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March 18, 2006
Mike Wallace Staggers Off to the Tar Pits
Posted by Dave Blount at March 18, 2006 10:27 AM
Now that CBS's Mike Wallace is finally winding down his long career, many praises are sure to be sung to his journalistic greatness, like this one from CBS News President Sean McManus:
Mike has completely embodied what good, tough, fair journalism should be over the course of his 60-plus years in the business.
However, it's doubtful that "fair" journalism was ever Wallace's objective. Like many in the media, Wallace seems to have been motivated by an ideology somewhere to the left of liberal, as documented in a collection of quotes gathered by NewsBusters. Highlights include Wallace:
- Gasping with astonishment that wounded vets support the war in Iraq;
- Sputtering that thanks to Bush the country is [expletive] up;
- Chanting that the War in Iraq is "a kind of Vietnam" into which we were tricked;
- Insinuating that Dick Cheney is secretly running the country;
- Enquiring snidely as to "Who gave George Bush the duty to free people around the world?";
- Proclaiming that he voted for the loony tunes leftist Ralph Nader for President;
- Seconding the insufferably elitist Peter Jennings' notion that America had "a temper tantrum" when we voted Dems out of control of the Senate and the House in 1994;
- Asserting that Russians missed the genocidal regime of Joseph Stalin;
- Gushing that he is inspired by far-left Mother Jones magazine.
Wallace also made his point of view clear by announcing at a PBS panel called "Ethics in America" that if he had a chance to warn US troops about an ambush, he wouldn't do it, but rather would set up cameras and film them getting killed. (Jennings was there too and came around to Wallace's position.)
There are reasons why journalists are even more distrusted than lawyers. Mike Wallace is one of those reasons. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Mike.
