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(VIDEO) Mike Wallace: "Iraq War is not a noble enterprise." A one minute video in RealPlayer format

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NEW YORK (Aug. 27) - The city's Taxi and Limousine Commission said it would not pursue a disorderly conduct charge against 86-year-old CBS newsman Mike Wallace, who was arrested earlier this month during a confrontation with inspectors outside a Manhattan restaurant. The "60 Minutes" correspondent was handcuffed and taken to a police precinct on Aug. 10 after he and his driver clashed with inspectors while Wallace picked up a takeout order at a restaurant. He was issued a summons and released. Wallace said he left the restaurant to find two inspectors interviewing his driver, who they said was double-parked. He...

Taxi and Limousine Commission officials said yesterday that their agents had acted "somewhat overzealously'' in arresting Mike Wallace earlier this month and that the disorderly conduct charge against him would be dropped. On Aug. 10, Mr. Wallace, the 86-year-old "60 Minutes'' correspondent, was handcuffed and taken to a police station by two inspectors. He had just come out of an Upper East Side restaurant bearing a meatloaf dinner, when he found his driver, who was double parked, being questioned by the agents. Mr. Wallace said he got into the car, then got out again, figuring his meatloaf was getting cold....

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is unhappy with the arrest of veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace, 86, by a pair of city taxi inspectors. He promised an investigation into the incident. "Why a man in his 80s was so threatening that they had to arrest him when they normally don't arrest anybody certainly gives you cause to ask the question," Bloomberg said. "Why he'd have to be handcuffed and led away, or whatever happened, I don't know, but you can rest assured we will be looking into it."

Andy Rooney offered a cranky commentary yesterday about the two Taxi & Limousine Commission officers who arrested his "60 Minutes" pal Mike Wallace. "I just hate petty authorities," Rooney told the Daily News, reserving his ire for the duo and not for all of the TLC. "I do think that the TLC has done a good job," Rooney said. "New York is one of those places where you can depend on cab drivers being honest." He did have some curmudgeonly comments about Wallace's using a hired driver and buying meatloaf at a restaurant. Rooney said he personally sticks to driving...

August 12, 2004 -- City officials yesterday were investigating the bizarre disorderly-conduct bust of "60 Minutes" legend Mike Wallace — as the still-scrappy 86-year-old newsman blasted one of the arresting peace officers as "over-the-top angry" and in need of "therapy." Wallace was hauled off to a police station house in handcuffs around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday after he allegedly lunged at a Taxi and Limousine Commission inspector during a parking squabble outside an Upper East Side eatery. "One of [the officers] was a hostile, nasty, aggressive, shouting man — over-the-top angry," Wallace said yesterday. "This one officer could obviously use some...

The following is a link to program #7 from a 10-part series titled: Ethics in America. The exchange between Mssrs. Jennings & Wallace and several members of the military, including retired General William Westmoreland is very enlightening. The most interesting part begins at 31:00 in to the 60 minute video. Also, check out the reaction of USMC Colonel George M. Connell to Jennings & Wallace at 42:30. This should be required viewing for all Americans. Ethics in America: Under Orders, Under Fire (Part II)This video is available for Windows Media Video (.WMV) only.

NEW YORK (AP) — Eighty-six-year-old CBS newsman Mike Wallace — arrested and cuffed after a confrontation with taxi and limousine inspectors — wonders why anyone thought he was such a threat. So does Mayor Mike Bloomberg. [snip] On Wednesday, Wallace told Entertainment Tonight: "I sat there for an hour or so and they (the police) said, 'OK, we know who you are, we know what you do, we have no problems with you.' "I would call this a comedy of errors, but there was no comedy," he said. "So I went home, put the meatloaf in the microwave and it...

(CBS) Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace, 86, emerged unscathed from a confrontation with a pair of Big Apple parking inspectors the newsman called "a trifle arrogant." Wallace was handcuffed, taken to a police station and arrested on a disorderly conduct charge following a verbal exchange with the two inspectors. "All I can tell you is it was a misunderstanding. They were a trifle arrogant," Wallace told John Slattery of WCBS-TV. The dispute began at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, as Wallace was leaving Luke's Restaurant on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Wallace saw two Taxi and Limousine Commission inspectors talking to...

