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March 18, 2006

Mike Wallace Staggers Off to the Tar Pits

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.

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Another MSM giant lumbers toward the tar pits.

Posted by Van Helsing at March 18, 2006 10:27 AM

Comments

What happened to Chris Wallace? He seems to be the opposite of his dad to an extent. I guess liberals don't beget liberals all the time.. Ooooh, wild thought..usually, they say the kids end up the opposite of their parents.. Hope that doesn't happen to my kids, but I think that rule only applies to moonbat parents.

Posted by: Rebecca at March 18, 2006 11:21 PM

Maybe you can get Bill O'Reilly to explain his falafel to us in the same time slot.

America waits, with bated breath.

Posted by: hashfanatic at March 19, 2006 1:04 AM

Dem bones Dem bones Dem dry bones.

Bye Bye Mike. I haven't watched you in years anyway.

Posted by: bigwhitehat at March 19, 2006 3:09 AM

Pass the bong, dude!

Posted by: hashfanatic at March 19, 2006 8:51 AM

CBS can't even admit that the MS Word documents from 1972 were fakes. What chance do we have of the MSM admitting that they were wrong about WMD's and the Saddam al-Qaeda links verified by the documents recovered in Afghanistan?

Posted by: V the K at March 19, 2006 6:06 PM

Why does some moron keep on posting "pass the bong dude" under my sn? Or is this like the Limbaugh and other neocon shows, where no opposing points of view are permitted?

Posted by: hashfanatic at March 19, 2006 8:44 PM

This is pretty easy to explain. Mike Wallace went batty in 1984 and ended up in the nut house. He went total moonbat after that.

http://www.cbs.com/cbs_cares/depression/index.shtml

Being a total moonbat can indeed be very depressing indeed, as Wallace has proven.

Now he his a pill-head. Without pills Mike would end up pushing a shopping cart full of discarded cans thru the streets of NYC, stopping now and then to tell buildings how evil George Bush is.

Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at March 19, 2006 8:53 PM

Or is this like the Limbaugh and other neocon shows, where no opposing points of view are permitted?

Thanks, Asshat...er, Hazmat...er, whatever. I hadn't received my daily dosage of "neocon" yet, and I knew if you got out of the welfare line long enough to show up here, you wouldn't disappoint.

Have you ever even listened to Rush? If so, you wouldn't posit such a stupid ass question, since liberals call his show all the time and humiliate themselves (much like you do to yourself here). If you don't listen to the show, then why should anyone lend you any credibility (as if we do, anyway) in making such a glaringly false statement like that?

What's wrong, Asshat? Hittin' the bong too often and getting paranoid about it? Though I've never tried the stuff, I've heard that paranoia is a side effect...but I have no proof! LOL!

Posted by: Jonathan at March 19, 2006 9:13 PM

No other member of the government-run media should stand trial for incitement of the rabble more than that Oxycontin-addled pigboy, and you all know it.

Mike Wallace at least fought back the fascist corporate media and allowed the truth some breathing room once in a while?

Can you say the same for Bill O'Reilly and Monica Crowley when they tell lies, and you buy it all hook, line, and sinker?

Posted by: moonbat supreme at March 20, 2006 8:45 AM

"fascist corporate media" like CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, Al-Jazeera?

Truth?

Mike Wallace has no idea what the truth is - he has lied so much over the years because he is in a pill induced paranoia. Mike Wallace was in bed with the "fascist corporate media" and still is.

Mike always had a tendency to make things up as he went along. Being under the influence of anti-depressants and psychiatrists tend to lead to that end.

Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at March 20, 2006 3:39 PM

Are you saying that anyone who has taken anti-depressant medications and who have spoken to a therapist have "a tendency to make things up as he went along"?

That's a WHOLE lotta Americans who don't get to serve their country, dude.

(What is most fascinating about this little revelation is the fact that it's been K Street's worst kept secret for some time that the current president-select, in addition to having had dealt cocaine in his New Haven years, is quite the psychotropic pill-popper these days, as well as having a serious alcoholic relapse that is very much public amongst his inner circle).

I didn't know about Mike Wallace, or that any of these common medications affected his work.

We certainly KNOW, however, about the president.

(Abramoff, Myers, Dubai.....think about it.)

Posted by: moonbat supreme at March 20, 2006 11:08 PM