{"id":1380,"date":"2009-08-26T15:29:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T22:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2009-08-26T15:29:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T22:29:04","slug":"chris-wallace-contemplates-the-end-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wallace Contemplates The End Of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Department of Prize Winning Stupidity<\/a>… <\/p>\n

Chris Wallace of Fox News was interviewing Jim Towey, former director of faith-based initiatives in the Bush administration, about the trumped up “death book”<\/em> controversy. This is a pamphlet distributed by the Veteran’s Administration that assists people in making end-of-life decisions, like preparing a living will. Wallace has twisted this into another ludicrous myth that accuses the VA of promoting suicide. And then he let’s this whopper loose:<\/p>\n

WALLACE:<\/strong> I guess one of the questions I have about it is why would those even be in a document about end of life? Usually people don’t even contemplate end of life until they’re in an irreversible coma.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep. That’s when I plan to contemplate end-of-life. The next time I’m in an irreversible coma it’ll be the first thing I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Department of Prize Winning Stupidity… Chris Wallace of Fox News was interviewing Jim Towey, former director of faith-based initiatives in the Bush administration, about the trumped up “death book” controversy. This is a pamphlet distributed by the Veteran’s Administration that assists people in making end-of-life decisions, like preparing a living will. Wallace has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[116,33],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-chris-wallace","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-mg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3126,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3126","url_meta":{"origin":1380,"position":0},"title":"Has Jon Stewart Ever Watched Chris Wallace?","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/4\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"On last night's The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart interviewed Chris Wallace of Fox News. 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