable launch’ of CNN+.”
Wallace now wants a “CNN show or is threatening to walk,” Nicosia wrote to Twitter. “He is having staffers count how many times a day his promo is playing.” Nicosia added, “He’s telling anyone that will listen he wants Cuomo’s old time slot.”
Wallace initially said that he was “thrilled” to join the liberal outlet CNN after he refused to renew his contract with Fox News. Suspicions began circulating
Fox News viewers have harshly criticized Wallace on a number of occasions over his coverage. The anti-Trump host celebrated the inauguration of Joe Biden, even claiming he delivered “the best inaugural address” since John F. Kennedy’s “Ask not” speech in 1961.
Wallace once accused Trump of “stoking racial divisions.”
He eventually admitted that life at Fox News was becoming “unsustainable.” Wallace reportedly even whined to Fox News management about Tucker Carlson who continued to ask questions and investigate instances of alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election.
This was apparently a deal-breaker for Wallace, who was evidently happy with the outcome of the election.
“I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox,” 74-year-old Wallace said. “I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” he continued. “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”
“I spent a lot of 2021 looking to see if there was a different place for me to do my job,” he added.
Wallace was particularly triggered by Tucker Carlson’s documentary “Patriot Purge,” which questioned whether the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a “false flag” operation intended to demonize conservatives.
During a congressional hearing, Republican Senator Ted Cruz explored this same issue by questioning a top FBI official who refused to answer simple questions.
“How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of Jan. 6?” Cruz asked. After FBI Assistant Executive Director Jill Sanborn refused to answer, Cruz asked a broader question, “Did any FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate in the events of Jan. 6? Yes or no.”
“Sir, I can’t answer that,” replied Sanborn. Then Cruz asked about Ray Epps, who many people claim is an FBI informant present who was present on Jan. 6.
“Ms. Sanborn, was Ray Epps a fed?” Cruz asked. Again, she refused to answer. Cruz proceeded to show photographs of Epps allegedly whispering to some protesters, who then proceeded to tear down a barricade around the Capitol.
Epps was also captured on video with a crowd in Washington, D.C. on the night prior to January 6, claiming that “Tomorrow, we need to get into the Capitol! Into the Capitol!” People yelled back, “No!” Folks even started chanting, “Fed, Fed, Fed!”
Cruz asked, “Did any FBI agents or confidential informants commit crimes of violence on Jan. 6?”
“Sir, I can’t answer that,” Sanborn said.
For Wallace, these questions make him “uncomfortable.”
While appearing on Fox News, Wallace adamantly defended the outcome of the 2020 election. He once claimed there is “no evidence of voter fraud.”
Wallace once falsely attacked President Donald Trump for allegedly “stoking racial division.”
In a press release, Wallace said of CNN, “After decades in broadcast and cable news, I am excited to explore the world of streaming. I look forward to the new freedom and flexibility streaming affords in interviewing major figures across the news landscape—and finding new ways to tell stories,” Wallace said in the release. “As I embark on this adventure, I am honored and delighted to join Jeff Zucker and his great team. I can’t wait to get started.”
During his final broadcast on Fox News, Wallace said, “Finally, a personal note — after 18 years, this is my final ‘Fox News Sunday,’”
“It is the last time, and I say this with real sadness, we will meet like this. Eighteen years ago, the bosses here at Fox promised me they would never interfere with a guest I booked or a question. I asked. And they kept that promise,” Wallace explained.
“I have been free to report to the best of my ability, to cover those stories I think are important, to hold our country’s leaders to account. It’s been a great ride.”
Wallace shamefully defended Joe Biden and wrongfully shut down Trump’s accusations about corrupt overseas business dealings arising from the contents Hunter Biden’s laptop.
During the debate, Trump said it’s a “fact” that Hunter Biden’s laptop implicates his father in corrupt overseas business deals. Wallace inappropriately shot back by saying it’s an “open discussion” and Americans are more interested in hearing about “substantive issues.” Wallace shut down any discussion about Hunter’s laptop.
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo aired this old clip because the media got it wrong and Trump was right.
Just months before the election, Wallace and others were part of a cover-up scandal that censored information about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Wallace is accused of putting “his leftist politics before truth” and doing “all he could to help Joe Biden save face” during the debate.
That’s the ticket: “”Stronger marketing” for a show on a network no one watches
Wallace = DONE
THE most antithetical statement reflecting what real journalism is ever made.
“But when people start to question the truth...”
That’s what real journalists do, you empty-headed brainwashed POS. How many lies have been revealed because an objective journalist dared to question the “truth”?
Couldn’t happen to a nicer a**hole.
Wait till 2025 when Trump buys CNN. Chris can stay off as an announcer on the Ivanka Trump Hour. That show will follow the Sebastian Gorka News in Review.
If Chrissie Wallace really wanted to emulate his father, perform some real journalism, and make quite a splash, he would have Project Veritas on every evening
But doing something like that would require......a spine.
74 years old. Hang it up and enjoy the rest of whats left of your life you liberal suck ass!
I can’t understand why left-wing meatheads like Wallace actually believes that Americans should believe every story vomited at us by the Communist left. Where the hell do THEY get any credibility. We’re supposed to believe them because THEY say the senile and cranky old honky pedophile got 81 million ballots cast for him. Sorry. No Credibility. Then, we’re supposed to believe that Obonzo’s FIB saved da planet by arresting everybody seen in Washington on January 6th. Sorry again. NO FRIGGIN’ CREDIBILITY. This government sucks and the majority of Americans know that except the lefties who do the FOX SNOOZE “POLLS”.
Then make the world a better place and off yourself.
Need a razor blade?
I hate him.
Wallace is a CNNT.
10k, that many?
Wallace is a dead man, walking.
He justly deserves every bad thing that comes to his door.
He is a snot.
I am happy to never see or hear of him again.
He deserves to be banished to fake news CNN for the rest of his pathetic career
Total loser getting his comeuppance.
What kind of clickbait crap is this?! This story is 7 months old, and I remember reading this almost word-for-word back in April when it was first circulated. CNN+ was shut down on April 28th, 2022.
I cannot think of a more deserving person that this should happen to. When I think of the way he kissed up the “PedoHitler” during the debates in 2020, Chrissy baby deserves every bit of this. Hubby and I stopped watching this clown years and years ago. He was nothing but a CBS REJECT.
Suffer Chris!😀
Chris is suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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