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Wallace's post-mortem on Limbaugh interview: Limbaugh is "very nice, very sweet" and "vulnerable"

November 01, 2009 12:03 pm ET by Media Matters staff

From the November 1 FoxNews.com "Wallace Unplugged" video blog:    

Previously:

Rush: "I don't think" Obama "cares about Afghanistan"; claims Obama's Dover visit was a "photo op"

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    • Author by worrierking (November 01, 2009 12:33 pm ET)
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      "Limbaugh is "very nice, very sweet" and "vulnerable""

      Yep, that passes the "is it news or opinion?" test.
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      • Author by Bad News (November 01, 2009 4:16 pm ET)
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        Chris Wallace is Joking Right?
        Does Mr. Wallace understand that Rush Limbaugh is the #1 Racist in America's Equality Fight?
        He refers to President Obama as a "Boy", as a "Half-African", as a "Magic Negro" & as a "Black Man Child"
        Very Nice, Very Sweet & Vulnearble? Wasn't the same said about Ted Bundy when he was Completely out of Control & Wild?

        Speak truth to power.


        Mr. News
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      • Author by rkcomments (November 01, 2009 8:31 pm ET)
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        Right. And we are supposd to buy the canard that Wallace is a 'real' newsman at Fox.
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    • Author by Indy (November 01, 2009 12:45 pm ET)
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      To right wingers Obama's radical agenda is anything relating to the repair of the huge whole they allowed to be ripped in the economy while they and FOX worried about who did or didn't wear flag lapel pins, or ate French named food.....oh you know the important stuff. All the while conveniently claiming Reganesia about any prior questionable actions. Republicans, the party of NO and I DON'T RECALL.
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    • Author by mk3872 (November 01, 2009 12:59 pm ET)
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      Stop the disgusting oogling, Chris, and just get a room already
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    • Author by roland (November 01, 2009 1:15 pm ET)
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      I don't even get what Limbaugh is so upset about. Didn't Obama more or less save Rush's buddies on Wall Street last year? You'd think that would have elicited undying fealty from the old gasbag towards the Pres. rather than all this vitriol.
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    • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (November 01, 2009 1:34 pm ET)
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      Just when you thought that maybe Chris Wallace just maybe could conceivably have a chance to perhaps be something like a real journalist...
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    • Author by New Frontier (November 01, 2009 1:36 pm ET)
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      Wallace:
      "Of course, the BIG subject today is our interview with Rush Limbaugh."

      Bet you thought today's BIG subject would be the war in Afghanistan. You'd be wrong. The world is crying out to know what the reclusive, seldom-heard Rush Limbaugh thinks about everything.
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      • Author by steeve (November 01, 2009 9:10 pm ET)
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        I was anxious to know, because it's so hard to predict Rush's views. One moment he expresses the arch-conservative position, then he turns around and takes the hard-line right-winger view.
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      • Author by Jurgan (November 02, 2009 1:16 pm ET)
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        Well, you have to admit, Limbaugh is a pretty BIG subject. In fact, he seems to get bigger by the year...
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    • Author by Samurai Cowboy (November 01, 2009 2:50 pm ET)
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      (Big, booming games show announcer voice) And now ladies and gentleman, that star of our show, Chris Wallace and her husband, Rusty Limpballs!!!!!
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    • Author by DAWUSS (November 01, 2009 2:51 pm ET)
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      ROFLMAO
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    • Author by pbrauer (November 01, 2009 4:40 pm ET)
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      We are involved in two wars and the economy is in that tank and Chris Wallace is worried about what Rush Limbaugh thinks? No wait, Chris Wallace is worried about his ratings and this interview with the drugster is meant to help increase them. Chris Wallace sinks deeper and deeper in the world of irrelevance.
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      • Author by blk-in-alabam (November 01, 2009 8:42 pm ET)
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        Chris Wallace did not want to know Leno's already low ratings went down more when Limbaugh apeared.When you believe your own lies,the truth does not matter.
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    • Author by John Paradox (November 01, 2009 5:05 pm ET)
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      Just thought I'd look up the various definitions of 'vulnerable' and found this at the Encarta site:

      3. physically or psychologically weak: unable to resist illness, debility, or failure

      Just sayin'...
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    • Author by skiploader1111 (November 01, 2009 5:09 pm ET)
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      Hand Grenades are very sensitive and vulnerable too.
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    • Author by roundhouse (November 01, 2009 5:36 pm ET)
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      Good one Chris. Rush thinks the president is trying to destroy the country, he can't prove it but he, "feels very strongly," about it.

      These people suck.
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    • Author by paul8616 (November 01, 2009 5:46 pm ET)
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      Mike Wallace looks young for his age.

      Oh wait, sorry.

      Anyway, if you're Limbaugh and Mike, er, CHRIS Wallace is giving you airtime, you're 'nice' and 'sweet.' Also, I have no doubt that Limbaugh is vulnerable. Most bullies are, once you get past their pose.
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    • Author by dmhack (November 01, 2009 7:15 pm ET)
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      I think Wallace is more credible when he's in shadow pretending to be a news source.
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    • Author by toombsie (November 01, 2009 7:45 pm ET)
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      hahahahaha Limbaugh is "very nice, very sweet"?!?!?

      I wonder who else Chris Wallace would classify as a "very nice, very sweet" person. I can't possibly fathom how anyone could describe Rush as "very nice, very sweet." Even if you agree with what his opinions are you cannot possibly describe him as nice and sweet. I mean just the other day he suggested that some guy from the New York Times go "kill himself"
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    • Author by tbone (November 01, 2009 9:46 pm ET)
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      Pathetic. Really the only word for this slobbering outpouring of emotional trype from a "newsman". Just pathetic.

      Murrow is spinning in his grave.
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      • Author by dimes (November 02, 2009 12:17 am ET)
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        Who knew Chris Wallace cared so little about his professional reputation, such as it was?

        It's not often you see newsmen profess a man-crush for an interview subject. But then, Wallace isn't a news journalist, he's just the guy who can't get prime time.
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    • Author by dnbrn (November 01, 2009 10:27 pm ET)
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      Vulnerable!Limbaugh? I would re-watch just to enumerate the stream of egocentric statements, but I can not bear to see and hear that slop again. He contradicted himself (does he think his comments have not been captured on tape?) many times and his false sincerity was nauseating. Chris Wallace fawning all over this interview is pathetic.
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    • Author by pam95650 (November 01, 2009 11:29 pm ET)
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      I'm sorry Chris, but I cannot stomach watching that racist fat slob. Very sweet? Did you want to kiss that sweetness?
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    • Author by moe (November 02, 2009 8:04 am ET)
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      Hmmmmm...Limbaugh gets 30 min of Fox "News" Sunday, Chris Wallace offers up some soft balls and Limbaugh dumps on Obama.

      Jeez, never saw that one coming.
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    • Author by bintx (November 02, 2009 8:22 am ET)
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      Gag!
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    • Author by billj7341 (November 02, 2009 8:23 am ET)
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      What's even more hilarious is how Wallace expressed surprise about Limbaugh's insane claim that Obama wants to intentionally destroy the economy for his muslimonazimarxist agenda. The Fatso has been saying this about Obama and the Democrats for over a year now, and to claim shock about such a statement shows that people like Wallace are either liars or they don't actually listen to the daily crackpottery that is wingnut radio. And that's why Limbaugh is able to get away with his poisonous rants. No one in the media is willing to call him on it.
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    • Author by bettyboop (November 02, 2009 9:29 pm ET)
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      Do you know what is the most entertaining part of this article? It's the comments. I don't often laugh out loud but the comments make me just love this country & the people in it. Mike, you need to take some time off, I would be embarrassed if I were you.
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