"60 Minutes" octogenarian Mike Wallace was handcuffed and hauled off to a police station last night after a scuffle in Manhattan. Wallace apparently thinks it's OK for his chauffeur to double park. But no. Upon leaving Luke's restaurant on Third Avenue near East 79th Street, he reportedly interfered as two officers from the Taxi and Limousine Commission questioned his driver. "He was observed to be overly assertive. He was disrespectful to the inspectors. He was asked to step away three times. He did not comply," said Allan Fromberg, a spokesman for the commission. "He was seen to have seemingly lunged...

August 11, 2004 -- Television giant Mike Wallace was arrested last night for disorderly conduct after he allegedly lunged at a taxi inspector who was interviewing his driver. The 86-year-old "60 Minutes" mainstay was handcuffed and hauled into an Upper East Side station house at around 8:30 p.m. after picking up a takeout order from Luke's restaurant on Third Avenue near East 79th Street and finding his double-parked driver delayed by two Taxi and Limousine Commission officers, said Allan Fromberg, a TLC spokesman. Wallace got in and sat in the car with the driver as the officers checked out the...

CBS Newsman Mike Wallace Issued Summons NEW YORK - Veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace was handcuffed and driven to a police station Tuesday night after arguing with city inspectors over where his driver had parked. The dispute began at about 8:30 p.m., as Wallace was leaving a Manhattan restaurant, WCBS-TV reported. Wallace, 86, saw two inspectors interviewing his driver, who they said was double-parked. The Taxi and Limousine Commission said Wallace became "overly assertive and disrespectful" and interfered with the inspectors, according to WCBS. At one point, Wallace lunged at one of the inspectors, according to the commission. The...

60 Minutes' Mike Wallace arrested by taxi and limosine commission cops for disorderly conduct. He was handcuffed and brought to jail, according to a report on CBS2. He has been released from custody, but is charged with a violation.

A year ago, the Pentagon took what many people considered to be a giant risk when it embedded reporters with U.S. units during the march to Baghdad. Old-timers remembered the acrimonious depths to which military-media relations had fallen in the aftermath of Vietnam. The fact was that for a very long time after that conflict, military members believed in their hearts that reporters were part of the counter-culture trying to "get them." Accordingly, the military limited press access to battlefields for over two decades. The embedding experiment worked — at least for a while. Unfortunately, the media seem to have...

(CBS) No reporter knew Ronald and Nancy Reagan like Mike Wallace did. This Sunday, on 60 Minutes, Wallace looks back at his interview with the Reagans at their beloved ranch in California, and at his special interview with the former first lady done just a few years ago. In it, Nancy Reagan talks about living with the president in his final years, watching her husband deal with Alzheimer’s disease. She told Wallace she can tell immediately when disease has him in its grips: “A different look in the eyes,” she said. “A whole different look. You know, it really... it's been...

CBS "60 Minutes" star Mike Wallace defended his decision last night to use a Washington, D.C. World War II memorial event that both he and USA Today founder Al Neuharth attended on Friday to bash President Bush as unfit to be commander-in-chief. "It seemed to both to Neuharth and to me that it was the right venue [to do this] because we talked about it ahead of time," Wallace told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly. "It was a venue in which we are celebrating a war in which so many people died. But they died in the service of...

Mike Wallace questions Bush's 'validity'Wonders how president had 'guts' to enter into war in Iraq Posted: June 2, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Mike Wallace In a scathing critique of the Iraq war, CBS News veteran Mike Wallace questioned President Bush's "validity" as commander in chief. Wallace, speaking at a Smithsonian Institution "National World War II Reunion" Friday, denounced the effort to oust dictator Saddam Hussein, saying, "This is not, in my estimation, a good war." The newsman, who served on a Navy ship during World War II, was on a panel addressing "World War II veterans as journalists," which later...

It was supposed to be an event where World War II-era journalists could swap war stories and bask in the glory of the soon-to-be christened WWII memorial on Washington, D.C.'s mall. But it didn't take long for CBS "60 Minutes" star Mike Wallace and USA Today founder Al Neuharth, who had been invited to address the crowd, to turn Friday's WWII reminiscence into bash-Bush rally. Wallace began innocently enough, telling the crowd that in WWII, "We knew what we were fighting for. We knew how important it was. We loved our country. We loved our commander-in-chief. "And when Pearl...