How Fox's Chris Wallace Became Irrelevant
You think the Obama White House hit a nerve over the weekend when it purposefully left Fox News Sunday off the president's generous list of Sunday talk-show appearances?
The subsequent whining and childish name-calling from Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace became incessant and, of course, revealed more about the bitter and bruised host than it did the White House. No doubt the pity party that the thin-skinned journalist threw for himself in the wake of the embarrassing snub was genuine. But it went on for so many days and became so consuming that it seemed there was more to it than Wallace being forced to watch the Obama newsmaking parade from the sidelines.
I think the slow-motion temper tantrum perhaps reflected Wallace's larger realization that his days of being taken seriously as a journalist are fading and that he can no longer be associated with the collectively unhinged Fox News family and maintain any dignity in the process. (Wallace's Sunday program airs on Fox TV, the entertainment sister to Fox News.)
Wallace realizes his days of having it both ways -- of being able to cash Rupert Murdoch's annual seven-figure checks without being tarred by Fox News' unique brand of idiocy -- are over, that the jig is up. Not only does the White House not care about Wallace's perennially last-place Sunday show, which functions as an in-house RNC broadcast and is watched by about as many people, but there's little indication that Wallace is still viewed as an important player within the Beltway press crowd.
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Now Wallace and Fox wants to complain that Obama is not on their network. Well, where were they when he had his speech in front of Congress that was newsworthy with the famous "You Lie" outburst? Fox was busy airing So You Think You Can Dance instead of airing the president. Fox has shown where their priorities lay. And this is not the first time Fox as opted not to show the president in prime time. It has occurred twice before. Now Chris Wallace is acting like a whiny little puppy cause nobody wants to kick his ball on the playground. Either you play the game fairly Chris, you know, "fair and balance", or you just shut up and lick your wounds for choosing to take the path of depraved indifference.
Google Chis Wallace and you will see that he is on Fox NEWS and Fox NEWS has covered the Obama speeches.
I am not defending fox but it makes people look silly when they can't tell the difference between the fox networks..
the only one who looks silly is you since there is no difference between any rupert murdoch owned corporate media entities, granted fox sports doesnt do politics, but a boycott by black athletes from doing interiviews with fox sportscasters would send a clear message that you cant denigrate african americans every day on your news network, and profit from the toil of their labor on the fox sports...b
Great point!! Wonder if they will remember that "small" tidbit of info?
Fox, quite simply, has chosen its role, which is less than even an attempt to be an objective news outlet. You can knock all the others as imperfect in one way or another, but they all manage from time to time to criticize both the left and the right.
I also think Wallace's fawning interview of Cheney a few weeks back disqualified him from belonging in the news business. He and FNC have elected to lie down with the GOP and a right wing ideology, and they get to reap what they have sown. Karma is a bitch.
Whining and Childish namecallin
I am not sure why anyone with progressive ideas would want to be on Fox News. Unless he or she has a tendency toward masochistic behavior. In my opinion, for a progressive to appear on Fox News for any reason is tantamount to being caught between a dog and a tree.
This is the same as print "journalists" going to work for a tabloid rag like The Enquirer for the big paycheck and then being confused as to why they can't go back and get a job in the MSM. Once you go hack, you can't go back. Chris Wallace has been in the business long enough to know this.
The entire conservative movement, and it's echo chamber Focks Gnus, has rendered itself irrelevant.
But we must not forget that they, much like a dying snake, can still bite.
Correct. Stay frosty.
Not became he was
If I were Obama I would have gone on Fox to try to reach out to those people as well. It would have shown that he is above the fray and that he cares about all Americans.
Obama could do a lot to stop this childish bickering by both sides...
the president is an adult, and foc news is full of children.
i do not hink it is necessary to dignify any of their rantings from the level of President of the United States.
they never aired his press conferences, and edit video any way they want to mis constru the truth.
Why legitimize them, if their viewers do not realize by now that they are not getting real factual based news, let them be dummies throughout the process.
Not true, Fox News always airs his addresses to the nation..
Obama would have had to put up with crp questions like, "A lot of people are saying that you plan to turn the country over to Muslim terrorists. What do you say to those people?"
The interview with Clinton sealed Chrissie's brand as an idiot hyperpartisan.
Talk about irrelevancy, that's the Main Stream Media. If Obama had gone on O'Reilly he would have reached the same number of viewers by going on all these other programs, (ok I don't know Letterman's rating but you get the drift.)
O'really viewers are not willing to be "reached". That is why they watch that old curmudgeon in the first place.
We used to seek out news that gave us enough information that we could in fact make a good judgement. Having more then one journalistic point of view on stations gave us that. Now, with all the weird information from Fox, we cannot trust that. It's like the "sky is falling" all the time. It's hard to take any of that seriously. Burn out, and eventually fewer will listen. So what happens when they may have something that is really important to to pay attention to? They will not have a good audience.
Beck was whining about Obama not going to Fox, and then referred to Wallace as a real journalist. Then he went on to ask if Obama thought of Fox as the enemy...
Do with that what you will.
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Chris Wallace getting a seven figure check a year??? Seven figure?/ Chris Wallace??
I thought FN pays him $500 per Sunday show.
But didnt President Obama promise to be all americans president? Democrat & Republican? It doesnt matter who wouldve done the interview, Not ALL the people in this country watch the same channel and if he was truly reaching out to the public he wouldnt dis-associate himself with Fox viewers because of the network, they are still American's and he is still their President.
Sorry,I dont consider Fox viewers as "real Americans".
Really? I watch Fox, does that mean i have a good reason not to consider Obama my President anymore?!?!?! After all, if I'm not a real American, then he can't be my President. Thank you for the great news!
The Secret Service most likely advised him not to trust anyone at Fox. After all backstabbing is commonplace there.
Nonsense
I do believe that Fox News viewers have perfectly good access to other television stations. The argument that you are making is silly.
The President did dismiss Fox, and no matter what party you support, you should know why.
You can be republican and not watch Fox news. You can be an American and decide how you represent yourself, as an individual or a company. If you represent yourself, your opnions and they people you work in such a way that can be viewed as "off the mark", then why should you be taken seriously?
Well said, Eric.
Chris has never been revelant. Let him wallow in his self pity. He is so pathetic, did he think that his statement about the president, was going to hurt the prez? Just goes to show you how pathetic he is to think what he says would matter to someone as brilliant as OUR PRESIDENT. Come on Chris, you will be at that pity party by yourself.
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