{"id":2615,"date":"2010-09-05T11:52:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T18:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2010-09-05T11:52:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T18:52:48","slug":"chris-wallaces-heart-isnt-really-into-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2615","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wallace&#8217;s Heart Isn&#8217;t Really Into Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on Fox News Sunday, the lowest rated of all the network Sunday morning news programs, host Chris Wallace once again demonstrated his lack of commitment to fairness and balance when he asked the Weekly Standard&#8217;s Stephen Hayes an absurdly framed question about Obama&#8217;s speech on the Iraq troop withdrawal last week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Wallace:<\/strong> In that speech, to say <em>&#8220;my central mission is to restore the economy,&#8221;<\/em> is it unfair to say that this is a president whose heart doesn&#8217;t seem to be into winning the war on terror, no matter what it costs?<br \/>\n<strong>Hayes:<\/strong> No, I don\u2019t think that&#8217;s at all unfair<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hayes deftly picked up the cue from Wallace who was obviously presenting Hayes with a gift-wrapped opening to disparage the President. For either of these notorious hacks to suggest that Obama&#8217;s attention to this nation&#8217;s serious economic difficulties translates into disinterest in battling Al Qaeda is borderline psychotic.<\/p>\n<p>The President&#8217;s focus is pretty squarely aligned with that of the American people who are most concerned about the economy and jobs. That doesn&#8217;t preclude anyone from being concerned about national security as well. However, most serious analysts recognize that without a stable domestic economy we cannot expect to have much success in achieving our international security goals.<\/p>\n<p>The ridiculous framing of Wallace&#8217;s question is not a fluke. He has long been a source of overt bias even as Fox News touts him as an example of their <em>&#8220;real&#8221;<\/em> news personalities, distinct from blatherers like Bill O&#8217;Reilly, Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly, Neil Cavuto, Glenn Beck, and the cast of Fox &#038; Friends. Some of Wallace&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?tag=chris-wallace\" target=\"_blank\">great moments in partisanship<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asking Rush Limbaugh what Obama has done TO the country.<\/li>\n<li>Awarding ACORN pimp, James O&#8217;Keefe, the Power Player of the Week.<\/li>\n<li>Calling Democrats <em>&#8220;damn fools&#8221;<\/em> for declining to appear on Fox News.<\/li>\n<li>Admitting that he <em>&#8220;generally agrees&#8221;<\/em> with Sean Hannity.<\/li>\n<li>Jumping to the defense of George W. Bush after director Ron Howard suggested comparisons to Richard Nixon.<\/li>\n<li>Declaring Sarah Palin to be a <em>&#8220;new star in the political galaxy.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Asked George Bush if he was <em>&#8220;puzzled by all of the concern in this country about protecting [the] rights of people who want to kill us.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>In a criticism of Democratic health care plans, making the hilarious observation that <em>&#8220;people don&#8217;t even contemplate end of life until they&#8217;re in an irreversible coma.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chris Wallace long ago cemented his reputation as a partisan phony in the field of journalism. He was fortunate to find his home on Fox News because few other news organizations would tolerate his level of unprofessionalism. But I suppose we should appreciate his willingness to serve up new examples of deceit and bias with each of his weekly outings. It makes it just that much easier to dismiss him and to prove that he and Fox News are not actually news and are wholly unworthy of our trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on Fox News Sunday, the lowest rated of all the network Sunday morning news programs, host Chris Wallace once again demonstrated his lack of commitment to fairness and balance when he asked the Weekly Standard&#8217;s Stephen Hayes an absurdly framed question about Obama&#8217;s speech on the Iraq troop withdrawal last week: Wallace: In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[183,116,33],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-barack-obama","tag-chris-wallace","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-Gb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3126,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3126","url_meta":{"origin":2615,"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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