Did Fox’s Chris Wallace Drink The Water?
September 09, 2011 11:20 am ET by Eric Boehlert
Appearing on Fox & Friends this morning, Chris Wallace joined in with conservatives who are piling on NBC’s Brian Williams for his role as co-moderator in this week’s Republican debate. Wallace agreed that Williams’ questions revealed a “liberal bias” and seemed to concur with critics who denounced Williams’ questions as gotcha efforts.
WALLACE: There were a bunch of questions that I thought that there was a left-wing bias, it's the only -- a liberal bias, that's the only way you can describe it.
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WALLACE: It is so built into the drinking water, if you will, in some of these liberal outlets that they don't even understand it happens.
So debate moderators ask Republicans gotcha questions because it’s just in the water at liberal media outlets.
What’s odd is that last month Wallace himself helped moderate a Republican debate and it was Wallace himself who was on the receiving end of right-wing attacks for asking, you guessed it, gotcha questions.
During the debate, Newt Gingrich called out Wallace for posing “Mickey Mouse” questions. Rush Limbaugh and far-right bloggers agreed, and lit into the Fox moderator's “arrogant” and “childish” performance (it was MSNBC-esque!), while Fox News viewers complained his queries were “testy.” Even Wallace’s Fox News colleagues, Sarah Palin and Sean Hannity got in on the criticism.
The point is conservatives always complain about the debate questions and the moderators. The ritual has become so ingrained they even complain when Fox News is the host. So unless Roger Ailes has a “drinking water” problem, it’s probably best for Wallace to refrain from joining the chorus of debate critics.
[GOT-cha KWESH-chun]
noun, conservative slang
1. A question asked of a Republican who is too stupid to answer it
2. Any inquiry which points out either directly or indirectly the hypocrisy of the Republican to whom the question is addressed
Don't you think you would make an excellent president?
Wouldn't you do so much better than President Obama?
Why is Obama such a failure?
and
Why do Democrats hate America so much?
Are you the most private sector-y candidate ever in the whole world ?
They are always talking about how they are mistreated either by the media or by the public at large. They are always talking about how they are waging battles for freedom and are doing it alone. They are always the downtrodden; always scapegoated by liberals. They are, without a doubt, Perpetual Victims.
Wallace, what sad fall, all the way from being a newscaster years ago to commentating on Skid Row. He's another dead-ender who has to swirl in the same stew as his cohorts.
I so much would like to hear what Brian Williams would have to say. He's intelligent, he knows the game. He's at least a survivalist who still knows what news is.
Having sold his soul, all Wallace can do now is remain chained in the junkyard and bark at people passing by that he used to walk with. Really sad.
The Fox man, Wallace, or any of his morally-superior, fair-and- -balanced colleagues must have special connection with the Almighty to not even have a twinge of doubt? Those of us who do must be "weak" in their lights. They are wrong.
It has nothing to do with labels like "Liberal" or "Conservative". The primary point of the latter label is "conserve" decency ...that these commentators fail to do.
Yeah! just execute 'em.
The Fox man, Wallace, or any of his morally-superior, fair-and- -balanced colleagues must have special connection with the Almighty to not even have a twinge of doubt? Those of us who do must be "weak" in their lights. They are wrong.
It has nothing to do with labels like "Liberal" or "Conservative". The primary point of the latter label is "conserve" decency ...that these commentators fail to do.
Yeah! just execute 'em.